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High Latitude Radio Emission in a Sample of Edge-On Spiral Galaxies
We have mapped 16 edge-on galaxies at 20 cm using the VLA. For 5 galaxies, we
could form spectral index, energy and magnetic field maps. We find that all but
one galaxy show evidence for non-thermal high latitude radio continuum
emission, suggesting that cosmic ray halos are common in star forming galaxies.
The high latitude emission is seen over a variety of spatial scales and in
discrete and/or smooth features. In general, the discrete features emanate from
the disk, but estimates of CR diffusion lengths suggest that diffusion alone is
insufficient to transport the particles to the high latitudes seen (> 15 kpc in
one case). Thus CRs likely diffuse through low density regions and/or are
assisted by other mechanisms (e.g. winds). We searched for correlations between
the prevalence of high latitude radio emission and a number of other
properties, including the global SFR, supernova input rate per unit star
forming, and do not find clear correlations with any of these properties.Comment: 40 pages of text, 3 figures, 6 tables, and an appendix of 21 jpeg
figures (which is a radio continuum catalogue of 17 galaxies). to appear in
A. J. (around January 1999
Instant Two-Body Equation in Breit Frame
A quasipotential formalism for elastic scattering from relativistic bound
states is based on applying an instant constraint to both initial and final
states in the Breit frame. This formalism is advantageous for the analysis of
electromagnetic interactions because current conservation and four momentum
conservation are realized within a three-dimensional formalism. Wave functions
are required in a frame where the total momentum is nonzero, which means that
the usual partial wave analysis is inapplicable. In this work, the
three-dimensional equation is solved numerically, taking into account the
relevant symmetries. A dynamical boost of the interaction also is needed for
the instant formalism, which in general requires that the boosted interaction
be defined as the solution of a four-dimensional equation. For the case of a
scalar separable interaction, this equation is solved and the Lorentz
invariance of the three-dimensional formulation using the boosted interaction
is verified. For more realistic interactions, a simple approximation is used to
characterize the boost of the interaction.Comment: 20 pages in revtex 3, 3 figures. Fixed reform/tex errors
Electromagnetic Scattering from Relativistic Bound States
The quasipotential formalism for elastic scattering from relativistic bound
states is formulated based on the instant constraint in the Breit frame. The
quasipotential electromagnetic current is derived from Mandelstam's five-point
kernel and obeys a two-body Ward identity. Breit-frame wave functions are
obtained directly by solving integral equations with nonzero total
three-momentum, thus accomplishing a dynamical boost. Calculations of
electron-deuteron elastic form factors illustrate the importance of the
dynamical boost versus kinematic boosts of the rest frame wave functions.Comment: RevTeX 3.0 manuscript, 9 pages. UU-file is a single PostScript file
of the manuscript including figures. U. MD PP #93-17
The Radio Properties of Composite LINER/HII Galaxies
Arcsec-resolution VLA observations -- newly obtained as well as published --
of 40 nearby galaxies are discussed, completing a study of the radio properties
of a magnitude-limited sample of nearby galaxies of the composite LINER/HII
type. Our results reveal an overall detection rate of at least 25% AGN
candidates among these composite sources. The general properties of these AGN
candidates, as compared to non-AGN composite sources and HII galaxies, are
discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Observational Evidence of Accretion Disk-Caused Jet Precession in Galactic Nuclei
We show that the observational data of extragalactic radio sources tend to
support the theoretical relationship between the jet precession period and the
optical luminosity of the sources, as predicted by the model in which an
accretion disk causes the central black hole to precess.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letter
Making FORS2 fit for exoplanet observations (again)
For about three years, it was known that precision spectrophotometry with
FORS2 suffered from systematic errors that made quantitative observations of
planetary transits impossible. We identified the Longitudinal Atmospheric
Dispersion Compensator (LADC) as the most likely culprit, and therefore engaged
in a project to exchange the LADC prisms with the uncoated ones from FORS1.
This led to a significant improvement in the depth of FORS2 zero points, a
reduction in the systematic noise, and should make FORS2 again competitive for
transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets.Comment: To appear in the March issue of the ESO Messenge
Hard X-ray detection of the high redshift quasar 4C 71.07
BATSE/OSSE observations of the high redshift quasar 4C 71.07 indicate that
this is the brightest and furthest AGN so far detected above 20 keV. BATSE
Earth occultation data have been used to search for emission from 4C 71.07 from
nearly 3 years of observation. The mean source flux over the whole period in
the BATSE energy range 20-100 keV is (13.2 +/- 1.06) x 10^(-11) erg cm^(-2)
s^(-1) corresponding to a luminosity of 2 x 10^(48) erg s^(-1). The BATSE light
curve over the 3 years of observations shows several flare-like events, one of
which (in January 1996) is associated with an optical flare (R=16.1) but with a
delay of 55 days. The OSSE/BATSE spectral analysis indicates that the source is
characterized by a flat power spectrum (Gamma about 1.1 - 1.3) when in a low
state; this spectral form is consistent within errors with the ASCA and ROSAT
spectra. This means that the power law observed from 0.1 to 10 keV extends up
to at least 1 MeV but steepens soon after to meet EGRET high energy data. BATSE
data taken around the January 1996 flare suggests that the spectrum could be
steeper when the source is in a bright state. The nuF-nu representation of the
source is typical of a low frequency peaked/gamma-ray dominated blazar, with
the synchrotron peak in the mm-FIR band and the Compton peak in the MeV band.
The BATSE and OSSE spectral data seem to favour a model in which the high
energy flux is due to the sum of the synchrotron self-Compton and the external
Compton contributions; this is also supported by the variability behaviour of
the source.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, plus 4 .ps figures. accepted by Astrophysical
Journa
Electron-deuteron scattering in a current-conserving description of relativistic bound states: formalism and impulse approximation calculations
The electromagnetic interactions of a relativistic two-body bound state are
formulated in three dimensions using an equal-time (ET) formalism. This
involves a systematic reduction of four-dimensional dynamics to a
three-dimensional form by integrating out the time components of relative
momenta. A conserved electromagnetic current is developed for the ET formalism.
It is shown that consistent truncations of the electromagnetic current and the
interaction kernel may be made, order-by-order in the coupling constants,
such that appropriate Ward-Takahashi identities are satisfied. A meson-exchange
model of the interaction is used to calculate deuteron vertex functions.
Calculations of electromagnetic form factors for elastic scattering of
electrons by deuterium are performed using an impulse-approximation current.
Negative-energy components of the deuteron's vertex function and retardation
effects in the meson-exchange interaction are found to have only minor effects
on the deuteron form factors.Comment: 42 pages, RevTe
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