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Water Maser Emission from the Active Nucleus in M51
22 GHz water vapor `kilomaser' emission is reported from the central region
of the Whirlpool galaxy M 51 (NGC 5194). The red-shifted spectral features
(Vlsr ~ 560 km/s), flaring during most of the year 2000, originate from a
spatially unresolved maser spot of size < 30 mas (< 1.5 pc), displaced by < 250
mas from the nucleus. The data provide the first direct evidence for the
association of an H2O kilomaser with an active galactic nucleus (AGN). In early
2001, blue-shifted maser emission (Vlsr ~ 435 km/s) was also detected. Red- and
blue-shifted features bracket the systemic velocity asymmetrically. Within the
standard model of a rotating Keplerian torus, this may either suggest the
presence of a highly eccentric circumnuclear cloud or red- and blue-shifted
`high velocity' emission from a radially extended torus. Most consistent with
the measured H2O position is, however, an association of the red-shifted H2O
emission with the northern part of the bipolar radio jet. In this scenario, the
(weaker) northern jet is receding while the blue-shifted H2O emission is
associated with the approaching southern jet.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Time-reversal symmetric Kitaev model and topological superconductor in two dimensions
A time-reversal invariant Kitaev-type model is introduced in which spins
(Dirac matrices) on the square lattice interact via anisotropic
nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. The model is
exactly solved by mapping it onto a tight-binding model of free Majorana
fermions coupled with static Z_2 gauge fields. The Majorana fermion model can
be viewed as a model of time-reversal invariant superconductor and is
classified as a member of symmetry class DIII in the Altland-Zirnbauer
classification. The ground-state phase diagram has two topologically distinct
gapped phases which are distinguished by a Z_2 topological invariant. The
topologically nontrivial phase supports both a Kramers' pair of gapless
Majorana edge modes at the boundary and a Kramers' pair of zero-energy Majorana
states bound to a 0-flux vortex in the \pi-flux background. Power-law decaying
correlation functions of spins along the edge are obtained by taking the
gapless Majorana edge modes into account. The model is also defined on the
one-dimension ladder, in which case again the ground-state phase diagram has
Z_2 trivial and non-trivial phases.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Strongly Coupled Semi-Direct Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking
Strongly coupled semi-direct gauge mediation models of supersymmetry breaking
through massive mediators with standard model charges are investigated by means
of composite degrees of freedom. Sizable mediation is realized to generate the
standard model gaugino masses for a small mediator mass without breaking the
standard model symmetries.Comment: 7 pages; v2: the model generalized, gaugino mass corrected; v3:
explanations expanded, references adde
Specific heat and low-lying excitations in the mixed state for a type II superconductor
Low temperature behavior of the electronic specific heat in the mixed
state is by the self-consistent calculation of the Eilenberger theory. In
addition to -term ( is a Sommerfeld coefficient), has
significant contribution of -term intrinsic in the vortex state. We
identify the origin of the -term as (i) V-shape density of states in the
vortex state and (ii) Kramer-Pesch effect of vortex core shrinking upon
lowering . These results both for full-gap and line node cases reveal that
the vortex core is a richer electronic structure beyond the normal core
picture.Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev. B. 5 pages, 5 figure
The Discovery of Water Maser Emission from Eight Nearby Galaxies
Using the Green Bank Telescope, we conducted a ``snapshot'' survey for water
maser emission toward the nuclei of 611 galaxies and detected eight new
sources. The sample consisted of nearby (v < 5000 km/s) and luminous (M_B <
-19.5) galaxies, some with known nuclear activity but most not previously known
to host AGNs. Our detections include both megamasers associated with AGNs and
relatively low luminosity masers probably associated with star formation. The
detection in UGC 3789 is particularly intriguing because the spectrum shows
both systemic and high-velocity lines indicative of emission from an AGN
accretion disk seen edge-on. Based on six months of monitoring, we detected
accelerations among the systemic features ranging from 2 to 8 km/s/yr, the
larger values belonging to the most redshifted systemic components.
