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Effects of Various Split Developmental Photophases and Constant Light During Each 24 Hour Period on Adult Morphology in \u3ci\u3eThyanta Calceata\u3c/i\u3e (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Rearing immatures of Thyanta calceata in a range of split photophases during each 24 h period and in constant light showed that the adult dimorphic response in color and pu- bescence could be produced; individuals reared in photoperiods in which each scotophase was at least 2 h in length generally developed into the fall/spring morph
The last orbit of binary black holes
We have used our new technique for fully numerical evolutions of orbiting
black-hole binaries without excision to model the last orbit and merger of an
equal-mass black-hole system. We track the trajectories of the individual
apparent horizons and find that the binary completed approximately one and a
third orbits before forming a common horizon. Upon calculating the complete
gravitational radiation waveform, horizon mass, and spin, we find that the
binary radiated 3.2% of its mass and 24% of its angular momentum. The early
part of the waveform, after a relatively short initial burst of spurious
radiation, is oscillatory with increasing amplitude and frequency, as expected
from orbital motion. The waveform then transitions to a typical `plunge'
waveform; i.e. a rapid rise in amplitude followed by quasinormal ringing. The
plunge part of the waveform is remarkably similar to the waveform from the
previously studied `ISCO' configuration. We anticipate that the plunge
waveform, when starting from quasicircular orbits, has a generic shape that is
essentially independent of the initial separation of the binary.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, revtex
Atom-molecule collisions in an optically trapped gas
Cold inelastic collisions between confined cesium (Cs) atoms and Cs
molecules are investigated inside a CO laser dipole trap. Inelastic
atom-molecule collisions can be observed and measured with a rate coefficient
of cm s, mainly independent of the
molecular ro-vibrational state populated. Lifetimes of purely atomic and
molecular samples are essentially limited by rest gas collisions. The pure
molecular trap lifetime ranges 0,3-1 s, four times smaller than the atomic one,
as is also observed in a pure magnetic trap. We give an estimation of the
inelastic molecule-molecule collision rate to be cm
s
Four-loop results on anomalous dimensions and splitting functions in QCD
We report on recent progress on the flavour non-singlet splitting functions
in perturbative QCD. The~exact four-loop (N^3LO) contribution to these
functions has been obtained in the planar limit of a large number of colours.
Phenomenologically sufficient approximate expressions have been obtained for
the parts not exactly known so far. Both cases include results for the
four-loop cusp and virtual anomalous dimensions which are relevant well beyond
the evolution of non-singlet quark distributions, for which an accuracy of
(well) below 1% has now been been reached.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX (PoS style), 4 eps-figures. Contribution to the
proceedings of `RADCOR 2017', St. Gilgen (Austria), September 201
First Forcer results on deep-inelastic scattering and related quantities
We present results on the fourth-order splitting functions and coefficient
functions obtained using Forcer, a four-loop generalization of the Mincer
program for the parametric reduction of self-energy integrals. We have computed
the respective lowest three even-N and odd-N moments for the non-singlet
splitting functions and the non-singlet coefficient functions in
electromagnetic and nu+nu(bar) charged-current deep-inelastic scattering, and
the N=2 and N=4 results for the corresponding flavour-singlet quantities.
Enough moments have been obtained for an LLL-based determination of the
analytic N-dependence of the nf^3 and nf^2 parts, respectively, of the singlet
and non-singlet splitting functions. The large-N limit of the latter provides
the complete nf^2 contributions to the four-loop cusp anomalous dimension. Our
results also provide additional evidence of a non-vanishing contribution of
quartic group invariants to the cusp anomalous dimension.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX (PoS style), 4 eps-figures. To appear in the
proceedings of `Loops & Legs 2016', Leipzig (Germany), April 201
Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries Without Excision
We present a new algorithm for evolving orbiting black-hole binaries that
does not require excision or a corotating shift. Our algorithm is based on a
novel technique to handle the singular puncture conformal factor. This system,
based on the BSSN formulation of Einstein's equations, when used with a
`pre-collapsed' initial lapse, is non-singular at the start of the evolution,
and remains non-singular and stable provided that a good choice is made for the
gauge. As a test case, we use this technique to fully evolve orbiting
black-hole binaries from near the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO)
regime. We show fourth order convergence of waveforms and compute the radiated
gravitational energy and angular momentum from the plunge. These results are in
good agreement with those predicted by the Lazarus approach.Comment: 4 pages, revtex4, 3 figs, references added, typos fixe
Direct carrier detection by in situ suppression hybridization with cosmid clones of the Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy locus
A basic problem in genetic counseling of families with Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) concerns the carrier status of female relatives of an affected male. In about 60% of these patients, deletions of one or more exons of the dystrophin gene can be identified. These deletions preferentially include exon 45, which can be detected by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blot analysis of genomic cosmid clones that map to this critical region. As a new approach for definitive carrier detection, we have performed chromosomal in situ suppression (CISS) hybridization with these cosmid clones in female relatives of four unrelated patients. In normal females, most metaphases showed signals on both×chromosomes, whereas only one×chromosome was labeled in carriers. Our results demonstrate that CISS hybridization can define the carrier status in female relatives of DMD patients exhibiting a deletion in the dystrophin gene
A two-dimensional Fermi liquid with attractive interactions
We realize and study an attractively interacting two-dimensional Fermi
liquid. Using momentum resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we measure the
self-energy, determine the contact parameter of the short-range interaction
potential, and find their dependence on the interaction strength. We
successfully compare the measurements to a theoretical analysis, properly
taking into account the finite temperature, harmonic trap, and the averaging
over several two-dimensional gases with different peak densities
Anomalous dimensions and splitting functions beyond the next-to-next-to-leading order
We report on recent progress on the splitting functions for the evolution of
parton distributions and related quantities, the (lightlike) cusp anomalous
dimensions, in perturbative QCD. New results are presented for the four-loop
(next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order, N^3LO) contributions to the
flavour-singlet splitting functions and the gluon cusp anomalous dimension. We
present first results, the moments N=2 and N=3, for the five-loop (N^4LO)
non-singlet splitting functions.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX (PoS style), 3 eps-figures. Contribution to the
proceedings of `Loops & Legs 2018', St. Goar (Germany), April/May 201
Chromospheric CaII Emission in Nearby F, G, K, and M stars
We present chromospheric CaII activity measurements, rotation periods and
ages for ~1200 F-, G-, K-, and M- type main-sequence stars from ~18,000
archival spectra taken at Keck and Lick Observatories as a part of the
California and Carnegie Planet Search Project. We have calibrated our
chromospheric S values against the Mount Wilson chromospheric activity data.
From these measurements we have calculated median activity levels and derived
R'HK, stellar ages, and rotation periods for 1228 stars, ~1000 of which have no
previously published S values. We also present precise time series of activity
measurements for these stars.Comment: 62 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Second (extremely long) table is
available at http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jtwright/CaIIdata/tab1.tex Accepted
by ApJ
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