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Hot interstellar gas and ionization of embedded clouds
Researchers present detailed photoionization calculations for the instellar cloud in which the Sun is embedded. They consider the EUV radiation field with contribution from discrete stellar sources and from a thermal bremsstrahlung-radiative recombination spectrum emitted from the surrounding 10 to the 6th power k coronal substrate. They establish lower limits to the fractional ionization of hydrogen and helium of 0.17 and 0.29 respectively. The high He ionization fraction results primarily from very strong line emission below 500 A originating in the surrounding coronal substrate while the H ionization is dominated by the EUV radiation from the discrete stellar sources. The dual effects of thermal conduction and the EUV spectrum of the 10 to the 6th k plasma on ionization in the cloud skin are explored. The EUV radiation field and Auger ionization have insignificant effects on the resulting ionic column densities of Si IV, C IV, N V and O VI through the cloud skin. Calculations show that the abundances of these species are dominated by collisional ionization in the thermal conduction front. Because of a low charge exchange rate with hydrogen, the ionic column density ratios of N (CIII)/N (CII) and N (NII)/N (NI) are dominated by the EUV radiation field in the local interstellar medium. These ratios should be important diagnostics for the EUV radiation field and serve as surrogate indicators of the interstellar He and H ionization fraction respectively. Spacecraft such as Lyman which is designed to obtain high resolution spectral data down to the Lyman limit at 912 A could sample interstellar lines of these ions
High quality epitaxial ZnSe and the relationship between electron mobility and photoluminescence characteristics
High quality epitaxial layers of nominally undoped ZnSe have been grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition at low temperature (325 °C) and pressure (30 Torr), using dimethylzinc and hydrogen selenide. All layers were unintentionally doped n type with net carrier concentrations of 6.4×10^(14)–1.5×10^(16) cm^(−3) and exhibited very high mobility at room temperature (up to 500 cm2/V s) as well as at 77 K, where the measured value of 9250 cm^2/V s is the highest so far reported for vapor phase growth. Additional evidence for the high quality of the material is provided by photoluminescence. Experimental results indicate a correlation between the photoluminescence characteristics and the electrical properties that may be useful in assessing the quality of ZnSe films
Safe Concurrency Introduction through Slicing
Traditional refactoring is about modifying the structure of existing code without changing its behaviour, but with the aim of making code easier to understand, modify, or reuse. In this paper, we introduce three novel refactorings for retrofitting concurrency to Erlang applications, and demonstrate how the use of program slicing makes the automation of these refactorings possible
Influence of chirping the Raman lasers in an atom gravimeter: phase shifts due to the Raman light shift and to the finite speed of light
We present here an analysis of the influence of the frequency dependence of
the Raman laser light shifts on the phase of a Raman-type atom gravimeter.
Frequency chirps are applied to the Raman lasers in order to compensate gravity
and ensure the resonance of the Raman pulses during the interferometer. We show
that the change in the Raman light shift when this chirp is applied only to one
of the two Raman lasers is enough to bias the gravity measurement by a fraction
of Gal (Gal~=~~m/s). We also show that this effect is
not compensated when averaging over the two directions of the Raman wavevector
. This thus constitutes a limit to the rejection efficiency of the
-reversal technique. Our analysis allows us to separate this effect from the
effect of the finite speed of light, which we find in perfect agreement with
expected values. This study highlights the benefit of chirping symmetrically
the two Raman lasers
The dependence of the pairwise velocity dispersion on galaxy properties
(abridged) We present measurements of the pairwise velocity dispersion (PVD)
for different classes of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For a sample
of about 200,000 galaxies, we study the dependence of the PVD on galaxy
properties such as luminosity, stellar mass (M_*), colour (g-r), 4000A break
strength (D4000), concentration index (C), and stellar surface mass density
(\mu_*). The luminosity dependence of the PVD is in good agreement with the
results of Jing & B\"orner (2004) for the 2dFGRS catalog. The value of
