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Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31
We discuss the first results from ongoing studies of the resolved stellar
populations in the outskirts of our nearest large neighbour, M31. Deep
HST/WFPC2 archival observations are used to construct colour-magnitude-diagrams
which reach well below the horizontal branch at selected locations in the outer
disk and halo, while a panoramic ground-based imaging survey maps spatial
density variations through resolved star counts to a projected radius of ~50
kpc.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in proc of "New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics:
The Link Between Stars and Cosmology", eds. M. Chavez, A. Bressan, A.
Buzzoni, D. Mayy
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Two-fluid temperature-dependent relativistic waves in magnetized streaming pair plasmas
A relativistic two-fluid temperature-dependent approach for a streaming magnetized pair plasma is considered. Such a scenario corresponds to secondary plasmas created at the polar caps of pulsar magnetospheres. In the model the generalized vorticity rather than the magnetic field is frozen into the fluid. For parallel propagation four transverse modes are found. Two are electromagnetic plasma modes which at high temperature become light waves. The remaining two are Alfveacutenic modes split into a fast and slow mode. The slow mode is cyclotron two-stream unstable at large wavelengths and is always subluminous. We find that the instability cannot be suppressed by temperature effects in the limit of large (finite) magnetic field. The fast Alfveacuten mode can be superluminous only at large wavelengths, however it is always subluminous at high temperatures. In this incompressible approximation only the ordinary mode is present for perpendicular propagation. For oblique propagation the dispersion relation is studied for finite and large strong magnetic fields and the results are qualitatively described.Institute for Fusion Studie
Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-solar Regime
We derived Lick narrow-band indices for 139 candidate super metal-rich stars
of different luminosity class previously studied in Malagnini et al. (2000).
Indices include Iron Fe50, Fe52, Fe53, and Magnesium Mgb and Mg2 features. By
comparing observations with Kurucz' synthetic model atmospheres, no evidence is
found for non-standard Mg vs. Fe relative abundance (i.e. [Mg/Fe]~ 0, on the
average, for our sample). A comparison with the Worthey et al.(1994) and
Buzzoni et al.(1992, 1994) fitting function predictions for [Fe/H] > 0 is
performed and briefly discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; proceedings of "New Quests in Stellar
Astrophysics: The link between Stars and Cosmology", 26-30 March, 2001,
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, eds. M. Chavez, A. Bressan, A. Buzzoni & D. Mayya,
to be published by the Kluwer Academic Publisher
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