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    Searches for HCl and HF in comets 103P/Hartley 2 and C/2009 P1 (Garradd) with the Herschel space observatory

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    HCl and HF are expected to be the main reservoirs of fluorine and chlorine wherever hydrogen is predominantly molecular. They are found to be strongly depleted in dense molecular clouds, suggesting freeze-out onto grains in such cold environments. We can then expect that HCl and HF were also the major carriers of Cl and F in the gas and icy phases of the outer solar nebula, and were incorporated into comets. We aimed to measure the HCl and HF abundances in cometary ices as they can provide insights on the halogen chemistry in the early solar nebula. We searched for the J(1-0) lines of HCl and HF at 626 and 1232 GHz, respectively, using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory. HCl was searched for in comets 103P/Hartley 2 and C/2009 P1 (Garradd), whereas observations of HF were conducted in comet C/2009 P1. In addition, observations of H2_2O and H218_2^{18}O lines were performed in C/2009 P1 to measure the H2_2O production rate. Three lines of CH3_3OH were serendipitously observed in the HCl receiver setting. HCl is not detected, whereas a marginal (3.6-σ\sigma) detection of HF is obtained. The upper limits for the HCl abundance relative to water are 0.011% and 0.022%, for 103P and C/2009 P1, respectively, showing that HCl is depleted with respect to the solar Cl/O abundance by a factor more than 63+6^{+6}_{-3} in 103P, where the error is related to the uncertainty in the chlorine solar abundance. The marginal HF detection obtained in C/2009 P1 corresponds to an HF abundance relative to water of (1.8±\pm0.5) ×\times 104^{-4}, which is approximately consistent with a solar photospheric F/O abundance. The observed depletion of HCl suggests that HCl was not the main reservoir of chlorine in the regions of the solar nebula where these comets formed. HF was possibly the main fluorine compound in the gas phase of the outer solar nebula.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysic

    HIFI observations of warm gas in DR21: Shock versus radiative heating

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    The molecular gas in the DR21 massive star formation region is known to be affected by the strong UV field from the central star cluster and by a fast outflow creating a bright shock. The relative contribution of both heating mechanisms is the matter of a long debate. By better sampling the excitation ladder of various tracers we provide a quantitative distinction between the different heating mechanisms. HIFI observations of mid-J transitions of CO and HCO+ isotopes allow us to bridge the gap in excitation energies between observations from the ground, characterizing the cooler gas, and existing ISO LWS spectra, constraining the properties of the hot gas. Comparing the detailed line profiles allows to identify the physical structure of the different components. In spite of the known shock-excitation of H2 and the clearly visible strong outflow, we find that the emission of all lines up to > 2 THz can be explained by purely radiative heating of the material. However, the new Herschel/HIFI observations reveal two types of excitation conditions. We find hot and dense clumps close to the central cluster, probably dynamically affected by the outflow, and a more widespread distribution of cooler, but nevertheless dense, molecular clumps.Comment: Accepted for publication by A&

