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Neutrino eigenstates and flavour, spin and spin-flavour oscillations in a constant magnetic field
We further develop a recently proposed new approach to the description of the
relativistic neutrino flavour , spin
and spin-flavour oscillations in a constant magnetic field that is based on the use
of the exact neutrino stationary states in the magnetic field. The neutrino
flavour, spin and spin-flavour oscillations probabilities are calculated
accounting for the whole set of possible conversions between four neutrino
states. In general, the obtained expressions for the neutrino oscillations
probabilities exhibit new inherent features in the oscillation patterns. It is
shown, in particular, that: 1) in the presence of the transversal magnetic
field for a given choice of parameters (the energy and magnetic moments of
neutrinos and the strength of the magnetic field) the amplitude of the flavour
oscillations at the vacuum frequency is
modulated by the magnetic field frequency, 2) the neutrino spin oscillation
probability (without change of the neutrino flavour) exhibits the dependence on
the mass square difference . It is shown that the discussed
interplay of neutrino oscillations in magnetic fields on different frequencies
can have important consequences in astrophysical environments, in particular in
those peculiar for magnetars.Comment: 7 pages and 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1803.0575
Astrokit -- an Efficient Program for High-Precision Differential CCD Photometry and Search for Variable Stars
Having a need to perform differential photometry for tens of thousands stars
in a several square degrees field, we developed Astrokit program. The software
corrects the star brightness variations caused by variations of atmospheric
transparency: to this end, the program selects for each star an individual
ensemble of reference stars having similar magnitudes and positions in the
frame. With ten or more reference stars in the ensemble, the differences
between their spectral types and the spectral type of the object studied become
unimportant. Astrokit searches for variable stars using Robust Median
Statistics criterion, which allows candidate variables to be selected more
efficiently than by analyzing the standard deviation of star magnitudes. The
software allows very precise automatic analysis of long inhomogeneous sets of
photometric observations of a large number of objects to be performed, making
it possible to find "hot Jupiter" type exoplanet transits and low-amplitude
variables. We describe the algorithm of the program and the results of its
application to reduce the data of the photometric sky survey in Cygnus as well
as observations of the open cluster NGC188 and the transit of the exoplanet
WASP-11 b / HAT-P-10 b, performed with the MASTER-II-URAL telescope of the
Kourovka Astronomical Observatory of the Ural Federal University.Comment: to be published in Astrophysical Bulletin, Vol. 69, No.
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