A massive disk galaxy at z>3 along the sightline of QSO 1508+5714

We have obtained deep images in the BVRIJHKs bands of the field centered on QSO 1508+5714 (z_{em} =4.28) with the Suprime camera, FOCAS and MOIRCS cameras on Subaru telescope. We report here the detection of a B-dropout galaxy, which is 3\secpoint 5 north-west of the QSO sightline. A photometric redshift analysis is presented to complement the color selection. Given the photometric properties of this object ($M = -22.2$, making $L\approx 3 L^{\ast}$, if placed at its photometric redshift $z\sim 3.5$), as well as the S$\acute{e}$rsic index ($n \sim 1$) derived from a 2-D imaging decomposition of the HST WFPC2 image taken in the $I_{F814}$ filter, the identified system is consistent with a massive disk galaxy at z>3. If confirmed, it would be one of the most distant massive disk galaxies known so far.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by PASJ, Vol.61/No.5, 200

Orientation-dependent bending properties of selectively-filled photonic crystal fibres

A selective-filling technique was demonstrated to improve the optical properties of photonic crystal fibres (PCFs). Such a technique can be used to fill one or more fluid samples selectively into desired air holes. The technique is based on drilling a hole or carving a groove on the surface of a PCF to expose selected air holes to atmosphere by the use of a micromachining system comprising of a femtosecond infrared laser and a microscope. The exposed section was immersed into a fluid and the air holes are then filled through the well-known capillarity action [1, 2]. Provided two or more grooves are fabricated on different locations and different orientation along the fibre surface, different fluids may be filled into different air-holes to form a hybrid fibre. As an example, we filled half of a pure-silica PCF by a fluid with n=1.480 by carving a rectangular groove on the fibre (Figure 1). Consequently, the half-filled PCF became a bandgap-guiding structure (upper half), resulted from a higher refractive index in the fluid rods than in the fibre core [3], and three bandgaps were observed within the wavelength range from 600 to 1700 nm. Whereas, the lower half (unfilled holes) of the fibre remains an air/silica index-guiding structure (Figure 1(b)). When the hybrid PCF is bent, its bandgaps gradually narrowed, resulted from the shifts of the bandgap edges. The bandgap edges had distinct bend-sensitivities when the hybrid PCF was bent toward different directions. Especially, the bandgaps are hardly affected when the half-filled PCF was bent toward the fluid-filled region. Such unique bend properties could be used to monitor simultaneously the bend directions and the curvature of the engineering structures

Revision on palaearctic species of Periclistus Förster with description of a new species and its host plant gall (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)

Palaearctic species of Periclistus Förster has been systematically described, but a new inquiline gall-wasp, Periclistus qinghainensis sp. n., is described from China. This species was obtained from an unknown stem gall induced on Rosa sp. Diagnosis, distribution and biology of the new species are described in this paper. After examining the types of P. idoneus Belizin, 1973 and P. capillatus Belizin, 1968, it is concluded that P. idoneus belongs to genus Aulacidea, and P. capillatus is a valid species of Periclistus. A key to the Palaearctic Periclistus species is also given

Selectively fluid-filled microstructured optical fibers and applications

A versatile technique based on micromachining is demonstrated to fill selectively one or several different types of fluids into desired air holes in a microstructured optical fiber (MOF). Unique optical properties and applications of the selective-filled MOF are investigated