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Identification of Very Red Counterparts of SiO Maser and OH/IR Objects in the GLIMPSE Survey
Using the 3.6/4.5/5.8/8.0 micron images with 1.2 arcsec pixel resolution from
the Spitzer/GLIMPSE survey, we investigated 23 masing and 18 very red objects
that were not identified in the 2MASS survey. Counterparts for all selected
objects were found in the GLIMPSE images. Color indices in these IR bands
suggest the presence of a high-extinction layer of more than a few tenths of a
solar mass in front of the central star. Furthermore, radio observations in the
SiO and H2O maser lines found characteristic maser-line spectra of the embedded
objects, e.g., the SiO J=1-0 line intensity in the v=2 state stronger than that
of the v=1 state, or very widespread H2O maser emission spectra. This indicates
that these objects are actually enshrouded by very thick circumstellar matter,
some of which cannot be ascribed to the AGB wind of the central star.
Individually interesting objects are discussed, including two newly found water
fountains and an SiO source with nebulosity.Comment: High resolution figures available at
ftp://ftp.nro.nao.ac.jp/nroreport/no653.pdf.gz. ApJ No. 655 no.1 issue in
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Microlensing in phase space II: Correlations analysis
Applications of the phase space approach to the calculation of the
microlensing autocorrelation function are presented. The continuous propagation
equation for a random star field with a Gaussian velocity distribution is
solved in the leading non-trivial approximation using the perturbation
technique. It is shown that microlensing modulations can be important in the
interpretation of optical and shorter-wavelength light curves of pulsars, power
spectra of active galactic nuclei and coherence estimates for quasi-periodic
oscillations of dwarf novae and low-mass X-ray binaries. Extra scatter in the
brightness of type Ia supernovae due to gravitational microlensing is shown to
be of order up to 0.2 stellar magnitudes depending on the extent of the light
curves.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 17 pages, 8 figures. The first
part of this little series is available at
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604302 . Replaced to add a link to the
first par
Microlensing in phase space I: Continuous propagation of variability moments
A method to calculate the statistical properties of microlensing light curves
is developed. The approach follows works by Deguchi & Watson, Seitz & Schneider
and Neindorf, attempting to clarify the ideas involved and techniques used in
the calculations. The method is then modified to include scattering by multiple
lensing planes along the line of sight and transition to a continuous limit of
this treatment for average quantities is performed leading to a Fokker-Planck
type equation. The equation is solved for a particular model of the random star
field and microlensing effect on the flux temporal variability is extracted.
Applications in astrophysically relevant situations are discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 15 pages, 4 figures. The second
part of this little series is available at
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/060419
Correlation between Infrared Colors and Intensity Ratios of SiO Maser Lines
We present the results of SiO millimeter-line observations of a sample of
known SiO maser sources covering a wide dust-temperature range. A cold part of
the sample was selected from the SiO maser sources found in our recent SiO
maser survey of cold dusty objects. The aim of the present research is to
investigate the causes of the correlation between infrared colors and SiO maser
intensity ratios among different transition lines. In particular, the
correlation between infrared colors and SiO maser intensity ratio among the
J=1-0 v=1, 2, and 3 lines are mainly concerned in this paper. We observed in
total 75 SiO maser sources with the Nobeyama 45m telescope quasi-simultaneously
in the SiO J=1-0 v=0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and J=2-1 v=1, 2 lines. We also observed the
sample in the 29SiO J=1-0 v=0 and J=2-1 v=0, and 30SiO J=1-0 v=0 lines, and the
H2O 6(1,6)-5(2,3) line. As reported in previous papers, we confirmed that the
intensity ratios of the SiO J=1-0 v=2 to v=1 lines clearly correlate with
infrared colors. In addition, we found possible correlation between infrared
colors and the intensity ratios of the SiO J=1-0 v=3 to v=1&2 lines. Two
overlap lines of H2O (i.e., 11(6,6) nu_2=1 -> 12(7,5) nu_2=0 and 5(0,5) nu_2=2
-> 6(3,4) nu_2=1) might explain these correlation if these overlap lines become
stronger with increase of infrared colors, although the phenomena also might be
explained by more fundamental ways if we take into account the variation of
opacity from object to object.Comment: 49 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ. Full
resolution version available at
http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/~junichi/paper
M\"{o}ssbauer study of the '11' iron-based superconductors parent compound Fe(1+x)Te
57Fe Moessbauer spectroscopy was applied to investigate the superconductor
parent compound Fe(1+x)Te for x=0.06, 0.10, 0.14, 0.18 within the temperature
range 4.2 K - 300 K. A spin density wave (SDW) within the iron atoms occupying
regular tetrahedral sites was observed with the square root of the mean square
amplitude at 4.2 K varying between 9.7 T and 15.7 T with increasing x. Three
additional magnetic spectral components appeared due to the interstitial iron
distributed over available sites between the Fe-Te layers. The excess iron
showed hyperfine fields at approximately 16 T, 21 T and 49 T for three
respective components at 4.2 K. The component with a large field of 49 T
indicated the presence of isolated iron atoms with large localized magnetic
moment in interstitial positions. Magnetic ordering of the interstitial iron
disappeared in accordance with the fallout of the SDW with the increasing
temperature
Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume
It is nontrivial whether the average size of a ring polymer should become
smaller or larger under a topological constraint.
