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cond-mat.supr-con2007★ 162 cited

Evolution of the electronic excitation spectrum with strongly diminishing hole-density in superconducting Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+δ}

J. W. Alldredge, Jinho Lee, K. McElroy +8

A complete knowledge of its excitation spectrum could greatly benefit efforts to understand the unusual form of superconductivity occurring in the lightly hole-doped copper-oxides.…

astro-ph2007★ 8 cited

Models for the Formation of Massive Stars

Mark R. Krumholz, Ian A. Bonnell

The formation of massive stars is currently an unsolved problems in astrophysics. Understanding the formation of massive stars is essential because they dominate the luminous, kine…

astro-ph2007★ 63 cited

MHD mode coupling in the neighbourhood of a 2D null point

J. A. McLaughlin, A. W. Hood

At this time there does not exist a robust set of rules connecting low and high waves across the layer. The work here contributes specifically to what happens when…

astro-ph2007★ 17 cited

Neutrinos as galactic dark matter in the Ursa Major galaxy group?

G. Gentile, H. S. Zhao, B. Famaey

We present the analysis of 23 published rotation curves of disk galaxies belonging to the Ursa Major group of galaxies, with kinematics free of irregularities. The rotation curves…

astro-ph2007★ 46 cited

MHD Wave Propagation in the Neighbourhood of Two Null Points

J. A. McLaughlin, A. W. Hood

The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfvén waves is investigated in a zero plasma in the neighbourhood of a pair of two-dimensional null points. This gives an indication of…

astro-ph2007★ 112 cited

MHD wave propagation in the neighbourhood of a two-dimensional null point

J. A. McLaughlin, A. W. Hood

The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfvén waves is investigated in a zero plasma. This gives an indication of wave propagation in the low solar corona. It is found that…

astro-ph2007★ 46 cited

Magnetohydrodynamics wave propagation in the neighbourhood of two dipoles

J. A. McLaughlin, A. W. Hood

This paper is the third in a series of investigations by the authors. The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfvén waves is investigated in a 2D plasma in the neighbourhood…

astro-ph2007★ 30 cited

3D MHD Coronal Oscillations About a Magnetic Null Point: Application of WKB Theory

J. A. McLaughlin, J. S. L. Ferguson, A. W. Hood

This paper is a demonstration of how the WKB approximation can be used to help solve the linearised 3D MHD equations. Using Charpit's Method and a Runge-Kutta numerical scheme, we…

astro-ph2007★ 305 cited

Non-linear force-free field modeling of a solar active region around the time of a major flare and coronal mass ejection

C. J. Schrijver, M. L. DeRosa, T. Metcalf +14

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are associated with rapid changes in field connectivity and powered by the partial dissipation of electrical currents in the solar atmospher…

astro-ph2007★ 282 cited

The On/Off Nature of Star-Planet Interactions

Evgenya Shkolnik, David A. Bohlender, Gordon A. H. Walker +1

Evidence suggesting an observable magnetic interaction between a star and its hot Jupiter appears as a cyclic variation of stellar activity synchronized to the planet's orbit. In t…

math.DS2007★ 11 cited

Hölder-differentiability of Gibbs distribution functions

Marc Kesseböhmer, Bernd O. Stratmann

In this paper we give non-trivial applications of the thermodynamic formalism to the theory of distribution functions of Gibbs measures (devil's staircases) supported on limit sets…

astro-ph2007★ 6 cited

Comparison of cloud models for Brown Dwarfs

Ch. Helling, A. Ackerman, F. Allard +8

A test case comparison is presented for different dust cloud model approaches applied in brown dwarfs and giant gas planets. We aim to achieve more transparency in evaluating the u…

astro-ph2007★ 104 cited

Modelling the Global Solar Corona II: Coronal Evolution and Filament Chirality Comparison

A. R. Yeates, D. H. Mackay, A. A. van Ballegooijen

The hemispheric pattern of solar filaments is considered using newly-developed simulations of the real photospheric and 3D coronal magnetic fields over a 6-month period, on a globa…

astro-ph2007★ 15 cited

SuperWASP-N Extra-solar Planet Candidates from Fields 06hr < RA < 16hr

S. R. Kane, W. I. Clarkson, R. G. West +21

The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey currently operates two installations, designated SuperWASP-N and SuperWASP-S, located in the northern and southern hemispheres respe…

astro-ph2007★ 51 cited

Dusty disks at the bottom of the IMF

Aleks Scholz, Ray Jayawardhana

'Isolated planetary mass objects' (IPMOs) have masses close to or below the Deuterium-burning mass limit (~15 Jupiter masses) -- at the bottom of the stellar initial mass function.…

astro-ph2007★ 102 cited

The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in NGC 2362 -- testing the disc regulation paradigm at 5 Myr

Jonathan Irwin, Simon Hodgkin, Suzanne Aigrain +4

We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of NGC 2362, carried out using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor project. Rota…

astro-ph2007★ 176 cited

The stable magnetic field of the fullly-convective star V374 Peg

J. Morin, J. -F. Donati, T. Forveille +10

We report in this paper phase-resolved spectropolarimetric observations of the rapidly-rotating fully-convective M4 dwarf V374 Peg, on which a strong, mainly axisymmetric, large-sc…

astro-ph2007★ 3 cited

Oscillations in Procyon A: First results from a multi-site campaign

S. Hekker, T. Arentoft, H. Kjeldsen +45

Procyon A is a bright F5IV star in a binary system. Although the distance, mass and angular diameter of this star are all known with high precision, the exact evolutionary state is…

astro-ph2007★ 73 cited

The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 2547

Jonathan Irwin, Simon Hodgkin, Suzanne Aigrain +3

We report on the results of an I-band time-series photometric survey of NGC 2547 using the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope with WFI, achieving better than 1% photometric precision per data…

gr-qc2007★ 778 cited

Fiber-optical analogue of the event horizon

Thomas G. Philbin, Chris Kuklewicz, Scott Robertson +3

The physics at the event horizon resembles the behavior of waves in moving media. Horizons are formed where the local speed of the medium exceeds the wave velocity. We use ultrasho…

gr-qc2007★ 270 cited

Observation of negative-frequency waves in a water tank: A classical analogue to the Hawking effect?

Germain Rousseaux, Christian Mathis, Philippe Maissa +2

The conversion of positive-frequency waves into negative-frequency waves at the event horizon is the mechanism at the heart of the Hawking radiation of black holes. In black-hole a…

astro-ph2007★ 20 cited

Spectral Energy Distributions of High Mass Proto Stellar Objects - Evidence for High Accretion Rates

F. M. Fazal, T. K. Sridharan, K. Qiu +3

The spectral energy distributions (SEDs), spanning the mid-infrared to millimeter wavelengths, of a sample of 13 high-mass protostellar objects (HMPOs) were studied using a large a…

physics.optics2007★ 30 cited

A Novel Design of Dielectric Perfect Invisibility Devices

T. Ochiai, U. Leonhardt, J. C. Nacher

The aim of an invisibility device is to guide light around any object put inside, being able to hide objects from sight. In this work, we propose a novel design of dielectric invis…

astro-ph2007★ 43 cited

Perturbations In A Non-Uniform Dark Energy Fluid: Equations Reveal Effects of Modified Gravity and Dark Matter

Anaelle Halle, HongSheng Zhao, Baojiu Li

We propose a unified single-field description of the galactic Dark Matter and various uniform scalar fields for the inflation and cosmological constant. The two types of effects co…