435 research outputs found
Momentum and Heat Transfer in a Laminar Boundary Layer with Slip Flow
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77059/1/AIAA-22968-756.pd
The Keck Aperture Masking Experiment: Dust Enshrouded Red Giants
While the importance of dusty asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars to galactic
chemical enrichment is widely recognised, a sophisticated understanding of the
dust formation and wind-driving mechanisms has proven elusive due in part to
the difficulty in spatially-resolving the dust formation regions themselves. We
have observed twenty dust-enshrouded AGB stars as part of the Keck Aperture
Masking Experiment, resolving all of them in multiple near-infrared bands
between 1.5 microns and 3.1 microns. We find 45% of the targets to show
measurable elongations that, when correcting for the greater distances of the
targets, would correspond to significantly asymmetric dust shells on par with
the well-known cases of IRC+10216 or CIT6. Using radiative transfer models, we
find the sublimation temperature of 1130 +- 90 K and 1170 +- 60 K for silicates
and amorphous carbon respectively, both somewhat lower than expected from
laboratory measurements and vastly below temperatures inferred from the inner
edge of YSO disks. The fact that O-rich and C-rich dust types showed the same
sublimation temperature was surprising as well. For the most optically-thick
shells (tau > 2 at 2.2 microns), the temperature profile of the inner dust
shell is observed to change substantially, an effect we suggest could arise
when individual dust clumps become optically-thick at the highest mass-loss
rates.Comment: accepted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ
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Enigmatic persistence of dissolved organic matter in the ocean
Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) contains more carbon than the combined stocks of Earth’s biota. Organisms in the ocean continuously release a myriad of molecules that become food for microheterotrophs, but, for unknown reasons, a residual fraction persists as DOM for millennia. In this Perspective, we discuss and compare two concepts that could explain this persistence. The long-standing ‘intrinsic recalcitrance’ paradigm attributes DOM stability to inherent molecular properties. In the ‘emergent recalcitrance’ concept, DOM is continuously transformed by marine microheterotrophs, with recalcitrance emerging on an ecosystems level. Both concepts are consistent with observations in the modern ocean, but they imply very different responses of the DOM pool to climate-related changes. To better understand DOM persistence, we propose a new overarching research strategy — the ecology of molecules — that integrates the concepts of intrinsic and emergent recalcitrance with the ecological and environmental context
Effects of point defects on the phase diagram of vortex states in high-Tc superconductors in B//c axis
The phase diagram for the vortex states of high- superconductors
with point defects in axis is drawn by large-scale Monte
Carlo simulations. The vortex slush (VS) phase is found between the vortex
glass (VG) and vortex liquid (VL) phases. The first-order transition between
this novel normal phase and the VL phase is characterized by a sharp jump of
the density of dislocations. The first-order transition between the Bragg glass
(BG) and VG or VS phases is also clarified. These two transitions are compared
with the melting transition between the BG and VL phases.Comment: 4 pages, 9 eps figures (included in text), uses revtex.sty, overall
changes with several additional data points, though conclusion is unchange
Hydraulic resistance to overland flow on surfaces with partially submerged vegetation
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96239/1/wrcr13661.pd
Evidence for a Two-stage Melting Transition of the Vortex Matter in Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8+d Single Crystals obtained by Muon Spin Rotation
From muon spin rotation measurements on under- to overdoped Bi-2212 crystals
we obtain evidence for a two-stage transition of the vortex matter as a
function of temperature. The first transition is well known and related to the
irreversibility line (IL). The second one is located below the IL and has not
been previously observed. It occurs for all three sets of crystals and is
unrelated to the vortex mobility. Our data are consistent with a two-stage
melting scenario where the intra-planar melting of the vortex lattice and the
inter-planar decoupling of the vortex lines occur independently.Comment: 9 pages and 3 figure
Falkner-Skan Flow Over a Wedge with Slip Boundary Conditions
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76718/1/AIAA-2009-476-210.pd
A chip-scale integrated cavity-electro-optomechanics platform
We present an integrated optomechanical and electromechanical nanocavity, in
which a common mechanical degree of freedom is coupled to an ultrahigh-Q
photonic crystal defect cavity and an electrical circuit. The sys- tem allows
for wide-range, fast electrical tuning of the optical nanocavity resonances,
and for electrical control of optical radiation pressure back-action effects
such as mechanical amplification (phonon lasing), cooling, and stiffening.
These sort of integrated devices offer a new means to efficiently interconvert
weak microwave and optical signals, and are expected to pave the way for a new
class of micro-sensors utilizing optomechanical back-action for thermal noise
reduction and low-noise optical read-out.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Detecting local synchronization in coupled chaotic systems
We introduce a technique to detect and quantify local functional dependencies
between coupled chaotic systems. The method estimates the fraction of locally
syncronized configurations, in a pair of signals with an arbitrary state of
global syncronization. Application to a pair of interacting Rossler oscillators
shows that our method is capable to quantify the number of dynamical
configurations where a local prediction task is possible, also in absence of
global synchronization features
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