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NMA Survey of CO and HCN Emission from Nearby Active Galaxies
High resolution (a few arcseconds) observations of CO(1-0) and HCN(1-0)
emission from nearby Seyfert galaxies have been conducted with the Nobeyama
Millimeter Array. Based on the observed CO distributions and kinematics,we
suggest that a small scale (a few 100 pc - a few kpc) distortion of the
underlying potential seems to be necessary for Seyfert activity, although it is
not a sufficient condition. We also find that the Toomre's Q values in the
centers of Seyfert galaxies tend to be larger than unity, indicating the
circumnuclear molecular gas disks around Seyfert nuclei would be
gravitationally stable. The HCN/CO integrated intensity ratios (R_HCN/CO) range
over an order of magnitude, from 0.086 to 0.6. The Seyfert galaxies with high
R_HCN/CO may have an extended (r ~ 100 pc scale) envelope of obscuring
material. The presence of kpc scale jet/ outflow might be also related to the
extremely high R_HCN/CO.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd Cologne-Zermatt Symposium,
``The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium'
Inverse Spin Hall Effect Driven by Spin Motive Force
The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin
Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a
ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive
force, or a spin-dependent effective ` electric' field ,
arising from the time variation of magnetization texture. By considering
skew-scattering and side-jump processes due to spin-orbit interaction at
impurities, we obtain the Hall current density as , where is the local spin direction and
is the spin Hall conductivity. The Hall angle due to the spin
motive force is enhanced by a factor of compared to the conventional
anomalous Hall effect due to the ordinary electric field, where is the spin
polarization of the current. The Hall voltage is estimated for a field-driven
domain wall oscillation in a ferromagnetic nanowire.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, the title has been change
Quasiparticles of string solutions in the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain in a magnetic field
Spectral properties of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain in a
magnetic field are investigated by using exact Bethe-ansatz solutions. We argue
that not only quasiparticles called psinon and antipsinon but also a
quasiparticle representing a 2-string in the Bethe ansatz plays an important
role for dynamical properties in a magnetic field. Combined with psinon and
antipsinon, the quasiparticle for a 2-string forms a continuum in the
high-energy regime for transverse dynamical structure factor
. In the zero-field limit, the continuum is located on the
mode of the lowest excited states in zero field called the des
Cloizeaux-Pearson mode. In a magnetic field, the continuum separates from other
low-energy continua, and reduces to the mode of bound states of overturned
spins from the fully polarized state near the saturation field. We confirm the
relevance through comparisons with available experimental results on the
quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet CuCl2N(CD).Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 tabl
Analysis of (K^-,K^+) inclusive spectrum with semiclassical distorted wave model
The inclusive K^+ momentum spectrum in the 12C(K^-,K^+) reaction is
calculated by the semiclassical distorted wave (SCDW) model, including the
transition to the \Xi^- bound state. The calculated spectra with the strength
of the \Xi^--nucleus potential -50, -20, and +10 MeV are compared with the
experimental data measured at KEK with p_{K^-}=1.65 GeV/c. The shape of the
spectrum is reproduced by the calculation. Though the inclusive spectrum
changes systematically depending on the potential strength, it is not possible
to obtain a constraint on the potential from the present data. The calculated
spectrum is found to have strong emission-angle dependence. We also investigate
the incident K^- momentum dependence of the spectrum to see the effect of the
Fermi motion of the target nucleons which is explicitly treated in the SCDW
method.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Anomalous impurity effect on magnetization in frustrated one-dimensional ferro- and ferrimagnets
Significant decrease of spontaneous magnetization in frustrated
one-dimensional ferro- and ferrimagnets due to non-magnetic impurities is
predicted. Using the density-matrix renormalization group method and the exact
diagonalization method, we confirm that the total spin can vanish due to a
single impurity in finite chains. Introducing the picture of magnetic domain
inversion, we numerically investigate the impurity-density dependence of
magnetization. In particular, we show that even with an infinitesimal density
of impurities the magnetization in the ground state is reduced by about 40%
from that of the corresponding pure system. Conditions for the materials which
may show this anomalous impurity effect are formulated.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Microscopic Theory of Current-Spin Interaction in Ferromagnets
Interplay between magnetization dynamics and electric current in a conducting
ferromagnet is theoretically studied based on a microscopic model calculation.
First, the effects of the current on magnetization dynamics (spin torques) are
studied with special attention to the "dissipative" torques arising from
spin-relaxation processes of conduction electrons. Next, an analysis is given
of the "spin motive force", namely, a spin-dependent 'voltage' generation due
to magnetization dynamics, which is the reaction to spin torques. Finally, an
attempt is presented of a unified description of these effects.Comment: Written in December 2008, published in July 200
Dense and Warm Molecular Gas between Double Nuclei of the Luminous Infrared Galaxy NGC 6240
High spatial resolution observations of the 12CO(1-0), HCN(1-0), HCO+(1-0),
and 13CO(1-0) molecular lines toward the luminous infrared merger NGC 6240 have
been performed using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array and the RAINBOW
Interferometer. All of the observed molecular emission lines are concentrated
in the region between the double nuclei of the galaxy. However, the
distributions of both HCN and HCO+ emissions are more compact compared with
that of 12CO, and they are not coincident with the star-forming regions. The
HCN/12CO line intensity ratio is 0.25; this suggests that most of the molecular
gas between the double nuclei is dense. A comparison of the observed high
HCN/13CO intensity ratio, 5.9, with large velocity gradient calculations
suggests that the molecular gas is dense [n(H_2)=10^{4-6} cm^-3] and warm
(T_kin>50 K). The observed structure in NGC 6240 may be explained by time
evolution of the molecular gas and star formation, which was induced by an
almost head-on collision or very close encounter of the two galactic nuclei
accompanied with the dense gas and star-forming regions.Comment: 25 pages, 8 figures, To be appeared in PASJ 57, No.4 (August 25,
2005) issu
Tracing star formation in galaxies with molecular line and continuum observations
We report our recent progress on extragalactic spectroscopic and continuum
observations, including HCN(J=1-0), HCO(J=1-0), and CN(N=1-0) imaging
surveys of local Seyfert and starburst galaxies using the Nobeyama Millimeter
Array, high-J CO observations (J=3-2 observations using the Atacama
Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE) and J=2-1 observations with the
Submillimeter Array) of galaxies, and 1.1 mm continuum observations
of high-z violent starburst galaxies using the bolometer camera AzTEC mounted
on ASTE.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, To appear in proceedings of "Far-Infrared and
Submillimeter Emission of the Interstellar Medium", EAS Publication Series,
Bad Honnef, November 2007, Eds. C. Kramer, S. Aalto, R. Simon. See
http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~f0212kk/FIR07/kk-ver20.pdf for a version with high
resolution figure
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