{"title":"Solar orbiter: a short review of the mission and early science results","authors":"Louise Harra, Daniel Müller","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04400-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04400-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On 9 February 2020 at 11:03 pm EST, an Atlas V 411 rocket launched the ESA/ NASA Solar Orbiter mission. This mission was the culmination of decades of work across many countries to achieve the goal of getting close to the Sun and measuring how the Sun creates and maintains the heliosphere. The mission’s goal is to understand how the inner heliosphere works and how solar activity impacts it. The spacecraft achieves this with a specially designed highly elliptical orbit that gets close to the Sun twice a year. It reaches as close as 0.28 au requiring a novel heat shield to protect the instruments from the intense heat (the front side of the heat shield reaches around 500 <sup>∘</sup>C at this location). There are ten scientific instruments onboard: Six remote-sensing instruments observe solar activity across the electromagnetic spectrum on small and large scales, including imaging the source regions of the solar wind. They are accompanied by four in-situ instruments to probe the properties of the solar wind as it flows past the spacecraft. This review paper describes a selection of results from Solar Orbiter during its cruise phase and the beginning of its nominal scientific operations phase, and looks towards the next phases of the mission, when the spacecraft leaves the ecliptic plane to observe the solar poles for the first time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10509-025-04400-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143184792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mergers of compact objects with cores of massive stars: evolutionary pathways, r-process nucleosynthesis and multi-messenger signatures","authors":"Aldana Grichener","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04402-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04402-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study of massive binary systems has steadily progressed over the past decades, with increasing focus on their evolution, interactions and mergers, driven by improvements in computational modelling and observational techniques. In particular, when a binary system involves a massive giant and a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH) that go through common envelope evolution (CEE), it might result in the merger of the compact object with the core of its giant companion, giving rise to various high energy astrophysical phenomena. We review the different evolutionary channels that lead to compact object-core mergers, key physical processes with emphasis on the role of accretion physics, feasibility of r-process nucleosynthesis, expected observable electromagnetic, neutrino and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures, as well as potential correlation with detected core collapse supernovae (CCSNe), luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) and low luminosity long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs). After presenting our current understanding of these mergers, we conclude discussing prospects for future advancements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143108631","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}
Bin Zhang, Huifeng Wang, Xiaodong Nong, GuangZhen Wang, Puxun Wu, Nan Liang
{"title":"Model-independent gamma-ray bursts constraints on cosmological models using machine learning","authors":"Bin Zhang, Huifeng Wang, Xiaodong Nong, GuangZhen Wang, Puxun Wu, Nan Liang","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04401-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04401-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we calibrate the luminosity relation of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the machine learning (ML) algorithms from the Pantheon+ sample of type Ia supernovae in a cosmology-independent way. By using K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and Random Forest (RF) selected with the best performance in the ML algorithms, we calibrate the Amati relation (<span>(E_{mathrm{p}})</span>-<span>(E_{mathrm{iso}})</span>) relation with the A219 sample to construct the Hubble diagram of GRBs. Via the Markov Chain Monte Carlo numerical method with GRBs at high redshift and latest observational Hubble data, we find the results of constraints on cosmological models by using KNN and RF algorithms are consistent with those obtained from GRBs calibrated by using the Gaussian Process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143109942","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}
G. Hariharan, J. Kavitha, R. Seethalakshmi, H. Jafari
