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The runaway black hole GRO J1655-40
We have used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the motion in the sky and
compute the galactocentric orbit of the black hole X-ray binary GRO J1655-40.
The system moves with a runaway space velocity of km s in a
highly eccentric () orbit. The black hole was formed in the
disk at a distance greater than 3 kpc from the Galactic centre and must have
been shot to such an eccentric orbit by the explosion of the progenitor star.
The runaway linear momentum and kinetic energy of this black hole binary are
comparable to those of solitary neutron stars and millisecond pulsars. GRO
J1655-40 is the first black hole for which there is evidence for a runaway
motion imparted by a natal kick in a supernova explosion.Comment: Published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 5 pages, 2 color figures.
Color figure and animation can be found at
http://www.iafe.uba.ar/astronomia/mirabel/mirabel.html or
ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/mirabe
A Direct Multigrid Poisson Solver for Oct-Tree Adaptive Meshes
We describe a finite-volume method for solving the Poisson equation on
oct-tree adaptive meshes using direct solvers for individual mesh blocks. The
method is a modified version of the method presented by Huang and Greengard
(2000), which works with finite-difference meshes and does not allow for shared
boundaries between refined patches. Our algorithm is implemented within the
FLASH code framework and makes use of the PARAMESH library, permitting
efficient use of parallel computers. We describe the algorithm and present test
results that demonstrate its accuracy.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal; minor
revisions in response to referee's comments; added char
Border trees of complex networks
The comprehensive characterization of the structure of complex networks is
essential to understand the dynamical processes which guide their evolution.
The discovery of the scale-free distribution and the small world property of
real networks were fundamental to stimulate more realistic models and to
understand some dynamical processes such as network growth. However, properties
related to the network borders (nodes with degree equal to one), one of its
most fragile parts, remain little investigated and understood. The border nodes
may be involved in the evolution of structures such as geographical networks.
Here we analyze complex networks by looking for border trees, which are defined
as the subgraphs without cycles connected to the remainder of the network
(containing cycles) and terminating into border nodes. In addition to
describing an algorithm for identification of such tree subgraphs, we also
consider a series of their measurements, including their number of vertices,
number of leaves, and depth. We investigate the properties of border trees for
several theoretical models as well as real-world networks.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables. A working manuscript, comments and
suggestions welcome
Superconducting charge qubits from a microscopic many-body perspective
The quantised Josephson junction equation that underpins the behaviour of
charge qubits and other tunnel devices is usually derived through cannonical
quantisation of the classical macroscopic Josephson relations. However, this
approach may neglect effects due to the fact that the charge qubit consists of
a superconducting island of finite size connected to a large superconductor.
We show that the well known quantised Josephson equation can be derived
directly and simply from a microscopic many-body Hamiltonian. By choosing the
appropriate strong coupling limit we produce a highly simplified Hamiltonian
that nevertheless allows us to go beyond the mean field limit and predict
further finite-size terms in addition to the basic equation.Comment: Accepted for J Phys Condensed Matte
q-Deformed Kink Solutions
The q-deformed kink of the model is obtained via the
normalisable ground state eigenfunction of a fluctuation operator associated
with the q-deformed hyperbolic functions. From such a bosonic zero-mode the
q-deformed potential in 1+1 dimensions is found, and we show that the
q-deformed kink solution is a kink displaced away from the origin.Comment: REvtex, 11 pages, 2 figures. Preprint CBPF-NF-005/03, site at
http://www.cbpf.br. Revised version to appear in International Journal of
Modern Physics
Surviving opinions in Sznajd models on complex networks
The Sznajd model has been largely applied to simulate many sociophysical
phenomena. In this paper we applied the Sznajd model with more than two
opinions on three different network topologies and observed the evolution of
surviving opinions after many interactions among the nodes. As result, we
obtained a scaling law which depends of the network size and the number of
possible opinions. We also observed that this scaling law is not the same for
all network topologies, being quite similar between scale-free networks and
Sznajd networks but different for random networks.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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