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Mapping of agricultural land use from ERTS-1 digital data
A study area was selected in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, two of the major agricultural counties in Pennsylvania. This area was delineated on positive transparencies on MSS data collected on October 11, 1972 (1080-15185). Channel seven was used to delineate general land forms, drainage patterns, water and urban areas. Channel five was used to delineate highway networks. These identifiable features were useful aids for locating areas on the computer output. Computer generated maps were used to delineate broad land use categories, such as forest land, agricultural land, urban areas and water. These digital maps have a scale of approximately 1:24,000 thereby allowing direct comparison with U.S.G.S. 7.5 minute quadrangle sheets. Aircraft data were used as a form of ground truth useful for the delineation of land use patterns
Transverse instabilities of stripe domains in magnetic thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Stripe domains are narrow, elongated, reversed regions that exist in magnetic
materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Stripe domains appear as a
pair of domain walls that can exhibit topology with a nonzero chirality. Recent
experimental and numerical investigations identify an instability of stripe
domains in the long direction as a means of nucleating isolated magnetic
skyrmions. Here, the onset and nonlinear evolution of transverse instabilities
for a dynamic stripe domain known as the bion stripe are investigated. Both
non-topological and topological variants of the bion stripe are shown to
exhibit a long-wavelength transverse instability with different characteristic
features. In the former, small transverse variations in the stripe's width lead
to a neck instability that eventually pinches the non-topological stripe into a
chain of two-dimensional breathers composed of droplet soliton pairs. In the
latter case, small variations in the stripe's center results in a snake
instability whose topological structure leads to the nucleation of dynamic
magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions as well as perimeter-modulated droplets.
Quantitative, analytical predictions for both the early, linear evolution and
the long-time, nonlinear evolution are achieved using an averaged Lagrangian
approach that incorporates both exchange (dispersion) and anisotropy
(nonlinearity). The method of analysis is general and can be applied to other
filamentary structures.Comment: 8 figures, 13 page
Imaging bond order near non-magnetic impurities in square lattice antiferromagnets
We study the textures of generalized "charge densities" (scalar objects
invariant under time reversal), in the vicinity of non-magnetic impurities in
square-lattice quantum anti-ferromagnets, by order parameter field theories.
Our central finding is the structure of the "vortex" in the generalized density
wave order parameter centered at the non-magnetic impurity. Using exact
numerical data from quantum Monte Carlo simulations on an antiferromagnetic
spin model, we are able to verify the results of our field theoretic study. We
extend our phenomenological approach to the period-4 bond-centered density wave
found in the underdoped cuprates.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Twenty-one centimeter tomography with foregrounds
Twenty-one centimeter tomography is emerging as a powerful tool to explore
the end of the cosmic dark ages and the reionization epoch, but it will only be
as good as our ability to accurately model and remove astrophysical foreground
contamination. Previous treatments of this problem have focused on the angular
structure of the signal and foregrounds and what can be achieved with limited
spectral resolution (bandwidths in the 1 MHz range). In this paper we introduce
and evaluate a ``blind'' method to extract the multifrequency 21cm signal by
taking advantage of the smooth frequency structure of the Galactic and
extragalactic foregrounds. We find that 21 cm tomography is typically limited
by foregrounds on scales Mpc and limited by noise on scales Mpc, provided that the experimental bandwidth can be made substantially
smaller than 0.1 MHz. Our results show that this approach is quite promising
even for scenarios with rather extreme contamination from point sources and
diffuse Galactic emission, which bodes well for upcoming experiments such as
LOFAR, MWA, PAST, and SKA.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures. Revised version including various cases with
high noise level. Major conclusions unchanged. Accepted for publication in
Ap
Three-Omega Thermal-Conductivity Measurements with Curved Heater Geometries
The three-omega method, a powerful technique to measure the thermal
conductivity of nanometer-thick films and the interfaces between them, has
historically employed straight conductive wires to act as both heaters and
thermometers. When investigating stochastically prepared samples such as
two-dimensional materials and nanomembranes, residue and excess material can
make it difficult to fit the required millimeter-long straight wire on the
sample surface. There are currently no available criteria for how diverting
three-omega heater wires around obstacles affects the validity of the thermal
measurement. In this Letter, we quantify the effect of wire curvature by
performing three-omega experiments with a wide range of frequencies using both
curved and straight heater geometries on SiO/Si samples. When the heating
wire is curved, we find that the measured Si substrate thermal conductivity
changes by only 0.2%. Similarly, we find that wire curvature has no significant
effect on the determination of the thermal resistance of a 65 nm SiO
layer, even for the sharpest corners considered here, for which the largest
measured ratio of the thermal penetration depth of the applied thermal wave to
radius of curvature of the heating wire is 4.3. This result provides useful
design criteria for three-omega experiments by setting a lower bound for the
maximum ratio of thermal penetration depth to wire radius of curvature.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Anomalous Axion Interactions and Topological Currents in Dense Matter
Recently an effective Lagrangian for the interactions of photons,
Nambu-Goldstone bosons and superfluid phonons in dense quark matter has been
derived using anomaly matching arguments. In this paper we illuminate the
nature of certain anomalous terms in this Lagrangian by an explicit microscopic
calculation. We also generalize the corresponding construction to introduce the
axion field. We derive an anomalous axion effective Lagrangian describing the
interactions of axions with photons and superfluid phonons in the dense matter
background. This effective Lagrangian, among other things, implies that an
axion current will be induced in the presence of magnetic field. We speculate
that this current may be responsible for the explanation of neutron star kicks.Comment: 10 page
A new 1.6-micron map of Titan’s surface
We present a new map of Titan's surface obtained in the spectral 'window' at ∼1.6 μm between strong methane absorption. This pre-Cassini view of Titan's surface was created from images obtained using adaptive optics on the W.M. Keck II telescope and is the highest resolution map yet made of Titan's surface. Numerous surface features down to the limits of the spatial resolution (∼200–300 km) are apparent. No features are easily identifiable in terms of their geologic origin, although several are likely craters
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