63 research outputs found
Discovery of the shell structure via break radii in the outer halo of the Milky Way
Based on the \textit{Gaia} DR3 RR Lyrae catalog, we use two methods to fit
the density profiles with an improved broken power law, and find that there are
two break radii coinciding with the two apocenter pile-ups of high-eccentricity
Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) merger. Also, there is a break caused by the
Sagittarius (Sgr) stream. Combining the positions of all breaks, we briefly
analyze the metallicity and its dispersion as a function of as well as its
distribution in cylindrical coordinates. For the clean sample, the
ellipsoid axial ratio in 36\,{\rm
kpc}\,\textless\,r\,\textless\,96\,{\rm kpc} becomes much smaller than that of
the inner halo (r\,\textless\,36\,{\rm kpc}), while the major axis has a
large uncertainty in the region of and the one in the region
of is obviously different from that dominated by the
Hercules-Aquila Cloud (HAC) and the Virgo Overdensity (VOD) in the inner halo,
which indicates that there is an over-density structure distributed at low
zenithal angles. Finally, we found that the over-density structure in the outer
halo (r\,\textgreater\,50\,{\rm kpc}) is shell-shaped and relatively
metal-rich compared to the outer background halo. We conclude that the shells
could be the apocenter pile-ups of the high-eccentricity GSE merger, which is
supported by previous numerical simulations.Comment: 16 pages, 14 Figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Photometric Metallicity Calibration with SDSS and SCUSS and its Application to distant stars in the South Galactic Cap
Based on SDSS g, r and SCUSS (South Galactic Cap of u-band Sky Survey)
photometry, we develop a photometric calibration for estimating the stellar
metallicity from and colors by using the SDSS spectra of 32,542 F-
and G-type main sequence stars, which cover almost deg in the
south Galactic cap. The rms scatter of the photometric metallicity residuals
relative to spectrum-based metallicity is dex when , and
dex when . Due to the deeper and more accurate magnitude of SCUSS
band, the estimate can be used up to the faint magnitude of . This
application range of photometric metallicity calibration is wide enough so that
it can be used to study metallicity distribution of distant stars. In this
study, we select the Sagittarius (Sgr) stream and its neighboring field halo
stars in south Galactic cap to study their metallicity distribution. We find
that the Sgr stream at the cylindrical Galactocentric coordinate of
kpc, kpc exhibits a relative rich metallicity
distribution, and the neighboring field halo stars in our studied fields can be
modeled by two-Gaussian model, with peaks respectively at [Fe/H] and
[Fe/H].Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRA
DRSN4mCPred: accurately predicting sites of DNA N4-methylcytosine using deep residual shrinkage network for diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal cancer in the precision medicine era
IntroductionThe DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) site levels of those suffering from digestive system cancers were higher, and the pathogenesis of digestive system cancers may also be related to the changes in DNA 4mC levels. Identifying DNA 4mC sites is a very important step in studying the analysis of biological function and cancer prediction. Extracting accurate features from DNA sequences is the key to establishing a prediction model of effective DNA 4mC sites. This study sought to develop a new predictive model, DRSN4mCPred, which aimed to improve the performance of the predicting DNA 4mC sites.MethodsThe model adopted multi-scale channel attention to extract features and used attention feature fusion (AFF) to fuse features. In order to capture features information more accurately and effectively, this model utilized Deep Residual Shrinkage Network with Channel-Wise thresholds (DRSN-CW) to eliminate noise-related features and achieve a more precise feature representation, thereby, distinguishing the sites in DNA with 4mC and non-4mC. Additionally, the predictive model incorporated an inverted residual block, a Multi-scale Channel Attention Module (MS-CAM), a Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory Network (Bi-LSTM), AFF, and DRSN-CW.Results and DiscussionThe results indicated the predictive model DRSN4mCPred had extremely good performance in predicting the DNA 4mC sites across different species. This paper will potentially provide support for the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal cancer based on artificial intelligence in the precise medical era
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