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Nomad, a naval message understanding system
We are building systems to automatically analyze Navy messages. Such messages typically are terse and use many abbreviations and Navy jargon. As a result, they are more difficult to understand than everyday English.The NOMAD system interacts with a message sender to ensure that only unambiguous and reasonably correct messages are generated. The VOX system will allow a human tutor to interactively extend the knowledge base of NOMAD
Spin-Glass-like Transition and Hall Resistivity of Y2-xBixIr2O7
Various physical properties of the pyrochlore oxide Y2-xBixIr2O7 have been
studied. The magnetizations M measured under the conditions of the
zero-field-cooling(ZFC) and the field-cooling(FC) have different values below
the temperature T=TG. The anomalous T-dependence of the electrical
resistivities r and the thermoelectric powers S observed at around TG indicates
that the behavior of the magnetization is due to the transition to the state
with the spin freezing. In this spin-frozen state, the Hall resistivities rH
measured with the ZFC and FC conditions are found to have different values,
too, in the low temperature phase (T<TG). Possible mechanisms which induce such
the hysteretic behavior are discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 72 (2003) No.
Excavation of the first stars
The external pollution of the first stars in the Galaxy is investigated. The
first stars were born in clouds composed of the pristine gas without heavy
elements. These stars accreted gas polluted with heavy elements while they
still remained in the cloud. As a result, it is found that they exhibit a
distribution with respect to the surface metallicity. We have derived the
actual form of this distribution function. This metallicity distribution
function strongly suggests that the recently discovered most metal-deficient
star HE0107-5240 with [Fe/H]=-5.3 was born as a metal-free star and accreted
gas polluted with heavy elements. Thus the heavy elements such as Fe in
HE0107-5240 must have been supplied from supernovae of later generations
exploding inside the cloud in which the star had been formed. The elemental
abundance pattern on the surface of stars suffering from such an external
pollution should not be diverse but exhibit the average pattern of numerous
supernovae. Future observations for a number of metal-deficient stars with
[Fe/H]<-5 will be able to prove or disprove this external pollution scenario.
Other possibilities to produce a star with this metallicity are also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letter
Telling the tale of the first stars
HE 0107-5240 is a star in more than once sense of the word. Chemically, it is
the most primitive object yet discovered, and it is at the centre of debate
about the origins of the first elements in the Universe.Comment: 3 pages, 0 figures, published in Nature "News and Views," Apr. 24,
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Inner Size of a Dust Torus in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4151
The most intense monitoring observations yet made were carried out on the
Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 in the optical and near-infrared wave-bands. A lag
from the optical light curve to the near-infrared light curve was measured. The
lag-time between the V and K light curves at the flux minimum in 2001 was
precisely 48+2-3 days, as determined by a cross-correlation analysis. The
correlation between the optical luminosity of an active galactic nucleus (AGN)
and the lag-time between the UV/optical and the near-infrared light curves is
presented for NGC 4151 in combination with previous lag-time measurements of
NGC 4151 and other AGNs in the literature. This correlation is interpreted as
thermal dust reverberation in an AGN, where the near-infrared emission from an
AGN is expected to be the thermal re-radiation from hot dust surrounding the
central engine at a radius where the temperature equals to that of the dust
sublimation temperature. We find that the inner radius of the dust torus in NGC
4151 is 0.04 pc corresponding to the measured lag-time, well outside
the broad line region (BLR) determined by other reverberation studies of the
emission lines.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 13 pages, 3 figures;
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Multiferroic FeTeOBr: Alternating spin chains with frustrated interchain interactions
A combination of density functional theory calculations, many-body model
considerations, magnetization and electron spin resonance measurements shows
that the multiferroic FeTeOBr should be described as a system of
alternating antiferromagnetic chains with strong Fe-O-Te-O-Fe bridges
weakly coupled by two-dimensional frustrated interactions, rather than the
previously reported tetramer models. The peculiar temperature dependence of the
incommensurate magnetic vector can be explained in terms of interchain exchange
striction being responsible for the emergent net electric polarization.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Evidence for Carrier-Induced High-Tc Ferromagnetism in Mn-doped GaN film
A GaN film doped with 8.2 % Mn was grown by the molecular-beam-epitaxy
technique. Magnetization measurements show that this highly Mn-doped GaN film
exhibits ferromagnetism above room temperature. It is also revealed that the
high-temperature ferromagnetic state is significantly suppressed below 10 K,
accompanied by an increase of the electrical resistivity with decreasing
temperature. This observation clearly demonstrates a close relation between the
ferromagnetism with extremely high-Tc and the carrier transport in the Mn-doped
GaN film.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
On the helium flash in low-mass Population III Red Giant stars
We investigate the evolution of initially metal-free, low-mass Red Giant
stars through the He core flash at the tip of the Red Giant Branch. The low
entropy barrier between the helium- and hydrogen-rich layers enables a
penetration of the helium flash driven convective zone into the inner tail of
the extinguishing H-burning shell. As a consequence, protons are mixed into
high-temperature regions triggering a H-burning runaway. The subsequent
dredge-up of matter processed by He and H burning enriches the stellar surface
with large amounts of helium, carbon and nitrogen. Extending previous results
by Hollowell et al. (1990) and Fujimoto et al. (2000), who claimed that the
H-burning runaway is an intrinsic property of extremely metal-poor low-mass
stars, we found that its occurrence depends on additional parameters like the
initial composition and the treatment of various physical processes.
We perform some comparisons between predicted surface chemical abundances and
observational measurements for extremely metal-deficient stars. As in previous
investigations, our results disclose that although the described scenario
provides a good qualitative agreement with observations, considerable
discrepancies still remain. They may be due to a more complex evolutionary path
of `real' stars, and/or some shortcomings in current evolutionary models.
In addition, we analyze the evolutionary properties after the He core flash,
during both the central and shell He-burning phases, allowing us to deduce some
interesting differences between models whose Red Giant Branch progenitor has
experienced the H-flash and canonical models. In particular, the Asymptotic
Giant Branch evolution of extremely metal-deficient stars and the occurrence of
thermal pulses are strongly affected by the previous RGB evolution.Comment: 7 figures, AASTeX, submitted to Ap
Universal magnetic structure of the half-magnetization phase in Cr-based spinels
Using an elastic neutron scattering technique under a pulsed magnetic field
up to 30 T, we determined the magnetic structure in the half-magnetization
plateau phase in the spinel CdCrO. The magnetic structure has a cubic
32 symmetry, which is the same as that observed in HgCrO. This
suggests that there is a universal field induced spin-lattice coupling
mechanism at work in the Cr-based spinels.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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