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WATCAT: a tale of wide-angle tailed radio galaxies
We present a catalog of 47 wide-angle tailed radio galaxies (WATs), the
WATCAT; these galaxies were selected by combining observations from the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory/Very Large Array Sky Survey (NVSS), the
Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST), and the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and mainly built including a radio morphological
classification. We included in the catalog only radio sources showing two-sided
jets with two clear "warmspots" (i.e., jet knots as bright as 20% of the
nucleus) lying on the opposite side of the radio core, and having classical
extended emission resembling a plume beyond them. The catalog is limited to
redshifts z 0.15, and lists only sources with radio emission extended
beyond 30 kpc from the host galaxy. We found that host galaxies of WATCAT
sources are all luminous (-20.5 Mr -23.7), red early-type
galaxies with black hole masses in the range M M. The spectroscopic classification indicates that they
are all low-excitation galaxies (LEGs). Comparing WAT multifrequency properties
with those of FRI and FRII radio galaxies at the same redshifts, we conclude
that WATs show multifrequency properties remarkably similar to FRI radio
galaxies, having radio power of typical FRIIs
Delayed feedback control of self-mobile cavity solitons in a wide-aperture laser with a saturable absorber
We investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of cavity solitons in a broad area
vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with saturable absorption subjected to
time-delayed optical feedback. Using a combination of analytical, numerical and
path continuation methods we analyze the bifurcation structure of stationary
and moving cavity solitons and identify two different types of traveling
localized solutions, corresponding to slow and fast motion. We show that the
delay impacts both stationary and moving solutions either causing drifting and
wiggling dynamics of initially stationary cavity solitons or leading to
stabilization of intrinsically moving solutions. Finally, we demonstrate that
the fast cavity solitons can be associated with a lateral mode-locking regime
in a broad-area laser with a single longitudinal mode
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Crystal design approaches for the synthesis of paracetamol co-crystals
Crystal engineering principles were used to design three new co-crystals of paracetamol. A variety of potential cocrystal formers were initially identified from a search of the Cambridge Structural Database for molecules with complementary hydrogen-bond forming functionalities. Subsequent screening by powder X-ray diffraction of the products of the reaction of this library of molecules with paracetamol led to the discovery of new binary crystalline phases of paracetamol with trans-1,4- diaminocyclohexane (1); trans-1,4-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene (2); and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane (3). The co-crystals were characterized by IR spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and 1H NMR spectroscopy. Single crystal X-ray structure analysis reveals that in all three co-crystals the co-crystal formers (CCF) are hydrogen bonded to the paracetamol molecules through O−H···N interactions. In co-crystals (1) and (2) the CCFs are interleaved between the chains of paracetamol molecules, while in co-crystal (3) there is an additional N−H···N hydrogen bond between the two components. A hierarchy of hydrogen bond formation is observed in which the best donor in the system, the phenolic O−H group of paracetamol, is preferentially
hydrogen bonded to the best acceptor, the basic nitrogen atom of the co-crystal former. The geometric aspects of the hydrogen bonds in co-crystals 1−3 are discussed in terms of their electrostatic and charge-transfer components
Some peculiarities in response on filling up the Fermi sphere by quarks
Considering quarks as the quasi-particles of the model Hamiltonian with
four-fermion interaction we study response on the process of filling up the
Fermi sphere by quarks.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, minor language improvemen
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Valley Subband Splitting in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Point Contacts
We report a study of one-dimensional subband splitting in a bilayer graphene quantum point contact in which quantized conductance in steps of 4e/h is clearly defined down to the lowest subband. While our source-drain bias spectroscopy measurements reveal an unconventional confinement, we observe a full lifting of the valley degeneracy at high magnetic fields perpendicular to the bilayer graphene plane for the first two lowest subbands where confinement and Coulomb interactions are the strongest and a peculiar merging or mixing of K and K′ valleys from two nonadjacent subbands with indices (N, N + 2) , which are well described by our semiphenomenological model
Complex diffuse radio emission in the merging PLANCK ESZ cluster Abell 3411
We present VLA radio and Chandra X-ray observations of the merging galaxy
cluster Abell 3411. For the cluster, we find an overall temperature of 6.4 keV
and an X-ray luminosity of 2.8 x 10^{44} erg s^{-1} between 0.5 and 2.0 keV.
The Chandra observation reveals the cluster to be undergoing a merger event.
The VLA observations show the presence of large-scale diffuse emission in the
central region of the cluster, which we classify as a 0.9 Mpc size radio halo.
In addition, a complex region of diffuse, polarized emission is found in the
southeastern outskirts of the cluster, along the projected merger axis of the
system. We classify this region of diffuse emission as a radio relic. The total
extent of this radio relic is 1.9 Mpc. For the combined emission in the cluster
region, we find a radio spectral index of -1.0 \pm 0.1 between 74 MHz and 1.4
GHz. The morphology of the radio relic is peculiar, as the relic is broken up
into five fragments. This suggests that the shock responsible for the relic has
been broken up due to interaction with a large-scale galaxy filament connected
to the cluster or other substructures in the ICM. Alternatively, the complex
morphology reflects the presence of electrons in fossil radio bubbles that are
re-accelerated by a shock.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 8 pages, 5 figure
Contractions of Low-Dimensional Lie Algebras
Theoretical background of continuous contractions of finite-dimensional Lie
algebras is rigorously formulated and developed. In particular, known necessary
criteria of contractions are collected and new criteria are proposed. A number
of requisite invariant and semi-invariant quantities are calculated for wide
classes of Lie algebras including all low-dimensional Lie algebras.
An algorithm that allows one to handle one-parametric contractions is
presented and applied to low-dimensional Lie algebras. As a result, all
one-parametric continuous contractions for the both complex and real Lie
algebras of dimensions not greater than four are constructed with intensive
usage of necessary criteria of contractions and with studying correspondence
between real and complex cases.
Levels and co-levels of low-dimensional Lie algebras are discussed in detail.
Properties of multi-parametric and repeated contractions are also investigated.Comment: 47 pages, 4 figures, revised versio
Non-conservative Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables
We suggest a new mechanism to account for the loss of angular momentum in
binaries with non-conservative mass exchange. It is shown that in some cases
the loss of matter can result in increase of the orbital angular momentum of a
binary. If included into consideration in evolutionary calculations, this
mechanism appreciably extends the range of mass ratios of components for which
mass exchange in binaries is stable. It becomes possible to explain the
existence of some observed cataclysmic binaries with high donor/accretor mass
ratio, which was prohibited in conservative evolution models.Comment: LaTeX, 32 pages, to be published in Astron. Z
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