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Testing the cooling flow model in the intermediate polar EX Hydrae
We use the best available X-ray data from the intermediate polar EX Hydrae to
study the cooling-flow model often applied to interpret the X-ray spectra of
these accreting magnetic white dwarf binaries. First, we resolve a
long-standing discrepancy between the X-ray and optical determinations of the
mass of the white dwarf in EX Hya by applying new models of the inner disk
truncation radius. Our fits to the X-ray spectrum now agree with the white
dwarf mass of 0.79 Msun determined using dynamical methods through
spectroscopic observations of the secondary. We use a simple isobaric cooling
flow model to derive the emission line fluxes, emission measure distribution,
and H-like to He-like line ratios for comparison with the 496 ks Chandra High
Energy Transmission Grating observation of EX Hydrae. We find that the H/He
ratios are not well reproduced by this simple isobaric cooling flow model and
show that while H-like line fluxes can be accurately predicted, fluxes of
lower-Z He-like lines are significantly underestimated. This discrepancy
suggests that some extra heating mechanism plays an important role at the base
of the accretion column, where cooler ions form. We thus explored more complex
cooling models including the change of gravitational potential with height in
the accretion column and a magnetic dipole geometry. None of these
modifications to the standard cooling flow model are able to reproduce the
observed line ratios. While a cooling flow model with subsolar (0.1 )
abundances is able to reproduce the line ratios by reducing the cooling rate at
temperatures lower than K, the predicted line-to-continuum
ratios are much lower than observed. We discuss and discard mechanisms such as
photoionization, departures from constant pressure, resonant scattering,
different electron-ion temperatures, and Compton cooling. [Abridged]Comment: Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics, modified version after referee
comments and proof correction
Periodic Chaotic Billiards: Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Energy Space
We investigate the properties of eigenstates and local density of states
(LDOS) for a periodic 2D rippled billiard, focusing on their quantum-classical
correspondence in energy representation. To construct the classical
counterparts of LDOS and the structure of eigenstates (SES), the effects of the
boundary are first incorporated (via a canonical transformation) into an
effective potential, rendering the one-particle motion in the 2D rippled
billiard equivalent to that of two-interacting particles in 1D geometry. We
show that classical counterparts of SES and LDOS in the case of strong chaotic
motion reveal quite a good correspondence with the quantum quantities. We also
show that the main features of the SES and LDOS can be explained in terms of
the underlying classical dynamics, in particular of certain periodic orbits. On
the other hand, statistical properties of eigenstates and LDOS turn out to be
different from those prescribed by random matrix theory. We discuss the quantum
effects responsible for the non-ergodic character of the eigenstates and
individual LDOS that seem to be generic for this type of billiards with a large
number of transverse channels.Comment: 13 pages, 18 figure
Influence of a dynamical gluon mass in the and forward scattering
We compute the tree level cross section for gluon-gluon elastic scattering
taking into account a dynamical gluon mass, and show that this mass scale is a
natural regulator for this subprocess cross section. Using an eikonal approach
in order to examine the relationship between this gluon-gluon scattering and
the elastic and channels, we found that the dynamical gluon
mass is of the same order of magnitude as the {\it ad hoc} infrared mass scale
underlying eikonalized QCD-inspired models. We argue that this
correspondence is not an accidental result, and that this dynamical scale
indeed represents the onset of non-perturbative contributions to the elastic
hadron-hadron scattering. We apply the eikonal model with a dynamical infrared
mass scale to obtain predictions for ,
, slope , and differential elastic
scattering cross section at Tevatron and CERN-LHC
energies.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures; misprints corrected and comments added. To
appear in Phys. Rev.
Basin structure in the two-dimensional dissipative circle map
Fractal basin structure in the two-dimensional dissipative circle map is
examined in detail. Numerically obtained basin appears to be riddling in the
parameter region where two periodic orbits co-exist near a boundary crisis, but
it is shown to consist of layers of thin bands.Comment: published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 72, 1943-1947 (2003
Chaotic Waveguide-Based Resonators for Microlasers
We propose the construction of highly directional emission microlasers using
two-dimensional high-index semiconductor waveguides as {\it open} resonators.
