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Stars are not smooth. Their photosphere is covered by a granulation pattern associated with the heat transport by convection. The convection-related surface structures have different size, depth, and temporal variations with respect to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 A. Chiavassa , L. Bigot

One well-tested method in science is to separate the object of interest from its surroundings and look at it in isolation. The advantage is that unimportant information is removed and the true properties of the object are seen more clearly.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-25 Susanne Pfalzner

Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies by interferometers offer several advantages over single-dish observations. The formalism for analyzing interferometer CMB data is well developed in the flat-sky approximation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Emory F. Bunn , Martin White

Planetary systems formed in clusters may be subject to stellar encounter flybys. Here we create a diverse range of representative planetary systems with different orbital scales and planets' masses and examine encounters between them in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Daohai Li , Alexander J. Mustill , Melvyn B. Davies

Star formation is a multi-scale, multi-physics problem ranging from the size scale of molecular clouds ($\sim$10s pc) down to the size scales of dense prestellar cores ($\sim$0.1 pc) that are the birth sites of stars. Several physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Anna L. Rosen , Stella S. R. Offner , Sarah I. Sadavoy , Asmita Bhandare , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Adam Ginsburg

A simple procedure is developed to determine orbital elements of an object orbiting in a central force field which contribute more than three independent celestial positions. By manipulation of formal three point Gauss method of orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Taghi Mirtorabi

Modeling has been created for a Space-to-Surface system defined for an optimal trajectory for targeting in terminal phase with avoids an intercepting process. The modeling includes models for simulation atmosphere, speed of sound,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Serge Gornev

Detecting the angles and orbits of remote targets precisely has been playing crucial roles in astrophysical research. Due to the resolution limitations imposed by the Airy disk in a single telescope, optical interferometric schemes with at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Yi-Xin Shen , Zhou-Kai Cao , Jian Leng , Xiang-Bin Wang

It is a well-established principle that cross-correlating seismic observations at different receiver locations can yield estimates of band-limited inter-receiver Green's functions. This principle, known as seismic interferometry, is a…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniella Ayala-Garcia , Andrew Curtis , Michal Branicki

We study gap formation in gaseous protoplanetary discs by a Jupiter mass planet. The planet's orbit is circular and inclined relative to the midplane of the disc. We use the impulse approximation to estimate the gravitational tidal torque…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. O. Chametla , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , F. S. Masset , A. M. Hidalgo-Gamez

The probability of the detection of Earth-like exoplanets may increase in the near future after the launch of the space missions using the transit photometry as observation method. By using this technique only the semi-major axis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zsolt Sandor

The number of publications of aperture-synthesis images based on optical long-baseline interferometry measurements has recently increased due to easier access to visible and infrared interferometers. The interferometry technique has now…

The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) Project is dedicated to defining a next-generation facility that can answer fundamental questions about how planets form, including detection of young giant exoplanets and their circumplanetary disks. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-08 John D. Monnier , Stefan Kraus , Michael J. Ireland

The transit method, during which a planet's presence is inferred by measuring the reduction in flux as it passes in front of its parent star, is a highly successful exoplanet detection and characterization technique. During transit, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Joanna K. Barstow , Hannah R. Wakeford , Sarah L. Casewell , Vatsal Panwar

Application of the large scale gravitational wave interferometers for measurement of geophysical signals at very low frequencies is considered. Analysis is concentrated on the mechanism of penetration of quasistatic geophysical perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Gusev , V. N. Rudenko , I. S Yudin

We investigate interferometric techniques to estimate the deflection angle of an optical beam and compare them to the direct detection of the beam deflection. We show that quantum metrology methods lead to a unifying treatment for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 S. P. Walborn , G. H. Aguilar , P. L. Saldanha , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

Interferometric observations of the low-frequency radio sky (< 1 GHz) are largely limited by systematic effects introduced by the ionosphere. Here, we analyse a ten-hour nighttime uGMRT Band-4 observation of 3C48 to characterise ionospheric…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dipanjan Banerjee , Abhik Ghosh , Sushanta K. Mondal , Parimal Ghosh

Exoplanetary science is a very active field of astronomy nowadays, with questions still opened such as how planetary systems form and evolve (occurrence, process), why such a diversity of exoplanets is observed (mass, radius, orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Raphaël Galicher , Johan Mazoyer

Interferometry provides one of the possible routes to ultra-high angular resolution for X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. Sub-micro-arc-second angular resolution, necessary to achieve objectives such as imaging the regions around the event…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-31 G. K. Skinner , J. F. Krizmanic

Intensity interferometry removes the stringent requirements on mechanical precision and atmospheric corrections that plague all amplitude interferometry techniques at the cost of severely limited sensitivity. A new idea we recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aviv Ofir , Erez N. Ribak