970 research outputs found
On the lack of stellar bars in Coma dwarf galaxies
We present a study of the bar fraction in the Coma cluster galaxies based on
a sample of ~190 galaxies selected from the SDSS-DR6 and observed with the
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Survey (ACS). The
unprecedented resolution of the HST-ACS images allows us to explore the
presence of bars, detected by visual classification, throughout a luminosity
range of 9 mag (-23 < M_r < -14), permitting us to study the poor known region
of dwarf galaxies. We find that bars are hosted by galaxies in a tight range of
both luminosities (-22 < M_r < -17) and masses (10^9 < M*/Msun < 10^11). In
addition, we find that the bar fraction does not vary significantly when going
from the center to the cluster outskirts, implying that cluster environment
plays a second-order role in bar formation/evolution. The shape of the bar
fraction distribution with respect to both luminosity and mass is well matched
by the luminosity distribution of disk galaxies in Coma, indicating that bars
are good tracers of cold stellar disks.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "A
Universe of Dwarf Galaxies" (Lyon, June 14-18, 2010
Capacity of a Class of State-Dependent Orthogonal Relay Channels
The class of orthogonal relay channels in which the orthogonal channels
connecting the source terminal to the relay and the destination, and the relay
to the destination, depend on a state sequence, is considered. It is assumed
that the state sequence is fully known at the destination while it is not known
at the source or the relay. The capacity of this class of relay channels is
characterized, and shown to be achieved by the partial
decode-compress-and-forward (pDCF) scheme. Then the capacity of certain binary
and Gaussian state-dependent orthogonal relay channels are studied in detail,
and it is shown that the compress-and-forward (CF) and
partial-decode-and-forward (pDF) schemes are suboptimal in general. To the best
of our knowledge, this is the first single relay channel model for which the
capacity is achieved by pDCF, while pDF and CF schemes are both suboptimal.
Furthermore, it is shown that the capacity of the considered class of
state-dependent orthogonal relay channels is in general below the cut-set
bound. The conditions under which pDF or CF suffices to meet the cut-set bound,
and hence, achieve the capacity, are also derived.Comment: This paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information
Theor
Joint Source-Channel Coding with Time-Varying Channel and Side-Information
Transmission of a Gaussian source over a time-varying Gaussian channel is
studied in the presence of time-varying correlated side information at the
receiver. A block fading model is considered for both the channel and the side
information, whose states are assumed to be known only at the receiver. The
optimality of separate source and channel coding in terms of average end-to-end
distortion is shown when the channel is static while the side information state
follows a discrete or a continuous and quasiconcave distribution. When both the
channel and side information states are time-varying, separate source and
channel coding is suboptimal in general. A partially informed encoder lower
bound is studied by providing the channel state information to the encoder.
Several achievable transmission schemes are proposed based on uncoded
transmission, separate source and channel coding, joint decoding as well as
hybrid digital-analog transmission. Uncoded transmission is shown to be optimal
for a class of continuous and quasiconcave side information state
distributions, while the channel gain may have an arbitrary distribution. To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first example in which the uncoded
transmission achieves the optimal performance thanks to the time-varying nature
of the states, while it is suboptimal in the static version of the same
problem. Then, the optimal \emph{distortion exponent}, that quantifies the
exponential decay rate of the expected distortion in the high SNR regime, is
characterized for Nakagami distributed channel and side information states, and
it is shown to be achieved by hybrid digital-analog and joint decoding schemes
in certain cases, illustrating the suboptimality of pure digital or analog
transmission in general.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
Distortion Exponent in MIMO Fading Channels with Time-Varying Source Side Information
Transmission of a Gaussian source over a time-varying multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) channel is studied under strict delay constraints.
Availability of a correlated side information at the receiver is assumed, whose
quality, i.e., correlation with the source signal, also varies over time. A
block-fading model is considered for the states of the time-varying channel and
the time-varying side information; and perfect state information at the
receiver is assumed, while the transmitter knows only the statistics. The high
SNR performance, characterized by the \textit{distortion exponent}, is studied
for this joint source-channel coding problem. An upper bound is derived and
compared with lowers based on list decoding, hybrid digital-analog
transmission, as well as multi-layer schemes which transmit successive
refinements of the source, relying on progressive and superposed transmission
with list decoding. The optimal distortion exponent is characterized for the
single-input multiple-output (SIMO) and multiple-input single-output (MISO)
scenarios by showing that the distortion exponent achieved by multi-layer
superpositon encoding with joint decoding meets the proposed upper bound. In
the MIMO scenario, the optimal distortion exponent is characterized in the low
bandwidth ratio regime, and it is shown that the multi-layer superposition
encoding performs very close to the upper bound in the high bandwidth expansion
regime.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
Properties of the Dwarf Galaxy Population in Galaxy Clusters
We present the observational properties of the dwarf galaxy population (Mr >
M*+1) corresponding to one of the largest samples of spectroscopically
confirmed galaxy cluster members reported in the literature. We have observed
that red dwarf galaxies (u-r > 2.22) share the same cluster environment as the
brightest cluster members (Mr < -21), but are not in dynamical equilibrium. We
computed the dwarf-to-giant ratio (DGR) using a spectroscopically selected
sample. The DGR was found to vary with clustercentric distance, essentially due
to the blue dwarf population (u-r < 2.22). The u-r color of red dwarf galaxies
was independent of their environment and similar to the color of red isolated
dwarfs. Blue dwarf galaxies located outside r200 show similar u-r colors to
those of the field population, while strong reddening was observed toward the
cluster center. We also present evidence that the fraction of red to blue dwarf
galaxies in clusters is larger in the innermost cluster regions. We conclude
that the present red dwarf population observed in the central regions of nearby
galaxy clusters could be related to the blue dwarf population observed in
clusters at high redshift.Comment: 5 pages, 3 color figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ Letter
The Effect of Identity Salience on Consumers’ Purchase Intention
Marketers have paid a great deal of attention to social identity of consumers to position a particular product. According to Reed II (2004), identity salience is a temporary state during which the consumer’s identity is activated and it will lead to differences in how consumers behave or respond to marketing stimuli. This research aims to measure how identity salience influences purchase intention of a product. We ran an experiment and recruited 80 people, 40 UNO students and 40 Non-UNO students. The target area was the Wendy’s restaurant on Elysian Fields, New Orleans, which was the most recent opened fast food restaurant near campus. We distributed two copies of the Wendy’s advertisement, one addressing UNO students (e.g., “UNO STUDENTS purchase any combo with UNO I.D. and upgrade your fries to Biggie Fries!”) and the other not (e.g., “Purchase any combo and upgrade your fries to Biggie Fries!”). We analyzed our data using a two-way ANOVA. Our major finding was that consumers were more likely to take advantage of the promotion only if they were addressed in the ad (UNO students) and if they were heavy fast food consumers. Our results were consistent with Reed II’s (2004) theory on identity salience; if the consumer felt identified with the advertisement he will be more likely to positively respond to the promotion. We will discuss how the notion of a consumer social identity relates to his consumption and choice and how marketers should focus on this approach to create brand loyalty. /
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