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Archetypal analysis of galaxy spectra
Archetypal analysis represents each individual member of a set of data
vectors as a mixture (a constrained linear combination) of the pure types or
archetypes of the data set. The archetypes are themselves required to be
mixtures of the data vectors. Archetypal analysis may be particularly useful in
analysing data sets comprising galaxy spectra, since each spectrum is,
presumably, a superposition of the emission from the various stellar
populations, nebular emissions and nuclear activity making up that galaxy, and
each of these emission sources corresponds to a potential archetype of the
entire data set. We demonstrate archetypal analysis using sets of composite
synthetic galaxy spectra, showing that the method promises to be an effective
and efficient way to classify spectra. We show that archetypal analysis is
robust in the presence of various types of noise.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 style-file. Accepted for publication by MNRA
Energetic Components of Cooperative Protein Folding
A new lattice protein model with a four-helix bundle ground state is analyzed
by a parameter-space Monte Carlo histogram technique to evaluate the effects of
an extensive variety of model potentials on folding thermodynamics. Cooperative
helical formation and contact energies based on a 5-letter alphabet are found
to be insufficient to satisfy calorimetric and other experimental criteria for
two-state folding. Such proteinlike behaviors are predicted, however, by models
with polypeptide-like local conformational restrictions and
environment-dependent hydrogen bonding-like interactions.Comment: 11 pages, 4 postscripts figures, Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press
Quantum pumping in graphene nanoribbons at resonant transmission
Adiabatic quantum charge pumping in graphene nanoribbon double barrier
structures with armchair and zigzag edges in the resonant transmission regime
is analyzed. Using recursive Green's function method we numerically calculate
the pumped charge for pumping contours encircling a resonance. We find that for
armchair ribbons the whole resonance line contributes to the pumping of a
single electron (ignoring double spin degeneracy) per cycle through the device.
The case of zigzag ribbons is more interesting due to zero-conductance
resonances. These resonances separate the whole resonance line into several
parts, each of which corresponds to the pumping of a single electron through
the device. Moreover, in contrast to armchair ribbons, one electron can be
pumped from the left lead to the right one or backwards. The current direction
depends on the particular part of the resonance line encircled by the pumping
contour.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version
of an article accepted for publication in EPL. IOP Publishing Ltd is not
responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or
any version derived from it. The definitive publisher authenticated version
is available online at 10.1209/0295-5075/92/4701
Characteristics of an exploited tropical shallow - water demersal fish community in Malaysia
Trawling provided insights into the characteristics of an exploited tropical shallow-water demersal fish community. A total of 6,565 fish specimens weighing 285 kg were caught at 20 sampling stations. In all,139 species belonging to 50 families were recorded. The major families ranked by weight were Dasyatidae (19.7%), Synodontidae (18.3%), Paralichthyidae (8.9%), Dactylopteridae (8%), Nemipteridae (5.3%), Lagocephalidae (5.2%), Priacanthidae (5%); and Mullidae (4%). The overall fish trawled consisted of 53% food fish and 47% trash fish. The demersal fish community could be partitioned into four trophic groups, i.e., large zoobenthos feeders, intermediate predators, small demersal zoobenthos feeders and small demersal zooplankton feeders. Small crustaceans played an important role as food resources for all the trophic groups. They were the major food for small demersal zoobenthos feeders, the dominant group, and large zoobenthos feeders. Analysis of growth characteristics of ten common species using length-frequency data showed that Saurlda elongata and Trachlnocephalus myops ·(Synodontidae) and Dactyloptena orlentalis (Daetylopteridae) had higher growth rates than the other fishes in the community. Exploitation rates of these three species by trawlers were also high although they have little commercial value. Annual recruitment patterns. for the demersal fishes were generally protracted showing a single pulse, although some species have a second minor pulse
Impact of the 3D source geometry on time-delay measurements of lensed type-Ia Supernovae
It has recently been proposed that gravitationally lensed type-Ia supernovae
can provide microlensing-free time-delay measurements provided that the
measurement is taken during the achromatic expansion phase of the explosion and
