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Processing of DMSP magnetic data: Handbook of programs, tapes, and datasets
The DMSP F-7 satellite was an operational Air Force meteorological satellite which carried a magnetometer for geophysical measurements. The magnetometer was located within the body of the spacecraft in the presence of large spacecraft fields. In addition to stray magnetic fields, the data have inherent position and time inaccuracies. Algorithms were developed to identify and remove time varying magnetic field noise from the data. These algorithms are embodied in an automated procedure which fits a smooth curve through the data and then identifies outliers and which filters the predominant Fourier component of noise from the data. Techniques developed for Magsat were then modified and used to attempt determination of the spacecraft fields, of any rotation between the magnetometer axes and the spacecraft axes, and of any scale changes within the magnetometer itself. Software setup and usage are documented and program listings are included in the Appendix. The initial and resulting data are archived on magnetic cartridge and the formats are documented
Topological Optimization of the Evaluation of Finite Element Matrices
We present a topological framework for finding low-flop algorithms for
evaluating element stiffness matrices associated with multilinear forms for
finite element methods posed over straight-sided affine domains. This framework
relies on phrasing the computation on each element as the contraction of each
collection of reference element tensors with an element-specific geometric
tensor. We then present a new concept of complexity-reducing relations that
serve as distance relations between these reference element tensors. This
notion sets up a graph-theoretic context in which we may find an optimized
algorithm by computing a minimum spanning tree. We present experimental results
for some common multilinear forms showing significant reductions in operation
count and also discuss some efficient algorithms for building the graph we use
for the optimization
Nanoscale density fluctuations in swift heavy ion irradiated amorphous SiO2
We report on the observation of nanoscale density fluctuations in 2 μm thick amorphous SiO₂ layers irradiated with 185 MeV Au ions. At high fluences, in excess of approximately 5 × 10¹² ions/cm², where the surface is completely covered by ion tracks, synchrotron small angle x-ray scattering measurements reveal the existence of a steady state of density fluctuations. In agreement with molecular dynamics simulations, this steady state is consistent with an ion track “annihilation” process, where high-density regions generated in the periphery of new tracks fill in low-density regions located at the center of existing tracks.The authors acknowledge the Australian Research
Council and the Australian Synchrotron Research Program
for financial support and thank the staff at the ANU Heavy
Ion facility for their continued technical assistance. O.P.,
F.D., and K.N. acknowledge financial support from the
Academy of Finland under its Centre of Excellence program
as well as the OPNA project, and grants of computer
capacity from CSC
Static Black Hole Solutions without Rotational Symmetry
We construct static black hole solutions that have no rotational symmetry.
These arise in theories, including the standard electroweak model, that include
charged vector mesons with mass . In such theories, a magnetically
charged Reissner-Nordstrom black hole with horizon radius less than a critical
value of the order of is classically unstable against the development
of a nonzero vector meson field just outside the horizon, indicating the
existence of static black hole solutions with vector meson hair. For the case
of unit magnetic charge, spherically symmetric solutions of this type have
previously been studied. For other values of the magnetic charge, general
arguments show that any new solution with hair cannot be spherically symmetric.
In this paper we develop and apply a perturbative scheme (which may have
applicability in other contexts) for constructing such solutions in the case
where the Reissner-Nordstrom solution is just barely unstable. For a few low
values of the magnetic charge the black holes retain a rotational symmetry
about a single axis, but this axial symmetry disappears for higher charges.
