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A Rich Population of X-ray Emitting Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Galactic Starburst Cluster Westerlund 1
Recent optical and IR studies have revealed that the heavily-reddened
starburst cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1) contains at least 22 Wolf-Rayet (WR)
stars, comprising the richest WR population of any galactic cluster. We present
results of a senstive Chandra X-ray observation of Wd 1 which detected 12 of
the 22 known WR stars and the mysterious emission line star W9. The fraction of
detected WN stars is nearly identical to that of WC stars. The WN stars WR-A
and WR-B as well as W9 are exceptionally luminous in X-rays and have similar
hard heavily-absorbed spectra with strong Si XIII and S XV emission lines. The
luminous high-temperature X-ray emission of these three stars is characteristic
of colliding wind binary systems but their binary status remains to be
determined. Spectral fits of the X-ray bright sources WR-A and W9 with
isothermal plane-parallel shock models require high absorption column densities
log N = 22.56 (cm) and yield characteristic shock temperatures
kT_shock ~ 3 keV (T ~ 35 MK).Comment: ApJL, 2006, in press (3 figures, 1 table
Populations of Pear Thrips, \u3ci\u3eTaeniothrips Inconsequens\u3c/i\u3e (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Sugar Maple Stands in Vermont: 1989-2005
Development of an effective IPM strategy for pear thrips, Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a pest of sugar maple, Acer saccharum Marshall, demands an understanding of their population fluctuations over time. Pear thrips populations were monitored using a standardized soil sampling method every fall from 1989 â 2005 in 14 counties of Vermont (U.S.). Data from individual sites were combined into north, central and south regions. High numbers of thrips emerged from soil sampled in 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2001, particularly in the north region (Washington, Lamoille, and Franklin counties). The central and south regions had lower pear thrips populations over all years. These results provide, for the first time, fundamental knowledge of pear thrips populations across a wide geographical area of Vermont and will assist in the design of suitable control strategies for pear thrips in the future
Anomalously large capacitance of a plane capacitor with a two-dimensional electron gas
In electronic devices where a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) comprises
one or both sides of a plane capacitor, the resulting capacitance can be
larger than the "geometric capacitance" determined by the physical
separation between electrodes. This larger capacitance is known to result
from the Coulomb correlations between individual electrons within the low
density 2DEG, which lead to a negative thermodynamic density of states
(negative compressibility). Experiments on such systems generally operate in
the regime where the average spacing between electrons in the 2DEG
is smaller than , and these experiments observe by only a few
percent. A recent experiment [1], however, has observed larger than
by almost 40% while operating in the regime . In this paper we argue
that at correlations between the electronic charge of opposite
electrodes become important. We develop a theory of the capacitance for the
full range of . We show that, in the absence of disorder, the capacitance
can be times larger than the geometric value, where is the
electron Bohr radius. Our results compare favorably with the experiment of Ref.
[1] without the use of adjustable parameters.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures; revised discussion of the zero density limit;
some typos fixe
K-shell x-ray spectroscopy of atomic nitrogen
Absolute {\it K}-shell photoionization cross sections for atomic nitrogen
have been obtained from both experiment and state-of-the-art theoretical
techniques. Due to the difficulty of creating a target of neutral atomic
nitrogen, no high-resolution {\it K}-edge spectroscopy measurements have been
reported for this important atom. Interplay between theory and experiment
enabled identification and characterization of the strong
resonance features throughout the threshold region. An experimental value
of 409.64 0.02 eV was determined for the {\it K}-shell binding energy.Comment: 4 pages, 2 graphs, 1 tabl
Surface enhancement of oxygen exchange and diffusion in the ionic conductor La2Mo2O9
Isotopic surface oxygen exchange and its subsequent diffusion have been measured using secondary ion mass spectrometry in the fast ionic conductor La2Mo2O9. A silver coating was applied to the sample surface to enhance the surface exchange process for dry oxygen. Contrary to previous studies performed using a wet atmosphere, no grain boundary diffusion tail was observed under these optimized dry exchange conditions. The activation energy for oxygen diffusion was found to be 0.66(+/- 0.09) eV at high temperature (>570 degrees C), and 1.25(+/- 0.01)eV at low temperature (<570 degrees C). Time-of-Flight secondary ion mass spectrometry was employed to investigate the correlation between the silver coating and the O-18 concentration on the sample surface. A close correlation between the presence of silver and oxygen incorporation on the surface was observed. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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