Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Astrophysics and Astronomy Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication Year

Articles 241 - 270 of 679

Full-Text Articles in Astrophysics and Astronomy

Deep Chandra, Hst-Cos, And Megacam Observations Of The Phoenix Cluster: Extreme Star Formation And Agn Feedback On Hundred Kiloparsec Scales, Michael Mcdonald, B. R. Mcnamara, Reinout J. Van Weeren, Douglas E. Applegate, Matthew Bayliss, Marshall W. Bautz, Bradford A. Benson, John E. Carlstrom, Lindsey E. Bleem, Marios Chatzikos, A. C. Edge, A. C. Fabian, Gordon P. Garmire, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Christine Jones-Forman, Adam B. Mantz, Eric D. Miller, Brian Stalder, Sylvain Veilleux, John A. Zuhone Sep 2015

Deep Chandra, Hst-Cos, And Megacam Observations Of The Phoenix Cluster: Extreme Star Formation And Agn Feedback On Hundred Kiloparsec Scales, Michael Mcdonald, B. R. Mcnamara, Reinout J. Van Weeren, Douglas E. Applegate, Matthew Bayliss, Marshall W. Bautz, Bradford A. Benson, John E. Carlstrom, Lindsey E. Bleem, Marios Chatzikos, A. C. Edge, A. C. Fabian, Gordon P. Garmire, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Christine Jones-Forman, Adam B. Mantz, Eric D. Miller, Brian Stalder, Sylvain Veilleux, John A. Zuhone

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present new ultraviolet, optical, and X-ray data on the Phoenix galaxy cluster (SPT-CLJ2344-4243). Deep optical imaging reveals previously undetected filaments of star formation, extending to radii of ~50–100 kpc in multiple directions. Combined UV-optical spectroscopy of the central galaxy reveals a massive (2 x 109 M⊙), young (~4.5 Myr) population of stars, consistent with a time-averaged star formation rate of 610 ± 50 M⊙ yr−1. We report a strong detection of O ᴠɪ λλ1032,1038, which appears to originate primarily in shock-heated gas, but may contain a substantial contribution (>1000 M⊙ …


Electrically Tunable Transport In The Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulator Sr2Iro4, C. Wang, H. Seinige, Gang Cao, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, M. Tsoi Sep 2015

Electrically Tunable Transport In The Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulator Sr2Iro4, C. Wang, H. Seinige, Gang Cao, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, M. Tsoi

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Electronic transport properties of the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator Sr2IrO4 have been investigated under extremely high electric biases. Using nanoscale contacts, we apply electric fields up to a few MV/m to a single crystal of Sr2IrO4 and observe a continuous reduction in the material's resistivity with increasing bias, characterized by a reduction in the transport activation energy by as much as 16%. Temperature-dependent resistivity measurements provide a means to unambiguously retrieve the bias dependence of the activation energy from the Arrhenius plots at different biases. We further demonstrate the feasibility of reversible resistive switching induced …


The Nature And Frequency Of Outflows From Stars In The Central Orion Nebula Cluster, C. R. O'Dell, Gary J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, M. Peimbert, Ma. T. García-Díaz, Robert H. Rubin Sep 2015

The Nature And Frequency Of Outflows From Stars In The Central Orion Nebula Cluster, C. R. O'Dell, Gary J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, M. Peimbert, Ma. T. García-Díaz, Robert H. Rubin

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Recent Hubble Space Telescope images have allowed the determination with unprecedented accuracy of motions and changes of shocks within the inner Orion Nebula. These originate from collimated outflows from very young stars, some within the ionized portion of the nebula and others within the host molecular cloud. We have doubled the number of Herbig–Haro objects known within the inner Orion Nebula. We find that the best-known Herbig–Haro shocks originate from relatively few stars, with the optically visible X-ray source COUP 666 driving many of them. While some isolated shocks are driven by single collimated outflows, many groups of shocks are …


