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    An entirely analytical cosmological model

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    The purpose of the present study is to show that in a particular cosmological model, with an affine equation of state, one can obtain, besides the background given by the scale factor, Hubble and deceleration parameters, a representation in terms of scalar fields and, more important, explicit mathematical expressions for the density contrast and the power spectrum. Although the model so obtained is not realistic, it reproduces features observed in some previous numerical studies and, therefore, it may be useful in the testing of numerical codes and as a pedagogical tool.Comment: 4 pages (revtex4), 4 figure

    Some integrals ocurring in a topology change problem

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    In a paper presented a few years ago, De Lorenci et al. showed, in the context of canonical quantum cosmology, a model which allowed space topology changes (Phys. Rev. D 56, 3329 (1997)). The purpose of this present work is to go a step further in that model, by performing some calculations only estimated there for several compact manifolds of constant negative curvature, such as the Weeks and Thurston spaces and the icosahedral hyperbolic space (Best space).Comment: RevTeX article, 4 pages, 1 figur

    TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVITY

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    We investigate whether inertial thermometers moving in a thermal bath behave as being hotter or colder. This question is directly related to the classical controversy concerning how temperature transforms under Lorentz transformations. Rather than basing our arguments on thermodynamical hypotheses, we perform straightforward calculations in the context of relativistic quantum field theory. For this purpose we use Unruh-DeWitt detectors, since they have been shown to be reliable thermometers in semi-classical gravity. We believe that our discussion helps in definitely clarifying this issue.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure available upon reques

    Background Thermal Contributions in Testing the Unruh Effect

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    We consider inertial and accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving in a background thermal bath and calculate their excitation rates. It is shown that for fast moving detectors such a thermal bath does not affect substantially the excitation probability. Our results are discussed in connection with a possible proposal of testing the Unruh effect in high energy particle accelerators.Comment: 13 pages, (REVTEX 3.0), 3 figures available upon reques

    The first 62 AGN observed with SDSS-IV MaNGA - IV: gas excitation and star-formation rate distributions

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    We present maps of the ionized gas flux distributions, excitation, star-formation rate SFR, surface mass density ΣH+\Sigma_{H+}, and obtain total values of SFR and ionized gas masses {\it M} for 62 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed with SDSS-IV MaNGA and compare them with those of a control sample of 112 non-active galaxies. The most luminous AGN -- with L(\rm{[OIII]}\lambda 5007) \ge 3.8\times 10^{40}\,\mbox{erg}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}, and those hosted by earlier-type galaxies are dominated by Seyfert excitation within 0.2 effective radius ReR_e from the nucleus, surrounded by LINER excitation or transition regions, while the less luminous and hosted by later-type galaxies show equally frequent LINER and Seyfert excitation within 0.2Re0.2\,R_e. The extent RR of the region ionized by the AGN follows the relation RL([OIII])0.5R\propto\,L(\rm{[OIII]})^{0.5} -- as in the case of the Broad-Line Region. The SFR distribution over the region ionized by hot stars is similar for AGN and controls, while the integrated SFR -- in the range 1031010^{-3}-10\,M_\odot\,yr1^{-1} is also similar for the late-type sub-sample, but higher in the AGN for 75\% of the early-type sub-sample. We thus conclude that there is no signature of AGN quenching star formation in the body of the galaxy in our sample. We also find that 66\% of the AGN have higher ionized gas masses MM than the controls -- in the range 1053×107^5-3\times10^7\,M_\odot -- while 75\% of the AGN have higher ΣH+\Sigma_{H+} within 0.2Re0.2\,R_e than the control galaxies

    The first 62 AGN observed with SDSS-IV MaNGA -- III: stellar and gas kinematics

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    We investigate the effects of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the gas kinematics of their host galaxies, using MaNGA data for a sample of 62 AGN hosts and 109 control galaxies (inactive galaxies). We compare orientation of the line of nodes (kinematic Position Angle - PA) measured from the gas and stellar velocity fields for the two samples. We found that AGN hosts and control galaxies display similar kinematic PA offsets between gas and stars. However, we note that AGN have larger fractional velocity dispersion σ\sigma differences between gas and stars [σfrac=(σgasσstars)/σstars\sigma_{frac}=(\sigma_{\rm gas}-\sigma_{stars})/\sigma_{\rm stars}] when compared to their controls, as obtained from the velocity dispersion values of the central (nuclear) pixel (2.5" diameter). The AGN have a median value of σfrac\sigma_{\rm frac} of AGN=0.04_{\rm AGN}=0.04, while the the median value for the control galaxies is CTR=0.23_{\rm CTR}=-0.23. 75% of the AGN show σfrac>0.13\sigma_{frac}>-0.13, while 75% of the normal galaxies show σfrac<0.04\sigma_{\rm frac}<-0.04, thus we suggest that the parameter σfrac\sigma_{\rm frac} can be used as an indicative of AGN activity. We find a correlation between the [OIII]λ\lambda5007 luminosity and σfrac\sigma_{frac} for our sample. Our main conclusion is that the AGN already observed with MaNGA are not powerful enough to produce important outflows at galactic scales, but at 1-2 kpc scales, AGN feedback signatures are always present on their host galaxies.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, published in MNRA
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