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Synthetic horizontal branch morphology for different metallicities and ages under tidally enhanced stellar wind
It is believed that, except for metallicity, some other parameters are needed
to explain the horizontal branch (HB) morphology of globular clusters (GCs).
Furthermore, these parameters are considered to be correlated with the mass
loss of the red giant branch (RGB) stars. In our previous work, we proposed
that tidally enhanced stellar wind during binary evolution may affect the HB
morphology by enhancing the mass loss of the red giant primary. As a further
study, we now investigate the effects of metallicity and age on HB morphology
by considering tidally enhanced stellar winds during binary evolution. We
incorporated the tidally enhanced-stellar-wind model into Eggleton's stellar
evolution code to study the binary evolution. To study the effects of
metallicity and age on our final results, we conducted two sets of model
calculations: (i) for a fixed age, we used three metallicities, namely
Z=0.0001, 0.001, and 0.02. (ii) For a fixed metallicity, Z=0.001, we used five
ages in our model calculations: 14, 13, 12, 10, and 7 Gyr. We found that HB
morphology of GCs becomes bluer with decreasing metallicity, and old GCs
present bluer HB morphology than young ones. These results are consistent with
previous work. Although the envelope-mass distributions of zero-age HB stars
produced by tidally enhanced stellar wind are similar for different
metallicities, the synthetic HB under tidally enhanced stellar wind for Z=0.02
presented a distinct gap between red and blue HB. However, this feature was not
seen clearly in the synthetic HB for Z=0.001 and 0.0001. We also found that
higher binary fractions may make HB morphology become bluer, and we discussed
the results with recent observations.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy
& Astrophysic
Subdwarf B stars from the common envelope ejection channel
From the canonical binary scenario, the majority of sdBs are produced from
low-mass stars with degenerate cores where helium is ignited in a way of
flashes. Due to numerical difficulties, the models of produced sdBs are
generally constructed from more massive stars with non-degenerate cores,
leaving several uncertainties on the exact characteristics of sdB stars.
Employing MESA, we systematically studied the characteristics of sdBs produced
from the common envelope (CE) ejection channel, and found that the sdB stars
produced from the CE ejection channel appear to form two distinct groups on the
effective temperature-gravity diagram. One group (the flash-mixing model)
almost has no H-rich envelope and crows at the hottest temperature end of the
extremely horizontal branch (EHB), while the other group has significant H-rich
envelope and spreads over the whole canonical EHB region. The key factor for
the dichotomy of the sdB properties is the development of convection during the
first helium flash, which is determined by the interior structure of the star
after the CE ejection. For a given initial stellar mass and a given core mass
at the onset of the CE, if the CE ejection stops early, the star has a
relatively massive H-rich envelope, resulting in a canonical sdB generally. The
fact of only a few short-orbital-period sdB binaries being in the flash-mixing
sdB region and the lack of He-rich sdBs in short-orbital-period binaries
indicate that the flash mixing is not very often in the products of the CE
ejection. A falling back process after the CE ejection, similar to that
happened in nova, is an appropriate way of increasing the envelope mass, then
prevents the flash mixing.Comment: accepted by A&A 12 pages, 11 figure
Parallel processing architecture for computing inverse differential kinematic equations of the PUMA arm
In advanced robot control problems, on-line computation of inverse Jacobian solution is frequently required. Parallel processing architecture is an effective way to reduce computation time. A parallel processing architecture is developed for the inverse Jacobian (inverse differential kinematic equation) of the PUMA arm. The proposed pipeline/parallel algorithm can be inplemented on an IC chip using systolic linear arrays. This implementation requires 27 processing cells and 25 time units. Computation time is thus significantly reduced
Cooperative Secure Transmission by Exploiting Social Ties in Random Networks
Social awareness and social ties are becoming increasingly popular with
emerging mobile and handheld devices. Social trust degree describing the
strength of the social ties has drawn lots of research interests in many fields
in wireless communications, such as resource sharing, cooperative communication
and so on. In this paper, we propose a hybrid cooperative beamforming and
jamming scheme to secure communication based on the social trust degree under a
stochastic geometry framework. The friendly nodes are categorized into relays
and jammers according to their locations and social trust degrees with the
source node. We aim to analyze the involved connection outage probability (COP)
and secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the performance in the networks. To
achieve this target, we propose a double Gamma ratio (DGR) approach through
Gamma approximation. Based on this, the COP and SOP are tractably obtained in
closed-form. We further consider the SOP in the presence of Poisson Point
Process (PPP) distributed eavesdroppers and derive an upper bound. The
simulation results verify our theoretical findings, and validate that the
social trust degree has dramatic influences on the security performance in the
networks.Comment: 30 pages, 11 figures, to be published in IEEE Transactions on
Communication
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