The build-up of the colour–magnitude relation in galaxy clusters since z∼ 0.8     

Gabriella De Lucia  Bianca M. Poggianti  Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca  Simon D. M. White  Dennis Zaritsky  Douglas Clowe  Claire Halliday  Pascale Jablonka  Anja von der Linden  Bo Milvang-Jensen  Roser Pelló  Gregory Rudnick  Roberto P. Saglia  Luc Simard 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,374(3):809-822

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Cosmic Background Bose Condensation (CBBC)     

A. Alfonso-Faus  M. J. Fullana i Alfonso 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2013,347(1):193-196

Degeneracy effects for bosons are more important for smaller particle mass, smaller temperature and higher number density. Bose condensation requires that particles be in the same lowest energy quantum state. We propose a cosmic background Bose condensation, present everywhere, with its particles having the lowest quantum energy state, ?c/λ, with λ about the size of the visible universe, and therefore unlocalized. This we identify with the quantum of the self gravitational potential energy of any particle, and with the bit of information of minimum energy. The entropy of the universe (～10¹²² bits) has the highest number density (～10³⁶ bits/cm³) of particles inside the visible universe, the smallest mass, ～10^?66 g, and the smallest temperature, ～10^?29 K. Therefore it is the best candidate for a Cosmic Background Bose Condensation (CBBC), a completely calmed fluid, with no viscosity, in a superfluidity state, and possibly responsible for the expansion of the universe.  相似文献   

Uninhabited habitats on Mars     

Charles S. Cockell  Matt Balme  John C. Bridges  Alfonso Davila  Susanne P. Schwenzer 《Icarus》2012,217(1):184-193

Investigations of Mars as a potential location for life often make the assumption that where there are habitats, they will contain organisms. However, the observation of the ubiquitous distribution of life in habitable environments on the Earth does not imply the presence of life in martian habitats. Although uninhabited habitats are extremely rare on the Earth, a lack of a productive photosynthetic biosphere on Mars to generate organic carbon and oxygen, thus providing a rapidly available redox couple for energy acquisition by life and/or a lack of connectivity between habitats potentially increases the scope and abundance of uninhabited habitats for much of the geological history of the planet. Uninhabited habitats could have existed on Mars from the Noachian to the present-day in impact hydrothermal systems, megaflood systems, lacustrine environments, transient melted permafrost, gullies and local regions of volcanic activity; and there may be evidence for them in martian meteorites. Uninhabited habitats would provide control habitats to investigate the role of biology in planetary-scale geochemical processes on the Earth and they would provide new constraints on the habitability of Mars. Future robotic craft and samples returned from Mars will be able to directly show if uninhabited habitats exist or existed on Mars.  相似文献   

Soft proton flux on <Emphasis Type="Italic">ATHENA</Emphasis> focal plane and its impact on the magnetic diverter design     

Simone Lotti  Teresa Mineo  Christian Jacquey  Monica Laurenza  Valentina Fioretti  Gabriele Minervini  Giovanni Santin  Silvano Molendi  Tommaso Alberti  Paolo Dondero  Alfonso Mantero  Vladimir Ivanchencko  Claudio Macculi  Luigi Piro 《Experimental Astronomy》2018,45(3):411-428

The experience gained with the current generation of X-ray telescopes like Chandra and XMM-Newton has shown that low energy “soft” protons can pose a severe threat to the possibility to exploit scientific data, reducing the available exposure times by up to 50% and introducing a poorly reproducible background component. These soft protons are present in orbits outside the radiation belts and enter the mirrors, being concentrated towards the focal plane instruments, losing energy along their path and finally depositing their remaining energy in the detectors. Their contribution to the residual background will be even higher for ATHENA with respect to previous missions, given the much higher collecting area of the mirrors, even if the instruments will likely suffer no significant radiation damage from this particles flux. As a consequence this soft proton flux shall be damped with the use of a magnetic diverter to avoid excess background loading on the WFI or X-IFU instruments. We present here a first complete evaluation of this background component for the two focal plane instruments of the ATHENA mission in absence of a magnetic diverter, and derive the requirements for such device to reduce the soft protons induced background below the level required to enable the mission science. We estimate the soft proton flux expected in L2 for the interplanetary component and for the component generated locally by acceleration processes in the magnetotail. We produce a proton response matrix for each of the two instruments of ATHENA focal plane, exploiting two independent Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the optics concentration efficiency, and Geant4 simulations to evaluate the energy loss inside the radiation filters and deposited in the detector. With this modular approach we derive the expected fluxes and spectra for the soft protons component of the background. Finally, we calculate the specifics of a magnetic diverter able to reduce such flux below the required level for both X-IFU and WFI.  相似文献   

Assessing Groundwater Depletion and Dynamics Using GRACE and InSAR: Potential and Limitations          下载免费PDF全文

Pascal Castellazzi  Richard Martel  Devin L. Galloway  Laurent Longuevergne  Alfonso Rivera 《Ground water》2016,54(6):768-780

