143 research outputs found
Equilibrium Configurations of Homogeneous Fluids in General Relativity
By means of a highly accurate, multi-domain, pseudo-spectral method, we
investigate the solution space of uniformly rotating, homogeneous and
axisymmetric relativistic fluid bodies. It turns out that this space can be
divided up into classes of solutions. In this paper, we present two new classes
including relativistic core-ring and two-ring solutions. Combining our
knowledge of the first four classes with post-Newtonian results and the
Newtonian portion of the first ten classes, we present the qualitative
behaviour of the entire relativistic solution space. The Newtonian disc limit
can only be reached by going through infinitely many of the aforementioned
classes. Only once this limiting process has been consummated, can one proceed
again into the relativistic regime and arrive at the analytically known
relativistic disc of dust.Comment: 8 pages, colour figures, v3: minor additions including one reference,
accepted by MNRA
Are Orthogonal Separable Coordinates Really Classified?
We prove that the set of orthogonal separable coordinates on an arbitrary (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold carries a natural structure of a projective variety, equipped with an action of the isometry group. This leads us to propose a new, algebraic geometric approach to the classification of orthogonal separable coordinates by studying the structure of this variety. We give an example where this approach reveals unexpected structure in the well known classification and pose a number of problems arising naturally in this context
Maximal mass of uniformly rotating homogeneous stars in Einsteinian gravity
Using a multi domain spectral method, we investigate systematically the
general-relativistic model for axisymmetric uniformly rotating, homogeneous
fluid bodies generalizing the analytically known Maclaurin and Schwarzschild
solutions. Apart from the curves associated with these solutions and a further
curve of configurations that rotate at the mass shedding limit, two more curves
are found to border the corresponding two parameter set of solutions. One of
them is a Newtonian lens shaped sequence bifurcating from the Maclaurin
spheroid sequence, while the other one corresponds to highly relativistic
bodies with an infinite central pressure. The properties of the configuration
for which both the gravitational and the baryonic masses, moreover angular
velocity, angular momentum as well as polar red shift obtain their maximal
values are discussed in detail. In particular, by comparison with the static
Schwarzschild solution, we obtain an increase of 34.25% in the gravitational
mass. Moreover, we provide exemplarily a discussion of angular velocity and
gravitational mass on the entire solution class.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to A&A, corrected eq. for W,
W' in 3.
Designing bus transit services for routine crowd situations at large event venues
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Stable and high quality electron beams from staged laser and plasma wakefield accelerators
We present experimental results on a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) driven by high-current electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA). In this staged setup stable and high quality (low divergence and low energy spread) electron beams are generated at an optically-generated hydrodynamic shock in the PWFA. The energy stability of the beams produced by that arrangement in the PWFA stage is comparable to both single-stage laser accelerators and plasma wakefield accelerators driven by conventional accelerators. Simulations support that the intrinsic insensitivity of PWFAs to driver energy fluctuations can be exploited to overcome stability limitations of state-of-the-art laser wakefield accelerators when adding a PWFA stage. Furthermore, we demonstrate the generation of electron bunches with energy spread and divergence superior to single-stage LW-FAs, resulting in bunches with dense phase space and an angular-spectral charge density beyond the initial drive beam parameters. These results unambiguously show that staged LWFA-PWFA can help to tailor the electron-beam quality for certain applications and to reduce the influence of fluctuating laser drivers on the electron-beam stability. This encourages further development of this new class of staged wakefield acceleration as a viable scheme towards compact, high-quality electron beam sources
Rotating Stars in Relativity
Rotating relativistic stars have been studied extensively in recent years,
both theoretically and observationally, because of the information one could
obtain about the equation of state of matter at extremely high densities and
because they are considered to be promising sources of gravitational waves. The
latest theoretical understanding of rotating stars in relativity is reviewed in
this updated article. The sections on the equilibrium properties and on the
nonaxisymmetric instabilities in f-modes and r-modes have been updated and
several new sections have been added on analytic solutions for the exterior
spacetime, rotating stars in LMXBs, rotating strange stars, and on rotating
stars in numerical relativity.Comment: 101 pages, 18 figures. The full online-readable version of this
article, including several animations, will be published in Living Reviews in
Relativity at http://www.livingreviews.org
Coronavirus-Pandemie: Die Feiertage und den Jahreswechsel für einen harten Lockdown nutzen : 7. Ad-hoc-Stellungnahme zr Coronavirus-Pandemie - 08.Dezember 2020
Die gegenwärtige Situation ist nach wie vor ernst und droht sich weiter zu verschärfen. Trotz des seit Anfang November in Deutschland geltenden Teil-Lockdowns sind die Infektionszahlen auf einem sehr hohen Niveau. Jeden Tag sterben mehrere Hundert Menschen. Die Krankenhäuser und insbesondere das medizinische Personal sind bereits jetzt an ihren Grenzen und die Gesundheitsämter überlastet. Um die Kontrolle über das Infektionsgeschehen zurückzuerlangen, empfiehlt die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina in der Ad-hoc-Stellungnahme „Coronavirus-Pandemie: Die Feiertage und den Jahreswechsel für einen harten Lockdown nutzen“ ein zweistufiges Vorgehen. Die Rahmenbedingungen ‒ Weihnachtsferien in Bildungseinrichtungen und eingeschränkter Betrieb in vielen Unternehmen und Behörden – bieten die Chance, in der Eindämmung der Pandemie ein großes Stück voranzukommen
Incorporating Neighborhood Reduction for the Solution of the Planar p-Median Problem
Two efficient neighbourhood reduction schemes are proposed for the solution of the p-Median problem
on the plane. Their integration into a local search significantly reduces the run time with an insignificant
deterioration in the quality of the solution. For completeness this fast local search is also embedded
into one of the most powerful meta-heuristic algorithms recently developed for this continuous location
problem. Excellent results for instances with up to 1060 demand points with various values of p are
reported. Eight new best known solutions for ten instances of a large problem with 3,038 demand points
and up to 500 facilities are also found
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