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ISM gas studies towards the TeV PWN HESS J1825-137 and northern region
HESS J1825-137 is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) whose TeV emission extends
across ~1 deg. Its large asymmetric shape indicates that its progenitor
supernova interacted with a molecular cloud located in the north of the PWN as
detected by previous CO Galactic survey (e.g Lemiere, Terrier &
Djannati-Ata\"i 2006). Here we provide a detailed picture of the ISM towards
the region north of HESS J1825-137, with the analysis of the dense molecular
gas from our 7mm and 12mm Mopra survey and the more diffuse molecular gas from
the Nanten CO(1-0) and GRS CO(1-0) surveys. Our focus is the possible
association between HESS J1825-137 and the unidentified TeV source to the
north, HESS J1826-130. We report several dense molecular regions whose
kinematic distance matched the dispersion measured distance of the pulsar.
Among them, the dense molecular gas located at (RA,
Dec)=(18.421h,-13.282) shows enhanced turbulence and we suggest that
the velocity structure in this region may be explained by a cloud-cloud
collision scenario. Furthermore, the presence of a H rim may be the
first evidence of the progenitor SNR of the pulsar PSR J1826-1334 as the
distance between the H rim and the TeV source matched with the
predicted SNR radius R~120 pc. From our ISM study, we identify a
few plausible origins of the HESS J1826-130 emission, including the progenitor
SNR of PSR J1826-1334 and the PWN G018.5-0.4 powered by PSR J1826-1256. A
deeper TeV study however, is required to fully identify the origin of this
mysterious TeV source.Comment: 19 figures, 27 pages, accepted by MNRA
Edge state on hydrogen-terminated graphite edges investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy
The edge states that emerge at hydrogen-terminated zigzag edges embedded in
dominant armchair edges of graphite are carefully investigated by
ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements. The edge
states at the zigzag edges have different spatial distributions dependent on
the - or -site edge carbon atoms. In the case that the defects
consist of a short zigzag (or a short Klein) edge, the edge state is present
also near the defects. The amplitude of the edge state distributing around the
defects in an armchair edge often has a prominent hump in a direction
determined by detailed local atomic structure of the edge. The tight binding
calculation based on the atomic arrangements observed by STM reproduces the
observed spatial distributions of the local density of states.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted for Physical Review
Recent developments in the eikonal description of the breakup of exotic nuclei
The study of exotic nuclear structures, such as halo nuclei, is usually
performed through nuclear reactions. An accurate reaction model coupled to a
realistic description of the projectile is needed to correctly interpret
experimental data. In this contribution, we briefly summarise the assumptions
made within the modelling of reactions involving halo nuclei. We describe
briefly the Continuum-Discretised Coupled Channel method (CDCC) and the
Dynamical Eikonal Approximation (DEA) in particular and present a comparison
between them for the breakup of 15C on Pb at 68AMeV. We show the problem faced
by the models based on the eikonal approximation at low energy and detail a
correction that enables their extension down to lower beam energies. A new
reaction observable is also presented. It consists of the ratio between angular
distributions for two different processes, such as elastic scattering and
breakup. This ratio is completely independent of the reaction mechanism and
hence is more sensitive to the projectile structure than usual reaction
observables, which makes it a very powerful tool to study exotic structures far
from stability.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the XXI International School on
Nuclear Physics and Applications & the International Symposium on Exotic
Nuclei, dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the JINR (Dubna) (Varna,
Bulgaria, 6-12 September 2015), 7 pages, 4 figure
An edge index for the Quantum Spin-Hall effect
Quantum Spin-Hall systems are topological insulators displaying
dissipationless spin currents flowing at the edges of the samples. In
contradistinction to the Quantum Hall systems where the charge conductance of
the edge modes is quantized, the spin conductance is not and it remained an
open problem to find the observable whose edge current is quantized. In this
paper, we define a particular observable and the edge current corresponding to
this observable. We show that this current is quantized and that the
quantization is given by the index of a certain Fredholm operator. This
provides a new topological invariant that is shown to take same values as the
Spin-Chern number previously introduced in the literature. The result gives an
effective tool for the investigation of the edge channels' structure in Quantum
Spin-Hall systems. Based on a reasonable assumption, we also show that the edge
conducting channels are not destroyed by a random edge.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Bias-free Measurement of Giant Molecular Cloud Properties
(abridged) We review methods for measuring the sizes, line widths, and
luminosities of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in molecular-line data cubes with
