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A population of binaries in the Asymptotic Giant Branch of 47 Tucanae?
We have used a set of archived Hubble Space Telescope/ACS images to probe the
evolved populations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We find an excess of
Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the cluster core. We interpret this
feature as the signature of an extra-population likely made by the progeny of
massive stars originated by the evolution of binary systems. Indeed the
comparison with theoretical tracks suggests that the AGB population of 47 Tuc
can be significantly contaminated by more massive stars currently experiencing
the first ascending Red Giant Branch.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, in press on ApJ Letter
Topology in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
New results on the topology of the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory are presented. At
zero temperature we obtain the value of the topological susceptibility by using
the recently introduced smeared operators as well as a properly renormalized
geometric definition. Both determinations are in agreement. At non-zero
temperature we study the behaviour of the topological susceptibility across the
confinement transition pointing out some qualitative differences with respect
to the analogous result for the SU(3) gauge theory.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, contribution to Lattice-97. Latex file including
espcrc2.st
Self-Commissioning of Inverter Nonlinear Effects in AC Drives
The paper presents a novel technique for an accurate identification of the inverter nonlinear effects, such as the dead-time and on-state voltage drops. The proposed technique is very simple and it is based only on a current control scheme. If the inverter load is an AC motor, the inverter effects can be identified at drive startup using as measured quantities the motor currents and the inverter DC link voltage. The identified inverter error is stored in a Look-Up Table (LUT) that can be subsequently used by the vector control algorithm. The proposed method has been tested on a 1 kVA inverter prototype and the obtained results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solutio
A complete census of emitters in NGC 6397
We used a dataset of archival Hubble Space Telescope images obtained through
the F555W, F814W and F656N filters, to perform a complete search for objects
showing emission in the globular cluster NGC 6397. As photometric
diagnostic, we used the color excess in the
- color-color diagram. In the analysed field of view,
we identified 53 emitters. In particular, we confirmed the optical
counterpart to 20 X-ray sources (7 cataclysmic variables, 2 millisecond pulsars
and 11 active binaries) and identified 33 previously unknown sources, thus
significantly enlarging the population of known active binaries in this
cluster. We report the main characteristics for each class of objects.
Photometric estimates of the equivalent width of the emission line,
were derived from the -excess and, for the first time, compared
to the spectroscopic measurements obtained from the analysis of MUSE spectra.
The very good agreement between the spectroscopic and photometric measures
fully confirmed the reliability of the proposed approach to measure the
emission. The search demonstrated the efficiency of this novel
approach to pinpoint and measure -emitters, thus offering a powerful
tool to conduct complete census of objects whose formation and evolution can be
strongly affected by dynamical interactions in star clusters.Comment: Accepted for publication by ApJ; 14 pages, 8 Figures, 1 Tabl
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise entrepreneurial returns, thereby increasing net returns and attracting entrepreneurs. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people.Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Chinitz, Agglomeration, Clusters, Cities.
About multi-resolution techniques for large eddy simulation of reactive multi-phase flows
A numerical technique for mesh refinement in the HeaRT (Heat Release and Transfer) numerical code is presented. In the CFD
framework, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach is gaining in importance as a tool for simulating turbulent combustion pro-
cesses, also if this approach has an high computational cost due to the complexity of the turbulent modeling and the high number of
grid points necessary to obtain a good numerical solution. In particular, when a numerical simulation of a big domain is performed
with a structured grid, the number of grid points can increase so much that the simulation becomes impossible: this problem can
be overcomed with a mesh refinement technique. Mesh refinement technique developed for HeaRT numerical code (a staggered
finite difference code) is based on an high order reconstruction of the variables at the grid interfaces by means of a least square
quasi-eno interpolation: numerical code is written in modern Fortran (2003 standard of newer) and is parallelized using domain
decomposition and message passing interface (MPI) standard
Imprinting a complete information about a quantum channel on its output state
We introduce a novel property of bipartite quantum states, which we call
"faithfulness", and we say that a state is faithful when acting with a channel
on one of the two quantum systems, the output state carries a complete
information about the channel. The concept of faithfulness can also be extended
to sets of states, when the output states patched together carry a complete
imprinting of the channel.Comment: revtex4, 4 pages, submitted to PR
Deep multi-telescope photometry of NGC 5466. II. The radial behaviour of the mass function slope
We use a combination of data acquired with the Advanced Camera for Survey
(ACS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope and the Large Binocular Camera
(LBC-blue) mounted on the Large Binocular Telescope, to sample the main
sequence stars of the globular cluster NGC~5466 in the mass range
. We derive the cluster's Luminosity Function in several
radial regions, from the center of the cluster out to the tidal radius. After
corrections for incompleteness and field-contamination, this has been compared
to theoretical Luminosity Functions, obtained by multiplying a simple power law
Mass Function in the form dN/dm by the derivative of the
mass-luminosity relationship of the best-fit isochrone. We find that
varies from -0.6 in the core region to -1.9 in the outer region. This fact
allows us to observationally prove that the stars in NGC 5466 have experienced
the effects of mass segregation. We compare the radial variation of
from the center out to 5 core radii (r) in NGC 5466 and the globular
cluster M10, finding that the gradient of in the first 5r is more
than a factor of 2 shallower in NGC 5466 than in M10, in line with the
differences in the clusters' relaxation timescales. NGC 5466 is dynamically
younger than M10, with two-body relaxation processes only recently starting to
shape the distribution of main sequence stars. This result fully agrees with
the conclusion obtained in our previous works on the radial distribution of
Blue Straggler Stars, further confirming that this can be used as an efficient
clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems.Comment: Accepted for publications on Ap
Service composition in stochastic settings
With the growth of the Internet-of-Things and online Web services, more services with more capabilities are available to us. The ability to generate new, more useful services from existing ones has been the focus of much research for over a decade. The goal is, given a specification of the behavior of the target service, to build a controller, known as an orchestrator, that uses existing services to satisfy the requirements of the target service. The model of services and requirements used in most work is that of a finite state machine. This implies that the specification can either be satisfied or not, with no middle ground. This is a major drawback, since often an exact solution cannot be obtained. In this paper we study a simple stochastic model for service composition: we annotate the tar- get service with probabilities describing the likelihood of requesting each action in a state, and rewards for being able to execute actions. We show how to solve the resulting problem by solving a certain Markov Decision Process (MDP) derived from the service and requirement specifications. The solution to this MDP induces an orchestrator that coincides with the exact solution if a composition exists. Otherwise it provides an approximate solution that maximizes the expected sum of values of user requests that can be serviced. The model studied although simple shades light on composition in stochastic settings and indeed we discuss several possible extensions
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