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2022-07-10
Semimetallic spin-density wave state in iron pnictides
We examine the existence of semimetallic spin-density wave states in iron pnictides. In the experimentally observed metallic spin-density wave state, the symmetry-protected Dirac cones are located away from the Fermi surface giving rise to tiny pockets and there are also additional Fermi pockets such as one around $\Ga...
2207.04365v1
2022-07-22
Orbital and magnetic ordering in single-layer FePS3: A DFT+U study
Among the numerous 2D system that can be prepared via exfoliation, iron phosphorus trisulfide (FePS3) attracts a lot of attention recently due to its broad-range photoresponse, its unusual Ising-type magnetic order and possible applications in spintronic nano-devices. Despite various experimental and theoretical-comput...
2207.11283v2
2022-07-25
Anomalous Shiba states in topological iron-based superconductors
We demonstrate the formation of robust zero energy modes close to magnetic impurities in the iron-based superconductor FeSe$_{1-x}$Te$_x$. We find that the Zeeman field generated by the impurity favors a spin-triplet inter-orbital pairing as opposed to the spin-singlet intra-orbital pairing prevalent in the bulk. The p...
2207.12425v2
2022-08-16
Core-shell enhanced single particle model for lithium iron phosphate batteries: model formulation and analysis of numerical solutions
In this paper, a core-shell enhanced single particle model for iron-phosphate battery cells is formulated, implemented, and verified. Starting from the description of the positive and negative electrodes charge and mass transport dynamics, the positive electrode intercalation and deintercalation phenomena and associate...
2208.07485v1
2022-08-26
Pure nematic state in iron-based superconductor
Lattice and electronic states of thin FeSe films on LaAlO$_3$ substrates are investigated in the vicinity of the nematic phase transition. No evidence of structural phase transition is found by x-ray diffraction below $T^\ast \sim 90$ K, while results obtained from resistivity measurement and angle-resolved photoemissi...
2208.12384v4
2022-08-27
Magnetic bond-order potential for iron-cobalt alloys
For large-scale atomistic simulations of magnetic materials, the interplay of atomic and magnetic degrees of freedom needs to be described with high computational efficiency. Here we present an analytic bond-order potential (BOP) for iron-cobalt, an interatomic potential based on a coarse-grained description of the ele...
2208.12973v2
2022-08-31
The giants that were born swiftly -- Implications of the top-heavy stellar initial mass function on the birth conditions of globular clusters
Recent results suggest that the initial mass function (IMF) of globular clusters (GCs) is metallicity and density dependent. Here it is studied how this variation affects the initial masses and the numbers of core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) required to reproduce the observed iron spreads in GCs. The IMFs of all of the...
2209.00045v1
2022-09-05
Increased muon field at surface and substrate interface of palladium thin films
We performed depth-dependent low-energy muon spin spectroscopy ($\mu$SR) studies on three palladium 100 nm thin films, both undoped and doped with 170 ppm of iron. Muons implanted in the surface and substrate interface region probe an increased local magnetic field compared to the inner part of the sample. The field in...
2209.02002v1
2022-09-17
Onset Temperatures for Superconducting Fluctuations in Te-annealed FeTe$_{1-x}$Se$_x$ Single Crystals: Evidence for the BCS-BEC Crossover
Recently, the superconductors' community has witnessed an unsettled debate regarding whether iron-based superconductors, in particular FeSe and FeSe$_{1-x}$S$_x$, are in the Bardeen-Cooper-Shrieffer (BCS) - Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover regime. Nonetheless, one particular system, FeTe$_{1-x}$Se$_x$, has be...
2209.08238v1
2022-09-19
Anisotropic gap structure and sign reversal symmetry in monolayer Fe(Se,Te)
The iron-based superconductors are an ideal platform to reveal the enigma of the unconventional superconductivity and potential topological superconductivity. Among them, the monolayer Fe(Se,Te)/SrTiO3(001), which is proposed to be topological nontrivial, shows interface-enhanced high-temperature superconductivity in t...
2209.08683v2
2022-10-03
Energetics, electronic states, and magnetism of iron phthalocyanine on pristine and defected graphene layers
Transition metal phthalocyanines (TMPc's) are under intense scrutiny in the field of spintronics, as they may be promising storage devices. The simplicity and cheapness of such molecules increase their commercial potential. There is an active study of how the magnetic moment of the metal centre of such molecules can be...
