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The Electron Temperature Gradient in the Galactic Disk
We derive the electron temperature gradient in the Galactic disk using a
sample of HII regions that spans Galactocentric distances 0--17 kpc. The
electron temperature was calculated using high precision radio recombination
line and continuum observations for more than 100 HII regions. Nebular
Galactocentric distances were calculated in a consistent manner using the
radial velocities measured by our radio recombination line survey. The large
number of nebulae widely distributed over the Galactic disk together with the
uniformity of our data provide a secure estimate of the present electron
temperature gradient in the Milky Way. Because metals are the main coolants in
the photoionized gas, the electron temperature along the Galactic disk should
be directly related to the distribution of heavy elements in the Milky Way. Our
best estimate of the electron temperature gradient is derived from a sample of
76 sources for which we have the highest quality data. The present gradient in
electron temperature has a minimum at the Galactic Center and rises at a rate
of 287 +/- 46 K/kpc. There are no significant variations in the value of the
gradient as a function of Galactocentric radius or azimuth. The scatter we find
in the HII region electron temperatures at a given Galactocentric radius is not
due to observational error, but rather to intrinsic fluctuations in these
temperatures which are almost certainly due to fluctuations in the nebular
heavy element abundances. Comparing the HII region gradient with the much
steeper gradient found for planetary nebulae suggests that the electron
temperature gradient evolves with time, becoming flatter as a consequence of
the chemical evolution of the Milky Way's disk.Comment: 43 pages, 9 figures (accepted for publication in the ApJ
Nutrient Assimilation in Developmental Stages of the Purple Sea Urchin, \u3cem\u3eArbacia Punctulata
Deformations with a resonant irregular singularity
I review topics of my talk in Alcal\ue1, inspired by the paper [1]. An isomonodromic system with irregular singularity at z= 1e (and Fuchsian at z=0) is considered, such that z= 1e becomes resonant for some values of the deformation parameters. Namely, the eigenvalues of the leading matrix at z= 1e coalesce along a locus in the space of deformation parameters. I give a complete extension of the isomonodromy deformation theory in this case
High-Mass Star Formation in the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm
The Outer Scutum-Centaurus (OSC) spiral arm is the most distant molecular
spiral arm in the Milky Way, but until recently little was known about this
structure. Discovered by Dame and Thaddeus (2011), the OSC lies 15 kpc
from the Galactic Center. Due to the Galactic warp, it rises to nearly
4 above the Galactic Plane in the first Galactic quadrant, leaving it
unsampled by most Galactic plane surveys. Here we observe HII region candidates
spatially coincident with the OSC using the Very Large Array to image radio
continuum emission from 65 targets and the Green Bank Telescope to search for
ammonia and water maser emission from 75 targets. This sample, drawn from the
WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions, represents every HII region candidate
near the longitude-latitude (l,v) locus of the OSC. Coupled with their
characteristic mid-infrared morphologies, detection of radio continuum emission
strongly suggests that a target is a bona fide HII region. Detections of
associated ammonia or water maser emission allow us to derive a kinematic
distance and determine if the velocity of the region is consistent with that of
the OSC. Nearly 60% of the observed sources were detected in radio continuum,
and over 20% have ammonia or water maser detections. The velocities of these
sources mainly place them beyond the Solar orbit. These very distant high-mass
stars have stellar spectral types as early as O4. We associate high-mass star
formation at 2 new locations with the OSC, increasing the total number of
detected HII regions in the OSC to 12.Comment: 14 pages text and tables + 10 pages supplemental figure
Hyperasymptotic solutions for certain partial differential equations
We present the hyperasymptotic expansions for a certain group of solutions of
the heat equation. We extend this result to a more general case of linear PDEs
with constant coefficients. The generalisation is based on the method of Borel
summability, which allows us to find integral representations of solutions for
such PDEs.Comment: 17 page
Riemann-Hilbert problem for Hurwitz Frobenius manifolds: regular singularities
In this paper we study the Fuchsian Riemann-Hilbert (inverse monodromy)
problem corresponding to Frobenius structures on Hurwitz spaces. We find a
solution to this Riemann-Hilbert problem in terms of integrals of certain
meromorphic differentials over a basis of an appropriate relative homology
space, study the corresponding monodromy group and compute the monodromy
matrices explicitly for various special cases.Comment: final versio
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