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Anirban Chakraborti
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2010
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Physics
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We review some aspects, especially those we can tackle analytically, of a minimal model of closed economy analogous to the kinetic theory model of ideal gases where the agents exchange wealth amongst themselves such that the total wealth is conserved, and each individual agent saves a fraction (0 < lambda < 1) of wealth before transaction. We are interested in the special case where the fraction lambda is constant for all the agents (global saving propensity) in the closed system. We show by moment calculations that the resulting wealth distribution cannot be the Gamma distribution that was conjectured in Phys. Rev. E 70, 016104 (2004). We also derive a form for the distribution at low wealth, which is a new result.
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In cases where both components of a binary system show oscillations, asteroseismology has been proposed as a method to identify the system. For KIC 2568888, observed with $Kepler$, we detect oscillation modes for two red giants in a single power density spectrum. Through an asteroseismic study we investigate if the stars have similar properties, which could be an indication that they are physically bound into a binary system. While one star lies on the red giant branch (RGB), the other, more evolved star, is either a RGB or asymptotic-giant-branch star. We found similar ages for the red giants and a mass ratio close to 1. Based on these asteroseismic results we propose KIC 2568888 as a rare candidate binary system ($sim 0.1%$ chance). However, when combining the asteroseismic data with ground-based $BVI$ photometry we estimated different distances for the stars, which we cross-checked with $Gaia$ DR2. From $Gaia$ we obtained for one object a distance between and broadly consistent with the distances from $BVI$ photometry. For the other object we have a negative parallax with a not yet reliable $Gaia$ distance solution. The derived distances challenge a binary interpretation and may either point to a triple system, which could explain the visible magnitudes, or, to a rare chance alignment ($sim 0.05%$ chance based on stellar magnitudes). This probability would even be smaller, if calculated for close pairs of stars with a mass ratio close to unity in addition to similar magnitudes, which may indeed indicate that a binary scenario is more favourable.
We have in recent years come to view the outer parts of galaxies as having vital clues about their formation and evolution. Here, we would like to briefly present our results from a complete sample of nearby, late-type, spiral galaxies, using data from the SDSS survey, especially focused on the stellar light distribution in the outer disk. Our study shows that only the minority of late-type galaxies show a classical, exponential Freeman Type I profile down to the noise limit, whereas the majority exhibit either downbending (stellar truncation as introduced 1979 by Piet van der Kruit) or upbending profiles.
Automatic identification of mutiword expressions (MWEs) is a pre-requisite for semantically-oriented downstream applications. This task is challenging because MWEs, especially verbal ones (VMWEs), exhibit surface variability. However, this variability is usually more restricted than in regular (non-VMWE) constructions, which leads to various variability profiles. We use this fact to determine the optimal set of features which could be used in a supervised classification setting to solve a subproblem of VMWE identification: the identification of occurrences of previously seen VMWEs. Surprisingly, a simple custom frequency-based feature selection method proves more efficient than other standard methods such as Chi-squared test, information gain or decision trees. An SVM classifier using the optimal set of only 6 features outperforms the best systems from a recent shared task on the French seen data.
The cosmological missing baryons at z<1 most likely hide in the hot (T$gtrsim10^{5.5}$ K) phase of the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). While the hot WHIM is hard to detect due to its high ionisation level, the warm (T$lesssim10^{5.5}$ K) phase of the WHIM has been very robustly detected in the FUV band. We adopted the assumption that the hot and warm WHIM phases are co-located and thus used the FUV-detected warm WHIM as a tracer for the cosmologically interesting hot WHIM. We utilised the assumption by performing an X-ray follow-up in the sight line of a blazar PKS 2155-304 at the redshifts where previous FUV measurements of OVI, SiIV and BLA absorption have indicated the existence of the warm WHIM. We looked for the OVII He$alpha$ and OVIII Ly$alpha$ absorption lines, the most likely hot WHIM tracers. Despite of the very large exposure time ($approx$ 1 Ms), the XMM-Newton/RGS1 data yielded no significant detection which corresponds to upper limits of $log{N({rm OVII})({rm cm}^{-2}))} le 14.5-15.2$ and $log{N({rm OVIII})({rm cm}^{-2}))} le 14.9-15.2$. An analysis of LETG/HRC data yielded consistent results. However, the LETG/ACIS data yielded a detection of an absorption line - like feature at $lambda approx$ 20 AA at simple one parameter uncertainty - based confidence level of 3.7 $sigma$, consistently with several earlier LETG/ACIS reports. Given the high statistical quality of the RGS1 data, the possibility of RGS1 accidentally missing the true line at $lambda sim$ 20 AA is very low, 0.006%. Neglecting this, the LETG/ACIS detection can be interpreted as Ly$alpha$ transition of OVIII at one of the redshifts (z$approx$ 0.054) of FUV-detected warm WHIM. Given the very convincing X-ray spectral evidence for and against the existence of the $lambda sim$ 20 AA feature, we cannot conclude whether or not it is a true astrophysical absorption line.
Wetting transitions have been predicted and observed to occur for various combinations of fluids and surfaces. This paper describes the origin of such transitions, for liquid films on solid surfaces, in terms of the gas-surface interaction potentials V(r), which depend on the specific adsorption system. The transitions of light inert gases and H2 molecules on alkali metal surfaces have been explored extensively and are relatively well understood in terms of the least attractive adsorption interactions in nature. Much less thoroughly investigated are wetting transitions of Hg, water, heavy inert gases and other molecular films. The basic idea is that nonwetting occurs, for energetic reasons, if the adsorption potentials well-depth D is smaller than, or comparable to, the well-depth of the adsorbate-adsorbate mutual interaction. At the wetting temperature, Tw, the transition to wetting occurs, for entropic reasons, when the liquids surface tension is sufficiently small that the free energy cost in forming a thick film is sufficiently compensated by the fluid- surface interaction energy. Guidelines useful for exploring wetting transitions of other systems are analyzed, in terms of generic criteria involving the simple model, which yields results in terms of gas-surface interaction parameters and thermodynamic properties of the bulk adsorbate.
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