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V39: an unusual object in the field of IC 1613
The variable star V39 in the field of IC 1613 is discussed in the light of
the available photometric and new spectroscopic data. It has strong emission
Balmer lines, and the observed characteristics could be explained by a W Vir
pulsating star with a period of 14.341 d, located at more than 115 kpc, that is
in the very outer halo of our Galaxy. It should have an apparent companion, a
long period (1118d) red variable, belonging to IC 1613. The main uncertainty in
this interpretation is an emission feature at 668.4 nm, which we tentatively
identified as a He I line.Comment: 5 pages; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysic
Search for second overtone Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds. I. Study of three candidates in the SMC
Accurate CCD observations of three Cepheids in the SMC were made with the
purpose of confirming their nature of second overtone mode Cepheids. The stars
were suspected pulsating in the second overtone mode owing to the unusual light
curve and short period reported by Payne-Gaposchkin & Gaposchkin (1966). The
analysis of the new data shows that for two stars the previous periods are
wrong, and in the three cases the new light curves are normal. According to the
new observations, HV 1353 is a fundamental mode pulsator with small amplitude,
and HV 1777 and HV 1779 are first overtone mode pulsators.
Also the star HV 1763, whose nature was unknown, was observed in the field of
HV 1777. The new data show that it is a first overtone mode Cepheid with
P=2.117d.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures. To be published in A&A Suppl.Se
Parity Doubling and SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R Restoration in the Hadron Spectrum
We construct the most general nonlinear representation of chiral SU(2)_L x
SU(2)_R broken down spontaneously to the isospin SU(2), on a pair of hadrons of
same spin and isospin and opposite parity. We show that any such representation
is equivalent, through a hadron field transformation, to two irreducible
representations on two hadrons of opposite parity with different masses and
axial couplings. This implies that chiral symmetry realized in the
Nambu-Goldstone mode does not predict the existence of degenerate multiplets of
hadrons of opposite parity nor any relations between their couplings or masses.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure; v3: Note added to clarify implications for hadrons
that do not couple to pions: Chiral symmetry can be realized linearly on such
states, leading to parity doubling. To the extent that they are parity
doubled, these hadrons must decouple from pions, a striking prediction that
can be tested experimentally. This applies to the work of L. Glozman and
collaborator
Variable stars in nearby galaxies. VI. Frequency-period distribution of Cepheids in IC 1613 and other galaxies of the Local Group
The frequency--period distribution and other properties of Cepheids in IC
1613 are discussed and compared with those of stars in our Galaxy (Milky Way),
LMC, SMC, M31 and M33. Taking into account the observational limitations and
related incompleteness, it is concluded that the frequency-period distribution
of Cepheids in IC 1613 is similar to that of SMC; we suspect that a much larger
number of stars exist in IC 1613 with a period of less than 2 d that have not
yet been detected. A discussion of the deficiency of fundamental mode Cepheids
with periods in the range 8 - 10 d in the Milky Way, M31 and M33 is reported.
The present data are not sufficient to verify if this is produced by a real
bimodal frequency--period distribution or whether depends on the lack of
pulsating stars in such a period range due to pulsational stability reasons.
Some arguments are presented in favor of a bimodal distribution that is a
function of the average metallicity. The Milky Way, M31 and M33 have the two
maxima located at the same periods, about 5 and 13 d, respectively. A comment
on very long period Cepheids is also given.Comment: 6 pages; accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysic
Statistical properties of determinantal point processes in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces
The goal of this paper is to quantitatively describe some statistical
properties of higher-dimensional determinantal point processes with a primary
focus on the nearest-neighbor distribution functions. Toward this end, we
express these functions as determinants of matrices and then
extrapolate to . This formulation allows for a quick and accurate
numerical evaluation of these quantities for point processes in Euclidean
spaces of dimension . We also implement an algorithm due to Hough \emph{et.
al.} \cite{hough2006dpa} for generating configurations of determinantal point
processes in arbitrary Euclidean spaces, and we utilize this algorithm in
conjunction with the aforementioned numerical results to characterize the
statistical properties of what we call the Fermi-sphere point process for to 4. This homogeneous, isotropic determinantal point process, discussed
also in a companion paper \cite{ToScZa08}, is the high-dimensional
generalization of the distribution of eigenvalues on the unit circle of a
random matrix from the circular unitary ensemble (CUE). In addition to the
nearest-neighbor probability distribution, we are able to calculate Voronoi
cells and nearest-neighbor extrema statistics for the Fermi-sphere point
process and discuss these as the dimension is varied. The results in this
paper accompany and complement analytical properties of higher-dimensional
determinantal point processes developed in \cite{ToScZa08}.Comment: 42 pages, 17 figure
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