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Spontaneous two photon emission from a single quantum dot
Spontaneous two photon emission from a solid-state single quantum emitter is
observed. We investigated photoluminescence from the neutral biexciton in a
single semiconductor quantum dot coupled with a high Q photonic crystal
nanocavity. When the cavity is resonant to the half energy of the biexciton,
the strong vacuum field in the cavity inspires the biexciton to simultaneously
emit two photons into the mode, resulting in clear emission enhancement of the
mode. Meanwhile, suppression was observed of other single photon emission from
the biexciton, as the two photon emission process becomes faster than the
others at the resonance.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Suzaku observations of the low surface brightness cluster A76
Context: We present results of Suzaku observations of a nearby galaxy cluster
A76 at z=0.0395. This cluster is characterized by extremely low X-ray surface
brightness and is hereafter referred to as the LSB cluster. Aims: To understand
the nature and thermodynamic evolution of the LSB cluster by studying the
physical properties of the hot intracluster medium in A76. Methods: We
conducted two-pointed Suzaku observations of A76 and examined the global gas
properties of the cluster by XIS spectral analysis. We also performed
deprojection analysis of annular spectra and derived radial profiles of gas
temperature, density and entropy out to approximately 850 kpc (~ 0.6 r_200) and
560 kpc (~0.4 r_200) in A76 East and A76 West, respectively. Results: The
measured global temperature and metal abundance are approximately 3.3 keV and
0.24 solar, respectively. From the deprojection analysis, the entropy profile
is found to be flat with respect to radius. The entropy within the central
region (r < 0.2r_200) is exceptionally high (~400 keV cm^2). This phenomenon is
not readily explained by either gravitational heating or preheating. The X-ray
morphology is clumped and irregular, and the electron density is extremely low
(1e-4 -- 1e-3 cm^-3) for the observed high temperature, suggesting that A76 is
in the early phase of cluster formation and the gas compression due to
gravitational potential confinement is lagging behind the gas heating.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, A&A accepte
Suzaku observations of X-ray excess emission in the cluster of galaxies A3112
We analysed the Suzaku XIS1 data of the A3112 cluster of galaxies in order to
examine the X-ray excess emission in this cluster reported earlier with the
XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites. The best-fit temperature of the intracluster
gas depends strongly on the choice of the energy band used for the spectral
analysis. This proves the existence of excess emission component in addition to
the single-temperature MEKAL in A3112. We showed that this effect is not an
artifact due to uncertainties of the background modeling, instrument
calibration or the amount of Galactic absorption. Neither does the PSF scatter
of the emission from the cool core nor the projection of the cool gas in the
cluster outskirts produce the effect. Finally we modeled the excess emission
either by using an additional MEKAL or powerlaw component. Due to the small
differencies between thermal and non-thermal model we can not rule out the
non-thermal origin of the excess emission based on the goodness of the fit.
Assuming that it has a thermal origin, we further examined the Differential
Emission Measure (DEM) models. We utilised two different DEM models, a Gaussian
differential emission measure distribution (GDEM) and WDEM model, where the
emission measure of a number of thermal components is distributed as a
truncated power law. The best-fit XIS1 MEKAL temperature for the 0.4-7.0 keV
band is 4.7+-0.1 keV, consistent with that obtained using GDEM and WDEM models.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, accepted to A&
Suzaku study of gas properties along filaments of A2744
Context: We present the results of Suzaku observations of a massive galaxy
cluster A2744, which is an active merger at . Aims: By using long
X-ray observations of A2744, we aim to understand the growth of the cluster and
the gas heating process through mass accretion along the surrounding filaments.
Methods: We analyzed data from two-pointed Suzaku observations of A2744 to
derive the temperature distribution out to the virial radius in three different
directions. We also performed a deprojection analysis to study radial profiles
of gas temperature, density, and entropy and compared the X-ray results with
multi-wavelength data to investigate correlations with the surface density of
galaxies and with radio relics. Results: The gas temperature was measured out
to the virial radius in the north-east region and to about
in the north-west and south regions. The radial profile of the gas
temperature is rather flat and the temperature is very high (even near
); it is comparable to the mean temperature of this cluster (
keV). These characteristics have not been reported in any other cluster. We
find a hint of temperature jump in the northeast region whose location
coincides with a large radio relic, indicating that the cluster experienced gas
heating because of merger or mass accretion onto the main cluster. The
temperature distribution is anisotropic and shows no clear positive correlation
with the galaxy density, which suggests an inhomogeneous mass structure and a
complex merger history in A2744.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, A&A accepte
X-ray observations and mass determinations in the cluster of galaxies Cl0024+17
We present a detailed analysis of the mass distribution in the rich and
distant cluster of galaxies Cl0024+17. X-ray data come from both a deep
ROSAT/HRI image of the field (Bohringer et al. 1999) and ASCA spectral data.
