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Null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular spacetime
In this paper, the null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular
spacetime are investigated. According to the nature of the null geodesics, the
spacetime is divided into several cases. In the weak deflection limit, we find
the influence of the nonsingularity parameter on the positions and
magnifications of the images is negligible. In the strong deflection limit, the
coefficients and observables for the gravitational lensing in a nonsingular
black hole background and a weakly nonsingular spacetime are obtained.
Comparing these results, we find that, in a weakly nonsingular spacetime, the
relativistic images have smaller angular position and relative magnification,
but larger angular separation than that of a nonsingular black hole. These
results might offer a way to probe the spacetime nonsingularity parameter and
put a bound on it by the astronomical instruments in the near future.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
Predicting Stock Volatility Using After-Hours Information
We use realized volatilities based on after hours high frequency returns to predict next day volatility. We extend GARCH and long-memory forecasting models to include additional information: the whole night, the preopen, the postclose realized variance, and the overnight squared return. For four NASDAQ stocks (MSFT, AMGN, CSCO, and YHOO) we find that the inclusion of the preopen variance can improve the out-of-sample forecastability of the next day conditional day volatility. Additionally, we find that the postclose variance and the overnight squared return do not provide any predictive power for the next day conditional volatility. Our findings support the results of prior studies that traders trade for non-information reasons in the postclose period and trade for information reasons in the preopen period.
Neutron Density Distributions of Neutron-Rich Nuclei Studied with the Isobaric Yield Ratio Difference
The isobaric yield ratio difference (IBD) between two reactions of similar
experimental setups is found to be sensitive to nuclear density differences
between projectiles. In this article, the IBD probe is used to study the
density variation in neutron-rich Ca. By adjusting diffuseness in the
neutron density distribution, three different neutron density distributions of
Ca are obtained. The yields of fragments in the 80 MeV Ca
+ C reactions are calculated by using a modified statistical
abrasion-ablation model. It is found that the IBD results obtained from the
prefragments are sensitive to the density distribution of the projectile, while
the IBD results from the final fragments are less sensitive to the density
distribution of the projectile.Comment: 3 figure
Gravity Localization and Effective Newtonian Potential for Bent Thick Branes
In this letter, we first investigate the gravity localization and mass
spectrum of gravity KK modes on de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter thick branes.
Then, the effective Newtonian gravitational potentials for these bent branes
are discussed by the two typical examples. The corrections of the Newtonian
potential turns out to be at small for both
cases. These corrections are very different from that of the Randall-Sundrum
brane model .Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
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