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This work investigates the optical appearance of a rotating black hole (BH) in nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) using two illumination models, namely a celestial sphere and a thin accretion disk. The BH images are constructed using a backward ray-tracing method together with a fisheye camera model. We examine the effects of the electric charge $Q$ and the NED parameter $β$ on the event horizon, shadow, photon ring, and optical appearance for both prograde and retrograde accretion flows. The results indicate that an increase in $β$ leads to a larger shadow radius with reduced distortion, whereas increasing $Q$ decreases the shadow size and enhances its deformation. These features are further quantified through the shadow radius and distortion parameter. We also analyze the direct and lensed images of the thin accretion disk, together with their corresponding redshift distributions and emission bands. The redshifted emission is found to dominate the observed images, while the blueshifted region is confined to the vicinity of the photon ring. Our results demonstrate that both $Q$ and $β$ leave distinct signatures on the optical appearance of rotating NED BHs, providing useful insights for future high-resolution observations.

Very-high-energy $γ$ rays from active galactic nuclei are attenuated through pair production on the extragalactic background light (EBL), providing a probe of cosmic expansion. We develop a Bayesian inference analysis framework that uses an observationally driven, redshift-dependent EBL model and anchors intrinsic source spectra to the Fermi-LAT 3FHL catalogue while marginalising spectral-shape departures and dataset normalisations. The method is validated on realistic mock observations and applied to 241 archival H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS spectra of 50 AGN compiled in STeVECat. Because the leading opacity depends on the ratio of the EBL normalisation to the reduced Hubble constant, the gamma-ray data primarily constrain this ratio rather than $H_0$ alone. We measure $r=1.723^{+0.096}_{-0.095}$. For a fixed EBL scale, this gives $H_0=58.3^{+3.4}_{-3.0},\mathrm{km,s^{-1},Mpc^{-1}}$; allowing an 18\% EBL-scale uncertainty gives $H_0=60.5^{+10.8}_{-10.0},\mathrm{km,s^{-1},Mpc^{-1}}$. Matched injections recover the input opacity without appreciable bias, and the tested intrinsic-spectrum and EBL-shape perturbations are subdominant except for large infrared-background mismodelling. The predominantly low-redshift sample leaves $Ω\mathrm{M}$ weakly constrained. The measurement is therefore limited by the EBL normalisation rather than statistics; reducing its uncertainty to a few per cent would make gamma-ray opacity a competitive, distance-ladder-independent probe of $H_0$.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has reported the results for searches for sub-solar mass components in compact binary coalescence during observing run O4a. No detection candidates were identified, but the most significant seven triggers were reported. We present the results of Bayesian parameter inference on these triggers. Five of the triggers show agreement between the Bayesian parameter estimation and the search pipeline trigger. Our results show that three of the triggers may contain a possible sub-solar mass component. Parameter estimation indicates that the other two events, if real, would be neutron star - black hole binaries. The remaining two triggers do not provide informative parameter estimation. We also study three O4a compact binary coalescence triggers, and one O3 trigger, that have been noted by three other groups, and our parameter estimation indicates that three of these may contain a sub-solar mass component. We study the data quality associated with these triggers. Finally, we discuss the challenges for parameter estimation on compact binary coalescence events containing a sub-solar mass component: long signal duration, possible small chirp masses, possible small mass ratios, and data quality issues over potentially hundreds of seconds of data.

We explore the possibility of explaining hard X-ray data obtained from one of the Magnificent Seven (M7) neutron-stars (NSs) employing QCD axion-converted photons. The emission of thermal axions along with neutrinos from the core has been considered. We adopt the nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung process as the baseline axion production mechanism and Cooper-pair breaking and formation (PBF) as an additional process. We investigate here whether the selectively enhanced QCD axion coupling model can better explain the hard X-ray excess than the commonly used KSVZ axion model. Our results suggest that meV-mass QCD axions cannot explain the hard X-ray observation within the adopted framework. The enhanced selective model in the micro-eV scale provides closer agreement with the hard X-ray data. We thus conclude that the emission of hard X-rays in the $2-8$ keV range from isolated M7 stars could be explained by QCD axions under an enhanced coupling scenario.

The stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal probes the velocity-weighted projected gas momentum around galaxies, and is emerging as a powerful probe of gas fractions and baryonic feedback. Its interpretation, however, rests on several assumptions that we test in this pair of companion papers. Using the FLAMINGO hydrodynamical simulations and DESI-like galaxy mocks for luminous red galaxies (LRGs), the bright galaxy sample (BGS), and emission-line galaxies (ELGs), we identify the ingredients required to model the signal to better than $10\%$. This first paper focuses on velocities. We decompose the signal into a dominant bulk-flow term, proportional to the mean optical depth, plus non-linear terms arising from the small-scale gas momentum and its coupling to the stacking velocity. When the stacking velocities are reconstructed from linear information in real space alone -- an idealisation which is not possible in practice -- the non-linear terms cancel and the signal traces the mean optical depth to within a few per cent. When the stacking velocity instead retains non-linear information or is affected by redshift-space distortions, the non-linear terms suppress the signal by $10-20\%$: a $1-2σ$ effect for current data that is expected to be statistically significant for upcoming surveys, and one that depends only weakly on baryonic feedback. Our results reveal a trade-off: velocity estimators that retain small-scale information boost signal-to-noise but require simulation-based modelling, whereas conservative reconstructions simplify the interpretation at the cost of signal-to-noise.

The degree of black-hole spin─orbit misalignment ("tilts") in the astrophysical population could be a powerful diagnostic to distinguish between binary formation in isolation, in dynamical environments, or in hierarchical triples. However, robust population-level spin tilt measurements are complicated by model mis-specification as well as numerical and Poisson variance, ultimately owing to poor single-event constraints on tilts. Motivated by reports of a possible peak in the spin tilt distribution, we analyze the fourth LIGO─Virgo─KAGRA gravitational-wave transient catalog with two population models designed to test for preferred spin orientations at different black hole masses. We find that a peak in spin tilts is neither statistically significant nor model independent. Since the data cannot be used to reliably identify subpopulations based on their spin tilt properties, we also consider a complementary approach: measuring the spin magnitude and tilt distributions at fixed mass scales. We find no confident correlation between mass and spin tilt, but we do confirm a confident correlation between spin magnitude and mass, corroborating recent analyses.

We study the scalar and Dirac perturbations of quantum-corrected black holes with cosmological constant. Using two different methods (WKB and double-null characteristic integration) we compute the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter solutions considering linear field perturbations in the background geometry. In the limit of general relativity black holes our methods demonstrate good convergence with the available results in literature. In the presence of an extra quantum parameter we verify that all perturbations are stable evolving in towers of quasinormal oscillations. We scrutinize the spectra of both dS and AdS solutions studying the influence of that extra parameter in the frequencies.

We construct two exact nonlinear-electrodynamic generalizations of the Kerr-Newman-NUT-$Λ$ spacetime. Imposing alignment between the principal directions of the electromagnetic field and the metric tetrad reduces the Maxwell-Faraday sector to a pair of potentials constrained by a single integrability condition, the key equation. Within the polynomial aligned ansatz considered here, the key equation selects two admissible families, corresponding to electromagnetic potentials that are cubic and quartic polynomials. For each family the Einstein equations reduce to a single radial ordinary differential equation that gives a deformation of the Kerr-like radial metric function which is exactly solved. We derive the corresponding metrics, electromagnetic fields, stress tensors, horizon structure, and we analyze the associated energy conditions. The nonlinear sector breaks conformal invariance and, in the cubic family, can mimic an effective cosmological contribution. The explicit Lagrangians as functions of the electromagnetic invariants are obtained in selected static subsectors. The curvature invariants show that the nonlinear contribution does not remove the Kerr-like curvature singularity, while the solutions present the NUT axial conical singularity.

The Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will remotely observe solar wind transients with high signal-to-noise ratio, high-cadence, high-resolution polarized white-light images. Using different polarization states, an important PUNCH data product will be polarization ratio images. In the small-Sun limit, and using two simple line-of-sight density distributions with a finite angular width that can approximate a stream or corotating interaction region (SIR/CIR), we analytically investigate how the polarization ratio will provide three-dimensional location information and what the uncertainty in this estimated location is.

Axion inflation, characterized by a Chern-Simons interaction between the inflaton and a gauge field, provides a powerful mechanism for generating primordial gravitational waves (GWs) through tachyonic enhancement of the gauge field. While recent literature has predominantly focused on the Strong Backreaction (SB) regime to maximize GW signals for future interferometers, this regime suffers from computational complexities as well as the risk of overproducing scalar perturbations. In this work, we investigate gauge field amplification and GW production strictly within the theoretically safer Weak Backreaction (WB) regime, with a particular focus on the largely unexplored non-instantaneous reheating phase. Because the tachyonic enhancement during slow-roll typically increases as inflation approaches its end, it is crucial to investigate how the production of GWs behaves at the very end of inflation and thereafter. By continuously tracking the evolution from slow-roll through reheating to radiation domination, we present a complete picture of inflationary and post-inflationary GW production in this framework. A particularly interesting feature of the post-inflationary phase is that the oscillatory behavior of the inflaton during reheating leads to frequent sign-flips of the instability parameter $ξ$, exciting both helical modes of the gauge field. Our analysis reveals that axion inflation can naturally generate one of the strongest known primordial GW signals at high-frequency bands. The yield is relevant for future precision measurements of the effective number of neutrino species, $N_{\rm eff}$, and also strongly motivates the development of novel high-frequency GW detectors.

