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Detecting stars, galaxies, and asteroids with Gaia
(Abridged) Gaia aims to make a 3-dimensional map of 1,000 million stars in
our Milky Way to unravel its kinematical, dynamical, and chemical structure and
evolution. Gaia's on-board detection software discriminates stars from spurious
objects like cosmic rays and Solar protons. For this, parametrised
point-spread-function-shape criteria are used. This study aims to provide an
optimum set of parameters for these filters. We developed an emulation of the
on-board detection software, which has 20 free, so-called rejection parameters
which govern the boundaries between stars on the one hand and sharp or extended
events on the other hand. We evaluate the detection and rejection performance
of the algorithm using catalogues of simulated single stars, double stars,
cosmic rays, Solar protons, unresolved galaxies, and asteroids. We optimised
the rejection parameters, improving - with respect to the functional baseline -
the detection performance of single and double stars, while, at the same time,
improving the rejection performance of cosmic rays and of Solar protons. We
find that the minimum separation to resolve a close, equal-brightness double
star is 0.23 arcsec in the along-scan and 0.70 arcsec in the across-scan
direction, independent of the brightness of the primary. We find that, whereas
the optimised rejection parameters have no significant impact on the
detectability of de Vaucouleurs profiles, they do significantly improve the
detection of exponential-disk profiles. We also find that the optimised
rejection parameters provide detection gains for asteroids fainter than 20 mag
and for fast-moving near-Earth objects fainter than 18 mag, albeit this gain
comes at the expense of a modest detection-probability loss for bright,
fast-moving near-Earth objects. The major side effect of the optimised
parameters is that spurious ghosts in the wings of bright stars essentially
pass unfiltered.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&
Lattice Simulation of Nuclear Multifragmentation
Motivated by the decade-long debate over the issue of criticality supposedly
observed in nuclear multifragmentation, we propose a dynamical lattice model to
simulate the phenomenon. Its Ising Hamiltonian mimics a short range attractive
interaction which competes with a thermal-like dissipative process. The results
here presented, generated through an event-by-event analysis, are in agreement
with both experiment and those produced by a percolative (non-dynamical) model.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Sistema reprodutivo de Bertholletia excelsa e implicações para o manejo e conservação da espécie.
A castanheira é uma espécie arbórea de grande porte, cujas sementes apresentam grande valor ecológico e econômico, sendo comercializadas e servindo como alternativa de renda para as famílias que vivem dos produtos retirados da floresta. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi estimar parâmetros do sistema de reprodução em uma população natural de Bertholletia excelsa no Acre
A method for solve integrable spin chains combining different representations
A non homogeneous spin chain in the representations and
of is analyzed. We find that the naive nested Bethe ansatz is not
applicable to this case. A method inspired in the nested Bethe ansatz, that can
be applied to more general cases, is developed for that chain. The solution for
the eigenvalues of the trace of the monodromy matrix is given as two coupled
Bethe equations different from that for a homogeneous chain. A conjecture about
the form of the solutions for more general chains is presented.
PACS: 75.10.Jm, 05.50+q 02.20 SvComment: PlainTeX, harvmac, 13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Diversidade genética de populações naturais de castanheira (Bertholletia excelsa) com marcadores ISSR.
A castanheira possui um grande valor econômico devido à exploração de suas sementes. Consequentemente, é uma espécie arbórea muito visada para fins de extrativismo. Nesse sentido, as análises genéticas são de grande importância, pois geram um conhecimento sobre a estrutura genética relevante para a elaboração de projetos de conservação da espécie. Os marcadores moleculares ISSR têm sido utilizados para estudos genéticos por serem altamente informativos, multilocos e de baixo custo, permitindo a caracterização da diversidade genética da espécie. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a estrutura genética populacional da castanheira nas regionais do Baixo e Alto Acre, no Estado do Acre
Eletroforese de isoenzimas de plântulas na identificação de espécies de Brachiaria.
Lotes de sementes de braquiaria comercializados no Brasil vem apresentando contaminacoes som sementes de outras especies pertencentes ao mesmo genero. Deste modo, uma das especies de braquiaria atuaria como planta infestante da outra no agroecossistema e a erradicacao da especie infestante seria dificultada pela agressividade caracteristca do genero e pela falta de seletividade dos herbecidas disponiveis no mercado
Catastrophic senescence and semelparity in the Penna aging model
The catastrophic senescence of the Pacific salmon is among the initial tests
used to validate the Penna aging model. Based on the mutation accumulation
theory, the sudden decrease in fitness following reproduction may be solely
attributed to the semelparity of the species. In this work, we report other
consequences of mutation accumulation. Contrary to earlier findings, such
dramatic manifestation of aging depends not only on the choice of breeding
strategy but also on the value of the reproduction age, R, and the mutation
threshold, T. Senescence is catastrophic when . As the organism's
tolerance for harmful genetic mutations increases, the aging process becomes
more gradual. We observe senescence that is threshold dependent whenever T>R.
That is, the sudden drop in survival rate occurs at age equal to the mutation
threshold value
Exactly solvable quantum spin ladders associated with the orthogonal and symplectic Lie algebras
We extend the results of spin ladder models associated with the Lie algebras
to the case of the orthogonal and symplectic algebras $o(2^n),\
sp(2^n)$ where n is the number of legs for the system. Two classes of models
are found whose symmetry, either orthogonal or symplectic, has an explicit n
dependence. Integrability of these models is shown for an arbitrary coupling of
XX type rung interactions and applied magnetic field term.Comment: 7 pages, Late
Ground State Structure and Low Temperature Behaviour of an Integrable Chain with Alternating Spins
In this paper we continue the investigation of an anisotropic integrable spin
chain, consisting of spins and , started in our paper
\cite{meissner}. The thermodynamic Bethe ansatz is analysed especially for the
case, when the signs of the two couplings and differ. For
the conformally invariant model () we have calculated heat
capacity and magnetic susceptibility at low temperature. In the isotropic limit
our analysis is carried out further and susceptibilities are calculated near
phase transition lines (at ).Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX, uses ioplppt.sty and PicTeX macro
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