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Aerodynamic loads on deployed canard surfaces and rocket nose section of the Apollo launch escape vehicle
Aerodynamic loads on deployed canard surfaces and rocket nose section of Apollo launch escape vehicl
Gas morphology and energetics at the surface of PDRs: New insights with Herschel observations of NGC 7023
Context. We investigate the physics and chemistry of the gas and dust in dense photon-dominated regions (PDRs), along with their dependence on the illuminating UV field.
Aims. Using Herschel/HIFI observations, we study the gas energetics in NGC 7023 in relation to the morphology of this nebula. NGC 7023 is the prototype of a PDR illuminated by a B2V star and is one of the key targets of Herschel.
Methods. Our approach consists in determining the energetics of the region by combining the information carried by the mid-IR spectrum (extinction by classical grains, emission from very small dust particles) with that of the main gas coolant lines. In this letter, we discuss more specifically the intensity and line profile of the 158 μm (1901 GHz) [C ii] line measured by HIFI and provide information on the emitting gas.
Results. We show that both the [C ii] emission and the mid-IR emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) arise from the regions located in the transition zone between atomic and molecular gas. Using the Meudon PDR code and a simple transfer model, we find good agreement between the calculated and observed [C ii] intensities.
Conclusions. HIFI observations of NGC 7023 provide the opportunity to constrain the energetics at the surface of PDRs. Future work will include analysis of the main coolant line [O i] and use of a new PDR model that includes PAH-related species
Ferromagnetic material in the eastern red-spotted newt notophthalmus viridescens
Behavioral results obtained from the eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) led to the suggestion of a hybrid homing system involving inputs from both a light-dependent and a non-light-dependent mechanism. To evaluate the possible role of a receptor based on biogenic magnetite in this animal, we performed magnetometry experiments on a set of newts previously used in behavioral assays. The natural remanent magnetization (NRM) carried by these newts was strong enough to be measured easily using a direct-current-biased superconducting quantum interference device functioning as a moment magnetometer. Isothermal remanent magnetizations were two orders of magnitude higher than the NRM, suggesting that ferromagnetic material consistent with magnetite is present in the body of the newt. The NRM has no preferential orientation among the animals when analyzed relative to their body axis, and the demagnetization data show that, overall, the magnetic material grains are not aligned parallel to each other within each newt. Although the precise localization of the particles was not possible, the data indicate that magnetite is not clustered in a limited area. A quantity of single-domain magnetic material is present which would be adequate for use in either a magnetic intensity or direction receptor. Our data, when combined with the functional properties of homing, suggest a link between this behavioral response and the presence of ferromagnetic material, raising the possibility that magnetite is involved at least in the map component of homing of the eastern red-spotted newt
Coplanar Circumbinary Debris Disks
We present resolved Herschel images of circumbinary debris disks in the alpha
CrB (HD139006) and beta Tri (HD13161) systems. We find that both disks are
consistent with being aligned with the binary orbital planes. Though secular
perturbations from the binary can align the disk, in both cases the alignment
time at the distances at which the disk is resolved is greater than the stellar
age, so we conclude that the coplanarity was primordial. Neither disk can be
modelled as a narrow ring, requiring extended radial distributions. To satisfy
both the Herschel and mid-IR images of the alpha CrB disk, we construct a model
that extends from 1-300AU, whose radial profile is broadly consistent with a
picture where planetesimal collisions are excited by secular perturbations from
the binary. However, this model is also consistent with stirring by other
mechanisms, such as the formation of Pluto-sized objects. The beta Tri disk
model extends from 50-400AU. A model with depleted (rather than empty) inner
regions also reproduces the observations and is consistent with binary and
other stirring mechanisms. As part of the modelling process, we find that the
Herschel PACS beam varies by as much as 10% at 70um and a few % at 100um. The
70um variation can therefore hinder image interpretation, particularly for
poorly resolved objects. The number of systems in which circumbinary debris
disk orientations have been compared with the binary plane is now four. More
systems are needed, but a picture in which disks around very close binaries
(alpha CrB, beta Tri, and HD 98800, with periods of a few weeks to a year) are
aligned, and disks around wider binaries (99 Her, with a 50 yr period) are
misaligned, may be emerging. This picture is qualitatively consistent with the
expectation that the protoplanetary disks from which the debris emerged are
more likely to be aligned if their binaries have shorter periods.Comment: accepted to MNRA
HI emission and absorption in nearby, gas-rich galaxies II. -- sample completion and detection of intervening absorption in NGC 5156
We present the results of a survey for intervening 21cm HI absorption in a
sample of 10 nearby, gas-rich galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All-Sky
Survey (HIPASS). This follows the six HIPASS galaxies searched in previous work
and completes our full sample. In this paper we searched for absorption along
17 sightlines with impact parameters between 6 and 46 kpc, making one new
detection. We also obtained simultaneous HI emission-line data, allowing us to
directly relate the absorption-line detection rate to the HI distribution. From
this we find the majority of the non-detections in the current sample are
because sightline does not intersect the HI disc of the galaxy at sufficiently
high column density, but that source structure is also an important factor.