I study a particular exact solution for static stars in four-dimensional non-projectable Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity model without the ghost problem by abandoning Einstein's equal-footing treatment of space and time through anisotropic scaling with z > 1. Considering the spherically symmetric static black-hole solutions in z = 3 Horava gravity as the exterior spacetimes of stars, I obtain an exact solution for incompressible (i.e., uniform-density) static stars with an arbitrary cosmological constant and isotropic pressure, and lambda=1, in which Birkhoff's theorem holds. For a vanishing cosmological constant, I obtain a modified Buchdahl bound on the maximum compactness for uniform-density stars, which ranges from 4/9 to 1. By contrast, I find that Ultra-Compact Objects (UCOs) with compactness C > 1 also exist with negative pressure while, surprisingly, satisfying all four standard energy conditions. UCOs include the regular (non-singular) black-hole solutions with masses above the extremal black-hole mass. In these solutions, the matter is localized at the timelike core region bounded by the inner horizon, while their exterior metrics are unaffected by the core matter and identical to the corresponding vacuum Horava black-hole solutions. These long-sought regular black-hole solutions are essential manifestations of Birkhoff's theorem in Horava gravity. I also find negative-mass stars with positive pressure that violate all standard energy conditions. Finally, I prove Buchdahl's theorem in non-projectable Horava gravity. The proof uses a weight-monotonicity condition on the average density and Birkhoff's theorem, together with the usual assumption that average density is non-increasing.

We investigate the viability of the light inflaton scenario in light of the latest inflationary constraints from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), together with bounds from collider and intensity-frontier experiments searching for a feebly coupled light scalar with a sub-GeV mass. Assuming a quartic inflaton potential, we identify the region of parameter space consistent with the ACT observations and derive constraints on the inflaton mass and inflaton-Higgs mixing using results from NA62, KOTO, BaBar, Belle, LHCb, MATHUSLA, FASER2, SHiP, and neutral meson oscillations. We also explore the prospects for dark matter production during reheating within this framework, while remaining consistent with the inflationary observables.

In this paper, we investigate the almost $η$-Ricci-Yamabe soliton as a fundamental geometric regulator for a static, spherically symmetric black hole coupled to an imperfect fluid. We have shown that the scaling parameter $ω(r)$ is governed by thermodynamic friction along the radial vector field, and the geometric coupling with the Hawking temperature: $α(r_H) S_{tt} = 2πT_H$ at the horizon. We also derive the Poisson equation along the gradient vector field of the soliton and prove that the flow's kinematic expansion is explicitly dependent on the fluid's equation of state $ρ= γσ$. Diverging from traditional methodologies that assume a geometric shape function apriori, we analytically proved the geometric flow endogenously transitions the black hole geometry into a traversable wormhole throat by regularizing of temporal coordinate and satisfying spatial flare-out condition. This transition occurs when fluid enters the dark energy era at $γ= -1$ and violates the Null Energy Condition $ρ+ σ< 0$, with the soliton strictly dominating the local curvature gradient $ω^{\prime}(r_H) > f^{\prime\prime}(r_H)$, to keep the throat open. Moreover, by smoothly attenuating at spatial infinity, the soliton preserves the exact cosmological spacetime. Finally, through tensorial perturbation analysis, we demonstrate that the geometric flow introduces a localized dissipative mechanism, that the perturbation evolution reduces to damped wave equation, imposing geometric drag on the manifold.

We ask whether a cored dark matter (DM) correction can leave a resolved caustic trace after a spinning vacuum binary is allowed to imitate it. The vacuum comparison varies lens scale, common spin, separation, mass ratio, projected spin angle, and one phase offset fitted over the full orbit. Nearby unequal component spins and projected directions are also tested. The best high-resolution fit remains the equal-mass, common-spin model. In the selected encounter, the local root mean square residual is $1.34\times10^{-2}$, the maximum residual is $4.02\times10^{-2}$, and the aligned crossing shift is $1.51\times10^{-3}$. A nearby resolution gives $1.50\times10^{-2}$, $4.02\times10^{-2}$, and $1.82\times10^{-3}$. All three rising half-response crossings are checked, and the selected event is not the largest. This is a numerical demonstration within a tested effective family, not an observational claim or an exact binary-spacetime calculation.

MANAS is a single antenna, ground-based platform built to measure the sky averaged ('global') redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn. The cosmological signal is expected as a ~ 100-200 mK absorption trough against a foreground of 3-4 orders of magnitude brighter. The current crop of 21-cm experiments are limited by systematics namely the sky, ionosphere, beam, and signal path effects. MANAS combines an achromatic monopole antenna, an absolutely-calibrated receiver, and in-situ beam mapping with the OVRO-LWA, and develops an end-to-end error budget that quantifies each systematic.

