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Notes on research into some aspects of stall-warning devices
The problems of detecting and indicating an approaching stall have been investigated in flight on an “Anson” aircraft. A lower-surface flap near the leading-edge of the wing detects the approaching stall at a speed which depends critically on the length of the flap and on its location, but the margin of warning speed over stalling-speed is reasonably independent of landing-flap position and throttle setting. Continues
X-ray Variability and Period Determinations in the Eclipsing Polar DP Leo
An analysis of ROSAT observations for the eclipsing magnetic cataclysmic
binary DP Leo provides constraints on the origin, size, temperature,
variability and structure of the soft X-ray emission region on the surface of
the white dwarf. These data, when combined with prior observations, show a
progression of approximately 2 degrees per year in the impact position of the
accretion stream onto the white dwarf. One explanation for the observed drift
in stream position is that a magnetic activity cycle on the secondary produces
orbital period oscillations. These oscillations result in an orbital period
which cycles above and below the rotational period of the nearly synchronous
white dwarf. The accretion stream and X-ray emission regions are modeled to fit
the observational data. A distance to the system is also calculated. [An
erroneous value for the cyclotron luminosity, included in an earlier paper
version of the preprint, is corrected here.]Comment: uuencoded PostScript file (25 pages) + 8 figures available by
anonymous ftp to ftp.astro.psu.edu (in the directory /pub/robinson), to
appear in ApJ, PSU preprint 1994-1
Kondo Resonance Decoherence by an External Potential
The Kondo problem, for a quantum dot (QD), subjected to an external bias, is
analyzed in the limit of infinite Coulomb repulsion by using a consistent
equations of motion method based on a slave-boson Hamiltonian. Utilizing a
strict perturbative solution in the leads-dot coupling, T, to T^4 and T^6
orders, we calculate the QD spectral density and conductance, as well as the
decoherent rate that drive the systemm from the strong to the weak coupling
regime. Our results indicate thet the weak coupling regime is reached for
voltages larger than a few units of the Kondo temperature.Comment: 5 figure
On Lorentz violation in scattering at finite temperature
Small violation of Lorentz and CPT symmetries may emerge in models unifying
gravity with other forces of nature. An extension of the standard model with
all possible terms that violate Lorentz and CPT symmetries are included. Here a
CPT-even non-minimal coupling term is added to the covariant derivative. This
leads to a new interaction term that breaks the Lorentz symmetry. Our main
objective is to calculate the cross section for the
scattering in order to
investigate any violation of Lorentz and/or CPT symmetry at finite temperature.
Thermo Field Dynamics formalism is used to consider finite temperature effects.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in PL
Isostaticity in two dimensional pile of rigid disks
We study the static structure of piles made of polydisperse disks in the
rigid limit with and without friction using molecular dynamic simulations for
various elasticities of the disks and pile preparation procedures. The
coordination numbers are calculated to examine the isostaticity of the pile
structure. For the frictionless pile, it is demonstrated that the coordination
number converges to 4 in the rigid limit, which implies that the structure of
rigid disk pile is isostatic. On the other hand, for the frictional case with
the infinite friction constant, the coordination number depends on the
preparation procedure of the pile, but we find that the structure becomes very
close to isostatic with the coordination number close to 3 in the rigid limit
when the pile is formed through the process that tends to make a pile of random
configuration.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Fully automatic telemetry data processor
Satellite Telemetry Automatic Reduction System /STARS 2/, a fully automatic computer-controlled telemetry data processor, maximizes data recovery, reduces turnaround time, increases flexibility, and improves operational efficiency. The system incorporates a CDC 3200 computer as its central element
Trapping of Spin-0 fields on tube-like topological defects
We have considered the localization of resonant bosonic states described by a
scalar field trapped in tube-like topological defects. The tubes are
formed by radial symmetric defects in dimensions, constructed with two
scalar fields and , and embedded in the dimensional
Minkowski spacetime. The general coupling between the topological defect and
the scalar field is given by the potential .
After a convenient decomposition of the field , we find that the
amplitudes of the radial modes satisfy Schr\"odinger-like equations whose
eigenvalues are the masses of the bosonic resonances. Specifically, we have
analyzed two simple couplings: the first one is for a
fourth-order potential and, the second one is a sixth-order interaction
characterized by % . In both cases the
Schr\"odinger-like equations are numerically solved with appropriated boundary
conditions. Several resonance peaks for both models are obtained and the
numerical analysis showed that the fourth-order potential generates more
resonances than the sixth-order one.Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures, matches version published in Physics Letters
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