Ultraviolet Luminosity Density Of The Universe During The Epoch Of Reionization, Ketron Mitchell-Wynne, Asantha Cooray, Yan Gong, Matthew Ashby, Timothy Dolch, Henry Ferguson, Steven Finkelstein, Norman Grogin, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton Koekemoer, Joel Primack, Joseph Smidt Sep 2015

Ultraviolet Luminosity Density Of The Universe During The Epoch Of Reionization, Ketron Mitchell-Wynne, Asantha Cooray, Yan Gong, Matthew Ashby, Timothy Dolch, Henry Ferguson, Steven Finkelstein, Norman Grogin, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton Koekemoer, Joel Primack, Joseph Smidt

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The spatial fluctuations of the extragalactic background light trace the total emission from all stars and galaxies in the Universe. A multiwavelength study can be used to measure the integrated emission from first galaxies during reionization when the Universe was about 500 million years old. Here we report arcmin-scale spatial fluctuations in one of the deepest sky surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope in five wavebands between 0.6 and 1.6 μm. We model-fit the angular power spectra of intensity fluctuation measurements to find the ultraviolet luminosity density of galaxies at redshifts greater than 8 to be log ρUV = …


Eletron-Helium Laser-Assisted Free-Free Scattering For Incident Energies From 30 - 200 Ev: Effects Of Polarization Direction, B. A. Deharak, Benjamin Nosarzewski, Mahsa Siavashpouri, Nicholas L. S. Martin Sep 2015

Eletron-Helium Laser-Assisted Free-Free Scattering For Incident Energies From 30 - 200 Ev: Effects Of Polarization Direction, B. A. Deharak, Benjamin Nosarzewski, Mahsa Siavashpouri, Nicholas L. S. Martin

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report on experiments that examine electron-helium scattering in the presence of an Nd:YAG laser field of 1.17 eV photons. At each incidentelectron energy (30, 60, and 200 eV), the laser polarization direction is varied within a plane perpendicular to the Watson approximation calculations.


Inelastic Neutron Scattering Cross Sections For 76Ge Relevant To Background In Neutrinoless Double-Β Decay Experiments, Benjamin P. Crider, Erin Elizabeth Peters, J. M. Allmond, Marcus T. Mcellistrem, Francisco M. Prados-Estévez, T. J. Ross, J. R. Vanhoy, Steven W. Yates Sep 2015

Inelastic Neutron Scattering Cross Sections For 76Ge Relevant To Background In Neutrinoless Double-Β Decay Experiments, Benjamin P. Crider, Erin Elizabeth Peters, J. M. Allmond, Marcus T. Mcellistrem, Francisco M. Prados-Estévez, T. J. Ross, J. R. Vanhoy, Steven W. Yates

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The experimental signature in searches for the neutrinoless double-β decay of 76Ge is a peak near 2039 keV in the spectrum. Given the low probability of the process, it is important that the background in this region be well understood. Inelastic scattering reactions with neutrons from muon-induced interactions and (α,n) reactions in the surrounding materials or in the detector can provide contributions to the background. We have measured the production cross sections for γ rays from the 76Ge(n,n'γ ) reaction in the 2039-keV region at incident neutron energies up to …


Precision Measurement Of The Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry For Inclusive Jet Production In Polarized Proton Collisions At √S=200 Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, Grant D. Webb, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, C. D. Anson, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer Aug 2015

Precision Measurement Of The Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry For Inclusive Jet Production In Polarized Proton Collisions At √S=200 Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, Grant D. Webb, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, C. D. Anson, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report a new measurement of the midrapidity inclusive jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, ALL, in polarized pp collisions at center-of-mass energy √s=200  GeV. The STAR data place stringent constraints on polarized parton distribution functions extracted at next-to-leading order from global analyses of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), semi-inclusive DIS, and RHIC pp data. The measured asymmetries provide evidence at the 3σ level for positive gluon polarization in the Bjorken-x region x>0.05.


