89 research outputs found
Symmetries and Interaction coefficients of Kelvin waves
We considered symmetry restriction on the interaction coefficients of Kelvin
waves and demonstrated that linear in small wave vector asymptotic is not
forbidden, as one can expect by naive reasoning.Comment: 4 pages, submitted to J. of Low Temp. Phy
Label-free shotgun proteomics and metabolite analysis reveal a significant metabolic shift during citrus fruit development.
Label-free LC-MS/MS-based shot-gun proteomics was used to quantify the differential protein synthesis and metabolite profiling in order to assess metabolic changes during the development of citrus fruits. Our results suggested the occurrence of a metabolic change during citrus fruit maturation, where the organic acid and amino acid accumulation seen during the early stages of development shifted into sugar synthesis during the later stage of citrus fruit development. The expression of invertases remained unchanged, while an invertase inhibitor was up-regulated towards maturation. The increased expression of sucrose-phosphate synthase and sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase and the rapid sugar accumulation suggest that sucrose is also being synthesized in citrus juice sac cells during the later stage of fruit development
Cometary Comae-Surface Links:The Physics of Gas and Dust from the Surface to a Spacecraft
A comet is a highly dynamic object, undergoing a permanent state of change. These changes have to be carefully classified and considered according to their intrinsic temporal and spatial scales. The Rosetta mission has, through its contiguous in-situ and remote sensing coverage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P) over the time span of August 2014 to September 2016, monitored the emergence, culmination, and winding down of the gas and dust comae. This provided an unprecedented data set and has spurred a large effort to connect in-situ and remote sensing measurements to the surface. In this review, we address our current understanding of cometary activity and the challenges involved when linking comae data to the surface. We give the current state of research by describing what we know about the physical processes involved from the surface to a few tens of kilometres above it with respect to the gas and dust emission from cometary nuclei. Further, we describe how complex multidimensional cometary gas and dust models have developed from the Halley encounter of 1986 to today. This includes the study of inhomogeneous outgassing and determination of the gas and dust production rates. Additionally, the different approaches used and results obtained to link coma data to the surface will be discussed. We discuss forward and inversion models and we describe the limitations of the respective approaches. The current literature suggests that there does not seem to be a single uniform process behind cometary activity. Rather, activity seems to be the consequence of a variety of erosion processes, including the sublimation of both water ice and more volatile material, but possibly also more exotic processes such as fracture and cliff erosion under thermal and mechanical stress, sub-surface heat storage, and a complex interplay of these processes. Seasons and the nucleus shape are key factors for the distribution and temporal evolution of activity and imply that the heliocentric evolution of activity can be highly individual for every comet, and generalisations can be misleading
Determining the dust environment of an unknown comet for a spacecraft flyby: The case of ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission
Context. An assessment of the dust environment of a comet is needed for data analysis and planning spacecraft missions, such as ESA’s Comet Interceptor (CI) mission. The distinctive feature of CI is that the target object will be defined shortly before (or even after) launch; as a result, the properties of the nucleus and dust environment are poorly constrained, and therefore make the assessment of the dust environment challenging.
Aims. The main goal of the work is to provide realistic estimations of a dust environment based on very general parameters of possible target objects.
Methods. Contemporary numerical models of a dusty-gas coma were used to obtain spatial distribution of dust for a given set of parameters. By varying parameters within a range of possible values, we obtained an ensemble of possible dust distributions. Then, this ensemble was statistically evaluated in order to define the most probable cases and hence reduce the dispersion. This ensemble can not only be used to estimate the likely dust abundance along a flyby trajectory of a spacecraft, for example, but also to quantify the associated uncertainty.
Results. We present a methodology of the dust environment assessment for the case when the target comet is not known beforehand (or when its parameters are known with large uncertainty). We provide an assessment of dust environment for the CI mission. We find that the lack of knowledge of any particular comet results in very large uncertainties (~3 orders of magnitude) for the dust densities within the coma. The most sensitive parameters affecting the dust densities are the dust size distribution, the dust production rate, and coma brightness, often quantified by Afρ. Further, the conversion of a coma’s brightness (Afρ) to a dust production rate is poorly constrained. The dust production rate can only be estimated down to an uncertainty of ~0.5 orders of magnitude if the dust size distribution is known in addition to the Afρ.
