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We present a timing analysis of the high-cadence optical light curve of the high-redshift flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 0805 - 07 obtained during TESS Sector 34 (MJD = 59230.90─59239.90). We search for short-timescale quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) using complementary time-series techniques, including the Lomb─Scargle periodogram (LSP) and the weighted wavelet Z-transform (WWZ), and evaluate their significance against red-noise variability using Monte Carlo simulations. The LSP reveals a dominant modulation at <mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>f</mml:mi><mml:mo>≍</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.6</mml:mn><mml:mspace></mml:mspace><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>d</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math> (P ≍ 1.7 d) exceeding the 99.99% confidence level, while the WWZ independently recovers a consistent timescale at the ∼ 99.9% level and shows that the signal is temporally localized rather than persistent across the full light curve. The modulation spans ∼ 5 coherent cycles, indicating a transient quasi-periodic feature. However, the detected significance only marginally exceeds the highest confidence threshold in the WWZ analysis, and the limited number of coherent cycles is insufficient for a firm confirmation. We discuss possible physical interpretations of the candidate modulation. In a disk-based scenario, orbital motion of a hotspot near the innermost stable circular orbit implies a black hole mass of M<SUB>BH</SUB> ∼ 7.2 × 10<SUP>8</SUP> M<SUB>⊙</SUB>, consistent with typical FSRQ values. Alternatively, magnetohydrodynamic kink instabilities in the relativistic jet can naturally produce day-scale variability for standard blazar parameters and account for the transient character of the signal. Compact SMBH binary and tidal disruption event scenarios are also considered but found to be disfavoured by the jet-dominated nature of the source, the optical rather than X-ray character of the modulation, and the black hole mass well above the regime associated with confirmed QPE host galaxies. We conclude that the candidate modulation is consistent with a compact, short-lived structure embedded within stochastic jet variability, and that high-cadence multiwavelength monitoring will be essential to confirm its recurrence and constrain its physical origin.

The junction conditions for general theories of gravity based on actions that depend on arbitrary functions of the curvature scalar invariants (including differential invariants) are obtained using the distributional formalism. In case of the existence of thin shells, a general expression for the shell energy-momentum tensor is presented. Generalized Israel equations are also obtained. The conditions for a proper matching, without shells, are derived. The main results are: (i) shells arise if the mth-covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor is continuous at the matching hypersurface, where m is the maximum order of differentiation appearing in the Lagrangian density; (ii) a proper junction without thin shells requires further that the <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math></inline-formula>-th derivative be also continuous, (iii) theories with <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math></inline-formula> that are quadratic in the scalar curvature invariants are special and unique for they allow for discontinuities of the Riemann tensor resulting in the existence of thin shells and gravitational double layers and (iv) General Relativity and F(R) theories are extraordinary theories that admit shells of curvature (i.e. impulsive gravitational waves) because other theories require the absence of jumps of the second fundamental form across the matching hypersurface. For proper junctions, the continuity across the matching hypersurface of the normal components of the energy-momentum tensor is proven to be a universal property, independently of the field equations, thereby providing important necessary conditions for any matching in any gravitational theory. All results are derived for a minimal coupling with the matter, but the strategy would be analogous for more general couplings.

Stellar clusters preserve crucial information on the formation and evolutionary processes that shaped the Milky Way (MW) as we see it today. However, several MW clusters still lack sufficient data to constrain their metallicity, ages, and, in some cases, even their basic kinematic properties. We present low-resolution MODS at LBT spectroscopy for five such systems (i.e. Koposov 1, Koposov 2, Muñoz 1, Pfleiderer 2, and RLGC2) from which we derive systemic heliocentric radial velocities (V<SUB>sys</SUB>) with typical uncertainties of ≤10 km s<SUP>−1</SUP>, and metallicities based on the equivalent widths of the infrared Ca II triplet measured in red giant branch members. For Pfleiderer 2 and RLGC2, we provide the first spectroscopic determinations of their systemic velocities and metallicities, for which we find V<SUB>sys</SUB> = 6 ± 5 km s<SUP>−1</SUP> and −313 ± 6 km s<SUP>−1</SUP>, and [Fe/H] = −0.75 ± 0.09 dex and −2.33 ± 0.13 dex, respectively. For the other three clusters, we find results that are consistent with the existing literature. Thanks to our new spectroscopic measurements, we were able to perform an orbital analysis to investigate their origin. We find that Pfleiderer 2 likely formed within the MW, RLGC2 is dynamically associated to the Gaia─Sausage─Enceladus accretion event, and Koposov 1 was likely stripped from the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal while Muñoz 1 is only tentatively associated with the latter system. Koposov 2, at a high orbital energy, does not show a clear association with any known progenitor system.