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Formation of intermediate-mass black holes in circumnuclear regions of galaxies
Recent high-resolution X-ray imaging studies have discovered possible
candidates of intermediate-mass black holes with masses of M_\bullet \sim
10^{2-4} \MO in circumnuclear regions of many (disk) galaxies. It is known
that a large number of massive stars are formed in a circumnuclear giant H {\sc
ii} region. Therefore, we propose that continual merger of compact remnants
left from these massive stars is responsible for the formation of such an
intermediate-mass black hole within a timescale of years. A
necessary condition is that several hundreds of massive stars are formed in a
compact region with a radius of a few pc.Comment: 11 pages, PASJ in pres
Lyman Emitters beyond Redshift 5:The Dawn of Galaxy Formation
The 8m class telescopes in the ground-based optical astronomy together with
help from the ultra-sharp eye of the Hubble Space Telescope have enabled us to
observe forming galaxies beyond redshift . In particular, more than twenty
Ly-emitting galaxies have already been found at . These findings
provide us with useful hints to investigate how galaxies formed and then
evolved in the early universe. Further, detailed analysis of Ly
emission line profiles are useful in exploring the nature of the intergalactic
medium because the trailing edge of cosmic reionization could be close to -- 7, at which forming galaxies have been found recently. We also
discuss the importance of superwinds from forming galaxies at high redshift,
which has an intimate relationship between galaxies and the intergalactic
medium. We then give a review of early cosmic star formation history based on
recent progress in searching for Ly-emitting young galaxies beyond
redshift 5.Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures, jkas35.sty. To appear in the proceedings of the
APCTP WoFormation and Interaction of Galaxies, edited by Hyung Mok Leerkshop
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On the Origin of Lyman Blobs at High Redshift: Submillimetric Evidence for a Hyperwind Galaxy at z=3.1
The most remarkable class of high-redshift objects observed so far is
extended Ly emission-line blobs found in an over-density region at
redshift 3.1. They may be either a dust-enshrouded, extreme starburst galaxy
with a large-scale galactic outflow (superwind) or cooling radiation from dark
matter halos. Recently one of these Ly blobs has been detected at
submillimeter wavelengths (450 and 850 m). Here we show that its
rest-frame spectral energy distribution between optical and far-infrared is
quite similar to that of Arp 220, which is a typical ultraluminous
starburst/superwind galaxy in the local universe. This suggests strongly that
the superwind model proposed by Taniguchi & Shioya is applicable to this
Ly blob. Since the blob is more luminous in the infrared by a factor of
30 than Arp 220, it comprises a new population of hyperwind galaxies at high
redshift.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. ApJ (Letters), in pres
Spintronic reservoir computing without driving current or magnetic field
Recent studies have shown that nonlinear magnetization dynamics excited in
nanostructured ferromagnets are applicable to brain-inspired computing such as
physical reservoir computing. The previous works have utilized the
magnetization dynamics driven by electric current and/or magnetic field. This
work proposes a method to apply the magnetization dynamics driven by voltage
control of magnetic anisotropy to physical reservoir computing, which will be
preferable from the viewpoint of low-power consumption. The computational
capabilities of benchmark tasks in single MTJ are evaluated by numerical
simulation of the magnetization dynamics and found to be comparable to those of
echo-state networks with more than 10 nodes.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Clustering Properties of Low-Luminosity Star-Forming galaxies at z = 0.24 and 0.40 in the Subaru Deep Field
We present our analysis on the clustering properties of star-forming galaxies
selected by narrow-band excesses in the Subaru Deep Field. Specifically we
focus on Halpha emitting galaxies at z = 0.24 and z = 0.40 in the same field,
to investigate possible evolutionary signatures of clustering properties of
star-forming galaxies. Based on the analysis on 228 Halpha emitting galaxies
with 39.8 < log L(Halpha) < 40.8 at z = 0.40, we find that their two-point
correlation function is estimated as xi = (r/1.62^{+0.64}_{-0.50} Mpc)^{-1.84
+/- 0.08}. This is similar to that of Halpha emitting galaxies in the same
Halpha luminosity range at z = 0.24, xi = (r/1.88^{+0.60}_{-0.49} Mpc)^{-1.89
+/- 0.07}. These correlation lengths are smaller than those for the brighter
galaxy sample studied by Meneux et al. (2006) in the same redshift range. The
evolution of correlation length between z = 0.24 and z = 0.40 is interpreted by
the gravitational growth of the dark matter halos.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, PASJ, Vol.60, No.6, in pres
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