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Dispersion corrections in graphenic systems: a simple and effective model of binding
We combine high-level theoretical and \emph{ab initio} understanding of
graphite to develop a simple, parametrised force-field model of interlayer
binding in graphite, including the difficult non-pairwise-additive
coupled-fluctuation dispersion interactions. The model is given as a simple
additive correction to standard density functional theory (DFT) calculations,
of form where is the interlayer
distance. The functions are parametrised by matching contact properties, and
long-range dispersion to known values, and the model is found to accurately
match high-level \emph{ab initio} results for graphite across a wide range of
values. We employ the correction on the difficult bigraphene binding and
graphite exfoliation problems, as well as lithium intercalated graphite
LiC. We predict the binding energy of bigraphene to be 0.27 J/m^2, and the
exfoliation energy of graphite to be 0.31 J/m^2, respectively slightly less and
slightly more than the bulk layer binding energy 0.295 J/m^2/layer. Material
properties of LiC are found to be essentially unchanged compared to the
local density approximation. This is appropriate in view of the relative
unimportance of dispersion interactions for LiC layer binding
Disk M Dwarf Luminosity Function From HST Star Counts
We study a sample of 257 Galactic disk M dwarfs (8<M_V<18.5) found in images
obtained using HST. These include 192 stars in 22 fields imaged with the
repaired WFC2 with mean limiting mag I=23.7 and 65 stars in 162 fields imaged
with the pre-repair Planetary Camera with mean limiting mag V=21.3. We find
that the disk luminosity function (LF) drops sharply for M_V>12 (M<0.25 \ms),
decreasing by a factor \gsim 3 by M_V~14 (M~0.14\ms). This decrease in the LF
is in good agreement with the ground-based photometric study of nearby stars by
Stobie et al. (1989), and in mild conflict with the most recent LF measurements
based on local parallax stars by Reid et al. (1995). The local LF of the faint
Galactic disk stars can be transformed into a local mass function using an
empirical mass-M_V relation. The mass function can be represented analytically
over the mass range 0.1\ms<M<1.6\ms by \log(\phi)=-1.35-1.34\log(M/\ms)-1.85
[\log(M/\ms)]^2 where \phi is the number density per logarithmic unit of mass.
The total column density of M stars is only \Sigma_M=11.8\pm 1.8\ms\pc^{-2},
implying a total `observed' disk column density of \Sigma_\obs~=39\ms\pc^{-2},
lower than previously believed, and also lower than all estimates with which we
are familiar of the dynamically inferred mass of the disk. The measured scale
length for the M-star disk is 3.0\pm 0.4 kpc. The optical depth to microlensing
toward the LMC by the observed stars in the Milky Way disk is \tau~1x10^{-8},
compared to the observed optical depth found in ongoing experiments \tau_\obs~
10^{-7}. The M-stars show evidence for a population with characteristics
intermediate between thin disk and spheroid populations. Approximating what may
be a continuum of populations by two separate component, we find characteristic
exponential scale heights of ~210 pc and ~740 pc.Comment: 30 pages, uuencoded postscript, includes 3 figures, 2 table
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A review of Emma Wilby’s The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex University Press, 2010)
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