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Carbon monoxide emission from small galaxies
A search was conducted for J = 1 yields 0 CO emission from 22 galaxies, detecting half, as part of a survey to study star formation in small to medium size galaxies. Although substantial variation was found in the star formation efficiencies of the sample galaxies, there is no apparent systematic trend with galaxy size
Multi-step Richardson-Romberg Extrapolation: Remarks on Variance Control and complexity
We propose a multi-step Richardson-Romberg extrapolation method for the
computation of expectations of a diffusion
when the weak time discretization error induced by the Euler scheme admits an
expansion at an order . The complexity of the estimator grows as
(instead of ) and its variance is asymptotically controlled by considering
some consistent Brownian increments in the underlying Euler schemes. Some Monte
carlo simulations carried with path-dependent options (lookback, barriers)
which support the conjecture that their weak time discretization error also
admits an expansion (in a different scale). Then an appropriate
Richardson-Romberg extrapolation seems to outperform the Euler scheme with
Brownian bridge.Comment: 28 pages, \`a para\^itre dans Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
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Nested shells reveal the rejuvenation of the Orion-Eridanus superbubble
The Orion-Eridanus superbubble is the prototypical superbubble due to its
proximity and evolutionary state. Here, we provide a synthesis of recent
observational data from WISE and Planck with archival data, allowing to draw a
new and more complete picture on the history and evolution of the
Orion-Eridanus region. We discuss the general morphological structures and
observational characteristics of the superbubble, and derive quantitative
properties of the gas- and dust inside Barnard's Loop. We reveal that Barnard's
Loop is a complete bubble structure which, together with the lambda Ori region
and other smaller-scale bubbles, expands within the Orion-Eridanus superbubble.
We argue that the Orion-Eridanus superbubble is larger and more complex than
previously thought, and that it can be viewed as a series of nested shells,
superimposed along the line of sight. During the lifetime of the superbubble,
HII region champagne flows and thermal evaporation of embedded clouds
continuously mass-load the superbubble interior, while winds or supernovae from
the Orion OB association rejuvenate the superbubble by sweeping up the material
from the interior cavities in an episodic fashion, possibly triggering the
formation of new stars that form shells of their own. The steady supply of
material into the superbubble cavity implies that dust processing from interior
supernova remnants is more efficient than previously thought. The cycle of
mass-loading, interior cleansing, and star formation repeats until the
molecular reservoir is depleted or the clouds have been disrupted. While the
nested shells come and go, the superbubble remains for tens of millions of
years.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
A CS J = 2 1 survey of the galactic center region
A CS map of the galactic center region is presented consisting of 15,000 spectra covering -1 deg. less than 3. deg. 6 min., -0 deg.4 min. less than b less than 0 deg. 4 min., each having an rms noise of 0.15 K in 1 MHz filters. CS is a high-excitation molecule, meaning that it is excited into emission only when the ambient density is less than n much greater than or approx. 2 x 10 to the 4th power/cu cm CS emission in the inner 2 deg. of the galaxy is nearly as pervasive as CO emission, in stark contrast to the outer galaxy where CS emission is confined to cloud cores. Galactic center clouds are on average much more dense than outer Galaxy clouds. This can be understood as a necessary consequence of the strong tidal stresses in the inner galaxy
Non elliptic SPDEs and ambit fields: existence of densities
Relying on the method developed in [debusscheromito2014], we prove the
existence of a density for two different examples of random fields indexed by
(t,x)\in(0,T]\times \Rd. The first example consists of SPDEs with Lipschitz
continuous coefficients driven by a Gaussian noise white in time and with a
stationary spatial covariance, in the setting of [dalang1999]. The density
exists on the set where the nonlinearity of the noise does not vanish.
This complements the results in [sanzsuess2015] where is assumed to be
bounded away from zero. The second example is an ambit field with a stochastic
integral term having as integrator a L\'evy basis of pure-jump, stable-like
type.Comment: 23 page
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