The Kuiper Belt and Other Debris Disks

We discuss the current knowledge of the Solar system, focusing on bodies in the outer regions, on the information they provide concerning Solar system formation, and on the possible relationships that may exist between our system and the debris disks of other stars. Beyond the domains of the Terrestrial and giant planets, the comets in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud preserve some of our most pristine materials. The Kuiper belt, in particular, is a collisional dust source and a scientific bridge to the dusty "debris disks" observed around many nearby main-sequence stars. Study of the Solar system provides a level of detail that we cannot discern in the distant disks while observations of the disks may help to set the Solar system in proper context.Comment: 50 pages, 25 Figures. To appear in conference proceedings book "Astrophysics in the Next Decade

Photoluminescence from the 2D electron-gas and many-body effects as a probe of the crystalline quality of pseudomorphic GaAs/InGaAs/AlGaAs and GaAs/n(GaAs)10(n+1)(InAs)m/AlGaAs MODFETs

We have performed low temperature (5K) photoluminescence (PL) measurements in order to study the crystalline quality of pseudomorphic modulation-doped field effect transistors (MODFET's) grown by MBE. MODFET's based on GaAs/AlGaAs with either an InGaAs or a (GaAs)n(InAs)m short period superlattice (SPS) channel have been studied. On modulation doped structures, the presence of free carriers into the channel strongly affects the PL emission,. In this paper, we present a study of PL line shape of MODFET structures with different channel thicknesses and growth conditions. A correlation between the PL line shape and these parameters is clearly observed

296 Evaluating the use of megestrol acetate in Caen and Lisieux CF Centers (2007–2010)

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