While the vector meson fields vanish exponentially fast at distances greater
than , the magnetic field and the metric have higher multipole
components that decrease only as powers of the distance from the black hole.Comment: 42 pages, phyzzx. 4 figures (PostScript, 1.7 MB when uncompressed)
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Ferromagnetic Ga₁ˍₓ Mnₓ As produced by ion implantation and pulsed-laser melting
We demonstrate the formation of ferromagneticGa₁ˍₓMnₓAsfilms by Mn ion implantation into GaAs followed by pulsed-laser melting. Irradiation with a single excimer laser pulse results in the epitaxial regrowth of the implanted layer with Mn substitutional fraction up to 80% and effective Curie temperature up to 29 K for samples with a maximum Mn concentration of x≈0.03. A remanent magnetization persisting above 85 K has been observed for samples with x≈0.10, in which 40% of the Mn resides on substitutional lattice sites. We find that the ferromagnetism in Ga₁ˍₓMnₓAs is rather robust to the presence of structural defects.The work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of
Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and
Engineering, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract
No. DE-AC03-76SF00098. The work at Harvard was
supported by NASA Grant No. NAG8-1680. One of
the authors ~M.A.S.! acknowledges support from an NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship
High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Epsilon Indi Ba
We report on the analysis of high-resolution infrared spectra of the newly
discovered brown dwarf Epsilon Indi Ba. This is the closest known brown dwarf
to the solar system, with a distance of 3.626 pc. Spectra covering the ranges
of 2.308-2.317 microns and 1.553-1.559 microns were observed at a spectral
resolution of R=50,000 with the Phoenix spectrometer on the Gemini South
telescope. The physical paramters of effective temperature and surface gravity
are derived by comparison to model spectra calculated from atmospheres computed
using unified cloudy models. An accurate projected rotational velocity is also
derived.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. Astrophysical Journal Letters, in pres
First Keck Nulling Observations of a Young Stellar Object: Probing the Circumstellar Environment of the Herbig Ae star MWC 325
We present the first N-band nulling plus K- and L-band V2 observations of a
young stellar object, MWC325, taken with the 85 m baseline Keck Interferometer.
The Keck nuller was designed for the study of faint dust signatures associated
with debris disks, but it also has a unique capability for studying the
temperature and density distribution of denser disks found around young stellar
objects. Interferometric observations of MWC 325 at K, L and N encompass a
factor of five in spectral range and thus, especially when spectrally dispersed
within each band, enable characterization of the structure of the inner disk
regions where planets form. Fitting our observations with geometric models such
as a uniform disk or a Gaussian disk show that the apparent size increases
monotonically with wavelength in the 2-12 um wavelength region, confirming the
widely held assumption based on radiative transfer models, now with spatially
resolved measurements over broad wavelength range, that disks are extended with
a temperature gradient. The effective size is a factor of about 1.3 and 2
larger in the L-band and N-band, respectively, compared to that in the K-band.
The existing interferometric measurements and the spectral energy distribution
can be reproduced by a flat disk or a weakly-shadowed nearly flat-disk model,
with only slight flaring in the outer regions of the disk, consisting of
representative "sub-micron" (0.1 um) and "micron" (2 um) grains of a 50:50
ratio of silicate and graphite. This is marked contrast with the disks
previously found in other Herbig Ae/Be stars suggesting a wide variety in the
disk properties among Herbig Ae/Be stars.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Ap
Accretion Signatures from Massive Young Stellar Objects
High resolution (lambda / Delta-lambda = 50,000) K-band spectra of massive,
embedded, young stellar objects are presented. The present sample consists of
four massive young stars located in nascent clusters powering Galactic giant H
II regions. Emission in the 2.3 micron 2--0 vibrational--rotational bandhead of
CO is observed. A range of velocity broadened profiles seen in three of the
objects is consistent with the emission arising from a circumstellar disk seen
at various inclination angles. Br gamma spectra of the same spectral and
spatial resolution are also presented which support an accretion disk or torus
model for massive stars. In the fourth object, Br emission suggesting a
rotating torus is observed, but the CO profile is narrow, indicating that there
may be different CO emission mechanisms in massive stars and this is consistent
with earlier observations of the BN object and MWC 349. To--date, only young
massive stars of late O or early B types have been identified with clear
accretion disk signatures in such embedded clusters. Often such stars are found
in the presence of other more massive stars which are revealed by their
photospheric spectra but which exhibit no disk signatures. This suggests the
timescale for dissipating their disks is much faster than the less massive OB
stars or that the most massive stars do not form with accretion disks.Comment: 28 pages, 10 Figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journa
wormholes and topological charge
I investigate solutions to the Euclidean Einstein-matter field equations with
topology in a theory with a massless periodic scalar
field and electromagnetism. These solutions carry winding number of the
periodic scalar as well as magnetic flux. They induce violations of a
quasi-topological conservation law which conserves the product of magnetic flux
and winding number on the background spacetime. I extend these solutions to a
model with stable loops of superconducting cosmic string, and interpret them as
contributing to the decay of such loops.Comment: 18 pages (includes 6 figs.), harvmac and epsf, CU-TP-62
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