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New Classes of Partial Geometries and Their Associated LDPC Codes
The use of partial geometries to construct parity-check matrices for LDPC
codes has resulted in the design of successful codes with a probability of
error close to the Shannon capacity at bit error rates down to . Such
considerations have motivated this further investigation. A new and simple
construction of a type of partial geometries with quasi-cyclic structure is
given and their properties are investigated. The trapping sets of the partial
geometry codes were considered previously using the geometric aspects of the
underlying structure to derive information on the size of allowable trapping
sets. This topic is further considered here. Finally, there is a natural
relationship between partial geometries and strongly regular graphs. The
eigenvalues of the adjacency matrices of such graphs are well known and it is
of interest to determine if any of the Tanner graphs derived from the partial
geometries are good expanders for certain parameter sets, since it can be
argued that codes with good geometric and expansion properties might perform
well under message-passing decoding.Comment: 34 pages with single column, 6 figure
WASP-12b as a prolate, inflated and disrupting planet from tidal dissipation
The class of exotic Jupiter-mass planets that orbit very close to their
parent stars were not explicitly expected before their discovery. The recently
found transiting planet WASP-12b has a mass Mp = 1.4(+/-0.1) Jupiter masses
(MJ), a mean orbital distance of only 3.1 stellar radii (meaning it is subject
to intense tidal forces), and a period of 1.1 days. Its radius 1.79(+/- 0.09)
RJ is unexpectedly large and its orbital eccentricity 0.049(+/-0:015) is even
more surprising as such close orbits are in general quickly circularized. Here
we report an analysis of its properties, which reveals that the planet is
losing mass to its host star at a rate ~ 10^-7 MJ yr^-1. The planets surface is
distorted by the stars gravity and the light curve produced by its prolate
shape will differ by about ten per cent from that of a spherical planet. We
conclude that dissipation of the stars tidal perturbation in the planets
convective envelope provides the energy source for its large volume. We predict
up to 10mJy CO band-head (2.292 micron) emission from a tenuous disk around the
host star, made up of tidally stripped planetary gas. It may also contain a
detectable resonant super-Earth, as a hypothetical perturber that continually
stirs up WASP-12b's eccentricity.Comment: Accepted to Nature, 14 pages, 1 figur
Embryo impacts and gas giant mergers II: Diversity of Hot Jupiters' internal structure
We consider the origin of compact, short-period, Jupiter-mass planets. We
propose that their diverse structure is caused by giant impacts of embryos and
super-Earths or mergers with other gas giants during the formation and
evolution of these hot Jupiters. Through a series of numerical simulations, we
show that typical head-on collisions generally lead to total coalescence of
impinging gas giants. Although extremely energetic collisions can disintegrate
the envelope of gas giants, these events seldom occur. During oblique and
moderately energetic collisions, the merger products retain higher fraction of
the colliders' cores than their envelopes. They can also deposit considerable
amount of spin angular momentum to the gas giants and desynchronize their spins
from their orbital mean motion. We find that the oblateness of gas giants can
be used to infer the impact history. Subsequent dissipation of stellar tide
inside the planets' envelope can lead to runaway inflation and potentially a
substantial loss of gas through Roche-lobe overflow. The impact of super-Earths
on parabolic orbits can also enlarge gas giant planets' envelope and elevates
their tidal dissipation rate over 100 Myr time scale. Since giant
impacts occur stochastically with a range of impactor sizes and energies, their
diverse outcomes may account for the dispersion in the mass-radius relationship
of hot Jupiters.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRA
Electron Flavored Dark Matter
In this paper we investigate the phenomenology of the electron flavored Dirac
dark matter with two types of portal interactions. We analyze constraints from
the electron magnetic moment anomaly, LHC searches of singly charged scalar,
dark matter relic abundance as well as direct and indirect detections. Our
study shows that the available parameter space is quite constrained, but there
are parameter space that is compatible with the current data. We further show
that the DAMPE cosmic ray electron excess, which indicates cosmic ray excess at
around 1.5 TeV, can be interpreted as the annihilation of dark matter into
electron positron pairs in this model.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
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