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    High energy neutrino early afterglows from gamma-ray bursts revisited

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    The high energy neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been expected in various scenarios. In this paper, we study the neutrino emission from early afterglows of GRBs, especially under the reverse-forward shock model and late prompt emission model. In the former model, the early afterglow emission occurs due to dissipation made by an external shock with the circumburst medium (CBM). In the latter model, internal dissipation such as internal shocks produces the shallow decay emission in early afterglows. We also discuss implications of recent Swift observations for neutrino signals in detail. Future neutrino detectors such as IceCube may detect neutrino signals from early afterglows, especially under the late prompt emission model, while the detection would be difficult under the reverse-forward shock model. Contribution to the neutrino background from the early afterglow emission may be at most comparable to that from the prompt emission unless the outflow making the early afterglow emission loads more nonthermal protons, and it may be important in the very high energies. Neutrino-detections are inviting because they could provide us with not only information on baryon acceleration but also one of the clues to the model of early afterglows. Finally, we compare various predictions for the neutrino background from GRBs, which are testable by future neutrino-observations.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in PR

    Luminosity of young Jupiters revisited. Massive cores make hot planets

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    The intrinsic luminosity of young Jupiters is of high interest for planet formation theory. It is an observable quantity that is determined by important physical mechanisms during formation, namely the accretion shock structure, and even more fundamentally, the basic formation mechanism (core accretion or gravitational instability). We study the impact of the core mass on the post-formation entropy and luminosity of young giant planets forming via core accretion with a supercritical shock (cold accretion). For this, we conduct self-consistently coupled formation and evolution calculations of giant planets with masses between 1 and 12 Jovian masses and core masses between 20 and 120 Earth masses. We find that the post-formation luminosity of massive giant planets is very sensitive to the core mass. An increase of the core mass by a factor 6 results in an increase of the post-formation luminosity of a 10 Jovian mass planet by a factor 120. Due to this dependency, there is no single well defined post-formation luminosity for core accretion, but a wide range. For massive cores (~100 Earth masses), the post-formation luminosities of core accretion planets become so high that they approach those in the hot start scenario that is often associated with gravitational instability. For the mechanism to work, it is necessary that the solids are accreted before or during gas runaway accretion, and that they sink deep into the planet. We make no claims whether or not such massive cores can actually form in giant planets. But if yes, it becomes difficult to rule out core accretion as formation mechanism based solely on luminosity for directly imaged planets that are more luminous than predicted for low core masses. Instead of invoking gravitational instability as the consequently necessary formation mode, the high luminosity could also be caused simply by a more massive core.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures. A&A accepte

    Exploring the correlation between the folding rates of proteins and the entanglement of their native states

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    The folding of a protein towards its native state is a rather complicated process. However there are empirical evidences that the folding time correlates with the contact order, a simple measure of the spatial organisation of the native state of the protein. Contact order is related to the average length of the main chain loops formed by amino acids which are in contact. Here we argue that folding kinetics can be influenced also by the entanglement that loops may undergo within the overall three dimensional protein structure. In order to explore such possibility, we introduce a novel descriptor, which we call "maximum intrachain contact entanglement". Specifically, we measure the maximum Gaussian entanglement between any looped portion of a protein and any other non-overlapping subchain of the same protein, which is easily computed by discretized line integrals on the coordinates of the CαC_{\alpha} atoms. By analyzing experimental data sets of two-state and multistate folders, we show that also the new index is a good predictor of the folding rate. Moreover, being only partially correlated with previous methods, it can be integrated with them to yield more accurate predictions.Comment: 8 figures. v2: new titl

    H\"older foliations, revisited

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    We investigate transverse H\"older regularity of some canonical leaf conjugacies in partially hyperbolic dynamical systems and transverse H\"older regularity of some invariant foliations. Our results validate claims made elsewhere in the literature.Comment: 52 pages, to appear in Journal of Modern Dynamic

    Phase-Induced (In)-Stability in Coupled Parametric Oscillators

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    We report results on a model of two coupled oscillators that undergo periodic parametric modulations with a phase difference θ\theta. Being to a large extent analytically solvable, the model reveals a rich θ\theta dependence of the regions of parametric resonance. In particular, the intuitive notion that anti-phase modulations are less prone to parametric resonance is confirmed for sufficiently large coupling and damping. We also compare our results to a recently reported mean field model of collective parametric instability, showing that the two-oscillator model can capture much of the qualitative behavior of the infinite system.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures; a version with better quality figures can be found in http://hypatia.ucsd.edu/~mauro/English/publications.htm
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