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Dynamics of Primordial Hydrogen Recombination with Allowance for a Recoil for Scattering in the Ly-alpha Line
It is shown that taking into account a recoil for radiation scattering in the
Ly-alpha line can lead to a noticable acceleration of primordial hydrogen
recombination. Thus for LambdaCDM model a decrease of ionization degree exceeds
1% for redshifts z in a range 800 - 1050 achieving approximately 1.3% at z=900.
Corresponding corrections to the cosmic microwave background power spectra can
achieve 1.1% for TT spectra and 1.7% for EE ones. Radiative transfer in these
calculations was treated in a quasistationary approximation. Numerical
solutions are also obtained in diffusion approximation for a nonstationary
problem of Ly-alpha line radiative transfer under partial frequency
redistribution with a recoil. An evolution of a local line profile is traced to
as well as an evolution of a relative number of uncompensated transitions from
2p state down to 1s one. It is shown that taking into account nonstationarity
of Ly-alpha line radiative transfer can lead to an additional acceleration of
primordial hydrogen recombination.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy Letter
Advanced Three Level Approximation for Numerical Treatment of Cosmological Recombination
New public numerical code for fast calculations of the cosmological
recombination of primordial hydrogen-helium plasma is presented. The code is
based on the three-level approximation (TLA) model of recombination and allows
us to take into account some fine physical effects of cosmological
recombination simultaneously with using fudge factors. The code can be found at
http://www.ioffe.ru/astro/QC/CMBR/atlant/atlant.htmlComment: 10 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, to be submitted to MNRA
EPR studies of manganese centers in SrTiO3: Non-Kramers Mn3+ ions and spin-spin coupled Mn4+ dimers
X- and Q-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) study is reported on the
SrTiO3 single crystals doped with 0.5-at.% MnO. EPR spectra originating from
the S = 2 ground state of Mn3+ ions are shown to belong to the three distinct
types of Jahn-Teller centres. The ordering of the oxygen vacancies due to the
reduction treatment of the samples and consequent formation of oxygen vacancy
associated Mn3+ centres are explained in terms of the localized charge
compensation. The EPR spectra of SrTiO3: Mn crystals show the presence of next
nearest neighbor exchange coupled Mn4+ pairs in the directions.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure
A package of momentum and heat transfer coefficientsfor the stable atmospheric surface layer
The polar atmospheric surface layer is often stably stratified, which strongly influences turbulent transport processes between the atmosphere and sea ice/ocean. Transport is usually parametrized applying Monin Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) which delivers transfer coefficients as a function of stability parameters (see below). In a series of papers (Gryanik and Lüpkes, 2018; Gryanik et al., 2020,2021; Gryanik and Lüpkes, 2022) it has been shown that differences between existing parametrizations are large, especially for strong stability. One reason is that they are based on different data sets, for which the origin of differences is still unclear. In this situation Gryanik et al. (2021) as well as Gryanik and Lüpkes (2022) proposed a numerically efficient method, which can be used for most of the existing data sets and their specific stability dependences. A package of parametrization resulted that is suitable for its application in weather prediction and climate models. Especially, calculation of fluxes over sea ice were improved. Combined with latest parametrizations of surface roughness it has a large impact on large scale fields as shown recently by Schneider et al. (2021) who applied some members of the package
Structure of Turbulence in Katabatic Flows below and above the Wind-Speed Maximum
Measurements of small-scale turbulence made over the complex-terrain
atmospheric boundary layer during the MATERHORN Program are used to describe
the structure of turbulence in katabatic flows. Turbulent and mean
meteorological data were continuously measured at multiple levels at four
towers deployed along the East lower slope (2-4 deg) of Granite Mountain. The
multi-level observations made during a 30-day long MATERHORN-Fall field
campaign in September-October 2012 allowed studying of temporal and spatial
structure of katabatic flows in detail, and herein we report turbulence and
their variations in katabatic winds. Observed vertical profiles show steep
gradients near the surface, but in the layer above the slope jet the vertical
variability is smaller. It is found that the vertical (normal to the slope)
momentum flux and horizontal (along the slope) heat flux in a slope-following
coordinate system change their sign below and above the wind maximum of a
katabatic flow. The vertical momentum flux is directed downward (upward)
whereas the horizontal heat flux is downslope (upslope) below (above) the wind
maximum. Our study therefore suggests that the position of the jet-speed
maximum can be obtained by linear interpolation between positive and negative
