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Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Fast-dimming Crab Nebula in 60-600 MeV
Context: The Crab pulsar and its nebula are the origin of relativistic
electrons which can be observed through their synchrotron and inverse Compton
emission. The transition between synchrotron-dominated and
inverse-Compton-dominated emissions takes place at eV. Aims: The
short-term (weeks to months) flux variability of the synchrotron emission from
the most energetic electrons is investigated with data from ten years of
observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the energy range from
60 MeV to 600 MeV. Methods: The off-pulse light-curve has been reconstructed
from phase-resolved data. The corresponding histogram of flux measurements is
used to identify distributions of flux-states and the statistical significance
of a lower-flux component is estimated with dedicated simulations of mock
light-curves. The energy spectra for different flux states are reconstructed.
Results: We confirm the presence of flaring-states which follow a log-normal
flux distribution. Additionally, we discover a low-flux state where the flux
drops to as low as 18.4% of the intermediate-state average flux and stays there
for several weeks. The transition time is observed to be as short as 2 days.
The energy spectrum during the low-flux state resembles the extrapolation of
the inverse-Compton spectrum measured at energies beyond several GeV energy,
implying that the high-energy part of the synchrotron emission is dramatically
depressed. Conclusions: The low-flux state found here and the transition time
of at most 10 days indicate that the bulk (%) of the synchrotron emission
above eV originates in a compact volume with apparent angular size of
. We tentatively infer that
the so-called inner knot feature is the origin of the bulk of the -ray
emission.Comment: Accepted by A&A on 05.05.2020; Original version submitted on
19.09.201
Strong-coupling solution of the bosonic dynamical mean-field theory
We derive an approximate analytical solution of the self-consistency
equations of the bosonic dynamical mean-field theory (B-DMFT) in the
strong-coupling limit. The approach is based on a linked-cluster expansion in
the hybridization function of normal bosons around the atomic limit. The
solution is used to compute the phase diagram of the bosonic Hubbard model for
different lattices. We compare our results with numerical solutions of the
B-DMFT equations and numerically exact methods, respectively. The very good
agreement with those numerical results demonstrates that our approach captures
the essential physics of correlated bosons both in the Mott insulator and in
the superfluid phase. Close to the transition into the superfluid phase the
momentum distribution function at zero momentum is found to be strongly
enhanced already in the normal phase. The linked-cluster expansion also allows
us to compute dynamical properties such as the spectral function of bosons. The
evolution of the spectral function across the transition from the normal to the
superfluid phase is seen to be characteristically different for the interaction
driven and density driven transition, respectively.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
The Generation and Dissipation of Interstellar Turbulence - Results from Large Scale High Resolution Simulations
We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and
magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc
to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the
injection scale of the turbulent interstellar gas, which we find to be about 75
pc, in agreement with observations. This is however smaller than the average
size of superbubbles, but consistent with significant density and pressure
changes in the ISM, which leads to the break-up of bubbles locally and hence to
injection of turbulence. The scalings of the structure functions are consistent
with log-Poisson statistics of supersonic turbulence where energy is dissipated
mainly through shocks. Our simulations are different from previous ones by
other authors as (i) we do not assume an isothermal gas, but have temperature
variations of several orders of magnitude and (ii) we have no artificial
forcing of the fluid with some ad hoc Fourier spectrum, but drive turbulence by
stellar explosions at the Galactic rate, self-regulated by density and
temperature thresholds imposed on the ISM gas.Comment: Five pages and three figures. Accepted for publication in
Astrophysical Journal (Letters
Density of States of GaAs-AlGaAs Heterostructures Deduced from Temperature Dependend Magnetocapacitance Measurements
Abstract We have analyzed the density of states of a two dimensional electron gas in a GaAs- AlGaAs hetereostructure by measuring the magnetocapacitance in magnetic fields up to 6 Tesla at temperatures below 10 K. The experimental data are well described by a Gaussian-like density of states where the linewidth à is proportional to B
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