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Quantum Chaos in the Yang-Mills-Higgs System at Finite Temperature
The quantum chaos in the finite-temperature Yang-Mills-Higgs system is
studied. The energy spectrum of a spatially homogeneous SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs
is calculated within thermofield dynamics. Level statistics of the spectra is
studied by plotting nearest-level spacing distribution histograms. It is found
that finite temperature effects lead to a strengthening of chaotic effects,
i.e. spectrum which has Poissonian distribution at zero temperature has
Gaussian distribution at finite-temperature.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, Revte
Millimeter- and Submillimeter-Wave Observations of the OMC-2/3 Region. II. Observational Evidence for Outflow-Triggered Star Formation in the OMC-2 FIR 3/4 Region
We have carried out the observations of the OMC-2 FIR 3/4 region with the NMA
and ASTE in the HCO (1--0), CO (3--2, 1--0), SiO (=0,
=2--1), CS (2--1), and CHOH (=7--6) lines and in the 3.3 mm
continuum emission. Our NMA observations in the HCO emission have
revealed 0.07 pc-scale dense gas associated with FIR 4. The CO
(3--2,1--0) emission shows high-velocity blue and red shifted components at the
both north-east and south-west of FIR 3, suggesting a molecular outflow nearly
along the plane of the sky driven by FIR 3. The SiO and the CHOH emission
are detected around the interface between the outflow and the dense gas.
Furthermore, the CO (1--0) emission shows an L-shaped structure in the
P-V diagram. These results imply presence of the shock due to the interaction
between the molecular outflow driven by FIR 3 and the dense gas associated with
FIR 4. Moreover, our high angular-resolution observations of FIR 4 in the 3.3
mm continuum emission have first found that FIR 4 consists of eleven dusty
cores. The separation among these cores is on the same order of the Jeans
length, suggesting that the fragmentation into these cores has been caused by
the gravitational instability. The time scale of the fragmentation is similar
to the time scale of the interaction between the molecular outflow and the
dense gas. We suggest that the interaction between the molecular outflow from
FIR 3 and the dense gas associated with FIR 4 triggered the fragmentation into
these dusty cores, and hence the next generation the cluster formation.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted by Ap
Submillimeter detection of the Sunyaev -- Zel'dovich effect toward the most luminous X-ray cluster at z=0.45
We report on the detection of the Sunyaev -- Zel'dovich (SZ) signals toward
the most luminous X-ray cluster RXJ1347-1145 at Nobeyama Radio Observatory (21
and 43 GHz) and at James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (350 GHz). In particular the
latter is the first successful detection of the SZ temperature increment in the
submillimeter band which resolved the profile of a cluster of galaxies. Both
the observed spectral dependence and the radial profile of the SZ signals are
fully consistent with those expected from the X-ray observation of the cluster.
The combined analysis of 21GHz and 350GHz data reproduces the temperature and
core-radius of the cluster determined with the ROSAT and ASCA satellites when
we adopt the slope of the density profile from the X-ray observations.
Therefore our present data provide the strongest and most convincing case for
the detection of the submillimeter SZ signal from the cluster, as well as in
the Rayleigh -- Jeans regime. We also discuss briefly the cosmological
implications of the present results.Comment: 11 pages, The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), in pres
High resolution imaging of molecular line emission from high redshift QSOs
We present moderate (1'') and high resolution (0.2'') observations of the
CO(2-1) emission at 43 GHz, and radio continuum emission at 1.47 GHz, from the
z=4.7 QSO BRI 1202-0725 and the z=4.4 QSO BRI 1335--0417 using the Very Large
Array. The moderate resolution observations show that in both cases the CO
emission is spatially resolved into two components separated by 1'' for
1335-0417 and 4'' for 1202-0725. The high resolution observations show that
each component has sub-structure on scales of 0.2'' to 0.5'', with intrinsic
brightness temperatures > 20K. The CO ladder from (2-1) up to (7-6) suggests a
high kinetic temperature for the gas (70 K), and a high column density (10^{24}
cm^{-2}). In both sources the continuum-to-line ratio: L_{FIR}/L'_{CO(1-0)} =
335. All these characteristics (brightness temperature, excitation temperature,
column density, and continuum-to-line ratio) are comparable to conditions found
in low redshift, ultra-luminous nuclear starburst galaxies. We find that the CO
emitting regions in 1202-0725 and 1335-0417 must be close to face-on in order
to avoid having the gas mass exceed the gravitational mass, implying perhaps
unreasonably large rotational velocities. While this problem is mitigated by
