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The Scalar Sector in 331 Models
We calculate the exact tree-level scalar mass matrices resulting from
symmetry breaking using the most general gauge-invariant scalar potential of
the 331 model, both with and without the condition that lepton number is
conserved. Physical masses are also obtained in some cases, as well as
couplings to standard and exotic gauge bosons.Comment: LaTex, 15 page
A survey of nulling pulsars using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope
Several pulsars show sudden cessation of pulsed emission, which is known as
pulsar nulling. In this paper, the nulling behaviour of 15 pulsars is
presented. The nulling fractions of these pulsars, along with the degree of
reduction in the pulse energy during the null phase, are reported for these
pulsars. A quasi-periodic null-burst pattern is reported for PSR J1738-2330.
The distributions of lengths of the null and the burst phases as well as the
typical nulling time scales are estimated for eight strong pulsars. The nulling
pattern of four pulsars with similar nulling fraction are found to be different
from each other, suggesting that the fraction of null pulses does not quantify
the nulling behaviour of a pulsar in full detail. Analysis of these
distributions also indicate that while the null and the burst pulses occur in
groups, the underlying distribution of the interval between a transition from
the null to the burst phase and vice verse appears to be similar to that of a
stochastic Poisson point process.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
PONDER - A Real time software backend for pulsar and IPS observations at the Ooty Radio Telescope
This paper describes a new real-time versatile backend, the Pulsar Ooty Radio
Telescope New Digital Efficient Receiver (PONDER), which has been designed to
operate along with the legacy analog system of the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT).
PONDER makes use of the current state of the art computing hardware, a
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) and sufficiently large disk storage to support
high time resolution real-time data of pulsar observations, obtained by
coherent dedispersion over a bandpass of 16 MHz. Four different modes for
pulsar observations are implemented in PONDER to provide standard reduced data
products, such as time-stamped integrated profiles and dedispersed time series,
allowing faster avenues to scientific results for a variety of pulsar studies.
Additionally, PONDER also supports general modes of interplanetary
scintillation (IPS) measurements and very long baseline interferometry data
recording. The IPS mode yields a single polarisation correlated time series of
solar wind scintillation over a bandwidth of about four times larger (16 MHz)
than that of the legacy system as well as its fluctuation spectrum with high
temporal and frequency resolutions. The key point is that all the above modes
operate in real time. This paper presents the design aspects of PONDER and
outlines the design methodology for future similar backends. It also explains
the principal operations of PONDER, illustrates its capabilities for a variety
of pulsar and IPS observations and demonstrates its usefulness for a variety of
astrophysical studies using the high sensitivity of the ORT.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figures, Accepted by Experimental Astronom
North-South Distribution of Solar Flares during Cycle 23
In this paper, we investigate the spatial distribution of solar flares in the
northern and southern hemisphere of the Sun that occurred during the period
1996 to 2003. This period of investigation includes the ascending phase, the
maximum and part of descending phase of solar cycle 23. It is revealed that the
flare activity during this cycle is low compared to previous solar cycle,
indicating the violation of Gnevyshev-Ohl rule. The distribution of flares with
respect to heliographic latitudes shows a significant asymmetry between
northern and southern hemisphere which is maximum during the minimum phase of
the solar cycle. The present study indicates that the activity dominates the
northern hemisphere in general during the rising phase of the cycle
(1997-2000). The dominance of northern hemisphere is shifted towards the
southern hemisphere after the solar maximum in 2000 and remained there in the
successive years. Although the annual variations in the asymmetry time series
during cycle 23 are quite different from cycle 22, they are comparable to cycle
21.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; Accepted for the publication in the
proceedings of international solar workshop held at ARIES, Nainital, India on
"Transient Phenomena on the Sun and Interplanetary Medium" in a special issue
of "Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JAA)
