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The Potential for cross-drive analysis using automated digital forensic timelines
Cross-Drive Analysis (CDA) is a technique designed to allow an investigator to âsimultaneously consider information from across a corpus of many data sourcesâ. Existing approaches include multi-drive correlation using text searching, e.g. email addresses, message IDs, credit card numbers or social security numbers. Such techniques have the potential to identify drives of interest from a large set, provide additional information about events that occurred on a single disk, and potentially determine social network membership. Another analysis technique that has significantly advanced in recent years is the use of timelines. Tools currently exist that can extract dates and times from the file system metadata (i.e. MACE times) and also examine the content of certain file types and extract metadata from within. This approach provides a great deal of data that can assist with an investigation, but also compounds the problem of having too much data to examine. A recent paper adds an additional timeline analysis capability, by automatically producing a high-level summary of the activity on a computer system, by combining sets of low-level events into high-level events, for example reducing a setupapi event and several events from the Windows Registry to a single event of âa USB stick was connectedâ. This paper provides an investigation into the extent to which events in such a high-level timeline have the properties suitable to assist with Cross-Drive Analysis. The paper provides several examples that use timelines generated from multiple disk images, including USB stick connections, Skype calls, and access to files on a memory card
Assessing Friction Characteristics of Liquid Lubricants
The decline of fossil fuel reserves and the increasing awareness of greenhouse gas emissions have been the primary driving forces behind the need to conserve energy. To improve fuel efficiency friction modifiers are commonly blended into lubricants. Reduction of friction will clearly lead to less energy requirements. However, an accurate evaluation of lubricant performance is not possible using existing test equipment. The main reason is that current test rigs require operating conditions that induce wear so that the measurement of friction in these rigs is not a real evaluation of friction. The paper will detail the design and commissioning of a purpose built test rig to measure frictional characteristics of various oils as well as the results of the tests performed
On the importance of paleoclimate modelling for improving predictions of future climate change
We use an ensemble of runs from the MIROC3.2 AGCM with slab-ocean to explore the extent to which mid-Holocene simulations are relevant to predictions of future climate change. The results are compared with similar analyses for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and pre-industrial control climate. We suggest that the paleoclimate epochs can provide some independent validation of the models that is also relevant for future predictions. Considering the paleoclimate epochs, we find that the stronger global forcing and hence larger climate change at the LGM makes this likely to be the more powerful one for estimating the large-scale changes that are anticipated due to anthropogenic forcing. The phenomena in the mid-Holocene simulations which are most strongly correlated with future changes (i.e., the mid to high northern latitude land temperature and monsoon precipitation) do, however, coincide with areas where the LGM results are not correlated with future changes, and these are also areas where the paleodata indicate significant climate changes have occurred. Thus, these regions and phenomena for the mid-Holocene may be useful for model improvement and validation
Hot methane line lists for exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres
We present comprehensive experimental line lists of methane (CH4) at high
temperatures obtained by recording Fourier transform infrared emission spectra.