Sr2Ir1−XRhXO4(X<0.5): An Inhomogeneous JEff=1/2 Hubbard System, Shalinee Chikara, Daniel Haskel, Jae-Hoon Sim, Heung-Sik Kim, Cheng-Chien Chen, G. Fabbris, L. S. I. Veiga, N. M. Souza-Neto, Jsaminka Terzic, Kamal H. Butrouna, Gang Cao, Myung Joon Han, Michael Van Veenendaal Aug 2015

Sr2Ir1−XRhXO4(X<0.5): An Inhomogeneous JEff=1/2 Hubbard System, Shalinee Chikara, Daniel Haskel, Jae-Hoon Sim, Heung-Sik Kim, Cheng-Chien Chen, G. Fabbris, L. S. I. Veiga, N. M. Souza-Neto, Jsaminka Terzic, Kamal H. Butrouna, Gang Cao, Myung Joon Han, Michael Van Veenendaal

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

In a combined experimental and theoretical study, we investigate the properties of Sr2Ir1−xRhxO4. From the branching ratios of the L-edge isotropic x-ray absorption spectra, we determine that the spin-orbit coupling is remarkably independent of x for both iridium and rhodium sites. DFT+U calculations show that the doping is close to isoelectronic and introduces impurity bands of predominantly rhodium character close to the lower Hubbard band. Overlap of these two bands leads to metallic behavior. Since the low-energy states for xjeff=1/2 character, we suggest that the electronic …


Anomalous High-Energy Waterfall-Like Electronic Structure In 5 D Transition Metal Oxide Sr2Iro4 With A Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling, Yan Liu, Li Yu, Xiaowen Jia, Jianzhou Zhao, Hongming Weng, Yingying Peng, Chaoyu Chen, Zhuojin Xie, Daixiang Mou, Junfeng He, Xu Liu, Ya Feng, Hemian Yi, Lin Zhao, Guodong Liu, Shaolong He, Xiaoli Dong, Jun Zhang, Zuyan Xu, Chuangtian Chen, Gang Cao, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, X. J. Zhou Aug 2015

Anomalous High-Energy Waterfall-Like Electronic Structure In 5 D Transition Metal Oxide Sr2Iro4 With A Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling, Yan Liu, Li Yu, Xiaowen Jia, Jianzhou Zhao, Hongming Weng, Yingying Peng, Chaoyu Chen, Zhuojin Xie, Daixiang Mou, Junfeng He, Xu Liu, Ya Feng, Hemian Yi, Lin Zhao, Guodong Liu, Shaolong He, Xiaoli Dong, Jun Zhang, Zuyan Xu, Chuangtian Chen, Gang Cao, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, X. J. Zhou

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The low energy electronic structure of Sr2IrO4 has been well studied and understood in terms of an effective Jeff = 1/2 Mott insulator model. However, little work has been done in studying its high energy electronic behaviors. Here we report a new observation of the anomalous high energy electronic structure in Sr2IrO4. By taking high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission measurements on Sr2IrO4 over a wide energy range, we have revealed for the first time that the high energy electronic structures show unusual nearly-vertical bands that extend over a large energy range. …


Herschel Dust Emission As A Probe Of Starless Cores Mass: Mcld 123.5+24.9 Of The Polaris Flare, Gururaj Anil Wagle, Thomas H. Troland, Gary J. Ferland, Nicholas P. Abel Aug 2015

Herschel Dust Emission As A Probe Of Starless Cores Mass: Mcld 123.5+24.9 Of The Polaris Flare, Gururaj Anil Wagle, Thomas H. Troland, Gary J. Ferland, Nicholas P. Abel

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present newly processed archival Herschel images of molecular cloud MCLD 123.5+24.9 in the Polaris Flare. This cloud contains five starless cores. Using the spectral synthesis code Cloudy, we explore uncertainties in the derivation of column densities, and hence masses of molecular cores from Herschel data. We first consider several detailed grain models that predict far-infrared grain opacities. Opacities predicted by the models differ by more than a factor of two, leading to uncertainties in derived column densities by the same factor. Then we consider uncertainties associated with the modified blackbody fitting process used by observers to estimate column densities. …


Precision Measurement Of The Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry For Inclusive Jet Production In Polarized Proton Collisions At S√=200  Gev, Adam Gibson-Even, Shirvel Stanislaus, Donald Koetke, Star Collaboration Aug 2015