\sigma_{12} measured at k=1 h/Mpc decreases as a function of increasing galaxy
luminosity for galaxies fainter than L*, before increasing again for the most
luminous galaxies in our sample. Each of the galaxy subsamples selected
according to luminosity or stellar mass is divided into two further subsamples
according to colour, D4000, C and \mu_*. We find that galaxies with redder
colours and higher D4000, C, and \mu_* values have larger PVDs on all scales
and at all luminosities/stellar masses. The dependence of the PVD on parameters
related to recent star formation(colour, D4000) is stronger than on parameters
related to galaxy structure (C, \mu_*), especially on small scales and for
faint galaxies. The reddest galaxies and galaxies with high surface mass
densities and intermediate concentrations have the highest pairwise peculiar
velocities, i.e. these move in the strongest gravitational fields. We conclude
that the faint red population located in rich clusters is responsible for the
high PVD values that are measured for low-luminosity galaxies on small scales.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures; reference updated and text slightly changed to
match the published version; data of measurements of power spectrum and PVD
available at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~leech/papers/clustering
Comment on Decay
We calculate the rate for decay using Chiral
Perturbation Theory. This isospin violating process results from -
mixing, and its amplitude is proportional to . Experimental information on the branching
ratio for can provide insight into the pattern of
violation in radiative decays.Comment: 7 pages with 2 figures not included but available upon request,
CALT-68-191
k-String tensions and the 1/N expansion
We address the question of whether the large-N expansion in pure SU(N) gauge
theories requires that k-string tensions must have a power series expansion in
1/N^2, as in the sine law, or whether 1/N contributions are also allowable, as
in Casimir scaling. We find that k-string tensions may, in fact, have 1/N
corrections, and consistency with the large-N expansion in the open-string
sector depends crucially on an exact cancellation, which we will prove, among
terms involving odd powers of 1/N in particular combinations of Wilson loops.
It is shown how these cancellations are fulfilled, and consistency with the
large-N expansion achieved, in a concrete example, namely, strong-coupling
lattice gauge theory with the heat-kernel action. This is a model which has
both a 1/N^2 expansion and Casimir scaling of the k-string tensions. Analysis
of the closed string channel in this model confirms our conclusions, and
provides further insights into the large-N dependence of energy eigenstates and
eigenvalues.Comment: RevTeX4, 21 pages. Typos corrected, references added, some
discussions expanded; conclusions unchanged. Version to appear on PR
Spin fluctuations and superconductivity in a 3D tight-binding model for BaFe2As2
Despite the wealth of experimental data on the Fe-pnictide compounds of the
KFe2As2-type, K = Ba, Ca, or Sr, the main theoretical work based on
multiorbital tight-binding models has been restricted so far to the study of
the related 1111 compounds. This can be ascribed to the more three dimensional
electronic structure found by ab initio calculations for the 122 materials,
making this system less amenable to model development. In addition, the more
complicated Brillouin zone (BZ) of the body-centered tetragonal symmetry does
not allow a straightforward unfolding of the electronic band structure into an
effective 1Fe/unit cell BZ. Here we present an effective 5-orbital
tight-binding fit of the full DFT band structure for BaFeAs including the kz
dispersions. We compare the 5-orbital spin fluctuation model to one previously
studied for LaOFeAs and calculate the RPA enhanced susceptibility. Using the
fluctuation exchange approximation to determine the leading pairing
instability, we then examine the differences between a strictly two dimensional
model calculation over a single kz cut of the BZ and a completely three
dimensional approach. We find pairing states quite similar to the 1111
materials, with generic quasi-isotropic pairing on the hole sheets and nodal
states on the electron sheets at kz = 0 which however are gapped as the system
is hole doped. On the other hand, a substantial kz dependence of the order
parameter remains, with most of the pairing strength deriving from processes
near kz = pi. These states exhibit a tendency for an enhanced anisotropy on the
hole sheets and a reduced anisotropy on the electron sheets near the top of the
BZ.Comment: 12 pages, 15 figure
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