Conclusions. To accurately predict the dust environment of a poorly known comet, a statistical approach needs to be taken to properly reflect the uncertainties. This can be done by calculating an ensemble of comae covering all possible combinations within parameter space as shown in this work
Тезаурус по поэтологии как инструмент для информационного поиска и коллекции знаний
This paper reports basic approaches to constructive creation of an open resource named ”Domain-specified thesaurus of poetics”, which is one of the levels of an information-analytical system of the Russian poetry (IAS RP). The poetics is a group of disciplines focused on a comprehensive theoretical and historical study of poetry. IAS RP will be used as a tool for a wide range of studies allowing to determine the characteristic features of the analyzed works of poetry. Consequently, the thesaurus is the knowledge base from which one can borrow input data for training the system. The aim of our research requires a specific approach to formating the knowledge base. Thesaurus is a web-based resource which includes a domain-specific directory, information retrieval tools and tools for further analyzes. The study of glossary consisting of three thousand terms and a set of semantic fields is reviewed in this paper. Rdf-graph of the domain-specified thesaurus of poetics is presented, containing 9 types of objects and different kinds of relationships among them. Wiki-tecnologies are used for implementing a resource which allows to store data in Semantic Web formats.Рассмотрены основные подходы по конструктивному созданию открытого сетевого ресурса «Предметно-специфицированного тезауруса по поэтологии», который является одним из уровней информационно-аналитической системы русской поэзии (ИАС РП). Под поэтологией будем понимать группу дисциплин, ориентированную на всестороннее теоретическое и историческое изучение поэзии. ИАС РП будет использоваться в качестве инструмента для широкого спектра исследований, позволяющего определять характерные признаки анализируемых произведений поэзии. Таким образом, тезаурус соответствует базе знаний, из которой будут заимствоваться исходные данные для обучения системы. Описан подход по формированию базы знаний. Тезаурус представляет собой веб-ресурс, включающий предметно-ориентированный справочник, информационно-поисковый инструмент и инструмент для дальнейших анали- тических исследований. Детально рассмотрена проработка терминологического словника, состоящего из 3 тысяч терминов, и комплекса семантических полей. На основании этого представлен rdf-граф предметно-специфицированного тезауруса по поэтологии, содержащий 9 типов объектов и различные виды отношений между ними. Для реализации ресурса применяются Wiki-технологии, что дает возможность хранить данные в форматах Semantic Web
Boundary RG Flow Associated with the AKNS Soliton Hierarchy
We introduce and study an integrable boundary flow possessing an infinite
number of conserving charges which can be thought of as quantum counterparts of
the Ablowitz, Kaup, Newell and Segur Hamiltonians. We propose an exact
expression for overlap amplitudes of the boundary state with all primary states
in terms of solutions of certain ordinary linear differential equation. The
boundary flow is terminated at a nontrivial infrared fixed point. We identify a
form of whole boundary state corresponding to this fixed point.Comment: 54 page
On the (Non)-Integrability of KdV Hierarchy with Self-consistent Sources
Non-holonomic deformations of integrable equations of the KdV hierarchy are
studied by using the expansions over the so-called "squared solutions" (squared
eigenfunctions). Such deformations are equivalent to perturbed models with
external (self-consistent) sources. In this regard, the KdV6 equation is viewed
as a special perturbation of KdV equation. Applying expansions over the
symplectic basis of squared eigenfunctions, the integrability properties of the
KdV hierarchy with generic self-consistent sources are analyzed. This allows
one to formulate a set of conditions on the perturbation terms that preserve
the integrability. The perturbation corrections to the scattering data and to
the corresponding action-angle variables are studied. The analysis shows that
although many nontrivial solutions of KdV equations with generic
self-consistent sources can be obtained by the Inverse Scattering Transform
(IST), there are solutions that, in principle, can not be obtained via IST.
Examples are considered showing the complete integrability of KdV6 with
perturbations that preserve the eigenvalues time-independent. In another type
of examples the soliton solutions of the perturbed equations are presented
where the perturbed eigenvalue depends explicitly on time. Such equations,
however in general, are not completely integrable.Comment: 16 pages, no figures, LaTe
Determining the dust environment of an unknown comet for a spacecraft fly-by: The case of ESA's Comet Interceptor mission
On integrable wave interactions and Lax pairs on symmetric spaces
Multi-component generalizations of derivative nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) type of equations having quadratic bundle Lax pairs related to Z2-graded Lie algebras and A.III symmetric spaces are studied. The Jost solutions and the minimal set of scattering data for the case of local and nonlocal reductions are constructed. The latter lead to multi-component integrable equations with CPT-symmetry. Furthermore, the fundamental analytic solutions (FAS) are constructed and the spectral properties of the associated Lax operators are briefly discussed. The Riemann–Hilbert problem (RHP) for the multi-component generalizations of DNLS equation of Kaup–Newell (KN) and Gerdjikov–Ivanov (GI) types is derived. A modification of the dressing method is presented allowing the explicit derivation of the soliton solutions for the multi-component GI equation with both local and nonlocal reductions. It is shown that for specific choices of the reduction these solutions can have regular behavior for all finite x and t. The fundamental properties of the multi-component GI equations are briefly discussed at the end
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