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Properties of the jet in M87 revealed by its helical structure imaged with the VLBA at 8 and 15 GHz
We present full-track high-resolution radio observations of the jet of the
galaxy M87 at 8 and 15 GHz. These observations were taken over three
consecutive days in May 2009 using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), one
antenna of the Very Large Array (VLA), and the Effelsberg 100 m telescope. Our
produced images have dynamic ranges exceeding 20,000:1 and resolve linear
scales down to approximately 100 Schwarzschild radii, revealing a
limb-brightened jet and a faint, steep spectrum counter-jet. We performed
jet-to-counter-jet analysis, which helped estimate the physical parameters of
the flow. The rich internal structure of the jet is dominated by three helical
threads, likely produced by the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability developing in
a supersonic flow with a Mach number of approximately 20 and an enthalpy ratio
of around 0.3. We produce a CLEAN imaging bias-corrected 8-15GHz spectral index
image, which shows spectrum flattening in regions of helical thread
intersections. This further supports the KH origin of the observed internal
structure of the jet. We detect polarised emission in the jet at distances of
approximately 20 milliarcseconds from the core and find Faraday rotation which
follows a transverse gradient across the jet. We apply Faraday rotation
correction to the polarisation position angle and find that the position angle
changes as a function of distance from the jet axis, which suggests the
presence of a helical magnetic field.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, Submitted to MNRAS on 25th March 202
Resistive and magnetoresistive properties of CrO2 pressed powders with different types of inter-granular dielectric layers
Resistive, magnetoresistive and magnetic properties of four kinds of pressed
CrO2 powders, synthesized by hydrothermal method of chromic anhydride have been
investigated. The particles in powders constituted of rounded particles
(diameter 120 nm) or needle-shaped crystals with an average diameter of 22.9 nm
and average length of 302 nm. All of the particles had a surface dielectric
shell of varying thickness and different types (such as oxyhydroxide -CrOOH or
chromium oxide Cr2O3). For all the samples at low temperatures we found
non-metallic temperature dependence of resistivity and giant negative
magnetoresistance (MR). The maximum value of MR at low temperatures (T \approx
5 K) is \approx 37% in relatively small fields (0.5 T). At higher temperatures
there was a rapid decrease of MR (up to \approx 1% / T at T \approx 200 K). The
main objective of this work was studying the influence of properties and
thickness of the intergranular dielectric layers, as well as CrO2 particle
shape, on the magnitude of the tunneling resistance and MR of the pressed
powder. The new results obtained in this study include: (1) detection at low
temperatures in powders with needle-like particles a new type of MR hysteresis,
and nonmonotonic MR behaviour with increasing magnetic field (absolute value of
the MR at first grows rather rapidly with the field, and then begins
diminishing markedly, forming a maximum), and (2) detection of non-monotonic
temperature dependence, where - a field in which the resistance in a magnetic
field has a maximum, as well as finding discrepancies in values of and
coercivity fields, (3) detection of the anisotropy of MR, depending on the
relative orientation of the transport current and the magnetic field, (4) a new
method of synthesis, to regulate the thickness of dielectric coating.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figure
Pressure effect on magnetic susceptibility of LaCoO
The effect of pressure on magnetic properties of LaCoO is studied
experimentally and theoretically. The pressure dependence of magnetic
susceptibility of LaCoO is obtained by precise measurements of
as a function of the hydrostatic pressure up to 2 kbar in the
temperature range from 78 K to 300 K. A pronounced magnitude of the pressure
effect is found to be negative in sign and strongly temperature dependent. The
obtained experimental data are analysed by using a two-level model and DFT+U
calculations of the electronic structure of LaCoO. In particular, the fixed
spin moment method was employed to obtain a volume dependence of the total
energy difference between the low spin and the intermediate spin
states of LaCoO. Analysis of the obtained experimental dependence
within the two-level model, as well as our DFT+U calculations, have revealed
the anomalous large decrease in the energy difference with increasing
of the unit cell volume. This effect, taking into account a thermal expansion,
can be responsible for the temperatures dependence of , predicting its
