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Detection of Extended Hot Water in the Outflow from NGC 2071
We report the results of spectroscopic mapping observations carried out
toward a ~1 min x 1 min region within the northern lobe of the outflow from NGC
2071 using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) of the Spitzer Space Telescope.
These observations covered the 5.2-37 um spectral region and have led to the
detection of a number of ionic, atomic, and molecular lines, including
fine-structure emission of Si+, Fe+, S++, S, the S(0)-S(7) pure rotational
lines of H2, the R(3) and R(4) transitions of HD, and at least 11 transitions
of H2O. In addition, the 6.2, 7.4, 7.6, 7.9, 8.6 and 11.3 um PAH emission bands
were also observed and several transitions of OH were tentatively detected.
Most of the detected line transitions were strong enough to map including, for
the first time, three transitions of hot H2O. We find that: (1) the water
emission is extended; (2) the extended emission is aligned with the outflow;
and, (3) the spatial distribution of the water emission generally follows that
observed for H2. Based on the measured line intensities, we derive an HD
abundance relative to H2 of 1.1-1.8 10^-5 and an H2O number density of 12-2
cm^3. The H2 density in the water-emitting region is not well constrained by
our observations, but is likely between 3 10^4 and 10^6 cm^3, yielding an H2O
abundance relative to H2 of between 2 10^-5 and 6 10^-4. Future observations
planned for the Herschel Space Observatory should greatly improve the density
estimate, and thus our knowledge of the H2O abundance, for the water-emitting
regions reported here. Finally, we note a possible departure from the H2O
ortho-to-para ratio of 3:1 expected for water formed in hot post-shocked gas,
suggesting that a significant fraction of the water vapor we detect may arise
from H2O sputtered from cold dust grains.Comment: 35 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Ap
A Reexamination of Phosphorus and Chlorine Depletions in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
We present a comprehensive examination of interstellar P and Cl abundances
based on an analysis of archival spectra acquired with the Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Far Ultraviolet
Spectroscopic Explorer. Column densities of P II, Cl I, and Cl II are
determined for a combined sample of 107 sight lines probing diffuse atomic and
molecular gas in the local Galactic interstellar medium (ISM). We reevaluate
the nearly linear relationship between the column densities of Cl I and H,
which arises from the rapid conversion of Cl to Cl in regions where
H is abundant. Using the observed total gas-phase P and Cl abundances, we
derive depletion parameters for these elements, adopting the methodology of
Jenkins. We find that both P and Cl are essentially undepleted along sight
lines showing the lowest overall depletions. Increasingly severe depletions of
P are seen along molecule-rich sight lines. In contrast, gas-phase Cl
abundances show no systematic variation with molecular hydrogen fraction.
However, enhanced Cl (and P) depletion rates are found for a subset of sight
lines showing elevated levels of Cl ionization. An analysis of neutral chlorine
fractions yields estimates for the amount of atomic hydrogen associated with
the H-bearing gas in each direction. These results indicate that the
molecular fraction in the H-bearing gas is at least 10% for all sight lines
with and that the gas is essentially fully
molecular at .Comment: 44 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Evaluation of binomial double sums involving absolute values
We show that double sums of the form can always be
expressed in terms of a linear combination of just four functions, namely
, , , and , with
coefficients that are rational in . We provide two different proofs: one is
algorithmic and uses the second author's computer algebra package Sigma; the
second is based on complex contour integrals. In many instances, these results
are extended to double sums of the above form where is
replaced by with independent parameter .Comment: AmS-LaTeX, 42 pages; substantial revision: several additional and
more general results, see Proposition 11 and Theorems 15-1
Effective equidistribution and the Sato-Tate law for families of elliptic curves
Extending recent work of others, we provide effective bounds on the family of
all elliptic curves and one-parameter families of elliptic curves modulo p (for
p prime tending to infinity) obeying the Sato-Tate Law. We present two methods
of proof. Both use the framework of Murty-Sinha; the first involves only
knowledge of the moments of the Fourier coefficients of the L-functions and
combinatorics, and saves a logarithm, while the second requires a Sato-Tate
law. Our purpose is to illustrate how the caliber of the result depends on the
error terms of the inputs and what combinatorics must be done.Comment: Version 1.1, 24 pages: corrected the interpretation of Birch's moment
calculations, added to the literature review of previous results
Dosimetric comparison of extended dose range film with ionization measurements in water and lung equivalent heterogeneous media exposed to megavoltage photons
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135483/1/acm20025.pd
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