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Merger Transitions in Brane--Black-Hole Systems: Criticality, Scaling, and Self-Similarity
We propose a toy model for study merger transitions in a curved spaceime with
an arbitrary number of dimensions. This model includes a bulk N-dimensional
static spherically symmetric black hole and a test D-dimensional brane
interacting with the black hole. The brane is asymptotically flat and allows
O(D-1) group of symmetry. Such a brane--black-hole (BBH) system has two
different phases. The first one is formed by solutions describing a brane
crossing the horizon of the bulk black hole. In this case the internal induced
geometry of the brane describes D-dimensional black hole. The other phase
consists of solutions for branes which do not intersect the horizon and the
induced geometry does not have a horizon. We study a critical solution at the
threshold of the brane-black-hole formation, and the solutions which are close
to it. In particular, we demonstrate, that there exists a striking similarity
of the merger transition, during which the phase of the BBH-system is changed,
both with the Choptuik critical collapse and with the merger transitions in the
higher dimensional caged black-hole--black-string system.Comment: 9 pages 2 figures; additional remarks and references are added at
Section IX "Discussion
Accretion of Ghost Condensate by Black Holes
The intent of this letter is to point out that the accretion of a ghost
condensate by black holes could be extremely efficient. We analyze steady-state
spherically symmetric flows of the ghost fluid in the gravitational field of a
Schwarzschild black hole and calculate the accretion rate. Unlike minimally
coupled scalar field or quintessence, the accretion rate is set not by the
cosmological energy density of the field, but by the energy scale of the ghost
condensate theory. If hydrodynamical flow is established, it could be as high
as tenth of a solar mass per second for 10MeV-scale ghost condensate accreting
onto a stellar-sized black hole, which puts serious constraints on the
parameters of the ghost condensate model.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4.0; discussion expande
Interaction of higher-dimensional rotating black holes with branes
We study interaction of rotating higher dimensional black holes with a brane
in space-times with large extra dimensions. We demonstrate that in a general
case a rotating black hole attached to a brane can loose bulk components of its
angular momenta. A stationary black hole can have only those components of the
angular momenta which are connected with Killing vectors generating
transformations preserving a position of the brane. In a final stationary state
the null Killing vector generating the black hole horizon is tangent to the
brane. We discuss first the interaction of a cosmic string and a domain wall
with the 4D Kerr black hole. We then prove the general result for slowly
rotating higher dimensional black holes interacting with branes. The
characteristic time when a rotating black hole with the gravitational radius
reaches this final stationary state is , where
is the higher dimensional gravitational coupling constant, is the
brane tension, and is the number of extra dimensions.Comment: Version published in Class. Quant. Gra
Rescattering effects in laser-assisted electron-atom bremsstrahlung
Rescattering effects in nonresonant spontaneous laser-assisted electron-atom
bremsstrahlung (LABrS) are analyzed within the framework of time-dependent
effective-range (TDER) theory. It is shown that high energy LABrS spectra
exhibit rescattering plateau structures that are similar to those that are
well-known in strong field laser-induced processes as well as those that have
been predicted theoretically in laser-assisted collision processes. In the
limit of a low-frequency laser field, an analytic description of LABrS is
obtained from a rigorous quantum analysis of the exact TDER results for the
LABrS amplitude. This amplitude is represented as a sum of factorized terms
involving three factors, each having a clear physical meaning. The first two
factors are the exact field-free amplitudes for electron-atom bremsstrahlung
and for electron-atom scattering, and the third factor describes free electron
motion in the laser field along a closed trajectory between the first
(scattering) and second (rescattering) collision events. Finally, a
generalization of these TDER results to the case of LABrS in a Coulomb field is
discussed
Time evolution of a thin black ring via Hawking radiation
Black objects lose their mass and angular momenta through evaporation by
Hawking radiation, and the investigation of their time evolution has a long
history. In this paper, we study this problem for a five-dimensional doubly
spinning black ring. The black ring is assumed to emit only massless scalar
particles. We consider a thin black ring with a small thickness parameter,
, which can be approximated by a boosted Kerr string locally. We
show that a thin black ring evaporates with fixing its thickness parameter
. Further, in the case of an Emparan-Reall black ring, we derive