Precision Measurement Of The Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry For Inclusive Jet Production In Polarized Proton Collisions At S√=200  Gev, Adam Gibson-Even, Shirvel Stanislaus, Donald Koetke, Star Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report a new measurement of the midrapidity inclusive jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, ALL, in polarized pp collisions at center-of-mass energy s√=200  GeV. The STAR data place stringent constraints on polarized parton distribution functions extracted at next-to-leading order from global analyses of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), semi-inclusive DIS, and RHIC pp data. The measured asymmetries provide evidence at the 3σ level for positive gluon polarization in the Bjorken-x region x>0.05.


Energy Dependence Of Kπ, Pπ, And Kp Fluctuations In Au + Au Collisions From √SNn=7.7 To 200 Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev Aug 2015

Energy Dependence Of Kπ, Pπ, And Kp Fluctuations In Au + Au Collisions From √SNn=7.7 To 200 Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

A search for the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) critical point was performed by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, using dynamical fluctuations of unlike particle pairs. Heavy ion collisions were studied over a large range of collision energies with homogeneous acceptance and excellent particle identification, covering a significant range in the QCD phase diagram where a critical point may be located. Dynamical Kπ, pπ, and Kp fluctuations as measured by the STAR experiment in central 0–5% Au + Au collisions from center-of-mass collision energies √sNN=7.7 to 200 GeV are presented. The observable …


Compton Scattering From The Deuteron Below Pion-Production Threshold, L. S. Myers, J. R. M. Annand, J. Brudvik, G. Feldman, K. G. Fissum, H. W. Grießhammer, K. Hansen, S. S. Henshaw, L. Isaksson, R. Jebali, Michael A. Kovash, M. Lundin, D. G. Middleton, A. M. Nathan, B. Schröder, S. C. Stave Aug 2015

Compton Scattering From The Deuteron Below Pion-Production Threshold, L. S. Myers, J. R. M. Annand, J. Brudvik, G. Feldman, K. G. Fissum, H. W. Grießhammer, K. Hansen, S. S. Henshaw, L. Isaksson, R. Jebali, Michael A. Kovash, M. Lundin, D. G. Middleton, A. M. Nathan, B. Schröder, S. C. Stave

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Differential cross sections for elastic scattering of photons from the deuteron have recently been measured at the Tagged-Photon Facility at theMAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden. These first new measurements in more than a decade further constrain the isoscalar electromagnetic polarizabilities of the nucleon and provide the first-ever results above 100 MeV, where the sensitivity to the polarizabilities is increased. We add 23 points between 70 and 112 MeV, at angles 60◦, 120◦, and 150◦. Analysis of these data using a chiral effective field theory indicates that the cross sections are both self-consistent and …


Measurements Of Dielectron Production In Au + Au Collisions At √SNn = 200 Gev From The Star Experiment, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev Aug 2015

Measurements Of Dielectron Production In Au + Au Collisions At √SNn = 200 Gev From The Star Experiment, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report on measurements of dielectron (e+e−) production in Au + Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon-nucleon pair using the STAR detector at BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Systematic measurements of the dielectron yield as a function of transverse momentum (pT) and collision centrality show an enhancement compared to a cocktail simulation of hadronic sources in the low invariant-mass region (Mee < 1 GeV/c2). This enhancement cannot be reproduced by the ρ-meson vacuum spectral function. In minimumbias collisions, in the invariant-mass range of 0.30–0.76 …


Rényi Entanglement Entropy Of Critical Su(N) Spin Chains, Jonathan D'Emidio, Matthew S. Block, Ribhu K. Kaul Aug 2015

Rényi Entanglement Entropy Of Critical Su(N) Spin Chains, Jonathan D'Emidio, Matthew S. Block, Ribhu K. Kaul