2210.01025v1
2022-10-19
Competing ferromagnetic superconducting states in europium-based iron pnictides
In europium-based iron pnictides superconducting Fe-planes can be influenced by a Zeeman field originated from the neighboring Eu-planes. The field tends to induce spin-density waves with a ferromagnetic average which coexists with the superconducting order by forming complementary patterns of the superconducting and m...
2210.10312v1
2022-11-14
Rapid Formation of Exoplanetesimals Revealed by White Dwarfs
The timing of formation for the first planetesimals determines the mode of planetary accretion and their geophysical and compositional evolution. Astronomical observations of circumstellar discs and Solar System geochronology provide evidence for planetesimal formation during molecular cloud collapse, much earlier than...
2211.07244v1
2022-12-06
Transient gap generation in BaFe$_2$As$_2$ driven by coherent lattice vibrations
The electronic structure and the magnetic properties of iron-based superconductors are highly sensitive to the pnictogen height. Coherent excitation of the $A_{1g}$ phonon by femtosecond laser directly modulates the pnictogen height, which has been used to control the physical properties of iron-based superconductors. ...
2212.03337v1
2022-12-28
ISAI: Investigating Solar Axion by Iron-57
The existence of the axion is a unique solution for the strong CP problem, and the axion is one of the most promising candidates of the dark matter. Investigating Solar Axion by Iron-57 (ISAI) is being prepared as a complemented table-top experiment to confirm the solar axion scenario. Probing an X-ray emission from th...
2212.13708v1
2023-02-27
Predicting elastic and plastic properties of small iron polycrystals by machine learning
Deformation of crystalline materials is an interesting example of complex system behaviour. Small samples typically exhibit a stochastic-like, irregular response to externally applied stresses, manifested as significant sample-to-sample variation in their mechanical properties. In this work we study the predictability ...
2302.13745v3
2023-04-13
Aromatic molecules as sustainable lubricants explored by ab initio simulations
In the pursuit of sustainable lubricant materials, the conversion of common organic molecules into graphitic material has been recently shown to effectively reduce friction of metallic interfaces. Aromatic molecules are perfect candidates due to their inertness and possibility to form carbon-based tribofilms. Among man...
2304.06501v2
2023-04-17
Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of Spin-Density Wave Order in BaFe$_2$As$_2$ under High Pressures
BaFe$_2$As$_2$ is the parent compound for a family of iron-based high-temperature superconductors as well as a prototypical example of the spin-density wave (SDW) system. In this study, we perform an optical pump-probe study of this compound to systematically investigate the SDW order across the pressure-temperature ph...
2304.08080v1
2023-04-18
Electron correlation effects in paramagnetic cobalt
We study the influence of Coulomb correlations on spectral and magnetic properties of fcc cobalt using a combination of density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory. The computed uniform and local magnetic susceptibilities obey the Curie-Weiss law, which, as we demonstrate, occurs due to the partial format...
2304.08980v1
2023-04-27
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the outer Earth's core
Knowing the transport properties of iron under realistic conditions present in the Earth's core is essential for the geophysical modeling of Earth's magnetic field generation. Besides by extreme pressures and temperatures, transport may be influenced importantly also by the presence of light elements. Using a combinati...
2304.13962v1
2023-05-08
Uniaxial-Strain Tuning of the Intertwined Orders in BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$)$_2$
An experimental determination of electronic phase diagrams of high-transition temperature (high-$T_c$) superconductors forms the basis for a microscopic understanding of unconventional superconductivity. For most high-$T_c$ superconductors, the electronic phase diagrams are established through partial chemical substitu...
2305.04424v1
2023-06-19
Kinetics of hydrogen and vacancy diffusion in iron: A Kinetic Activation Relaxation technique (k-ART) study
We investigate hydrogen (H) and mono and divacancy-hydrogen complexes (VH$_x$ and V$_2$H$_x$) diffusion in body-centered-cubic (BCC) iron using the kinetic Activation-Relaxation Technique (k-ART), an off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo approach with on-the-fly event catalog building, to explore diffusion barriers and assoc...
2306.11176v1
2023-06-30
Orbital-selective correlations for topology in FeSe$_{x}$Te$_{1-x}$
Strong correlations lead to emergent excitations at low energies. When combined with symmetry constraints, they may produce topological electronic states near the Fermi energy. Within this general framework, here we address the topological features in iron-based superconductors. We examine the effects of orbital-select...
