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NORSEX 1979 microwave remote sensing data report
Airborne microwave remote sensing measurements obtained by NASA Langley Research Center in support of the 1979 Norwegian Remote Sensing Experiment (NORSEX) are summarized. The objectives of NORSEX were to investigate the capabilities of an active/passive microwave system to measure ice concentration and type in the vicinity of the marginal ice zone near Svalbard, Norway and to apply microwave techniques to the investigation of a thermal oceanic front near Bear Island, Norway. The instruments used during NORSEX include the stepped frequency microwave radiometer, airborne microwave scatterometer, precision radiation thermometer and metric aerial photography. The data are inventoried, summarized, and presented in a user-friendly format. Data summaries are presented as time-history plots which indicate when and where data were obtained as well as the sensor configuration. All data are available on nine-track computer tapes in card-image format upon request to the NASA Langley Technical Library
Beaufort/Bering 1979 microwave remote sensing data catalog report, 14-24 March 1979
The airborne microwave remote sending measurements obtained by the Langley Research Center in support of the 1979 Sea-Ice Radar Experiment (SIRE) in the Beaufort and Bering Seas are discussed. The remote sensing objective of SIRE was to define correlations between both active and passive microwave signatures and ice phenomena assocated with practical applications in the Arctic. The instruments used by Langley during SIRE include the stepped frequency microwave radiometer (SFMR), the airborne microwave scatterometer (AMSCAT), the precision radiation thermometer (PRT-5), and metric aerial photography. Remote sensing data are inventoried and cataloged in a user-friendly format. The data catalog is presented as time-history plots when and where data were obtained as well as the sensor configuration
Hyperons and massive neutron stars: vector repulsion and SU(3) symmetry
With the discovery of massive neutron stars such as PSR J1614-2230, the
question has arisen whether exotic matter such as hyperons can exist in the
neutron star core. We examine the conditions under which hyperons can exist in
massive neutron stars. We consistently investigate the vector meson-hyperon
coupling, going from SU(6) quark model to a broader SU(3) symmetry. We propose
that the maximum neutron star mass decreases linearly with the strangeness
content f_s of the neutron star core as M_max(f_s) = M_max(0) - 0.6 M_solar
(f_s/0.1), which seems to be independent of the underlying nuclear equation of
state and the vector baryon-meson coupling scheme. Thus, pulsar mass
measurements can be used to constrain the hyperon fraction in neutron stars.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
Strange quark matter in explosive astrophysical systems
Explosive astrophysical systems, such as supernovae or compact star binary
mergers, provide conditions where strange quark matter can appear. The high
degree of isospin asymmetry and temperatures of several MeV in such systems may
cause a transition to the quark phase already around saturation density.
Observable signals from the appearance of quark matter can be predicted and
studied in astrophysical simulations. As input in such simulations, an equation
of state with an integrated quark matter phase transition for a large
temperature, density and proton fraction range is required. Additionally,
restrictions from heavy ion data and pulsar observation must be considered. In
this work we present such an approach. We implement a quark matter phase
transition in a hadronic equation of state widely used for astrophysical
simulations and discuss its compatibility with heavy ion collisions and pulsar
data. Furthermore, we review the recently studied implications of the QCD phase
transition during the early post-bounce evolution of core-collapse supernovae
and introduce the effects from strong interactions to increase the maximum mass
of hybrid stars. In the MIT bag model, together with the strange quark mass and
the bag constant, the strong coupling constant provides a parameter
to set the beginning and extension of the quark phase and with this the mass
and radius of hybrid stars.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, talk given at the International Conference on
Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2009), Buzios, Brasil, September 28 - October
2, 2009, to be published in Journal Phys.