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present a study of the scaling behavior of the Rényi entanglement entropy (REE) in SU(N) spin chain Hamiltonians, in which all of the spins transform under the fundamental representation. These SU(N) spin chains are known to be quantum critical and described by a well known Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) nonlinear sigma model in the continuum limit. Numerical results from our lattice Hamiltonian are obtained using stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo for both closed and open boundary conditions. As expected for this 1D critical system, the REE shows a logarithmic dependence on the subsystem size with a …


Charm And Strange Quark Masses And FDS From Overlap Fermions, Yi-Bo Yang, Ying Chen, Andrei Alexandru, Shao-Jing Dong, Terrence Draper, Ming Gong, Frank X. Lee, Anyi Li, Keh-Fei Liu, Zhaofeng Liu, Michael Lujan Aug 2015

Charm And Strange Quark Masses And FDS From Overlap Fermions, Yi-Bo Yang, Ying Chen, Andrei Alexandru, Shao-Jing Dong, Terrence Draper, Ming Gong, Frank X. Lee, Anyi Li, Keh-Fei Liu, Zhaofeng Liu, Michael Lujan

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We use overlap fermions as valence quarks to calculate meson masses in a wide quark mass range on the 2 + 1-flavor domain-wall fermion gauge configurations generated by the RBC and UKQCD Collaborations. . . .

For the remainder of the abstract, please download this article or visit https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.034517


Atomic Data And Spectral Model For Fe Ɪɪ, Manuel A. Bautista, Vanessa Fivet, Connor Ballance, Pascal Quinet, Gary J. Ferland, Claudio Mendoza, Timothy R. Kallman Jul 2015

Atomic Data And Spectral Model For Fe Ɪɪ, Manuel A. Bautista, Vanessa Fivet, Connor Ballance, Pascal Quinet, Gary J. Ferland, Claudio Mendoza, Timothy R. Kallman

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present extensive calculations of radiative transition rates and electron impact collision strengths for Fe ii. The data sets involve 52 levels from the 3d7, 3d64s, and 3d54s2 configurations. Computations of A-values are carried out with a combination of state-of-the-art multiconfiguration approaches, namely the relativistic Hartree–Fock, Thomas–Fermi–Dirac potential, and Dirac–Fock methods, while the R-matrix plus intermediate coupling frame transformation, Breit–Pauli R-matrix, and Dirac R-matrix packages are used to obtain collision strengths. We examine the advantages and shortcomings of each of these methods, and …


Long-Range Pseudorapidity Dihadron Correlations In D + Au Collisions At √SNn = 200 Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev Jul 2015

Long-Range Pseudorapidity Dihadron Correlations In D + Au Collisions At √SNn = 200 Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Dihadron angular correlations in d + Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV are reported as a function of the measured zero-degree calorimeter neutral energy and the forward charged hadron multiplicity in the Au-beam direction. A finite correlated yield is observed at large relative pseudorapidity (Δη) on the near side (i.e. relative azimuth Δφ ~ 0). This correlated yield as a function of Δη appears to scale with the dominant, primarily jet-related, away-side (Δφ ~ π ) yield. The Fourier coefficients of the Δφ correlation, Vn = (cos nΔφ), have a strong Δη …


Constraining The Redshift Evolution Of The Cosmic Microwave Background Blackbody Temperature With Plank Data, I. De Martino, R. Génova-Santos, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling, A. Kashlinsky, Dale D. Kocevski, C. J. A. P. Martins Jul 2015

Constraining The Redshift Evolution Of The Cosmic Microwave Background Blackbody Temperature With Plank Data, I. De Martino, R. Génova-Santos, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling, A. Kashlinsky, Dale D. Kocevski, C. J. A. P. Martins

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We constrain the deviation of adiabatic evolution of the universe using the data on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies measured by the Planck satellite and a sample of 481 X-ray selected clusters with spectroscopically measured redshifts. To avoid antenna beam effects, we bring all of the maps to the same resolution. We use a CMB template to subtract the cosmological signal while preserving the Thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich (TSZ) anisotropies; next, we remove galactic foreground emissions around each cluster and we mask out all known point sources. If the CMB blackbody temperature scales with redshift as T(z) …


