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Exploring daily fluctuations of cosmic ray muon components at a low latitude site and their associations with space weather variables 探索低纬度地点宇宙射线介子成分的日波动及其与空间天气变量的关系

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10034-8

Maghrabi Abdullrahman, Al Harbi Hya, Alruhaili Aied

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Mathematical model as per the algorithm of Sūryasiddhānta for computation of location specific true position of the planets 根据Sūryasiddhānta算法建立的数学模型，计算行星的具体位置

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10018-8

Pandu Santhoju, Punit Bhalla, Laxmidhar Behera, R. Venketeswara Pai

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On the simultaneity of Forbush decreases: The simultaneous effects of interplanetary parameters and geomagnetic activity indices 关于Forbush的同时性衰减：行星际参数和地磁活动指数的同时效应

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10028-6

I. O. Eya, E. U. Iyida, O. Okike, R. E. Ugwoke, F. M. Menteso, C. J. Ugwu, P. Simpemba, J. Simfukwe, D. Silungwe, S. P. Phiri, G. F. Abbey, J. A. Alhassan, A. E. Chukwude

{"title":"On the simultaneity of Forbush decreases: The simultaneous effects of interplanetary parameters and geomagnetic activity indices","authors":"I. O. Eya, E. U. Iyida, O. Okike, R. E. Ugwoke, F. M. Menteso, C. J. Ugwu, P. Simpemba, J. Simfukwe, D. Silungwe, S. P. Phiri, G. F. Abbey, J. A. Alhassan, A. E. Chukwude","doi":"10.1007/s12036-024-10028-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12036-024-10028-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Forbush decreases (Fd) are transient, short-term reductions in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays that reach the Earth’s surface. When this reduction is observed at multiple locations simultaneously, it is referred to as simultaneous Forbush decreases (SFd). Identifying Fd events in daily averaged cosmic ray (CR) raw data is always tedious, but the task has gone minimal through an algorithm (automated Fd detection). We deployed an automated Fd location algorithm on daily-averaged CR data from five neutron monitor stations covering 1998–2006. We identified 80 days with the most simultaneous events. While there exists extensive research on the subject using a case study approach, the current study is statistical. Whereas most of the previous investigations employed a small sample of Fds manually selected from a single CR station, large samples of Fds selected after disentangling the Sun’s influence on CR data from multiple neutron monitors (NMs) are used. The connection between the Fds and many solar-terrestrial variables is tested. The beautiful and consistent results obtained between the space weather variables and Fds at the five NM stations call the attention of space weather researchers to the need for rigorous, detailed, and accurate cataloging of Fds. Solar cycle oscillation significantly impacts the amplitude and timing of Fds. Its influence should be removed before Fd selection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142938852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A method for identification of restarted radio sources from large radio surveys 一种从大型无线电调查中识别重新启动的射电源的方法

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10035-7

Aparna Raj, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, T. P. Sudheesh, K. G. Biju, Joe Jacob

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Gravitational physics in the context of Indian astronomy: A vision document 印度天文学背景下的引力物理学：远景文件

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10031-x

P. Ajith, K. G. Arun, Sukanta Bose, Sumanta Chakraborty, Shantanu Desai, A. Gopakumar, Sanved Kolekar, Rajesh Nayak, Archana Pai, Sudipta Sarkar, Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Patrick Das Gupta, Rahul Kashyap, Prashant Kocherlakota, Prayush Kumar, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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Development of a machine learning-based radio source localization algorithm for tri-axial antenna configuration 三轴天线配置中基于机器学习的射电源定位算法的开发

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10032-w

Harsha Avinash Tanti, Abhirup Datta, Tiasha Biswas, Anshuman Tripathi

{"title":"Development of a machine learning-based radio source localization algorithm for tri-axial antenna configuration","authors":"Harsha Avinash Tanti, Abhirup Datta, Tiasha Biswas, Anshuman Tripathi","doi":"10.1007/s12036-024-10032-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12036-024-10032-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Accurately determining the origin of radio emissions is essential for numerous scientific experiments, particularly in radio astronomy. Conventional techniques, such as antenna arrays, encounter significant challenges, especially at very low frequencies, due to factors like the substantial size of the antennas and ionospheric interference. To address these challenges, we employ a space-based single-telescope that utilizes co-located antennas complemented by goniopolarimetric techniques for precise source localization. This study explores a novel and elementary machine learning technique to improve and estimate direction of arrival (DoA), leveraging a tri-axial antenna arrangement for radio source localization. Employing a simplistic emission and receiving antenna model, our study involves training an artificial neural network (ANN) using synthetic radio signals. These synthetic signals can originate from any location in the sky and cover an incoherent frequency range of 0.3–30 MHz, with a signal-to-noise ratio between 0 and 60 dB. A large synthetic data set was generated to train the ANN model catering to the possible signal configurations and variations. After training, the developed ANN model demonstrated exceptional performance, achieving loss levels in the training (<span>({sim }0.02)</span>), validation (<span>({sim }0.23%)</span>), and testing (<span>({sim }0.21%)</span>) phases. The machine learning-based approach, remarkably, exhibits substantially quicker inference times (<span>({sim }5)</span> ms) in contrast to analytically derived DoA methods, which typically range from 100 ms to a few seconds. This underscores its practicality for real-time applications in radio source localization, particularly in scenarios with a limited number of sensors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bhūpajñādivākyas: A quick tool to extract the longitude of the Sun Bhūpajñādivākyas：一个快速提取太阳经度的工具

