522 research outputs found
On the Amplitude of Burst Oscillations in 4U 1636-54: Evidence for Nuclear Powered Pulsars
We present a study of 581 Hz oscillations observed during a thermonuclear
X-ray burst from the low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U 1636-54 with the Rossi
X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). We argue that the combination of large pulsed
amplitudes near burst onset and the spectral evidence for localized emission
during the rise strongly supports rotational modulation as the mechanism for
the oscillations. We discuss how theoretical interpretation of spin modulation
amplitudes, pulse profiles and pulse phase spectroscopy can provide constraints
on the masses and radii of neutron stars. We also discuss the implication of
these findings for the beat frequency models of kHz X-ray variability in LMXB.Comment: AASTEX Latex, 13 pages including 5 figures. Accepted for publication
in the Astrophysical Journal Letter
Interface properties of the NiMnSb/InP and NiMnSb/GaAs contacts
We study the electronic and magnetic properties of the interfaces between the
half-metallic Heusler alloy NiMnSb and the binary semiconductors InP and GaAs
using two different state-of-the-art full-potential \textit{ab-initio}
electronic structure methods. Although in the case of most NiMnSb/InP(001)
contacts the half-metallicity is lost, it is possible to keep a high degree of
spin-polarization when the interface is made up by Ni and P layers. In the case
of the GaAs semiconductor the larger hybridization between the Ni- and
As- orbitals with respect to the hybridization between the Ni- and P-
orbitals destroys this polarization. The (111) interfaces present strong
interface states but also in this case there are few interfaces presenting a
high spin-polarization at the Fermi level which can reach values up to 74%.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
The Long Term Stability of Oscillations During Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts: Constraining the Binary X-ray Mass Function
We report on the long term stability of the millisecond oscillations observed
with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) during thermonuclear X-ray bursts
from the low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) 4U 1728-34 and 4U 1636-53. We show that
bursts from 4U 1728-34 spanning more than 1.5 years have observed asymptotic
oscillation periods which are within 0.2 microsec. of each other, well within
the magnitude which could be produced by the orbital motion of the neutron star
in a typical LMXB. This stability implies a timescale to change the oscillation
period of > 23,000 years, suggesting a highly stable process such as stellar
rotation as the oscillation mechanism. We show that period offsets in three
distinct bursts from 4U 1636-53 can be plausibly interpreted as due to orbital
motion of the neutron star in this 3.8 hour binary system. We discuss the
constraints on the mass function which can in principle be derived using this
technique.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. AASTeX, to be published in the Astrophysical
Journal Letter
A geometric study of the dispersionless Boussinesq type equation
We discuss the dispersionless Boussinesq type equation, which is equivalent
to the Benney-Lax equation, being a system of equations of hydrodynamical type.
This equation was discussed in
. The results include: a
description of local and nonlocal Hamiltonian and symplectic structures,
hierarchies of symmetries, hierarchies of conservation laws, recursion
operators for symmetries and generating functions of conservation laws
(cosymmetries). Highly interesting are the appearances of operators that send
conservation laws and symmetries to each other but are neither Hamiltonian, nor
symplectic. These operators give rise to a noncommutative infinite-dimensional
algebra of recursion operators
Efficiently and Effectively Recognizing Toricity of Steady State Varieties
We consider the problem of testing whether the points in a complex or real variety with non-zero coordinates form a multiplicative group or, more generally, a coset of a multiplicative group. For the coset case, we study the notion of shifted toric varieties which generalizes the notion of toric varieties. This requires a geometric view on the varieties rather than an algebraic view on the ideals. We present algorithms and computations on 129 models from the BioModels repository testing for group and coset structures over both the complex numbers and the real numbers. Our methods over the complex numbers are based on Gr\"obner basis techniques and binomiality tests. Over the real numbers we use first-order characterizations and employ real quantifier elimination. In combination with suitable prime decompositions and restrictions to subspaces it turns out that almost all models show coset structure. Beyond our practical computations, we give upper bounds on the asymptotic worst-case complexity of the corresponding problems by proposing single exponential algorithms that test complex or real varieties for toricity or shifted toricity. In the positive case, these algorithms produce generating binomials. In addition, we propose an asymptotically fast algorithm for testing membership in a binomial variety over the algebraic closure of the rational numbers