values of the momentum flux (or the horizontal heat flux) to derive the height
where flux becomes zero. It is shown that the standard deviations of all wind
speed components (therefore the turbulent kinetic energy) and the dissipation
rate of turbulent kinetic energy have a local minimum, whereas the standard
deviation of air temperature has an absolute maximum at the height of
wind-speed maximum. We report several cases where the vertical and horizontal
heat fluxes are compensated. Turbulence above the wind-speed maximum is
decoupled from the surface, and follows the classical local z-less predictions
for stably stratified boundary layer.Comment: Manuscript submitted to Boundary-Layer Meteorology (05 December 2014
Time-Dependent Corrections to the Ly-alpha Escape Probability During Cosmological Hydrogen Recombination
We consider the effects connected with the detailed radiative transfer during
the epoch of cosmological recombination on the ionization history of our
Universe. We focus on the escape of photons from the hydrogen Lyman-alpha
resonance at redshifts 600<~ z <~ 2000, one of two key mechanisms defining the
rate of cosmological recombination. We approach this problem within the
standard formulation, and corrections due to two-photon interactions are
deferred to another paper. As a main result we show here that within a
non-stationary approach to the escape problem, the resulting correction in the
free electron fraction, N_e, is about ~1.6-1.8% in the redshift range
800<~z<~1200. Therefore the discussed process results in one of the largest
modifications to the ionization history close to the maximum of
Thomson-visibility function at z~1100 considered so far. We prove our results
both numerically and analytically, deriving the escape probability, and
considering both Lyman-alpha line emission and line absorption in a way
different from the Sobolev approximation. In particular, we give a detailed
derivation of the Sobolev escape probability during hydrogen recombination, and
explain the underlying assumptions. We then discuss the escape of photons for
the case of coherent scattering in the lab frame, solving this problem
analytically in the quasi-stationary approximation and also in the
time-dependent case. We show here that during hydrogen recombination the
Sobolev approximation for the escape probability is not valid at the level of
DP/P~5-10%. This is because during recombination the ionization degree changes
significantly over a characteristic time Dz/z~10%, so that at percent level
accuracy the photon distribution is not evolving (abridged)Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures, accepted versio
Optical Absorption and Raman Spectroscopy Study of the Fluorinated Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Double-wall carbon nanotube (DWNT) samples have been fluorinated at room temperature with varied concentration of a fluorinating agent BrF3. Content of the products estimated from X-ray photoelectron data was equal to CF0.20 and CF0.29 in the case of deficit and excess of BrF3. Raman spectroscopy showed considerable decrease of carbon nanotube amount in the fluorinated samples. Analysis of optical absorption spectra measured for pristine and fluorinated DWNT samples revealed a selectivity of carbon nanotube fluorination. Nanotubes with large chiral angle are more inert to the fluorinating agent used
The importance of secondary school students' physical activity in modern environment
The research was aimed at evaluating physical activity of students, who live in the city and rural areas, identifying the relationship between physical activity and school performance, as well as studying the dependence of the number of diseases on the volume of locomotion. To this end, in the Belgorod Oblast, 1,488 schoolchildren of 5-11 grades were surveyed from 2014 to 201
Process based model sheds light on climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width
We use the process-based VS (Vaganov-Shashkin) model to investigate whether a regional <i>Pinus halepensis</i> tree-ring chronology from Tunisia can be simulated as a function of climate alone by employing a biological model linking day length and daily temperature and precipitation (AD 1959–2004) from a climate station to ring-width variations. We check performance of the model on independent data by a validation exercise in which the model's parameters are tuned using data for 1982–2004 and the model is applied to generate tree-ring indices for 1959–1981. The validation exercise yields a highly significant positive correlation between the residual chronology and estimated growth curve (<i>r</i>=0.76 <i>p</i><0.0001, <i>n</i>=23). The model shows that the average duration of the growing season is 191 days, with considerable variation from year to year. On average, soil moisture limits tree-ring growth for 128 days and temperature for 63 days. Model results depend on chosen values of parameters, in particular a parameter specifying a balance ratio between soil moisture and precipitation. Future work in the Mediterranean region should include multi-year natural experiments to verify patterns of cambial-growth variation suggested by the VS model
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