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Quantifying the redshift space distortion of the bispectrum III : Detection prospects of the multipole moments
The redshift space anisotropy of the bispectrum is generally quantified using
multipole moments. The possibility of measuring these multipoles in any survey
depends on the level of statistical fluctuations. We present a formalism to
compute the statistical fluctuations in the measurement of bispectrum
multipoles for galaxy surveys. We consider specifications of a {\it Euclid}
like galaxy survey and present two quantities: the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
which quantifies the detectability of a multipole, and the rank correlation
which quantifies the correlation in measurement errors between any two
multipoles. Based on SNR values, we find that {\it Euclid} can potentially
measure the bispectrum multipoles up to across various triangle
shapes, formed by the three {\bf k} vectors in Fourier space. In general, SNR
is maximum for the linear triangles. SNR values also depend on the scales and
redshifts of observation. While, multipoles can be measured with
even at linear/quasi-linear ()
scales, for multipoles, we require to go to small scales or need to
increase bin sizes. For most multipole pairs, the errors are only weakly
correlated across much of the triangle shapes barring a few in the vicinity of
squeezed and stretched triangles. This makes it possible to combine the
measurements of different multipoles to increase the effective SNR.Comment: Submitted to MNRAS main journal, 14 Pages, 8 Figure
HERA bound on X-ray luminosity weakens when accounting for Population III stars
Recent upper bounds from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) on
the cosmological 21-cm power spectrum at redshifts , have been
used to constrain , the soft-band X-ray
luminosity measured per unit star formation rate (SFR), strongly disfavoring
values lower than . In this work, we first reproduce the bounds on
and other parameters using a pipeline that
combines machine learning emulators for the power spectra and the intergalactic
medium characteristics, together with a standard Markov chain Monte Carlo
parameter fit. We then use this approach when including molecular cooling
galaxies that host PopIII stars in the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal, and show that
lower values of are hence no longer strongly
disfavored. The revised HERA bound does not require high-redshift X-ray sources
to be significantly more luminous than high-mass X-ray binaries observed at low
redshift.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures, 2 table
A field observation of the critically endangered Indian Gharial, Gavialis gangeticus (Gemlin 1789), in the Lower Ganga Canal, Narora, Uttar Pradesh, India
Engineered mesenchymal stem cells with self-assembled vesicles for systemic cell targeting
Cell therapy has the potential to impact the quality of life of suffering patients. Systemic infusion is a convenient method of cell delivery; however, the efficiency of engraftment presents a major challenge. It has been shown that modification of the cell surface with adhesion ligands is a viable approach to improve cell homing, yet current methods including genetic modification suffer potential safety concerns, are practically complex and are unable to accommodate a wide variety of homing ligands or are not amendable to multiple cell types. We report herein a facile and generic approach to transiently engineer the cell surface using lipid vesicles to present biomolecular ligands that promote cell rolling, one of the first steps in the homing process. Specifically, we demonstrated that lipid vesicles rapidly fuse with the cell membrane to introduce biotin moieties on the cell surface that can subsequently conjugate streptavidin and potentially any biotinylated homing ligand. Given that cell rolling is a pre-requisite to firm adhesion for systemic cell homing, we examined the potential of immobilizing sialyl Lewis X (SLeX) on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to induce cell rolling on a P-selectin surface, under dynamic flow conditions. MSCs modified with SLeX exhibit significantly improved rolling interactions with a velocity of 8 ΞΌm/s as compared to 61 ΞΌm/s for unmodified MSCs at a shear stress of 0.5 dyn/cm[superscript 2]. The cell surface modification does not impact the phenotype of the MSCs including their viability and multi-lineage differentiation potential. These results show that the transitory modification of cell surfaces with lipid vesicles can be used to efficiently immobilize adhesion ligands and potentially target systemically administered cells to the site of inflammation.American Heart Association (Grant 0970178N)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant DE019191
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