2306.17739v1
2023-07-02
Thermochemical Stability of Low-Iron, Manganese-Enriched Olivine in Astrophysical Environments
Low-iron, manganese-enriched (LIME) olivine grains are found in cometary samples returned by the Stardust mission to comet 81P/Wild 2. Similar grains are found in primitive meteoritic clasts and unequilibrated meteorite matrix. LIME olivine is thermodynamically stable in a vapor of solar composition at high temperature...
2307.00652v1
2023-08-10
Absence of superconductivity in electron-doped chromium pnictides ThCrAsN$_{1-x}$O$_x$
Theoretical studies predicted possible superconductivity in electron-doped chromium pnictides isostructural to their iron counterparts. Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of a new ZrCuSiAs-type Cr-based compound ThCrAsN, as well as its oxygen-doped variants. All samples of ThCrAsN$_{1-x}$O$_x$ show meta...
2308.05267v1
2023-08-16
Phase separation and phase transitions in undoped and Rh3+ doped iron pnictide CaFe2As2: a Raman scattering study
Iron-pnictides Ca(Fe1-xRhx)2As2 (x = 0, 0.035, and 0.19) were studied across the tetragonal-orthorhombic and uncollapsed to collapsed tetragonal phase transitions using Raman spectroscopy. The effect of the phase separation was observed in the high-temperature phase for the first time. Two phases with the low-spin and ...
2308.08633v1
2023-08-23
Oxygen-Terminated (1x1) Reconstruction of Reduced Magnetite Fe$_3$O$_4$(111)
The (111) facet of magnetite (Fe$_3$O$_4$) has been studied extensively by experimental and theoretical methods, but controversy remains regarding the structure of its low-energy surface terminations. Using density functional theory (DFT) computations, we demonstrate three reconstructions that are more favorable than t...
2308.12023v1
2023-08-25
Causally Sound Priors for Binary Experiments
We introduce the BREASE framework for the Bayesian analysis of randomized controlled trials with a binary treatment and a binary outcome. Approaching the problem from a causal inference perspective, we propose parameterizing the likelihood in terms of the baseline risk, efficacy, and adverse side effects of the treatme...
2308.13713v2
2023-08-30
Mechanism of cathodic protection of iron and steel in porous media
Cathodic protection (CP) was introduced two centuries ago and since has found widespread application in protecting structures such as pipelines, offshore installations, and bridges from corrosion. Despite its extensive use, the fundamental working mechanism of CP remains debated, particularly for metals in porous media...
2308.15953v1
2023-09-08
Interband scattering- and nematicity-induced quantum oscillation frequency in FeSe
Understanding the nematic phase observed in the iron-chalcogenide materials is crucial for describing their superconducting pairing. Experiments on FeSe$_{1-x}$S$_x$ showed that one of the slow Shubnikov--de Haas quantum oscillation frequencies disappears when tuning the material out of the nematic phase via chemical s...
2309.04237v1
2023-09-21
Spectral study of neutron star low mass X-ray binary source 1A 1744-361
We present X-ray observations of the recent outburst of 2022 from the neutron star low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) source 1A 1744-361. Spectral properties of the source have been analyzed using joint NuSTAR and NICER observations. During our observations, the source happens to be in the banana state (soft state) of the ha...
2309.11817v1
2023-09-21
Interface of Equation-of-State, Atomic Data and Opacities in the Solar Problem
Convergence of the Rosseland Mean Opacity (RMO) is investigated with respect to the equation-of-state (EOS) and the number of atomic levels of iron ions prevalent at the solar radiative/convection boundary. The "chemical picture" Mihalas-Hummer-D\"{a}ppen MHD-EOS, and its variant QMHD-EOS, are studied at two representa...
2309.12073v1
2023-09-26
Polymer amide as a source of the cosmic 6.2 micron emission and absorption
Cosmic infrared emission and absorption spectra often carry a well-defined and invariant 6.2 micron band that has been proposed to emanate from very small dust grains that may carry polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Hemoglycin, a well-defined polymer of glycine that also contains iron, has been found in meteorites of the prim...