    Weighted composition operators on Korenblum type spaces of analytic functions

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    [EN] We investigate the continuity, compactness and invertibility of weighted composition operators W-psi,W-phi: f -> psi(f circle phi) when they act on the classical Korenblum space A(-infinity) and other related Frechet or (LB)-spaces of analytic functions on the open unit disc which are defined as intersections or unions of weighted Banach spaces with sup-norms. Some results about the spectrum of these operators are presented in case the self-map phi has a fixed point in the unit disc. A precise description of the spectrum is obtained in this case when the operator acts on the Korenblum space.This research was partially supported by the research project MTM2016-76647-P and the grant BES-2017-081200.Gomez-Orts, E. (2020). Weighted composition operators on Korenblum type spaces of analytic functions. Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A Matemáticas. 114(4):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-020-00924-1S1151144Abramovich, Y.A., Aliprantis, C.D.: An invitation to operator theory. Graduate Studies in Mathematics. Amer. Math. Soc., 50 (2002)Albanese, A.A., Bonet, J., Ricker, W.J.: The Cesàro operator in the Fréchet spaces p+\ell ^{p+} and LpL^{p-}. Glasgow Math. J. 59, 273–287 (2017)Albanese, A.A., Bonet, J., Ricker, W.J.: The Cesàro operator on Korenblum type spaces of analytic functions. Collect. Math. 69(2), 263–281 (2018)Albanese, A.A., Bonet, J., Ricker, W.J.: Operators on the Fréchet sequence spaces ces(p+),1pces(p+), 1\le p\le \infty . Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. Ser. A Mat. RACSAM 113(2), 1533–1556 (2019)Albanese, A.A., Bonet, J., Ricker, W.J.: Linear operators on the (LB)-sequence spaces ces(p),1pces(p-), 1\le p\le \infty . Descriptive topology and functional analysis. II, 43–67, Springer Proc. Math. Stat., 286, Springer, Cham (2019)Arendt, W., Chalendar, I., Kumar, M., Srivastava, S.: Powers of composition operators: asymptotic behaviour on Bergman, Dirichlet and Bloch spaces. J. Austral. Math. Soc. 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1446788719000235Aron, R., Lindström, M.: Spectra of weighted composition operators on weighted Banach spaces of analytic funcions. Israel J. Math. 141, 263–276 (2004)Bierstedt, K.D., Summers, W.H.: Biduals of weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions. J. Austral. Math. Soc., Ser. A, 54(1), 70–79 (1993)Bonet, J.: A note about the spectrum of composition operators induced by a rotation. RACSAM 114, 63 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-020-00788-5Bonet, J., Domański, P., Lindström, M., Taskinen, J.: Composition operators between weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions. J. Austral. Math. Soc., Ser. A, 64(1), 101–118 (1998)Bourdon, P.S.: Essential angular derivatives and maximum growth of Königs eigenfunctions. J. Func. Anal. 160, 561–580 (1998)Bourdon, P.S.: Invertible weighted composition operators. Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 142(1), 289–299 (2014)Carleson, L., Gamelin, T.: Complex Dynamics. Springer, Berlin (1991)Cowen, C., MacCluer, B.: Composition Operators on Spaces of Analytic Functions. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1995)Contreras, M., Hernández-Díaz, A.G.: Weighted composition operators in weighted Banach spacs of analytic functions. J. Austral. Math. Soc., Ser. A 69, 41–60 (2000)Eklund, T., Galindo, P., Lindström, M.: Königs eigenfunction for composition operators on Bloch and HH^\infty spaces. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 445, 1300–1309 (2017)Hedenmalm, H., Korenblum, B., Zhu, K.: Theory of Bergman Spaces. Grad. Texts in Math. 199. Springer, New York (2000)Jarchow, H.: Locally Convex Spaces. Teubner, Stuttgart (1981)Kamowitz, H.: Compact operators of the form uCφuC_{\varphi }. Pac. J. Math. 80(1) (1979)Korenblum, B.: An extension of the Nevanlinna theory. Acta Math. 135, 187–219 (1975)Köthe, G.: Topological Vector Spaces II. Springer, New York Inc (1979)Lusky, W.: On the isomorphism classes of weighted spaces of harmonic and holomophic functions. Stud. Math. 75, 19–45 (2006)Meise, R., Vogt, D.: Introduction to functional analysis. Oxford Grad. Texts in Math. 2, New York, (1997)Montes-Rodríguez, A.: Weighted composition operators on weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions. J. Lond. Math. Soc. 61(3), 872–884 (2000)Queffélec, H., Queffélec, M.: Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet series. Hindustain Book Agency, New Delhi (2013)Shapiro, J.H.: Composition Operators and Classical Function Theory. Springer, New York (1993)Shields, A.L., Williams, D.L.: Bounded projections, duality and multipliers in spaces of analytic functions. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 162, 287–302 (1971)Zhu, K.: Operator Theory on Function Spaces, Math. Surveys and Monographs, Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2007

    A Pettis-Type Integral and Applications to Transition Semigroups

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    Motivated by applications to transition semigroups, we introduce the notion of a norming dual pair and study a Pettis-type integral on such pairs. In particular, we establish a sufficient condition for integrability. We also introduce and study a class of semigroups on such dual pairs which are an abstract version of transition semigroups. Using our results, we give conditions ensuring that a semigroup consisting of kernel operators has a Laplace transform which also consists of kernel operators. We also provide conditions under which a semigroup is uniquely determined by its Laplace transform.Comment: Incorporated referee's comments; final versio

    Gas morphology and energetics at the surface of PDRs: new insights with Herschel observations of NGC 7023

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    We investigate the physics and chemistry of the gas and dust in dense photon-dominated regions (PDRs), along with their dependence on the illuminating UV field. Using Herschel-HIFI observations, we study the gas energetics in NGC 7023 in relation to the morphology of this nebula. NGC 7023 is the prototype of a PDR illuminated by a B2V star and is one of the key targets of Herschel. Our approach consists in determining the energetics of the region by combining the information carried by the mid-IR spectrum (extinction by classical grains, emission from very small dust particles) with that of the main gas coolant lines. In this letter, we discuss more specifically the intensity and line profile of the 158 micron (1901 GHz) [CII] line measured by HIFI and provide information on the emitting gas. We show that both the [CII] emission and the mid-IR emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) arise from the regions located in the transition zone between atomic and molecular gas. Using the Meudon PDR code and a simple transfer model, we find good agreement between the calculated and observed [CII] intensities. HIFI observations of NGC 7023 provide the opportunity to constrain the energetics at the surface of PDRs. Future work will include analysis of the main coolant line [OI] and use of a new PDR model that includes PAH-related species.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters (Herschel HIFI special issue), 5 pages, 5 figure