{"title":"An efficient approximation method for nonlinear singular value problems arising in astrophysics: an operational matrix approach","authors":"G. Hariharan, J. Kavitha, R. Seethalakshmi, H. Jafari","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04399-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04399-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, an efficient wavelet-based algorithm is introduced to investigate the approximate solutions for a few nonlinear singular initial value problems arising in astrophysics. Ultraspherical wavelet method (USWM) is utilized for solving the Lane-Emden type equations. The proposed method is utilized to convert the given nonlinear singular value differential equations into a system of algebraic equations using operational matrices of derivatives. Convergence analysis of the method is discussed. The obtained solutions are compared with LWM, CWM and exact solutions. A few numerical experiments are given to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. Satisfactory agreement with exact and other numerical solutions is observed. The efficiency of the proposed method is confirmed by means of computational CPU runtime. Moreover, the use of USWM is investigated to be simple, accurate and less computational cost.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143109981","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}
{"title":"SDSS-IV MaNGA: the environmental effects on some fundamental properties of early-type galaxies","authors":"E. Abdellah, R. M. Samir, Z. Awad, M. Y. Amin","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04396-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04396-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We studied the dependence of selected structural and kinematic properties of early-type galaxies (ETGs) on their environments. The selected sample, extracted from the SDSS-DR17 MaNGA survey, consists of 946 ETGs in clusters (cETGs) and 288 isolated ETGs (iETGs) within a spectroscopic redshift <span>(zleq 0.15)</span>. We investigated the distribution of these galaxies in the Fundamental Plane (FP), Kormendy Relation (KR), Faber-Jackson Relation (FJR) and the Mass-Size Relation (MSR). We found that massive galaxies, whose stellar masses <span>(M_{*}> 10^{11}M_{odot })</span>, are predominantly elliptical (<span>(>65%)</span>). The analysis of the four scaling relations showed that the effect of the host environment is negligible for massive (<span>(M_{*}>10^{11.5}M_{odot })</span>) ETGs, most likely because of their passive evolution through dry mergers and/or stellar aging. On the other hand, low-mass ETGs are influenced by their environment, where iETGs with <span>(M_{*}<10^{10}M_{odot })</span> and velocity dispersion <span>(sigma _{0}leq 100)</span> km/sec are <span>(25%)</span> more luminous and <span>(11.5%)</span> larger than cETGs. Low-mass cETGs may have suffered processes that removed their gas content and hence quenched star formation while low-mass iETGs may have experienced a recent wet merger that triggered star formation and led to their, currently, observed low mass-to-light ratio. However, further spectral analysis is needed to confirm these findings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143109337","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}
{"title":"Time-lag in hadronic channel: to explore delayed VHE-flare of 3C 279","authors":"Sunanda, Reetanjali Moharana","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04398-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04398-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On 28 January 2018, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) reported a significant very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray activity, occurring nearly 11 days after the high-energy (HE) gamma-ray flare observed by <i>Fermi</i>-LAT from the blazar 3C 279. It has long been considered a candidate site for accelerating particles to ultra-high energies (UHE) and producing subsequent secondaries. Such an event can be crucial to explore the different phenomena of secondary production from the UHEs and viable to understand the energetics of the sources. Our study finds that the multi-wavelength flare, spanning UV, optical, X-rays, and HE gamma rays, originates from leptonic emissions, whereas the delayed VHE activity by proton synchrotron emission within the source, results from the extended duration of particle acceleration. To explain the prolonged electromagnetic emission, our model requires a magnetic field luminosity (<span>(L^{prime }_{B})</span>) <span>(6.9 times 10^{43})</span> erg/sec, a proton luminosity (<span>(L^{prime }_{p})</span>) <span>(1.2 times 10^{46})</span> erg/sec in the jet frame.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143109336","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}
{"title":"EFT calculations of (S_{34}(E)) for the (^{3}H(alpha ,gamma )^{7}Li) radiative capture reaction","authors":"H. Sadeghi, M. Khoddam","doi":"10.1007/s10509-024-04385-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-024-04385-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We have applied the effective field theory (EFT) approach to achieve the astrophysical s-factor for the transition to the first <span>(2P_{1/2^{-}})</span> excited state of <span>(^{7}Li)</span> nucleus in the <span>(^{3}H(alpha ,gamma )^{7}Li)</span> radiative capture reaction. The <span>(E_{1})</span> electrical transition from the <span>(2S_{1/2}, 2P_{1/2})</span> and <span>(3S_{1})</span> incoming states have studied in the range of <span>(Eleq 1.5)</span> MeV up to leading order (LO) in the presence of Coulomb effects. This work has been performed in continuation of our studies on the <span>(^{3}H-alpha )</span> reaction for the transition to the ground <span>(2P_{3/2^{-}})</span> state of <span>(^{7}Li)</span>. Both the results have been summed up to obtain the <span>(S_{34}(E))</span> and compared with the available theoretical and experimental data.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143109097","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}
