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No Evidence for [O III] Variability in Mrk 142
Using archival data from the 2008 Lick AGN Monitoring Project, Zhang & Feng
(2016) claimed to find evidence for flux variations in the narrow [O III]
emission of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 142 over a two-month time span. If
correct, this would imply a surprisingly compact size for the narrow-line
region. We show that the claimed [O III] variations are merely the result of
random errors in the overall flux calibration of the spectra. The data do not
provide any support for the hypothesis that the [O III] flux was variable
during the 2008 monitoring period.Comment: Response to Zhang & Feng 2016, MNRAS Letters, 457, L64
(arXiv:1512.07673). Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. 5 pages, 2
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Block co-polyMOFs: morphology control of polymer-MOF hybrid materials.
The hybridization of block copolymers and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to create novel materials (block co-polyMOFs, BCPMOFs) with controlled morphologies is reported. In this study, block copolymers containing poly(1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid, H2bdc) and morphology directing poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) or poly(cyclooctadiene) (poly(COD)) blocks were synthesized for the preparation of BCPMOFs. Block copolymer architecture and weight fractions were found to have a significant impact on the resulting morphology, mediated through the assembly of polymer precursors prior to MOF formation, as determined through dynamic light scattering. Simple modification of block copolymer weight fraction allowed for tuning of particle size and morphology with either faceted and spherical features. Modification of polymer block architecture represents a simple and powerful method to direct morphology in highly crystalline polyMOF materials. Furthermore, the BCPMOFs could be prepared from both Zr4+ and Zn2+ MOFs, yielding hybrid materials with appreciable surface areas and tuneable porosities. The resulting Zn2+ BCPMOF yielded materials with very narrow size distributions and uniform cubic morphologies. The use of topology in BCPMOFs to direct morphology in block copolymer assemblies may open new methodologies to access complex materials far from thermodynamic equilibrium
Role of diquark correlations and the pion cloud in nucleon elastic form factors
Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in the space-like region are
investigated within the framework of a covariant and confining
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The bound state amplitude of the nucleon is obtained
as the solution of a relativistic Faddeev equation, where diquark correlations
appear naturally as a consequence of the strong coupling in the colour
channel. Pion degrees of freedom are included as a perturbation
to the "quark-core" contribution obtained using the Poincar\'e covariant
Faddeev amplitude. While no model parameters are fit to form factor data,
excellent agreement is obtained with the empirical nucleon form factors
(including the magnetic moments and radii) where pion loop corrections play a
critical role for GeV. Using charge symmetry, the nucleon
form factors can be expressed as proton quark sector form factors. The latter
are studied in detail, leading, for example, to the conclusion that the
-quark sector of the Dirac form factor is much softer than the -quark
sector, a consequence of the dominance of scalar diquark correlations in the
proton wave function. On the other hand, for the proton quark sector Pauli form
factors we find that the effect of the pion cloud and axialvector diquark
correlations overcomes the effect of scalar diquark dominance, leading to a
larger -quark anomalous magnetic moment and a form factor in the -quark
sector that is slightly softer than in the -quark sector.Comment: 30 pages and 40 figure
Spin-dependent structure functions in nuclear matter and the polarized EMC effect
An excellent description of both spin-independent and spin-dependent quark
distributions and structure functions has been obtained with a modified
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, which is free of unphysical thresholds for nucleon
decay into quarks - hence incorporating an important aspect of confinement. We
utilize this model to investigate nuclear medium modifications to structure
functions and find that we are readily able to reproduce both nuclear matter
saturation and the experimental F^A_2N / F_2N ratio, that is, the EMC effect.
Applying this framework to determine g^A_1p, we find that the ratio g^A_1p /
g_1p differs significantly from 1, with the quenching caused by the nuclear
medium being about twice that of the spin-independent case. This represents an
exciting result, which if confirmed experimentally, will reveal much about the
quark structure of nuclear matter.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Parity-violating DIS and the flavour dependence of the EMC effect
Isospin-dependent nuclear forces play a fundamental role in nuclear
structure. In relativistic models of nuclear structure constructed at the quark
level these isovector nuclear forces affect the u and d quarks differently,
leading to non-trivial flavour dependent modifications of the nuclear parton
distributions. We explore the effect of isospin dependent forces for
parity-violating deep inelastic scattering on nuclear targets and demonstrate
that the cross-sections for nuclei with N /= Z are sensitive to the flavour
dependence of the EMC effect. Indeed, for nuclei like lead and gold we find
that these flavour dependent effects are large.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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