2309.14914v1
2023-10-10
Improved iron-tolerance in recycled aluminum alloys via direct strip casting process
Recycled aluminum alloys are pivotal for sustainable manufacturing, offering strength, durability, and environmental advantages. However, the presence of iron (Fe) impurities poses a major challenge, undermining their properties and recyclability. Conventional manufacturing processes result in coarse Fe-rich intermetal...
2310.06327v1
2023-10-16
Spectral Properties of GX~339--4 in the Intermediate State Using AstroSat Observation
We present the results obtained from the spectral studies of black hole X-ray binary GX~339--4 using \astrosat~ observations during its 2021 outburst. \astrosat~ observed the source in the intermediate state for $\sim600$ ks. The combined spectra of SXT and LAXPC in the $0.7-25$ keV energy range are studied with phenom...
2310.10444v1
2023-10-16
Quantum hardware calculations of the activation and dissociation of nitrogen on iron clusters and surfaces
Catalytic processes are vital in the chemical industry, with nitrogen-to-ammonia conversion being a major industrial process. Designing catalysts relies on computational chemistry methods like Density Functional Theory (DFT), which have limitations in accuracy, especially for complex materials. Quantum computing advanc...
2310.10478v1
2023-10-31
The Larmor frequency shift of a white matter magnetic microstructure model with multiple sources
Magnetic susceptibility imaging may provide valuable information about chemical composition and microstructural organization of tissue. However, its estimation from the MRI signal phase is particularly difficult as it is sensitive to magnetic tissue properties ranging from the molecular to macroscopic scale. The MRI La...
2311.00086v3
2023-11-19
Diverse features of dust particles and their aggregates inferred from experimental nanoparticles
Nanometre- to micrometre-sized solid dust particles play a vital role in star and planet formations. Despite of their importance, however, our understanding of physical and chemical properties of dust particles is still provisional. We have conducted a condensation experiment of the vapour generated from a solid starti...
2311.11213v1
2023-12-14
Confinement of electron holes via the peroxo group formation in the negative charge-transfer materials on the example of SrFeO3: plane-wave density functional theory predictions
The present work puts forward a concept that the thermostable O1s XPS peaks with energy of about 531 eV in negative charge-transfer SrFeO_{3-\delta} perovskite are determined by the peroxo-like oxygen species. The peroxo group forms via coupling two oxygen anions coordinated to iron cations with d^5\bar-under{L} (\bar-...
2312.08665v1
2023-12-18
Quantum criticality in quasi-binary compounds of iron-based superconductors
In this work, we present the studies of structural phase transitions in Fe(Se,Te) crystals in the range of about 30% selenium substitution by tellurium. We found a significant change in the properties of the ordered state of these compositions compared to the case of pure FeSe. The resistivity at low temperatures for t...
2312.10901v1
2024-01-05
Comparison of Two Detector Magnetic Systems for the Future Circular Hadron-Hadron Collider
The conceptual design study of a Future Circular hadron-hadron Collider (FCC-hh) to be con-structed at CERN with a center-of-mass energy of the order of 100 TeV requires superconducting magnetic systems with a central magnetic flux density of an order of 4 T for the experimental detectors. The developed concept of the ...
2401.02835v1
2024-01-08
Harvesting nucleating structures in nanoparticle crystallization: The example of gold, silver and iron
The thermodynamics and kinetics of crystallization of nanoparticles, as opposed to bulk phases, may be influenced by surface and size effects. We investigate the importance of such factors in the crystallization process of gold, silver, and iron nanodroplets using numerical simulations in the form of molecular dynamics...
2401.03969v1
2024-01-16
Influence of temperature, doping, and amorphization on the electronic structure and magnetic damping of iron
Hybrid magnonic quantum systems have drawn increased attention in recent years for coherent quantum information processing, but too large magnetic damping is a persistent concern when metallic magnets are used. Their intrinsic damping is largely determined by electron-magnon scattering induced by spin-orbit interaction...
2401.08076v1
2024-01-23
Understanding atom probe's analytical performance for iron oxides using correlation histograms and ab initio calculations
Field evaporation from ionic or covalently bonded materials often leads to the emission of molecular ions. The metastability of these molecular ions, particularly under the influence of the intense electrostatic field (1010 Vm-1), makes them prone to dissociation with or without an exchange of energy amongst them. Thes...
