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Review and critical analysis: Rolling-element bearings for system life and reliability
A ball and cylindrical roller bearing technical specification which incorporates the latest state-of-the-art advancements was prepared for the purpose of improving bearing reliability in U.S. Army aircraft. The current U.S. Army aviation bearing designs and applications, including life analyses, were analyzed. A bearing restoration and refurbishment specification was prepared to improve bearing availability
High Latitude HI in NGC 2613: Buoyant Disk-Halo Outflow
We combine new VLA D array HI data of NGC 2613 with previous high resolution
data to show new disk-halo features in this galaxy. The global HI distribution
is modeled in detail using a technique which can disentangle the effects of
inclination from scale height and can also solve for the average volume density
distribution in and perpendicular to the disk. The model shows that the
galaxy's inclination is on the low end of the range given by Chaves & Irwin
(2001) and that the HI disk is thin (z_e = 188 pc), showing no evidence for
halo. Numerous discrete disk-halo features are observed, however, achieving z
heights up to 28 kpc from mid-plane. One prominent feature in particular, of
mass, 8X10^7 Msun and height, 22 kpc, is seen on the advancing side of the
galaxy at a projected galactocentric radius of 15.5 kpc. If this feature
achieves such high latitudes because of events in the disk alone, then input
energies of order ~ 10^{56} ergs are required. We have instead investigated the
feasibility of such a large feature being produced via buoyancy (with drag)
within a hot, pre-existing X-ray corona. Reasonable plume densities,
temperatures, stall height (~ 11 kpc), outflow velocities and ages can indeed
be achieved in this way. The advantage of this scenario is that the input
energy need only be sufficient to produce blow-out, a condition which requires
a reduction of three orders of magnitude in energy. If this is correct, there
should be an observable X-ray halo around NGC 2613.Comment: 32 pages 7 gif figures, accepted by Ap
Extremophiles and their application to veterinary medicine
<p/> <p>Extremophiles are organisms that can grow and thrive in harsh conditions, e.g., extremes of temperature, pH, salinity, radiation, pressure and oxygen tension. Thermophilic, halophilic and radiation-resistant organisms are all microbes, some of which are able to withstand multiple extremes. Psychrophiles, or cold-loving organisms, include not only microbes, but fish that live in polar waters and animals that can withstand freezing. Extremophiles are structurally adapted at a molecular level to withstand these conditions. Thermophiles have particularly stable proteins and cell membranes, psychrophiles have flexible cellular proteins and membranes and/or antifreeze proteins, salt-resistant halophiles contain compatible solutes or high concentrations of inorganic ions, and acidophiles and alkaliphiles are able to pump ions to keep their internal pH close to neutrality. Their interest to veterinary medicine resides in their capacity to be pathogenic, and as sources of enzymes and other molecules for diagnostic and pharmaceutical purposes. In particular, thermostable DNA polymerases are a mainstay of PCR-based diagnostics.</p
The Andromeda Stream
The existence of a stream of tidally stripped stars from the Sagittarius
Dwarf galaxy demonstrates that the Milky Way is still in the process of
accreting mass. More recently, an extensive stream of stars has been uncovered
in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), revealing that it too is
cannibalizing a small companion. This paper reports the recent observations of
this stream, determining it spatial and kinematic properties, and tracing its
three-dimensional structure, as well as describing future observations and what
we may learn about the Andromeda galaxy from this giant tidal stream.Comment: 3 Pages. Refereed contribution to the 5th Galacto Chemodynamics
conference held in Swinburne, July 2003. Accepted for publication in PAS
Constraining the Collisional Nature of the Dark Matter Through Observations of Gravitational Wakes
We propose to use gravitational wakes as a direct observational probe of the
collisional nature of the dark matter. We calculate analytically the structure
of a wake generated by the motion of a galaxy in the core of an X-ray cluster
for dark matter in the highly-collisional and collisionless limits. We show
that the difference between these limits can be recovered from detailed X-ray
or weak lensing observations. We also discuss the sizes of sub-halos in these
limits. Preliminary X-ray data on the motion of NGC 1404 through the Fornax
group disfavors fluid-like dark matter but does not exclude scenarios in which
the dark matter is weakly collisional.Comment: 29 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Ap
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