Magnetic-Island Contraction and Particle Acceleration in Simulated Eruptive Solar Flares

The mechanism that accelerates particles to the energies required to produce the observed high-energy impulsive emission in solar flares is not well understood. Drake et al. (2006) proposed a mechanism for accelerating electrons in contracting magnetic islands formed by kinetic reconnection in multi-layered current sheets. We apply these ideas to sunward-moving flux ropes (2.5D magnetic islands) formed during fast reconnection in a simulated eruptive flare. A simple analytic model is used to calculate the energy gain of particles orbiting the field lines of the contracting magnetic islands in our ultrahigh-resolution 2.5D numerical simulation. We find that the estimated energy gains in a single island range up to a factor of five. This is higher than that found by Drake et al. for islands in the terrestrial magnetosphere and at the heliopause, due to strong plasma compression that occurs at the flare current sheet. In order to increase their energy by two orders of magnitude and plausibly account for the observed high-energy flare emission, the electrons must visit multiple contracting islands. This mechanism should produce sporadic emission because island formation is intermittent. Moreover, a large number of particles could be accelerated in each magnetohydrodynamic-scale island, which may explain the inferred rates of energetic-electron production in flares. We conclude that island contraction in the flare current sheet is a promising candidate for electron acceleration in solar eruptions.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (2016

Qualidade da água de chuva armazenada em cisterna utilizada na dessedentação de suínos e bovinos de corte.

Na região do Meio Oeste Catarinense tem-se incentivado a utilização de cisternas como tecnologia capaz de ofertar água aos rebanhos. A região é caracterizada por secas severas nos meses de verão. Os objetivos da pesquisa foram: monitorar variáveis físicas, químicas e microbiológicas de qualidade da água de chuva de uma cisterna; avaliar se a água armazenada possuía qualidade para dessedentação de suínos e bovinos de corte. As concentrações de nitrato, nitrito e amônia mantiveram-se de acordo com os padrões para o consumo animal. A E. coli esteve presente em algumas amostras. A quantidade de chuva e velocidade do vento influenciaram as concentrações dos elementos nitrogenados. Investigações a fim de aprofundar esse conhecimento devem ser conduzidas para que as fontes emissoras agrícolas e pecuárias não representam alto impacto negativo para a qualidade da água. A água armazenada na cisterna apresentou qualidade satisfatória para o uso na dessedentação de suínos e bovinos de corte o que corrobora a utilização da tecnologia, visando o uso eficiente da água pelas produções pecuárias

Granulometria do milho em rações para engorda de suínos.

O que e granulometria e como medi-la?; Importância da granulometria do milho para suínos; Granulometria e valor energético do milho; Granulometria e desempenho de suínos; Granulometria e ulcera esôfago-gástrica; Recomendações da granulometria do milho para suínos; Cuidados para obtenção de uma boa granulometria.bitstream/item/59505/1/CUsersPiazzonDocuments9.pd

High-fidelity preparation, gates, memory and readout of a trapped-ion quantum bit

We implement all single-qubit operations with fidelities significantly above the minimum threshold required for fault-tolerant quantum computing, using a trapped-ion qubit stored in hyperfine "atomic clock" states of $^{43}$Ca$^+$. We measure a combined qubit state preparation and single-shot readout fidelity of 99.93%, a memory coherence time of $T^*_2=50$ seconds, and an average single-qubit gate fidelity of 99.9999%. These results are achieved in a room-temperature microfabricated surface trap, without the use of magnetic field shielding or dynamic decoupling techniques to overcome technical noise.Comment: Supplementary Information included. 6 nines, 7 figures, 8 page

Ajuste no teste de solubilidade do nitrogênio em pepsina para farinhas de carne e ossos destinadas a fabricação de rações.

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Efeito da aplicação do ferro dextrano sobre o desempenho de leitões lactentes produzidos no Sistema Intensivo de Suínos Criados ao Ar Livre - SISCAL.

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Double-lambda microscopic model for entangled light generation by four-wave-mixing

Motivated by recent experiments, we study four-wave-mixing in an atomic double-{\Lambda} system driven by a far-detuned pump. Using the Heisenberg-Langevin formalism, and based on the microscopic properties of the medium, we calculate the classical and quantum properties of seed and conju- gate beams beyond the linear amplifier approximation. A continuous variable approach gives us access to relative-intensity noise spectra that can be directly compared to experiments. Restricting ourselves to the cold-atom regime, we predict the generation of quantum-correlated beams with a relative-intensity noise spectrum well below the standard quantum limit (down to -6 dB). Moreover entanglement between seed and conjugate beams measured by an inseparability down to 0.25 is expected. This work opens the way to the generation of entangled beams by four-wave mixing in a cold atomic sample.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PR

Fornecimento de água dentro do comedouro e efeitos no desempenho, carcaça e efluentes da produção de suínos.

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Efeito da forma física e do nível de energia da ração sobre o desempenho e a composição de carcaça de frango de corte.

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Discovery of a Nearby Low-Surface-Brightness Spiral Galaxy

During the course of a search for compact, isolated gas clouds moving with anomalous velocities in or near our own Galaxy (Braun and Burton 1998 A&A, in press), we have discovered, in the data of the Leiden/Dwingeloo survey (Hartmann and Burton 1997, Atlas of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen, CUP) of Galactic hydrogen, the HI signature of a large galaxy, moving at a recession velocity of 282 km/s, with respect to our Galaxy. Deep multicolor and spectroscopic optical observations show the presence of star formation in scattered HII regions; radio HI synthesis interferometry confirms that the galaxy is rich in HI and has the rotation signature of a spiral galaxy; a submillimeter observation failed to detect the CO molecule. The radio and optical evidence combined suggest its classification as a low-surface-brightness spiral galaxy. It is located in close spatial and kinematic proximity to the galaxy NGC 6946. The newly-discovered galaxy, which we call Cepheus 1, is at a distance of about 6 Mpc. It is probably to be numbered amongst the nearest few LSB spirals.Comment: 13 page LaTeX, requires aastex, 4 GIF figures. Accepted for publication in the AJ, January 199