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A study of randomness, correlations and collectivity in the nuclear shell model
A variable combination of realistic and random two-body interactions allows
the study of collective properties, such as the energy spectra and B(E2)
transition strengths in 44Ti, 48Cr and 24Mg. It is found that the average
energies of the yrast band states maintain the ordering for any degree of
randomness, but the B(E2) values lose their quadrupole collectivity when
randomness dominates the Hamiltonian. The high probability of the yrast band to
be ordered in the presence of pure random forces exhibits the strong
correlations between the different members of the band.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, 8 tables, submitted to Physical Review
Filaments in Galactic Winds Driven by Young Stellar Clusters
The starburst galaxy M82 shows a system of H-emitting filaments which
extend to each side of the galactic disk. We model these filaments as the
result of the interaction between the winds from a distribution of Super
Stellar Clusters (SSCs). We first derive the condition necessary for producing
a radiative interaction between the cluster winds (a condition which is met by
the SSC distribution of M82). We then compute 3D simulations for SSC wind
distributions which satisfy the condition for a radiative interaction, and also
for distributions which do not satisfy this condition. We find that the highly
radiative models, that result from the interaction of high metallicity cluster
winds, produce a structure of H emitting filaments, which qualitatively
agrees with the observations of the M82, while the non-radiative SSC wind
interaction models do not produce filamentary structures. Therefore, our
criterion for radiative interactions (which depends on the mass loss rate and
the terminal velocity of the SSC winds, and the mean separation between SSCs)
can be used to predict whether or not an observed galaxy should have associated
H emitting filaments.Comment: 10 pages, 6 Figures. ApJ Accepted, August 7, 200
Residual correlations in liquid drop mass calculations
A systematic study of correlations in the chart of calculated masses of
Moller and Nix is presented. It is shown that the differences between the
masses calculated by Moller at al and the measured ones have a well defined
oscillatory component as function of N and Z, which can be removed with an
appropriate fit, reducing significantly the error width, and concentrating the
error distribution on a single peak around zero. The residual correlations can
have important consequences in the errors as signaling the presence of chaos,
as was recently proposed.Comment: 23 pages, 18 figures. A more focused article with imporved figure
Unveiling shocks in planetary nebulae
The propagation of a shock wave into a medium is expected to heat the
material beyond the shock, producing noticeable effects in intensity line
ratios such as [O III]/Halpha. To investigate the occurrence of shocks in
planetary nebulae (PNe), we have used all narrowband [O III] and Halpha images
of PNe available in the HST archive to build their [O III]/Halpha ratio maps
and to search for regions where this ratio is enhanced. Regions with enhanced
[O III]/Halpha emission ratio can be ascribed to two different types of
morphological structures: bow-shock structures produced by fast collimated
outflows and thin skins enveloping expanding nebular shells. Both collimated
outflows and expanding shells are therefore confirmed to generate shocks in
PNe. We also find regions with depressed values of the [O III]/Halpha ratio
which are found mostly around density bounded PNe, where the local contribution
of [N II] emission into the F656N Halpha filter cannot be neglected.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables; To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysic
Self-consistency in the Projected Shell Model
The Projected Shell Model is a shell model theory built up over a deformed
BCS mean field. Ground state and excited bands in even-even nuclei are obtained
through diagonalization of a pairing plus quadrupole Hamiltonian in an angular
momentum projected 0-, 2-, and 4-quasiparticle basis. The residual
quadrupole-quadrupole interaction strength is fixed self-consistently with the
deformed mean field and the pairing constants are the same used in constructing
the quasiparticle basis. Taking as an example, we calculate
low-lying states and compare them with experimental data. We exhibit the effect
of changing the residual interaction strengths on the spectra. It is clearly
seen that there are many bandheads whose energies can
only be reproduced using the self-consistent strengths. It is thus concluded
that the Projected Shell Model is a model essentially with no free parameters.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Nuclear Physics
The X-ray Luminosities of HH Objects
The recent detection of X-ray emission from HH 2 and HH 154 with the Chandra
and XMM-Newton satellites (respectively) have opened up an interesting, new
observational possibility in the field of Herbig-Haro objects. In order to be
able to plan further X-ray observations of other HH objects, it is now of
interest to be able to estimate their X-ray luminosities in order to choose
which objects to observe. This paper describes a simple, analytic model for
predicting the X-ray luminosity of a bow shock from the parameters of the flow
(i.e., the size of the bow shock, its velocity, and the pre-shock density). The
accuracy of the analytic model is analyzed through a comparison with the
predictions obtained from axisymmetric, gasdynamic simulations of the leading
working surface of an HH jet. We find that our analytic model reproduces the
observed X-ray luminosities of HH 2 and HH 154, and we propose that HH~80/81 is
a good candidate for future observations with Chandra.Comment: 10 pages (8 text, 2 figures
The role of geometry on dispersive forces
The role of geometry on dispersive forces is investigated by calculating the
energy between different spheroidal particles and planar surfaces, both with
arbitrary dielectric properties. The energy is obtained in the non-retarded
limit using a spectral representation formalism and calculating the interaction
between the surface plasmons of the two macroscopic bodies. The energy is a
power-law function of the separation of the bodies, where the exponent value
depends on the geometrical parameters of the system, like the separation
distance between bodies, and the aspect ratio among minor and major axes of the
spheroid.Comment: Presneted at QFEXT05, Barcelona 2005. Submitted to J. Phys.
Backbending in Dy isotopes within the Projected Shell Model
A systematic study of the yrast band in 154-164 Dy isotopes using the
Projected Shell Model is presented. It is shown that, in the context of the
present model, enlarging the mean field deformation by about 20 % allows a very
good description of the spectrum of yrast band in these isotopes. The
dependence of the B(E2) values on angular momentum is also better described
when larger deformations are used. The observed oscillation of g-factors at low
spin states remains an open question for this model.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Shrinkers, expanders, and the unique continuation beyond generic blowup in the heat flow for harmonic maps between spheres
Using mixed analytical and numerical methods we investigate the development
of singularities in the heat flow for corotational harmonic maps from the
-dimensional sphere to itself for . By gluing together
shrinking and expanding asymptotically self-similar solutions we construct
global weak solutions which are smooth everywhere except for a sequence of
times at which there occurs the type I blow-up at one
of the poles of the sphere. We show that in the generic case the continuation
beyond blow-up is unique, the topological degree of the map changes by one at
each blow-up time , and eventually the solution comes to rest at the zero
energy constant map.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections, matches published versio
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