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Partial data inverse problems for the Hodge Laplacian
We prove uniqueness results for a Calderon type inverse problem for the Hodge
Laplacian acting on graded forms on certain manifolds in three dimensions. In
particular, we show that partial measurements of the relative-to-absolute or
absolute-to-relative boundary value maps uniquely determine a zeroth order
potential. The method is based on Carleman estimates for the Hodge Laplacian
with relative or absolute boundary conditions, and on the construction of
complex geometric optics solutions which reduce the Calderon type problem to a
tensor tomography problem for 2-tensors. The arguments in this paper allow to
establish partial data results for elliptic systems that generalize the scalar
results due to Kenig-Sjostrand-Uhlmann.Comment: 54 pages, updated versio
Resolvent estimates for the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator in dimension
It is well known that the resolvent of the free Schr\"odinger operator on
weighted spaces has norm decaying like at energy
. There are several works proving analogous high-frequency estimates
for magnetic Schr\"odinger operators, with large long or short range
potentials, in dimensions . We prove that the same estimates remain
valid in all dimensions .Comment: 21 page
A monolithic collapse origin for the thin/thick disc structure of ESO 243-49
ESO 243-49 is a high-mass (circular velocity ) edge-on S0 galaxy in the Abell 2877 cluster at a distance of
. To elucidate the origin of its thick disc, we use MUSE
science verification data to study its kinematics and stellar populations. The
thick disc emits of the light at heights in excess of
(). The rotation velocities of its stars
lag by compared to those in the thin disc, which is
compatible with the asymmetric drift. The thick disc is found to be more
metal-poor than the thin disc, but both discs have old ages. We suggest an
internal origin for the thick disc stars in high-mass galaxies. We propose that
the thick disc formed either first in a turbulent phase with a high
star formation rate and that a thin disc formed shortly afterwards, or because of the dynamical heating of a thin pre-existing component. Either
way, the star formation in ESO 243-49 was quenched just a few Gyrs after the
galaxy was born and the formation of a thin and a thick disc must have occurred
before the galaxy stopped forming stars. The formation of the discs was so fast
that it could be described as a monolithic collapse where several generations
of stars formed in a rapid succession.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A. The reduced data-cube as well as the
data necessary to build the kinematic and stellar population maps are
available at
https://etsin.avointiede.fi/dataset/urn-nbn-fi-csc-kata2016092414291163237
Statistics of the structure components in S0s: implications for bar induced secular evolution
The fractions and dimension of bars, rings and lenses are studied in the
Near-IR S0 galaxy Survey (NIRS0S). We find evidence that multiple lenses in
some barred S0s are related to bar resonances in a similar manner as the inner
and outer rings, for which the outer/inner length ratio 2. Inner lenses in the
non-barred galaxies normalized to galaxy diameter are clearly smaller than
those in the barred systems. Interestingly, these small lenses in the
non-barred galaxies have similar sizes as barlenses (lens-like structures
embedded in a bar), and therefore might actually be barlenses in former barred
galaxies, in which the outer, more elongated bar component, has been destroyed.
We also find that fully developed inner lenses are on average a factor 1.3
larger than bars, whereas inner rings have similar sizes as bars. The fraction
of inner lenses is found to be constant in all family classes (A, AB, B).
Nuclear bars appear most frequently among the weakly barred (AB) galaxies,
which is consistent with the theoretical models by Maciejewski & Athanassoula
(2008). Similar sized bars as the nuclear bars were detected in seven
'non-barred' S0s. Galaxy luminosity does not uniquely define the sizes of bars
or bar-related structures, neither is there any upper limit in galaxy
luminosity for bar formation. Although all the family classes cover the same
range of galaxy luminosity, the non-barred (A) galaxies are on average 0.6 mag
brighter than the strongly barred (B) systems. Overall, our results are
consistent with the idea that bars play an important role in the formation of
the structure components of galaxies. The fact that multiple lenses are common
in S0s, and that at least the inner lenses can have very old stellar
populations, implies that the last destructive merger, or major gas accretion
event, must have taken place at a fairly high redshift.Comment: 36 pages (include 13 figures, 11 tables). Accepted to MNRAS 2013 Jan
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THE USE OF MOTION ANALYSIS AS A COACHING AID TO IMPROVE THE INDIVIDUAL TECHNIQUE IN SPRINT HURDLES
Biomechanical data are oflen presented as a group average, which may not always help individual athletes to improve their own performance. The purpose of this study was to analyse techniques in sprint hurdles within the athlete and find critical individual aspects, which influence performance. The hurdle clearance of three athletes (eight trials each) were videotaped with four video camera recorders and analysed three-dimensionally. There were several statistically significant correlations between the critical overall horizontal velocity and other variables, especially for one athlete. Such trends in individual performance presented ideas to coaches, athletes and also to researchers, regarding what happened in less successful runs and which technical points were worth individual attention in training
Frequency-dependent current correlation functions from scattering theory
We present a general formalism based on scattering theory to calculate quantum correlation functions involving several time-dependent current operators. A key ingredient is the causality of the scattering matrix, which allows one to deal with arbitrary correlation functions. The formalism proves useful, e.g., in view of recent developments in full counting statistics of charge transfer, where detecting schemes have been proposed for measurement of frequency dependent spectra of higher moments. Some of these schemes are different from the well-known fictitious spin detector and therefore generally involve calculation of non-Keldysh-contour-ordered correlation functions. As an illustration of the approach we consider various third order correlation functions of current, including the usual third cumulant of current statistics. We investigate the frequency dependence of these correlation functions explicitly in the case of energy-independent scattering. The results can easily be generalized to the calculation of arbitrary nth order correlation functions, or to include the effect of interactions.Peer reviewe
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