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TAVERNS and the space station software support environment
The Space Station Information System (SSIS) provides the data processing capability for the Space Station Program (SSP). The Software Support Environment (SSE) System for the SSP is the collection of software, procedures, standards, hardware specification, documentation, policy, and training materials. The Ada programming language was baselined by the Space Station Program Office as the language for development and maintenance of all space station software including the software of the SSE itself. The Test And Validation Environment for Remote Networked Systems (TAVERNS) is a distributed philosophy for development and validation of Ada applications software for the space station and as such is closely related to the SSE. An overview of the system is provided
Predictions for Impurity-Induced Tc Suppression in the High-Temperature Superconductors
We address the question of whether anisotropic superconductivity is
compatible with the evidently weak sensitivity of the critical temperature Tc
to sample quality in the high-Tc copper oxides. We examine this issue
quantitatively by solving the strong-coupling Eliashberg equations numerically
as well as analytically for s-wave impurity scattering within the second Born
approximation. For pairing interactions with a characteristically low energy
scale, we find an approximately universal dependence of the d-wave
superconducting transition temperature on the planar residual resistivity which
is independent of the details of the microscopic pairing. These results, in
conjunction with future systematic experiments, should help elucidate the
symmetry of the order parameter in the cuprates.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures upon request, revtex version
Symmetry of the Gap in Bi2212 from Photoemission Spectroscopy
In a recent Letter, Shen et al have detected a large anisotropy of the
superconducting gap in Bi2212, consistent with d-wave symmetry, from
photoemission spectroscopy. Moreover, they claim that the change in their
spectra as a function of aging is also consistent with such an intrepretation.
In this Comment, I show that the latter statement is not entirely correct, in
that the data as a function of aging are inconsistent with a d-wave gap but are
consistent with an anisotropic s-wave gap.Comment: 3 pages (Plain TeX with macros), plus 1 postscript figur
On the Physical Origin of OVI Absorption-Line Systems
We present a unified analysis of the O{\sc vi} absorption-lines seen in the
disk and halo of the Milky Way, high velocity clouds, the Magellanic Clouds,
starburst galaxies, and the intergalactic medium. We show that these disparate
systems define a simple relationship between the O{\sc vi} column density and
absorption-line width that is independent of the Oxygen abundance over the
range O/H 10% to twice solar. We show that this relation is exactly that
predicted theoretically as a radiatively cooling flow of hot gas passes through
the coronal temperature regime - independent of its density or metallicity (for
O/H 0.1 solar). Since most of the intregalactic O{\sc vi} clouds obey
this relation, we infer that they can not have metallicities less than a few
percent solar. In order to be able to cool radiatively in less than a Hubble
time, the intergalactic clouds must be smaller than 1 Mpc in size. We
show that the cooling column densities for the O{\sc iv}, O{\sc v}, Ne{\sc v},
and Ne{\sc vi} ions are comparable to those seen in O{\sc vi}. This is also
true for the Li-like ions Ne{\sc viii}, Mg{\sc x}, and Si{\sc xii} (if the gas
is cooling from K). All these ions have strong resonance lines
in the extreme-ultraviolet spectral range, and would be accessible to at
0.2 to 0.8. We also show that the Li-like ions can be used to probe
radiatively cooling gas at temperatures an order-of-magnitude higher than where
their ionic fraction peaks. We calculate that the H-like (He-like) O, Ne, Mg,
Si, and S ions have cooling columns of cm. The O{\sc vii},
O{\sc viii}, and Ne{\sc ix} X-ray absorption-lines towards PKS 2155-304 may
arise in radiatively cooling gas in the Galactic disk or halo.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figure
The Temperature Evolution of the Spectral Peak in High Temperature Superconductors
Recent photoemission data in the high temperature cuprate superconductor
Bi2212 have been interpreted in terms of a sharp spectral peak with a
temperature independent lifetime, whose weight strongly decreases upon heating.
By a detailed analysis of the data, we are able to extract the temperature
dependence of the electron self-energy, and demonstrate that this intepretation
is misleading. Rather, the spectral peak loses its integrity above Tc due to a
large reduction in the electron lifetime.Comment: 5 pages, revtex, 4 encapsulated postscript figure
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