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Einstein Cluster Alignments Revisited
We have examined whether the major axes of rich galaxy clusters tend to point
toward their nearest neighboring cluster. We have used the data of Ulmer,
McMillan, and Kowalski, who used position angles based on X-ray morphology. We
also studied a subset of this sample with updated positions and distances from
the MX Northern Abell Cluster Survey (for rich clusters () with well
known redshifts). A Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test showed no significant signal
for nonrandom angles on any scale Mpc. However, refining the
null hypothesis with the Wilcoxon rank-sum test, we found a high confidence
signal for alignment. Confidence levels increase to a high of 99.997% as only
near neighbors which are very close are considered. We conclude there is a
strong alignment signal in the data, consistent with gravitational instability
acting on Gaussian perturbations.Comment: Minor revisions. To be published in Ap
A Cosmological No-Hair Theorem
A generalisation of Price's theorem is given for application to Inflationary
Cosmologies. Namely, we show that on a Schwarzschild--de Sitter background
there are no static solutions to the wave or gravitational perturbation
equations for modes with angular momentum greater than their intrinsic spin.Comment: 9 pages, NCL94 -TP4, (Revtex
Pressure studies of impurity levels in AlxGa1-xAs
doi: 10.1088/0268-1242/4/4/033The authors present a study of the deep and shallow donor levels under hydrostatic pressure. The shallow levels follow the conduction bands, while the deep levels are strongly sublinear with pressure. The temperature dependence of the intensities and energies is used to obtain an energy level diagram of the deep levels at high pressures.This work was supported by theU S Army under grant number DAAL03-86K-0083, the US Department of Energy under grant number DE-AC02 84ER45048, and Amoco Corporation. M Chandrasekhar is a n A P Sloan Foundation Fellow
Supersoft X-rays reveal a classical nova in the M 31 globular cluster Bol 126
[Abridged] Classical novae (CNe) represent the main class of supersoft X-ray
sources (SSSs) in the central region of our neighbouring galaxy M 31. Only
three confirmed novae and three SSSs have been discovered in globular clusters
(GCs) of any galaxy so far, of which one nova and two SSSs (including the nova)
were found in M 31 GCs. To study the SSS state of CNe we carried out a
high-cadence X-ray monitoring of the M 31 central area with XMM-Newton and
Chandra. We analysed X-ray and optical data of a new transient X-ray source in
the M 31 GC Bol 126, discovered serendipitously in Swift observations. Our
optical data set was based on regular M 31 monitoring programmes from five
different small telescopes. Additionally, we made use of Pan-STARRS 1 data
obtained during the PAndromeda survey. Our observations reveal that the X-ray
source in Bol 126 is the third SSS in an M 31 GC and can be confirmed as the
second CN in the M 31 GC system. This nova is named M31N 2010-10f. Its
properties in the X-ray and optical regimes agree with a massive white dwarf
(M_WD >~ 1.3 M_sun) in the binary system. Incorporating the data on previously
found (suspected) novae in M 31 GCs we used our high-cadence X-ray monitoring
observations to estimate a tentative nova rate in the M 31 GC system of 0.05
/yr/GC. An optical estimate, based on the recent 10.5-year WeCAPP survey, gives
a lower nova rate, which is compatible with the X-ray rate on the 95%
confidence level. There is growing evidence that the nova rate in GCs is higher
than expected from primordial binary formation and under conditions as in the
field. Dynamical binary formation and/or additional accretion from the
intracluster medium are possible scenarios for an increased nova rate, but
observational confirmation for this enhancement has been absent, so far.
Regular X-ray monitoring observations of M 31 provide a promising strategy to
find these novae.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysic
Gravitational quasinormal modes for Anti-de Sitter black holes
Quasinormal mode spectra for gravitational perturbations of black holes in
four dimensional de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space are investigated. The
anti-de Sitter case is relevant to the ADS-CFT correspondence in superstring
theory. The ADS-CFT correspondence suggests a prefered set of boundary
conditions.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures in ReVTe
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