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Wind-wind collision in the eta Carinae binary system - III. The HeII 4686 line profile
We modeled the HeII 4686 line profiles observed in the eta Carinae binary
system close to the 2003.5 spectroscopic event, assuming that they were formed
in the shocked gas that flows at both sides of the contact surface formed by
wind-wind collision. We used a constant flow velocity and added turbulence in
the form of a gaussian velocity distribution. We allowed emission from both the
primary and secondary shocks but introduced infinite opacity at the contact
surface, implying that only the side of the contact cone visible to the
observer contributed to the line profile. Using the orbital parameters of the
binary system derived from the 7 mm light curve during the last spectroscopic
event (Paper II) we were able to reproduce the line profiles obtained with the
HST at different epochs, as well as the line mean velocities obtained with
ground based telescopes. A very important feature of our model is that the line
profile depends on the inclination of the orbital plane; we found that to
explain the latitude dependent mean velocity of the line, scattered into the
line of sight by the Homunculus, the orbit inclination should be close to 90
degrees, meaning that it does not lie in the Homunculus equatorial plane, as
usually assumed. This inclination, together with the relative position of the
stars during the spectroscopic events, allowed us to explain most of the
observational features, like the variation of the Purple Haze with the orbital
phase, and to conciliate the X-ray absorption with the postulated shell effect
used to explain the optical and UV light curves.Comment: to appear in the MNRA
Disconnecting strongly regular graphs
In this paper, we show that the minimum number of vertices whose removal
disconnects a connected strongly regular graph into non-singleton components,
equals the size of the neighborhood of an edge for many graphs. These include
blocks graphs of Steiner -designs, many Latin square graphs and strongly
regular graphs whose intersection parameters are at most a quarter of their
valency
WR 7a: a V Sagittae or a qWR star?
The star WR 7a, also known as SPH 2, has a spectrum that resembles that of V
Sagittae stars although no O VI emission has been reported. The Temporal
Variance Spectrum - TVS - analysis of our data shows weak but strongly variable
emission of O VI lines which is below the noise level in the intensity
spectrum. Contrary to what is seen in V Sagittae stars, optical photometric
monitoring shows very little, if any, flickering. We found evidence of periodic
variability. The most likely photometric period is P(phot) = 0.227(14) d, while
radial velocities suggest a period of P(spec) = 0.204(13) d. One-day aliases of
these periods can not be ruled out. We call attention to similarities with HD
45166 and DI Cru (= WR 46), where multiple periods are present. They may be
associated to the binary motion or to non-radial oscillations. In contrast to a
previous conclusion by Pereira et al. (1998), we show that WR 7a contains
hydrogen. The spectrum of the primary star seems to be detectable as the N V
4604A absorption line is visible. If so, it means that the wind is optically
thin in the continuum and that it is likely to be a helium main sequence star.
Given the similarity to HD 45166, we suggests that WR 7a may be a qWR - quasi
Wolf-Rayet - star. Its classification is WN4h/CE in the Smith et al. (1996)
three dimensional classification system.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, preprint of an article accepted for publication
in Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Societ
Exploiting neutron-rich radioactive ion beams to constrain the symmetry energy
The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) and 4 Tm Sweeper magnet were used to measure
the free neutrons and heavy charged particles from the radioactive ion beam
induced 32Mg + 9Be reaction. The fragmentation reaction was simulated with the
Constrained Molecular Dynamics model(CoMD), which demonstrated that the
of the heavy fragments and free neutron multiplicities were observables
sensitive to the density dependence of the symmetry energy at sub-saturation
densities. Through comparison of these simulations with the experimental data
constraints on the density dependence of the symmetry energy were extracted.
The advantage of radioactive ion beams as a probe of the symmetry energy is
demonstrated through examination of CoMD calculations for stable and
radioactive beam induced reactions
Problems on q-Analogs in Coding Theory
The interest in -analogs of codes and designs has been increased in the
last few years as a consequence of their new application in error-correction
for random network coding. There are many interesting theoretical, algebraic,
and combinatorial coding problems concerning these q-analogs which remained
unsolved. The first goal of this paper is to make a short summary of the large
amount of research which was done in the area mainly in the last few years and
to provide most of the relevant references. The second goal of this paper is to
present one hundred open questions and problems for future research, whose
solution will advance the knowledge in this area. The third goal of this paper
is to present and start some directions in solving some of these problems.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0805.3528 by other author
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