13,961 research outputs found
ALMA polarization observations of the particle accelerators in the hot spot of the radio galaxy 3C 445
We present Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) polarization observations at
97.5 GHz of the southern hot spot of the radio galaxy 3C 445. The hot spot
structure is dominated by two bright components enshrouded by diffuse emission.
Both components show fractional polarization between 30 and 40 per cent,
suggesting the presence of shocks. The polarized emission of the western
component has a displacement of about 0.5 kpc outward with respect to the total
intensity emission, and may trace the surface of a front shock. Strong
polarization is observed in a thin strip marking the ridge of the hot spot
structure visible from radio to optical. No significant polarization is
detected in the diffuse emission between the main components, suggesting a
highly disordered magnetic field likely produced by turbulence and
instabilities in the downstream region that may be at the origin of the
extended optical emission observed in this hot spot. The polarization
properties support a scenario in which a combination of both multiple and
intermittent shock fronts due to jet dithering, and spatially distributed
stochastic second-order Fermi acceleration processes are present in the hot
spot complex.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS Lette
Discovery of a wandering radio jet base after a large X-ray flare in the blazar Markarian 421
We investigate the location of the radio jet bases ("radio cores") of blazars
in radio images, and their stationarity by means of dense very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI) observations. In order to measure the position of a radio
core, we conducted 12 epoch astrometric observation of the blazar Markarian 421
with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry at 22 GHz immediately after a
large X-ray flare, which occurred in the middle of 2011 September. For the
first time, we find that the radio core is not stationary but rather changes
its location toward 0.5 mas downstream. This angular scale corresponds to the
de-projected length of a scale of Schwarzschild radii (Rs) at the
distance of Markarian~421. This radio-core wandering may be a new type of
manifestation associated with the phenomena of large X-ray flares.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, has been published in ApJ Letter
The fractional Keller-Segel model
The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations
modelling chemotactic aggregation in cellular systems. This model has blowing
up solutions for large enough initial conditions in dimensions d >= 2, but all
the solutions are regular in one dimension; a mathematical fact that crucially
affects the patterns that can form in the biological system. One of the
strongest assumptions of the Keller-Segel model is the diffusive character of
the cellular motion, known to be false in many situations. We extend this model
to such situations in which the cellular dispersal is better modelled by a
fractional operator. We analyze this fractional Keller-Segel model and find
that all solutions are again globally bounded in time in one dimension. This
fact shows the robustness of the main biological conclusions obtained from the
Keller-Segel model
Counterflow Extension for the F.A.S.T.-Model
The F.A.S.T. (Floor field and Agent based Simulation Tool) model is a
microscopic model of pedestrian dynamics, which is discrete in space and time.
It was developed in a number of more or less consecutive steps from a simple CA
model. This contribution is a summary of a study on an extension of the
F.A.S.T-model for counterflow situations. The extensions will be explained and
it will be shown that the extended F.A.S.T.-model is capable of handling
various counterflow situations and to reproduce the well known lane formation
effect.Comment: Contribution to Crowds and Cellular Automata Workshop 2008. Accepted
for publication in "Cellular Automata -- 8th International Conference on
Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2008, Yokohama, Japan,
September 23-26, Springer 2008, Proceedings
Chemical Gradients in Galaxy Clusters and the Multiple Ways of Making a Cold Front
Cold fronts were originally interpreted as being the result of
subsonic/transonic motions of head-on merging substructures. This merger core
remnant model is theoretically justified and hold relatively well for clusters
that have clear signs of merging, such as 1E0657-56, but they do not work well
for the increasing number of cold fronts found in clusters that do not show
clear merging signs, such as A496. Here we report the results of a deeper
observation of that cluster that allowed us to produce high quality maps of the
gas parameters and to compare more closely the observations with the
predictions given by different models for cold front formation. We found for
the first time a ``cold arm'' characteristic of a flyby of a massive DM halo
near the core of the cluster. The cold arm is accompanied by an enhanced SN II
Fe mass fraction, inconsistent with the merger core remnant scenario.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "Heating vs.
Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies", August 2006, Garching
(Germany
Limb-Brightened Jet of 3C 84 Revealed by the 43-GHz Very-Long-Baseline-Array Observation
We present a study of sub-pc scale radio structure of the radio galaxy 3C
84/NGC 1275 based on the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) data at 43 GHz. We
discover a limb-brightening in the "restarted" jet associated with the 2005
radio outburst. In the 1990s, the jet structure was ridge-brightening rather
than limb-brightening, despite the observations being done with similar angular
resolution. This indicates that the transverse jet structure has changed
recently. This change in the morphology shows an interesting agreement with the
-ray flux increase, i.e., the -ray flux in 1990s was at least
seven times lower than the current one. One plausible explanation for the
limb-brightening is the velocity structure of the jet in the context of the
stratified jet, which is a successful scenario to explain the -ray
emission in some active galactic nuclei (AGNs). If this is the case, the change
in apparent transverse structure might be caused by the change in the
transverse velocity structure. We argue the possibility that the transition
from ridge-brightening to limb-brightening is related to the -ray time
variability on the timescale of decades. We also discuss the collimation
profile of the jet.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for Publication in Ap
Multiple peak aggregations for the Keller-Segel system
In this paper we derive matched asymptotic expansions for a solution of the
Keller-Segel system in two space dimensions for which the amount of mass
aggregation is , where Previously available asymptotics
had been computed only for the case in which N=1
A Description Logic of Typicality for Conceptual Combination
We propose a nonmonotonic Description Logic of typicality able to
account for the phenomenon of combining prototypical concepts, an open problem
in the fields of AI and cognitive modelling. Our logic extends the logic of
typicality ALC + TR, based on the notion of rational closure, by inclusions
p :: T(C) v D (“we have probability p that typical Cs are Ds”), coming
from the distributed semantics of probabilistic Description Logics. Additionally,
it embeds a set of cognitive heuristics for concept combination. We show that the
complexity of reasoning in our logic is EXPTIME-complete as in ALC
- …