The Astronomy in Ancient China: An Overview

Abstract

Recently, three optical tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have been suggested to be coincident with high-energy neutrinos. They all exhibit unusually strong dust infrared (IR) echoes, with their peak times matching the neutrino arrival time even better than the optical peaks. We hereby report on two new TDE candidates that are spatially and temporally coincident with neutrinos by matching our sample of mid-infrared outbursts in nearby galaxies (MIRONG) with Gold alerts of IceCube high-energy neutrino events up to June 2022. The two candidates show negligible optical variability according to their ZTF light curves and can therefore be classified as part of the growing population of obscured TDE candidates. The chance probability of finding two such candidates about ∼ 3% by redistributing the MIRONG sources randomly in the SDSS footprint, which will be as low as ∼ 0.1% (or ∼ 0.2%) if we limit to sources with increased fluxes (or variability amplitudes) comparable with the matched two sources. Our findings further support the potential connection between high-energy neutrinos and TDEs in dusty environments by increasing the total number of neutrino-associated TDE and TDE candidates to five, although the underlying physics remains poorly understood.

Theological Review of the Concept of Feng Shui According to Colossians 2:8

“…In addition to the layout, the factor of time is also taken into account in feng shui, both the time of birth and the numbers that determine the good fortune of the human being. The time of birth is calculated based on the horoscope of 12 shio, namely 12 symbols of animals that rule each year in the cycle (Jiang, 2021). Another element considered in applying feng shui is the Yin and Yang.…”