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Stars and brown dwarfs in the sigma Orionis cluster. III. OSIRIS/GTC low-resolution spectroscopy of variable sources
Context. Although many studies have been performed so far, there are still
dozens of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the young sigma Orionis open
cluster without detailed spectroscopic characterisation. Aims. We look for
unknown strong accretors and disc hosts that were undetected in previous
surveys. Methods. We collected low-resolution spectroscopy (R ~ 700) of ten
low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in sigma Orionis with OSIRIS at the Gran
Telescopio Canarias under very poor weather conditions. These objects display
variability in the optical, infrared, Halpha, and/or X-rays on time scales of
hours to years. We complemented our spectra with optical and near-/mid-infrared
photometry. Results. For seven targets, we detected lithium in absorption,
identified Halpha, the calcium doublet, and forbidden lines in emission, and/or
determined spectral types for the first time. We characterise in detail a
faint, T Tauri-like brown dwarf with an 18 h-period variability in the optical
and a large Halpha equivalent width of -125+/-15 AA, as well as two M1-type,
X-ray-flaring, low-mass stars, one with a warm disc and forbidden emission
lines, the other with a previously unknown cold disc with a large inner hole.
Conclusions. New unrevealed strong accretors and disc hosts, even below the
substellar limit, await discovery among the list of known sigma Orionis stars
and brown dwarfs that are variable in the optical and have no detailed
spectroscopic characterisation yet.Comment: A&A, in press (accepted for publication in section 14. Catalogs and
data of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Can We Detect the Anisotropic Shapes of Quasar HII Regions During Reionization Through The Small-Scale Redshifted 21cm Power Spectrum?
Light travel time delays distort the apparent shapes of HII regions
surrounding bright quasars during early stages of cosmic reionization.
Individual HII regions may remain undetectable in forthcoming redshifted 21 cm
experiments. However, the systematic deformation along the line of sight may be
detectable statistically, either by stacking tomographic 21cm images of quasars
identified, for example, by JWST, or as small-scale anisotropy in the
three-dimensional 21cm power spectrum. Here we consider the detectability of
this effect. The anisotropy is largest when HII regions are large and expand
rapidly, and we find that if bright quasars contributed to the early stages of
reionization, then they can produce significant anisotropy, on scales
comparable to the typical sizes of HII regions of the bright quasars (approx.
30 Mpc and below). The effect therefore cannot be ignored when analyzing future
21cm power spectra on small scales. If 10 percent of the volume of the IGM at
redshift z=10 is ionized by quasars with typical ionizing luminosity of S= 5 x
10^{56} photons/second, the distortions can enhance by more than 10 percent the
21cm power spectrum in the radial (redshift) direction, relative to the
transverse directions. The level of this anisotropy exceeds that due to
redshift-space distortion, and has the opposite sign. We show that on-going
experiments such as MWA should be able to detect this effect. A detection would
reveal the presence of bright quasars, and shed light on the ionizing yield and
age of the ionizing sources, and the distribution and small-scale clumping of
neutral intergalactic gas in their vicinity.Comment: Version accepted by ApJ, with new fiducial model and improved
discussio
Neutral current coherent pion production
We investigate the neutrino induced coherent pion production reaction at low
and intermediate energies. The model includes pion, nucleon and Delta(1232)
resonance as the relevant hadronic degrees of freedom. Nuclear medium effects
on the production mechanisms and pion distortion are taken into account. We
obtain that the dominance of the Delta excitation holds due to large
cancellations among the background contributions. We consider two sets of
vector and axial-vector N-Delta transition form-factors, evidencing the strong
sensitivity of the results to the axial coupling C5A(0). The differences
between neutrino and antineutrino cross sections, emerging from interference
terms, are also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections, a few references adde
Structure and three-body decay of Be resonances
The complex-rotated hyperspherical adiabatic method is used to study the
decay of low-lying Be resonances into one neutron and two
-particles. We investigate the six resonances above the break-up
threshold and below 6 MeV: , and . The
short-distance properties of each resonance are studied, and the different
angular momentum and parity configurations of the Be and He two-body
substructures are determined. We compute the branching ratio for sequential
decay via the Be ground state which qualitatively is consistent with
measurements. We extract the momentum distributions after decay directly into
the three-body continuum from the large-distance asymptotic structures. The
kinematically complete results are presented as Dalitz plots as well as
projections on given neutron and -energy. The distributions are
discussed and in most cases found to agree with available experimental data.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures. To appear in Physical Review
Educational Activities to Help Transferring Knowledge in Nuclear: The Seminars of Spanish Young Generation in Nuclear (Jóvenes Nucleares)
From its creation, Spanish Young Generation in Nuclear (Jóvenes Nucleares, JJNN), a non-profit organization that depends on the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), has as an important scope to help transferring the knowledge between those generations in the way that it can be possible
From Secondary School To University: Attracting Young Students Towards A Career In Nuclear
From its creation, Spanish Young Generation in Nuclear (Jóvenes Nucleares, JJNN), a non-profit organization that depends on the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), has as an important scope to help spread knowledge about nuclear energy, not only pointing out its advantages and its role in our society, but also trying to correct some of the ideas that are due to the biased information and to the lack of knowledge. To try to have success in that goal, some high school lectures were taught and it has been organized regularly a Basic Course on Nuclear Science and Technolog
Momentum distributions from three-body decaying 9Be and 9B resonances
The complex-rotated hyperspherical adiabatic method is used to study the
decay of low-lying Be and B resonances into , and
or . We consider six low-lying resonances of Be (,
and ) and one resonance of B () to compare with. The
properties of the resonances at large distances are decisive for the momentum
distributions of the three decaying fragments. Systematic detailed energy
correlations of Dalitz plots are presented.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the SOTANCP2 conference held in
Brussels in May 201
A Simple Algebraic Derivation of the Covariant Anomaly and Schwinger Term
An expression for the curvature of the "covariant" determinant line bundle is
given in even dimensional space-time. The usefulness is guaranteed by its
prediction of the covariant anomaly and Schwinger term. It allows a parallel
derivation of the consistent anomaly and Schwinger term, and their covariant
counterparts, which clarifies the similarities and differences between them. In
particular, it becomes clear that in contrary to the case for anomalies, the
difference between the consistent and covariant Schwinger term can not be
extended to a local form on the space of gauge potentials.Comment: 16 page
Target Space Duality between Simple Compact Lie Groups and Lie Algebras under the Hamiltonian Formalism: I. Remnants of Duality at the Classical Level
It has been suggested that a possible classical remnant of the phenomenon of
target-space duality (T-duality) would be the equivalence of the classical
string Hamiltonian systems. Given a simple compact Lie group with a
bi-invariant metric and a generating function suggested in the physics
literature, we follow the above line of thought and work out the canonical
transformation generated by together with an \Ad-invariant
metric and a B-field on the associated Lie algebra of so that
and form a string target-space dual pair at the classical level under
the Hamiltonian formalism. In this article, some general features of this
Hamiltonian setting are discussed. We study properties of the canonical
transformation including a careful analysis of its domain and image. The
geometry of the T-dual structure on is lightly touched.Comment: Two references and related comments added, also some typos corrected.
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