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The contribution of X-ray binaries to the evolution of late-type galaxies: Evolutionary population synthesis simulations
X-ray studies of normal late-type galaxies have shown that non-nuclear X-ray
emission is typically dominated by X-ray binaries, and provides a useful
measure of star formation activity. We have modeled the X-ray evolution of
late-type galaxies over the 14 Gyr of cosmic history, with an
evolutionary population synthesis code developed by Hurley et al. Our
calculations reveal a decrease of the X-ray luminosity-to-mass ratio with time, in agreement with observations (Fig.~7). We show that this
decrease is a natural consequence of stellar and binary evolution and mass
accumulating process in galaxies. The X-ray-to-optical luminosity ratio is found to be fairly constant (around
erg\,s, Fig.~7), and insensitive to the star
formation history in the galaxies. The nearly constant value of is in conflict with the observed increase in from to 1.4. The discrepancy may be caused by intense obscured star
formation activity that leads to nonlinear relationship between X-ray and
B-band emission.Comment: 8 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journal, now available at http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/733/
Optimal Discrete Uniform Generation from Coin Flips, and Applications
This article introduces an algorithm to draw random discrete uniform
variables within a given range of size n from a source of random bits. The
algorithm aims to be simple to implement and optimal both with regards to the
amount of random bits consumed, and from a computational perspective---allowing
for faster and more efficient Monte-Carlo simulations in computational physics
and biology. I also provide a detailed analysis of the number of bits that are
spent per variate, and offer some extensions and applications, in particular to
the optimal random generation of permutations.Comment: first draft, 22 pages, 5 figures, C code implementation of algorith
The nature of the unresolved extragalactic soft CXB
In this paper we investigate the power spectrum of the unresolved 0.5-2 keV
CXB with deep Chandra 4 Ms observations in the CDFS. We measured a signal
which, on scales >30", is significantly higher than the Shot-Noise and is
increasing with the angular scale. We interpreted this signal as the joint
contribution of clustered undetected sources like AGN, Galaxies and
Inter-Galactic-Medium (IGM). The power of unresolved cosmic sources
fluctuations accounts for \sim 12% of the 0.5-2 keV extragalactic CXB. Overall,
our modeling predicts that \sim 20% of the unresolved CXB flux is made by low
luminosity AGN, \sim 25% by galaxies and \sim 55% by the IGM (Inter Galactic
Medium). We do not find any direct evidence of the so called Warm Hot
Intergalactic Medium (i.e. matter with 10^5K<T<10^7K and density contrast
{\delta} <1000), but we estimated that it could produce about 1/7 of the
unresolved CXB. We placed an upper limit to the space density of postulated
X-ray-emitting early black hole at z>7.5 and compared it with SMBH evolution
models.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRA
Can AGN and galaxy clusters explain the surface brightness fluctuations of the cosmic X-ray background?
Fluctuations of the surface brightness of cosmic X-ray background (CXB) carry
unique information about faint and low luminosity source populations, which is
inaccessible for conventional large-scale structure (LSS) studies based on
resolved sources. We used Chandra data of the XBOOTES field
() to conduct the most accurate measurement to date of
the power spectrum of fluctuations of the unresolved CXB on the angular scales
of arcsec arcmin. We find that at sub-arcmin angular
scales, the power spectrum is consistent with the AGN shot noise, without much
need for any significant contribution from their one-halo term. This is
consistent with the theoretical expectation that low-luminosity AGN reside
alone in their dark matter halos. However, at larger angular scales we detect a
significant LSS signal above the AGN shot noise. Its power spectrum, obtained
after subtracting the AGN shot noise, follows a power law with the slope of
and its amplitude is much larger than what can be plausibly
explained by the two-halo term of AGN. We demonstrate that the detected LSS
signal is produced by unresolved clusters and groups of galaxies. For the flux
limit of the XBOOTES survey, their flux-weighted mean redshift equals
\left\sim0.3, and the mean temperature of their intracluster medium
(ICM), \left\approx 1.4 keV, corresponds to the mass of . The power spectrum of CXB fluctuations
carries information about the redshift distribution of these objects and the
spatial structure of their ICM on the linear scales of up to Mpc, i.e. of
the order of the virial radius.Comment: 25 pages, 20 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments welcom
From Quantum Systems to L-Functions: Pair Correlation Statistics and Beyond
The discovery of connections between the distribution of energy levels of
heavy nuclei and spacings between prime numbers has been one of the most
surprising and fruitful observations in the twentieth century. The connection
between the two areas was first observed through Montgomery's work on the pair
correlation of zeros of the Riemann zeta function. As its generalizations and
consequences have motivated much of the following work, and to this day remains
one of the most important outstanding conjectures in the field, it occupies a
central role in our discussion below. We describe some of the many techniques
and results from the past sixty years, especially the important roles played by
numerical and experimental investigations, that led to the discovery of the
connections and progress towards understanding the behaviors. In our survey of
these two areas, we describe the common mathematics that explains the
remarkable universality. We conclude with some thoughts on what might lie ahead
in the pair correlation of zeros of the zeta function, and other similar
quantities.Comment: Version 1.1, 50 pages, 6 figures. To appear in "Open Problems in
Mathematics", Editors John Nash and Michael Th. Rassias. arXiv admin note:
text overlap with arXiv:0909.491
Noise versus chaos in a causal Fisher-Shannon plane
We revisit the Fisher-Shannon representation plane , evaluated using the Bandt and Pompe recipe to assign a
probability distribution to a time series. Several stochastic dynamical (noises
with , , power spectrum) and chaotic processes (27 chaotic
maps) are analyzed so as to illustrate the approach. Our main achievement is
uncovering the informational properties of the planar location.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1401.213
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