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The Location of the Snow Line in Protostellar Disks
The snow line in a gas disk is defined as the distance from the star beyond
which the water ice is stable against evaporation. Since oxygen is the most
abundant element after hydrogen and helium, the presence of ice grains can have
important consequences for disk evolution. However, determining the position of
the snow line is not simple. I discuss some of the important processes that
affect the position of the snow line.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. Invited talk at IAU Symposium 263 - Icy Bodies in
the Solar System. Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 200
Gas accretion in galactic disks
Evidence for the accretion of material in spiral galaxies has grown over the
past years and clear signatures can be found in HI observations of galaxies.
We describe here new detailed and sensitive HI synthesis observations of a
few nearby galaxies (NGC 3359, NGC 4565 and NGC 6946) which show that indeed
accretion of small amounts of gas is taking place.
These should be regarded as examples illustrating a general phenomenon of gas
infall in galaxies. Such accretion may also be at the origin of the gaseous
halos which are being found around spirals. Probably it is the same kind of
phenomenon of material infall as observed in the stellar streams in the halo
and outer parts of our galaxy and M 31Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the symposium "Extraplanar Gas", ASP
Conference series, editor R. Braun, 8 pages + 5 figure
High resolution imaging of dielectric surfaces with an evanescent field optical microscope
An evanescent field optical microscope (EFOM) is presented which employs frustrated total internal reflection on a localized scale by scanning a dielectric tip in close proximity to a sample surface. High resolution images of dielectric gratings and spheres containing both topographic and dielectric information have been obtained. The resolution obtained is 30 nm in the lateral directions and 0.1 nm in height depending on proper tip fabricatio
Star Formation and Gas Accretion in Nearby Galaxies
In order to quantify the relationship between gas accretion and star
formation, we analyse a sample of 29 nearby galaxies from the WHISP survey
which contains galaxies with and without evidence for recent gas accretion. We
compare combined radial profiles of FUV (GALEX) and IR 24 {\mu}m (Spitzer)
characterizing distributions of recent star formation with radial profiles of
CO (IRAM, BIMA, or CARMA) and HI (WSRT) tracing molecular and atomic gas
contents to examine star formation efficiencies in symmetric (quiescent),
asymmetric (accreting), and interacting (tidally disturbed) galaxies. In
addition, we investigate the relationship between star formation rate and HI in
the outer discs for the three groups of galaxies. We confirm the general
relationship between gas surface density and star formation surface density,
but do not find a significant difference between the three groups of galaxies.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 18 pages, 9 figures, 1 tabl
Engineered plasmon focusing on functional gratings
We report on the engineering of plasmon propagation and focusing by dedicated curved gratings and noncollinear phasematching. Gratings were created on gold by focused ion beam milling and plasmons were measured using phase sensitive PSTM
Tracking a light pulse through a waveguide in space and time
We present first direct observation of the propagation of a femtosecond laser pulse in space and time through a waveguide structure. With an interferometric photon scanning tunneling microscope (PSTM), the local amplitude and phase of the pulse were retrieved with high spatial, spectral and time resolution. The relative field profiles, the wave vectors and the spectra of the pulses in the TE00 and TE01 modes in the waveguide have been experimentally determined
Optical contrast in near-field techniques
In this paper results of experiments with a scanning near-field optical microscope with shear-force feedback are presented. The setup will be described and the shear-force signal as function of distance is shown. Images of latex spheres and Langmuir- Blodgett layers of pentacosa-acid with about 100 nm lateral resolution are presented which show a true optical contrast due to fluorescence and polarization
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