513 research outputs found
Spectroscopic follow up of arclets in AC114 with the VLT
We present the first results on the VLT/FORS-1 spectroscopic survey of
amplified sources and multiple images in the lensing cluster AC114. Background
sources were selected in the cluster core, close to the critical lines, using
photometric redshifts combined with lensing inversion criteria. Spectroscopic
results are given, together with a brief summary of the properties of some of
these high-z galaxies.Comment: 4pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the XXth Moriond Astrophysics
Meeting "Cosmological Physics with Gravitational Lensing", eds. J.-P. Kneib,
Y. Mellier, M. Moniez and J. Tran Thanh Van, Les Arcs, France, March
11th-18th 200
New 3,3'-(ethane-1, 2-diylidene)bis(indolin-2-one) (EBI)-based small molecule semiconductors for organic solar cells
A series of new donorâacceptorâdonor (DâAâD) small-molecule compounds, with 3,3âČ-(ethane-1,2-diylidene)bis(indolin-2-one) (EBI) as an electron acceptor building block coupled with various electron donor end-capping moieties (thiophene, bithiophene and benzofuran), were synthesized and characterized. When the fused-ring benzofuran is combined to EBI (EBI-BF), the molecules displayed a perfectly planar conformation and afforded the best charge transport properties among these EBI compounds with a hole mobility of up to 0.02 cm2 Vâ1 sâ1. All EBI-based small molecules were used as donor material along with a PC61BM acceptor for the fabrication of solution-processed bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. The best performing photovoltaic devices are based on the EBI derivative using the bithiophene end-capping moiety (EBI-2T) with a maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 1.92%, owing to the broad absorption spectra of EBI-2T and the appropriate morphology of the BHJ. With the aim of establishing a correlation between the molecular structure and the thin film morphology, differential scanning calorimetry, atomic force microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis were performed on neat and blend films of each material
Properties of high-z galaxies as seen through lensing clusters
We discuss the first results obtained on the study of a sample of high-z
galaxies (2 < z < 7), using the gravitational amplification effect in the core
of lensing clusters. Sources are located close to the critical lines in
clusters with well constrained mass distributions, and selected through
photometric redshifts, computed on a large wavelength domain, and lens
inversion techniques.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Conference Proceedings of the "Clustering at High
Redshift" Conference, June 29 to July 2, 1999, Marseille (France
Galaxy merger histories and the role of merging in driving star formation at z>1
This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.We use Horizon-AGN, a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation, to explore the role of mergers in the evolution of massive (M > 10^10 MSun) galaxies around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation (1zR(4:1 3 are 'blue' (i.e. have significant associated star formation), the proportion of 'red' mergers increases rapidly at ztodays stellar mass was formed.Peer reviewe
Limiting shapes for deterministic centrally seeded growth models
We study the rotor router model and two deterministic sandpile models. For
the rotor router model in , Levine and Peres proved that the
limiting shape of the growth cluster is a sphere. For the other two models,
only bounds in dimension 2 are known. A unified approach for these models with
a new parameter (the initial number of particles at each site), allows to
prove a number of new limiting shape results in any dimension .
For the rotor router model, the limiting shape is a sphere for all values of
. For one of the sandpile models, and (the maximal value), the
limiting shape is a cube. For both sandpile models, the limiting shape is a
sphere in the limit . Finally, we prove that the rotor router
shape contains a diamond.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, some errors corrected and more explanation
added, to appear in Journal of Statistical Physic
Strong Spherical Asymptotics for Rotor-Router Aggregation and the Divisible Sandpile
The rotor-router model is a deterministic analogue of random walk. It can be
used to define a deterministic growth model analogous to internal DLA. We prove
that the asymptotic shape of this model is a Euclidean ball, in a sense which
is stronger than our earlier work. For the shape consisting of
sites, where is the volume of the unit ball in , we show that
the inradius of the set of occupied sites is at least , while the
outradius is at most for any . For a related
model, the divisible sandpile, we show that the domain of occupied sites is a
Euclidean ball with error in the radius a constant independent of the total
mass. For the classical abelian sandpile model in two dimensions, with particles, we show that the inradius is at least , and the
outradius is at most . This improves on bounds of Le Borgne
and Rossin. Similar bounds apply in higher dimensions.Comment: [v3] Added Theorem 4.1, which generalizes Theorem 1.4 for the abelian
sandpile. [v4] Added references and improved exposition in sections 2 and 4.
[v5] Final version, to appear in Potential Analysi
Invariant densities for dynamical systems with random switching
We consider a non-autonomous ordinary differential equation on a smooth
manifold, with right-hand side that randomly switches between the elements of a
finite family of smooth vector fields. For the resulting random dynamical
system, we show that H\"ormander type hypoellipticity conditions are sufficient
for uniqueness and absolute continuity of an invariant measure.Comment: 16 pages; we replaced our original article to point out and close a
gap in the discussion of the Lorenz system in Section 7 (see Remark 2); this
gap is only present in the journal version of this article --- it wasn't
present in the previous arxiv versio
Stellar evolution through the ages: period variations in galactic RRab stars as derived from the GEOS database and TAROT telescopes
The theory of stellar evolution can be more closely tested if we have the
opportunity to measure new quantities. Nowadays, observations of galactic RR
Lyr stars are available on a time baseline exceeding 100 years. Therefore, we
can exploit the possibility of investigating period changes, continuing the
pioneering work started by V. P. Tsesevich in 1969. We collected the available
times of maximum brightness of the galactic RR Lyr stars in the GEOS RR Lyr
database. Moreover, we also started new observational projects, including
surveys with automated telescopes, to characterise the O-C diagrams better. The
database we built has proved to be a very powerful tool for tracing the period
variations through the ages. We analyzed 123 stars showing a clear O-C pattern
(constant, parabolic or erratic) by means of different least-squares methods.
Clear evidence of period increases or decreases at constant rates has been
found, suggesting evolutionary effects. The median values are beta=+0.14
day/Myr for the 27 stars showing a period increase and beta=-0.20 day/Myr for
the 21 stars showing a period decrease. The large number of RR Lyr stars
showing a period decrease (i.e., blueward evolution) is a new and intriguing
result. There is an excess of RR Lyr stars showing large, positive
values. Moreover, the observed beta values are slightly larger than those
predicted by theoretical models.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures; to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics;
full resolution version available at
http://dbrr.ast.obs-mip.fr/tarot/publis/publis.htm
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