that color light curves are used rather than single-band light curves. If
verified, this would provide both precise and accurate time-delay measurements,
making lensed type-Ia supernovae a new golden standard for time-delay
cosmography. However, the 3D geometry of the expanding shell can introduce an
additional bias that has not yet been fully explored. In this work, we present
and discuss the impact of this effect on time-delay cosmography with lensed
supernovae and find that on average it leads to a bias of a few tenths of a day
for individual lensed systems. This is negligible in view of the cosmological
time delays predicted for typical lensed type-Ia supernovae but not for the
specific case of the recently discovered type-Ia supernova iPTF16geu, whose
time delays are expected to be smaller than a day.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, published in A&
Exact States in Waveguides With Periodically Modulated Nonlinearity
We introduce a one-dimensional model based on the nonlinear
Schrodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation where the local nonlinearity is subject
to spatially periodic modulation in terms of the Jacobi dn function, with three
free parameters including the period, amplitude, and internal form-factor. An
exact periodic solution is found for each set of parameters and, which is more
important for physical realizations, we solve the inverse problem and predict
the period and amplitude of the modulation that yields a particular exact
spatially periodic state. Numerical stability analysis demonstrates that the
periodic states become modulationally unstable for large periods, and regain
stability in the limit of an infinite period, which corresponds to a bright
soliton pinned to a localized nonlinearity-modulation pattern. Exact
dark-bright soliton complex in a coupled system with a localized modulation
structure is also briefly considered . The system can be realized in planar
optical waveguides and cigar-shaped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates.Comment: EPL, in pres
An Efficient Block Circulant Preconditioner For Simulating Fracture Using Large Fuse Networks
{\it Critical slowing down} associated with the iterative solvers close to
the critical point often hinders large-scale numerical simulation of fracture
using discrete lattice networks. This paper presents a block circlant
preconditioner for iterative solvers for the simulation of progressive fracture
in disordered, quasi-brittle materials using large discrete lattice networks.
The average computational cost of the present alorithm per iteration is , where the stiffness matrix is partioned into
-by- blocks such that each block is an -by- matrix, and
represents the operational count associated with solving a block-diagonal
matrix with -by- dense matrix blocks. This algorithm using the block
circulant preconditioner is faster than the Fourier accelerated preconditioned
conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm, and alleviates the {\it critical slowing
down} that is especially severe close to the critical point. Numerical results
using random resistor networks substantiate the efficiency of the present
algorithm.Comment: 16 pages including 2 figure
Influence of aerosol acidity on the chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol from β-caryophyllene
The secondary organic aerosol (SOA) yield of β-caryophyllene photooxidation is enhanced by aerosol acidity. In the present study, the influence of aerosol acidity on the chemical composition of β-caryophyllene SOA is investigated using ultra performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC/ESI-TOFMS). A number of first-, second- and higher-generation gas-phase products having carbonyl and carboxylic acid functional groups are detected in the particle phase. Particle-phase reaction products formed via hydration and organosulfate formation processes are also detected. Increased acidity leads to different effects on the abundance of individual products; significantly, abundances of organosulfates are correlated with aerosol acidity. To our knowledge, this is the first detection of organosulfates and nitrated organosulfates derived from a sesquiterpene. The increase of certain particle-phase reaction products with increased acidity provides chemical evidence to support the acid-enhanced SOA yields. Based on the agreement between the chromatographic retention times and accurate mass measurements of chamber and field samples, three β-caryophyllene products (i.e., β-nocaryophyllon aldehyde, β-hydroxynocaryophyllon aldehyde, and β-dihydroxynocaryophyllon aldehyde) are suggested as chemical tracers for β-caryophyllene SOA. These compounds are detected in both day and night ambient samples collected in downtown Atlanta, GA and rural Yorkville, GA during the 2008 August Mini-Intensive Gas and Aerosol Study (AMIGAS)
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