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Absorption spectrum of the quasar HS1603+3820 I. Observations and data analysis
We present the analysis of multi-wavelength observations of bright quasar
HS1603+3820: the optical data taken with the MMT and Keck telescopes, and X-ray
data obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The optical spectra contain a
very large number of absorption lines from numerous heavy elements. We derived
X-ray properties of HS1603. The quasar has the optical-to-X-ray slope index
alpha_ox of 1.70, which is on the high end of the typical range for radio quiet
QSOs. We found 49 individual heavy element absorption clouds, which can be
grouped into eleven distinct systems. We determined column densities and
redshifts of the individual components. Absorbers from the associated system
which is likely spatially closest to the QSO show large CIV to HI column
density ratio, reaching ca.20.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A, 17 pages, 11 figures, 5 table
The Wide-Angle Outflow of the Lensed z = 1.51 AGN HS 0810+2554
We present results from X-ray observations of the gravitationally lensed z =
1.51 AGN HS 0810+2554 performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and
XMM-Newton. Blueshifted absorption lines are detected in both observations at
rest-frame energies ranging between ~1-12 keV at > 99% confidence. The inferred
velocities of the outflowing components range between ~0.1c and ~0.4c. A strong
emission line at ~6.8 keV accompanied by a significant absorption line at ~7.8
keV is also detected in the Chandra observation. The presence of these lines is
a characteristic feature of a P-Cygni profile supporting the presence of an
expanding outflowing highly ionized iron absorber in this quasar. Modeling of
the P-Cygni profile constrains the covering factor of the wind to be > 0.6,
assuming disk shielding. A disk-reflection component is detected in the
XMM-Newton observation accompanied by blueshifted absorption lines. The
XMM-Newton observation constrains the inclination angle to be < 45 degrees at
90% confidence, assuming the hard excess is due to blurred reflection from the
accretion disk. The detection of an ultrafast and wide-angle wind in an AGN
with intrinsic narrow absorption lines (NALs) would suggest that quasar winds
may couple efficiently with the intergalactic medium and provide significant
feedback if ubiquitous in all NAL and BAL quasars. We estimate the mass-outflow
rate of the absorbers to lie in the range of 1.5 and 3.4 Msolar/yr for the two
observations. We find the fraction of kinetic to electromagnetic luminosity
released by HS 0810+2554 is large (epsilon = 9 (-6,+8)) suggesting that
magnetic driving is likely a significant contributor to the acceleration of
this outflow.Comment: 27 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in Ap
DRINet for medical image segmentation
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized medical image analysis over the past few years. The UNet architecture is one of the most well-known CNN architectures for semantic segmentation and has achieved remarkable successes in many different medical image segmentation applications. The U-Net architecture consists of standard convolution layers, pooling layers, and upsampling layers. These convolution layers learn representative features of input images and construct segmentations based on the features. However, the features learned by standard convolution layers are not distinctive when the differences among different categories are subtle in terms of intensity, location, shape, and size. In this paper, we propose a novel CNN architecture, called Dense-Res-Inception Net (DRINet), which addresses this challenging problem. The proposed DRINet consists of three blocks, namely a convolutional block with dense connections, a deconvolutional block with residual Inception modules, and an unpooling block. Our proposed architecture outperforms the U-Net in three different challenging applications, namely multi-class segmentation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on brain CT images, multi-organ segmentation on abdominal CT images, multi-class brain tumour segmentation on MR images
Leading Temperature Corrections to Fermi Liquid Theory in Two Dimensions
We calculate the basic parameters of the Fermi Liquid: the scattering vertex,
the Landau interaction function, the effective mass, and physical
susceptibilities for a model of two-dimensional (2D) fermions with a short
ranged interaction at non-zero temperature. The leading temperature dependences
of the spin components of the scattering vertex, the Landau function, and the
spin susceptibility are found to be linear. T-linear terms in the effective
mass and in the ``charge-sector''- quantities are found to cancel to second
order in the interaction, but the cancellation is argued not to be generic. The
connection with previous studies of the 2D Fermi-Liquid parameters is
discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Time-of-Flight Pulsed Neutron Diffraction of Pd_<0.8>-Si_<0.2> Amorphous Alloy Using the Electron Linac
The structure factor S(Q) of Pd_-Si_ amorphous alloy was measured over wide range of Q (=4π sin θ/λ) up to 40 A^ by time-of-flight neutron diffraction using pulsed epithermal-neutron generated from the Tohoku University electron linac. The S(Q) has definitely shown an oscillation even in range of Q≳25 A^. The 1st peak of the pair distribution function Fourier transformed from the S(Q) has been split into two sub-peaks at the position of 2.42 and 2.81 A. Combining the neutron result with the X-ray result, the 1st sub-peak was verified to correspond to Pd-Si pair and the 2nd sub-peak the mixture of Pd-Pd pair and Pd-Si pair where Pd atom was substituted with Si atom. The average numbers of the nearest neighbour atoms around the Pd atom at origin are 1.7 Si atoms in the 1st sub-peak and 10.7 Pd and 1.5 Si atoms in the 2nd sub-peak. There may be no Si-Si pair with the nearest interatomic distance in the alloy. Such a relation for atom-atom pairs is found in the crystalline Pd_3Si compound, too. The liquid structure of the alloy was also measured and concluded to be essentially close to the amorphous structure except more blurring of peaks
