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Modelling Epsilon Aurigae without solid particles
Three components can be expected to contribute to the emission of epsilon Aurigae. There is a primary F star. There is an opaque disk which occults it, and there is a gas stream which is observed to produce absorption lines. Evidence that the disk is not responsible for the gas stream lines comes both from the radial velocities, which are too small, and from the IR energy distribution out of eclipse, which shows free-free emission that would produce inadequate optical depth in electron scattering. The color temperature of the IR excess can give misleading indications of low temperature material. Free-free emission at 10,000 K between 10 and 20 microns has a color temperature of 350 K. Attempts to mold the system are discussed
Multiwavelength properties of a new Geminga-like pulsar: PSR J2021+4026
In this paper, we report a detailed investigation of the multiwavelength
properties of a newly detected gamma-ray pulsar, PSR J2021+4026, in both
observational and theoretical aspects. We firstly identify an X-ray source in
the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue, 2XMM J202131.0+402645, located
within the 95% confidence circle of PSR J2021+4026. With an archival Chandra
observation, this identification provides an X-ray position with arcsecond
accuracy which is helpful in facilitating further investigations. Searching for
the pulsed radio emission at the position of 2XMM J202131.0+402645 with a 25-m
telescope at Urumqi Astronomical Observatory resulted in null detection and
places an upper-limit of 0.1~mJy for any pulsed signal at 18~cm. Together with
the emission properties in X-ray and gamma-ray, the radio quietness suggests
PSR J2021+4026 to be another member of Geminga-like pulsars. In the radio sky
survey data, extended emission features have been identified in the gamma-ray
error circle of PSR J2021+4026. We have also re-analyzed the gamma-ray data
collected by FERMI's Large Area Telescope. We found that the X-ray position of
2XMM J202131.0+402645 is consistent with that of the optimal gamma-ray timing
solution. We have further modeled the results in the context of outer gap model
which provides us with constraints for the pulsar emission geometry such as
magnetic inclination angle and the viewing angle. We have also discussed the
possibility of whether PSR J2021+4026 has any physical association with the
supernova remnant G78.2+2.1 (gamma-Cygni).Comment: 11 pages, 14 figure
An accretion model for the growth of the central black hole associated with ionization instability in quasars
A possible accretion model associated with the ionization instability of
quasar disks is proposed to address the growth of the central black hole
harbored in the host galaxy.The mass ratio between black hole and its host
galactic bulge is a nature consequence of our model.Comment: submitted to ApJ, 15 page
A Large Effective Phonon Magnetic Moment in a Dirac Semimetal
We investigated the magnetoterahertz response of the Dirac semimetal
CdAs and observed a particularly low frequency optical phonon, as well
as a very prominent and field sensitive cyclotron resonance. As the cyclotron
frequency is tuned with field to pass through the phonon, the phonon become
circularly polarized as shown by a notable splitting in their response to
right- and left-hand polarized light. This splitting can be expressed as an
effective phonon magnetic moment that is approximately 2.7 times the Bohr
magneton, which is almost four orders of magnitude larger than ab initio
calculations predict for phonon magnetic moments in nonmagnetic insulators.
This exceedingly large value is due to the coupling of the phonons to the
cyclotron motion and is controlled directly by the electron-phonon coupling
constant. This field tunable circular-polarization selective coupling provides
new functionality for nonlinear optics to create light-induced topological
phases in Dirac semimetals.Comment: 15 pages for main text and SI; To appear in Nano Letters (2020
Size dependent line broadening in the emission spectra of single GaAs quantum dots: Impact of surface charges on spectral diffusion
Making use of droplet epitaxy, we systematically controlled the height of
self-assembled GaAs quantum dots by more than one order of magnitude. The
photoluminescence spectra of single quantum dots revealed the strong dependence
of the spectral linewidth on the dot height. Tall dots with a height of ~30 nm
showed broad spectral peaks with an average width as large as ~5 meV, but
shallow dots with a height of ~2 nm showed resolution-limited spectral lines
(<120 micro eV). The measured height dependence of the linewidths is in good
agreement with Stark coefficients calculated for the experimental shape
variation. We attribute the microscopic source of fluctuating electric fields
to the random motion of surface charges at the vacuum-semiconductor interface.
Our results offer guidelines for creating frequency-locked photon sources,
which will serve as key devices for long-distance quantum key distribution.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; updated figs and their description
Multiple Reggeon Exchange from Summing QCD Feynman Diagrams
Multiple reggeon exchange supplies subleading logs that may be used to
restore unitarity to the Low-Nussinov Pomeron, provided it can be proven that
the sum of Feynman diagrams to all orders gives rise to such multiple regge
exchanges. This question cannot be easily tackled in the usual way except for
very low-order diagrams, on account of delicate cancellations present in the
sum which necessitate individual Feynman diagrams to be computed to subleading
orders. Moreover, it is not clear that sums of high-order Feynman diagrams with
complicated criss-crossing of lines can lead to factorization implied by the
multi-regge scenario. Both of these difficulties can be overcome by using the
recently developed nonabelian cut diagrams. We are then able to show that the
sum of -channel-ladder diagrams to all orders does lead to such multiple
reggeon exchanges.Comment: uu-encoded latex file with 11 postscript figures (20 pages
Test of Factorization Hypothesis from Exclusive Non-leptonic B decays
We investigate the possibility of testing factorization hypothesis in
non-leptonic exclusive decays of B-meson. In particular, we considered the non
factorizable \bar{B^0} -> D^{(*)+} D_s^{(*)-} modes and \bar{B^0} -> D^{(*)+}
(\pi^-, \rho^-) known as well-factorizable modes. By taking the ratios
BR(\bar{B^0}-> D^{(*)+}D_s^{(*)-})/BR(\bar{B^0}-> D^{(*)+}(\pi^-,\rho^-)), we
found that under the present theoretical and experimental uncertainties there's
no evidence for the breakdown of factorization description to heavy-heavy
decays of the B meson.Comment: 11 pages; submitted to PR
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