In the last decade, remote sensing of the temporal variation of ground level and gravity has improved our understanding of groundwater dynamics and storage. Mass changes are measured by GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellites, whereas ground deformation is measured by processing synthetic aperture radar satellites data using the InSAR (Interferometry of Synthetic Aperture Radar) techniques. Both methods are complementary and offer different sensitivities to aquifer system processes. GRACE is sensitive to mass changes over large spatial scales (more than 100,000 km²). As such, it fails in providing groundwater storage change estimates at local or regional scales relevant to most aquifer systems, and at which most groundwater management schemes are applied. However, InSAR measures ground displacement due to aquifer response to fluid‐pressure changes. InSAR applications to groundwater depletion assessments are limited to aquifer systems susceptible to measurable deformation. Furthermore, the inversion of InSAR‐derived displacement maps into volume of depleted groundwater storage (both reversible and largely irreversible) is confounded by vertical and horizontal variability of sediment compressibility. During the last decade, both techniques have shown increasing interest in the scientific community to complement available in situ observations where they are insufficient. In this review, we present the theoretical and conceptual bases of each method, and present idealized scenarios to highlight the potential benefits and challenges of combining these techniques to remotely assess groundwater storage changes and other aspects of the dynamics of aquifer systems.  相似文献   

DOAS observations of formaldehyde and its impact on the HO<Subscript>x</Subscript> balance in the tropical Atlantic marine boundary layer     

Anoop S. Mahajan  Lisa K. Whalley  Elena Kozlova  Hilke Oetjen  Luis Mendez  Kate L. Furneaux  Andrew Goddard  Dwayne E. Heard  John M. C. Plane  Alfonso Saiz-Lopez 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2010,66(3):167-178

Measurements of formaldehyde (HCHO) were made at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory between November 2006 and June 2007 using the Long-Path Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (LP-DOAS) technique. Observations show that typical HCHO mixing ratios ranged between 350 and 550 pptv (with typical 2-σ uncertainties of ~110 pptv), with several events of high HCHO, the maximum being 1,885?±?149 pptv. The observations indicate a lack of strong seasonal or diurnal variations, within the uncertainty of the measurements. A box model is employed to test whether the observations can be explained using known hydrocarbon photochemistry; the model replicates well the typical diurnal profile and monthly mean values. The model results indicate that on average 20% of HO₂ production and 10% of OH destruction can be attributed to the mean HCHO levels, suggesting that even at these low average mixing ratios HCHO plays an important role in determining the HO_x (HO₂+OH) balance of the remote marine boundary layer.  相似文献   

Displacement-based design procedure of damped braces for the seismic retrofitting of r.c. framed buildings     

Fabio Mazza  Alfonso Vulcano 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2015,13(7):2121-2143

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The Francisco I. Madero Zn–Cu–Pb–(Ag) deposit,Zacatecas, Mexico: Mineral chemistry and fluid inclusion data     

Carles Canet  Antoni Camprubí  Eduardo González-Partida  Carlos Linares  Pura Alfonso  Fernando Piñeiro-Fernández  Rosa María Prol-Ledesma 《Journal of Geochemical Exploration》2009

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Photo's from Proceedings of the Third MicroQuasar Workshop; Granada Worshop on Galactic Relativistic Jet Sources – Granada,Spain, 11–13 September 2000     

Herbert W. Schnopper  Eric Silver  Stephen Murray  Suzanne Romaine  Simon Bandler  Christine Jones  William Forman  Norman Madden  Jeffery Beeman  Eugene Haller  Finn Christensen  Niels Westergaard  Juan Fabregat  Victor Reglero  Alvaro Gimenez  Noah Brosch  Elia Liebowitz  Hagai Netzer  Marco Barbera  Alfonso Collura  Salvatore Sciortino 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2001,276(1):49-65

The X-Ray Spectroscopic Explorer (XRASE) has a unique combination of features that will make it possible to address many of NASA's scientific goals. These include how galaxy clusters form, the physics and chemistry of the ISM, the heating of stellar coronae, the amount and content of intergalactic baryonic matter, the mass of black holes and the formation of disks and jets in AGN and galactic binaries. XRASE has a thin foil, multilayered telescope with a large collecting area up to 10 keV, especially in the Fe K region (1100 cm²). Its microcalorimeter array combines high energy resolution (7 eV at 6 keV) and efficiency with a field-of-view of 26 arcmin² . A deep orbit allows for long, continuous observations. Monitoring instruments in the optical (WOM-X), UV (TAUVEX) and hard X-RAY (GRAM) bands will offer exceptional opportunities to make simultaneous multi-wavelength observations.  相似文献   

The solubility of calcite and aragonite in seawater of 35%. salinity at 25°C and atmospheric pressure     

John W. Morse  Alfonso Mucci  Frank J. Millero 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1980,44(1):85-94

The solubilities of synthetic, natural and biogenic aragonite and calcite, in natural seawater of 35%. salinity at 25°C and 1 atm pressure, were measured using a closed system technique. Equilibration times ranged up to several months. The apparent solubility constant determined for calcite of 4.39(±0.20) × 10^?7 mol² kg^?2 is in good agreement with other recent solubility measurements and is constant after 5 days equilibration. When we measured aragonite solubility we observed that it decreased with increasing time of equilibration. The value of 6.65(±0.12) × 10^?7 mol² kg^?2, determined for equilibration times in excess of 2 months, is significantly less than that found in other recent measurements, which employed equilibration times of only a few hours to days. No statistically significant difference was found among the synthetic, natural and biogenic material. Solid to solution ratio, contamination of aragonite with up to 10 wt% calcite and recycling of the aragonite made no statistically significant difference in solubility when long equilibration times were used.Measured apparent solubility constants of aragonite and calcite are respectively 22( ± 3)% and 20( ± 2)% less than apparent solubility constants calculated from thermodynamic equilibrium constants and seawater total activity coefficients. These large differences in measured and calculated apparent solubility constants may be the result of the formation of surface layers of lower solubility than the bulk solid.  相似文献