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An Imaging and Spectral Study of Ten X-Ray Filaments around the Galactic Center
We report the detection of 10 new X-ray filaments using the data from the
{\sl Chandra} X-ray satellite for the inner ( parsec)
around the Galactic center (GC). All these X-ray filaments are characterized by
non-thermal energy spectra, and most of them have point-like features at their
heads that point inward. Fitted with the simple absorbed power-law model, the
measured X-ray flux from an individual filament in the 2-10 keV band is to ergs cm s and the
absorption-corrected X-ray luminosity is ergs s
at a presumed distance of 8 kpc to the GC. We speculate the origin(s) of these
filaments by morphologies and by comparing their X-ray images with the
corresponding radio and infrared images. On the basis of combined information
available, we suspect that these X-ray filaments might be pulsar wind nebulae
(PWNe) associated with pulsars of age yr. The fact
that most of the filament tails point outward may further suggest a high
velocity wind blowing away form the GC.Comment: 29 pages with 7 figures and 3 pages included. Accepted to Ap
Investigation on gas-liquid two-phase flow centrifugal pump performances for different rotational speeds
International audiencePerformance characteristics of a centrifugal pump under gas-liquid mixture are presented, using a direct coupled single-stage, single-suction centrifugal pump. Both experimental and numerical simulations comparison are carried out, for three different rotational speeds and different inlet gas volume fractions, the results of which are presented, based on dimensionless coefficients from similarity laws. The numerical results show that good agreement is obtained with experimental data at nominal rotational speed for several flow coefficients. It is found that the running of the pump is near the sudden break down of the present pump when the inlet void fraction is below 7%. However, numerical results are less sensitive to rotational speed effects compared with experiment ones; the influence of decreasing rotational speed on pump performances is more and more pronounced when inlet gas void fraction increases and flow coefficient decreases. Froude number effects are taken into account in order to explain part of these differences
The upper critical field and its anisotropy in LiFeAs
The upper critical field of LiFeAs single crystals has
been determined by measuring the electrical resistivity using the facilities of
pulsed magnetic field at Los Alamos. We found that of LiFeAs
shows a moderate anisotropy among the layered iron-based superconductors; its
anisotropic parameter monotonically decreases with decreasing
temperature and approaches as . The upper
critical field reaches 15T () and 24.2T () at
1.4K, which value is much smaller than other iron-based high
superconductors. The temperature dependence of can be
described by the Werthamer-Helfand-Hohenberg (WHH) method, showing orbitally
and (likely) spin-paramagnetically limited upper critical field for and , respectively.Comment: 5 pages,5 figure
The magnetoresistance and Hall effect in CeFeAsO: a high magnetic field study
The longitudinal electrical resistivity and the transverse Hall resistivity
of CeFeAsO are simultaneously measured up to a magnetic field of 45T using the
facilities of pulsed magnetic field at Los Alamos. Distinct behaviour is
observed in both the magnetoresistance Rxx({\mu}0H) and the Hall resistance
Rxy({\mu}0H) while crossing the structural phase transition at Ts \approx 150K.
At temperatures above Ts, little magnetoresistance is observed and the Hall
resistivity follows linear field dependence. Upon cooling down the system below
Ts, large magnetoresistance develops and the Hall resistivity deviates from the
linear field dependence. Furthermore, we found that the transition at Ts is
extremely robust against the external magnetic field. We argue that the
magnetic state in CeFeAsO is unlikely a conventional type of spin-density-wave
(SDW).Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures SCES2010, To appear in J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. for
SCES201
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