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Robust Adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Strict-feedback Discrete-time Systems with Exact Output Tracking
10.1016/j.automatica.2009.07.025Automatica45112537-2545ATCA
Pair loading in Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball And Prompt Emission From Pair-Rich Reverse Shock
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from ultra-relativistic
winds/fireballs to avoid the "compactness problem". However, the most energetic
photons in GRBs may still suffer from absorption leading to
electron/positron pair production in the winds/fireballs. We show here that in
a wide range of model parameters, the resulting pairs may dominate those
electrons associated with baryons. Later on, the pairs would be carried into a
reverse shock so that a shocked pair-rich fireball may produce a strong flash
at lower frequencies, i.e. in the IR band, in contrast with optical/UV emission
from a pair-poor fireball. The IR emission would show a 5/2 spectral index due
to strong self-absorption. Rapid responses to GRB triggers in the IR band would
detect such strong flashes. The future detections of many IR flashes will infer
that the rarity of prompt optical/UV emissions is in fact due to dust
obscuration in the star formation regions.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, ApJ accepte
Identification of the white dwarf companion to millisecond pulsar J2317+1439
We report identification of the optical counterpart to the companion of the
millisecond pulsar J2317+1439. At the timing position of the pulsar, we find an
object with , and . The
magnitudes and colors of the object are consistent with it being a white dwarf.
By comparing with white dwarf cooling models, we estimate that it has a mass of
M, an effective temperature of
K and a cooling age of Gyr. Combining our
results with published constraints on the orbital parameters obtained through
pulsar timing, we estimate the pulsar mass to be
M. Although the constraint on the pulsar mass is still weak, there is
a significant possibility that the pulsar could be more massive than two solar
mass.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
GRB Afterglows from Anisotropic Jets
Some progenitor models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) (e.g., collapsars) may
produce anisotropic jets in which the energy per unit solid angle is a
power-law function of the angle (). We calculate light
curves and spectra for GRB afterglows when such jets expand either in the
interstellar medium or in the wind medium. In particular, we take into account
two kinds of wind: one () possibly from a typical red
supergiant star and another () possibly from a Wolf-Rayet
star. We find that in each type of medium, one break appears in the late-time
afterglow light curve for small but becomes weaker and smoother as
increases. When , the break seems to disappear but the afterglow decays
rapidly. Thus, one expects that the emission from expanding, highly anisotropic
jets provides a plausible explanation for some rapidly fading afteglows whose
light curves have no break. We also present good fits to the optical afterglow
light curve of GRB 991208. Finally, we argue that this burst might arise from a
highly anisotropic jet expanding in the wind () from a red
supergiant to interpret the observed radio-to-optical-band afterglow data
(spectrum and light curve).Comment: 12 pages + 10 figures, accepted by Ap
Phase Separation, Competition, and Volume Fraction Control in NaFeCoAs
We report a detailed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study by combined
Na and As measurements over a broad range of doping to map the
phase diagram of NaFeCoAs. In the underdoped regime (
0.017), we find a magnetic phase with robust antiferromagnetic (AFM) order,
which we denote the {\it s}-AFM phase, cohabiting with a phase of weak and
possibly proximity-induced AFM order ({\it w}-AFM) whose volume fraction \% is approximately constant. Near optimal doping, at , we
observe a phase separation between static antiferromagnetism related to the
{\it s}-AFM phase and a paramagnetic (PM) phase related to {\it w}-AFM. The
volume fraction of AFM phase increases upon cooling, but both the N{\'e}el
temperature and the volume fraction can be suppressed systematically by
applying a -axis magnetic field. On cooling below , superconductivity
occupies the PM region and its volume fraction grows at the expense of the AFM
phase, demonstrating a phase separation of the two types of order based on
volume exclusion. At higher dopings, static antiferromagnetism and even
critical AFM fluctuations are completely suppressed by superconductivity. Thus
the phase diagram we establish contains two distinct types of phase separation
and reflects a strong competition between AFM and superconducting phases both
in real space and in momentum space. We suggest that both this strict mutual
exclusion and the robustness of superconductivity against magnetism are
consequences of the extreme two-dimensionality of NaFeAs.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
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