Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 23 January 2026

Volume 24, Issue 4 (20 Articles)

# 1 - Development of an early warning method incorporating pre-supernova neutrino light curves
- Keita Saito, Minori Eizuka, Zhuojun Hu, Koichi Ichimura, Motoyasu Ikeda, Koji Ishidoshiro, Nanami Kawada, Lucas N. Machado, Lluis Marti-Magro, Kazuha Mikami, Koga Tachibana, Roger A. Wendell
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15691
# 2 - Discovery of High X-Ray Polarization from the Neutron Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Cyg X-2 in the Horizontal Branch
- Andrea Gnarini, Swati Ravi, Philip Kaaret, Anna Bobrikova, Juri Poutanen, Sofia V. Forsblom, Francesco Ursini, Maria Cristina Baglio, Stefano Bianchi, Fiamma Capitanio, Massimo Cocchi, Maria Alejandra Diaz Teodori, Sergio Fabiani, Ruben Farinelli, Giorgio Matt, Mason Ng, Alexander Salganik, Paolo Soffitta, Antonella Tarana, Silvia Zane
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11718
# 3 - Einstein Probe discovery of EP J171159.4-333253: an eclipsing neutron star low-mass X-ray binary with clocked bursts
- Y. L. Wang, F. Coti Zelati, E. Parent, A. Marino, N. Rea, V. S. Dhillon, J. Blanco-Pozo, I. Ribas, S. P. Littlefair, Z. H. Yang, G. B. Zhang, S. Guillot, K. R. Ni, J. H. Wu, A. Patruno, Y. Cavecchi, G. Illiano, A. Papitto, F. Ambrosino, B. F. Liu, H. Q. Cheng, H. Feng, J. W. Hu, C. C. Jin, H. Sun, L. Tao, Y. J. Xu, H. N. Yang, W. Yuan, Q. C. Zhao
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11784
# 4 - LAMOST J113208.06-005052.3 and LAMOST J052957.56+344127.0: two new binaries with a hot white dwarf and a flaring companion star
- Yanhui Chen, Chaomi Duan, Baokun Sun
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12647
# 5 - Probing Circumstellar Material and Shock Acceleration in Core-Collapse Supernovae with High-Energy Neutrinos
- Yi-Long Duan, Tuohuniyazi Tuniyazi, Gang Guo
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12417
# 6 - Neutron star cooling implications and magnetic field of the Vela Junior central compact object from all XMM-Newton and Chandra spectra
- Wynn C. G. Ho (Haverford), Esther Simkhayeva (Haverford), Alexander Y. Potekhin (Ioffe Institute)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14388
# 7 - My PI is not offering any support or guidance on my PhD project, what should I do?
- Sarah Wells
- Nature
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04125-x
# 8 - Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’
- Elizabeth Gibney
- Nature
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00177-9
# 9 - Improved microscopic nuclear level densities within the triaxial Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov plus combinatorial method
- S. Goriely, W. Ryssens, S. Hilaire,, A. J. Koning
- Physical Review C
- http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/r6pn-xjnv
# 10 - Sensitivity of Hyper-Kamiokande to sub-eV sterile neutrinos
- Emilse Cabrera, Arman Esmaili, Hiroshi Nunokawa,, Ana Maria Garcia Trzeciak
- Physical Review D
- http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/gwpz-wsgj
# 11 - Case study of GW190425 for classifying binary neutron star versus binary black hole mergers and constraining asymmetric dark matter with gravitational wave detectors
- Sanika Khadkikar, Divya Singh
- Physical Review D
- http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/tzz8-wvrf
# 12 - Abundance of Heavy r-process Elements in CEMP-rs Stars: The Role of the i-process
- A. M. Riyas, D. Karinkuzhi, S. Van Eck, A. Choplin, S. Goriely, L. Siess, M. V. Keerthy, A. Jorissen, T. Merle
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae12a0
# 13 - The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Search for Gravitational Scattering of Pulsars by Free-floating Objects in Interstellar Space
- Lankeswar Dey, Ross J. Jennings, Jackson D. Taylor, Joseph Glaser, Maura A. McLaughlin, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae279d
# 14 - Evidence of an Energetic Magnetar Powering 1LHAASO J0500+4454
- J. A. J. Alford, J. D. Gelfand, M. Abdelmaguid, P. Slane
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2257
# 15 - Physical Conditions for Synthesis of Sc, Ti, and V in Neutrino-driven Supernovae
- Ryota Hatami, Nozomu Tominaga, Takashi Yoshida, Hideyuki Umeda, Tomoya Takiwaki
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2fbc
# 16 - SN 2023syz and SN 2025cbj: Two Type IIn Supernovae Associated with IceCube High-energy Neutrinos
- Ming-Xuan Lu, Yun-Feng Liang, Xiang-Gao Wang, Hao-Qiang Zhang
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae25ea
# 17 - Detection of Oscillations in a Type I X-Ray Burst of 4U 0614+091 with SVOM/ECLAIRs
- SÃ©bastien Le Stum, Floriane Cangemi, Alexis Coleiro, SÃ©bastien Guillot, JÃ©rÃ´me Chenevez, Philippe Bacon, Nicolas Bellemont, Laurent Bouchet, Tristan Bouchet, CÃ©cile Cavet
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae3174
# 18 - Covariant Energy Density Functionals for Modeling the Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter: Cross-comparison Analysis Using CompactObject
- JoÃ£o Cartaxo, Chun Huang, Tuhin Malik, Shashwat Sourav, Wen-Li Yuan, Tianzhe Zhou, Xuezhi Liu, ConstanÃ§a ProvidÃªncia
- The Astrophysical Journal Supplement
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ae2310
# 19 - Electron spectral shape of the third-forbidden $$beta $$-decay of $$^{87}$$Rb measured using a $$hbox {Rb}_2hbox {ZrCl}_6$$ crystal scintillator
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01780-6
# 20 - Partial conservation of seniority in semi-magic nuclei
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01781-5