Calibrated line lists are presented for the temperatures 300 - 1400 degC at
twelve 100 degC intervals spanning the 960 - 5000 cm-1 (2.0 - 10.4 microns)
region of the infrared. This range encompasses the dyad, pentad and octad
regions, i.e., all fundamental vibrational modes along with a number of
combination, overtone and hot bands. Using our CH4 spectra, we have estimated
empirical lower state energies (Elow in cm-1) and our values have been
incorporated into the line lists along with line positions (cm-1) and
calibrated line intensities (S' in cm molecule-1). We expect our hot CH4 line
lists to find direct application in the modeling of planetary atmospheres and
brown dwarfs.Comment: Supplementary material is provided via the Astrophysical Journal
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An investigation of the nature and reactivity of the carbonaceous species deposited on mordenite by reaction with methanol
An investigation of the nature of the carbonaceous species deposited upon mordenite by reaction with methanol has been undertaken. The nature of the species has been shown to be a strong function of both temperature and time on stream. Upon reaction at 300 degrees C a range of alkyl and aromatic species, consistent with the development of an active hydrocarbon pool, are evident and time on stream studies have shown that these are developed within 5 min. Upon reaction at 500 degrees C, a narrower range of hydrogen deficient aromatic species is evident. Thermal volatilisation analysis (TVA), not previously applied to the study of coked zeolites, is shown to be complementary to the more commonly applied C analysis, C-13 MAS NMR and TGA techniques
The Influence of Binary Stars on Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Kinematics
We have completed a Monte-Carlo simulation to estimate the effect of binary
star orbits on the measured velocity dispersion in dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
This paper analyses previous attempts at this calculation, and explains the
simulations which were performed with mass, period and ellipticity
distributions similar to that measured for the solar neighbourhood. The
conclusion is that with functions such as these, the contribution of binary
stars to the velocity dispersion is small. The distributions are consistent
with the percentage of binaries detected by observations, although this is
quite dependent on the measuring errors and on the number of years over which
measurements have been taken. For binaries to be making a significant
contribution to the dispersion measured in dSph galaxies, the distributions of
the orbital parameters would need to be very different from those of stars in
the solar neighbourhood. In particular more smaller period orbits with higher
mass secondaries would be required. The shape of the velocity distribution may
help to resolve this issue when more data becomes available. In general, the
scenarios producing a larger apparent dispersion have a velocity distribution
which deviates more clearly from Gaussian.Comment: MNRAS in press, uuencoded ps fil
A Search for Ionized Gas in the Draco and Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
The Wisconsin H Alpha Mapper has been used to set the first deep upper limits
on the intensity of diffuse H alpha emission from warm ionized gas in the Local
Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) Draco and Ursa Minor. Assuming a
velocity dispersion of 15 km/s for the ionized gas, we set limits for the H
alpha intensity of less or equal to 0.024 Rayleighs and less or equal to 0.021
Rayleighs for the Draco and Ursa Minor dSphs, respectively, averaged over our 1
degree circular beam. Adopting a simple model for the ionized interstellar
medium, these limits translate to upper bounds on the mass of ionized gas of
approximately less than 10% of the stellar mass, or approximately 10 times the
upper limits for the mass of neutral hydrogen. Note that the Draco and Ursa
Minor dSphs could contain substantial amounts of interstellar gas, equivalent
to all of the gas injected by dying stars since the end of their main star
forming episodes more than 8 Gyr in the past, without violating these limits on
the mass of ionized gas.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, AASTeX two-column format. Accepted for
publication in The Astrophysical Journa
The Velocity Dispersion Profile of the Remote Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Leo I: A Tidal Hit and Run?
(abridged) We present kinematic results for a sample of 387 stars located
near Leo I based on spectra obtained with the MMT's Hectochelle spectrograph
near the MgI/Mgb lines. We estimate the mean velocity error of our sample to be
2.4 km/s, with a systematic error of < 1 km/s. We produce a final sample of 328
Leo I red giant members, from which we measure a mean heliocentric radial
velocity of 282.9 +/- 0.5 km/s, and a mean radial velocity dispersion of 9.2
+/- 0.4 km/s for Leo I. The dispersion profile of Leo I is flat out to beyond
its classical `tidal' radius. We fit the profile to a variety of equilibrium
dynamical models and can strongly rule out models where mass follows light.
Two-component Sersic+NFW models with tangentially anisotropic velocity
distributions fit the dispersion profile well, with isotropic models ruled out
at a 95% confidence level. The mass and V-band mass-to-light ratio of Leo I
estimated from equilibrium models are in the ranges 5-7 x 10^7 M_sun and 9-14
(solar units), respectively, out to 1 kpc from the galaxy center. Leo I members
located outside a `break radius' (about 400 arcsec = 500 pc) exhibit
significant velocity anisotropy, whereas stars interior appear to have
isotropic kinematics. We propose the break radius represents the location of
the tidal radius of Leo I at perigalacticon of a highly elliptical orbit. Our
scenario can account for the complex star formation history of Leo I, the
presence of population segregation within the galaxy, and Leo I's large outward
velocity from the Milky Way. The lack of extended tidal arms in Leo I suggests
the galaxy has experienced only one perigalactic passage with the Milky Way,
implying that Leo I may have been injected into its present orbit by a third
body a few Gyr before perigalacticon.Comment: ApJ accepted, 23 figures, access paper as a pdf file at
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mmateo/research.htm
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