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Bioelectric signal analysis and measurement
Nonstationary time series techniques are used to analyze EEG signals for the estimation of alertness. A time varying order is extracted in sequential time series measurement of these data and strategies are devised for obtaining optimal representation of the EEG signal
Resonant Tidal Excitations of Inertial Modes in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries
We study the effect of resonant tidal excitation of inertial modes in neutron
stars during binary inspiral. For spin frequencies less than 100 Hz, the phase
shift in the gravitational waveform associated with the resonance is small and
does not affect the matched filtering scheme for gravitational wave detection.
For higher spin frequencies, the phase shift can become significant. Most of
the resonances take place at orbital frequencies comparable to the spin
frequency, and thus significant phase shift may occur only in the
high-frequency band (hundreds of Hertz) of gravitational wave. The exception is
a single odd-paity mode, which can be resonantly excited for misaligned
spin-orbit inclinations, and may occur in the low-frequency band (tens of
Hertz) of gravitational wave and induce significant (>> 1 radian) phase shift.Comment: Minor changes. 6 pages. Phys. Rev. D. in press (volume 74, issue 2
Transitional Justice and Its Discontents:Socioeconomic Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Limits of International Intervention
The incorporation of socioeconomic concerns into transitional justice has traditionally, as a result of prevailing liberal notions about dealing with the past, been both conceptually and practically difficult. This article demonstrates and accounts for these difficulties through the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country which has been characterized by a complex transition process and a far-reaching international intervention, encompassing transitional justice and peacebuilding as well as political and economic reforms. Examining the limits of international intervention in Bosnia and the marginalization of socioeconomic justice issues, the article analyses the events surrounding the protests that broke out in February 2014, and the ensuing international engagement with the protest movement. Faced with a broad-based civic movement calling for socioeconomic justice, the international community struggled to understand its claims as justice issues, framing them instead as problems to be tackled through reforms aimed at completing Bosnia’s transition towards a market economy. The operation of peacebuilding and transitional justice within the limits of neoliberal transformation is thus instrumental in explaining how and why socioeconomic justice issues become marginalized, as well as accounting for the expression of popular discontent where justice becomes an object of contestation and external intervention
Radiative transitions of the helium atom in highly magnetized neutron star atmospheres
Recent observations of thermally emitting isolated neutron stars revealed
spectral features that could be interpreted as radiative transitions of He in a
magnetized neutron star atmosphere. We present Hartree-Fock calculations of the
polarization-dependent photoionization cross sections of the He atom in strong
magnetic fields ranging from 10^12 G to 10^14 G. Convenient fitting formulae
for the cross sections are given as well as related oscillator strengths for
various bound-bound transitions. The effects of finite nucleus mass on the
radiative absorption cross sections are examined using perturbation theory.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures. Minor changes. MNRAS in pres
Dynamical evolution and leading order gravitational wave emission of Riemann-S binaries
An approximate strategy for studying the evolution of binary systems of
extended objects is introduced. The stars are assumed to be polytropic
ellipsoids. The surfaces of constant density maintain their ellipsoidal shape
during the time evolution. The equations of hydrodynamics then reduce to a
system of ordinary differential equations for the internal velocities, the
principal axes of the stars and the orbital parameters. The equations of motion
are given within Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism. The special case when
both stars are axially symmetric fluid configurations is considered. Leading
order gravitational radiation reaction is incorporated, where the quasi-static
approximation is applied to the internal degrees of freedom of the stars. The
influence of the stellar parameters, in particular the influence of the
polytropic index , on the leading order gravitational waveforms is studied.Comment: 31 pages, 7 figures, typos correcte
How strong are the Rossby vortices?
The Rossby wave instability, associated with density bumps in differentially
rotating discs, may arise in several different astrophysical contexts, such as
galactic or protoplanetary discs. While the linear phase of the instability has
been well studied, the nonlinear evolution and especially the saturation phase
remain poorly understood. In this paper, we test the non-linear saturation
mechanism analogous to that derived for wave-particle interaction in plasma
physics. To this end we perform global numerical simulations of the evolution
of the instability in a two-dimensional disc. We confirm the physical mechanism
for the instability saturation and show that the maximum amplitude of vorticity
can be estimated as twice the linear growth rate of the instability. We provide
an empirical fitting formula for this growth rate for various parameters of the
density bump. We also investigate the effects of the azimuthal mode number of
the instability and the energy leakage in the spiral density waves. Finally, we
show that our results can be extrapolated to 3D discs.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA
molecular ions can exist in strong magnetic fields
Using the variational method it is shown that for magnetic fields G there can exist a molecular ion .Comment: LaTeX, 7 pp, 1 table, 4 figures. Title modified. Consideration of the
longitudinal size of the system was adde
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