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The Eighteenth Annual Albert A. DeStefano Lecture on Corporate, Securities, & Financial Law at the Fordham Corporate Law Center: Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLCâ An âAfter-Action Reportâ
Pulsar Timing with the Fermi LAT
We present an overview of precise pulsar timing using data from the Large
Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi. We describe the analysis techniques including a
maximum likelihood method for determining pulse times of arrival from unbinned
photon data. In addition to determining the spindown behavior of the pulsars
and detecting glitches and timing noise, such timing analyses allow the precise
determination of the pulsar position, thus enabling detailed multiwavelength
follow up.Comment: 6 page, 3 figures, to appear in AIP Conference Proceedings of Pulsar
Conference 2010 "Radio Pulsars: a key to unlock the secrets of the Universe",
Sardinia, October 201
Calorimeter R&D for the SuperNEMO Double Beta Decay Experiment
SuperNEMO is a next-generation double beta decay experiment based on the
successful tracking plus calorimetry design approach of the NEMO3 experiment
currently running in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM). SuperNEMO can
study a range of isotopes, the baseline isotopes are 82Se and possibly 150Nd.
The total isotope mass will be 100-200 kg. A sensitivity to neutrinoless double
beta decay half-life greater than 10e26 years can be reached which gives access
to Majorana neutrino masses of 50-100 meV. One of the main challenges of the
SuperNEMO R&D is the development of the calorimeter with an unprecedented
energy resolution of 4% FWHM at 3 MeV (Qbb value of 82Se).Comment: Presented at 13th International Conference on Calorimetry in High
Energy Physics (CALOR08), Pavia, Italy, 26-30 May 200
Searching for gravitational waves from the Crab pulsar - the problem of timing noise
Of the current known pulsars, the Crab pulsar (B0531+21) is one of the most
promising sources of gravitational waves. The relatively large timing noise of
the Crab causes its phase evolution to depart from a simple spin-down model.
This effect needs to be taken in to account when performing time domain
searches for the Crab pulsar in order to avoid severely degrading the search
efficiency. The Jodrell Bank Crab pulsar ephemeris is examined to see if it can
be used for tracking the phase evolution of any gravitational wave signal from
the pulsar, and we present a method of heterodyning the data that takes account
of the phase wander. The possibility of obtaining physical information about
the pulsar from comparisons of the electromagnetically and a gravitationally
observed timing noise is discussed. Finally, additional problems caused by
pulsar glitches are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the 5th Amaldi Conference on
Gravitational Waves, Pisa, Italy, 6-11 July 200
Network Externalities, Mutuality, and Compatibility
Positive network externalities can arise when consumers benefit from the
consumption of compatible products by other consumers (user-positive
consumption externalities) or, alternatively, when they incur costs
from the consumption of incompatible products by other consumers
(nonuser-negative consumption externalities). But whereas user-positive
externalities are typically mutually imposed and imply mutual benefit
because they relate to interoperability, with nonuser-negative
externalities the costs of incompatibility may be imposed unilaterally
and borne asymmetrically. For example, increased risks of death and
injury on the roads due to the co-existence of large and small vehicles
are imposed exclusively by the owners of the large vehicles and borne
exclusively by the occupants of the small vehicles. This paper compares
the social optimality of incentives for compatibility under regimes
involving user-positive and nonuser-negative externalities. Earlier
work with respect to user-positive externalities (e.g., Katz and
Shapiro, 1985) suggests that firms with relatively small networks or
weak reputations tend to be biased in favor of compatibility, while
individual firms’ incentives for compatibility are suboptimal
when their networks are closely matched in size. Meanwhile, intuition
suggests that with nonuser-negative externalities incentives for
incompatibility should always be excessive, reflecting the notion that
activities involving unilaterally imposed negative externalities will
always be overprovided by the market (in the absence of regulation or
Coaseian mitigation). Using a "location" model of
differentiated products, we find that, under both regimes, incentives
for compatibility tend to be suboptimal when firms' networks are close