Z. Y. Xu, H. S. Fu, Y. Yu, Z. Wang, W. D. Fu, W. Z. Zhang, J. B. Cao
{"title":"The shape of magnetic hole in affecting electron distribution function and wave properties","authors":"Z. Y. Xu, H. S. Fu, Y. Yu, Z. Wang, W. D. Fu, W. Z. Zhang, J. B. Cao","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04397-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04397-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Magnetic holes (MHs) have been widely observed in astrophysical and space plasmas. However, due to the lack of reconstruction method, the effects of MH shape on electron distribution function and wave properties are still unclear. In this study, we report a series of MHs in Earth’s magnetotail. We particularly focus on two of them with the clearest data features, reconstruct their topologies using the Second-Order Taylor Expansion (SOTE) method, and find their shapes to be bulging and deflated. Comparatively, the bulging MH exhibits a donut electron distribution, which may be attributed to the combined effects of internal expansion-induced betatron cooling and boundary contraction-induced betatron acceleration, while the deflated MH presents a pancake electron distribution. The beam instability and temperature anisotropy inside the bulging MH also excite electron cyclotron waves and whistler waves, respectively, while the deflated MH does not exhibit these types of waves. All these findings help us understand the geometric properties and evolutions of MHs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994907","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}
{"title":"Dispersion relations of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics","authors":"Lorenzo Gavassino","doi":"10.1007/s10509-025-04395-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-025-04395-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We compute the linearised dispersion relations of shear waves, heat waves, and sound waves in relativistic “matter+radiation” fluids with grey absorption opacities. This is done by solving radiation hydrodynamics perturbatively in the ratio “radiation stress-energy”/“matter stress-energy”. The resulting expressions <span>(omega , {=} , omega (k))</span> accurately describe the hydrodynamic evolution for any <span>(k, {in }, mathbb{R})</span>. General features of the dynamics (e.g., covariant stability, propagation speeds, and damping of discontinuities) are argued directly from the analytic form of these dispersion relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10509-025-04395-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142976483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dust acoustic soliton and shock structures with consequence of head-on collision in multi-component unmagnetized plasmas","authors":"Umma Imon, Mohammad Shah Alam","doi":"10.1007/s10509-024-04392-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10509-024-04392-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An unmagnetized plasma system comprising Maxwellian electrons, nonthermal ions, and variable negative charged dust grains is considered to investigate the consequence of head-on collision (such as interaction processes, and phase shifts) and the formation of dust acoustic soliton as well as shock structures in the Halley’s Comet (HC), Interstellar Clouds (IC), Noctilucent Clouds (NC), and Saturn’s Spokes (SS) environments. The two-sided Korteweg de Vries Burger (KdVB) and Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equations and corresponding phase shifts are derived employing the extended Poincaré-Lighthill-Kuo (ePLK) reductive perturbation technique (ePLKRPT). The coefficient of nonlinearities vanishes in each environment at the critical value of the plasma parameters. Consequently, the nonlinearity-coupled modified KdVB (mKdVB) and modified KdV (mKdV) equations, and the associated phase shifts have been derived. The concerned parameters play a crucial role in forming soliton and shock structures, phase shifts, and the interaction process of solitons and shocks in each environment. The compressive hump-shaped structures for mKdV solitons, as well as only positive phase shifts, are produced due to the influences of concerned parameters in each environment. In the collision processes, both the KdV and mKdV dust acoustic solitons follow the principle of superposition, but the shocks do not follow the principle of superposition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8644,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysics and Space Science","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142976555","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}