The torques exerted by stellar bars are expected to provoke the flow of cold gas within the disk, driving the secular evolution of the inner parts of the galaxy, as established in simulation models since the last century. To date, it remains a matter of debate why the distribution of ionized gas along bars and in the circumnuclear regions varies

Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are highly irradiated giant exoplanets with extremely high day-side temperatures, which lead to thermal dissociation of most molecular species. It is expected that the neutral hydrogen atom is one of the main species in the upper atmospheres of UHJs. Neutral hydrogen has been detected in several UHJs by observing their

We analyze Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to constrain a cosmological model where a subset of parameters—focusing on Ω m—are split into versions associated with structure growth (e.g., Ω m grow) and expansion history (e.g., Ω m geo). Once the parameters have been specified for the Λ CDM cosmological model, which includes general relativity as a

Cosmic voids gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint on degree scales. We use the simulated CMB lensing convergence map from the Marenostrum Institut de Ciencias de l'Espai (MICE) N-body simulation to calibrate our detection strategy for a given void definition and galaxy tracer density

The near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, the target of the Hayabusa2 mission, is noted to be a spinning top-shaped rubble-pile. Craters are among the most prominent surface features on Ryugu. Their shapes, particularly their depth-to-diameter ratio (d/D), can provide an important proxy for probing both the internal structure and surface processes of

The total red shift z might be recast as a combination of the expansion red shift and a static shift due to the energy-momentum tensor non-conservation of a photon propagating through Electro-Magnetic (EM) fields. If massive, the photon may be described by the de Broglie-Proca (dBP) theory which satisfies the Lorentz(-Poincaré) Symmetry (LoSy) but