2401.12784v1
2024-01-29
HEQuant: Marrying Homomorphic Encryption and Quantization for Communication-Efficient Private Inference
Secure two-party computation with homomorphic encryption (HE) protects data privacy with a formal security guarantee but suffers from high communication overhead. While previous works, e.g., Cheetah, Iron, etc, have proposed efficient HE-based protocols for different neural network (NN) operations, they still assume hi...
2401.15970v2
2024-01-30
A New Database of Giant Impacts over a Wide Range of Masses and with Material Strength: A First Analysis of Outcomes
In the late stage of terrestrial planet formation, planets are predicted to undergo pairwise collisions known as giant impacts. Here we present a high-resolution database of giant impacts for differentiated colliding bodies of iron-silicate composition, with target masses ranging from 10^-4 M_Earth up to super-Earths (...
2401.17356v1
2024-02-09
Copper phosphate micro-flowers coated with indocyanine green and iron oxide nanoparticles for in vivo localization optoacoustic tomography and magnetic actuation
Efficient drug delivery is a major challenge in modern medicine and pharmaceutical research. Micrometer-scale robots have recently been proposed as a promising venue to amplify precision of drug administration. Remotely controlled microrobots sufficiently small to navigate through microvascular networks can reach any p...
2402.06749v1
2024-03-24
Rigorous ESR spectroscopy of $Fe^{3+}$ impurity ion with oxygen vacancy in ferroelectric $SrTiO_3$ crystal at 20 mK
Impurity $Fe^{3+}$ ion electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy using multiple dielectric modes in a $SrTiO_3$ dielectric resonator has been performed with a tuneable DC magnetic field of up to $1.6~T$. The $Ti^{4+}(d^0)$ ion is substituted by $Fe^{3+}$ ion forming $FeO_6$ octahedral complex with an iron-oxygen-vacan...
2403.16299v1
2024-03-29
Synthesis and Characterization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: A Series of Laboratory Experiments
The following laboratory procedure provides students with a hands-on experience in nanomaterials chemistry and characterization. This three-day protocol is easy to follow for undergraduates with basic chemistry or materials science backgrounds and is suitable for inclusion in upper division courses in inorganic chemist...
2403.19970v1
2024-04-10
Microbial iron reduction under oxic conditions: implications for subsurface biogeochemistry
Iron (Fe) reduction is one of Earth's most ancient microbial metabolisms, but after atmosphere-ocean oxygenation, this anaerobic process was relegated to niche anoxic environments below the water and soil surface. However, new technologies to monitor redox processes at the microscale relevant to microbial cells have re...
2404.07137v1
2021-06-15
Measurement of the Iron Spectrum in Cosmic Rays from 10 GeV$/n$ to 2.0 TeV$/n$ with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station
The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), in operation on the International Space Station since 2015, collected a large sample of cosmic-ray iron over a wide energy interval. In this Letter a measurement of the iron spectrum is presented in the range of kinetic energy per nucleon from 10 GeV$/n$ to 2.0 TeV$/n$ allow...
2106.08036v1
2023-04-13
Probing magnetic ordering in air stable iron-rich van der Waals minerals
In the rapidly expanding field of two-dimensional materials, magnetic monolayers show great promise for the future applications in nanoelectronics, data storage, and sensing. The research in intrinsically magnetic two-dimensional materials mainly focuses on synthetic iodide and telluride based compounds, which inherent...
2304.06533v1
2023-11-08
A human brain atlas of chi-separation for normative iron and myelin distributions
Iron and myelin are primary susceptibility sources in the human brain. These substances are essential for healthy brain, and their abnormalities are often related to various neurological disorders. Recently, an advanced susceptibility mapping technique, which is referred to as chi-separation, has been proposed, success...
2311.04468v3
1997-12-18
ASCA detection of the FeK edge in the spectrum of the Seyfert 2 galaxy IRAS 04575-7537: a sign of a complex absorber
ASCA X-ray spectral analysis of the Seyfert 2 galaxy IRAS 04575-7537 is presented. The main result is the presence of a significant iron edge at a rest energy of 7.13^+0.21_-0.16 keV. The spectrum is flat (Gamma = 1.5) with a substantial absorption Nh = 10^22 cm^-2 and does not require any reflection component. There i...
