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Newtonian Hydrodynamics of the Coalescence of Black Holes with Neutron Stars I: Tidally locked binaries with a stiff equation of state
We present a detailed study of the hydrodynamical interactions in a Newtonian
black hole-neutron star binary during the last stages of inspiral. We consider
close binaries which are tidally locked, use a stiff equation of state (with an
adiabatic index Gamma=3) throughout, and explore the effect of different
initial mass ratios on the evolution of the system. We calculate the
gravitational radiation signal in the quadrupole approximation. Our
calculations are carried out using a Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code.Comment: Replaces previous version which had figures separate from the text of
the paper. Now 47 pages long with 19 embedded figures (the figures are the
same, they were renumbered) Uses aaspp4.st
Tidal Interactions of Red Giants with Environment Stars in Globular Clusters
We investigate the tidal interactions of a red giant with a main sequence in
the dense stellar core of globular clusters by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
method. Two models of 0.8 \msun red giant with the surface radii 20 and 85
R_\sun are used with 0.6 or 0.8M_\sun main sequence star treated as a point
mass. We demonstrate that even for the wide encounters that two stars fly
apart, the angular momentum of orbital motion can be deposited into the red
giant envelope to such an extent as to trigger rotational mixing and to explain
the fast rotation observed for the horizontal branch stars, and also that
sufficient mass can be accreted on the main sequence stars to disguise their
surface convective zone with the matter from the red giant envelope. On the
basis of the present results, we discuss the parameter dependence of these
transfer characteristics with non-linear effects taken into account, and derive
fitting formulae to give the amounts of energy and angular momentum deposited
into the red giant and of mass accreted onto the perturber as functions of
stellar parameters and the impact parameter of encounter. These formulae are
applicable to the encounters not only of the red giants but also of the main
sequence stars, and useful in the study of the evolution of stellar systems
with the star-star interactions taken into account.Comment: 36 pages, 11 figures, accepte
Accumulation of Chromatin Remodelling Enzyme and Histone Transcripts in Bovine Oocytes
During growth, the oocyte accumulates mRNAs that will be required in the later stages of oogenesis and early embryogenesis until the activation of the embryonic genome. Each of these developmental stages is controlled by multiple regulatory mechanisms that ensure proper protein production. Thus mRNAs are stabilized, stored, recruited, polyadenylated, translated and/or degraded over a period of several days. As a consequence, understanding the biological significance of changes in the abundance of transcripts during oocyte growth and differentiation is rather complex. Nevertheless the availability of transcriptomic platforms applicable to scarce samples such as oocytes has generated large amounts of data that depict the transcriptome of oocytes under different conditions. Despite several technical constrains related to protein determination in oocytes that still limit the possibility to verify certain hypothesis, it is now possible to use mRNA levels to start building plausible scenarios. To start deciphering the changes in the level of specific mRNAs involved in chromatin remodelling, we have performed a meta-analysis of existing microarray datasets from germinal vesicle (GV) stage bovine oocytes during the final stages of oocyte differentiation. We then analysed the expression profiles of histone and histone-remodelling enzyme mRNAs and correlated these with the major histone modifications known to occur at the same period, based on data available in the literature. We believe that this approach could reveal the function of specific enzymes in the oocyte. In turn, this information will be useful in future studies, which final ambitious goal is to decipher the 'oocyte-specific histone code'
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH): An overview and recent developments
10.1007/s11831-010-9040-7Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering17125-7