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Simplified models of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation damping
In previous work the authors analysed the global properties of an approximate
model of radiation damping for charged particles. This work is put into context
and related to the original motivation of understanding approximations used in
the study of gravitational radiation damping. It is examined to what extent the
results obtained previously depend on the particular model chosen. Comparisons
are made with other models for gravitational and electromagnetic fields. The
relation of the kinetic model for which theorems were proved to certain
many-particle models with radiation damping is exhibited
Texas Water Development Board Report 134
Report on a survey of minerals and other chemicals, "to present available chemical-quality data and interpretations that will aid in the proper development, management, and use of the surface-water resources of the Nueces River basin. In the study, the following factors were considered: the nature and concentrations of mineral constituents in solution; the geologic hydrologic, and cultural influences that determine the water quality; and the suitability of the water for domestic supply, industrial use, and irrigation" (p. 2)
The Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture 2011. Artefacts, art and artifice: reconsidering iconographic sources for archaeological objects in early modern Europe
A first systematic analysis of historic domestic material culture depicted in contemporaneous Western painting and prints, c.1400-1800. Drawing on an extensive data set, the paper proposes to methodologies and hermeneutics for historical analysis and archaeological correspondence
The Rich Mid-Infrared Environments of Two Highly-Obscured X-ray Binaries: Spitzer Observations of IGR J16318-4848 and GX 301-2
We present the results of Spitzer mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of
two highly-obscured massive X-ray binaries: IGR J16318-4848 and GX301-2. Our
observations reveal for the first time the extremely rich mid-infrared
environments of this type of source, including multiple continuum emission
components (a hot component with T > 700 K and a warm component with T ~ 180 K)
with apparent silicate absorption features, numerous HI recombination lines,
many forbidden ionic lines of low ionization potentials, and pure rotational H2
lines. This indicates that both sources have hot and warm circumstellar dust,
ionized stellar winds, extended low-density ionized regions, and
photo-dissociated regions. It appears difficult to attribute the total optical
extinction of both sources to the hot and warm dust components, which suggests
that there could be an otherwise observable colder dust component responsible
for the most of the optical extinction and silicate absorption features. The
observed mid-infrared spectra are similar to those from Luminous Blue
Variables, indicating that the highly-obscured massive X-ray binaries may
represent a previously unknown evolutionary phase of X-ray binaries with
early-type optical companions. Our results highlight the importance and utility
of mid-infrared spectroscopy to investigate highly-obscured X-ray binaries.Comment: To appear in ApJ Letter
Global existence for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system with outgoing matter
We prove a new global existence result for the asymptotically flat,
spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system which describes in the framework
of general relativity an ensemble of particles which interact by gravity. The
data are such that initially all the particles are moving radially outward and
that this property can be bootstrapped. The resulting non-vacuum spacetime is
future geodesically complete.Comment: 16 page
Kidney cell electrophoresis in space flight: Rationale, methods, results and flow cytometry applications
Cultures of human embryonic kidney cells consistently contain an electrophoretically separable subpopulation of cells that produce high levels of urokinase and have an electrophoretic mobility about 85 percent as high as that of the most mobile human embryonic kidney cells. This subpopulation is rich in large epithelioid cells that have relatively little internal structure. When resolution and throughput are adequate, free fluid electrophoresis can be used to isolate a broad band of low mobility cells which also produces high levels of plasminogen activators (PAs). In the course of performing this, it was discovered that all electrophoretic subpopulations of cultured human embryonic kidney cells produce some PAs and that separate subpopulations produce high quantities of different types of PA's. This information and the development of sensitive assays for this project have provided new insights into cell secretion mechanisms related to fibrinolysis. These advances would probably not have been made without the NASA program to explore fundamental questions of free fluid electrophoresis in space
Texas Water Development Board Report 130
Report on chemicals in the surface waters of Texas's coastal basins
The Vlasov limit and its fluctuations for a system of particles which interact by means of a wave field
In two recent publications [Commun. PDE, vol.22, p.307--335 (1997), Commun.
Math. Phys., vol.203, p.1--19 (1999)], A. Komech, M. Kunze and H. Spohn studied
the joint dynamics of a classical point particle and a wave type generalization
of the Newtonian gravity potential, coupled in a regularized way. In the
present paper the many-body dynamics of this model is studied. The Vlasov
continuum limit is obtained in form equivalent to a weak law of large numbers.
We also establish a central limit theorem for the fluctuations around this
limit.Comment: 68 pages. Smaller corrections: two inequalities in sections 3 and two
inequalities in section 4, and definition of a Banach space in appendix A1.
Presentation of LLN and CLT in section 4.3 improved. Notation improve
Anisotropic 'hairs' in string cosmology
In this letter we investigate whether the isotropy problem is naturally
solved in inflationary cosmologies inspired by string theory, so called
pre-big-bang cosmologies. We find that, in contrast to what happens in the more
common 'potential inflation' models, initial anisotropies do not decay during
pre-big-bang inflation.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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