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Mirror Symmetry of Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Flat Coordinates
Get PDFWe study mirror symmetry of Calabi-Yau manifolds within the framework of the
Gauss-Manin system. Applying the flat coordinates to the Gauss-Manin system for
the periods, we derive differential equations for the mirror map in addition to
the ordinary Picard-Fuchs equations for the periods. These equations are
obtained for a class of one-parameter models and a two-parameter model of
Fermat type Calabi-Yau manifolds.Comment: 27 pages, LaTeX, no figure
Neutron-capture elements in the very metal-poor star HD88609: another st ar with excesses of light neutron-capture elements
Full text linkWe obtained a high resolution, high signal-to-noise UV-blue spectrum of the
extremely metal-poor red giant HD88609 to determine the abundances of heavy
elements. Nineteen neutron-capture elements are detected in the spectrum. Our
analysis revealed that this object has large excesses of light neutron-capture
elements while heavy neutron-capture elements are deficient. The abundance
pattern shows a continuously decreasing trend, as a function of atomic number,
from Sr to Yb, which is quite different from those in stars with excesses of
r-process elements. Such an abundance pattern is very similar to that of
HD122563 that was studied by our previous work. The results indicate that the
abundance pattern found in the two stars could represent the pattern produced
by the nucleosynthesis process that provided light neutron-capture elements in
the very early Galaxy.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Expression of blood group antigen (A, B, H, Le<sup>a</sup>, Le<sup>b</sup>) on liver allografts
Get PDFThe Nuclear Activity of the Galaxies in the Hickson Compact Groups
Full text linkIn order to investigate the nuclear activity of galaxies residing in compact
groups of galaxies, we present results of our optical spectroscopic program
made at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. We have performed optical
spectroscopy of 69 galaxies which belong to 31 Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) of
Galaxies. Among them, three galaxies have discordant redshifts. Further,
spectral quality is too poor to classify other three galaxies. Therefore, we
describe our results for the remaining 63 galaxies.
Our main results are summarized below. (1) We have found in our sample; 28
AGN, 16 HII nuclei, and 19 normal galaxies which show no emission line. We used
this HCG sample for statistical analyses. (2) Comparing the frequency
distributions of activity types between the HCGs and the field galaxies whose
data are taken from Ho, Filippenko, & Sargent (382 field galaxies), we find
that the frequency of HII nuclei in the HCGs is significantly less than that in
the field. However, this difference may be due to selection bias that our HCG
sample contains more early-type galaxies than the field, because it is known
that HII nuclei are rarer in early-type galaxies than in later ones. (3)
Applying correction this morphological bias to the HCG sample, we find that
there is no statistically significant difference in the frequency of occurrence
of emission-line galaxies between the HCGs and the field. This implies that the
dense galaxy environment in the HCGs does not affect triggering both the AGN
activity and the nuclear starburst. We discuss some implications on the nuclear
activity in the HCG galaxies.Comment: 33 pages (3 aasms4 LaTeX files), 5 figures (5 Postscript files:
excluded Figure 1), Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journa
Robustly Unstable Eigenmodes of the Magnetoshearing Instability in Accretion Disk
Get PDFThe stability of nonaxisymmetric perturbations in differentially rotating
astrophysical accretion disks is analyzed by fully incorporating the properties
of shear flows. We verify the presence of discrete unstable eigenmodes with
complex and pure imaginary eigenvalues, without any artificial disk edge
boundaries, unlike Ogilvie & Pringle(1996)'s claim. By developing the
mathematical theory of a non-self-adjoint system, we investigate the nonlocal
behavior of eigenmodes in the vicinity of Alfven singularities at
omega_D=omega_A, where omega_D is the Doppler-shifted wave frequency and
omega_A=k_// v_A is the Alfven frequency. The structure of the spectrum of
discrete eigenmodes is discussed and the magnetic field and wavenumber
dependence of the growth rate are obtained. Exponentially growing modes are
present even in a region where the local dispersion relation theory claims to
have stable eigenvalues. The velocity field created by an eigenmode is
obtained, which explains the anomalous angular momentum transport in the
nonlinear stage of this stability.Comment: 11pages, 11figures, to be published in ApJ. For associated eps files,
see http://dino.ph.utexas.edu/~knoguchi
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