    First results on Martian carbon monoxide from Herschel/HIFI observations

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    We report on the initial analysis of Herschel/HIFI carbon monoxide (CO) observations of the Martian atmosphere performed between 11 and 16 April 2010. We selected the (7-6) rotational transitions of the isotopes ^{13}CO at 771 GHz and C^{18}O at 768 GHz in order to retrieve the mean vertical profile of temperature and the mean volume mixing ratio of carbon monoxide. The derived temperature profile agrees within less than 5 K with general circulation model (GCM) predictions up to an altitude of 45 km, however, show about 12-15 K lower values at 60 km. The CO mixing ratio was determined as 980 \pm 150 ppm, in agreement with the 900 ppm derived from Herschel/SPIRE observations in November 2009.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics (special issue on HIFI first results); minor changes to match published versio

    On the Construction of Quantum Field Theories with Factorizing S-Matrices

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    The subject of this thesis is a novel construction method for interacting relativistic quantum field theories on two-dimensional Minkowski space. The input in this construction is not a classical Lagrangian, but rather a prescribed factorizing S-matrix, i.e. the inverse scattering problem for such quantum field theories is studied. For a large class of factorizing S-matrices, certain associated quantum fields, which are localized in wedge-shaped regions of Minkowski space, are constructed explicitely. With the help of these fields, the local observable content of the corresponding model is defined and analyzed by employing methods from the algebraic framework of quantum field theory. The abstract problem in this analysis amounts to the question under which conditions an algebra of wedge-localized observables can be used to generate a net of local observable algebras with the right physical properties. The answer given here uses the so-called modular nuclearity condition, which is shown to imply the existence of local observables and the Reeh-Schlieder property. In the analysis of the concrete models, this condition is proven for a large family of S-matrices, including the scattering operators of the Sinh-Gordon model and the scaling Ising model as special examples. The so constructed models are then investigated with respect to their scattering properties. They are shown to solve the inverse scattering problem for the considered S-matrices, and a proof of asymptotic completeness is given.Comment: PhD thesis, Goettingen university, 2006 (advisor: D. Buchholz) 153 pages, 10 figure

    The Cesàro operator on Korenblum type spaces of analytic functions

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    [EN] The spectrum of the CesA ro operator , which is always continuous (but never compact) when acting on the classical Korenblum space and other related weighted Fr,chet or (LB) spaces of analytic functions on the open unit disc, is completely determined. It turns out that such spaces are always Schwartz but, with the exception of the Korenblum space, never nuclear. Some consequences concerning the mean ergodicity of are deduced.The research of the first two authors was partially supported by the projects MTM2013-43540-P and MTM2016-76647-P. The second author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.Albanese, A.; Bonet Solves, JA.; Ricker, WJ. (2018). The Cesàro operator on Korenblum type spaces of analytic functions. Collectanea mathematica. 69(2):263-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13348-017-0205-7S263281692Albanese, A.A., Bonet, J., Ricker, W.J.: Mean ergodic operators in Fréchet spaces. Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. 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    Extendibility of bilinear forms on banach sequence spaces

