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Fine Grid Asteroseismology Of G117-B15A And R548
We now have a good measurement of the cooling rate of G117-B15A. In the near future, we will have equally well determined cooling rates for other pulsating white dwarfs, including R548. The ability to measure their cooling rates offers us a unique way to study weakly interacting particles that would contribute to their cooling. Working toward that goal, we perform a careful asteroseismological analysis of G117-B15A and R548. We study them side by side because they have similar observed properties. We carry out a systematic, fine grid search for best-fit models to the observed period spectra of those stars. We freely vary four parameters: the effective temperature, the stellar mass, the helium layer mass, and the hydrogen layer mass. We identify and quantify a number of uncertainties associated with our models. Based on the results of that analysis and fits to the periods observed in R548 and G117-B15A, we clearly define the regions of the four-dimensional parameter space occupied by the best-fit models.NSF AST 05-07639Astronom
Quantile Forecasts of Daily Exchange Rate Returns from Forecasts of Realized Volatility
Quantile forecasts are central to risk management decisions because of the widespread use of Value-at-Risk. A quantile forecast is the product of two factors : the model used to forecast volatility, and the method of computing quantiles from the volatility forecasts. In this paper we calculate and evaluate quantile forecasts of the daily exchange rate returns of five currencies. The forecasting models that have been used in recent analyses of the predictability of daily realized volatility permit a comparison of the predictive power of different measures of intraday variation and intraday returns in forecasting exchange rate variability. The methods of computing quantile forecasts include making distributional assumptions for future daily returns as well as using the empirical distribution of predicted standardized returns with both rolling and recursive samples. Our main ?ndings are that the HAR model provides more accurate volatility and quantile forecasts for currencies which experience shifts in volatility, such as the Canadian dollar, and that the use of the empirical distribution to calculate quantiles can improve forecasts when there are shifts.realized volatility ; quantile forecasting ; MIDAS ; HAR ; exchange rates
Universality of Ionic Criticality: Size- and Charge-Asymmetric Electrolytes
Grand canonical simulations designed to resolve critical universality classes
are reported for :1 hard-core electrolyte models with diameter ratios
. For Ising-type behavior prevails.
Unbiased estimates of are within 1% of previous (biased)
estimates but the critical densities are 5 % lower. Ising character is
also established for the 2:1 and 3:1 equisized models, along with critical
amplitudes and improved estimates. For , however, strong
finite-size effects reduce the confidence level although classical and O criticality are excluded.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Surface Waves on a Semi-toroidal Water Ring
We study the dynamics of surface waves on a semi-toroidal ring of water that
is excited by vertical vibration. We create this specific fluid volume by
patterning a glass plate with a hydrophobic coating, which confines the fluid
to a precise geometric region. To excite the system, the supporting plate is
vibrated up and down, thus accelerating and decelerating the fluid ring along
its toroidal axis. When the driving acceleration is sufficiently high, the
surface develops a standing wave, and at yet larger accelerations, a traveling
wave emerges. We also explore frequency dependencies and other geometric shapes
of confinement
Hydrogenation of Si from SiNx(H) films: Characterization of H introduced into the Si
A promising method to introduce H into multicrystalline Si solar cells in order to passivate bulk defects is by the postdeposition annealing of a H-rich, SiNx surface layer. It has previously been difficult to characterize the small concentration of H that is introduced by this method. Infrared spectroscopy has been used together with marker impurities in the Si to determine the concentration and depth of H introduced into Si from an annealed SiNx film
Determination of the infrared complex magnetoconductivity tensor in itinerant ferromagnets from Faraday and Kerr measurements
Journal ArticleWe present measurement and analysis techniques that allow the complete complex magnetoconductivity tensor to be determined from midinfrared (11-1.6 μm; 100-800 meV) measurements of the complex Faraday (θF) and Kerr (θK) angles. Since this approach involves measurement of the geometry (orientation axis and ellipticity of the polarization) of transmitted and reflected light, no absolute transmittance or reflectance measurements are required. Thick-film transmission and reflection equations are used to convert the complex θF and θK into the complex longitudinal conductivity σxx and the complex transverse (Hall) conductivity σxy. θF and θK are measured in a Ga1−xMnxAs and SrRuO3 films. The resulting σxx is compared to the values obtained from conventional transmittance and reflectance measurements, as well as the results from Kramers-Kronig analysis of reflectance measurements on similar films
Wavelength- and material-dependent absorption in GaAs and AlGaAs microcavities
The quality factors of modes in nearly identical GaAs and
Al_{0.18}Ga_{0.82}As microdisks are tracked over three wavelength ranges
centered at 980 nm, 1460 nm, and 1600 nm, with quality factors measured as high
as 6.62x10^5 in the 1600-nm band. After accounting for surface scattering, the
remaining loss is due to sub-bandgap absorption in the bulk and on the
surfaces. We observe the absorption is, on average, 80 percent greater in
AlGaAs than in GaAs and in both materials is 540 percent higher at 980 nm than
at 1600nm.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, minor changes to disucssion of Qrad and
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