308 research outputs found
Can oil prices forecast exchange rates?
This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S. dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, the authors find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly frequencies. In contrast, the main contribution is to show the existence of a very short-term relationship at the daily frequency, which is rather robust and holds no matter whether the authors use contemporaneous (realized) or lagged oil prices in their regression. However, in the latter case the predictive ability is ephemeral, mostly appearing after instabilities have been appropriately taken into account.Foreign exchange rates ; Economic forecasting
Letter from Barbara DelGross, Secretary of the Western New York Chapter of the Women\u27s Bar Association, to Geraldine Ferraro
Congratulatory letter from Barbara DelGross, Secretary of the Western New York Chapter of the Women\u27s Bar Association, to Geraldine Ferraro. Includes data entry sheet.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_new_york/1274/thumbnail.jp
Investigating mass segregation process in globular clusters with Blue Straggler Stars: the impact of dark remnants
We present the results of a set of N-body simulations aimed at exploring how
the process of mass segregation (as traced by the spatial distribution of blue
straggler stars, BSSs) is affected by the presence of a population of heavy
dark remnants (as neutron stars and black holes). To this end, clusters
characterized by different initial concentrations and different fractions of
dark remnants have been modeled. We find that an increasing fraction of
stellar-mass black holes significantly delays the mass segregation of BSSs and
the visible stellar component. In order to trace the evolution of BSS
segregation, we introduce a new parameter () that can be easily measured
when the cumulative radial distribution of these stars and a reference
population are available. Our simulations show that might also be used as
an approximate indicator of the time remaining to the core collapse of the
visible component.Comment: ApJ accepte
A population of binaries in the Asymptotic Giant Branch of 47 Tucanae?
We have used a set of archived Hubble Space Telescope/ACS images to probe the
evolved populations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We find an excess of
Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the cluster core. We interpret this
feature as the signature of an extra-population likely made by the progeny of
massive stars originated by the evolution of binary systems. Indeed the
comparison with theoretical tracks suggests that the AGB population of 47 Tuc
can be significantly contaminated by more massive stars currently experiencing
the first ascending Red Giant Branch.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, in press on ApJ Letter
Dynamical friction in multi-component evolving globular clusters
We use the Chandrasekhar formalism and direct N-body simulations to study the
effect of dynamical friction on a test object only slightly more massive than
the field stars, orbiting a spherically symmetric background of particles with
a mass spectrum. The main goal is to verify whether the dynamical friction time
(t_DF) develops a non-monotonic radial-dependence that could explain the
bimodality of the Blue Straggler radial distributions observed in globular
clusters. In these systems, in fact, relaxation effects lead to a mass and
velocity radial segregation of the different mass components, so that
mass-spectrum effects on t_DF are expected to be dependent on radius. We find
that, in spite of the presence of different masses, t_DF is always a monotonic
function of radius, at all evolutionary times and independently of the initial
concentration of the simulated cluster. This because the radial dependence of
t_DF is largely dominated by the total mass density profile of the background
stars (which is monotonically decreasing with radius). Hence, a progressive
temporal erosion of the BSS population at larger and larger distances from the
cluster center remains the simplest and the most likely explanation of the
shape of the observed BSS radial distributions, as suggested in previous works.
We also confirm the theoretical expectation that approximating a multi-mass
globular cluster as made of (averaged) equal-mass stars can lead to significant
overestimates of t_DF within the half-mass radius.Comment: In press on Ap
Blue Straggler Stars: The Spectacular Population in M80
Using HST-WFPC2 observations in two ultraviolet (UV) filters (F225W and
F336W) of the central region of the high density Galactic Globular cluster
(GGC) M80 we have identified 305 Blue Straggler Stars (BSS) which represents
the largest and most concentrated population of BSS ever observed in a GGC. We
also identify the largest, clean sample of evolved BSS yet found. The high
stellar density alone cannot explain the BSS, and we suggest that in M80 we are
witnessing a transient dynamical state, during which stellar interactions are
delaying the core-collapse process leading to an exceptionally large population
of collisional-BSS.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, Astrophysical Journal Letters, in pres
Letter from Barbara Leonard, BPW District Director, to Geraldine Ferraro
Letter from Barbara E. Leonard, Director for District I of the Business and Professional Women\u27s Foundation, to Geraldine Ferraro. Includes standard response letter from Ferraro and a data entry sheet.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_new_york/1241/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Barbara S. Thomas, Director of Samuel Montagu & Co., to Geraldine Ferraro
Letter from Barbara S. Thomas, director of Samuel Montagu & Co., to Geraldine Ferraro. Letter has handwritten notes.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1340/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Barbara S. Thomas, Director of Samuel Montagu & Co., to Geraldine Ferraro
Letter from Barbara S. Thomas, director of Samuel Montagu & Co., to Geraldine Ferraro. Letter has handwritten notes.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1340/thumbnail.jp
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