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PONDER - A Real time software backend for pulsar and IPS observations at the Ooty Radio Telescope
This paper describes a new real-time versatile backend, the Pulsar Ooty Radio
Telescope New Digital Efficient Receiver (PONDER), which has been designed to
operate along with the legacy analog system of the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT).
PONDER makes use of the current state of the art computing hardware, a
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) and sufficiently large disk storage to support
high time resolution real-time data of pulsar observations, obtained by
coherent dedispersion over a bandpass of 16 MHz. Four different modes for
pulsar observations are implemented in PONDER to provide standard reduced data
products, such as time-stamped integrated profiles and dedispersed time series,
allowing faster avenues to scientific results for a variety of pulsar studies.
Additionally, PONDER also supports general modes of interplanetary
scintillation (IPS) measurements and very long baseline interferometry data
recording. The IPS mode yields a single polarisation correlated time series of
solar wind scintillation over a bandwidth of about four times larger (16 MHz)
than that of the legacy system as well as its fluctuation spectrum with high
temporal and frequency resolutions. The key point is that all the above modes
operate in real time. This paper presents the design aspects of PONDER and
outlines the design methodology for future similar backends. It also explains
the principal operations of PONDER, illustrates its capabilities for a variety
of pulsar and IPS observations and demonstrates its usefulness for a variety of
astrophysical studies using the high sensitivity of the ORT.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figures, Accepted by Experimental Astronom
North-South Distribution of Solar Flares during Cycle 23
In this paper, we investigate the spatial distribution of solar flares in the
northern and southern hemisphere of the Sun that occurred during the period
1996 to 2003. This period of investigation includes the ascending phase, the
maximum and part of descending phase of solar cycle 23. It is revealed that the
flare activity during this cycle is low compared to previous solar cycle,
indicating the violation of Gnevyshev-Ohl rule. The distribution of flares with
respect to heliographic latitudes shows a significant asymmetry between
northern and southern hemisphere which is maximum during the minimum phase of
the solar cycle. The present study indicates that the activity dominates the
northern hemisphere in general during the rising phase of the cycle
(1997-2000). The dominance of northern hemisphere is shifted towards the
southern hemisphere after the solar maximum in 2000 and remained there in the
successive years. Although the annual variations in the asymmetry time series
during cycle 23 are quite different from cycle 22, they are comparable to cycle
21.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; Accepted for the publication in the
proceedings of international solar workshop held at ARIES, Nainital, India on
"Transient Phenomena on the Sun and Interplanetary Medium" in a special issue
of "Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JAA)
Evidence against correlations between nuclear decay rates and Earth-Sun distance
We have reexamined our previously published data to search for evidence of
correlations between the rates for the alpha, beta-minus, beta-plus, and
electron-capture decays of 22Na, 44Ti, 108Agm, 121Snm, 133Ba, and 241Am and the
Earth-Sun distance. We find no evidence for such correlations and set limits on
the possible amplitudes of such correlations substantially smaller than those
observed in previous experiments
Evaluation of Naked Barley Landraces for Agro-morphological Traits
Naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum L.) is a traditional, culturally important, climate-resilient winter cereal crop of Nepal. Evaluation of the naked barely genotypes for yield and disease is fundamental for their efficient utilization in plant breeding schemes and effective conservation programs. Therefore, to identify high yielding and yellow rust resistant landraces of naked barley for hilly and mountainous agro-ecosystem, twenty naked barley landraces collected from different locations of Nepal, were evaluated in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications during winter season of 2016 and 2017 at Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal. Combined analysis of variances revealed that NGRC04902 (3.46 t/ha), NGRC00886 (3.28 t/ha), NGRC02309 (3.21 t/ha) and NGRC06026 (3.10 t/ha) were the high yielding landraces and statistically at par with the released variety 'Solu Uwa' (3.15 t/ha). The landraces namely NGRC00837 (ACI Value: 1.86) was found resistant to yellow rust diseases. Landraces NGRC06034 (131.7 days) and NGRC02363 (130.8 days) were found early maturing and NGRC02306 (94.36 cm) was found dwarf landraces among tested genotypes. These landraces having higher yield and better resistance to yellow rust need to be deployed to farmers' field to diversify the varietal options and used in resistant breeding program to improve the productivity of naked barley for Nepalese farmers
Analysis of the decay
In this paper we study the angular distribution of the rare B decay , which is expected to be observed soon. We use the
standard effective Hamiltonian approach, and use the form factors that have
already been estimated for the corresponding radiative decay . The additional form factors that come into play for the dileptonic
channel are estimated using the large energy effective theory (LEET), which
enables one to relate the additional form factors to the form factors for the
radiative mode. Our results provide, just like in the case of the
resonance, an opportunity for a straightforward comparison of the basic theory
with experimental results which may be expected in the near future for this
channel.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures; as accepted for Phys. Rev.
Formation of a rotating jet during the filament eruption on 10-11 April 2013
We analyze multi-wavelength and multi-viewpoint observations of a helically
twisted plasma jet formed during a confined filament eruption on 10-11 April
2013. Given a rather large scale event with its high spatial and temporal
resolution observations, it allows us to clearly understand some new physical
details about the formation and triggering mechanism of twisting jet. We
identify a pre-existing flux rope associated with a sinistral filament, which
was observed several days before the event. The confined eruption of the
filament within a null point topology, also known as an Eiffel tower (or
inverted-Y) magnetic field configuration results in the formation of a twisted
jet after the magnetic reconnection near a null point. The sign of helicity in
the jet is found to be the same as that of the sign of helicity in the
filament. Untwisting motion of the reconnected magnetic field lines gives rise
to the accelerating plasma along the jet axis. The event clearly shows the
twist injection from the pre-eruptive magnetic field to the jet.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, to appear in MNRA
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