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The Angular Size and Proper Motion of the Afterglow of GRB 030329
The bright, nearby (z=0.1685) gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003 has presented
us with the first opportunity to directly image the expansion of a GRB. This
burst reached flux density levels at centimeter wavelengths more than 50 times
brighter than any previously studied event. Here we present the results of a
VLBI campaign using the VLBA, VLA, Green Bank, Effelsberg, Arecibo, and
Westerbork telescopes that resolves the radio afterglow of GRB 030329 and
constrains its rate of expansion. The size of the afterglow is found to be
\~0.07 mas (0.2 pc) 25 days after the burst, and 0.17 mas (0.5 pc) 83 days
after the burst, indicating an average velocity of 3-5 c. This expansion is
consistent with expectations of the standard fireball model. We measure the
projected proper motion of GRB 030329 in the sky to <0.3 mas in the 80 days
following the burst. In observations taken 52 days after the burst we detect an
additional compact component at a distance from the main component of 0.28 +/-
0.05 mas (0.80 pc). The presence of this component is not expected from the
standard model.Comment: 12 pages including 2 figures, LaTeX. Accepted to ApJ Letters on May
14, 200
Technical management techniques for identification and control of industrial safety and pollution hazards
Constructive recommendations are suggested for pollution problems from offshore energy resources industries on outer continental shelf. Technical management techniques for pollution identification and control offer possible applications to space engineering and management
Teleprinter uses thermal printing technique
Alphameric/facsimile printer receives serial digital data in the form of a specified number of bits per group and prints it on thermally sensitive paper. A solid state shift-register memorizes the incoming serial digital data
Continued Radio Monitoring of the Gamma Ray Burst 991208
We present radio observations of the afterglow of the bright gamma-ray burst
GRB 991208 at frequencies of 1.4, 4.9 and 8.5 GHz, taken between two weeks and
300 days after the burst. The well-sampled radio light curve at 8.5 GHz shows
that the peak flux density peaked about 10 days after the burst and decayed
thereafter as a power-law t^-1.07. This decay rate is more shallow than the
optical afterglow with t^-2.2, which was measured during the first week. These
late-time data are combined with extensive optical, millimeter and centimeter
measurements and fitted to the standard relativistic blast wave model. In
agreement with previous findings, we find that an isotropic explosion in a
constant density or wind-blown medium cannot explain these broadband data
without modifying the assumption of a single power-law slope for the electron
energy distribution. A jet-like expansion provides a reasonable fit to the
data. In this case, the flatter radio light curve compared to the optical may
be due to emission from an underlying host galaxy, or due to the blastwave
making a transition to non-relativistic expansion. The model that best
represents the data is a free-form model in which it is assumed that the
broadband emission originates from a synchrotron spectrum, while the
time-evolution of the break frequencies and peak flux density are solved for
explicitly. Although the decay indices for most of the synchrotron parameters
are similar to the jet model, the evolution of the cooling break is unusually
rapid, and therefore requires some non-standard evolution in the shock.
(abridged)Comment: ApJ, in pres
A note on the optimality of decomposable entanglement witnesses and completely entangled subspaces
Entanglement witnesses (EWs) constitute one of the most important
entanglement detectors in quantum systems. Nevertheless, their complete
characterization, in particular with respect to the notion of optimality, is
still missing, even in the decomposable case. Here we show that for any
qubit-qunit decomposable EW (DEW) W the three statements are equivalent: (i)
the set of product vectors obeying \bra{e,f}W\ket{e,f}=0 spans the
corresponding Hilbert space, (ii) W is optimal, (iii) W=Q^{\Gamma} with Q
denoting a positive operator supported on a completely entangled subspace (CES)
and \Gamma standing for the partial transposition. While, implications
and are known, here we prove that
(iii) implies (i). This is a consequence of a more general fact saying that
product vectors orthogonal to any CES in C^{2}\otimes C^{n} span after partial
conjugation the whole space. On the other hand, already in the case of
C^{3}\otimes C^{3} Hilbert space, there exist DEWs for which (iii) does not
imply (i). Consequently, either (i) does not imply (ii), or (ii) does not imply
(iii), and the above transparent characterization obeyed by qubit-qunit DEWs,
does not hold in general.Comment: 13 pages, proof of lemma 4 corrected, theorem 3 removed, some parts
improve
Taylor dispersion with absorbing boundaries: A Stochastic Approach
We describe how to solve the problem of Taylor dispersion in the presence of
absorbing boundaries using an exact stochastic formulation. In addition to
providing a clear stochastic picture of Taylor dispersion, our method leads to
closed-form expressions for all the moments of the convective displacement of
the dispersing particles in terms of the transverse diffusion eigenmodes. We
also find that the cumulants grow asymptotically linearly with time, ensuring a
Gaussian distribution in the long-time limit. As a demonstration of the
technique, the first two longitudinal cumulants (yielding respectively the
effective velocity and the Taylor diffusion constant) as well as the skewness
(a measure of the deviation from normality) are calculated for fluid flow in
the parallel plate geometry. We find that the effective velocity and the
skewness (which is negative in this case) are enhanced while Taylor dispersion
is suppressed due to absorption at the boundary.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence
We present near-IR, deep (4 mag deeper than 2MASS) imaging of 56 Local Volume
galaxies. Global parameters such as total magnitudes and stellar masses have
been derived and the new near-IR data combined with existing 21cm and optical
B-band data. We present multiwavelength relations such as the HI mass-to-light
ratio and investigate the maximum total baryonic mass a galaxy can have.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, To be published in the proceedings of "Galaxies
in the Local Volume", ed. B. Koribalski, H. Jerje
Magnetic oscillations in planar systems with the Dirac-like spectrum of quasiparticle excitations II: transport properties
The quantum magnetic oscillations of electrical (Shubnikov de Haas effect)
and thermal conductivities are studied for graphene which represents a
distinctive example of planar systems with a linear, Dirac-like spectrum of
quasiparticle excitations. We show that if a utmost care was taken to separate
electron and phonon contributions in the thermal conductivity, the oscillations
of electron thermal conductivity, and the Lorenz number,
would be observable in the low field (less than a few Teslas) regime.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX4, 6 EPS figures; 2 references, 1 figure and one more
section are added; final version published in PR
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