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The Parasitoid Complex of First Generation \u3ci\u3eOstrinia Nubilalis\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Larvae in Northwest Ohio
A survey of first generation European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) larvae was conducted during 1997 in six cornfields located in northwestern Ohio in order to determine the larval parasitoid complex utilizing this host. Collected larvae were held under constant conditions until the larvae completed development or parasitoids emerged. The following species were recorded: Eriborus terebrans (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Macrocentrus grandii (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Sympiesis viridula (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), and Lixophaga sp. (Diptera: Tachinidae), Levels of parasitism in the different fields ranged from 14.3 to 83.3%. Future research will include surveys of additional fields and sampling of O. nubilalis over the entire season in the northwest Ohio region
Orbital evolution of a test particle around a black hole: higher-order corrections
We study the orbital evolution of a radiation-damped binary in the extreme
mass ratio limit, and the resulting waveforms, to one order beyond what can be
obtained using the conservation laws approach. The equations of motion are
solved perturbatively in the mass ratio (or the corresponding parameter in the
scalar field toy model), using the self force, for quasi-circular orbits around
a Schwarzschild black hole. This approach is applied for the scalar model.
Higher-order corrections yield a phase shift which, if included, may make
gravitational-wave astronomy potentially highly accurate.Comment: 4 pages, 3 Encapsulated PostScript figure
Meteoroid detector
A meteoroid detector is described which uses, a cold cathode discharge tube with a gas-pressurized cell in space for recording a meteoroid puncture of the cell and for determining the size of the puncture
AGAPEROS: Searching for variable stars in the LMC Bar with the Pixel Method. I. Detection, astrometry and cross-identification
We extend the work developed in previous papers on microlensing with a
selection of variable stars. We use the Pixel Method to select variable stars
on a set of 2.5 x 10**6 pixel light curves in the LMC Bar presented elsewhere.
The previous treatment was done in order to optimise the detection of long
timescale variations (larger than a few days) and we further optimise our
analysis for the selection of Long Timescale and Long Period Variables
(LT&LPV). We choose to perform a selection of variable objects as comprehensive
as possible, independent of periodicity and of their position on the colour
magnitude diagram. We detail the different thresholds successively applied to
the light curves, which allow to produce a catalogue of 632 variable objects.
We present a table with the coordinate of each variable, its EROS magnitudes at
one epoch and an indicator of blending in both colours, together with a finding
chart.
A cross-correlation with various catalogues shows that 90% of those variable
objects were undetected before, thus enlarging the sample of LT&LPV previously
known in this area by a factor of 10. Due to the limitations of both the Pixel
Method and the data set, additional data -- namely a longer baseline and near
infrared photometry -- are required to further characterise these variable
stars, as will be addressed in subsequent papers.Comment: 11 pages with 10 figure
An octonionic formulation of the M-theory algebra
We give an octonionic formulation of the N = 1 supersymmetry algebra in D =
11, including all brane charges. We write this in terms of a novel outer
product, which takes a pair of elements of the division algebra A and returns a
real linear operator on A. More generally, with this product comes the power to
rewrite any linear operation on R^n (n = 1,2,4,8) in terms of multiplication in
the n-dimensional division algebra A. Finally, we consider the reinterpretation
of the D = 11 supersymmetry algebra as an octonionic algebra in D = 4 and the
truncation to division subalgebras
A magic pyramid of supergravities
By formulating N = 1, 2, 4, 8, D = 3, Yang-Mills with a single Lagrangian and
single set of transformation rules, but with fields valued respectively in
R,C,H,O, it was recently shown that tensoring left and right multiplets yields
a Freudenthal-Rosenfeld-Tits magic square of D = 3 supergravities. This was
subsequently tied in with the more familiar R,C,H,O description of spacetime to
give a unified division-algebraic description of extended super Yang-Mills in D
= 3, 4, 6, 10. Here, these constructions are brought together resulting in a
magic pyramid of supergravities. The base of the pyramid in D = 3 is the known
4x4 magic square, while the higher levels are comprised of a 3x3 square in D =
4, a 2x2 square in D = 6 and Type II supergravity at the apex in D = 10. The
corresponding U-duality groups are given by a new algebraic structure, the
magic pyramid formula, which may be regarded as being defined over three
division algebras, one for spacetime and each of the left/right Yang-Mills
multiplets. We also construct a conformal magic pyramid by tensoring conformal
supermultiplets in D = 3, 4, 6. The missing entry in D = 10 is suggestive of an
exotic theory with G/H duality structure F4(4)/Sp(3) x Sp(1).Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures. Updated to match published version. References
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