lowering the CO luminosity-to-H_2 mass conversion factor (X), the required X
values become comparable to, or lower than, the minimum values dictated by
optically thin CO emission. We considered the possibility of magnification by
gravitational lensing in order to reduce the molecular gas masses.Comment: aastex 12 postscript figures. to appear in the Astronomical Journa
Sensitive Radio Observations of High Redshift Dusty QSOs
We present sensitive radio continuum imaging at 1.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz of seven
high redshift QSOs selected for having a 240 GHz continuum detection, which is
thought to be thermal dust emission. We detect radio continuum emission from
four of the sources: BRI 0952-0115, BR 1202-0725, LBQS 1230+1627B, and BRI
1335-0417. The radio source in BR 1202-0725 is resolved into two components,
coincident with the double mm and CO sources. We compare the results at 1.4 GHz
and 240 GHz to empirical and semi-analytic spectral models based on star
forming galaxies at low redshift. The radio-to-submm spectral energy
distribution for BR 1202-0725, LBQS 1230+1627B, and BRI 1335-0417 are
consistent with that expected for a massive starburst galaxy, with implied
massive star formation rates of order 1000 solar masses per year (without
correcting for possible amplification by gravitational lensing). The
radio-to-submm spectral energy distribution for BRI 0952-0115 suggests a
low-luminosity radio jet source driven by the AGN.Comment: 12 pages, Latex emulateapj format, including 1 table and 3 figures.
The Astrophysical Journal, to appear in the January 2000 issu
AzTEC 1.1 mm observations of high-z protocluster environments : SMG overdensities and misalignment between AGN jets and SMG distribution
We present observations at 1.1 mm towards 16 powerful radio galaxies and a radio-quiet quasar at 0.5 > z > 6.3 acquired with the AzTEC camera mounted at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment to study the spatial distribution of submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) towards possible protocluster regions. The survey covers a total area of 1.01 sq deg with rms depths of 0.52-1.44 mJy and detects 728 sources above 3σ. We find overdensities of a factor of ~2 in the source counts of three individual fields (4C+23.56, PKS1138-262, and MRC0355-037) over areas of ~200 sq deg. When combining all fields, the source-count analysis finds an overdensity that reaches a factor ≳ 3 at S 1.1mm = 4mJy covering a 1.5-arcmin-radius area centred on the active galactic nucleus. The large size of our maps allows us to establish that beyond a radius of 1.5 arcmin, the radial surface density of SMGs falls to that of a blank field. In addition, we find a trend for SMGs to align closely to a perpendicular direction with respect to the radio jets of the powerful central radio galaxies (73 -14 +13 deg). This misalignment is found over projected comoving scales of 4-20 Mpc, departs from perfect alignment (0 deg) by ~5σ, and apparently has no dependence on SMG luminosity. Under the assumption that the AzTEC sources are at the redshift of the central radio galaxy, the misalignment reported here can be interpreted as SMGs preferentially inhabiting mass-dominant filaments funnelling material towards the protoclusters, which are also the parent structures of the radio galaxies.Peer reviewe
Quark-diquark Systematics of Baryons: Spectral Integral Equations for Systems Composed by Light Quarks
For baryons composed by the light quarks () we write spectral integral
equation using the notion of two diquarks: (i) axial--vector state,
, with the spin and isospin and (ii) scalar one,
, with the spin and isospin . We present spectral
integral equations for the and states taking into
account quark--diquark confinement interaction.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure
Formation of a Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Superbubble in M82
We performed 12CO(1-0), 13CO(1-0), and HCN(1-0) interferometric observations
of the central region (about 450 pc in radius) of M82 with the Nobeyama
Millimeter Array, and have successfully imaged a molecular superbubble and
spurs. The center of the superbubble is clearly shifted from the nucleus by 140
pc. This position is close to that of the massive black hole (BH) of >460 Mo
and the 2.2 micron secondary peak (a luminous supergiant dominated cluster),
which strongly suggests that these objects may be related to the formation of
the superbubble. Consideration of star formation in the cluster based on the
infrared data indicates that (1) energy release from supernovae can account for
the kinetic energy of the superbubble, (2) the total mass of stellar-mass BHs
available for building-up the massive BH may be much higher than 460 Mo, and
(3) it is possible to form the middle-mass BH of 100-1000 Mo within the
timescale of the superbubble. We suggest that the massive BH was produced and
is growing in the intense starburst region.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ApJ Lette
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