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An algorithm for the search of homogeneous strain-rate fields
The aim of this paper is to describe the theoretical fundamentals and the main features of a software suitably implemented to estimate the strain-rate tensor from continuous GPS data.
Current softwares developed for geophysical applications generally estimate or compute bi-dimensional strain, since this is the most requested use. On the contrary, this software allows for a three-dimensional estimate of the strain-rate tensor. It accounts for all the significant GPS velocities and estimates the strain-rate components by the least squares method starting from the hypothesis of one homogeneous strain-rate field.
An initial field has to be defined by at least 4 sites which pass the chi-squared test on the strain-rate homogeneity. The developed algorithm automatically searches for sites belonging to this initial homogeneous field, starting from the site nearest to the barycentre of the first 4 sites and proceeding until a user-defined limit distance. Each time a site is added, the homogeneity of the whole field is suitably tested by a number of statistic tests.
In this work the algorithm has been also applied to some areas of geophysical interest
Current geodetic deformation in the South Africa region
We present a preliminary velocity field of the African continent derived from continuous GPS observations from 2004 to 2008. The aim of our work is to investigate the strain-rate pattern along the East Africa rift, in particular along the boundary of the two African plates (the Nubian and the Somalian) and in the South Africa region. We have processed GPS data in a time window spanning four years, i.e. from 2004 to 2008, involving IGS, TrigNet (a network of permanent GPS stations distributed throughout South Africa) and other sporadic sites.
The GPS data have been processed by means of the Bernese software version 5.0 dividing the entire African network into two clusters. The combination of daily loosely constrained solutions provides the time series of about a hundred of permanent GPS sites mainly located in the African continent. Site velocities together with periodic signals, eventual steps, have been estimated simultaneously using the complete covariance matrices. Finally the velocity field has been expressed in the ITRF2005 reference frame.
This investigation gives a preliminary idea of the velocity field and strain-rate pattern we can expect in the South-East Africa region, the observed deformations being barely measurable, below a few mm/year
How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review
On the thermal and double episode emissions in GRB 970828
Following the recent theoretical interpretation of GRB 090618 and GRB 101023,
we here interpret GRB 970828 in terms of a double episode emission: the first
episode, observed in the first 40 s of the emission, is interpreted as the
proto-black-hole emission; the second episode, observed after t+50 s, as a
canonical gamma ray burst. The transition between the two episodes marks the
black hole formation. The characteristics of the real GRB, in the second
episode, are an energy of erg, a
baryon load of and a bulk Lorentz factor at transparency
of . The clear analogy with GRB 090618 would require also in
GRB 970828 the presence of a possible supernova. We also infer that the GRB
exploded in an environment with a large average particle density part/cm and dense clouds characterized by typical dimensions
of cm and . Such an environment
is in line with the observed large column density absorption, which might have
darkened both the supernova emission and the GRB optical afterglow.Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Ap
A common behavior in the late X-ray afterglow of energetic GRB-SN systems
The possibility to divide GRBs in different subclasses allow to understand
better the physics underlying their emission mechanisms and progenitors. The
induced gravitational collapse scenario proposes a binary progenitor to explain
the time-sequence in GRBs-SNe. We show the existence of a common behavior of
the late decay of the X-ray afterglow emission of this subclass of GRBs,
pointing to a common physical mechanism of their late emission, consistent with
the IGC picture.Comment: 3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the Gamma-Ray Burst
Symposium 2012 - IAA-CSIC - Marbella, editors: Castro-Tirado, A. J.,
Gorosabel, J. and Park, I.
Cluster Dynamical Mean-field calculations for TiOCl
Based on a combination of cluster dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and
density functional calculations, we calculated the angle-integrated spectral
density in the layered quantum magnet TiOCl. The agreement with recent
photoemission and oxygen K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments is
found to be good. Th e improvement achieved with this calculation with respect
to previous single-site DMFT calculations is an indication of the correlated
nature and low-dimensionality of TiOCl.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, improved version as publishe
GRB 081024B and GRB 140402A: two additional short GRBs from binary neutron star mergers
Theoretical and observational evidences have been recently gained for a
two-fold classification of short bursts: 1) short gamma-ray flashes (S-GRFs),
with isotropic energy ~erg and no BH formation, and 2) the
authentic short gamma-ray bursts (S-GRBs), with isotropic energy
~erg evidencing a BH formation in the binary neutron star
merging process. The signature for the BH formation consists in the on-set of
the high energy (--~GeV) emission, coeval to the prompt emission, in
all S-GRBs. No GeV emission is expected nor observed in the S-GRFs. In this
paper we present two additional S-GRBs, GRB 081024B and GRB 140402A, following
the already identified S-GRBs, i.e., GRB 090227B, GRB 090510 and GRB 140619B.
We also return on the absence of the GeV emission of the S-GRB 090227B, at an
angle of from the \textit{Fermi}-LAT boresight. All the correctly
identified S-GRBs correlate to the high energy emission, implying no
significant presence of beaming in the GeV emission. The existence of a common
power-law behavior in the GeV luminosities, following the BH formation, when
measured in the source rest-frame, points to a commonality in the mass and spin
of the newly-formed BH in all S-GRBs.Comment: 16 pages, submitted to ApJ, second version addressing the comments by
the refere
Uniform current in graphene strip with zigzag edges
Graphene exhibits zero-gap massless-Dirac fermion and zero density of states
at E = 0. These particles form localized states called edge states on finite
width strip with zigzag edges at E = 0. Naively thinking, one may expect that
current is also concentrated at the edge, but Zarbo and Nikolic numerically
obtained a result that the current density shows maximum at the center of the
strip. We derive a rigorous relation for the current density, and clarify the
reason why the current density of edge state has a maximum at the center.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; added references and corrected typos, to be
published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.78 No.
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