A Critical Assessment Of Stellar Mass Measurement Methods, Bahram Mobasher, Tomas Dahlen, Henry C. Ferguson, Viviana Acquaviva, Guillermo Barro, Steven L. Finkelstein, Adriano Fontana, Ruth Gruetzbauch, Seth Johnson, Yu Lu, Casey Papovich, Janine Pforr, Mara Salvato, Rachel S. Somerville, Tommy Wiklind, Stijn Wuyts, Matthew L.N. Ashby, Eric Bell, Christopher J. Conselice, Mark E. Dickinson, Sandra M. Faber, Giovanni Fazio, Kristian Finlator, Audrey Galametz, Eric Gawiser, Mauro Giavalisco, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Yicheng Guo, Nimish Hathi, Dale Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, David C. Koo, Jeffrey A. Newman, Naveen Reddy, Paola Santini, Risa H. Wechsler Jul 2015

A Critical Assessment Of Stellar Mass Measurement Methods, Bahram Mobasher, Tomas Dahlen, Henry C. Ferguson, Viviana Acquaviva, Guillermo Barro, Steven L. Finkelstein, Adriano Fontana, Ruth Gruetzbauch, Seth Johnson, Yu Lu, Casey Papovich, Janine Pforr, Mara Salvato, Rachel S. Somerville, Tommy Wiklind, Stijn Wuyts, Matthew L.N. Ashby, Eric Bell, Christopher J. Conselice, Mark E. Dickinson, Sandra M. Faber, Giovanni Fazio, Kristian Finlator, Audrey Galametz, Eric Gawiser, Mauro Giavalisco, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Yicheng Guo, Nimish Hathi, Dale Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, David C. Koo, Jeffrey A. Newman, Naveen Reddy, Paola Santini, Risa H. Wechsler

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

This is the second paper in a series aimed at investigating the main sources of uncertainty in measuring the observable parameters in galaxies from their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). In the first paper we presented a detailed account of the photometric redshift measurements and an error analysis of this process. In this paper we perform a comprehensive study of the main sources of random and systematic error in stellar mass estimates for galaxies, and their relative contributions to the associated error budget. Since there is no prior knowledge of the stellar mass of galaxies (unlike their photometric redshifts), we use …


Observational Properties Of Simulated Galaxies In Overdense And Average Regions At Redshifts Z ≃ 6–12, Hidenobu Yajima, Isaac Shlosman, Emilio Romano-Díaz, Kentaro Nagamine Jul 2015

Observational Properties Of Simulated Galaxies In Overdense And Average Regions At Redshifts Z ≃ 6–12, Hidenobu Yajima, Isaac Shlosman, Emilio Romano-Díaz, Kentaro Nagamine

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We use high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations of galaxies of Romano-Díaz et al., post-processing them with a panchromatic three-dimensional radiation transfer code to obtain the galaxy UV luminosity function (LF) at z ≃ 6–12. The galaxies are followed in a rare, heavily overdense region within a ∼5σ density peak, which can host high-z quasars, and in an average density region, down to the stellar mass of Mstar ∼ 4 × 107 M⊙. We find that the overdense regions evolve at a substantially accelerated pace – the most massive galaxy has grown to Mstar ∼ 8.4 …


Stellar Metallicity Gradients In Sdss Galaxies, Benjamin Roig, Michael R. Blanton, Renbin Yan Jul 2015

Stellar Metallicity Gradients In Sdss Galaxies, Benjamin Roig, Michael R. Blanton, Renbin Yan

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We infer stellar metallicity and abundance ratio gradients for a sample of red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Main galaxy sample. Because this sample does not have multiple spectra at various radii in a single galaxy, we measure these gradients statistically. We separate galaxies into stellar mass bins, stack their spectra in redshift bins, and calculate the measured absorption-line indices in projected annuli by differencing spectra in neighboring redshift bins. After determining the line indices, we use stellar population modeling from the EZ_Ages software to calculate ages, metallicities, and abundance ratios within each annulus. Our data cover …


Supermassive Black Hole Formation At High Redshifts Via Direct Collapse In A Cosmological Context, Jun-Hwan Choi, Isaac Shlosman, Mitchell C. Begelman Jul 2015

