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Determining the HI content of galaxies via intensity mapping cross-correlations
We propose an innovative method for measuring the neutral hydrogen (HI)
content of an optically-selected spectroscopic sample of galaxies through
cross-correlation with HI intensity mapping measurements. We show that the
HI-galaxy cross-power spectrum contains an additive shot noise term which
scales with the average HI brightness temperature of the optically-selected
galaxies, allowing constraints to be placed on the average HI mass per galaxy.
This approach can estimate the HI content of populations too faint to directly
observe through their 21cm emission over a wide range of redshifts. This
cross-correlation, as a function of optical luminosity or colour, can be used
to derive HI-scaling relations. We demonstrate that this signal will be
detectable by cross-correlating upcoming Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)
observations with existing optically-selected samples. We also use
semi-analytic simulations to verify that the HI mass can be successfully
recovered by our technique in the range M_HI > 10^8 M_solar, in a manner
independent of the underlying power spectrum shape. We conclude that this
method is a powerful tool to study galaxy evolution, which only requires a
single intensity mapping dataset to infer complementary HI gas information from
existing optical and infra-red observations.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRA
Intensity mapping cross-correlations II: HI halo models including shot noise
HI intensity mapping data traces the large-scale structure matter
distribution using the integrated emission of neutral hydrogen gas (HI). The
cross-correlation of the intensity maps with optical galaxy surveys can
mitigate foreground and systematic effects, but has been shown to significantly
depend on galaxy evolution parameters of the HI and the optical sample.
Previously, we have shown that the shot noise of the cross-correlation scales
with the HI content of the optical samples, such that the shot noise estimation
infers the average HI masses of these samples. In this article, we present an
adaptive framework for the cross-correlation of HI intensity maps with galaxy
samples using our implementation of the halo model formalism (Murray et al
2018, in prep) which utilises the halo occupation distribution of galaxies to
predict their power spectra. We compare two HI population models, tracing the
spatial halo and the galaxy distribution respectively, and present their auto-
and cross-power spectra with an associated galaxy sample. We find that the
choice of the HI model and the distribution of the HI within the galaxy sample
have minor significance for the shape of the auto- and cross-correlations, but
highly impact the measured shot noise amplitude of the estimators, a finding we
confirm with simulations. We demonstrate parameter estimation of the HI halo
occupation models and advocate this framework for the interpretation of future
experimental data, with the prospect of determining the HI masses of optical
galaxy samples via the cross-correlation shot noise.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Comments welcom
Automated classification of variable stars for All-Sky Automated Survey 1-2 data
With the advent of surveys generating multi-epoch photometry and the discovery of large numbers of variable stars, the classification of these stars has to be automatic. We have developed such a classification procedure for about 1700 stars from the variable star catalogue of the All-Sky Automated Survey 1-2 (ASAS 1-2) by selecting the periodic stars and by applying an unsupervised Bayesian classifier using parameters obtained through a Fourier decomposition of the light curve. For irregular light curves we used the period and moments of the magnitude distribution for the classification. In the case of ASAS 1-2, 83 per cent of variable objects are red giants. A general relation between the period and amplitude is found for a large fraction of those stars. The selection led to 302 periodic and 1429 semiperiodic stars, which are classified in six major groups: eclipsing binaries, ‘sinusoidal curves', Cepheids, small amplitude red variables, SR and Mira stars. The type classification error level is estimated to be about 7 per cen
Molecular Identification of Eimeria Species in Broiler Chickens in Trinidad, West Indies
Coccidiosis is an intestinal disease of chickens of major economic importance to broiler industries worldwide. Species of coccidia found in chickens include Eimeria acervulina, Eimeria brunetti, Eimeria maxima, Eimeria mitis, Eimeria necatrix, Eimeria praecox, and Eimeria tenella. In recent years, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been developed to provide accurate and rapid identification of the seven known Eimeria species of chickens. The aim of this study was to use species-specific real-time PCR (qPCR) to identify which of the seven Eimeria species are present in Trinidad poultry. Seventeen pooled fecal samples were collected from 6 broiler farms (2–5 pens per farm) across Trinidad. Feces were also collected from birds showing clinical signs of coccidiosis in two live bird markets (pluck shops). qPCR revealed the presence of five species of Eimeria (E. acervulina, E. maxima, E. mitis, E. necatrix, and E. tenella), but not E. brunetti or E. praecox. Mixed infections were detected on all broiler farms, and DNA of two highly pathogenic Eimeria species (E. tenella and E. necatrix) was detected in feces taken from clinically sick birds sampled from the two pluck shops
Nonlocal hydrodynamic influence on the dynamic contact angle: Slip models versus experiment
Experiments reported by Blake et al. [Phys. Fluids. 11, 1995 (1999)] suggest that the dynamic contact angle formed between the free surface of a liquid and a moving solid boundary at a fixed contact-line speed depends on the flow field/geometry near the moving contact line. The present paper examines quantitatively whether or not it is possible to attribute this effect to bending of the free surface due to hydrodynamic stresses acting upon it and hence interpret the results in terms of the so-called ``apparent'' contact angle. It is shown that this is not the case. Numerical analysis of the problem demonstrates that, at the spatial
resolution reported in the experiments, the variations of the ``apparent'' contact angle (defined in two different ways) caused by variations in the flow field, at a fixed contact-line speed, are too small to account for the observed effect. The results clearly indicate that the actual (macroscopic) dynamic contact angle, i.e.\ the one used in fluid mechanics as a boundary condition for the equation determining the free surface shape, must be regarded as dependent not only on the contact-line speed but also on the flow field/geometry in the vicinity of the moving contact line
Laboratory measurement of the pure rotational spectrum of vibrationally excited HCO^+ (v_2 = 1) by far-infrared laser sideband spectroscopy
Laboratory observations of the pure rotational spectrum of HCO^+ in its lowest excited bending state
(v_1, v^l_2 v_3)_= (0,1^1,0) are reported. Because of their severe excitation requirements, such vibrational satellites
and the high-J ground-state lines also measured here sample only hot, dense regions of matter in active molecular
cloud cores and circumstellar envelopes. As the HCO^+ abundance is tied directly to the gas fractional ionization, it is probable that the vibrationally excited formyl ion transitions will provide high-contrast
observations of shocked molecular material, rather than the more quiescent, radiatively heated gas surrounding
stellar sources detected with the few vibrationally excited neutral species observed to date
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