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Intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies out to redshift 2.4 in the Chandra COSMOS Legacy Survey
We present a sample of 40 AGN in dwarf galaxies at redshifts
2.4. The galaxies are drawn from the \textit{Chandra} COSMOS-Legacy survey as
having stellar masses M. Most
of the dwarf galaxies are star-forming. After removing the contribution from
star formation to the X-ray emission, the AGN luminosities of the 40 dwarf
galaxies are in the range erg
s. With 12 sources at , our sample constitutes the
highest-redshift discovery of AGN in dwarf galaxies. The record-holder is
cid\_1192, at and with erg
s. One of the dwarf galaxies has
M and is the least massive galaxy found so far to host an AGN. All
the AGN are of type 2 and consistent with hosting intermediate-mass black holes
(BHs) with masses M and typical Eddington
ratios . We also study the evolution, corrected for completeness, of AGN
fraction with stellar mass, X-ray luminosity, and redshift in dwarf galaxies
out to = 0.7. We find that the AGN fraction for M and erg s is
0.4\% for 0.3 and that it decreases with X-ray luminosity and
decreasing stellar mass. Unlike massive galaxies, the AGN fraction seems to
decrease with redshift, suggesting that AGN in dwarf galaxies evolve
differently than those in high-mass galaxies. Mindful of potential caveats, the
results seem to favor a direct collapse formation mechanism for the seed BHs in
the early Universe.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Fracture toughness and crack-resistance curve behavior in metallic glass-matrix composites
Nonlinear-elastic fracture mechanics methods are used to assess the fracture toughness of bulk metallic glass (BMG) composites; results are compared with similar measurements for other monolithic and composite BMG alloys. Mechanistically, plastic shielding gives rise to characteristic resistance-curve behavior where the fracture resistance increases with crack extension. Specifically, confinement of damage by second-phase dendrites is shown to result in enhancement of the toughness by nearly an order of magnitude relative to unreinforced glass
Inhomogeneous Low Frequency Spin Dynamics in La_{1.65}Eu_{0.2}Sr_{0.15}CuO_4
We report Cu and La nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in the
title compound that reveal an inhomogeneous glassy behavior of the spin
dynamics. A low temperature peak in the La spin lattice relaxation rate and the
``wipeout'' of Cu intensity both arise from these slow electronic spin
fluctuations that reveal a distribution of activation energies. Inhomogeneous
slowing of spin fluctuations appears to be a general feature of doped lanthanum
cuprate.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Very slight modifications to figure
Shear stress fluctuations in the granular liquid and solid phases
We report on experimentally observed shear stress fluctuations in both
granular solid and fluid states, showing that they are non-Gaussian at low
shear rates, reflecting the predominance of correlated structures (force
chains) in the solidlike phase, which also exhibit finite rigidity to shear.
Peaks in the rigidity and the stress distribution's skewness indicate that a
change to the force-bearing mechanism occurs at the transition to fluid
behaviour, which, it is shown, can be predicted from the behaviour of the
stress at lower shear rates. In the fluid state stress is Gaussian distributed,
suggesting that the central limit theorem holds. The fibre bundle model with
random load sharing effectively reproduces the stress distribution at the yield
point and also exhibits the exponential stress distribution anticipated from
extant work on stress propagation in granular materials.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, latex. Replacement adds journal reference and
addresses referee comment
Stripe structure, spectral feature and soliton gap in high Tc cuprates
We show that the lightly doped La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} can be described in
terms of a stripe magnetic structure or soliton picture. The internal
relationship between the recent neutron observation of the diagonal (x=0.05) to
vertical (x >= 0.06) stripe transition, which was predicted, and the
concomitant metal-insulator transition is clarified by this solitonic physics.
The phase diagram with the unidentified transition lines between
antiferromagnetic to stripe phases, the doping dependence of the modulation
period, the origin of the mid-infrared optical absorption are investigated
comparatively with other single layer systems: La_{2-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{4} and
(La,Nd)_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4}. The novel type of quasi-particles and holes is
fully responsible for metallic conduction and ultimately superconductivity.Comment: 4 pages RevTex, 5 figure
An Over-Massive Black Hole in a Typical Star-Forming Galaxy, 2 Billion Years After the Big Bang
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies are generally
thought to coevolve, so that the SMBH achieves up to about 0.2 to 0.5% of the
host galaxy mass in the present day. The radiation emitted from the growing
SMBH is expected to affect star formation throughout the host galaxy. The
relevance of this scenario at early cosmic epochs is not yet established. We
present spectroscopic observations of a galaxy at redshift z = 3.328, which
hosts an actively accreting, extremely massive BH, in its final stages of
growth. The SMBH mass is roughly one-tenth the mass of the entire host galaxy,
suggesting that it has grown much more efficiently than the host, contrary to
models of synchronized coevolution. The host galaxy is forming stars at an
intense rate, despite the presence of a SMBH-driven gas outflow.Comment: Author's version, including the main paper and the Supplementary
Materials (16+21 pages, 3+3 figures
Spin Dynamics in the LTT Phase of ~1/8 Doped Single Crystal La_{1.67}Eu_{0.2}Sr_{0.13}CuO_4
We present La and Cu NMR relaxation measurements in single crystal
La_{1.67}Eu_{0.2}Sr_{0.13}CuO_4. A strong peak in the La spin-lattice
relaxation rate observed in the spin ordered state is well-described by the BPP
mechanism[1] and arises from continuous slowing of electronic spin fluctuations
with decreasing temperature; these spin fluctuations exhibit XY-like anisotropy
in the ordered state. The spin pseudogap is enhanced by the static
charge-stripe order in the LTT phase.Comment: Four pages, three figure
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