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Protocluster Discovery in Tomographic Ly Forest Flux Maps
We present a new method of finding protoclusters using tomographic maps of
Ly Forest flux. We review our method of creating tomographic flux maps
and discuss our new high performance implementation, which makes large
reconstructions computationally feasible. Using a large N-body simulation, we
illustrate how protoclusters create large-scale flux decrements, roughly 10
Mpc across, and how we can use this signal to find them in flux maps.
We test the performance of our protocluster finding method by running it on the
ideal, noiseless map and tomographic reconstructions from mock surveys, and
comparing to the halo catalog. Using the noiseless map, we find protocluster
candidates with about 90% purity, and recover about 75% of the protoclusters
that form massive clusters (). We
construct mock surveys similar to the ongoing COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And
Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) survey. While the existing data has an
average sightline separation of 2.3 Mpc, we test separations of 2 - 6
Mpc to see what can be tolerated for our application. Using
reconstructed maps from small separation mock surveys, the protocluster
candidate purity and completeness are very close what was found in the
noiseless case. As the sightline separation increases, the purity and
completeness decrease, although they remain much higher than we initially
expected. We extended our test cases to mock surveys with an average separation
of 15 Mpc, meant to reproduce high source density areas of the BOSS
survey. We find that even with such a large sightline separation, the method
can still be used to find some of the largest protoclusters.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figure
Strong Upper Limits on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter
Sterile neutrinos are attractive dark matter candidates. Their parameter
space of mass and mixing angle has not yet been fully tested despite intensive
efforts that exploit their gravitational clustering properties and radiative
decays. We use the limits on gamma-ray line emission from the Galactic Center
region obtained with the SPI spectrometer on the INTEGRAL satellite to set new
constraints, which improve on the earlier bounds on mixing by more than two
orders of magnitude, and thus strongly restrict a wide and interesting range of
models.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; minor revisions, accepted for publication in
Physical Review Letter
Measurements of Total Hemispherical Emissivity of Several Stably Oxidized Nickel-Titanium Carbide Cemented Hard Metals from 600 F to 1,600 F
The total hemispherical emissivity of several nickel-titanium carbide cemented hard metals have been measured over a temperature range from 600 F to l,600 F. A variety of cemented hard metals were obtained from the Kennametal Corporation. A brief discussion of the apparatus employed and the procedures used for this investigation is included. The results of the tests of specimens in the as-received and polished states indicate a nearly constant emissivity for each material tested over the temperature range considered and only slight differences in emissivity values for the different materials. Values obtained on the stably oxidized specimens range from 0.90 to 0.94 at 6000 F and o.88 to 0.92 at 1,600 F for the as-received specimens and from 0.82 to 0.89 at 600 F and 0.85 to 0.87 at 1,600 F for the polished specimens. The surface analysis of the oxidized materials as obtained by X-ray diffraction methods and metallographic techniques are presented as an aid to reproducing the surface on which these measurements were made
Stabilizer Quantum Error Correction with Qubus Computation
In this paper we investigate stabilizer quantum error correction codes using
controlled phase rotations of strong coherent probe states. We explicitly
describe two methods to measure the Pauli operators which generate the
stabilizer group of a quantum code. First, we show how to measure a Pauli
operator acting on physical qubits using a single coherent state with large
average photon number, displacement operations, and photon detection. Second,
we show how to measure the stabilizer operators fault-tolerantly by the
deterministic preparation of coherent cat states along with one-bit
teleportations between a qubit-like encoding of coherent states and physical
qubits.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
ANOPP Landing Gear Noise Prediction Comparisons to Model-scale Data
The NASA Aircraft NOise Prediction Program (ANOPP) includes two methods for computing the noise from landing gear: the "Fink" method and the "Guo" method. Both methods have been predominately validated and used to predict full-scale landing gear noise. The two methods are compared, and their ability to predict the noise for model-scale landing gear is investigated. Predictions are made using both the Fink and Guo methods and compared to measured acoustic data obtained for a high-fidelity, 6.3%-scale, Boeing 777 main landing gear. A process is developed by which full-scale predictions can be scaled to compare with model-scale data. The measurements were obtained in the NASA Langley Quiet Flow Facility for a range of Mach numbers at a large number of observer polar (flyover) and azimuthal (sideline) observer angles. Spectra and contours of the measured sound pressure levels as a function of polar and azimuthal angle characterize the directivity of landing gear noise. Comparisons of predicted noise spectra and contours from each ANOPP method are made. Both methods predict comparable amplitudes and trends for the flyover locations, but deviate at the sideline locations. Neither method fully captures the measured noise directivity. The availability of these measured data provides the opportunity to further understand and advance noise prediction capabilities, particularly for noise directivity
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