We compute the Zero Point Energy (ZPE) induced by a naked singularity with the help of a reformulation of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation. A variational approach is used for the calculation with Gaussian Trial Wave Functionals. ...

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully coherent search for such signals from eighteen pulsars ...

We analyse the characteristics of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) during Solar Cycles 23 and 24. The present analysis is primarily based on the near-Earth ICME catalogue (Richardson and Cane, 2010). An important ...

We discuss the consequences of assuming that the (Majorana) neutrino mass matrix Mν and the charged lepton mass matrix Ml satisfy STνMνSν=−Mν and T†lMlM†lTl=MlM†l with respect to some discrete groups Sν and Tl contained ...

Stable water isotopes in ground-level vapour are key to estimating water exchange between geospheres. Their sampling, however, is limited to laser-absorption spectrometers and satellite observations, having inherent ...

The three major unknown neutrino oscillation parameters at the present juncture are the mass hierarchy, the octant of the mixing angle θ23 and the CP phase δCP. It is well known that the presence of hierarchy-δCP and octant ...

In this work we investigate the usefulness of nuSTORM as a probe of two new-physics scenarios that are sterile neutrinos and nonunitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix. For the sterile neutrino we show the importance of ...

Impact delivery of prebiotic compounds to the early Earth from an impacting comet is considered to be one of the possible ways by which prebiotic molecules arrived on the Earth. Given the ubiquity of impact features observed ...

Near infrared camera spectrograph and polarimeter (NICSPol) is a near-infrared (NIR) imaging polarimeter developed for the Near-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (NICS), one of the backend instruments of the 1.2-m Cassegrain ...

Although oceans contribute significantly to the global nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, there are less than desired data related to N2O concentrations and fluxes in the global oceans and, in particular, the Indian Ocean. ...