686 research outputs found
Nuclear star cluster formation in energy-space
In a virialized stellar system, the mean-square velocity is a direct tracer
of the energy per unit mass of the system. Here, we exploit this to estimate
and compare root-mean-square velocities for a large sample of nuclear star
clusters and their host (late- or early-type) galaxies. Traditional
observables, such as the radial surface brightness and second-order velocity
moment profiles, are subject to short-term variations due to individual
episodes of matter infall and/or star formation. The total mass, energy and
angular momentum, on the other hand, are approximately conserved. Thus, the
total energy and angular momentum more directly probe the formation of galaxies
and their nuclear star clusters, by offering access to more fundamental
properties of the nuclear cluster-galaxy system than traditional observables.
We find that there is a strong correlation, in fact a near equality, between
the root-mean-square velocity of a nuclear star cluster and that of its host.
Thus, the energy per unit mass of a nuclear star cluster is always comparable
to that of its host galaxy. We interpret this as evidence that nuclear star
clusters do not form independently of their host galaxies, but rather that
their formation and subsequent evolution are coupled. We discuss how our
results can potentially be used to offer a clear and observationally testable
prediction to distinguish between the different nuclear star cluster formation
scenarios, and/or quantify their relative contributions.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables; accepted for publication in MNRA
Анализ систем оценки информационно коммуникационных компетенций
The article considers the methods of development of information-analytical system of formation of information-communicative competence of students through the portal of "Electronic University of information technology"
Accurate photometry of extended spherically symmetric sources
We present a new method to derive reliable photometry of extended spherically
symmetric sources from {\it HST} images (WFPC2, ACS/WFC and NICMOS/NIC2
cameras), extending existing studies of point sources and marginally resolved
sources. We develop a new approach to accurately determine intrinsic sizes of
extended spherically symmetric sources, such as star clusters in galaxies
beyond the Local Group (at distances <~ 20 Mpc), and provide a detailed
cookbook to perform aperture photometry on such sources, by determining
size-dependent aperture corrections (ACs) and taking sky oversubtraction as a
function of source size into account. In an extensive Appendix, we provide the
parameters of polynomial relations between the FWHM of various input profiles
and those obtained by fitting a Gaussian profile (which we have used for
reasons of computational robustness, although the exact model profile used is
irrelevant), and between the intrinsic and measured FWHM of the cluster and the
derived AC. Both relations are given for a number of physically relevant
cluster light profiles, intrinsic and observational parameters. AC relations
are provided for a wide range of apertures. Depending on the size of the source
and the annuli used for the photometry, the absolute magnitude of such extended
objects can be underestimated by up to 3 mag, corresponding to an error in mass
of a factor of 15. We carefully compare our results to those from the more
widely used DeltaMag method, and find an improvement of a factor of 3--40 in
both the size determination and the AC.Comment: The paper is accepted for publication in A&A, Section 13
(Observational Techniques, published electronically). The published version
contains one example table per appendix. A version of the paper containing
all tables as well as all data in electronical form are available
http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~galev/panders/Sizes_AC
HST/WFPC2 imaging of the circumnuclear structure of LLAGNs. I Data and nuclear morphology
To advance our knowledge of the nature of the central source in LLAGNs and
its relation with stellar clusters, we are carrying out several imaging
projects with HST at near-UV, optical and near-IR wavelengths. In this paper,
we present the first results obtained with observations of the central regions
of 57 LLAGNs imaged with the WFPC2 through any of the V (F555W, F547M, F614W)
and I (F791W, F814W) filters that are available in the HST archive. The sample
contains 34% of the LINERs and 36% of the TOs in the Palomar sample. The mean
spatial resolution of these images is 10 pc. With these data we have built an
atlas that includes structural maps for all the galaxies, useful to identify
compact nuclear sources and, additionally, to characterize the circumnuclear
environment of LLAGNs, determining the frequency of dust and its morphology.
The main results obtained are: 1) We have not found any correlation between the
presence of nuclear compact sources and emission-line type. Thus, nucleated
LINERs are as frequent as nucleated TOs. 2) The nuclei of "Young-TOs" are
brighter than the nuclei of "Old-TOs" and LINERs. These results confirm our
previous results that Young-TOs are separated from other LLAGNs classes in
terms of their central stellar population properties and brightness. 3)
Circumnuclear dust is detected in 88% of the LLAGNs, being almost ubiquitous in
TOs. 4) The dust morphology is complex and varied, from nuclear spiral lanes to
chaotic filaments and nuclear disk-like structures. Chaotic filaments are as
frequent as dust spirals; but nuclear disks are mainly seen in LINERs. These
results suggest an evolutionary sequence of the dust in LLAGNs, LINERs being
the more evolved systems and Young-TOs the youngest. The full collection of
figures are at http://www.iaa.es/~rosa/research/LLAGNs2007/LLAGNs-HSTIma1.htmlComment: Paper accepted in AJ, pdf file and the full collection of figures are
at the ULR: http://www.iaa.es/~rosa/research/LLAGNs2007/LLAGNs-HSTIma1.htm
The ontology of biological taxa
Motivation: The classification of biological entities in terms of species and taxa is an important endeavor in biology. Although a large amount of statements encoded in current biomedical ontologies is taxon-dependent there is no obvious or standard way for introducing taxon information into an integrative ontology architecture, supposedly because of ongoing controversies about the ontological nature of species and taxa
Graph-Based Approach to the Edit Distance Cryptanalysis of Irregularly Clocked Linear Feedback Shift Registers
This paper proposes a speed-up of a known-plaintext attack on some stream ciphers
based on Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs). The algorithm consists of two basic steps:
first, to guess the initial seed value of one of the LFSRs, and then to use the resulting binary
sequence in order to deduce useful information about the cipher parameters. In particular, the
proposed divide-and-conquer attack is based on a combination of graph-based techniques with
edit distance concepts. While the original edit distance attack requires the exhaustive search over
the set of all possible initial states of the involved LFSR, this work presents a new heuristic optimization
that avoids the evaluation of an important number of initial states through the identification
of the most promising branches of the search graph. The strongest aspects of the proposal
are the facts that the obtained results from the attack are absolutely deterministic, and that many
inconsistent initial states of the target LFSRs are recognized and avoided during search.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and European
FEDER Fund under Project TIN2008-02236/TSI as well as by CDTI (Spain)and the companies INDRA, Unin Fenosa, Tecnobit, Visual Tool, Brainstorm, SAC and
Technosafe under Project Cenit-HESPERIA.Peer reviewe
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