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XMM-Newton Observation of the Cluster of Galaxies Abell 1650
We present the nonuniform distribution of temperature and abundance in the
angular extent of 10'(1.4 Mpc) in A1650 observed by XMM-Newton. Spectral
analysis was carried out in 19 systematically-subdivided regions, and in 15
specified regions referred to the hardness ratio (HR) map. The value of HR,
defined as the ratio of counts in the 1.6-10 keV band to those in the 0.8-1.6
keV, is an indicator to investigate the spatial variation of spectral features.
The temperature and abundance were obtained to be 4-6 keV and 0.2-0.5 solar
value with average values of 5.62+0.05-0.07 keV and 0.36+0.02-0.01 solar value
within a radius of 5', respectively. The redshift was derived to be
8.01+0.02-0.02x10^-2 against an optical value of 8.45x10^-2. It turned out that
cool regions with a temperature of around 4 keV and a scalelength of a few 100
kpc are patchily distributed in the outer envelope. This temperature structure
could be explained by the infalling of groups of galaxies into the cluster main
body. More than 30 point sources were found around A1650 in the FOV of 30'. The
spectrum of the Galactic diffuse emission was obtained in the outskirts of
A1650.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures; Published on PAS
All-Optical Formation of Quantum Degenerate Mixtures
We report the realization of quantum degenerate mixed gases of ytterbium (Yb)
isotopes using all-optical methods. We have succeeded in cooling attractively
interacting 176Yb atoms via sympathetic cooling down to below the Bose-Einstein
transition temperature, coexisting with a stable condensate of 174Yb atoms with
a repulsive interaction. We have observed a rapid atom loss in 176Yb atoms
after cooling down below the transition temperature, which indicates the
collapse of a 176Yb condensate. The sympathetic cooling technique has been
applied to cool a 173Yb-174Yb Fermi-Bose mixture to the quantum degenerate
regime.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Bose-Einstein condensate in gases of rare atomic species
We report on the successful extension of production of Bose-Einstein
Condensate (BEC) to rare species. Despite its low natural abundance of 0.13%,
Yb is directly evaporatively cooled down to BEC. Our successful
demonstration encourages attempts to obtain quantum gases of radioactive atoms,
which extends the possibility of quantum many-body physics and precision
measurement. Moreover, a stable binary mixture of Yb BEC and Yb
BEC is successfully formed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Phys. Rev.
Bose-Einstein Condensation of an Ytterbium Isotope
We report the observation of a Bose Einstein condensate in a bosonic isotope
of ytterbium (170Yb). More than 10^6 atoms are trapped in a crossed optical
dipole trap and cooled by evaporation. Condensates of approximately 10^4 atoms
have been obtained. From an expansion of the condensate, we have extracted the
scattering length a=3.6(9) nm.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Resonant Control of Interaction Between Different Electronic States
We observe a magnetic Feshbach resonance in a collision between the ground
and metastable states of two-electron atoms of ytterbium (Yb). We measure the
on-site interaction of doubly-occupied sites of an atomic Mott insulator state
in a three-dimensional optical lattice as a collisional frequency shift in a
high-resolution laser spectroscopy. The observed spectra are well fitted by a
simple theoretical formula, in which two particles with an s-wave contact
interaction are confined in a harmonic trap. This analysis reveals a wide
variation of the interaction with a resonance behavior around a magnetic field
of about 1.1 Gauss for the energetically lowest magnetic sublevel of
Yb, as well as around 360 mG for the energetically highest magnetic
sublevel of Yb. The observed Feshbach resonance can only be induced
by an anisotropic inter-atomic interaction. This novel scheme will open the
door to a variety of study using two-electron atoms with tunable interaction.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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