The detected absorption-line arises in the galaxy NGC 5156 () at an
impact parameter of 19 kpc. The line is deep and narrow with an integrated
optical depth of 0.82 km s. High resolution Australia Telescope Compact
Array (ATCA) images at 5 and 8 GHz reveal that the background source is
resolved into two components with a separation of 2.6 arcsec (500 pc at the
redshift of the galaxy), with the absorption likely occurring against a single
component. We estimate that the ratio of the spin temperature and covering
factor, , is approximately 950 K in the outer disc of NGC
5156, but further observations using VLBI would allow us to accurately measure
the covering factor and spin temperature of the gas.Comment: 31 pages, 11 figure
Positronium Decay : Gauge Invariance and Analyticity
The construction of positronium decay amplitudes is handled through the use
of dispersion relations. In this way, emphasis is put on basic QED principles:
gauge invariance and soft-photon limits (analyticity).
A firm grounding is given to the factorization approaches, and some
ambiguities in the spin and energy structures of the positronium wavefunction
are removed. Non-factorizable amplitudes are naturally introduced. Their
dynamics is described, especially regarding the enforcement of gauge invariance
and analyticity through delicate interferences. The important question of the
completeness of the present theoretical predictions for the decay rates is then
addressed. Indeed, some of those non-factorizable contributions are unaccounted
for by NRQED analyses. However, it is shown that such new contributions are
highly suppressed, being of order alpha^3.
Finally, a particular effective form factor formalism is constructed for
parapositronium, allowing a thorough analysis of binding energy effects and
analyticity implementation.Comment: 34 pages, 13 figure
The CHESS spectral survey of star forming regions: Peering into the protostellar shock L1157-B1 - II. Shock dynamics
Context. The outflow driven by the low-mass class 0 protostar L1157 is the prototype of the so-called chemically active outflows. The bright bowshock B1 in the southern outflow lobe is a privileged testbed of magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) shock models, for which dynamical and chemical processes are strongly interdependent.
Aims. We present the first results of the unbiased spectral survey of the L1157-B1 bowshock, obtained in the framework of the key program “Chemical HErschel Surveys of star forming regions” (CHESS). The main aim is to trace the warm and chemically enriched gas and to infer the excitation conditions in the shock region.
Methods. The CO 5-4 and o-H2_O 1_(10)–1_(01) lines have been detected at high-spectral resolution in the unbiased spectral survey of the HIFI-band 1b spectral window (555–636 GHz), presented by Codella et al. in this volume. Complementary ground-based observations in the submm window help establish the origin of the emission detected in the main-beam of HIFI and the physical conditions in the shock.
Results. Both lines exhibit broad wings, which extend to velocities much higher than reported up to now. We find that the molecular emission arises from two regions with distinct physical conditions : an extended, warm (100 K), dense (3 × 10^5 cm^(-3)) component at low-velocity, which dominates the water line flux in Band 1; a secondary component in a small region of B1 (a few arcsec) associated with high-velocity, hot (>400 K) gas of moderate density ((1.0–3.0) × 10^4 cm^(-3)), which appears to dominate the flux of the water line at 179μm observed with PACS. The water abundance is enhanced by two orders of magnitude between the low- and the high-velocity component, from 8 × 10^(-7) up to 8 × 10^(-5). The properties of the high-velocity component agree well with the predictions of steady-state C-shock models
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Discovery of Luminous, Metal-poor, Sta r-forming Galaxies at Redshifts z~0.7
We have discovered a sample of 17 metal-poor, yet luminous, star-forming
galaxies at redshifts z~0.7. They were selected from the initial phase of the
DEEP2 survey of 3900 galaxies and the Team Keck Redshift Survey (TKRS) of 1536
galaxies as those showing the temperature-sensitive [OIII]l4363 auroral line.
These rare galaxies have blue luminosities close to L*, high star formation
rates of 5 to 12 solar masses per year, and oxygen abundances of 1/3 to 1/10
solar. They thus lie significantly off the luminosity-metallicity relation
found previously for field galaxies with strong emission lines at redshifts
z~0.7. The prior surveys relied on indirect, empirical calibrations of the R23
diagnostic and the assumption that luminous galaxies are not metal-poor. Our
discovery suggests that this assumption is sometimes invalid. As a class, these
newly-discovered galaxies are: (1) more metal-poor than common classes of
bright emission-line galaxies at z~0.7 or at the present epoch; (2) comparable
in metallicity to z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies but less luminous; and (3)
comparable in metallicity to local metal-poor eXtreme Blue Compact Galaxies
(XBCGs), but more luminous. Together, the three samples suggest that the
most-luminous, metal-poor, compact galaxies become fainter over time.Comment: This is a .tgz file. It should create the following files: texto.tex,
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November 26, 2004. This submission is 5 pages long, one table and two
figures. To appear in ApJ
Short-range interactions in an effective field theory approach for nucleon-nucleon scattering
We investigate in detail the effect of making the range of the ``contact''
interaction used in effective field theory (EFT) calculations of NN scattering
finite. This is done in both an effective field theory with explicit pions, and
one where the pions have been integrated out. In both cases we calculate NN
scattering in the channel using potentials which are second-order in
the EFT expansion. The contact interactions present in the EFT Lagrangian are
made finite by use of a square-well regulator. We find that there is an optimal
radius for this regulator, at which second-order corrections to the EFT are
identically zero; for radii near optimal these second-order corrections are
small. The cutoff EFTs which result from this procedure appear to be valid for
momenta up to about 100 MeV/c. We also find that the radius of the square well
cannot be reduced to zero if the theory is to reproduce both the experimental
scattering length and effective range. Indeed, we show that, if the NN
potential is the sum of a one-pion exchange piece and a short-range
interaction, then the short-range piece must extend out beyond 1.1 fm,
regardless of its particular form.Comment: 15 pages, RevTeX, uses BoxedEPS.te
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