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Decreased Specific Star Formation Rates in AGN Host Galaxies
We investigate the location of an ultra-hard X-ray selected sample of AGN
from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog with respect to the main
sequence (MS) of star-forming galaxies using Herschel-based measurements of the
star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (\mstar) from Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) photometry where the AGN contribution has been carefully removed.
We construct the MS with galaxies from the Herschel Reference Survey and
Herschel Stripe 82 Survey using the exact same methods to measure the SFR and
\mstar{} as the Swift/BAT AGN. We find a large fraction of the Swift/BAT AGN
lie below the MS indicating decreased specific SFR (sSFR) compared to non-AGN
galaxies. The Swift/BAT AGN are then compared to a high-mass galaxy sample
(COLD GASS), where we find a similarity between the AGN in COLD GASS and the
Swift/BAT AGN. Both samples of AGN lie firmly between star-forming galaxies on
the MS and quiescent galaxies far below the MS. However, we find no
relationship between the X-ray luminosity and distance from the MS. While the
morphological distribution of the BAT AGN is more similar to star-forming
galaxies, the sSFR of each morphology is more similar to the COLD GASS AGN. The
merger fraction in the BAT AGN is much higher than the COLD GASS AGN and
star-forming galaxies and is related to distance from the MS. These results
support a model in which bright AGN tend to be in high mass star-forming
galaxies in the process of quenching which eventually starves the supermassive
black hole itself.Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS 2015 June 23.
In original form 2015 January 2
Homology and symmetry breaking in Rayleigh-Benard convection: Experiments and simulations
Algebraic topology (homology) is used to analyze the weakly turbulent state
of spiral defect chaos in both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations
of Rayleigh-Benard convection.The analysis reveals topological asymmetries that
arise when non-Boussinesq effects are present.Comment: 21 pages with 6 figure
Credit channel without the LM curve
This paper extends Bernanke and Blinder (1988)'s macroeconomic model of credit channel to an environment where the monetary authority has control over a short-term interest rate. The comparative statics regarding changes in the market interest rate, in the required reserve ratio over bank deposits, and in the risk of public bonds are highlighted
A MILP model for an extended version of the Flexible Job Shop Problem
A MILP model for an extended version of the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
problem is proposed. The extension allows the precedences between operations of
a job to be given by an arbitrary directed acyclic graph rather than a linear
order. The goal is the minimization of the makespan. Theoretical and practical
advantages of the proposed model are discussed. Numerical experiments show the
performance of a commercial exact solver when applied to the proposed model.
The new model is also compared with a simple extension of the model described
by \"Ozg\"uven, \"Ozbakir, and Yavuz (Mathematical models for job-shop
scheduling problems with routing and process plan flexibility, Applied
Mathematical Modelling, 34:1539--1548, 2010), using instances from the
literature and instances inspired by real data from the printing industry.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables. Optimization Letters, 201
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