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Letter from Lilburn W. Boggs to George Sibley, March 26, 1839
Transcript of Letter from Lilburn W. Boggs to George Sibley, March 26, 1839. Boggs discusses hiring an engineer for the Missouri Board of Internal Improvements
Correspondence M. Rebecca Boggs, March 18, 1903 - December 2, 1911
Correspondence M. Rebecca Boggs, March 18, 1903 - December 2, 1911.
Box 2, folder 8.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnboggs/1018/thumbnail.jp
Diffuse Galactic Soft Gamma-Ray Emission
The Galactic diffuse soft gamma-ray (30-800 keV) emission has been measured
from the Galactic Center by the HIREGS balloon-borne germanium spectrometer to
determine the spectral characteristics and origin of the emission. The
resulting Galactic diffuse continuum is found to agree well with a single
power-law (plus positronium) over the entire energy range, consistent with RXTE
and COMPTEL/CGRO observations at lower and higher energies, respectively. We
find no evidence of spectral steepening below 200 keV, as has been reported in
previous observations. The spatial distribution along the Galactic ridge is
found to be nearly flat, with upper limits set on the longitudinal gradient,
and with no evidence of an edge in the observed region. The soft gamma-ray
diffuse spectrum is well modeled by inverse Compton scattering of interstellar
radiation off of cosmic-ray electrons, minimizing the need to invoke
inefficient nonthermal bremsstrahlung emission. The resulting power requirement
is well within that provided by Galactic supernovae. We speculate that the
measured spectrum provides the first direct constraints on the cosmic-ray
electron spectrum below 300 MeV.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figure, submitted to Ap
Identification of Cost Effective Energy Conservation Methods
In addition to a successful program of readily implemented conservation actions for reducing building energy consumption at Kennedy Space Center, recent detailed analyses have identified further substantial savings for buildings representative of technical facilities designed when energy costs were low. The techniques employed for determination of these energy savings consisted of facility configuration analysis, power and lighting measurements, detailed computer simulations and simulation verifications. Use of these methods resulted in identification of projected energy savings as large as $330,000 a year (approximately fwo year breakeven period) in a single building. Application of these techniques to other commercial buildings is discussed
Education
study based on data collected at Nanakuli School from 1965 to 1968 in an effort to answer why
children of Hawaiian ancestry experience difficulty in the public school
Spectral Analysis of GRBs Measured by RHESSI
The Ge spectrometer of the RHESSI satellite is sensitive to Gamma Ray Bursts
(GRBs) from about 40 keV up to 17 MeV, thus ideally complementing the Swift/BAT
instrument whose sensitivity decreases above 150 keV. We present preliminary
results of spectral fits of RHESSI GRB data. After describing our method, the
RHESSI results are discussed and compared with Swift and Konus.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, conference proceedings, 'Swift and GRBs:
Unveiling the Relativistic Universe', San Servolo, Venice, 5-9 June 2006, to
appear in Il Nouvo Ciment
A Note on Frame Dragging
The measurement of spin effects in general relativity has recently taken
centre stage with the successfully launched Gravity Probe B experiment coming
toward an end, coupled with recently reported measurements using laser ranging.
Many accounts of these experiments have been in terms of frame-dragging. We
point out that this terminology has given rise to much confusion and that a
better description is in terms of spin-orbit and spin-spin effects. In
particular, we point out that the de Sitter precession (which has been mesured
to a high accuracy) is also a frame-dragging effect and provides an accurate
benchmark measurement of spin-orbit effects which GPB needs to emulate
Charge injection instability in perfect insulators
We show that in a macroscopic perfect insulator, charge injection at a
field-enhancing defect is associated with an instability of the insulating
state or with bistability of the insulating and the charged state. The effect
of a nonlinear carrier mobility is emphasized. The formation of the charged
state is governed by two different processes with clearly separated time
scales. First, due to a fast growth of a charge-injection mode, a localized
charge cloud forms near the injecting defect (or contact). Charge injection
stops when the field enhancement is screened below criticality. Secondly, the
charge slowly redistributes in the bulk. The linear instability mechanism and
the final charged steady state are discussed for a simple model and for
cylindrical and spherical geometries. The theory explains an experimentally
observed increase of the critical electric field with decreasing size of the
injecting contact. Numerical results are presented for dc and ac biased
insulators.Comment: Revtex, 7pages, 4 ps figure
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