Properties of Exotic Matter for Heavy Ion Searches
We examine the properties of both forms of strange matter, small lumps of
strange quark matter (strangelets) and of strange hadronic matter (Metastable
Exotic Multihypernuclear Objects: MEMOs) and their relevance for present and
future heavy ion searches. The strong and weak decays are discussed separately
to distinguish between long-lived and short-lived candidates where the former
ones are detectable in present heavy ion experiments while the latter ones in
future heavy ion experiments, respectively. We find some long-lived strangelet
candidates which are highly negatively charged with a mass to charge ratio like
a anti deuteron (M/Z=-2) but masses of A=10 to 16. We predict also many
short-lived candidates, both in quark and in hadronic form, which can be highly
charged. Purely hyperonic nuclei are bound and have a negative charge while
carrying a positive baryon number. We demonstrate also that multiply charmed
exotics (charmlets) might be bound and can be produced at future heavy ion
colliders.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, uses IOP style and epsf.sty, to be published in
Journal of Physics, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Strangeness
in Quark Matter 1997, April 14-18, Thera (Santorini), Hellas. Corrected
typos, added comment about bag constant
Light Lambda-Lambda Hypernuclei and the Onset of Stability for Lambda-Xi Hypernuclei
New Faddeev-Yakubovsky calculations for light Lambda-Lambda hypernuclei are
presented in order to assess the self consistency of the Lambda-Lambda
hypernuclear binding-energy world data and the implied strength of the
Lambda-Lambda interaction, in the wake of recent experimental reports on
Lambda-Lambda-4H and Lambda-Lambda-6He. Using Gaussian soft-core simulations of
Nijmegen one-boson-exchange model interactions, the Nijmegen soft-core model
NSC97 simulations are found close to reproducing the recently reported binding
energy of Lambda-Lambda-6He, but not those of other species. For stranger
systems, Faddeev calculations of light Lambda-Xi hypernuclei, using a
simulation of the strongly attractive Lambda-Xi interactions due to the same
model, suggest that Lambda-Xi-6He marks the onset of nuclear stability for Xi
hyperons.Comment: 5 pages, 3 postscript figures; fig.2 replaced, minor changes,
accepted as Rapid Communication in PR
Signals of the QCD phase transition in core-collapse supernovae
We explore the implications of the QCD phase transition during the postbounce
evolution of core-collapse supernovae. Using the MIT bag model for the
description of quark matter and assuming small bag constants, we find that the
phase transition occurs during the early postbounce accretion phase. This stage
of the evolution can be simulated with general relativistic three-flavor
Boltzmann neutrino transport. The phase transition produces a second shock wave
that triggers a delayed supernova explosion. If such a phase transition happens
in a future galactic supernova, its existence and properties should become
observable as a second peak in the neutrino signal that is accompanied by
significant changes in the energy of the emitted neutrinos. In contrast to the
first neutronization burst, this second neutrino burst is dominated by the
emission of anti-neutrinos because the electron-degeneracy is lifted when the
second shock passes through the previously neutronized matter.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to PR
Hot Hypernuclear Matter in the Modified Quark Meson Coupling Model
Hot hypernuclear matter is investigated in an explicit SU(3) quark model
based on a mean field description of nonoverlapping baryon bags bound by the
self-consistent exchange of scalar and vector
mesons. The mean fields are assumed to couple to the
u,d-quarks while the mean fields are coupled to the s-quark. The
coupling constants of the mean fields with the quarks are assumed to satisfy
SU(6) symmetry. The calculations take into account the medium dependence of the
bag parameter on the scalar fields . We consider only the octet
baryons in hypernuclear matter. An ideal gas of the
strange mesons and is introduced to keep zero net strangeness
density. Our results for symmetric hypernuclear matter show that a phase
transition takes place at a critical temperature around 180 MeV in which the
scalar mean fields take nonzero values at zero baryon density.
Furthermore, the bag contants of the baryons decrease significantly at and
above this critical temperature indicating the onset of quark deconfinement.
The present results imply that the onset of quark deconfinement in SU(3)
hypernuclear matter is much stronger than in SU(2) nuclear matter.Comment: LaTeX/TeX 11 pages (dfg3r.tex), 9 figures in eps forma
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