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Discovery of an X-ray Nebula associated with PSR J2124-3358
We report the discovery of an X-ray nebula associated with the nearby
millisecond pulsar PSR J2124-3358. This is the first time that extended
emission from a solitary millisecond pulsar is detected. The emission extends
from the pulsar to the northwest by ~ 0.5 arcmin. The spectrum of the nebular
emission can be modeled by a power law spectrum with photon index of 2.2
+/-0.4. This is inline with the emission being originated from accelerated
particles in the post shock flow.Comment: roceedings of the 363. WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and
Pulsars (Posters and contributed talks) Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany,
May.14-19, 2006, eds. W.Becker, H.H.Huang, MPE Report 291, pp.13-1
Resolving the bow-shock nebula around the old pulsar PSR B1929+10 with multi-epoch Chandra observations
We have studied the nearby old pulsar PSR B1929+10 and its surrounding
interstellar medium utilizing the sub-arcsecond angular resolution of the
Chandra X-ray Observatory. The Chandra data are found to be fully consistent
with the results obtained from deep XMM-Newton observations as far as the
pulsar is concerned. We confirm the non-thermal emission nature of the pulsar's
X-radiation. In addition to the X-ray trail already seen in previous
observations by the ROSAT and XMM-Newton X-ray observatories, we discovered an
arc-like nebula surrounding the pulsar. We interpret the feature as a bow-shock
nebula and discuss its energetics in the context of standard shock theory.Comment: Accepted by A&A, revised in accordance with referee's comment
Radio and X-ray nebulae associated with PSR J1509-5850
We have discovered a long radio trail at 843 MHz which is apparently
associated with middle age pulsar PSR J1509-5850. The radio trail has a length
of ~7 arcmin. In X-rays, Chandra observations of PSR J1509-5850 reveal an
associated X-ray trail which extends in the same orientation as the radio
trail. Moreover, two clumpy structures are observed along the radio trail. The
larger one is proposed to be the supernova remnant (SNR) candidate MSC
319.9-0.7. Faint X-ray enhancement at the position of the SNR candidate is
found in the Chandra data.Comment: Accepted by A&A, 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
Congenital ENT anomalies and management
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Two-Way Training for Discriminatory Channel Estimation in Wireless MIMO Systems
This work examines the use of two-way training to efficiently discriminate
the channel estimation performances at a legitimate receiver (LR) and an
unauthorized receiver (UR) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless
system. This work improves upon the original discriminatory channel estimation
(DCE) scheme proposed by Chang et al where multiple stages of feedback and
retraining were used. While most studies on physical layer secrecy are under
the information-theoretic framework and focus directly on the data transmission
phase, studies on DCE focus on the training phase and aim to provide a
practical signal processing technique to discriminate between the channel
estimation performances at LR and UR. A key feature of DCE designs is the
insertion of artificial noise (AN) in the training signal to degrade the
channel estimation performance at UR. To do so, AN must be placed in a
carefully chosen subspace based on the transmitter's knowledge of LR's channel
in order to minimize its effect on LR. In this paper, we adopt the idea of
two-way training that allows both the transmitter and LR to send training
signals to facilitate channel estimation at both ends. Both reciprocal and
non-reciprocal channels are considered and a two-way DCE scheme is proposed for
each scenario. {For mathematical tractability, we assume that all terminals
employ the linear minimum mean square error criterion for channel estimation.
Based on the mean square error (MSE) of the channel estimates at all
terminals,} we formulate and solve an optimization problem where the optimal
power allocation between the training signal and AN is found by minimizing the
MSE of LR's channel estimate subject to a constraint on the MSE achievable at
UR. Numerical results show that the proposed DCE schemes can effectively
discriminate between the channel estimation and hence the data detection
performances at LR and UR.Comment: 1
Searches for diffuse X-ray emission around millisecond pulsars: An X-ray nebula associated with PSR J2124-3358
We report on diffuse X-ray emission associated with the nearby solitary
millisecond pulsar PSR J2124-3358 detected with XMM-Newton and Chandra. The
emission extends from the pulsar to the northwest by ~0.5 arcmin. The spectrum
of the nebular emission can be modeled with a power-law of photon index
, in line with the emission originating from accelerated particles
in the post shock flow. For PSR J0437-4715, PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J1024-0719,
which all have spin parameters comparable to that of PSR J2124-3358, no diffuse
emission is detected down to a 3-sigma limiting flux of
ergs s cm.Comment: Accepted by A&A lette
Coordinated Multicasting with Opportunistic User Selection in Multicell Wireless Systems
Physical layer multicasting with opportunistic user selection (OUS) is
examined for multicell multi-antenna wireless systems. By adopting a two-layer
encoding scheme, a rate-adaptive channel code is applied in each fading block
to enable successful decoding by a chosen subset of users (which varies over
different blocks) and an application layer erasure code is employed across
multiple blocks to ensure that every user is able to recover the message after
decoding successfully in a sufficient number of blocks. The transmit signal and
code-rate in each block determine opportunistically the subset of users that
are able to successfully decode and can be chosen to maximize the long-term
multicast efficiency. The employment of OUS not only helps avoid
rate-limitations caused by the user with the worst channel, but also helps
coordinate interference among different cells and multicast groups. In this
work, efficient algorithms are proposed for the design of the transmit
covariance matrices, the physical layer code-rates, and the target user subsets
in each block. In the single group scenario, the system parameters are
determined by maximizing the group-rate, defined as the physical layer
code-rate times the fraction of users that can successfully decode in each
block. In the multi-group scenario, the system parameters are determined by
considering a group-rate balancing optimization problem, which is solved by a
successive convex approximation (SCA) approach. To further reduce the feedback
overhead, we also consider the case where only part of the users feed back
their channel vectors in each block and propose a design based on the balancing
of the expected group-rates. In addition to SCA, a sample average approximation
technique is also introduced to handle the probabilistic terms arising in this
problem. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes is demonstrated by computer
simulations.Comment: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processin
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