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Anti-correlated hard X-ray time lags in Galactic black hole sources
We investigate the accretion disk geometry in Galactic black hole sources by
measuring the time delay between soft and hard X-ray emissions. Similar to the
recent discoveries of anti-correlated hard X-ray time lags in Cyg X-3 and GRS
1915+105, we find that the hard X-rays are anti-correlated with soft X-rays
with a significant lag in another source: XTE J1550-564. We also find the
existence of pivoting in the model independent X-ray spectrum during these
observations. We investigate time-resolved X-ray spectral parameters and find
that the variation in these parameters is consistent with the idea of a
truncated accretion disk. The QPO frequency, which is a measure of the size of
truncated accretion disk, too changes indicating that the geometric size of the
hard X-ray emitting region changes along with the spectral pivoting and soft
X-ray flux. Similar kind of delay is also noticed in 4U 1630-47.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Observational evidence for mass ejection during soft X-ray dips in GRS1915+105
We investigate the connection between the X-ray and radio properties of the
Galactic microquasar GRS1915+105, by analyzing the X-ray data observed with
RXTE, during the presence of a huge radio flare (~450 mJy). The X-ray
lightcurve shows two dips of ~100 second duration. Detailed time resolved
spectral analysis shows the existence of three spectral components: a
multicolor disk-blackbody, a Comptonized component due to hot plasma and a
power-law. We find that the Comptonized component is very weak during the dip.
This is further confirmed by the PHA ratio of the raw data and ratio of the
lightcurves in different energy bands. These results, combined with the fact
that the 0.5 -- 10 Hz QPO disappears during the dip and that the Comptonized
component is responsible for the QPO lead to the conclusion that during the
dips the matter emitting Comptonized spectrum is ejected away. This establishes
a direct connection between the X-ray and radio properties of the source.Comment: Replaced with some minor changes, corrected typos. Added Journal Re
A unified data flow model for fault tolerant computers
The Dataflow Simulation System (DFSS) at USL was used as the medium on which a functional simulaton of sIFT was produced. DFSS is written in PL/I and is supported by MULTICS. Within the simulation, all the interprocessor communication, fault simulation, system state data, and monitoring were implemented in dataflow and supported directly by DFSS. The actual processor level computation was carried out by the SIFT code in PASCAL. The interface between DFSS in PL/I and the SIFT code in PASCAL was supported under a mechanism in DFSS called a Node Realization Module (NRM)
Developments of the pinned photodiode terahertz rectifier
This paper presents we presents a development of the structure of the pinned photodiode terahertz rectifier, in which the metal whisker of the antenna is separated from the semiconductor by a silane oxide layer, in order to reduce the surface defectiveness. The rectifies is the basic component of an image detection system based on the structure of actual CMOS image detectors. The structure combines a nano-antenna, fabricated on the top of a standard image sensor, the rectifier, and the readout electronics. The rectifier device proposed has vertical extension of some tenths of nanometers, can be created at the foot of the nano-whisker at the end of the terahertz antenna, above the storage well
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