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Unambiguous determination of spin dephasing times in ZnO
Time-resolved magneto-optics is a well-established optical pump probe
technique to generate and to probe spin coherence in semiconductors. By this
method, spin dephasing times T_2^* can easily be determined if their values are
comparable to the available pump-probe-delays. If T_2^* exceeds the laser
repetition time, however, resonant spin amplification (RSA) can equally be used
to extract T_2^*. We demonstrate that in ZnO these techniques have several
tripping hazards resulting in deceptive values for T_2^* and show how to avoid
them. We show that the temperature dependence of the amplitude ratio of two
separate spin species can easily be misinterpreted as a strongly temperature
dependent T_2^* of a single spin ensemble, while the two spin species have
T_2^* values which are nearly independent of temperature. Additionally,
consecutive pump pulses can significantly diminish the spin polarization, which
remains from previous pump pulses. While this barely affects T_2^* values
extracted from delay line scans, it results in seemingly shorter T_2^* values
in RSA.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Strong well-posedness and dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal-colloidal interaction model
This paper investigates the interaction of nematic liquid crystals modeled by
a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model with a colloidal particle. It is shown that
this problem is locally strongly well-posed, and that it also admits a unique
global strong solution for initial data close to constant equilibria. The proof
relies on the property of maximal regularity of the corresponding linearized
problem. In particular, for the global well-posedness, a splitting of the
director part in mean value zero and average part is employed
Simulating Self-gravitating Hydrodynamic Flows
An efficient algorithm for solving Poisson's equation in two and three
spatial dimensions is discussed. The algorithm, which is described in detail,
is based on the integral form of Poisson's equation and utilizes spherical
coordinates and an expansion into spherical harmonics. The solver can be
applied to and works well for all problems for which the use of spherical
coordinates is appropriate. We also briefly discuss the implementation of the
algorithm into hydrodynamic codes which are based on a conservative
finite--difference scheme.Comment: 15 pages, compressed uu-encoded postscript file (232kB), to appear in
Computer Physics Communications, special issue Computational Hydrodynamics in
Astrophysic
Rigorous Analysis and Dynamics of Hibler's sea ice model
This article develops for the first time a rigorous analysis of Hibler's
model of sea ice dynamics. Identifying Hibler's ice stress as a quasilinear
second order operator and regarding Hibler's model as a quasilinear evolution
equation, it is shown that Hibler's coupled sea ice model, i.e., the model
coupling velocity, thickness and compactness of sea ice, is locally strongly
well-posed within the -setting and also globally strongly well-posed for
initial data close to constant equilibria
Spectral cube extraction for the VLT/SPHERE IFS: Open-source pipeline with full forward modeling and improved sensitivity
We present a new open-source data-reduction pipeline to reconstruct spectral
data cubes from raw SPHERE integral-field spectrograph (IFS) data. The pipeline
is written in Python and based on the pipeline that was developed for the
CHARIS IFS. It introduces several improvements to SPHERE data analysis that
ultimately produce significant improvements in postprocessing sensitivity. We
first used new data to measure SPHERE lenslet point spread functions (PSFs) at
the four laser calibration wavelengths. These lenslet PSFs enabled us to
forward-model SPHERE data, to extract spectra using a least-squares fit, and to
remove spectral crosstalk using the measured lenslet PSFs. Our approach also
reduces the number of required interpolations, both spectral and spatial, and
can preserve the original hexagonal lenslet geometry in the SPHERE IFS. In the
case of least-squares extraction, no interpolation of the data is performed. We
demonstrate this new pipeline on the directly imaged exoplanet 51 Eri b and on
observations of the hot white dwarf companion to HD 2133. The extracted
spectrum of HD 2133B matches theoretical models, demonstrating
spectrophotometric calibration that is good to a few percent. Postprocessing on
two 51 Eri b data sets demonstrates a median improvement in sensitivity of 80%
and 30% for the 2015 and 2017 data, respectively, compared to the use of cubes
reconstructed by the SPHERE Data Center. The largest improvements are seen for
poorer observing conditions. The new SPHERE pipeline takes less than three
minutes to produce a data cube on a modern laptop, making it practical to
reprocess all SPHERE IFS data.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures. Software available at:
https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/charis-de
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Assessment of Subsampling Strategies in Microspectroscopy of Environmental Microplastic Samples
The analysis of environmental occurrence of microplastic (MP) particles has gained notable attention within the past decade. An effective risk assessment of MP litter requires elucidating sources of MP particles, their pathways of distribution and, ultimately, sinks. Therefore, sampling has to be done in high frequency, both spatially and temporally, resulting in a high number of samples to analyze. Microspectroscopy techniques, such as FTIR imaging or Raman particle measurements allow an accurate analysis of MP particles regarding their chemical classification and size. However, these methods are time-consuming, which gives motivation to establish subsampling protocols that require measuring less particles, while still obtaining reliable results. The challenge regarding the subsampling of environmental MP samples lies in the heterogeneity of MP types and the relatively low numbers of target particles. Herein, we present a comprehensive assessment of different proposed subsampling methods on a selection of real-world samples from different environmental compartments. The methods are analyzed and compared with respect to resulting MP count errors, which eventually allows giving recommendations for staying within acceptable error margins. Our results are based on measurements with Raman microspectroscopy, but are applicable to any other analysis technique. We show that the subsampling-errors are mainly due to statistical counting errors (i.e., extrapolation from low numbers) and only in edge cases additionally impacted by inhomogeneous distribution of particles on the filters. Keeping the subsampling-errors low can mainly be realized by increasing the fraction of MP particles in the samples
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