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Education in the Post-Lake View Era: What Is Arkansas Doing to Close the Achievement Gap?
Assesses whether the state's reforms can close the achievement gap among racial and socioeconomic groups. Proposes additional steps such as school health programs, extended learning programs, targeted small classes, and more parental engagement
High-temperature, high-pressure spherical segment valve Patent
High-temperature, high-pressure spherical segment valv
SDSS White Dwarf mass distribution at low effective temperatures
The DA white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as analyzed in the
papers for Data Releases 1 and 4, show an increase in surface gravity towards
lower effective temperatures below 11500 K. We study the various possible
explanations of this effect, from a real increase of the masses to
uncertainties or deficiencies of the atmospheric models. No definite answer is
found but the tentative conclusion is that it is most likely the current
description of convection in the framework of the mixing-length approximation,
which leads to this effect.Comment: to appear in the proceedings of the 16th European Workshop on White
Dwarfs, Barcelona, 200
Color Magnetic Flux Tubes in Dense QCD
QCD is expected to be in the color-flavor locking phase in high baryon
density, which exhibits color superconductivity. The most fundamental
topological objects in the color superconductor are non-Abelian vortices which
are topologically stable color magnetic flux tubes. We present numerical
solutions of the color magnetic flux tube for diverse choices of the coupling
constants. We also analytically study its asymptotic profiles and find that
they are different from the case of usual superconductors. We propose the width
of color magnetic fluxes and find that it is larger than naive expectation of
the Compton wave length of the massive gluon when the gluon mass is larger than
the scalar mass.Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added, minor
changes; v3: published versio
Cool White Dwarfs Found in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
We present the results of a search for cool white dwarfs in the United
Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area
Survey (LAS). The UKIDSS LAS photometry was paired with the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) to identify cool hydrogen-rich white dwarf candidates by their
neutral optical colors and blue near-infrared colors, as well as faint Reduced
Proper Motion magnitudes. Optical spectroscopy was obtained at Gemini
Observatory, and showed the majority of the candidates to be newly identified
cool degenerates, with a small number of G- to K-type (sub)dwarf contaminants.
Our initial search of 280 deg2 of sky resulted in seven new white dwarfs with
effective temperature T_eff ~ 6000 K. The current followup of 1400 deg2 of sky
has produced thirteen new white dwarfs. Model fits to the photometry show that
seven of the newly identified white dwarfs have 4120 K <= T_eff <= 4480 K, and
cooling ages between 7.3 Gyr and 8.7 Gyr; they have 40 km/s <= v_tan <= 85 km/s
and are likely to be thick disk 10-11 Gyr-old objects. The other half of the
sample has 4610 K <= T_eff <= 5260 K, cooling ages between 4.3 Gyr and 6.9 Gyr,
and 60 km/s <= v_tan <= 100 km/s. These are either thin disk remnants with
unusually high velocities, or lower-mass remnants of thick disk or halo late-F
or G stars.Comment: To appear in ApJ, accepted April 18 2011. 34 pages include 11 Figures
and 5 Table
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