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Sub-Alfvenic Non-Ideal MHD Turbulence Simulations with Ambipolar Diffusion: I. Turbulence Statistics
Most numerical investigations on the role of magnetic fields in turbulent
molecular clouds (MCs) are based on ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). However,
MCs are weakly ionized, so that the time scale required for the magnetic field
to diffuse through the neutral component of the plasma by ambipolar diffusion
(AD) can be comparable to the dynamical time scale. We have performed a series
of 256^3 and 512^3 simulations on supersonic but sub-Alfvenic turbulent systems
with AD using the Heavy-Ion Approximation developed in Li, McKee, & Klein
(2006). Our calculations are based on the assumption that the number of ions is
conserved, but we show that these results approximately apply to the case of
time-dependent ionization in molecular clouds as well. Convergence studies
allow us to determine the optimal value of the ionization mass fraction when
using the heavy-ion approximation for low Mach number, sub-Alfvenic turbulent
systems. We find that ambipolar diffusion steepens the velocity and magnetic
power spectra compared to the ideal MHD case. Changes in the density PDF, total
magnetic energy, and ionization fraction are determined as a function of the AD
Reynolds number. The power spectra for the neutral gas properties of a strongly
magnetized medium with a low AD Reynolds number are similar to those for a
weakly magnetized medium; in particular, the power spectrum of the neutral
velocity is close to that for Burgers turbulence.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figures, 4 table
Ultimate parameters of the photon collider at the ILC
At linear colliders, the e+e- luminosity is limited by beam-collision
effects, which determine the required emittances of beams in damping rings
(DRs). While in gamma-gamma collisions at the photon collider, these effects
are absent, and so smaller emittances are desirable. In present damping rings
designs, nominal DR parameters correspond to those required for e+e-
collisions. In this note, I would like to stress once again that as soon as we
plan the photon-collider mode of ILC operation, the damping-ring emittances are
dictated by the photon-collider requirements--namely, they should be as small
as possible. This can be achieved by adding more wigglers to the DRs; the
incremental cost is easily justified by a considerable potential improvement of
the gamma-gamma luminosity. No expert analysis exists as of yet, but it seems
realistic to obtain a factor five increase of the gamma-gamma luminosity
compared to the ``nominal'' DR design.Comment: Talk at LCWS06, Bangalore, India, March 2006, to be published in
Indian Journal of Physics, 5 pp, Latex, 1 .eps figur
The Far-Infrared Properties of Spatially Resolved AKARI Observations
We present the spatially resolved observations of IRAS sources from the
Japanese infrared astronomy satellite AKARI All-Sky Survey during the
performance verification (PV) phase of the mission. We extracted reliable point
sources matched with IRAS point source catalogue. By comparing IRAS and AKARI
fluxes, we found that the flux measurements of some IRAS sources could have
been over or underestimated and affected by the local background rather than
the global background. We also found possible candidates for new AKARI sources
and confirmed that AKARI observations resolved IRAS sources into multiple
sources. All-Sky Survey observations are expected to verify the accuracies of
IRAS flux measurements and to find new extragalactic point sources.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted publication in PASJ AKARI special issu
Convective Motion in a Vibrated Granular Layer
Experimental results are presented for a vertically shaken granular layer. In
the range of accelerations explored, the layer develops a convective motion in
the form of one or more rolls. The velocity of the grains near the wall has
been measured. It grows linearly with the acceleration, then the growing rate
slows down. A rescaling with the amplitude of the wall velocity and the height
of the granular layer makes all data collapse in a single curve. This can
provide insights on the mechanism driving the motion.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Early GRB Optical and Infrared Afterglow Observations with the 2-m Robotic Liverpool Telescope
We present the first optical observations of a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB)
afterglow using the 2-m robotic Liverpool Telescope (LT), which is owned and
operated by Liverpool John Moores University and situated on La Palma. We
briefly discuss the capabilities of LT and its suitability for rapid follow-up
observations of early optical and infrared GRB light curves. In particular, the
combination of aperture, site, instrumentation and rapid response (robotic
over-ride mode aided by telescope's rapid slew and fully-opening enclosure)
makes the LT ideal for investigating the nature of short bursts, optically-dark
bursts, and GRB blast-wave physics in general. We briefly describe the LT's key
position in the RoboNet-1.0 network of robotic telescopes. We present the LT
observations of GRB041006 and use its gamma-ray properties to predict the time
of the break in optical light curve, a prediction consistent with the
observations.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Il nuovo cimento (4th
Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome, 18-22 October 2004
Towards Higgs boson production in gluon fusion to NNLO in the MSSM
We consider the Higgs boson production in the gluon-fusion channel to
next-to-next-to-leading order within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
In particular, we present analytical results for the matching coefficient of
the effective theory and study its influence on the total production cross
section in the limit where the masses of all MSSM particles coincide. For
supersymmetric masses below 500 GeV it is possible to find parameters leading
to a significant enhancement of the Standard Model cross section, the
-factors, however, change only marginally.Comment: 20 pages; v2: modification of discussion of numerical effect, version
to appear in EPJC; v3: eq.(18) corrected, minor correction
Near-Infrared Molecular Hydrogen Emission from the Central Regions of Galaxies: Regulated Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Medium
The central regions of many interacting and early-type spiral galaxies are
actively forming stars. This process affects the physical and chemical
properties of the local interstellar medium as well as the evolution of the
galaxies. We observed near-infrared H2 emission lines: v=1-0 S(1), 3-2 S(3),
1-0 S(0), and 2-1 S(1) from the central ~1 kpc regions of the archetypical
starburst galaxies, M82 and NGC 253, and the less dramatic but still vigorously
star-forming galaxies, NGC 6946 and IC 342. Like the far-infrared continuum
luminosity, the near-infrared H2 emission luminosity can directly trace the
amount of star formation activity because the H2 emission lines arise from the
interaction between hot and young stars and nearby neutral clouds. The observed
H2 line ratios show that both thermal and non-thermal excitation are
responsible for the emission lines, but that the great majority of the
near-infrared H2 line emission in these galaxies arises from energy states
excited by ultraviolet fluorescence. The derived physical conditions, e.g.,
far-ultraviolet radiation field and gas density, from [C II] and [O I] lines
and far-infrared continuum observations when used as inputs to
photodissociation models, also explain the luminosity of the observed H2 v=1-0
S(1) line. The ratio of the H2 v=1-0 S(1) line to far-IR continuum luminosity
is remarkably constant over a broad range of galaxy luminosities; L_H2/L_FIR =
about 10^{-5}, in normal late-type galaxies (including the Galactic center), in
nearby starburst galaxies, and in luminous IR galaxies (LIRGs: L_FIR > 10^{11}
L_sun). Examining this constant ratio in the context of photodissociation
region models, we conclude that it implies that the strength of the incident UV
field on typical molecular clouds follows the gas density at the cloud surface.Comment: Accepted for ApJ, 24 pages, 17 figures, for complete PDF file, see
http://kao.re.kr/~soojong/mypaper/2004_pak_egh2.pd
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