(abridged) In order for the universe to develop astrophysical structures and support life, the fundamental constants that determine the laws of physics and the cosmological parameters that specify cosmic properties must fall within a range of values. The goal of this review is to delineate these ranges. We start with the premise that multiple universes can exist and can sample different realizations of the laws of physics. This treatment focuses on the coupling constants that determine the strength of the fundamental forces $(α,α_G,α_{\rm s},α_{\rm w})$ and the masses of the particles $(m_u,m_d,m_e)$ that make up atomic matter. We also consider cosmological parameters, including the energy density parameter $Ω$, the dark energy density $ρ_v$, the baryon-to-photon ratio $η$, the dark matter contribution $δ$, the amplitude $Q$ of primordial density fluctuations, and the number ${\cal D}$ of spatial dimensions. These quantities are constrained by the need for the universe to emerge from its epoch of nucleosynthesis with an acceptable chemical composition, live for a long time, and ultimately produce galaxies, stars, and planets. Stellar lifetimes must be long enough and surface temperatures must be high enough to support life. These requirements place constraints on the fundamental constants and cosmological parameters. This overview discusses several classic instances of possible fine-tuning in stars, including the triple alpha reaction, stable diprotons, and unstable deuterium. Finally, we note that for universes with significantly different parameters, a variety of astrophysical processes can generate energy, drive nucleosynthesis, and potentially support habitability.

Here we discuss the effect of gravitational repulsion on geodesic deviation in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. In particular, the geodesic deviation shows different behaviour inside or outside a critical surface, which is the divider between attractive and repulsive regions of gravity. This in turn makes it possible to locate the critical surface and regions of gravitational repulsion and attraction from the behaviour of geodesic deviation.

Detecting the radial velocity signal of Earth-mass exoplanets requires the characterisation and removal of granulation-induced radial velocity variability from spectroscopic observations. By coupling three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic (HD) simulations to a radiative transfer code, we can isolate and study the effect of granulation on stellar lines. In this study we isolated the impact of granulation on spectral line shapes and shifts for the largest and most diverse synthetic spectral line sample to date. Our aims were twofold. First, we quantified how granulation affects the temporal evolution of shapes and shifts of 72 unblended spectral lines in two wavelength regions: 5500-5600 Å and 6100-6200 Å, from disc centre to the stellar limb. Second, we investigated if spectral lines behave coherently in their line shape variability. We find that weak lines show the largest radial-velocity variability due to granulation, up to 40 m/s at disc centre and 50 m/s at the stellar limb. On the other hand, strong lines exhibit larger variability in equivalent width than weak lines across the stellar disc. In addition, the equivalent width and line depth of a spectral line are strongly linearly correlated with its radial velocity. While granulation affects all three of these quantities, planetary Doppler shifts only affect radial velocities, opening the door to new granulation-mitigation methods. Lastly, we find that the radial velocity and equivalent width of most spectral lines in our sample evolve coherently in time, with the Fe I and Ca I lines behaving the most similarly. Due to the coherency, line blends will not significantly affect the temporal behaviour of RV and line shape, as induced by granulation. Besides, the coherency between spectral lines offer the opportunity to create disc-integrated spectra of many lines simultaneously, which will be explored in future work.

In general relativity and its metric-formalism extensions, the innermost stable circular orbit and the photon ring of a charged black hole contract as the charge increases. In this paper, we discover a qualitative anomaly that violates this universal behavior, serving as a smoking-gun signature of geometric nonmetricity. By considering a minimal coupling between the bosonic field and the independent affine metric, we demonstrate that nonmetricity induces an effective geometric force that triggers a trajectory expansion of both massless and massive bosons with increasing black hole charge. This qualitative inversion directly imprints onto the black hole shadow, lifting the degeneracy between metric-affine gravity and general relativity. Using Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity as a concrete implementation, we show that next-generation horizon-scale imaging can resolve this signature, probing a complementary high-energy window up to the $10^{5}_{~}\,\text{TeV}$ scale.

The goal of this paper is to provide an exhaustive study of the K 4p-5s doublet at 1.243/1.252~$μ$m perturbed by He and H$_2$ in physical conditions of brown dwarfs. This work is applicable to analysis of the ESO SupJup Survey's J-band spectra such as for Luhman~16. Line profiles of this doublet computed within a unified line-shape theory exhibit a blue asymmetrical behavior. This effect is of increasing importance with He and H2 density, and as a result, the full treatment of the infrared K doublet reveals strong effects on its opacity outside the impact approximation. For a He and H2 perturber density larger than $10^{19}$~cm$^{-3}$ (0.4 bar) the impact approximation breaks down and is not applicable to calculate the shape of the line profiles and their line core parameters.