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A Herschel resolved far-infrared dust ring around HD 207129
Context. Dusty debris discs around main sequence stars are thought to be the result of continuous collisional grinding of planetesimals in the system. The majority of these systems are unresolved and analysis of the dust properties is limited by the lack of information regarding the dust location.
Aims. The Herschel DUNES key program is observing 133 nearby, Sun-like stars (<20 pc, FGK spectral type) in a volume limited survey to constrain the absolute incidence of cold dust around these stars by detection of far infrared excess emission at flux levels comparable to the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt (EKB).
Methods. We have observed the Sun-like star HD 207129 with Herschel PACS and SPIRE. In all three PACS bands we resolve a ring-like structure consistent with scattered light observations. Using α Boötis as a reference point spread function (PSF), we deconvolved the images, clearly resolving the inner gap in the disc at both 70 and 100 μm.
Results. We have resolved the dust-producing planetesimal belt of a debris disc at 100 μm for the first time. We measure the radial profile and fractional luminosity of the disc, and compare the values to those of discs around stars of similar age and/or spectral type, placing this disc in context of other resolved discs observed by Herschel/DUNES
Resource Letter: Gravitational Lensing
This Resource Letter provides a guide to a selection of the literature on
gravitational lensing and its applications. Journal articles, books, popular
articles, and websites are cited for the following topics: foundations of
gravitational lensing, foundations of cosmology, history of gravitational
lensing, strong lensing, weak lensing, and microlensing.Comment: Resource Letter, 2012, in press
(http://ajp.dickinson.edu/Readers/resLetters.html); 21 pages, no figures;
diigo version available at
http://groups.diigo.com/group/gravitational-lensin
A global protocol for monitoring of coral bleaching
Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs. However a lack of reliable data on occurrence, severity and other characteristics of bleaching events hampers research on the causes and consequences of this important phenomenon. This article describes a global protocol for monitoring coral bleaching events, which addresses this problem and can be used by people with different levels of expertise and resources
The preferentially magnified active nucleus in IRAS F10214+4724 - II. Spatially resolved cold molecular gas
We present JVLA observations of the cold (CO (1-0)) molecular gas in IRAS
F10214+4724, a lensed ULIRG at z=2.3 with an obscured active nucleus. The
galaxy is spatially and spectrally well-resolved in the CO (1-0) emission line.
A CO (1-0) counter-image is detected at the 3-sigma level. Five of the 42 km/s
channels (with >5-sigma detections) are mapped back into the source plane and
their total magnification posterior PDFs sampled. This reveals a roughly linear
arrangement, tentatively a rotating disk. We derive a molecular gas mass of
M_gas = 1.2 +- 0.2 x 10^10 M_sun, assuming a ULIRG L_{CO}-to-M_{gas} conversion
ratio of \alpha = 0.8 M_sun / (K km/s pc^2) that agrees well with the derived
range of \alpha = 0.3 - 1.3 for separate dynamical mass estimates at assumed
inclinations of i = 90 - 30 degrees. Based on the AGN and CO (1-0) peak
emission positions and the lens model, we predict a distortion of the CO
Spectral Line Energy Distribution (SLED) where higher order J lines that may be
partially excited by AGN heating will be preferentially lensed owing to their
smaller solid angles and closer proximity to the AGN and therefore the cusp of
the caustic. Comparison with other lensing inversion results shows that the
narrow line region and AGN radio core in IRAS F10214+4724 are preferentially
lensed by a factor >~ 3 and 11 respectively, relative to the molecular gas
emission. This distorts the global continuum emission Spectral Energy
Distribution (SED) and suggests caution in unsophisticated uses of IRAS
F10214+4724 as an archetype high-redshift ULIRG. We explore two Large Velocity
Gradient (LVG) models, incorporating spatial CO (1-0) and (3-2) information and
present tentative evidence for an extended, low excitation cold gas component
that implies that the total molecular gas mass in IRAS F10214+4724 is a factor
>~2 greater than that calculated using spatially unresolved CO observations.Comment: Dedicated to Steve Rawlings. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 16
pages, 11 figure
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Event Processing through naming: Investigating event focus in two people with aphasia
Some people with aphasia may have trouble with verbs because of fundamental difficulties in processing situations in a way that maps readily onto language. This paper describes a novel assessment, the Order of Naming Test, that explores the conceptual processing of events through the order in which people name the entities involved. The performance of non-brain damaged control participants is described. The responses of two people with non-fluent aphasia are then discussed. Both 'Helen' and 'Ron' showed significant difficulty with verbs and sentences. Ron also had trouble on a range of tasks tapping aspects of event processing, despite intact non-verbal cognition. While Helen's performance on the Order of Naming Test was very similar to the controls, Ron's differed in a number of respects, suggesting that he was less focused on the main participant entities. However, certain aspects of his response pointed at covert event processing abilities that might be fruitfully exploited in therapy
A global protocol for monitoring of coral bleaching
Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs. However a lack of reliable data on occurrence, severity and other characteristics of bleaching events hampers research on the causes and consequences of this important phenomenon. This article describes a global protocol for monitoring coral bleaching events, which addresses this problem and can be used by people with different levels of expertise and resources.Coral reefs, Bleaching, Mortality, Monitoring
Active management of multi-service networks.
Future multiservice networks will be extremely large and complex. Novel management solutions will be required to keep the management costs reasonable. Active networking enables management to be delegated to network users as a large set of independent small scale management systems. A novel architecture for an active network based management solution for multiservice networking is presented
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