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    [EN] We study Hahn-Banach extensions of multilinear forms defined on Banach sequence spaces. We characterize c(0) in terms of extension of bilinear forms, and describe the Banach sequence spaces in which every bilinear form admits extensions to any superspace.The second author was supported by MICINN Project MTM2011-22417.DANIEL CARANDO; Sevilla Peris, P. (2014). Extendibility of bilinear forms on banach sequence spaces. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 199(2):941-954. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-014-0003-9S9419541992F. Albiac and N. J. Kalton, Topics in Banach Space Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 233, Springer, New York, 2006.R. Arens, The adjoint of a bilinear operation, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 2 (1951), 839–848.R. Arens, Operations induced in function classes, Monatshefte für Mathematik 55 (1951), 1–19.R. M. Aron and P. D. Berner, A Hahn-Banach extension theorem for analytic mappings, Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France 106 (1978), 3–24.S. Banach, Sur les fonctionelles linéaires, Studia Mathematica 1 (1929), 211–216.S. Banach, Théorie des opérations linéaires, (Monogr. Mat. 1) Warszawa: Subwncji Funduszu Narodowej. VII, 254 S., Warsaw, 1932.D. Carando, Extendible polynomials on Banach spaces, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 233 (1999), 359–372.D. Carando, Extendibility of polynomials and analytic functions on l p, Studia Mathematica 145 (2001), 63–73.D. Carando, V. Dimant and P. Sevilla-Peris, Limit orders and multilinear forms on lp spaces, Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences 42 (2006), 507–522.J. M. F. Castillo, R. García, A. Defant, D. Pérez-García and J. Suárez, Local complementation and the extension of bilinear mappings, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 152 (2012), 153–166.J. M. F. Castillo, R. García and J. A. Jaramillo, Extension of bilinear forms on Banach spaces, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 129 (2001), 3647–3656.P. Cembranos and J. Mendoza, The Banach spaces ℓ ∞(c 0) and c 0(ℓ ∞) are not isomorphic, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 367 (2010), 461–463.A. Defant and K. Floret, Tensor Norms and Operator Ideals, North-Holland Mathematics Studies, Vol. 176, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1993.A. Defant and C. Michels, Norms of tensor product identities, Note di Matematica 25 (2005/06), 129–166.J. Diestel, H. Jarchow and A. Tonge, Absolutely Summing Operators, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 43, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.D. J. H. Garling, On symmetric sequence spaces, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (3) 16 (1966), 85–106.A. Grothendieck, Résumé de la théorie métrique des produits tensoriels topologiques, Bol. Soc. Mat. São Paulo 8 (1953), 1–79.H. Hahn, Über lineare Gleichungssysteme in linearen Räumen, Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik 157 (1927), 214–229.R. C. James, Bases and reflexivity of Banach spaces, Annals of Mathematics (2) 52 (1950), 518–527.H. Jarchow, C. Palazuelos, D. Pérez-García and I. Villanueva, Hahn-Banach extension of multilinear forms and summability, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 336 (2007), 1161–1177.W. B. Johnson and L. Tzafriri, On the local structure of subspaces of Banach lattices, Israel Journal of Mathematics 20 (1975), 292–299.P. Kirwan and R. A. Ryan, Extendibility of homogeneous polynomials on Banach spaces, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 126 (1998), 1023–1029.J. Lindenstrauss and A. Pełczyński, Absolutely summing operators in Lp-spaces and their applications, Studia Mathematica 29 (1968), 275–326.J. Lindenstrauss and L. Tzafriri, Classical Banach Spaces. II, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete [Results in Mathematics and Related Areas], Vol. 97, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1979. Function spaces.G. Pisier, Factorization of Linear Operators and Geometry of Banach Spaces, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, Vol. 60, Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, DC, 1986.M. Fernndez-Unzueta and A. Prieto, Extension of polynomials defined on subspaces, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 148 (2010), 505–518.W. L. C. Sargent, Some sequence spaces related to the lp spaces, Journal of the London Mathematical Society 35 (1960), 161–171.N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, Banach-Mazur Distances and Finite-Dimensional Operator Ideals, Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 38, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow, 1989

    Herschel measurements of the D/H and 16O/18O ratios in water in the Oort-cloud comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd)

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    The D/H ratio in cometary water is believed to be an important indicator of the conditions under which icy planetesimals formed and can provide clues to the contribution of comets to the delivery of water and other volatiles to Earth. Available measurements suggest that there is isotopic diversity in the comet population. The Herschel Space Observatory revealed an ocean-like ratio in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2, whereas most values measured in Oort-cloud comets are twice as high as the ocean D/H ratio. We present here a new measurement of the D/H ratio in the water of an Oort-cloud comet. HDO, H_2O, and H_2^18O lines were observed with high signal-to-noise ratio in comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) using the Herschel HIFI instrument. Spectral maps of two water lines were obtained to constrain the water excitation. The D/H ratio derived from the measured H_2^16O and HDO production rates is 2.06+/-0.22 X 10**-4. This result shows that the D/H in the water of Oort-cloud comets is not as high as previously thought, at least for a fraction of the population, hence the paradigm of a single, archetypal D/H ratio for all Oort-cloud comets is no longer tenable. Nevertheless, the value measured in C/2009 P1 (Garradd) is significantly higher than the Earth's ocean value of 1.558 X 10**-4. The measured H_2^16O/H_2^18O ratio of 523+/-32 is, however, consistent with the terrestrial value.Comment: 6 pages with 4 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication as a Letter in Astronomy & Astrophysic
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