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Influence of Rayleigh-Doppler broadening on the selection of H2O dial system parameters
Computer simulations have enabled the performance of a H2O Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system to be studied by spectrally analyzing the forward propagating and backscattered laser energy. The simulations were done for a high altitude (21 km) DIAL system operating in a nadir-viewing mode. The influence of Rayleigh Doppler broadening on DIAL measurement accuracies were evaluated and show that the Rayleigh broadening influence, which can be corrected to first order in regions free of large aerosol gradients, reduces the sensitivity of DIAL H2O measurement errors in the upper tropospheric region. The ability to correct the Rayleigh broadening and the selection of H2O DIAL parameters when all the systematic effects are combined, were discussed
Tur\'an type inequalities for Tricomi confluent hypergeometric functions
Some sharp two-sided Tur\'an type inequalities for parabolic cylinder
functions and Tricomi confluent hypergeometric functions are deduced. The
proofs are based on integral representations for quotients of parabolic
cylinder functions and Tricomi confluent hypergeometric functions, which arise
in the study of the infinite divisibility of the Fisher-Snedecor F
distribution. Moroever, some complete monotonicity results are given concerning
Tur\'an determinants of Tricomi confluent hypergeometric functions. These
complement and improve some of the results of Ismail and Laforgia [23].Comment: 20 page
Spectral Analysis of Certain Schr\"odinger Operators
The -matrix method is extended to difference and -difference operators
and is applied to several explicit differential, difference, -difference and
second order Askey-Wilson type operators. The spectrum and the spectral
measures are discussed in each case and the corresponding eigenfunction
expansion is written down explicitly in most cases. In some cases we encounter
new orthogonal polynomials with explicit three term recurrence relations where
nothing is known about their explicit representations or orthogonality
measures. Each model we analyze is a discrete quantum mechanical model in the
sense of Odake and Sasaki [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011), 353001, 47
pages]
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