Supermassive Black Hole Formation At High Redshifts Via Direct Collapse In A Cosmological Context, Jun-Hwan Choi, Isaac Shlosman, Mitchell C. Begelman

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We study the early stage of the formation of seed supermassive black holes via direct collapse in dark matter (DM) haloes, in the cosmological context. We perform high-resolution zoom-in simulations of such collapse at high z. Using the adaptive mesh refinement code enzo, we resolve the formation and growth of a DM halo, until its virial temperature reaches ∼104 K, atomic cooling turns on, and collapse ensues. We demonstrate that direct collapse proceeds in two stages, although they are not well separated. The first stage is triggered by the onset of atomic cooling, and leads to rapidly increasing …


Stout: Cloudy's Atomic And Molecular Database, Matt L. Lykins, Gary J. Ferland, R. Kisielius, Marios Chatzikos, R. L. Porter, P. A. M. Van Hoof, R. J. R. Williams, F. P. Keenan, P. C. Stancil Jul 2015

Stout: Cloudy's Atomic And Molecular Database, Matt L. Lykins, Gary J. Ferland, R. Kisielius, Marios Chatzikos, R. L. Porter, P. A. M. Van Hoof, R. J. R. Williams, F. P. Keenan, P. C. Stancil

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We describe a new atomic and molecular database we developed for use in the spectral synthesis code Cloudy. The design of Stout is driven by the data needs of Cloudy, which simulates molecular, atomic, and ionized gas with kinetic temperatures 2.8 K < T <1010 K and densities spanning the low-to high-density limits. The radiation field between photon energies 10−8 Ry and 100 MeV is considered, along with all atoms and ions of the lightest 30 elements, and ~102 molecules. For ease of maintenance, the data are stored in a format as close as possible to the original data …


Binary Central Stars Of Planetary Nebulae Discovered Through Photometric Variability. Iii. The Central Star Of Abell 65, Todd Hillwig, David J. Frew, Melissa Louie, Orsola De Marco, Sam Schaub Jul 2015

Binary Central Stars Of Planetary Nebulae Discovered Through Photometric Variability. Iii. The Central Star Of Abell 65, Todd Hillwig, David J. Frew, Melissa Louie, Orsola De Marco, Sam Schaub

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

A growing number of close binary stars are being discovered among central stars of planetary nebulae. Recent and ongoing surveys are finding new systems and contributing to our knowledge of the evolution of close binary systems. The push to find more systems was largely based on early discoveries which suggested that 10%–15% of all central stars are close binaries. One goal of this series of papers is confirmation and classification of these systems as close binaries and determination of binary system parameters. Here we provide time-resolved multi-wavelength photometry of the central star of Abell 65 as well as further analysis …


Beam-Energy-Dependent Two-Pion Interferometry And The Freeze-Out Eccentricity Of Pions Measured In Heavy Ion Collisions At The Star Detector, J. Kevin Adkins, Renee Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, G. Webb, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, C. D. Anson, A. Aparin Jul 2015

Beam-Energy-Dependent Two-Pion Interferometry And The Freeze-Out Eccentricity Of Pions Measured In Heavy Ion Collisions At The Star Detector, J. Kevin Adkins, Renee Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, G. Webb, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, C. D. Anson, A. Aparin

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present results of analyses of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at √SNN=7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV measured in the STAR detector as part of the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Beam Energy Scan program. The extracted correlation lengths (Hanbury-Brown–Twiss radii) are studied as a function of beam energy, azimuthal angle relative to the reaction plane, centrality, and transverse mass (mT) of the particles. The azimuthal analysis allows extraction of the eccentricity of the entire fireball at kinetic freeze-out. The energy dependence of this observable is expected to be sensitive …


Double Spin Asymmetries Of Inclusive Hadron Electroproduction From A Transversely Polarized 3He Target, C. Dutta, A. Kolarkar, Wolfgang Korsch, Y. X. Zhao, K. Allada, K. Aniol, J. R. M. Annand, T. Averett, F. Benmokhtar, W. Bertozzi, P. C. Bradshaw, P. Bosted, A. Camsonne Jul 2015