Making use of some knot invariants, we evaluate numerically the mean square
radius of gyration for ring polymers having a fixed knot type, where the ring
polymers are given by self-avoiding polygons consisting of freely-jointed hard
cylinders. We obtain plots of the gyration radius versus the number of
polygonal nodes for the trivial, trefoil and figure-eight knots. We discuss
possible asymptotic behaviors of the gyration radius under the topological
constraint. In the asymptotic limit, the size of a ring polymer with a given
knot is larger than that of no topological constraint when the polymer is thin,
and the effective expansion becomes weak when the polymer is thick enough.Comment: 12pages,3figure
Canonical Formalism for a 2n-Dimensional Model with Topological Mass Generation
The four-dimensional model with topological mass generation that was found by
Dvali, Jackiw and Pi has recently been generalized to any even number of
dimensions (2n-dimensions) in a nontrivial manner in which a Stueckelberg-type
mass term is introduced [S. Deguchi and S. Hayakawa, Phys. Rev. D 77, 045003
(2008), arXiv:0711.1446]. The present paper deals with a self-contained model,
called here a modified hybrid model, proposed in this 2n-dimensional
generalization and considers the canonical formalism for this model. For the
sake of convenience, the canonical formalism itself is studied for a model
equivalent to the modified hybrid model by following the recipe for treating
constrained Hamiltonian systems. This formalism is applied to the canonical
quantization of the equivalent model in order to clarify observable and
unobservable particles in the model. The equivalent model (with a gauge-fixing
term) is converted to the modified hybrid model (with a corresponding
gauge-fixing term) in a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST)-invariant manner.
Thereby it is shown that the Chern-Pontryagin density behaves as an observable
massive particle (or field). The topological mass generation is thus verified
at the quantum-theoretical level.Comment: 29 pages, no figures, minor corrections, published versio
On the Dominance of Trivial Knots among SAPs on a Cubic Lattice
The knotting probability is defined by the probability with which an -step
self-avoiding polygon (SAP) with a fixed type of knot appears in the
configuration space. We evaluate these probabilities for some knot types on a
simple cubic lattice. For the trivial knot, we find that the knotting
probability decays much slower for the SAP on the cubic lattice than for
continuum models of the SAP as a function of . In particular the
characteristic length of the trivial knot that corresponds to a `half-life' of
the knotting probability is estimated to be on the cubic
lattice.Comment: LaTeX2e, 21 pages, 8 figur
Topological entropy of a stiff ring polymer and its connection to DNA knots
We discuss the entropy of a circular polymer under a topological constraint.
We call it the {\it topological entropy} of the polymer, in short. A ring
polymer does not change its topology (knot type) under any thermal
fluctuations. Through numerical simulations using some knot invariants, we show
that the topological entropy of a stiff ring polymer with a fixed knot is
described by a scaling formula as a function of the thickness and length of the
circular chain. The result is consistent with the viewpoint that for stiff
polymers such as DNAs, the length and diameter of the chains should play a
central role in their statistical and dynamical properties. Furthermore, we
show that the new formula extends a known theoretical formula for DNA knots.Comment: 14pages,11figure
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