The prototype waveguide is formed by two collinear leads connected to a cavity
of certain shape. The proposed lasing mechanism requires that the shape of the
cavity yield mixed chaotic ray dynamics so as to have the appropiate (phase
space) resonance islands. These islands allow, via Heisenberg's uncertainty
principle, the appearance of quasi bound states (QBS) which, in turn,
propitiate the lasing mechanism. The energy values of the QBS are found through
the solution of the Helmholtz equation. We use classical ray dynamics to
predict the direction and intensity of the lasing produced by such open
resonators for typical values of the index of refraction.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Multi-objective Robust Strategy Synthesis for Interval Markov Decision Processes
Interval Markov decision processes (IMDPs) generalise classical MDPs by
having interval-valued transition probabilities. They provide a powerful
modelling tool for probabilistic systems with an additional variation or
uncertainty that prevents the knowledge of the exact transition probabilities.
In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-objective robust strategy
synthesis for interval MDPs, where the aim is to find a robust strategy that
guarantees the satisfaction of multiple properties at the same time in face of
the transition probability uncertainty. We first show that this problem is
PSPACE-hard. Then, we provide a value iteration-based decision algorithm to
approximate the Pareto set of achievable points. We finally demonstrate the
practical effectiveness of our proposed approaches by applying them on several
case studies using a prototypical tool.Comment: This article is a full version of a paper accepted to the Conference
on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 201
Multiplicity of photohadronization and photon--hadron scaling violation
The method of scaling transformations permitting to carry out the
reconstruction of cross sections of and interactions
on the basis of cross sections of nucleon-(anti)nucleon interactions is
suggested. The photon--hadron scaling violation is a consequence of dependence
of scaling transformation parameter on the energy. The universal
function is interpreted as the multiplicity of photohadronization.
This function is established by processing the data on cross
sections in the low energy region \sqrt{s}< 20 \GeV and is extrapolated to
the high energy region up to \sqrt{s}\sim 200 \GeV. The results of the
reconstruction of cross sections at high energies and of
ones at all energies are in a remarkable agreement with
available experimental data.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2: reference correcte
A versatile and compact capacitive dilatometer
We describe the design, construction, calibration, and operation of a
relatively simple differential capacitive dilatometer suitable for measurements
of thermal expansion and magnetostriction from 300 K to below 1 K with a
low-temperature resolution of about 0.05 angstroms. The design is characterized
by an open architecture permitting measurements on small samples with a variety
of shapes. Dilatometers of this design have operated successfully with a
commercial physical property measurement system, with several types of
cryogenic refrigeration systems, in vacuum, in helium exchange gas, and while
immersed in liquid helium (magnetostriction only) to temperatures of 30 mK and
in magnetic fields to 45 T.Comment: 8 pages, incorporating 6 figures, submitted to Rev. Sci. Instru
New Spectroscopic Observations of the Post-AGB Star V354Lac=IRAS22272+5435
The strongest absorption features with the lower-level excitation potentials
eV are found to be split in the high-resolution optical
spectra of the post-AGB star V354 Lac taken in 2007--2008. Main parameters,
T=5650 K, =0.2, =5.0 km/s, and the abundances of 22
chemical elements in the star's atmosphere are found. The overabundance of the
-process chemical elements (Ba, La, Ce, Nd) in the star's atmosphere is
partly due to the splitting of strong lines of the ions of these metals. The
peculiarities of the spectrum in the wavelength interval containing the LiI
6707 \AA{} line can be naturally explained only by taking the
overabundances of the CeII and SmII heavy-metal ions into account. The best
agreement with the synthetic spectrum is achieved assuming (LiI)=2.0,
(CeII)=3.2, and (SmII)=2.7. The velocity field both in the
atmosphere and in the circumstellar envelope of V354 Lac remained stationary
throughout the last 15 years of our observations.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, 2 table
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