vanishing near room temperature.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure
Thermal and magnetic properties of integrable spin-1 and spin-3/2 chains with applications to real compounds
The ground state and thermodynamic properties of spin-1 and spin-3/2 chains
are investigated via exactly solved su(3) and su(4) models with physically
motivated chemical potential terms. The analysis involves the Thermodynamic
Bethe Ansatz and the High Temperature Expansion (HTE) methods. For the spin-1
chain with large single-ion anisotropy, a gapped phase occurs which is
significantly different from the valence-bond-solid Haldane phase. The
theoretical curves for the magnetization, susceptibility and specific heat are
favourably compared with experimental data for a number of spin-1 chain
compounds. For the spin-3/2 chain a degenerate gapped phase exists starting at
zero external magnetic field. A middle magnetization plateau can be triggered
by the single-ion anisotropy term. Overall, our results lend further weight to
the applicability of integrable models to the physics of low-dimensional
quantum spin systems. They also highlight the utility of the exact HTE method.Comment: 38 pages, 15 figure
Optimization of Vaccine Virus Accumulation in the Development of Smallpox Drugs Based on Cell Cultures
Objective. Optimization of vaccine virus cultivation in the suspended cell culture BHK-21 for infectious activity increment of virus-containing suspension as the base material for smallpox vaccine preparations. Materials and methods. We used suspended culture line of the cells BHK-21 of 72-hour age and nutrient medium of the MEM type in accordance with the guidelines on preparation in our studies. For challenging of the cells, vaccine virus (strain B-51) was used. The virus was adapted through three consequent passages on horion-allantois shell of developing chicken embryos of commercial dermovaccine series 449а at the premises of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “the 48th Central Research Institute” of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Information on its genetic features is absent. Cultivation and precipitation of infected cells BHK-21 was carried out in bioreactor with priming volume of 1 liter at (36.5±0.5) °C and aeration with air mixture with varying content of CO2. Results and conclusions. Gas massexchange intensity was enhanced alongside simultaneous maintaining of sparing hydrodynamic conditions for mixing suspended cell cultures in bioreactor. Two-fold increase (up to (4.48±0.63)·109 cell/l) in suspended BHK-21 cell culture concentration at the end of reproduction cycle was achieved. Concentration of the vaccine virus was 3–5 times raised, from (8.1±0.3) lg PFU (plaque forming unit)/ml up to the level of infectious activity – (8.8±0.3) lg PFU/ml. Specific multiplicity of cell infection in recalculation per a cell was 1–5 PFU/cell and by virus yield – 20–100 PFU/cell. Enhanced infectious activity of the virus in concentrated suspension of infected BHK-21 cells substantiates the perspectives of the proposed method for improvement of vaccine virus accumulation phase in the development of anti-smallpox preparations based on cell cultures
OJ287: deciphering the 'Rosetta stone of blazars
OJ287 is the best candidate active galactic nucleus (AGN) for hosting a supermassive binary black hole (SMBBH) at very close separation. We present 120 Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations (at 15 GHz) covering the time between April 1995 and April 2017. We find that the OJ287 radio jet is precessing on a time-scale of similar to 22 yr. In addition, our data are consistent with a jet-axis rotation on a yearly time-scale. We model the precession (24 +/- 2 yr) and combined motion of jet precession and jet-axis rotation. The jet motion explains the variability of the total radio flux-density via viewing angle changes and Doppler beaming. Half of the jet-precession time-scale is of the order of the dominant optical periodicity time-scale. We suggest that the optical emission is synchrotron emission and related to the jet radiation. The jet dynamics and flux-density light curves can be understood in terms of geometrical effects. Disturbances of an accretion disc caused by a plunging BH do not seem necessary to explain the observed variability. Although the SMBBH model does not seem necessary to explain the observed variability, an SMBBH or Lense-Thirring precession (disc around single BH) seem to be required to explain the time-scale of the precessing motion. Besides jet rotation also nutation of the jet axis could explain the observed motion of the jet axis. We find a strikingly similar scaling for the time-scales for precession and nutation as indicated for SS433 with a factor of roughly 50 times longer in OJ287
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