9712250v1
1999-07-13
A Consistency Test of Spectroscopic Gravities for Late-Type Stars
Chemical analyses of late-type stars are usually carried out following the classical recipe: LTE line formation and homogeneous, plane-parallel, flux-constant, and LTE model atmospheres. We review different results in the literature that have suggested significant inconsistencies in the spectroscopic analyses, pointing...
9907155v1
2000-01-07
The variability of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2992: the case for a revived AGN
We report the transition to an active state of the nucleus in the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 2992, discovered by means of new hard X-ray data. While the 2-10 keV flux declined by a factor of ~ 20 from 1978 to 1994, two recent BeppoSAX observations in 1997 and in 1998 caught the nuclear emission raising back to the same lev...
0001107v1
2000-08-31
Variable Iron K-alpha Lines in Seyfert 1 Galaxies
We find that variability of the iron K-alpha line is common in Seyfert 1 galaxies. Using data from the ASCA archive for objects that have been observed more than once during the mission, we study the time-averaged spectra from individual observations, thereby probing variability on timescales that range from days to ye...
0008522v1
2000-09-13
First Stellar Abundances in NGC 6822 from VLT-UVES and Keck-HIRES Spectroscopy
We have obtained the first high resolution spectra of individual stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy, NGC 6822. The spectra of the two A-type supergiants were obtained at the VLT and Keck Observatories, using UVES and HIRES, respectively. A detailed model atmospheres analysis has been used to determine their atmospheri...
0009213v1
2000-10-17
Estimation of relativistic accretion disk parameters from iron line emission
The observed iron K-alpha fluorescence lines in Seyfert-1 galaxies provide strong evidence for an accretion disk near a supermassive black hole as a source of the emission. Here we present an analysis of the geometrical and kinematic properties of the disk based on the extreme frequency shifts of a line profile as dete...
0010318v1
2001-03-07
Chandra observtaion of A2256 - a cluster at the early stage of merging
We present here \chandra observations of the rich cluster of galaxies A2256. In addition to the known cool subcluster, a new structure was resolved 2$'$ east of the peak of the main cluster. Its position is roughtly at the center of a low-brightness radio halo. Spectral analysis shows that the "shoulder" has high iron ...
0103103v2
2001-03-15
Nucleosynthesis of Zinc and Iron-Peak Elements in Pop III Type II Supernovae : Comparison with abundances of Very Metal-Poor Halo Stars
We calculate nucleosynthesis in core-collapse explosions of massive Pop III stars, and compare the results with abundances of metal-poor halo stars to constrain the parameters of Pop III supernovae. We focus on iron-peak elements and, in particular, we try to reproduce the large [Zn/Fe] observed in extremely metal-poor...
0103241v4
2001-04-10
Partially Absorbed Comptonization Spectrum from the Nearly Edge-on Source X 1822-371
We report the results of a spectral analysis over the range 0.1-200 keV performed on the dipping source X 1822-371 observed by BeppoSAX. We find the best fit to the continuum using a partially covered Comptonization model, due to scattering off soft seed photons by electrons at a temperature of ~4.8 keV, without the pr...
0104171v2
2001-09-21
A Chandra HETG Observation of the Quasar H 1821+643 and Its Surrounding Cluster
We present the high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the low-redshift quasar H 1821+643 and its surrounding hot cluster observed with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). An iron emission line attributed to the quasar at ~6.43 keV (rest frame) is clearly resolved, with an equivalent width of ~...
0109389v1
2003-02-21
The iron $K_α$-line diagnostics of a rotational black hole metric
The original idea to show the spacetime geometry using few geodesics was developed by Johnson and Ruffini (1974). We used this idea to interpret the observational data for rotating BH's. We developed the imitation approach to simulate a propagation of radiation near BH's. An important problem for this approach is the d...
0302454v1
2003-09-22
The Effects of Binary Evolution on the Dynamics of Core Collapse and Neutron-Star Kicks
We systematically examine how the presence in a binary affects the final core structure of a massive star and its consequences for the subsequent supernova explosion. Interactions with a companion star may change the final rate of rotation, the size of the helium core, the strength of carbon burning and the final iron ...
0309588v2
2003-09-25
Close and distant reprocessing media in Mkn509 studied with BeppoSAX
We present the broad band analysis of two BeppoSAX observations of the Sy 1 Mkn509. In 2000 the source was in a typical flux state, F{2-10keV}=2.7x10^{-11}erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}, while in 1998 it was found in a high flux state, F{2-10keV}=5.7x10^{-11} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}. A comparison between the two states shows a energy-d...
