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Effect of chemical admixture on property of fresh mortar using sludge water
Addition of sludge water as a part of mixing water had little influence on strength and
durability of hardened concrete, but caused a slump decrease of fresh concrete. The decrease
of slump was improved by addition of a certain set retarder such as gluconate into sludge
water due to control of cement hydration. Some of polymers were also effective in
improvement of slump. However hydration of cement was observed in those cases of
polymers. Therefore it is presumed such the polymers improve slump not by hydration
control effect but by another one
Stored in the archives: Uncovering the CN/CO intensity ratio with ALMA in nearby U/LIRGs
We present an archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
study of the CN N = 1 - 0 / CO J = 1 - 0 intensity ratio in nearby (z < 0.05)
Ultra Luminous and Luminous Infrared Galaxies (U/LIRGs). We identify sixteen
U/LIRGs that have been observed in both CN and CO lines at 500 pc
resolution based on sixteen different ALMA projects. We measure the (CN
bright)/CO and (CN bright)/(CN faint) intensity ratios at an ensemble of
molecular clouds scales (CN bright = CN N = 1 - 0, J = 3/2 - 1/2; CN faint = CN
N = 1 - 0, J = 1/2 - 1/2 hyperfine groupings). Our global measured (CN
bright)/CO ratios range from 0.02-0.15 in LIRGs and 0.08-0.17 in ULIRGs. We
attribute the larger spread in LIRGs to the variety of galaxy environments
included in our sample. Overall, we find that the (CN bright)/CO ratio is
higher in nuclear regions, where the physical and excitation conditions favour
increased CN emission relative to the disk regions. 10 out of 11 galaxies which
contain well-documented active galactic nuclei show higher ratios in the
nucleus compared to the disk. Finally, we measure the median resolved (CN
bright)/(CN faint) ratio and use it to estimate the total integrated CN line
optical depth in ULIRGs ( 0.96) and LIRGs ( 0.23). The
optical depth difference is likely due to the higher molecular gas surface
densities found in the more compact ULIRG systems.Comment: Accepted to MNRAS; 18 pages, 9 figure
Detection of extended millimeter emission in the host galaxy of 3C273 and its implications for QSO feedback via high dynamic range ALMA imaging
We estimate the amount of negative feedback energy injected into the ISM of
the host galaxy of 3C273, a prototypical radio loud quasar. We obtained 93, 233
and 343 GHz continuum images with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter
Array (ALMA). After self calibration and point source subtraction, we reach an
image dynamic range of at 93\ GHz, at 233\ GHz and
at 343\ GHz. These are currently the highest image dynamic range
obtained using ALMA. We detect spatially extended millimeter emission
associated with the host galaxy, cospatial with the Extended Emission Line
Region (EELR) observed in the optical. The millimeter spectral energy
distribution and comparison with centimeter data show that the extended
emission cannot be explained by dust thermal emission, synchrotron or thermal
bremsstrahlung arising from massive star formation. We interpret the extended
millimeter emission as thermal bremsstrahlung from gas directly ionized by the
central source. The extended flux indicates that at least of the
bolometric flux of the nuclear source was used to ionize atomic hydrogen in the
host galaxy. The ionized gas is estimated to be as massive as to
, but the molecular gas fraction with respect to the
stellar mass is consistent with other ellipticals, suggesting that direct
ionization ISM by the QSO may not be sufficient to suppress star formation, or
we are witnessing a short timescale before negative feedback becomes
observable. The discovery of a radio counterpart to EELRs provides a new
pathway to studying the QSO-host ISM interaction
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