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Shear thickening of cornstarch suspensions as a re-entrant jamming transition
We study the rheology of cornstarch suspensions, a dense system of
non-Brownian particles that exhibits shear thickening, i.e. a viscosity that
increases with increasing shear rate. Using MRI velocimetry we show that the
suspension has a yield stress. From classical rheology it follows that as a
function of the applied stress the suspension is first solid (yield stress),
then liquid and then solid again when it shear thickens. The onset shear rate
for thickening is found to depend on the measurement geometry: the smaller the
gap of the shear cell, the lower the shear rate at which thickening occurs.
Shear thickening can then be interpreted as the consequence of the Reynolds
dilatancy: the system under flow wants to dilate but instead undergoes a
jamming transition because it is confined, as confirmed by measurement of the
dilation of the suspension as a function of the shear rate
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Direct evidence for an early reionization of the Universe?
We examine the possible reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) by the
source UDF033238.7-274839.8 (hereafter HUDF-JD2), which was discovered in deep
{\it HST}/VLT/{\it Spitzer} images obtained as part of the Great Observatory
Origins Deep Survey and {\it Hubble} Ultra-Deep Field projects. Mobasher et al
(2005) have identified HUDF-JD2 as a massive ()
post-starburst galaxy at redshift z. We find that HUDF-JD2 may be
capable of reionizing its surrounding region of the Universe, starting the
process at a redshift as high as z.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letter
A Hopf lemma for the regional fractional Laplacian
We provide a Hopf boundary lemma for the regional fractional Laplacian (-Delta)(Omega)(s), with Omega subset of R-N a bounded open set. More precisely, given u a pointwise or weak super-solution of the equation (-Delta)(Omega)(s)u = c(x)u in Omega, we show that the ratio u(x)/(dist(x, partial derivative Omega))(2s-1) is strictly positive as x approaches the boundary partial derivative Omega of Omega. We also prove a strong maximum principle for distributional super-solutions
Systematic Topology Analysis and Generation Using Degree Correlations
We present a new, systematic approach for analyzing network topologies. We
first introduce the dK-series of probability distributions specifying all
degree correlations within d-sized subgraphs of a given graph G. Increasing
values of d capture progressively more properties of G at the cost of more
complex representation of the probability distribution. Using this series, we
can quantitatively measure the distance between two graphs and construct random
graphs that accurately reproduce virtually all metrics proposed in the
literature. The nature of the dK-series implies that it will also capture any
future metrics that may be proposed. Using our approach, we construct graphs
for d=0,1,2,3 and demonstrate that these graphs reproduce, with increasing
accuracy, important properties of measured and modeled Internet topologies. We
find that the d=2 case is sufficient for most practical purposes, while d=3
essentially reconstructs the Internet AS- and router-level topologies exactly.
We hope that a systematic method to analyze and synthesize topologies offers a
significant improvement to the set of tools available to network topology and
protocol researchers.Comment: Final versio
Morphology and evolution of emission line galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
We investigate the properties and evolution of a sample of galaxies selected
to have prominent emission lines in low-resolution grism spectra of the Hubble
Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). These objects, eGRAPES, are late type blue galaxies,
characterized by small proper sizes (R_50 < 2 kpc) in the 4350A rest-frame, low
masses (5x10^9 M_sun), and a wide range of luminosities and surface
brightnesses. The masses, sizes and volume densities of these objects appear to
change very little up to a redshift of z=1.5. On the other hand, their surface
brightness decreases significantly from z=1.5 to z=0 while their mass-to-light
ratio increases two-folds. This could be a sign that most of low redshift
eGRAPES have an older stellar population than high redshift eGRAPES and hence
that most eGRAPES formed at higher redshifts. The average volume density of
eGRAPES is (1.8 \pm 0.3)x10^{-3} Mpc^{-3} between 0.3 < z < 1.5. Many eGRAPES
would formally have been classified as Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs)
if these had been selected based on small physical size, blue intrinsic color,
and high surface brightness, while the remainder of the sample discussed in
this paper forms an extension of LCBGs towards fainter luminosities.Comment: Accepted, to appear in Ap
Angular momentum distribution of hot gas and implications for disk galaxy formation
We study the angular momentum profiles both for dark matter and for gas
within virialized halos, using a statistical sample of halos drawn from
cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. Three simulations have been analyzed,
one is the ``non-radiative'' simulation, and the other two have radiative
cooling. We find that the gas component on average has a larger spin and
contains a smaller fraction of mass with negative angular momentum than its
dark matter counterpart in the non-radiative model. As to the cooling models,
the gas component shares approximately the same spin parameter as its dark
matter counterpart, but the hot gas has a higher spin and is more aligned in
angular momentum than dark matter, while the opposite holds for the cold gas.
After the mass of negative angular momentum is excluded, the angular momentum
profile of the hot gas component approximately follows the universal function
originally proposed by Bullock et al. for dark matter, though the shape
parameter is much larger for hot gas and is comfortably in the range
required by observations of disk galaxies. Since disk formation is related to
the distribution of hot gas that will cool, our study may explain the fact that
the disk component of observed galaxies contains a smaller fraction of low
angular momentum material than dark matter in halos.Comment: 30 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Ap
HI 21cm imaging of a nearby Damped Lyman-alpha system
We present Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) HI 21cm emission images of
the z=0.009 damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) absorber towards the QSO HS 1543+5921. The
DLA has been earlier identified as a low surface brightness galaxy SBS 1543+593
at an impact parameter of ~ 400 pc to the QSO line of sight. The extremely low
redshift of the absorber allows us to make spatially resolved images of the
21cm emission; besides the HI mass, this also enables us to determine the
velocity field of the galaxy and, hence, to estimate its dynamical mass.
We obtain a total HI mass of ~ 1.4x10^9 Msun, considerably smaller than the
value of M*(HI) determined from blind 21cm emission surveys. This continues the
trend of low HI mass in all low redshift DLAs for which HI emission
observations have been attempted. We also find that the QSO lies behind a
region of low local HI column density in the foreground galaxy. This is
interesting in view of suggestions that DLA samples are biased against high HI
column density systems. The dynamical mass of the galaxy is found to be Mdyn ~
5x10^9 Msun.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&
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