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Site evaluation for laser satellite-tracking stations
Twenty-six locations for potential laser satellite-tracking stations, four of them actually already occupied in this role, are reviewed in terms of their known local and regional geology and geophysics. The sites are also considered briefly in terms of weather and operational factors. Fifteen of the sites qualify as suitable for a stable station whose motions are likely to reflect only gross plate motion. The others, including two of the present laser station sites (Arequipa and Athens), fail to qualify unless extra monitoring schemes can be included, such as precise geodetic surveying of ground deformation
Neutron star matter in the quark-meson coupling model in strong magnetic fields
The effects of strong magnetic fields on neutron star matter are investigated
in the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model. The QMC model describes a nuclear
many-body system as nonoverlapping MIT bags in which quarks interact through
self-consistent exchange of scalar and vector mesons in the mean-field
approximation. The results of the QMC model are compared with those obtained in
a relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. It is found that quantitative
differences exist between the QMC and RMF models, while qualitative trends of
the magnetic field effects on the equation of state and composition of neutron
star matter are very similar.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
About Detecting CP-Violating Processes in J/\psi\to \KzKzb Decay
Questions about detecting CP-violating decay process of are discussed. Possible background and material
regeneration effect are analyzed. The discussion can be directly extended to
other vector quarkonium decays, like , and .Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Late
Quasi-classical determination of the in-plane magnetic field phase diagram of superconducting Sr_2RuO_4
We have carried out a determination of the magnetic-field-temperature (H-T)
phase diagram for realistic models of the high field superconducting state of
tetragonal Sr_2RuO_4 with fields oriented in the basal plane. This is done by a
variational solution of the Eilenberger equations.This has been carried for
spin-triplet gap functions with a {\bf d}-vector along the c-axis (the chiral
p-wave state) and with a {\bf d}-vector that can rotate easily in the basal
plane. We find that, using gap functions that arise from a combination of
nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions, the upper critical field can be
approximately isotropic as the field is rotated in the basal plane. For the
chiral {\bf d}-vector, we find that this theory generically predicts an
additional phase transition in the vortex state. For a narrow range of
parameters, the chiral {\bf d}-vector gives rise to a tetracritical point in
the H-T phase diagram. When this tetracritical point exists, the resulting
phase diagram closely resembles the experimentally measured phase diagram for
which two transitions are only observed in the high field regime. For the
freely rotating in-plane {\bf d}-vector, we also find that additional phase
transition exists in the vortex phase. However, this phase transition
disappears as the in-plane {\bf d}-vector becomes weakly pinned along certain
directions in the basal plane.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Elasticity of highly cross-linked random networks
Starting from a microscopic model of randomly cross-linked particles with
quenched disorder, we calculate the Laudau-Wilson free energy S for arbitrary
cross-link densities. Considering pure shear deformations, S takes the form of
the elastic energy of an isotropic amorphous solid state, from which the shear
modulus can be identified. It is found to be an universal quantity, not
depending on any microscopic length-scales of the model.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
The Alignment between Satellites and Central Galaxies: Theory vs. Observations
Recent studies have shown that the distribution of satellite galaxies is
preferentially aligned with the major axis of their central galaxy. The
strength of this alignment has been found to depend strongly on the colours of
the satellite and central galaxies, and only weakly on the mass of the halo in
which the galaxies reside. In this paper we study whether these alignment
signals, and their dependence on galaxy and halo properties, can be reproduced
in a hierarchical structure formation model of a CDM concordance
cosmology. To that extent we use a large -body simulation which we populate
with galaxies following a semi-analytical model for galaxy formation. We find
that if the orientation of the central galaxy is perfectly aligned with that of
its dark matter halo, then the predicted central-satellite alignment signal is
much stronger than observed. If, however, the minor axis of a central galaxy is
perfectly aligned with the angular momentum vector of its dark matter halo, we
can accurately reproduce the observed alignment strength as function of halo
mass and galaxy color. Although this suggests that the orientation of central
galaxies is governed by the angular momentum of their dark matter haloes, we
emphasize that any other scenario in which the minor axes of central galaxy and
halo are misaligned by (on average) will match the data
equally well. Finally, we show that dependence of the alignment strength on the
color of the central galaxy is most likely an artefact due to interlopers in
the group catalogue. The dependence on the color of the satellite galaxies, on
the other hand, is real and owes to the fact that red satellites are associated
with subhaloes that were more massive at their time of accretion.Comment: 13 Pages, 10 Figures, one figure replaced. added in discussion about
comparison with others results, Updated version to match accepted version to
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Statistical analysis of the owl:sameAs network for aligning concepts in the linking open data cloud
The massively distributed publication of linked data has brought to the attention of scientific community the limitations of classic methods for achieving data integration and the opportunities of pushing the boundaries of the field by experimenting this collective enterprise that is the linking open data cloud. While reusing existing ontologies is the choice of preference, the exploitation of ontology alignments still is a required step for easing the burden of integrating heterogeneous data sets. Alignments, even between the most used vocabularies, is still poorly supported in systems nowadays whereas links between instances are the most widely used means for bridging the gap between different data sets. We provide in this paper an account of our statistical and qualitative analysis of the network of instance level equivalences in the Linking Open Data Cloud (i.e. the sameAs network) in order to automatically compute alignments at the conceptual level. Moreover, we explore the effect of ontological information when adopting classical Jaccard methods to the ontology alignment task. Automating such task will allow in fact to achieve a clearer conceptual description of the data at the cloud level, while improving the level of integration between datasets. <br/
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