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Minimally non-local nucleon-nucleon potentials with chiral two-pion exchange including 's
We construct a coordinate-space chiral potential, including -isobar
intermediate states in its two-pion-exchange component. The contact
interactions entering at next-to-leading and next-to-next-to-next-to-leading
orders ( and , respectively, denoting generically the low
momentum scale) are rearranged by Fierz transformations to yield terms at most
quadratic in the relative momentum operator of the two nucleons. The low-energy
constants multiplying these contact interactions are fitted to the 2013 Granada
database, consisting of 2309 and 2982 data (including, respectively,
148 and 218 normalizations) in the laboratory-energy range 0--300 MeV. For the
total 5291 and data in this range, we obtain a /datum of
roughly 1.3 for a set of three models characterized by long- and short-range
cutoffs, and respectively, ranging from fm down to fm. The long-range
(short-range) cutoff regularizes the one- and two-pion exchange (contact) part
of the potential.Comment: 32 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication as a Regular Article
in Physical Review
Simulations of galaxy formation in a Λ cold dark matter universe : I : dynamical and photometric properties of a simulated disk galaxy.
We present a detailed analysis of the dynamical and photometric properties of a disk galaxy simulated in the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogony. The galaxy is assembled through a number of high-redshift mergers followed by a period of quiescent accretion after z1 that lead to the formation of two distinct dynamical components: a spheroid of mostly old stars and a rotationally supported disk of younger stars. The surface brightness profile is very well approximated by the superposition of an R1/4 spheroid and an exponential disk. Each photometric component contributes a similar fraction of the total luminosity of the system, although less than a quarter of the stars form after the last merger episode at z1. In the optical bands the surface brightness profile is remarkably similar to that of Sab galaxy UGC 615, but the simulated galaxy rotates significantly faster and has a declining rotation curve dominated by the spheroid near the center. The decline in circular velocity is at odds with observation and results from the high concentration of the dark matter and baryonic components, as well as from the relatively high mass-to-light ratio of the stars in the simulation. The simulated galaxy lies 1 mag off the I-band Tully-Fisher relation of late-type spirals but seems to be in reasonable agreement with Tully-Fisher data on S0 galaxies. In agreement with previous simulation work, the angular momentum of the luminous component is an order of magnitude lower than that of late-type spirals of similar rotation speed. This again reflects the dominance of the slowly rotating, dense spheroidal component, to which most discrepancies with observation may be traced. On its own, the disk component has properties rather similar to those of late-type spirals: its luminosity, its exponential scale length, and its colors are all comparable to those of galaxy disks of similar rotation speed. This suggests that a different form of feedback than adopted here is required to inhibit the efficient collapse and cooling of gas at high redshift that leads to the formation of the spheroid. Reconciling, without fine-tuning, the properties of disk galaxies with the early collapse and high merging rates characteristic of hierarchical scenarios such as CDM remains a challenging, yet so far elusive, proposition
A basis for variational calculations in d dimensions
In this paper we derive expressions for matrix elements (\phi_i,H\phi_j) for
the Hamiltonian H=-\Delta+\sum_q a(q)r^q in d > 1 dimensions.
The basis functions in each angular momentum subspace are of the form
phi_i(r)=r^{i+1+(t-d)/2}e^{-r^p/2}, i >= 0, p > 0, t > 0. The matrix elements
are given in terms of the Gamma function for all d. The significance of the
parameters t and p and scale s are discussed. Applications to a variety of
potentials are presented, including potentials with singular repulsive terms of
the form b/r^a, a,b > 0, perturbed Coulomb potentials -D/r + B r + Ar^2, and
potentials with weak repulsive terms, such as -g r^2 + r^4, g > 0.Comment: 22 page
Tidal tails in CDM cosmologies
We study the formation of tidal tails in pairs of merging disk galaxies with
structural properties motivated by current theories of cold dark matter (CDM)
cosmologies. In a recent study, Dubinski, Mihos & Hernquist (1996) showed that
the formation of prominent tidal tails can be strongly suppressed by massive
and extended dark haloes. For the large halo-to-disk mass ratio expected in CDM
cosmologies their sequence of models failed to produce strong tails like those
observed in many well-known pairs of interacting galaxies. In order to test
whether this effect can constrain the viability of CDM cosmologies, we
construct N-body models of disk galaxies with structural properties derived in
analogy to the analytical work of Mo, Mao & White (1998). With a series of
self-consistent collisionless simulations of galaxy-galaxy mergers we
demonstrate that even the disks of very massive dark haloes have no problems
developing long tidal tails, provided the halo spin parameter is large enough.
We show that the halo-to-disk mass ratio is a poor indicator for the ability to
produce tails. Instead, the relative size of disk and halo, or alternatively,
the ratio of circular velocity to local escape speed at the half mass radius of
the disk are more useful criteria. This result holds in all CDM cosmologies.
