Formation of zebra pattern in low-frequency Jovian radio emission

We investigate the formation of zebra-like fine spectral structures (consisting of several parallel bands in the dynamic spectrum) in the Jovian broadband kilometric radiation; such radio bursts were observed by Cassini in 2000/2001. We assume that the emission is generated due to a plasma mechanism in the Io plasma torus. We have shown that the double plasma resonance effect (that was proposed earlier as a formation mechanism of the solar zebra patterns) is able to produce the observed spectral structures. The observed frequency drifts are caused, most likely, by the dynamics of the electron acceleration site. The required conditions in the emission source are discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication in Planetary & Space Scienc

Reexamination of a Bound on the Dirac Neutrino Magnetic Moment from the Supernova Neutrino Luminosity

The neutrino helicity-flip process under the conditions of the supernova core is reinvestigated. Instead of the uniform ball model for the SN core used in previous analyses, realistic models for radial distributions and time evolution of physical parameters in the SN core are considered. A new upper bound on the Dirac neutrino magnetic moment is obtained from the limit on the supernova core luminosity for nu_R emission.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, 8 EPS figures, submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys.

An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems

In the modern era of multicore processors, utilizing cores is a tedious job. Synchronization and communication among processors involve high cost. Software transaction memory systems (STMs) addresses this issues and provide better concurrency in which programmer need not have to worry about consistency issues. Another advantage of STMs is that they facilitate compositionality of concurrent programs with great ease. Different concurrent operations that need to be composed to form a single atomic unit is achieved by encapsulating them in a single transaction. In this paper, we introduce a new STM system as multi-version object based STM (MVOSTM) which is the combination of both of these ideas for harnessing greater concurrency in STMs. As the name suggests MVOSTM, works on a higher level and maintains multiple versions corresponding to each key. We have developed MVOSTM with the unlimited number of versions corresponding to each key. In addition to that, we have developed garbage collection for MVOSTM (MVOSTM-GC) to delete unwanted versions corresponding to the keys to reduce traversal overhead. MVOSTM provides greater concurrency while reducing the number of aborts and it ensures compositionality by making the transactions atomic. Here, we have used MVOSTM for the list and hash-table data structure as list-MVOSTM and HT- MVOSTM. Experimental results of list-MVOSTM outperform almost two to twenty fold speedup than existing state-of-the-art list based STMs (Trans-list, Boosting-list, NOrec-list, list-MVTO, and list-OSTM). HT-MVOSTM shows a significant performance gain of almost two to nineteen times better than existing state-of-the-art hash-table based STMs (ESTM, RWSTMs, HT-MVTO, and HT-OSTM). MVOSTM with list and hash-table shows the least number of aborts among all the existing STM algorithms. MVOSTM satisfies correctness-criteria as opacity.Comment: 35 pages, 23 figure

Interrelation Between the Irregular Events in the Ionosphere of the Aurora Zone and the Disturbances in the Outer Radiation Belt

Interrelation between irregular events in lower ionosphere of auroral zone and disturbances in outer radiation bel