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Adelic Integrable Systems
Incorporating the zonal spherical function (zsf) problems on real and
-adic hyperbolic planes into a Zakharov-Shabat integrable system setting, we
find a wide class of integrable evolutions which respect the number-theoretic
properties of the zsf problem. This means that at {\it all} times these real
and -adic systems can be unified into an adelic system with an -matrix
which involves (Dirichlet, Langlands, Shimura...) L-functions.Comment: 23 pages, uses plain TE
Achieving Consistent Doppler Measurements from SDO/HMI Vector Field Inversions
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is delivering vector field observations of
the full solar disk with unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution;
however, the satellite is in a highly inclined geostationary orbit. The
relative spacecraft-Sun velocity varies by ~km/s over a day which
introduces major orbital artifacts in the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager data. We
demonstrate that the orbital artifacts contaminate all spatial and temporal
scales in the data. We describe a newly-developed three stage procedure for
mitigating these artifacts in the Doppler data derived from the Milne-Eddington
inversions in the HMI Pipeline. This procedure was applied to full disk images
of AR11084 to produce consistent Dopplergrams. The data adjustments reduce the
power in the orbital artifacts by 31dB. Furthermore, we analyze in detail the
corrected images and show that our procedure greatly improve the temporal and
spectral properties of the data without adding any new artifacts. We conclude
that this new and easily implemented procedure makes a dramatic improvement in
the consistency of the HMI data and in its usefulness for precision scientific
studies.Comment: 58 pages, 19 figures, submitted to Ap
Studies of the inner shelf and coastal sedimentation environment of the Beaufort Sea from ERTS-A
The author has identified the following significant results. Shearing periodically occurs between the westward moving pack ice (3 to 10 km/d) within the Pacific Gyre and the fast ice along the coast, forming major grounded shear and pressure ridges between the 10 to 40 m isobaths. Ridges occur in patterns conforming to known shoals. The zone of grounded ridges, called stamukhi zone, protects the inner shelf and coast from marine energy and pack ice forces. Relatively undeformed fast ice grows inshore of the stamukhi zone. The boundary is explained in terms of pack ice drift and major promontories and shoals. Intense ice gaging, highly disrupted sediments, and landward migration of shoals suggest that much of the available marine energy is expended on the sea floor within the stamukhi zone. Naleds (products of river icings) on the North Slope are more abundant east than west of the Colville River. Their location, growth, and decay were studied from LANDSAT imagery
A New Experiment to Study Hyperon CP Violation and the Charmonium System
Fermilab operates the world's most intense antiproton source, now exclusively
dedicated to serving the needs of the Tevatron Collider. The anticipated 2009
shutdown of the Tevatron presents the opportunity for a world-leading low- and
medium-energy antiproton program. We summarize the status of the Fermilab
antiproton facility and review physics topics for which a future experiment
could make the world's best measurements.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of CTP symposium on
Supersymmetry at LHC: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives, The British
University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, 11-14 March 200
Epitaxial Thin Films of the Giant-Dielectric-Constant Material CaCu_3Ti_4O_{12} Grown by Pulsed-laser Deposition
Pulsed-laser deposition has been used to grow epitaxial thin films of the
giant-dielectric-constant material CaCu_3Ti_4O_{12} on LaAlO_3 and SrTiO_3
substrates with or without various conducting buffer layers. The latter include
YBa_2Cu_3O_7, La_{1.85}Sr_{0.15}CuO_{4+\delta} and LaNiO_3. Above 100K - 150K
the thin films have a temperature independent dielectric constant as do single
crystals. The value of the dielectric constant is of the order of 1500 over a
wide temperature region, potentially making it a good candidate for many
applications. The frequency dependence of its dielectric properties below 100K
- 150K indicates an activated relaxation process.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
Resolving velocity space dynamics in continuum gyrokinetics
Many plasmas of interest to the astrophysical and fusion communities are
weakly collisional. In such plasmas, small scales can develop in the
distribution of particle velocities, potentially affecting observable
quantities such as turbulent fluxes. Consequently, it is necessary to monitor
velocity space resolution in gyrokinetic simulations. In this paper, we present
a set of computationally efficient diagnostics for measuring velocity space
resolution in gyrokinetic simulations and apply them to a range of plasma
physics phenomena using the continuum gyrokinetic code GS2. For the cases
considered here, it is found that the use of a collisionality at or below
experimental values allows for the resolution of plasma dynamics with
relatively few velocity space grid points. Additionally, we describe
implementation of an adaptive collision frequency which can be used to improve
velocity space resolution in the collisionless regime, where results are
expected to be independent of collision frequency.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Phys. Plasma
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