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Cold Dark Matter I: The Formation of Dark Halos
We use numerical simulations of critically-closed cold dark matter (CDM)
models to study the effects of numerical resolution on observable quantities.
We study simulations with up to particles using the particle-mesh (PM)
method and with up to particles using the adaptive particle-particle
--particle-mesh (PM) method. Comparisons of galaxy halo distributions are
made among the various simulations. We also compare distributions with
observations and we explore methods for identifying halos, including a new
algorithm that finds all particles within closed contours of the smoothed
density field surrounding a peak. The simulated halos show more substructure
than predicted by the Press-Schechter theory. We are able to rule out all
CDM models for linear amplitude \sigma_8\gsim 0.5 because the
simulations produce too many massive halos compared with the observations. The
simulations also produce too many low mass halos. The distribution of halos
characterized by their circular velocities for the PM simulations is in
reasonable agreement with the observations for 150\kms\lsim V_{\rm circ} \lsim
350\kms.}}Comment: 41 pages, plain tex, ApJ, 236, in press; postscript figures available
in ftp://arcturus.mit.edu/Preprints/CDM1_figs.tar.
Cold Dark Matter II: Spatial and Velocity Statistics
We examine high-resolution gravitational N-body simulations of the
cold dark matter (CDM) model in order to determine whether there is any
normalization of the initial density fluctuation spectrum that yields
acceptable results for galaxy clustering and velocities. Dense dark matter
halos in the evolved mass distribution are identified with luminous galaxies;
the most massive halos are also considered as sites for galaxy groups, with a
range of possibilities explored for the group mass to light ratios. We verify
the earlier conclusions of White et al. (1987) for the low amplitude (high
bias) CDM model --- the galaxy correlation function is marginally acceptable
but that there are too many galaxies. We also show that the peak biasing method
does not accurately reproduce the results obtained using dense halos identified
in the simulations themselves. The COBE anisotropy implies a higher
normalization, resulting in problems with excessive pairwise galaxy velocity
dispersion unless a strong velocity bias is present. Although we confirm the
strong velocity bias of halos reported by Couchman \& Carlberg (1992), we show
that the galaxy motions are still too large on small scales. We find no
amplitude for which the CDM model can reconcile simultaneously the galaxy
correlation function, the low pairwise velocity dispersion, and the richness
distribution of groups and clusters. With the normalization implied by COBE,
the CDM spectrum has too much power on small scales if .Comment: 31 pages, plain tex, ApJ, 236, in press; postscript figures available
in ftp://arcturus.mit.edu/Preprints/CDM2_figs.tar.
Information and Communication Technologies— Opportunities to Mobilize Agricultural Science for Development
Knowledge, information, and data—and the social and physical infrastructures that carry them—are widely recognized as key building blocks for more sustainable agriculture, effective agricultural science, and productive partnerships among the global research community. Through investments in e-Science infrastructure and collaboration on one hand, and rapid developments in digital devices and connectivity in rural areas, the ways that scientists, academics, and development workers create, share, and apply agricultural knowledge is being transformed through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This paper examines some trends and opportunities associated with the use of these ICTs in agriculturalscience for development
Percolation, depinning, and avalanches in capillary condensation of gases in disordered porous solids
We propose a comprehensive theoretical description of hysteresis in capillary
condensation of gases in mesoporous disordered materials. Applying mean-field
density functional theory to a coarse-grained lattice-gas model, we show that
the morphology of the hysteresis loops is influenced by out-of-equilibrium
transitions that are different on filling and on draining. In particular,
desorption may be associated to a depinning process and be percolation-like
without explicit pore-blocking effects.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Liquid-liquid coexistence in the phase diagram of a fluid confined in fractal porous materials
Multicanonical ensemble sampling simulations have been performed to calculate
the phase diagram of a Lennard-Jones fluid embedded in a fractal random matrix
generated through diffusion limited cluster aggregation. The study of the
system at increasing size and constant porosity shows that the results are
independent from the matrix realization but not from the size effects. A
gas-liquid transition shifted with respect to bulk is found. On growing the
size of the system on the high density side of the gas-liquid coexistence curve
it appears a second coexistence region between two liquid phases. These two
phases are characterized by a different behaviour of the local density inside
the interconnected porous structure at the same temperature and chemical
potential.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Europhys. Letter
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