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Molecular opacities for low-mass metal-poor AGB stars undergoing the Third Dredge Up
The concomitant overabundances of C, N and s-process elements are commonly
ascribed to the complex interplay of nucleosynthesis, mixing and mass loss
taking place in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars. At low metallicity, the
enhancement of C and/or N may be up to 1000 times larger than the original iron
content and significantly affects the stellar structure and its evolution. For
this reason, the interpretation of the already available and still growing
amount of data concerning C-rich metal-poor stars belonging to our Galaxy as
well as to dwarf spheroidal galaxies would require reliable AGB stellar models
for low and very low metallicities. In this paper we address the question of
calculation and use of appropriate opacity coefficients, which take into
account the C enhancement caused by the third dredge up. A possible N
enhancement, caused by the cool bottom process or by the engulfment of protons
into the convective zone generated by a thermal pulse and the subsequent huge
third dredge up, is also considered. Basing on up-to-date stellar models, we
illustrate the changes induced by the use of these opacity on the physical and
chemical properties expected for these stars.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Magneto-Roton Modes of the Ultra Quantum Crystal: Numerical Study
The Field Induced Spin Density Wave phases observed in quasi-one-dimensional
conductors of the Bechgaard salts family under magnetic field exhibit both Spin
Density Wave order and a Quantized Hall Effect, which may exhibit sign
reversals. The original nature of the condensed phases is evidenced by the
collective mode spectrum. Besides the Goldstone modes, a quasi periodic
structure of Magneto-Roton modes, predicted to exist for a monotonic sequence
of Hall Quantum numbers, is confirmed, and a second mode is shown to exist
within the single particle gap. We present numerical estimates of the
Magneto-Roton mode energies in a generic case of the monotonic sequence. The
mass anisotropy of the collective mode is calculated. We show how differently
the MR spectrum evolves with magnetic field at low and high fields. The
collective mode spectrum should have specific features, in the sign reversed
"Ribault Phase", as compared to modes of the majority sign phases. We
investigate numerically the collective mode in the Ribault Phase.Comment: this paper incorporates material contained in a previous cond-mat
preprint cond-mat/9709210, but cannot be described as a replaced version,
because it contains a significant amount of new material dealing with the
instability line and with the topic of Ribault Phases. It contains 13 figures
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Low temperature mean opacities for the carbon-rich regime
Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars undergo a change in their chemical
composition during their evolution. This in turn leads to an alteration of the
radiative opacities, especially in the cool layers of the envelope and the
atmosphere, where molecules are the dominant opacity sources. A key parameter
in this respect is the number ratio of carbon to oxygen atoms (C/O). In terms
of low temperature mean opacities, a variation of this parameter usually cannot
be followed in stellar evolution models, because up to now tabulated values
were only available for scaled solar metal mixtures (with C/O ~ 0.5). We thus
present a set of newly generated tables containing Rosseland mean opacity
coefficients covering both the oxygen-rich (C/O
1) regime. We compare our values to existing tabular data and investigate the
relevant molecular opacity contributors.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the AIP Proceedings of the IXth
Torino Workshop on AGB Nucleosynthesi
Does the circadian variation of Ăź2-adrenoceptor sites on peripheral mononuclear leukocytes (MNL) reflect the circadian variation of different MNL subsets
Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials
We experimentally demonstrate a three-dimensional chiral optical metamaterial
that exhibits an asymmetric transmission for forwardly and backwardly
propagating linearly polarized light. The observation of this novel effect
requires a metamaterial composed of three-dimensional chiral metaatoms without
any rotational symmetry. Our analysis is supported by a systematic
investigation of the transmission matrices for arbitrarily complex, lossy media
that allows deriving a simple criterion for asymmetric transmission in an
arbitrary polarization base. Contrary to physical intuition, in general the
polarization eigenstates in such three-dimensional and low-symmetry
metamaterials do not obey fxed relations and the associated transmission
matrices cannot be symmetrized
The Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars Project - Status and Prospects
The KADoNiS (Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars) project is an astrophysical online database for cross sections relevant for nucleosynthesis in the s process and the γ process. The s-process database (http://www.kadonis.org) was started in 2005 and is presently facing its 4th update (KADoNiS v1.0). The γ-process database (KADoNiS-p, http://www.kadonis.org/pprocess) was recently revised and re-launched in March 2013. Both databases are compilations for experimental cross sections with relevance to heavy ion nucleosynthesis. For the s process recommended Maxwellian averaged cross sections for kT=5-100 keV are given for more than 360 isotopes between 1H and 210Bi. For the γ-process database all available experimental data from (p, γ), (p, n), (p, α), (α, γ), (α, n), and (α, p) reactions between 70Ge and 209Bi in or close to the respective Gamow window were collected and can be compared to theoretical predictions. The aim of both databases is a quick and user-friendly access to the available data in the astrophysically relevant energy regions. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.Peer reviewe
Decomposing the scattered field of two-dimensional metaatoms into multipole contributions
We introduce a technique to decompose the scattered near field of
two-dimensional arbitrary metaatoms into its multipole contributions. To this
end we expand the scattered field upon plane wave illumination into cylindrical
harmonics as known from Mie theory. By relating these cylin- drical harmonics
to the field radiated by Cartesian multipoles, the contribution of the lowest
order electric and magnetic multipoles can be identified. Revealing these
multipoles is essential for the design of metamaterials because they largely
determine the character of light propagation. In par- ticular, having this
information at hand it is straightforward to distinguish between effects that
result either from the arrangement of the metaatoms or from their particular
design
Approaching the Lambertian limit in randomly textured thin-film solar cells
The Lambertian limit for solar cells is a benchmark for evaluating their efficiency. It has been shown that the performance of either extremely thick or extremely thin solar cells can be driven close to this limit by using an appropriate photon management. Here we show that this is likewise possible for realistic, practically relevant thin-film solar cells based on amorphous silicon. Most importantly, we achieve this goal by relying on random textures already incorporated into state-of-the-art superstrates; with the only subtlety that their topology has to be downscaled to typical feature sizes of about 100 nm
Crustal Thickening, Partial Melting, and Strain Localization: Insights from the Leo Pargil dome, NW India
Abstract HKT-ISTP 2013
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Soliton excitation in waveguide arrays with an effective intermediate dimensionality
We reveal and observe experimentally significant modifications undertaken by
discrete solitons in waveguide lattices upon the continuous transformation of
the lattice structure from one-dimensional to two-dimensional. Light evolution
and soliton excitation in arrays with a gradually increasing number of rows are
investigated, yielding solitons with an effective reduced dimensionality
residing at the edge and in the bulk of the lattice.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letter
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