low resolution and sensitivity. We find that moment methods are robust and
sensitive -- making full use of both position and intensity information -- and
we recommend a standard method to measure the position angle, major and minor
axis sizes, line width, and luminosity using moment methods. Without
corrections for the effects of beam convolution and sensitivity to GMC
properties, the resulting properties may be severely biased. This is
particularly true for extragalactic observations, where resolution and
sensitivity effects often bias measured values by 40% or more. We correct for
finite spatial and spectral resolutions with a simple deconvolution and we
correct for sensitivity biases by extrapolating properties of a GMC to those we
would expect to measure with perfect sensitivity. The resulting method recovers
the properties of a GMC to within 10% over a large range of resolutions and
sensitivities, provided the clouds are marginally resolved with a peak
signal-to-noise ratio greater than 10. We note that interferometers
systematically underestimate cloud properties, particularly the flux from a
cloud. The degree of bias depends on the sensitivity of the observations and
the (u,v) coverage of the observations. In the Appendix to the paper we present
a conservative, new decomposition algorithm for identifying GMCs in
molecular-line observations. This algorithm treats the data in physical rather
than observational units, does not produce spurious clouds in the presence of
noise, and is sensitive to a range of morphologies. As a result, the output of
this decomposition should be directly comparable among disparate data sets.Comment: Accepted to PASP (19 pgs., 12 figures). The submission describes an
IDL software package available from
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~erosolow/cprops
Spectral flow in the supersymmetric - model with a interaction
The spectral flow in the supersymmetric {\it t-J} model with
interaction is studied by analyzing the exact spectrum with twisted boundary
conditions. The spectral flows for the charge and spin sectors are shown to
nicely fit in with the motif picture in the asymptotic Bethe ansatz. Although
fractional exclusion statistics for the spin sector clearly shows up in the
period of the spectral flow at half filling, such a property is generally
hidden once any number of holes are doped, because the commensurability
condition in the motif is not met in the metallic phase.Comment: 8 pages, revtex, Phys. Rev. B54 (1996) August 15, in pres
Adiabatic Ground-State Properties of Spin Chains with Twisted Boundary Conditions
We study the Heisenberg spin chain with twisted boundary conditions, focusing
on the adiabatic flow of the energy spectrum as a function of the twist angle.
In terms of effective field theory for the nearest-neighbor model, we show that
the period 2 (in unit ) obtained by Sutherland and Shastry arises from
irrelevant perturbations around the massless fixed point, and that this period
may be rather general for one-dimensional interacting lattice models at half
filling. In contrast, the period for the Haldane-Shastry spin model with
interaction has a different and unique origin for the period, namely,
it reflects fractional statistics in Haldane's sense.Comment: 6 pages, revtex, 3 figures available on request, to appear in J.
Phys. Soc. Jp
Method to extract the primary cosmic ray spectrum from very high energy gamma-ray data and its application to SNR RX J1713.7-3946
Supernova remnants are likely to be the accelerators of the galactic cosmic
rays. Assuming the correctness of this hypothesis, we develop a method to
extract the parent cosmic ray spectrum from the VHE gamma ray flux emitted by
supernova remnants (and other gamma transparent sources). Namely, we calculate
semi-analytically the (inverse) operator which relates an arbitrary gamma ray
flux to the parent cosmic ray spectrum, without relying on any theoretical
assumption about the shape of the cosmic ray and/or photon spectrum. We
illustrate the use of this technique by applying it to the young SNR RX
J1713.7-3946 which has been observed by H.E.S.S. experiment during the last
three years. Specific implementations of the method permit to use as an input
either the parameterized VHE gamma ray flux or directly the raw data. The
possibility to detect features in the cosmic rays spectrum and the error in the
determination of the parent cosmic ray spectrum are also discussed.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys.ReV.
Phase Diagram Of The Biham-Middleton-Levine Traffic Model In Three Dimensions
We study numerically the behavior of the Biham-Middleton-Levine traffic model
in three dimensions. Our extensive numerical simulations show that the phase
diagram for this model in three dimensions is markedly different from that in
one and two dimensions. In addition to the full speed moving as well as the
completely jamming phases, whose respective average asymptotic car speeds
equal one and zero, we observe an extensive region of car densities with
a low but non-zero average asymptotic car speed. The transition from this
extensive low average asymptotic car speed region to the completely jamming
region is at least second order. We argue that this low speed region is a
result of the formation of a spatially-limited-extended percolating cluster.
Thus, this low speed phase is present in dimensional
Biham-Middleton-Levine model as well.Comment: Minor clarifications, 1 figure adde
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