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Numerical Models of Spin-Orbital Coupling in Neutron Star Binaries
We present a new numerical scheme for solving the initial value problem for
quasiequilibrium binary neutron stars allowing for arbitrary spins. We
construct sequences of circular-orbit binaries of varying separation, keeping
the rest mass and circulation constant along each sequence. The spin angular
frequency of the stars is shown to vary along the sequence, a result that can
be derived analytically in the PPN limit. This spin effect, in addition to
leaving an imprint on the gravitational waveform emitted during binary
inspiral, is measurable in the electromagnetic signal if one of the stars is a
pulsar visible from Earth.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to the Proceedings of the "X Marcel
Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July
20-26 (2003
Critical Temperature for -Particle Condensation within a Momentum Projected Mean Field Approach
Alpha-particle (quartet) condensation in homogeneous spin-isospin symmetric
nuclear matter is investigated. The usual Thouless criterion for the critical
temperature is extended to the quartet case. The in-medium four-body problem is
strongly simplified by the use of a momentum projected mean field ansatz for
the quartet. The self-consistent single particle wave functions are shown and
discussed for various values of the density at the critical temperature
Overlapping resonances in the control of intramolecular vibrational redistribution
Coherent control of bound state processes via the interfering overlapping
resonances scenario [Christopher et al., J. Chem. Phys. 123, 064313 (2006)] is
developed to control intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR). The
approach is applied to the flow of population between bonds in a model of
chaotic OCS vibrational dynamics, showing the ability to significantly alter
the extent and rate of IVR by varying quantum interference contributions.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Two-dimensional shapes and lemniscates
A shape in the plane is an equivalence class of sufficiently smooth Jordan
curves, where two curves are equivalent if one can be obtained from the other
by a translation and a scaling. The fingerprint of a shape is an equivalence of
orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the unit circle, where two
diffeomorphisms are equivalent if they differ by right composition with an
automorphism of the unit disk. The fingerprint is obtained by composing Riemann
maps onto the interior and exterior of a representative of a shape in a
suitable way. In this paper, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence
between shapes defined by polynomial lemniscates of degree n and nth roots of
Blaschke products of degree n. The facts that lemniscates approximate all
Jordan curves in the Hausdorff metric and roots of Blaschke products
approximate all orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle in the
C^1-norm suggest that lemniscates and roots of Blaschke products are natural
objects to study in the theory of shapes and their fingerprints
Some relations for one-part double Hurwitz numbers
In this very short note we slightly generalize some relations for one-part
double Hurwitz numbers from math.AG/0209282.Comment: 3 page
Benchmark Calculations for Perchlorate from Three Human Cohorts
The presence of low concentrations of perchlorate in some drinking water sources has led to concern regarding potential effects on the thyroid. In a recently published report, the National Academy of Sciences indicated that the perchlorate dose required to cause hypothyroidism in adults would probably be > 0.40 mg/kg-day for months or longer. In this study, we calculated benchmark doses for perchlorate from thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroxine (T(4)) serum indicators from two occupational cohorts with long-term exposure to perchlorate, and from a clinical study of volunteers exposed to perchlorate for 2 weeks. The benchmark dose for a particular serum indicator was defined as the dose predicted to cause an additional 5 or 10% of persons to have a serum measurement outside of the normal range. Using the data from the clinical study, we estimated the half-life of perchlorate in serum at 7.5 hr and the volume of distribution at 0.34 L/kg. Using these estimates and measurements of perchlorate in serum or urine, doses in the occupational cohorts were estimated and used in benchmark calculations. Because none of the three studies found a significant effect of perchlorate on TSH or free T(4), all of the benchmark dose estimates were indistinguishable from infinity. The lower 95% statistical confidence limits on benchmark doses estimated from a combined analysis of the two occupational studies ranged from 0.21 to 0.56 mg/kg-day for free T(4) index and from 0.36 to 0.92 mg/kg-day for TSH. Corresponding estimates from the short-term clinical study were within these ranges
Estimations of the Distances of Stellar Collapses in the Galaxy by Analyzing the Energy Spectrum of Neutrino Bursts
The neutrino telescopes of the present generation, depending on their
specific features, can reconstruct the neutrino spectra from a galactic burst.
Since the optical counterpart could be not available, it is desirable to have
at hand alternative methods to estimate the distance of the supernova explosion
using only the neutrino data. In this work we present preliminary results on
the method we are proposing to estimate the distance from a galactic supernova
based only on the spectral shape of the neutrino burst and assumptions on the
gravitational binding energy released an a typical supernova explosion due to
stellar collapses.Comment: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Strong
Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars (SMFNS 2011) Instituto de
Cibern\'etica, Matem\'atica y F\'isica (ICIMAF) Sociedad Cubana de F\'isica
(SCF) Varadero, Cuba, 5-7 May 201
Magnetic fields generated by r-modes in accreting millisecond pulsars
In millisecond pulsars the existence of the Coriolis force allows the
development of the so-called Rossby oscillations (r-modes) which are know to be
unstable to emission of gravitational waves. These instabilities are mainly
damped by the viscosity of the star or by the existence of a strong magnetic
field. A fraction of the observed millisecond pulsars are known to be inside
Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), systems in which a neutron star (or a black
hole) is accreting from a donor whose mass is smaller than 1 . Here we
show that the r-mode instabilities can generate strong toroidal magnetic fields
by inducing differential rotation. In this way we also provide an alternative
scenario for the origin of the magnetars.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings conference "Theoretical Nuclear
Physics", Cortona October 200
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