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Development of reliability methodology for systems engineering. Volume II - Application - Design reliability analysis of a 250 volt-ampere static inverter Final report
Design stage reliability analysis application to static inverte
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A style manual is presented to serve as a reference and guide for system and program documentation. It is intended to set standards for documentation, prescribing the procedures to be followed, format to be used, and information to be produced. The standards for program documentation specify the extent to which the programmer should support his efforts in writing. The first three sections of the manual (system, program, and operation descriptions) contain information of particular interest to management, operators, and program users, respectively. Each section was designed as a self-sufficient description from the management, operator, or user point of view
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Toxicity of materials in fire situations: Laboratory data obtained at the University of San Francisco
Approximately 300 materials were evaluated using a specific set of test conditions. Materials tested included wood, fibers, fabrics and synthetic polymers. Data obtained using 10 different sets of test conditions are presented
Detection of a variable ultra-fast outflow in the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy PG 1448+273
Relativistically blueshifted absorption features of highly ionised ions, the
so-called ultra-fast outflows (UFOs), have been detected in the X-ray spectra
of a number of accreting supermassive black holes. If these features truly
originate from accretion disc winds accelerated to more than 10 per cent of the
speed of light, their energy budget is very significant and they can contribute
to or even drive galaxy-scale feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN).
However, the UFO spectral features are often weak due to high ionisation of the
outflowing material, and the inference of the wind physical properties can be
complicated by other spectral features in AGN such as relativistic reflection.
Here we study a highly accreting Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy PG 1448+273. We
apply an automated, systematic routine for detecting outflows in accreting
systems and achieve an unambiguous detection of a UFO in this AGN. The UFO
absorption is observed in both soft and hard X-ray bands with the XMM-Newton
observatory. The velocity of the outflow is (26900 +- 600) km/s (~0.09c), with
an ionisation parameter of log ({\xi} / erg cm s^-1)=4.03_{-0.08}^{+0.10} and a
column density above 10^23 cm^-2. At the same time, we detect weak warm
absorption features in the spectrum of the object. Our systematic outflow
search suggests the presence of further multi-phase wind structure, but we
cannot claim a significant detection considering the present data quality. The
UFO is not detected in a second, shorter observation with XMM-Newton,
indicating variability in time, observed also in other similar AGN.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 14 pages, 11 figures, 1 tabl
Properties of AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era
The focussing optics of NuSTAR have enabled high signal-to-noise spectra to
be obtained from many X-ray bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and Galactic
Black Hole Binaries (BHB). Spectral modelling then allows robust
characterization of the spectral index and upper energy cutoff of the coronal
power-law continuum, after accounting for reflection and absorption effects.
Spectral-timing studies, such as reverberation and broad iron line fitting, of
these sources yield coronal sizes, often showing them to be small and in the
range of 3 to 10 gravitational radii in size. Our results indicate that coronae
are hot and radiatively compact, lying close to the boundary of the region in
the compactness - temperature diagram which is forbidden due to runaway pair
production. The coincidence suggests that pair production and annihilation are
essential ingredients in the coronae of AGN and BHB and that they control the
shape of the observed spectra.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
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