High-velocity maser lines in UGC 3789 show no detectable drift over the same
period. Although UGC 3789 was not known to be an AGN prior to this survey, the
presence of a disk maser is strong evidence for nuclear activity, and an
optical spectrum obtained later has confirmed it. With follow up observations,
it may be possible to measure a geometric distance to UGC 3789.Comment: to appear in Astrophysical Journal, 1 May 200
All-or-none switching of transcriptional activity on single DNA molecules caused by a discrete conformational transition
Recently, it has been confirmed that long duplex DNA molecules with sizes
larger than several tens of kilo-base pairs (kbp), exhibit a discrete
conformational transition from an elongated coil state to a compact globule
state upon the addition of various kinds of chemical species that usually
induce DNA condensation. In this study, we performed a single-molecule
observation on a large DNA, Lambda ZAP II DNA (ca. 41 kbp), in a solution
containing RNA polymerase and substrates along with spermine, a tetravalent
cation, at different concentrations, by use of fluorescence staining of both
DNA and RNA. We found that transcription, or RNA production, is completely
inhibited in the compact state, but is actively performed in the unfolded coil
state. Such an all-or-none effect on transcriptional activity induced by the
discrete conformational transition of single DNA molecules is discussed in
relation to the mechanism of the regulation of large-scale genetic activity.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
A Frictional Cooling Demonstration Experiment with Protons
Muon cooling is the main technological obstacle in the building of a muon
collider. A muon cooling scheme based on Frictional Cooling holds promise in
overcoming this obstacle. An experiment designed to demonstrate the Frictional
Cooling concept using protons was undertaken. Although the results were
inconclusive in the observation of cooling, the data allowed for the
qualification of detailed simulations which are used to simulate the
performance of a muon collider.Comment: 24 Pages 16 figures 2 table
Recoverable One-dimensional Encoding of Three-dimensional Protein Structures
Protein one-dimensional (1D) structures such as secondary structure and
contact number provide intuitive pictures to understand how the native
three-dimensional (3D) structure of a protein is encoded in the amino acid
sequence. However, it has not been clear whether a given set of 1D structures
contains sufficient information for recovering the underlying 3D structure.
Here we show that the 3D structure of a protein can be recovered from a set of
three types of 1D structures, namely, secondary structure, contact number and
residue-wise contact order which is introduced here for the first time. Using
simulated annealing molecular dynamics simulations, the structures satisfying
the given native 1D structural restraints were sought for 16 proteins of
various structural classes and of sizes ranging from 56 to 146 residues. By
selecting the structures best satisfying the restraints, all the proteins
showed a coordinate RMS deviation of less than 4\AA{} from the native
structure, and for most of them, the deviation was even less than 2\AA{}. The
present result opens a new possibility to protein structure prediction and our
understanding of the sequence-structure relationship.Comment: Corrected title. No Change In Content
Utilizando R para manipular dados de projeção climática.
O Laboratório de Modelagem Agroambiental (LMA) da Embrapa Informática Agropecuária utiliza dados de projeção climática para realização de simulações de cenários agrícolas futuros. Grande parte desses dados é disponibilizada no formato NetCDF. A NetCDF é uma biblioteca livre, que possui funções de manipulação de dados armazenados em matrizes que contêm dimensões, variáveis e metadados. É utilizada em linguagens como C, C++, Fortran, Java, R entre outras. Essa combinação entre linguagem, biblioteca e arquivo possibilita criação, acesso e compartilhamento de dados científicos. Os arquivos NetCDF possuem informações descritivas sobre os dados que contêm (os chamados metadados). Podem armazenar diferentes tipos de variáveis numéricas e caracteres. Além disso, o formato é eficiente, permitindo ao usuário acessar um pequeno subconjunto de uma grande base de dados, visualizar simultaneamente o mesmo arquivo por mais de um leitor e anexar dados a um arquivo NetCDF, sem ter que copiar sua base de dados ou redefinir sua estrutura. Antes de serem utilizados, esses dados passam por diversos processamentos, tais como recorte temporal e espacial, reamostragem de grade e extração de dados. O objetivo deste trabalho é demonstrar como tais processamentos podem ser realizados utilizando o R
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