The length of tidal tails is thus unlikely to provide useful constraints on
such models.Comment: 17 pages, mn.sty, 13 included eps-figures, submitted to MNRA
Spiked oscillators: exact solution
A procedure to obtain the eigenenergies and eigenfunctions of a quantum
spiked oscillator is presented. The originality of the method lies in an
adequate use of asymptotic expansions of Wronskians of algebraic solutions of
the Schroedinger equation. The procedure is applied to three familiar examples
of spiked oscillators
Properties of Galactic Outflows: Measurements of the Feedback from Star Formation
Properties of starburst-driven outflows in dwarf galaxies are compared to
those in more massive galaxies. Over a factor of roughly 10 in galactic
rotation speed, supershells are shown to lift warm ionized gas out of the disk
at rates up to several times the star formation rate. The amount of mass
escaping the galactic potential, in contrast to the disk, does depend on the
galactic mass. The temperature of the hottest extended \x emission shows little
variation around K, and this gas has enough energy to escape
from the galaxies with rotation speed less than approximately 130 km/s.Comment: 11 pages + 3 figues. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journa
Is the Fast Evolution Scenario for Virialized Compact Groups Really Compelling? The Role of a Dark Massive Group Halo
We report on results of N-body simulations aimed at testing the hypothesis
that galaxies in X-ray emitting (i.e., virialized) Compact Groups are not
tidally stripped when they are embedded in a common, massive, quiescent dark
matter halo. To disentangle the effects of interactions from spurious effects
due to an incorrect choice of the initial galaxy model configurations, these
have been chosen to be tidally-limited King spheres, representing systems in
quasi-equilibrium within the tidal field of the halo. The potential of the halo
has been assumed to be frozen and the braking due to dynamical friction
neglected. Our results confirm the hypothesis of low rates of tidal stripping
and suggest a scenario for virialized Compact Group evolution in their
quiescent phases with only very moderate tidally induced galaxy evolution can
be generally expected. This implies the group stability, provided that the
dynamical friction timescales in these systems are not much shorter than the
Hubble time. We discuss briefly this possibility, in particular taking account
of the similarity between the velocity dispersions of a typical virialized
Compact Groups and the internal velocity dispersion of typical member galaxies.
A number of puzzling observational data on Compact Groups can be easily
explained in this framework. Other observations would be better understood as
the result of enhanced merging activity in the proto-group environment, leading
to virialized Compact Group formation through mergers of lower mass halos, as
predicted by hierarchical scenarios of structure formation.Comment: 18 pages, 1 postscript file, 2 tables, to be published in ApJLet
Explaining the entropy excess in clusters and groups of galaxies without additional heating
The X-ray luminosity and temperature of clusters and groups of galaxies do
not scale in a self-similar manner. This has often been interpreted as a sign
that the intracluster medium has been substantially heated by non-gravitational
sources. In this paper, we propose a simple model which, instead, uses the
properties of galaxy formation to explain the observations. Drawing on
available observations, we show that there is evidence that the efficiency of
galaxy formation was higher in groups than in clusters. If confirmed, this
would deplete the low-entropy gas in groups, increase their central entropy and
decrease their X-ray luminosity. A simple, empirical, hydrostatic model appears
to match both the luminosity-temperature relation of clusters and properties of
their internal structure as well.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted in ApJL; added one reference, otherwise
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Dark Energy, scalar-curvature couplings and a critical acceleration scale
We study the effects of coupling a cosmologically rolling scalar field to
higher order curvature terms. We show that when the strong coupling scale of
the theory is on the 10^{-3}-10^{-1}eV range, the model passes all experimental
bounds on the existence of fifth forces even if the field has a mass of the
order of the Hubble scale in vacuum and non-suppressed couplings to SM fields.
The reason is that the coupling to certain curvature invariant acts as an
effective mass that grows in regions of large curvature. This prevents the
field from rolling down its potential near sources and makes its effects on
fifth-force search experiments performed in the laboratory to be observable
only at the sub-mm scale. We obtain the static spherically symmetric solutions
of the theory and show that a long-range force appears but it is turned on only
below a fixed Newtonian acceleration scale of the order of the Hubble constant.
We comment on the possibility of using this feature of the model to alleviate
the CDM small scale crisis and on its possible relation to MOND.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Photosensitivity Color-Center Model for Ge-Doped Silica Preforms
A new photosensitivity physical model for Ge-doped silica preforms based on
color-center photoreactions is presented. Simulation results are in close agreement with
experimental results obtained by several condensed matter physics research groups working
in this field, suggesting that the photoreactions of this model may, indeed, describe the
physical processes involved in Ge-doped silica preform photosensitivity. The proposed
photosensitivity model is defined by two differential equations that describe the temporal
evolution of a set of color-center concentrations. The first is a modification of a very fast
reversible reaction previously proposed by Fujimaki et al., where the reaction precursor has
a different chemical structure (it is a neutral oxygen divacancy NODV unrelated to the
previously proposed germanium lone pair center GLPC). The chemical structure of this
precursor defect explains the generation of nonintrinsic neutral oxygen monovacancy
ðNOMVÞ color centers. These centers are transformed into GeE0 defects by means of a
second nonlinear reaction. This justifies the slow increase in the absorption peak experimentally
measured at 6.3 eV, which had no satisfactory explanation.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC2001-2969-C03-0
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