analytic formulas for the time evolution, which has one parameter to be
evaluated numerically. We find that the lifetime of a thin black ring is
shorter by a factor of compared to a five-dimensional
Schwarzschild black hole with the same initial mass. We also study detailed
properties of the Hawking radiation from the thin black ring, including the
energy and angular spectra of emitted particles.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figure
Small deviations of iterated processes in space of trajectories
We derive logarithmic asymptotics of probabilities of small deviations for
iterated processes in the space of trajectories. We find conditions under which
these asymptotics coincide with those of processes generating iterated
processes. When these conditions fail the asymptotics are quite different
Hidden Symmetry of Higher Dimensional Kerr-NUT-AdS Spacetimes
It is well known that 4-dimensional Kerr-NUT-AdS spacetime possesses the
hidden symmetry associated with the Killing-Yano tensor. This tensor is
"universal" in the sense that there exist coordinates where it does not depend
on any of the free parameters of the metric. Recently the general higher
dimensional Kerr-NUT-AdS solutions of the Einstein equations were obtained. We
demonstrate that all these metrics with arbitrary rotation and NUT parameters
admit a universal Killing-Yano tensor. We give an explicit presentation of the
Killing-Yano and Killing tensors and briefly discuss their properties.Comment: 4 pages, some discussion and references are adde
Parallel-propagated frame along null geodesics in higher-dimensional black hole spacetimes
In [arXiv:0803.3259] the equations describing the parallel transport of
orthonormal frames along timelike (spacelike) geodesics in a spacetime
admitting a non-degenerate principal conformal Killing-Yano 2-form h were
solved. The construction employed is based on studying the Darboux subspaces of
the 2-form F obtained as a projection of h along the geodesic trajectory. In
this paper we demonstrate that, although slightly modified, a similar
construction is possible also in the case of null geodesics. In particular, we
explicitly construct the parallel-transported frames along null geodesics in
D=4,5,6 Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes. We further discuss the parallel transport
along principal null directions in these spacetimes. Such directions coincide
with the eigenvectors of the principal conformal Killing-Yano tensor. Finally,
we show how to obtain a parallel-transported frame along null geodesics in the
background of the 4D Plebanski-Demianski metric which admits only a conformal
generalization of the Killing-Yano tensor.Comment: 17 pages, no figure
Astrophysical foreground cleanup using non-local means
To create high-fidelity cosmic microwave background maps, current component
separation methods rely on availability of information on different foreground
components, usually through multi-band frequency coverage of the instrument.
Internal linear combination (ILC) methods provide an unbiased estimators for
CMB which are easy to implement, but component separation quality crucially
depends on the signal to noise ratio of the input maps. In the present paper,
we develop an efficient non-linear filter along the lines of non-local means
used in digital imaging research which significantly improves signal to noise
ratio for astrophysical foreground maps, while having minimal signal
attenuation, and evaluate it performance in map and spectral domains. Noise
reduction is achieved by averaging ``similar'' pixels in the map. We construct
the rotationally-invariant feature vector space and compute the similarity
metric on it for the case of non-Gaussian signal contaminated by an additive
Gaussian noise. The proposed filter has two tuneable parameters, and with
minimal tweaking achieves a factor of two improvement in signal to noise
spectral density in Planck dust maps. A particularly desirable feature is that
signal loss is extremely small at all scales.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Experimental and Theoretical Substantiation of Device Performance in Soy Milk Production for Animal Feed
The article presents a device to obtain soybean milk, Tofu soybean curd, a soy protein base for feed preparation for farm animals and poultry as a product of soybean grain processing. The device combines a number of technological operations, such as grinding the grain of legumes to obtain fine grinding, the extraction of soy protein into the emulsion and the separation of the protein emulsion into two homogeneous fractions: a liquid protein base (soy milk) and undissolved residue – Okara. The kinematics of the movement of soybean grain in a soaked form over the abrasive surface of a cone with curved grooves applied is considered, a final formula for the speed of movement of the grain is obtained. The volumetric and mass productivity of the grain chopper is determined theoretically and experimentally depending on the main factors affecting the process
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