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Broad Line Radio Galaxies: Jet Contribution to the nuclear X-Ray Continuum
It is shown that, for Broad Line Radio Galaxies the strength of the
non-thermal beamed radiation, when present, is always smaller than the
accretion flow by a factor < 0.7 in the 2-10 keV band. The result has been
obtained using the procedure adopted for disentangling the Flat Spectrum Radio
Quasar 3C 273 (Grandi & Palumbo 2004). Although this implies a significantly
smaller non-thermal flux in Radio Galaxies when compared to Blazars, the jet
component, if present, could be important at very high energies and thus easily
detectable with GLAST.Comment: 12 pages including 2 figures (4 files), ApJ accepte
Massive stealth scalar fields from field redefinition method
We propose an uni-parametric deformation method of action principles of
scalar fields coupled to gravity which generates new models with massive
stealth field configurations, i.e. with vanishing energy-momentum tensor. The
method applies to a wide class of models and we provide three examples. In
particular we observe that in the case of the standard massive scalar action
principle, the respective deformed action contains the stealth configurations
and it preserves the massive ones of the undeformed model. We also observe
that, in this latter example, the effect of the energy-momentum tensor of the
massive (non-stealth) field can be amplified or damped by the deformation
parameter, alternatively the mass of the stealth field.Comment: 12 page
Self-assembly of multi-component fluorescent molecular logic gates in micelles
A recent strategy for developing supramolecular
logic gates in water is based on combinations
of molecules via self-assembly with surfactants, which
eliminates the need for time-consuming synthesis. The
self-assembly of surfactants and lumophores and receptors
can result in interesting properties providing cooperative
e ffects useful for molecular information processing
and other potential applications such as drug delivery
systems. This article highlights some of the recent advancements
in supramolecular information processing
using microheterogeneous media including micelles in
aqueous solution.peer-reviewe
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