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Dynamics of Primordial Hydrogen Recombination with Allowance for a Recoil for Scattering in the Ly-alpha Line
It is shown that taking into account a recoil for radiation scattering in the
Ly-alpha line can lead to a noticable acceleration of primordial hydrogen
recombination. Thus for LambdaCDM model a decrease of ionization degree exceeds
1% for redshifts z in a range 800 - 1050 achieving approximately 1.3% at z=900.
Corresponding corrections to the cosmic microwave background power spectra can
achieve 1.1% for TT spectra and 1.7% for EE ones. Radiative transfer in these
calculations was treated in a quasistationary approximation. Numerical
solutions are also obtained in diffusion approximation for a nonstationary
problem of Ly-alpha line radiative transfer under partial frequency
redistribution with a recoil. An evolution of a local line profile is traced to
as well as an evolution of a relative number of uncompensated transitions from
2p state down to 1s one. It is shown that taking into account nonstationarity
of Ly-alpha line radiative transfer can lead to an additional acceleration of
primordial hydrogen recombination.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy Letter
Continuous families of isospectral Heisenberg spin systems and the limits of inference from measurements
We investigate classes of quantum Heisenberg spin systems which have
different coupling constants but the same energy spectrum and hence the same
thermodynamical properties. To this end we define various types of
isospectrality and establish conditions for their occurence. The triangle and
the tetrahedron whose vertices are occupied by spins 1/2 are investigated in
some detail. The problem is also of practical interest since isospectrality
presents an obstacle to the experimental determination of the coupling
constants of small interacting spin systems such as magnetic molecules
Structure of Turbulence in Katabatic Flows below and above the Wind-Speed Maximum
Measurements of small-scale turbulence made over the complex-terrain
atmospheric boundary layer during the MATERHORN Program are used to describe
the structure of turbulence in katabatic flows. Turbulent and mean
meteorological data were continuously measured at multiple levels at four
towers deployed along the East lower slope (2-4 deg) of Granite Mountain. The
multi-level observations made during a 30-day long MATERHORN-Fall field
campaign in September-October 2012 allowed studying of temporal and spatial
structure of katabatic flows in detail, and herein we report turbulence and
their variations in katabatic winds. Observed vertical profiles show steep
gradients near the surface, but in the layer above the slope jet the vertical
variability is smaller. It is found that the vertical (normal to the slope)
momentum flux and horizontal (along the slope) heat flux in a slope-following
coordinate system change their sign below and above the wind maximum of a
katabatic flow. The vertical momentum flux is directed downward (upward)
whereas the horizontal heat flux is downslope (upslope) below (above) the wind
maximum. Our study therefore suggests that the position of the jet-speed
maximum can be obtained by linear interpolation between positive and negative
values of the momentum flux (or the horizontal heat flux) to derive the height
where flux becomes zero. It is shown that the standard deviations of all wind
speed components (therefore the turbulent kinetic energy) and the dissipation
rate of turbulent kinetic energy have a local minimum, whereas the standard
deviation of air temperature has an absolute maximum at the height of
wind-speed maximum. We report several cases where the vertical and horizontal
heat fluxes are compensated. Turbulence above the wind-speed maximum is
decoupled from the surface, and follows the classical local z-less predictions
for stably stratified boundary layer.Comment: Manuscript submitted to Boundary-Layer Meteorology (05 December 2014
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