Neutron scattering and molecular correlations in a supercooled liquid
We show that the intermediate scattering function for neutron
scattering (ns) can be expanded naturely with respect to a set of molecular
correlation functions that give a complete description of the translational and
orientational two-point correlations in the liquid. The general properties of
this expansion are discussed with special focus on the -dependence and hints
for a (partial) determination of the molecular correlation functions from
neutron scattering results are given. The resulting representation of the
static structure factor is studied in detail for a model system using
data from a molecular dynamics simulation of a supercooled liquid of rigid
diatomic molecules. The comparison between the exact result for and
different approximations that result from a truncation of the series
representation demonstrates its good convergence for the given model system. On
the other hand it shows explicitly that the coupling between translational
(TDOF) and orientational degrees of freedom (ODOF) of each molecule and
rotational motion of different molecules can not be neglected in the
supercooled regime.Further we report the existence of a prepeak in the
ns-static structure factor of the examined fragile glassformer, demonstrating
that prepeaks can occur even in the most simple molecular liquids. Besides
examining the dependence of the prepeak on the scattering length and the
temperature we use the expansion of into molecular correlation
functions to point out intermediate range orientational order as its principle
origin.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Quantum criticality around metal-insulator transitions of strongly correlated electrons
Quantum criticality of metal-insulator transitions in correlated electron
systems is shownto belong to an unconventional universality class with
violation of Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson(GLW) scheme formulated for symmetry
breaking transitions. This unconventionality arises from an emergent character
of the quantum critical point, which appears at the marginal point between the
Ising-type symmetry breaking at nonzero temperatures and the topological
transition of the Fermi surface at zero temperature. We show that Hartree-Fock
approximations of an extended Hubbard model on square latticesare capable of
such metal-insulator transitions with unusual criticality under a preexisting
symmetry breaking. The obtained universality is consistent with the scaling
theory formulated for Mott transition and with a number of numerical results
beyond the mean-field level, implying that the preexisting symmetry breaking is
not necessarily required for the emergence of this unconventional universality.
Examinations of fluctuation effects indicate that the obtained critical
exponents remain essentially exact beyond the mean-field level. Detailed
analyses on the criticality, containing diverging carrier density fluctuations
around the marginal quantum critical point, are presented from microscopic
calculations and reveal the nature as quantum critical "opalescence". Analyses
on crossovers between GLW type at nonzero temperature and topological type at
zero temperature show that the critical exponents observed in (V,Cr)2O3 and
kappa-ET-type organic conductor provide us with evidences for the existence of
the present marginal quantum criticality.Comment: 24 pages, 19 figure
The UVES Large Program for testing fundamental physics - III. Constraints on the fine-structure constant from 3 telescopes
Large statistical samples of quasar spectra have previously indicated
possible cosmological variations in the fine-structure constant, . A
smaller sample of higher signal-to-noise ratio spectra, with dedicated
calibration, would allow a detailed test of this evidence. Towards that end, we
observed equatorial quasar HS 15491919 with three telescopes: the Very Large
Telescope, Keck and, for the first time in such analyses, Subaru. By directly
comparing these spectra to each other, and by `supercalibrating' them using
asteroid and iodine-cell tests, we detected and removed long-range distortions
of the quasar spectra's wavelength scales which would have caused significant
systematic errors in our measurements. For each telescope we measure
the relative deviation in from the current laboratory value,
, in 3 absorption systems at redshifts
, 1.342, and 1.802. The nine measurements of
are all consistent with zero at the 2- level,
with 1- statistical (systematic) uncertainties 5.6--24 (1.8--7.0) parts
per million (ppm). They are also consistent with each other at the 1-
level, allowing us to form a combined value for each telescope and, finally, a
single value for this line of sight: ppm, consistent with both zero and
previous, large samples. We also average all Large Programme results measuring
ppm.
Our results demonstrate the robustness and reliability at the 3 ppm level
afforded by supercalibration techniques and direct comparison of spectra from
different telescopes.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures, 9 table
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