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On the long-term correlation between the flux in the Ca II H & K and Halpha lines for FGK stars
The re-emission in the cores of the Ca II H & K and H lines, are well
known proxies of stellar activity. However, these activity indices probe
different activity phenomena, the first being more sensitive to plage
variation, while the other one being more sensitive to filaments. In this paper
we study the long-term correlation between and , two indices based on the Ca II H & K and H lines
respectively, for a sample of 271 FGK stars using measurements obtained over a
9 year time span. Because stellar activity is one of the main obstacles
to the detection of low-mass and long-period planets, understanding further
this activity index correlation can give us some hints about the optimal target
to focus on, and ways to correct for these activity effects. We found a great
variety of long-term correlations between and . Around 20% of our sample has strong positive correlation between
the indices while about 3% show strong negative correlation. These fractions
are compatible with those found for the case of early-M dwarfs. Stars
exhibiting a positive correlation have a tendency to be more active when
compared to the median of the sample, while stars showing a negative
correlation are more present among higher metallicity stars. There is also a
tendency for the positively correlated stars to be more present among the
coolest stars, a result which is probably due to the activity level effect on
the correlation. Activity level and metallicity seem therefore to be playing a
role on the correlation between and . Possible
explanations based on the influence of filaments for the diversity in the
correlations between these indices are discussed in this paper.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy
and Astrophysic
Notes on the Two-brane Model with Variable Tension
Motivated by possible extensions of the braneworld models with two branes, we
investigate some consequences of a variable brane tension using the well
established results on consistency conditions. By a slight modification of the
usual stress-tensor used in order to derive the braneworld sum rules, we find
out some important constraints obeyed by time dependent brane tensions. In
particular it is shown that the tensions of two Randall-Sundrum like branes
obeying, at the same time, an Eotvos law, aggravate the fine tuning problem.
Also, it is shown that if the hidden brane tension obeys an Eotvos law, then
the visible brane has a mixed behavior allowing a bouncing-like period at early
times while it is dominated by an Eotvos law nowadays. To finalize, we discuss
some qualitative characteristics which may arise in the scope of dynamical
brane tensions, as anisotropic background and branons production.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Algebroid Yang-Mills Theories
A framework for constructing new kinds of gauge theories is suggested.
Essentially it consists in replacing Lie algebras by Lie or Courant algebroids.
Besides presenting novel topological theories defined in arbitrary spacetime
dimensions, we show that equipping Lie algebroids E with a fiber metric having
sufficiently many E-Killing vectors leads to an astonishingly mild deformation
of ordinary Yang-Mills theories: Additional fields turn out to carry no
propagating modes. Instead they serve as moduli parameters gluing together in
part different Yang-Mills theories. This leads to a symmetry enhancement at
critical points of these fields, as is also typical for String effective field
theories.Comment: 4 pages; v3: Minor rewording of v1, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Let
Delimitação de uma área de caatinga invadida por algarobeira [Prosopis juliflora (SW)] com uso de GPS.
Com objetivo de delimitar áreas de caatinga invadidas por algarobeira [Prosopis juliflora (SW.) DC.] nas localidades de Juremal e Serra Branca, município de Juazeiro?BA, foi demarcado, através de cartas topográficas na escala de 1:100000, os elementos naturais (riachos, lagos, serras, etc.) do referido município para base dos trabalhos de campo
Aplicação do algoritmo LEGAL/SPRING na cobertura florestal do município de Ivorá/RS nos anos de 2011 e 2012.
Neste trabalho, foram utilizadas técnicas de sensoriamento remoto a fim de analisar a distribuição dos recursos florestais do Município de Ivorá, RS, enfocando sua evolução, para, com isso, manejar a área do município visando a sustentabilidades de suas atividades. A área de estudo é caracterizada pelos biomas Mata Atlântica e Pampa, característicos do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, e tem sua economia fortemente baseada na pecuária e agricultura. Para a realização do trabalho, foram utilizados dados temporais do satélite RapidEye, sensor Reis, datados de 2011 e 2012. Foi criado um banco de dados, que foi usado para: testar variadas composições e contrastes; definir as legendas das categorias de uso e cobertura da terra; realizar testes de segmentação, classificação das imagens e elaborar uma programação em Linguagem Espacial para Geoprocessamento Algébrico (LEGAL) (CÂMARA, 1995); e elaborar os mapas temáticos. A classificação supervisionada das imagens revelou que a classe de uso do solo ?Floresta? foi predominante no município em 2011 e 2012, quando representou um quarto da sua área total. Conclui-se que, por meio da análise LEGAL, houve aumento da expansão florestal em detrimento do desmatamento, o que evidencia a importância da análise de uso do solo para a adequação e o planejamento ambiental do município
Detecção das fontes de sedimentos no Rio São Francisco: uma abordagem utilizando técnicas de sensoriamento remoto - Instituto de Milênio Semi-Árido.
Até pouco tem po se acreditava que o problema dos sedimentos se reduzia ao simples fato do mau aspecto visual das águas de um determinado rio, lago ou represa. A medida que as investigações foram se aprofundando, se demonstrou que as águas carregadas de sedimentos transportavam fertilizantes e inseticidas (contaminação química), argilas e partículas de matéria orgânica, cuja elevada capacidade de absorção lhe permite reter bactérias de qualquer tipo, nocivas a saúde. Por outro lado, os sedimentos, fisicamente, produzem o assoreamento de obras de infra-estruturas, provocam inundações na parte alta e desestabilizam os curso d'águ
Black string corrections in variable tension braneworld scenarios
Braneworld models with variable tension are investigated, and the corrections
on the black string horizon along the extra dimension are provided. Such
corrections are encrypted in additional terms involving the covariant
derivatives of the variable tension on the brane, providing profound
consequences concerning the black string horizon variation along the extra
dimension, near the brane. The black string horizon behavior is shown to be
drastically modified by the terms corrected by the brane variable tension. In
particular, a model motivated by the phenomenological interesting case
regarding Eotvos branes is investigated. It forthwith provides further physical
features regarding variable tension braneworld scenarios, heretofore concealed
in all previous analysis in the literature. All precedent analysis considered
uniquely the expansion of the metric up to the second order along the extra
dimension, what is able to evince solely the brane variable tension absolute
value. Notwithstanding, the expansion terms aftermath, further accomplished in
this paper from the third order on, elicits the successive covariant
derivatives of the brane variable tension, and their respective coupling with
the extrinsic curvature, the Weyl tensor, and the Riemann and Ricci tensors, as
well as the scalar curvature. Such additional terms are shown to provide sudden
modifications in the black string horizon in a variable tension braneworld
scenarioComment: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted in PR
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