Using a wide field CCD image of the cluster, we optically identify all the
faint X-ray sources, whose counts are compatible with deep X-ray number counts.
In addition we marginally detect the X-ray counter-part of the gravitational
shear perturbation detected by Bonnet et al. (1994) at a 2.5 level. A
careful spectral analysis of ASCA data is also presented. In particular, we
extract a low resolution spectrum of the cluster free from the contamination by
a nearby point source located 1.2 arcmin from the center. The X-ray temperature
deduced from this analysis is keV at the 90%
confidence level. The comparison between the mass derived from a standard X-ray
analysis and from other methods such as the Virial Theorem or the gravitational
lensing effect lead to a mass discrepancy of a factor 1.5 to 3. We discuss all
the possible sources of uncertainties in each method of mass determination and
give some indications on the way to reduce them. A complementary study of
optical data is in progress and may solve the X-ray/optical discrepancy through
a better understanding of the dynamics of the cluster.Comment: Revised version, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Main
Journal). Few changes in the discussio
Investigating the hard X-ray emission from the hottest Abell cluster A2163 with Suzaku
We present the results from Suzaku observations of the hottest Abell galaxy
cluster A2163 at . To study the physics of gas heating in cluster
mergers, we investigated hard X-ray emission from the merging cluster A2163,
which hosts the brightest synchrotron radio halo. We analyzed hard X-ray
spectra accumulated from two-pointed Suzaku observations. Non-thermal hard
X-ray emission should result from the inverse Compton (IC) scattering of
relativistic electrons by the CMB photons. To measure this emission, the
dominant thermal emission in the hard X-ray band must be modeled in detail. To
this end, we analyzed the combined broad-band X-ray data of A2163 collected by
Suzaku and XMM-Newton, assuming single- and multi-temperature models for
thermal emission and the power-law model for non-thermal emission. From the
Suzaku data, we detected significant hard X-ray emission from A2163 in the
12-60 keV band at the level (or at the level if a
systematic error is considered). The Suzaku HXD spectrum alone is consistent
with the single-T thermal model of gas temperature keV. From the XMM
data, we constructed a multi-T model including a very hot ( keV)
component in the NE region. Incorporating the multi-T and the power-law models
into a two-component model with a radio-band photon index, the 12-60 keV energy
flux of non-thermal emission is constrained within . The 90% upper limit of detected IC
emission is marginal ( in the
12-60 keV). The estimated magnetic field in A2163 is .
While the present results represent a three-fold increase in the accuracy of
the broad band spectral model of A2163, more sensitive hard X-ray observations
are needed to decisively test for the presence of hard X-ray emission due to IC
emission.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, A&A accepted. Minor correctio
Cosmological constant and time delay
The effect of the cosmological constant on the time delay caused by an
isolated spherical mass is calculated without using the lens equation and
compared to a recent observational bound on the time delay of the lensed quasar
SDSS J1004+4112.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
X-Ray Study of the Outer Region of Abell 2142 with Suzaku
We observed outer regions of a bright cluster of galaxies A2142 with Suzaku.
Temperature and brightness structures were measured out to the virial radius
() with good sensitivity. We confirmed the temperature drop from 9 keV
around the cluster center to about 3.5 keV at , with the density
profile well approximated by the model with . Within
0.4\r_{200}, the entropy profile agrees with , as predicted by the
accretion shock model. The entropy slope becomes flatter in the outer region
and negative around . These features suggest that the intracluster
medium in the outer region is out of thermal equilibrium. Since the relaxation
timescale of electron-ion Coulomb collision is expected to be longer than the
elapsed time after shock heating at , one plausible reason of the low
entropy is the low electron temperature compared to that of ions. Other
possible explanations would be gas clumpiness, turbulence and bulk motions of
ICM\@. We also searched for a warm-hot intergalactic medium around
and set an upper limit on the oxygen line intensity. Assuming a line-of-sight
depth of 2 Mpc and oxygen abundance of 0.1 solar, the upper limit of an
overdensity is calculated to be 280 or 380, depending on the foreground
assumption.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
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