Double Spin Asymmetries Of Inclusive Hadron Electroproduction From A Transversely Polarized 3He Target, C. Dutta, A. Kolarkar, Wolfgang Korsch, Y. X. Zhao, K. Allada, K. Aniol, J. R. M. Annand, T. Averett, F. Benmokhtar, W. Bertozzi, P. C. Bradshaw, P. Bosted, A. Camsonne

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report the measurement of beam-target double spin asymmetries (ALT) in the inclusive production of identified hadrons, e⃗ + 3He↑→h+X, using a longitudinally polarized 5.9-GeV electron beam and a transversely polarized 3He target. Hadrons (π±,K±, and proton) were detected at 16∘ with an average momentum ⟨Ph⟩=2.35 GeV/c and a transverse momentum (pT) coverage from 0.60 to 0.68 GeV/c. Asymmetries from the 3He target were observed to be nonzero for π± production when the target …


Evolution Of Magnetism In Single-Crystal Ca2Ru1−XIrXO4(0≤X≤0.65), Shujuan Yuan, Jsaminka Terzic, J. C. Wang, L. Li, Saicharan Aswartham, W. H. Song, F. Ye, Gang Cao Jul 2015

Evolution Of Magnetism In Single-Crystal Ca2Ru1−XIrXO4(0≤X≤0.65), Shujuan Yuan, Jsaminka Terzic, J. C. Wang, L. Li, Saicharan Aswartham, W. H. Song, F. Ye, Gang Cao

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report structural, magnetic, transport, and thermal properties of single-crystal Ca2Ru1−xIrxO4(0≤x≤0.65). Ca2RuO4 is a structurally driven Mott insulator with a metal-insulator transition at TMI=357K, which is well separated from antiferromagnetic order at TN=110K. Substitution of a 5d element, Ir, for Ru enhances spin-orbit coupling and locking between the structural distortions and magnetic moment canting. Ir doping intensifies the distortion or rotation of Ru/IrO6 octahedra and induces weak ferromagnetic behavior along the c axis. In particular, Ir doping suppresses TN but …


Moments Of The Neutron G2 Structure Function At Intermediate Q2, Wolfgang Korsch, P. Solvignon, N. Liyanage, J.-P. Chen, Seonho Choi, K. Slifer, K. Aniol, T. Averett, W. Boeglin, A. Camsonne, G. D. Cates Jul 2015

Moments Of The Neutron G2 Structure Function At Intermediate Q2, Wolfgang Korsch, P. Solvignon, N. Liyanage, J.-P. Chen, Seonho Choi, K. Slifer, K. Aniol, T. Averett, W. Boeglin, A. Camsonne, G. D. Cates

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present new experimental results for the 3He spin structure function g2 in the resonance region at Q2 values between 1.2 and 3.0(GeV/c)2. Spin dependent moments of the neutron were extracted. Our main result, the inelastic contribution to the neutron d2 matrix element, was found to be small at ⟨Q2⟩=2.4(GeV/c)2 and in agreement with the lattice QCD calculation. The Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule for 3He and the neutron was tested with the measured data and using the Wandzura-Wilczek relation for the low x unmeasured region.


Hard Three-Loop Corrections To Hyperfine Splitting In Positronium And Muonium, Michael I. Eides, Valery A. Shelyuto Jul 2015

Hard Three-Loop Corrections To Hyperfine Splitting In Positronium And Muonium, Michael I. Eides, Valery A. Shelyuto

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We consider hard three-loop corrections to hyperfine splitting in muonium and positronium generated by the diagrams with closed electron loops. There are six gauge-invariant sets of such diagrams that generate corrections of order mα7. The contributions of these diagrams are calculated for an arbitrary electron-muon mass ratio without expansion in the small mass ratio. We obtain the formulas for contributions to hyperfine splitting that in the case of a small mass ratio describe corrections for muonium and in the case of equal masses describe corrections for positronium. The first few terms of the expansion of hard corrections in …