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10016-w

R. Venketeswara Pai

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Research on the interstellar medium and star formation in the Galaxy: An Indian perspective 银河系中星际介质和恒星形成的研究：一个印度的视角

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10022-y

Bhaswati Mookerjea, G. Maheswar, Kinsuk Acharyya, Tapas Baug, Prasun Datta, Jessy Jose, D. K. Ojha, Jagadheep D. Pandian, Nirupam Roy, Manash Samal, Saurabh Sharma, Archana Soam, Sarita Vig, Ankan Das, Lokesh Dewangan, Somnath Dutta, C. Eswariah, Liton Majumdar, Kshitiz Kumar Mallick, Soumen Mondal, Joe P. Ninan, Neelam Panwar, Amit Pathak, Shantanu Rastogi, Dipen Sahu, Anandmayee Tej, V. S. Veena

{"title":"Research on the interstellar medium and star formation in the Galaxy: An Indian perspective","authors":"Bhaswati Mookerjea, G. Maheswar, Kinsuk Acharyya, Tapas Baug, Prasun Datta, Jessy Jose, D. K. Ojha, Jagadheep D. Pandian, Nirupam Roy, Manash Samal, Saurabh Sharma, Archana Soam, Sarita Vig, Ankan Das, Lokesh Dewangan, Somnath Dutta, C. Eswariah, Liton Majumdar, Kshitiz Kumar Mallick, Soumen Mondal, Joe P. Ninan, Neelam Panwar, Amit Pathak, Shantanu Rastogi, Dipen Sahu, Anandmayee Tej, V. S. Veena","doi":"10.1007/s12036-024-10022-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12036-024-10022-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although the star-formation process has been studied for decades, many important aspects of the physics involved remain unsolved. Recent advancements in instrumentation in the infrared, far-infrared, and sub-millimeter-wavelength regimes have contributed to a significantly improved understanding of processes in the interstellar medium (ISM) leading to star formation. The future of research on the ISM and star formation looks exciting with instruments like the JWST, ALMA, etc., already contributing to the topic by gathering high-resolution high-sensitivity data and with several larger ground- and space-bound facilities either being planned or constructed. India has a sizable number of astronomers engaged in research on topics related to the ISM and star formation. In this white paper invited by the Astronomical Society of India to prepare a vision document for Indian astronomy, we review the Indian contributions to the global understanding of the star-formation process and suggest areas that require focused efforts both in creating observing facilities and in the theoretical front in India, to improve the impact of our research in the coming decades.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142870288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Open cluster BSS dynamical clock dependence on the Milly Way gravitational field 星团BSS动态时钟对银河系引力场的依赖

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10029-5

Andrés E. Piatti

{"title":"Open cluster BSS dynamical clock dependence on the Milly Way gravitational field","authors":"Andrés E. Piatti","doi":"10.1007/s12036-024-10029-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12036-024-10029-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since recent years, mass segregation driven by two-body relaxation in star clusters has been proposed to be measured by the so-called dynamical clock, <span>(A^+)</span>, a measure of the area enclosed between the cumulative radial distribution of blue straggler stars and that of a reference population. Since star clusters spend their lifetime immersed in the gravitational potential of their host galaxy, they are also subject to the effects of galactic tides. In this work, I show that the <span>(A^+)</span> index of a star cluster depends on both its internal dynamics in isolation and the effects of galactic tides. Mainly, I focused on the largest sample of open clusters harboring blue straggler stars with robust cluster membership. I found that these open clusters exhibit an overall dispersion of the <span>(A^+)</span> index in diagnostic diagrams, whereas Milky Way globular clusters show a clear linear trend. However, as also experienced by globular clusters, <span>(A^+)</span> values of open clusters show some dependence on their galactocentric distances, in the sense that clusters located closer or farther than <span>(sim )</span>11 kpc from the Galactic center have larger and smaller <span>(A^+)</span> values, respectively. This different response to two-body relaxation and galactic tides in globular and open clusters, which happen concurrently, can be due to their different masses. More massive clusters can protect their innermost regions from galactic tides more effectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142859513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Deciphering the spectral properties of the atypical radio relic in A115 using uGMRT, VLA, and LOFAR 利用uGMRT、VLA和LOFAR破译A115中非典型无线电遗迹的光谱特性

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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-024-10026-8

Swarna Chatterjee, Abhirup Datta

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