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Study of tooling concepts for manufacturing operations in space Final report
Mechanical linkage device for manufacturing operations with orbital workshop
The static and dynamic conductivity of warm dense Aluminum and Gold calculated within a density functional approach
The static resistivity of dense Al and Au plsmas are calculated where all the
needed inputs are obtained from density functional theory (DFT). This is used
as input for a study of the dynamic conductivity. These calculations involve a
self-consistent determination of (i) the equation of state (EOS) and the
ionization balance, (ii) evaluation of the ion-ion, and ion-electron
pair-distribution functions, (iii) Determination of the scattering amplitudes,
and finally the conductivity. We present data for the static resistivity of Al
for compressions 0.1-2.0, and in the temperature range T= 0.1 - 10 eV. Results
for Au in the same temperature range and for compressions 0.1-1.0 is also
given. In determining the dynamic conductivity for a range of frequencies
consistent with standard laser probes, a knowledge of the electronic
eigenstates and occupancies of Al- or Au plasma becomes necessary. They are
calculated using a neutral-pseudoatom model. We examine a number of
first-principles approaches to the optical conductivity, including many-body
perturbation theory, molecular-dynamics evaluations, and simplified
time-dependent DFT. The modification to the Drude conductivity that arises from
the presence of shallow bound states in typical Al-plasmas is examined and
numerical results are given at the level of the Fermi Golden rule and an
approximate form of time-dependent DFT.Comment: 5 figures, Latex original. Cross-referencced to PLASMA PHYSIC
Expressive Stream Reasoning with Laser
An increasing number of use cases require a timely extraction of non-trivial
knowledge from semantically annotated data streams, especially on the Web and
for the Internet of Things (IoT). Often, this extraction requires expressive
reasoning, which is challenging to compute on large streams. We propose Laser,
a new reasoner that supports a pragmatic, non-trivial fragment of the logic
LARS which extends Answer Set Programming (ASP) for streams. At its core, Laser
implements a novel evaluation procedure which annotates formulae to avoid the
re-computation of duplicates at multiple time points. This procedure, combined
with a judicious implementation of the LARS operators, is responsible for
significantly better runtimes than the ones of other state-of-the-art systems
like C-SPARQL and CQELS, or an implementation of LARS which runs on the ASP
solver Clingo. This enables the application of expressive logic-based reasoning
to large streams and opens the door to a wider range of stream reasoning use
cases.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures. Extended version of accepted paper at ISWC 201
Importance of cooling in triggering the collapse of hypermassive neutron stars
The inspiral and merger of a binary neutron star (NSNS) can lead to the
formation of a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS). As the HMNS loses thermal
pressure due to neutrino cooling and/or centrifugal support due to
gravitational wave (GW) emission, and/or magnetic breaking of differential
rotation it will collapse to a black hole. To assess the importance of
shock-induced thermal pressure and cooling, we adopt an idealized equation of
state and perform NSNS simulations in full GR through late inspiral, merger,
and HMNS formation, accounting for cooling. We show that thermal pressure
contributes significantly to the support of the HMNS against collapse and that
thermal cooling accelerates its "delayed" collapse. Our simulations demonstrate
explicitly that cooling can induce the catastrophic collapse of a hot
hypermassive neutron star formed following the merger of binary neutron stars.
Thus, cooling physics is important to include in NSNS merger calculations to
accurately determine the lifetime of the HMNS remnant and to extract
information about the NS equation of state, cooling mechanisms, bar
instabilities and B-fields from the GWs emitted during the transient phase
prior to BH formation.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, matches published versio
Galaxies at z=4 and the Formation of Population II
We report the discovery of four high-redshift objects (3.3 < z < 4) observed
behind the rich cluster CL0939+4713 (Abell 851). One object (DG 433) has a
redshift of z=3.3453; the other three objects have redshifts of z\approx 4: A0
at z=3.9819, DG 353 and P1/P2 at z=3.9822. It is possible that all four objects
are being lensed in some way by the cluster, DG 433 being weakly sheared, A0
being strongly sheared, and DG 353 and P1/P2 being an image pair of a common
source object; detailed modelling of the cluster potential will be necessary to
confirm this hypothesis. The weakness of common stellar wind features like N V
and especially C IV in the spectra of these objects argues for sub-solar
metallicities, at least as low as the SMC. DG 353 and DG 433, which have
ground-based colors, are moderately dusty [E_{int}(B-V) < 0.15], similar to
other z>3 galaxies. Star formation rates range from 2.5 (7.8) h^{-2} to 22.
(78.) h^{-2} M_{\odot}/yr, for q_0=0.5 (0.05), depending on assumptions about
gravitational lensing and extinction, also typical of other z>3 galaxies. These
objects are tenatively identified as the low-metallicity proto-spheroid clumps
that will merge to form the Population II components of today's spheroids.Comment: 16 pages, including 2 PostScript figures. Needs aaspp4.sty
(included). Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journa
Spatially resolved kinematics in the central 1 kpc of a compact star-forming galaxy at z=2.3 from ALMA CO observations
We present high spatial resolution (FWHM0.14'') observations of the
CO() line in GDS-14876, a compact star-forming galaxy at with
total stellar mass of . The spatially resolved
velocity map of the inner ~kpc reveals a continous velocity
gradient consistent with the kinematics of a rotating disk with km s and . The
gas-to-stellar ratios estimated from CO() and the dust continuum emission
span a broad range, and
, but are nonetheless consistent given the
uncertainties in the conversion factors. The dynamical modeling yields a
dynamical mass of which is
lower, but still consistent with the baryonic mass, (M=
M + M/M), if the smallest
CO-based gas fraction is assumed. Despite a low, overall gas fraction, the
small physical extent of the dense, star-forming gas probed by CO(),
smaller than the stellar size, implies a strong concentration
that increases the gas fraction up to
in the central 1 kpc. Such a gas-rich center, coupled with a high
star-formation rate, SFR 500 M yr, suggests that
GDS-14876 is quickly assembling a dense stellar component (bulge) in a strong
nuclear starburst. Assuming its gas reservoir is depleted without
replenishment, GDS-14876 will quickly ( Myr) become a
compact quiescent galaxy that could retain some fraction of the observed
rotational support.Comment: Accepted for Publication in ApJL. Kinematic maps are shown in Figures
2 and
Characterizing normal crossing hypersurfaces
The objective of this article is to give an effective algebraic
characterization of normal crossing hypersurfaces in complex manifolds. It is
shown that a hypersurface has normal crossings if and only if it is a free
divisor, has a radical Jacobian ideal and a smooth normalization. Using K.
Saito's theory of free divisors, also a characterization in terms of
logarithmic differential forms and vector fields is found and and finally
another one in terms of the logarithmic residue using recent results of M.
Granger and M. Schulze.Comment: v2: typos fixed, final version to appear in Math. Ann.; 24 pages, 2
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General Relativistic Binary Merger Simulations and Short Gamma Ray Bursts
The recent localization of some short-hard gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in
galaxies with low star formation rates has lent support to the suggestion that
these events result from compact object binary mergers. We discuss how new
simulations in general relativity are helping to identify the central engine of
short-hard GRBs. Motivated by our latest relativistic black hole-neutron star
merger calculations, we discuss a scenario in which these events may trigger
short-hard GRBs, and compare this model to competing relativistic models
involving binary neutron star mergers and the delayed collapse of hypermassive
neutron stars. Distinguishing features of these models may help guide future
GRB and gravitational wave observations to identify the nature of the sources.Comment: 5 Pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJ Let
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