0309699v1
2003-10-20
Chandra X-ray Observations of NGC 4258: Iron Absorption Lines from the Nucleus
We report sub-arcsecond resolution X-ray imaging spectroscopy of the low luminosity active galactic nucleus of NGC 4258 and its immediate surroundings with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. NGC 4258 was observed four times, with the first two observations separated by one month, followed over a year later by two consecuti...
0310553v1
2004-07-22
XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1.8 ESO 113-G010: discovery of a highly redshifted iron line at 5.4 keV
We present a spectral analysis of the Seyfert 1.8 ESO 113-G010 observed with XMM-Newton for 4 ks. The spectrum shows a soft excess below 0.7 keV and more interestingly a narrow emission Gaussian line at 5.4 keV (in its rest-frame), most probably originating from a redshifted iron Kalpha line. No significant line at or ...
0407472v2
2004-08-12
The Li Overabundance of J37: Diffusion or Accretion?
In September 2002 the discovery of a super Li-rich F-dwarf (J37) in NGC 6633, an iron poor analogue of the better studied Hyades and Praecepe open clusters, was announced. This unique star was thought to be the smoking gun for the action of diffusion, models of which predict a narrow "Li-peak" at approximately the corr...
0408223v1
2004-09-29
Chemical Abundances for Seven Giant Stars in M68 (NGC 4590) : A Globular Cluster with Abnormal Silicon and Titanium Abundances
We present a detailed chemical abundance study of seven giant stars in M68 including six red giants and one post-AGB star. We find significant differences in the gravities determined using photometry and those obtained from ionization balance, which suggests that non-LTE effects are important for these low-gravity, met...
0409706v1
2005-04-14
Three-dimensional modeling of Type Ia supernovae - The power of late time spectra
Late time synthetic spectra of Type Ia supernovae, based on three-dimensional deflagration models, are presented. We mainly focus on one model,"c3_3d_256_10s", for which the hydrodynamics (Roepke 2005) and nucleosynthesis (Travaglio et al. 2004) was calculated up to the homologous phase of the explosion. Other models w...
0504317v1
2006-02-25
Probing Multiple Sight Lines through the SN 1006 Remnant by UV Absorption Spectroscopy
Absorption-line spectroscopy is an effective probe for cold ejecta within an SNR, provided that suitable background UV sources can be identified. For the SN 1006 remnant we have identified four such sources, in addition to the much-studied Schweitzer-Middleditch (SM) star. We have used STIS on HST to obtain UV spectra ...
0602555v1
2006-05-15
Accretion processes in AGN: The X-ray View
We discuss constraints on the physics of the inner accretion disk, as well as the properties of the black hole itself, that can be derived by a detailed examination of the relativistically broadened spectral features (especially the fluorescent iron line) in the Seyfert galaxy MCG-6-30-15. To begin with, we show that s...
0605368v1
2006-11-09
Medium resolution spectroscopy in Omega Centauri: abundances of 400 subgiant and turn-off region
Medium resolution spectra of more than 400 subgiant and turn-off region stars in Omega Centauri were analysed. The observations were performed at the VLT/Paranal with FORS2/MXU. In order to determine the metallicities of the sample stars, we defined a set of line indices (mostly iron) adjusted to the resolution of our ...
0611286v1
2006-12-28
Probing the Disk-jet Connection of the Radio Galaxy 3C120 Observed with Suzaku
Broad line radio galaxies (BLRGs) are a rare type of radio-loud AGN, in which the broad optical permitted emission lines have been detected in addition to the extended jet emission. Here we report on deep (40ksec x4) observations of the bright BLRG 3C~120 using Suzaku. The observations were spaced a week apart, and sam...
0612754v1
2007-02-16
Accretion of chemically fractionated material on a wide binary with a blue straggler
The components of the wide binary HIP64030=HD 113984 show a large (about 0.25 dex) iron content difference (Desidera et al.~2006 A&A 454, 581). The positions of the components on the color magnitude diagram suggest that the primary is a blue straggler. We studied the abundance difference of several elements besides iro...
