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Supercharged topping rocket propellant feed system
A rocket propellant feed system utilizing a bleed turbopump to supercharge a topping turbopump is presented. The bleed turbopump is of a low pressure type to meet the cavitation requirements imposed by the propellant storage tanks. The topping turbopump is of a high pressure type and develops 60 to 70 percent of the pressure rise in the propellant
Explosive Outflows from Forming Massive Stars
AO imaging of the near IR [Fe ii] and H_2 lines and ALMA CO J = 2 − 1 data confirms the explosive nature of the BN/KL outflow in Orion. N-body interactions in compact groups may be responsible for the production of powerful, explosive protostellar outflows and luminous infrared flares. The Orion event may have been triggered by a protostellar merger. First results of a search for Orion-like events in 200 nearby galaxies with the SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (SPIRITS) are briefly discussed
Quantum cohomology of flag manifolds and Toda lattices
We discuss relations of Vafa's quantum cohomology with Floer's homology
theory, introduce equivariant quantum cohomology, formulate some conjectures
about its general properties and, on the basis of these conjectures, compute
quantum cohomology algebras of the flag manifolds. The answer turns out to
coincide with the algebra of regular functions on an invariant lagrangian
variety of a Toda lattice.Comment: 35 page
Multiple-Scale Analysis of the Quantum Anharmonic Oscillator
Conventional weak-coupling perturbation theory suffers from problems that
arise from resonant coupling of successive orders in the perturbation series.
Multiple-scale perturbation theory avoids such problems by implicitly
performing an infinite reordering and resummation of the conventional
perturbation series. Multiple-scale analysis provides a good description of the
classical anharmonic oscillator. Here, it is extended to study the Heisenberg
operator equations of motion for the quantum anharmonic oscillator. The
analysis yields a system of nonlinear operator differential equations, which is
solved exactly. The solution provides an operator mass renormalization of the
theory.Comment: 12 pages, Revtex, no figures, available through anonymous ftp from
ftp://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/papers/ or on WWW at
http://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Papers/papers_95-6_.htm
VLASSICK: The VLA Sky Survey in the Central Kiloparsec
At a distance of 8 kpc, the center of our Galaxy is the nearest galactic
nucleus, and has been the subject of numerous key projects undertaken by great
observatories such as Chandra, Spitzer, and Herschel. However, there are still
no surveys of molecular gas properties in the Galactic center with less than
30" (1 pc) resolution. There is also no sensitive polarization survey of this
region, despite numerous nonthermal magnetic features apparently unique to the
central 300 parsecs. In this paper, we outline the potential the VLASS has to
fill this gap. We assess multiple considerations in observing the Galactic
center, and recommend a C-band survey with 10 micro-Jy continuum RMS and
sensitive to molecular gas with densities greater than 10^4 cm^{-3}, covering
17 square degrees in both DnC and CnB configurations ( resolution ~5"),
totaling 750 hours of observing time. Ultimately, we wish to note that the
upgraded VLA is not just optimized for fast continuum surveys, but has a
powerful correlator capable of simultaneously observing continuum emission and
dozens of molecular and recombination lines. This is an enormous strength that
should be fully exploited and highlighted by the VLASS, and which is ideally
suited for surveying the center of our Galaxy.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, a White Paper submitted to provide input in
planning the Very Large Array Sky Surve
Feedback from massive stars at low metallicities : MUSE observations of N44 and N180 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 27 pages, 21 figuresWe present MUSE integral field data of two HII region complexes in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), N44 and N180. Both regions consist of a main superbubble and a number of smaller, more compact HII regions that formed on the edge of the superbubble. For a total of 11 HII regions, we systematically analyse the radiative and mechanical feedback from the massive O-type stars on the surrounding gas. We exploit the integral field property of the data and the coverage of the HeII5412 line to identify and classify the feedback-driving massive stars, and from the estimated spectral types and luminosity classes we determine the stellar radiative output in terms of the ionising photon flux . We characterise the HII regions in terms of their sizes, morphologies, ionisation structure, luminosity and kinematics, and derive oxygen abundances via emission line ratios. We analyse the role of different stellar feedback mechanisms for each region by measuring the direct radiation pressure, the pressure of the ionised gas, and the pressure of the shock-heated winds. We find that stellar winds and ionised gas are the main drivers of HII region expansion in our sample, while the direct radiation pressure is up to three orders of magnitude lower than the other terms. We relate the total pressure to the star formation rate per unit area, , for each region and find that stellar feedback has a negative effect on star formation, and sets an upper limit to as a function of increasing pressure.Peer reviewe
Surface effects in magnetic superconductors with a spiral magnetic structure
We consider a magnetic superconductor MS with a spiral magnetic structure. On
the basis of generalized Eilenberger and Usadel equations we show that near the
boundary of the MS with an insulator or vacuum the condensate (Gor'kov's)
Green's functions are disturbed by boundary conditions and differ essentially
from their values in the bulk. Corrections to the bulk quasiclassical Green's
functions oscillate with the period of the magnetic spiral, , and
decay inside the superconductor over a length of the order (ballistic
limit) or (diffusive limit). We calculate the dc Josephson
current in an MS/I/MS tunnel junction and show that the critical Josephson
current differs substantially from that obtained with the help of the tunnel
Hamiltonian method and bulk Green's functions.Comment: 10 pages 3 Figs; some misprints in fromulae corrected; submitted to
Phys. Rev.
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