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Spectral Analysis of the Stromlo-APM Survey I. Spectral Properties of Galaxies
We analyze spectral properties of 1671 galaxies from the Stromlo-APM survey,
selected to have 15 < b_J < 17.15 and having a mean redshift z = 0.05. This is
a representative local sample of field galaxies, so the global properties of
the galaxy population provide a comparative point for analysis of more distant
surveys. We measure Halpha, Oii 3727, Sii 6716, 6731, Nii 6583 and Oi 6300
equivalent widths and the D_4000 break index. The 5A resolution spectra use an
8 arcsec slit, which typically covers 40-50% of the galaxy area. We find no
evidence for systematic trends depending on the fraction of galaxy covered by
the slit, and further analysis suggests that our spectra are representative of
integrated galaxy spectra.
We classify spectra according to their Halpha emission, which is closely
related to massive star formation. Overall we find 61% of galaxies are Halpha
emitters with rest-frame equivalent widths EW(Halpha) >= 2A. The emission-line
galaxy (ELG) fraction is smaller than seen in the CFRS at z = 0.2 and is
consistent with a rapid evolution of Halpha luminosity density. The ELG
fraction, and EW(Halpha), increase at fainter absolute magnitudes, smaller
projected area and smaller D_4000. In the local Universe, faint, small galaxies
are dominated by star formation activity, while bright, large galaxies are more
quiescent. This picture of the local Universe is quite different from the
distant one, where bright galaxies appear to show rapidly-increasing activity
back in time.
(Abridged)Comment: 40 pages, 25 figures, MNRAS, in pres
Opening of DNA double strands by helicases. Active versus passive opening
Helicase opening of double-stranded nucleic acids may be "active" (the
helicase directly destabilizes the dsNA to promote opening) or "passive" (the
helicase binds ssNA available due to a thermal fluctuation which opens part of
the dsNA). We describe helicase opening of dsNA, based on helicases which bind
single NA strands and move towards the double-stranded region, using a discrete
``hopping'' model. The interaction between the helicase and the junction where
the double strand opens is characterized by an interaction potential. The form
of the potential determines whether the opening is active or passive. We
calculate the rate of passive opening for the helicase PcrA, and show that the
rate increases when the opening is active. Finally, we examine how to choose
the interaction potential to optimize the rate of strand separation. One
important result is our finding that active opening can increase the unwinding
rate by 7 fold compared to passive opening.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Periodic Instantons in SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory
The properties of periodic instanton solutions of the classical SU(2) gauge
theory with a Higgs doublet field are described analytically at low energies,
and found numerically for all energies up to and beyond the sphaleron energy.
Interesting new classes of bifurcating complex periodic instanton solutions to
the Yang-Mills-Higgs equations are described.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures (in 5 included eps files), ReVTeX (minor typos
corrected and reference added
Very weak electron-phonon coupling and strong strain coupling in manganites
The coupling of the manganite stripe phase to the lattice and to strain has
been investigated via transmission electron microscopy studies of
polycrystalline and thin film manganites. In polycrystalline \PCMOfiftwo a
lockin to in a sample with has been observed for the first
time. Such a lockin has been predicted as a key part of the Landau CDW theory
of the stripe phase. Thus it is possible to constrain the size of the
electron-phonon coupling in the CDW Landau theory to between 0.04% and 0.05% of
the electron-electron coupling term. In the thin film samples, films of the
same thickness grown on two different substrates exhibited different
wavevectors. The different strains present in the films on the two substrates
can be related to the wavevector observed via Landau theory. It is demonstrated
that the the elastic term which favours an incommensurate modulation has a
similar size to the coupling between the strain and the wavevector, meaning
that the coupling of strain to the superlattice is unexpectedly strong.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Spontaneous Flavor and Parity Breaking with Wilson Fermions
We discuss the phase diagram of Wilson fermions in the -- plane for
two-flavor QCD. We argue that, as originally suggested by Aoki, there is a
phase in which flavor and parity are spontaneously broken. Recent numerical
results on the spectrum of the overlap Hamiltonian have been interpreted as
evidence against Aoki's conjecture. We show that they are in fact consistent
with the presence of a flavor-parity broken ``Aoki phase''. We also show how,
as the continuum limit is approached, one can study the lattice theory using
the continuum chiral Lagrangian supplemented by additional terms proportional
to powers of the lattice spacing. We find that there are two possible phase
structures at non-zero lattice spacing: (1) there is an Aoki phase of width
with two massless Goldstone pions; (2) there is no
symmetry breaking, and all three pions have an equal non-vanishing mass of
order . Present numerical evidence suggests that the former option is
realized for Wilson fermions. Our analysis then predicts the form of the pion
masses and the flavor-parity breaking condensate within the Aoki phase. Our
analysis also applies for non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermions.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures (added several references and a comment
Cysteine-rich protein 1 (CRP1) regulates actin filament bundling
BACKGROUND: Cysteine-rich protein 1 (CRP1) is a LIM domain containing protein localized to the nucleus and the actin cytoskeleton. CRP1 has been demonstrated to bind the actin-bundling protein α-actinin and proposed to modulate the actin cytoskeleton; however, specific regulatory mechanisms have not been identified. RESULTS: CRP1 expression increased actin bundling in rat embryonic fibroblasts. Although CRP1 did not affect the bundling activity of α-actinin, CRP1 was found to stabilize the interaction of α-actinin with actin bundles and to directly bundle actin microfilaments. Using confocal and photobleaching fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy, we demonstrate that there are two populations of CRP1 localized along actin stress fibers, one associated through interaction with α-actinin and one that appears to bind the actin filaments directly. Consistent with a role in regulating actin filament cross-linking, CRP1 also localized to the membrane ruffles of spreading and PDGF treated fibroblasts. CONCLUSION: CRP1 regulates actin filament bundling by directly cross-linking actin filaments and stabilizing the interaction of α-actinin with actin filament bundles
Experimental observation of Frohlich superconductivity in high magnetic fields
Resistivity and irreversible magnetisation data taken within the
high-magnetic-field CDWx phase of the quasi-two-dimensional organic metal
alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4 are shown to be consistent with a field-induced
inhomogeneous superconducting phase. In-plane skin-depth measurements show that
the resistive transition on entering the CDWx phase is both isotropic and
representative of the bulk.Comment: ten pages, four figure
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