in size, and excessive for the small firm when the networks differ
greatly in size. Surprising public policy implications with respect to
externalities are discussed
A quasi-real-time ground-based trajectory optimization tool for greener operations
This paper describes the methodology adopted in designing a quasi-real-time ground-based trajectory optimization tool for use by air traffic control officers. The tool is primarily intended for the optimization of aircraft trajectories during the climb and descent phases in which the user can define the trajectory in four dimensions. The optimized trajectories would then contribute to a reduction in fuel burn and emissions. The designed tool takes into account different aircraft types and sub-types through BADA performance and engine coefficients. A simple case study for an approach in Malta International Airport has also been presented to illustrate the use of the tool.peer-reviewe
Impurity transport in Alcator C-Mod in the presence of poloidal density variation induced by ion cyclotron resonance heating
Impurity particle transport in an ion cyclotron resonance heated Alcator
C-Mod discharge is studied with local gyrokinetic simulations and a theoretical
model including the effect of poloidal asymmetries and elongation. In spite of
the strong minority temperature anisotropy in the deep core region, the
poloidal asymmetries are found to have a negligible effect on the turbulent
impurity transport due to low magnetic shear in this region, in agreement with
the experimental observations. According to the theoretical model, in outer
core regions poloidal asymmetries may contribute to the reduction of the
impurity peaking, but uncertainties in atomic physics processes prevent
quantitative comparison with experiments.Comment: 32 pages, 12 figure
IVOA Recommendation: VOResource: an XML Encoding Schema for Resource Metadata Version 1.03
This document describes an XML encoding standard for IVOA Resource Metadata,
referred to as VOResource. This schema is primarily intended to support
interoperable registries used for discovering resources; however, any
application that needs to describe resources may use this schema. In this
document, we define the types and elements that make up the schema as
representations of metadata terms defined in the IVOA standard, Resource
Metadata for the Virtual Observatory [Hanicsh et al. 2004]. We also describe
the general model for the schema and explain how it may be extended to add new
metadata terms and describe more specific types of resources
The edges of galaxies in the Fornax Cluster: Fifty percent smaller and denser compared to the field
Physically motivated measurements are crucial for understanding galaxy growth
and the role of the environment on their evolution. In particular, the growth
of galaxies as measured by their size or radial extent provides an empirical
approach for addressing this issue. However, the established definitions of
galaxy size used for nearly a century are ill-suited for these studies because
of a previously ignored bias. The conventionally-measured radii consistently
miss the diffuse, outer extensions of stellar emission which harbour key
signatures of galaxy growth, including star formation and gas accretion or
removal. This issue is addressed by examining low surface brightness
truncations or galaxy "edges" as a physically motivated tracer of size based on
star formation thresholds. Our total sample consists of galaxies with
stellar masses ranging from .
This sample of nearby cluster, group satellite and nearly isolated field
galaxies was compiled using multi-band imaging from the Fornax Deep Survey,
deep IAC Stripe 82 and Dark Energy Camera Legacy Surveys. Across the full mass
range studied, we find that compared to the field, the edges of galaxies in the
Fornax Cluster are located at 50% smaller radii and the average stellar surface
density at the edges are two times higher. These results are consistent with
the rapid removal of loosely bound neutral hydrogen (HI) in hot, crowded
environments which truncates galaxies outside-in earlier, preventing the
formation of more extended sizes and lower density edges. In fact, we find that
galaxies with lower HI fractions have edges with higher stellar surface
density. Our results highlight the importance of deep imaging surveys to study
the low surface brightness imprints of the large scale structure and
environment on galaxy evolution.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables, submitted to A&A after LSST DESC
internal and collaboration wide review (see acknowledgements). Example
galaxies in Figs. 2, 5 and 6. Key results in Figs. 7, 8, 11 and 1
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