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Application of the Titius-Bode Rule to the 55 Cancri System: Tentative Prediction of a Possibly Habitable Planet
Following the notion that the Titius-Bode rule (TBR) may also be applicable
to some extra-solar planetary systems, although this number could be relatively
small, it is applied to 55 Cancri, which is a G-type main-sequence star
currently known to host five planets. Following a concise computational
process, we tentatively identify four new hypothetical planetary positions
given as 0.081, 0.41, 1.51 and 2.95 AU from the star. The likelihood that these
positions are occupied by real existing planets is significantly enhanced for
the positions of 1.51 and 2.95 AU in the view of previous simulations on planet
formation and planetary orbital stability. For example, Raymond et al. (2008)
[ApJ 689, 478] argued that additional planets would be possible between 55 Cnc
f and 55 Cnc d, which would include planets situated at 1.51 and 2.95 AU. If
two additional planets are assumed to exist between 55 Cnc f and 55 Cnc d, the
deduced domains of stability would be given as 1.3-1.6 and 2.2-3.3 AU. The
possible planet near 1.5 AU appears to be located at the outskirts of the
stellar habitable zone, which is however notably affected by the stellar
parameters as well as the adopted model of circumstellar habitability. We also
compute the distance of the next possible outer planet in the 55 Cnc system,
which if existing is predicted to be located between 10.9 and 12.2 AU, which is
consistent with orbital stability constraints. The inherent statistical
significance of the TBR is evaluated following the method by Lynch (2003)
[MNRAS 341, 1174]. Yet it is up to future planetary search missions to verify
or falsify the applicability of the TBR to the 55 Cnc system, and to attain
information on additional planets, if existing.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, 9 tables; accepted by Publications of the
Astronomical Society of Japan; to be published on 2012 August 25; Ref.: PASJ
64 (4
Crowded-Field Astrometry with the Space Interferometry Mission - I. Estimating the Single-Measurement Astrometric Bias Arising from Confusion
The accuracy of position measurements on stellar targets with the future
Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) will be limited not only by photon noise and
by the properties of the instrument (design, stability, etc.) and the overall
measurement program (observing strategy, reduction methods, etc.), but also by
the presence of other "confusing" stars in the field of view (FOV). We use a
simple "phasor" model as an aid to understanding the main effects of this
"confusion bias" in single observations with SIM. This analytic model has been
implemented numerically in a computer code and applied to a selection of
typical SIM target fields drawn from some of the Key Projects already accepted
for the Mission. We expect that less than 1% of all SIM targets will be
vulnerable to confusion bias; we show that for the present SIM design,
confusion may be a concern if the surface density of field stars exceeds 0.4
star/arcsec^2. We have developed a software tool as an aid to ascertaining the
possible presence of confusion bias in single observations of any arbitrary
field. Some a priori knowledge of the locations and spectral energy
distributions of the few brightest stars in the FOV is helpful in establishing
the possible presence of confusion bias, but the information is in general not
likely to be available with sufficient accuracy to permit its removal. We
discuss several ways of reducing the likelihood of confusion bias in crowded
fields. Finally, several limitations of the present semi-analytic approach are
reviewed, and their effects on the present results are estimated. The simple
model presented here provides a good physical understanding of how confusion
arises in a single SIM observation, and has sufficient precision to establish
the likelihood of a bias in most cases.Comment: 28 pages, 20 figures, 1 table; to appear in December 2007 issue of
PAS
Banking Fragility and Disclosure: International Evidence
Motivated by recent public policy debates on the role of market discipline in banking stability, I examine the impact of greater bank disclosure in mitigating the likelihood of systemic banking crisis. In a cross sectional study of banking systems across 49 countries in the 90s, I find that banking crises are less likely in countries with financial reporting regimes characterized by (i) comprehensive disclosure (ii) informative disclosure, (iii) timely disclosure and (iv) more stringent auditing.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40134/3/wp748.pd
Banking Fragility & Disclosure: International Evidence
Motivated by recent public policy debates on the role of market discipline in banking stability, the study examines the impact of greater bank disclosure in mitigating the likelihood of systemic banking crisis. In a cross sectional study of banking systems across forty-nine countries in the nineties, it finds evidence that banking crises are less likely in countries with regulatory regimes that require extensive bank disclosure and stringent auditing.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57254/1/wp874 .pd
Consistency of maximum likelihood estimation for some dynamical systems
We consider the asymptotic consistency of maximum likelihood parameter
estimation for dynamical systems observed with noise. Under suitable conditions
on the dynamical systems and the observations, we show that maximum likelihood
parameter estimation is consistent. Our proof involves ideas from both
information theory and dynamical systems. Furthermore, we show how some
well-studied properties of dynamical systems imply the general statistical
properties related to maximum likelihood estimation. Finally, we exhibit
classical families of dynamical systems for which maximum likelihood estimation
is consistent. Examples include shifts of finite type with Gibbs measures and
Axiom A attractors with SRB measures.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOS1259 the Annals of
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
The fine-tuning cost of the likelihood in SUSY models
In SUSY models, the fine tuning of the electroweak (EW) scale with respect to
their parameters gamma_i={m_0, m_{1/2}, mu_0, A_0, B_0,...} and the maximal
likelihood L to fit the experimental data are usually regarded as two different
problems. We show that, if one regards the EW minimum conditions as constraints
that fix the EW scale, this commonly held view is not correct and that the
likelihood contains all the information about fine-tuning. In this case we show
that the corrected likelihood is equal to the ratio L/Delta of the usual
likelihood L and the traditional fine tuning measure Delta of the EW scale. A
similar result is obtained for the integrated likelihood over the set
{gamma_i}, that can be written as a surface integral of the ratio L/Delta, with
the surface in gamma_i space determined by the EW minimum constraints. As a
result, a large likelihood actually demands a large ratio L/Delta or
equivalently, a small chi^2_{new}=chi^2_{old}+2*ln(Delta). This shows the
fine-tuning cost to the likelihood (chi^2_{new}) of the EW scale stability
enforced by SUSY, that is ignored in data fits. A good
chi^2_{new}/d.o.f.\approx 1 thus demands SUSY models have a fine tuning amount
Delta<<exp(d.o.f./2), which provides a model-independent criterion for
acceptable fine-tuning. If this criterion is not met, one can thus rule out
SUSY models without a further chi^2/d.o.f. analysis. Numerical methods to fit
the data can easily be adapted to account for this effect.Comment: 10 pages (v3: small comment added
Likelihood Adaptively Modified Penalties
A new family of penalty functions, adaptive to likelihood, is introduced for
model selection in general regression models. It arises naturally through
assuming certain types of prior distribution on the regression parameters. To
study stability properties of the penalized maximum likelihood estimator, two
types of asymptotic stability are defined. Theoretical properties, including
the parameter estimation consistency, model selection consistency, and
asymptotic stability, are established under suitable regularity conditions. An
efficient coordinate-descent algorithm is proposed. Simulation results and real
data analysis show that the proposed method has competitive performance in
comparison with existing ones.Comment: 42 pages, 4 figure
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