A hadronic scenario for HESS J1818-154
Aims: G15.4+0.1 is a faint supernova remnant (SNR) that has recently been
associated with the gamma-ray source HESS J1818-154. We investigate a hadronic
scenario for the production of the gamma-ray emission. Methods: Molecular 13CO
(J=1-0) taken from the Galactic Ring Survey (GRS) and neutral hydrogen (HI)
data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) have been used in
combination with new 1420 MHz radio continuum observations carried out with the
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Results: From the new observations and
analysis of archival data we provided for the first time a reliable estimate
for the distance to the SNR G15.4+0.1 and discovered molecular clouds located
at the same distance. On the basis of HI absorption features, we estimate the
distance to G15.4+0.1 in 4.8+/-1.0 kpc. The 13CO observations clearly show a
molecular cloud about 5 arcmin in size with two bright clumps, labeled A and B,
clump A positionally associated with the location of HESS J1818-154 and clump B
in coincidence with the brightest northern border of the radio SNR shell. The
HI absorption and the 13CO emission study indicates a possible interaction
between the molecular material and the remnant. We estimate the masses and
densities of the molecular gas as (1.2+/-0.5)X10^3 M_sun and (1.5+/-0.4)X10^3
cm^-3 for clump A and (3.0+/-0.7)X10^3 M_sun and (1.1+/-0.3)X10^3 cm^-3 for
clump B. Calculations show that the average density of the molecular clump A is
sufficient to produce the detected gamma-ray flux, thus favoring a hadronic
origin for the high-energy emission.Comment: Accepted to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letter
A complete radio study of SNR G15.4+0.1 from new GMRT observations
The supernova remnant G15.4+0.1 is considered to be the possible counterpart
of the gamma-ray source HESSJ1818-154. With the goal of getting a complete view
of this remnant and understanding the nature of the gamma-ray flux, we
conducted a detailed radio study that includes the search for pulsations and a
model of the broadband emission for the G15.4+0.1/HESSJ1818-154 system.
Low-frequency imaging at 624 MHz and pulsar observations at 624 and 1404 MHz
towards G15.4+0.1 were carried out with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
(GMRT). We correlated the new radio data with observations of the source at
X-ray and infrared wavelengths from XMM-Newton and Herschel observatories,
respectively. To characterize the neutral hydrogen medium (HI) towards
G15.4+0.1, we used data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey. We modelled
the spectral energy distribution using both hadronic and leptonic scenarios.
From the combination of the new GMRT observations with existing data, we
derived a continuum spectral index alpha=-0.62+-0.03 for the whole remnant. The
local synchrotron spectra of G15.4+0.1, calculated from the combination of the
GMRT data with 330 MHz observations from the VLA, tends to be flatter in the
central part of the remnant, accompanying the region where the blast wave is
impinging molecular gas. No spectral index trace was found indicating the radio
counterpart to the pulsar wind nebula proposed from X-ray observations. In
addition, the search for radio pulsations yielded negative results. Emission at
far-infrared wavelengths is observed in the region where the SNR shock is
interacting with dense molecular clumps. We also identified HI features forming
a shell that wraps most of the outer border of G15.4+0.1. Characteristic
parameters were estimated for the shocked HI gas. We found that either a purely
hadronic or leptonic model is compatible with the broadband emission known so
far.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysic
Mappings preserving locations of movable poles: a new extension of the truncation method to ordinary differential equations
The truncation method is a collective name for techniques that arise from
truncating a Laurent series expansion (with leading term) of generic solutions
of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Despite its utility in
finding Backlund transformations and other remarkable properties of integrable
PDEs, it has not been generally extended to ordinary differential equations
(ODEs). Here we give a new general method that provides such an extension and
show how to apply it to the classical nonlinear ODEs called the Painleve
equations. Our main new idea is to consider mappings that preserve the
locations of a natural subset of the movable poles admitted by the equation. In
this way we are able to recover all known fundamental Backlund transformations
for the equations considered. We are also able to derive Backlund
transformations onto other ODEs in the Painleve classification.Comment: To appear in Nonlinearity (22 pages
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