Splitting hairs of the three charge black hole
We construct the large radius limit of the metric of three charge supertubes
and three charge BPS black rings by using the fact that supertubes preserve the
same supersymmetries as their component branes. Our solutions reproduce a few
of the properties of three charge supertubes found recently using the Born
Infeld description. Moreover, we find that these solutions pass a number of
rather nontrivial tests which they should pass if they are to describe some of
the hair of three charge black holes and three charge black rings.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, v2 minor correction
The relation between physical activity and rural space concerning 13-18 Year-Old Romanian youth
Scarce data on physically active and sedentary youth behaviour in the Transylvanian rural space are available. Romania is a relatively new member of the EU; however the socioeconomic status (SES) of the people in this country may differ from other countries. The main differences, not only the geographical ones, between the rural and the urban space could also specifically influence the population’s health and quality of life, in our case the youths’ between 13 and 18 years old
Activation of the Maternal Immune System During Pregnancy Alters Behavioral Development of Rhesus Monkey Offspring
Background:
Maternal infection during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia and autism in the offspring. Supporting this correlation, experimentally activating the maternal immune system during pregnancy in rodents produces offspring with abnormal brain and behavioral development. We have developed a nonhuman primate model to bridge the gap between clinical populations and rodent models of maternal immune activation (MIA).
Methods:
A modified form of the viral mimic, synthetic double-stranded RNA (polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid stabilized with poly-L-lysine) was delivered to two separate groups of pregnant rhesus monkeys to induce MIA: 1) late first trimester MIA (n = 6), and 2) late second trimester MIA (n = 7). Control animals (n = 11) received saline injections at the same first or second trimester time points or were untreated. Sickness behavior, temperature, and cytokine profiles of the pregnant monkeys confirmed a strong inflammatory response to MIA.
Results:
Behavioral development of the offspring was studied for 24 months. Following weaning at 6 months of age, MIA offspring exhibited abnormal responses to separation from their mothers. As the animals matured, MIA offspring displayed increased repetitive behaviors and decreased affiliative vocalizations. When evaluated with unfamiliar conspecifics, first trimester MIA offspring deviated from species-typical macaque social behavior by inappropriately approaching and remaining in immediate proximity of an unfamiliar animal.
Conclusions:
In this rhesus monkey model, MIA yields offspring with abnormal repetitive behaviors, communication, and social interactions. These results extended the findings in rodent MIA models to more human-like behaviors resembling those in both autism and schizophrenia
A Black Ring with two Angular Momenta in Taub-NUT
We use the recently-constructed explicit duality transformation that relates
a rotating anti-D6-D4-D2-D0 black hole solution to a rotating M5-M2-P black
string to construct a non-supersymmetric black ring in Taub-NUT that has two
angular momenta, as well as M2 charges and M5 dipole moments. This is the first
black ring solution that has both dipole charges and rotation along the S^2 of
the horizon, and hence can be thought of as the "Pomeransky-Senkov" version of
the M5-M2 black ring in Taub-NUT. Its physics should provide a testing ground
for the applicability of the blackfold approach to charged rotating black
branes, and should elucidate the phase space of charged dipole rings in various
backgrounds.Comment: 20 pages, LaTe
Black Rings in Taub-NUT
We construct the most generic three-charge, three-dipole-charge, BPS
black-ring solutions in a Taub-NUT background. These solutions depend on seven
charges and six moduli, and interpolate between a four-dimensional black hole
and a five-dimensional black ring. They are also instrumental in determining
the correct microscopic description of the five-dimensional BPS black rings.Comment: 16 pages, harvma
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