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FT-IR spectroscopy of CAI and chondrules in primitive chondrites: techniques and first results
From the Introduction: Here we present preliminary mid-infrared spectra of CAI, chondrules and matrix from the CV3.2 carbonaceous chondrite Allende. This is part of our ongoing project to compile a database of infrared and optical spectra of minerals and components of primitive meteorites. These spectra should allow a better comparison with spectra from astronomical sources e.g. from dust
and molecular clouds or young solar systems
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Infrared spectroscopy of chondrites and their components: a link between meteoritics and astronomy?
A Remarkable Oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch Variable in the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
We report and discuss JHKs photometry for Sgr dIG, a very metal-deficient
galaxy in the Local Group, obtained over 3.5 years with the Infrared Survey
Facility in South Africa. Three large amplitude asymptotic giant branch
variables are identified. One is an oxygen-rich star that has a pulsation
period of 950 days, that was until recently undergoing hot bottom burning, with
Mbol~-6.7. It is surprising to find a variable of this sort in Sgr dIG, given
their rarity in other dwarf irregulars. Despite its long period the star is
relatively blue and is fainter, at all wavelengths shorter than 4.5microns,
than anticipated from period-luminosity relations that describe hot bottom
burning stars. A comparison with models suggests it had a main sequence mass
Mi~5 times solar and that it is now near the end of its AGB evolution. The
other two periodic variables are carbon stars with periods of 670 and 503 days
(Mbol~-5.7 and -5.3). They are very similar to other such stars found on the
AGB of metal deficient Local Group Galaxies and a comparison with models
suggests Mi~3 times solar. We compare the number of AGB variables in Sgr dIG to
those in NGC6822 and IC1613, and suggest that the differences may be due to the
high specific star formation rate and low metallicity of Sgr dIG.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, accepted for MNRA
On the generic status of "Nyctimystes rueppelli" (Anura: Hylidae), a tree frog of Halmahera Island, Indonesia
Published Online 05 October 2015Nyctimystes is currently diagnosed by a combination of two characters, namely vertical pupil and a palpebral venation. In a newly collected series of “Nyctimystes rueppelli” this combination of characters is found wanting and the species is therefore removed from Nyctimystes and transferred to Litoria. Removal of this species from Nyctimystes now allows that genus to have a third diagnostic character, unpigmented ova, and confines it to New Guinea and satellite islands.James I. Menzies, Awal Riyant
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Mid-infrared spectroscopy of CAI and AOA from the Allende CV3.2 chondrite
Mid-infrared spectra of bulk CAI from the CV3.2 chondrite Allende are presented and compared with astronomical spectra of cometary dust, zodiacal light,the circumstellar disk of beta Pictoris and dust around the red supergiant PR Per
Transnational Networking and Business Success: Ethnic entrepreneurs in Canada
It is agreed that transnational networking plays an important role in the effectiveness of ethnic entrepreneurial firms. Yet, distinctions between the different types of transnational networking and their effects on business effectiveness have received scant attention in the literature, probably because ethnicity has been considered the main actor in the networkingeffectiveness relationship. This paper argues that one of the reasons business effectiveness differs across ethnic entrepreneurial firms is that ethnic entrepreneurs engage in dissimilar types of transnational networking. Analyses of the data generated by 720 ethnic entrepreneurs in Canada, revealed that ethnicity, human capital and push-pull factors play a central role in the engagement of different types of transitional networking; and the different types of transnational networking affect the business turnover (sales) and the business survival (age). Push-pull factors were found to play a marginal role in the business effectiveness. These results highlight the competitive market immigrants and members of ethnic minority groups encounter in the hosting economy and stress the value of transnational networking.Transnational Entrepreneurship, Networks, Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Ethnic Entrepreneur, Push and Pull Factors, Business Success, Business Outcomes
Period-Luminosity Relation for Type II Cepheids
We have estimated JHKs magnitudes corrected to mean intensity for LMC type II
Cepheids found in the OGLE-III survey. Period-luminosity relations (PLRs) are
derived in JHKs as well as in a reddening-free VI parameter. The BL Her stars
(P<4d) and the W Vir stars (P=4 to 20d) are co-linear in these PLRs. The slopes
of the infrared relations agree with those found previously for type II
Cepheids in globular clusters within the uncertainties. Using the pulsation
parallaxes of V553 Cen and SW Tau, the data lead to an LMC modulus of
18.46+-0.10 mag, uncorrected for any metallicity effects. We have now
established the PLR of type II Cepheids as a distance indicator by confirming
that (almost) the same PLR satisfies the distributions in the PL diagram of
type II Cepheids in (at least) two different systems, i.e. the LMC and Galactic
globular clusters, and by calibrating the zero point of the PLR. RV Tau stars
in the LMC, as a group, are not co-linear with the shorter-period type II
Cepheids in the infrared PLRs in marked contrast to such stars in globular
clusters. We note differences in period distribution and infrared colors for RV
Tau stars in the LMC, globular clusters and Galactic field. We also compare the
PLR of type II Cepheids with that of classical Cepheids.Comment: To appear in the proceedings for the conference "Stellar Pulsation:
Challenges for Theory and Observations" held in Santa Fe, US
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