0702439v1
2007-07-17
Wide-band spectroscopy of the Compton thick Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 3 with Suzaku
We obtained a wide-band spectrum of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 3 with Suzaku. The observed spectrum was clearly resolved into weak, soft power-law emission, a heavily absorbed power-law component, cold reflection, and many emission lines. The heavily absorbed component, absorbed by gas with a column density...
0707.2425v1
2007-07-19
Relativistic Iron K Emission and absorption in the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy MCG-5-23-16
We present the results of the simultaneous deep XMM and Chandra observations of the bright Seyfert 1.9 galaxy MCG-5-23-16, which is thought to have one of the best known examples of a relativistically broadened iron K-alpha line. The time averaged spectral analysis shows that the iron K-shell complex is best modeled wi...
0707.2950v1
2007-07-26
Different Methods of Forming Cold Fronts in Non-Merging Clusters
Sharp edges in X-ray surface brightness with continuous gas pressure called cold fronts have been often found in relaxed galaxy clusters such as Abell 496. Models that explain cold fronts as surviving cores of head-on subcluster mergers do not work well for these clusters and competing models involving gas sloshing hav...
0707.4001v1
2007-08-25
Modeling the chemical evolution of Omega Centauri using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations
We present a hydrodynamical and chemical model for the globular cluster Omega Cen, under the assumption that it is the remnant of an ancient dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph), the bulk of which was disrupted and accreted by our Galaxy ~10 Gyr ago. We highlight the very different roles played by Type II and Type Ia superno...
0708.3445v1
2007-09-10
Iron lines from transient and persisting hot spots on AGN accretion disks
[abridged] We model the X-ray reprocessing from a strong co-rotating flare above an accretion disk in active galactic nuclei. We explore the horizontal structure and evolution of the underlying hot spot. To obtain the spectral evolution seen by a distant observer, we apply a general relativity ray-tracing technique. We...
0709.1356v1
2007-10-31
The Proto-neutron Star Phase of the Collapsar Model and the Route to Long-soft Gamma-ray Bursts and Hypernovae
Recent stellar evolutionary calculations of low-metallicity massive fast-rotating main-sequence stars yield iron cores at collapse endowed with high angular momentum. It is thought that high angular momentum and black hole formation are critical ingredients of the collapsar model of long-soft gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). H...
0710.5789v2
2008-02-14
Complexity on Small Scales III: Iron and alpha Element Abundances in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
We have obtained high-resolution spectroscopy of ten red giants in the Carina dwarf spheroidal (dSph) with UVES at the ESO/VLT. Here we present the abundances of O,Na,Mg,Si,Ca,Ti and Fe. By comparing the iron abundances [Fe/H] with calcium triplet (CaT) metallicities we show that the empirical CaT technique yields good...
0802.2104v1
2008-03-04
A large population of recently-quenched red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the outskirts of the Coma Cluster
We analyse the stellar populations of 75 red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the Coma cluster, based on high signal-to-noise spectroscopy from the 6.5m MMT. The sample covers a luminosity range 3-4 magnitudes below M*, in the cluster core and in a field centred 1 deg to the south-west. We find a strong dependence of the abs...
0803.0327v1
2008-09-01
Abundance profiles in cooling-core clusters: a fossil record of past AGN-driven convection?
Central peaks in the iron abundance of intracluster plasma are a common feature of cooling-core galaxy clusters. These abundance peaks have a much broader profile than the stars of the central brightest cluster galaxy (BCG), which produce the excess iron, indicating that metal-enriched plasma is transported out of the ...
0809.0238v1
2008-11-04
Influence of the rare-earth element on the effects of the structural and magnetic phase transitions in CeFeAsO, PrFeAsO, and NdFeAsO
We present results of transport and magnetic properties and heat capacity measurements on polycrystalline CeFeAsO, PrFeAsO, and NdFeAsO. These materials undergo structural phase transitions, spin density wave-like magnetic ordering of small moments on iron, and antiferromagnetic ordering of rare earth moments. The temp...
0811.0589v3
2009-01-29
A Galaxy Merger Scenario for the NGC 1550 Galaxy from Metal Distributions in the X-ray Emitting Plasma
The elliptical galaxy NGC 1550 at a redshift of $z=0.01239$, identified with an extended X-ray source RX J0419+0225, was observed with {\it XMM-Newton} for 31 ks. From the X-ray data and archival near infra-red data of Two Micron All Sky survay, we derive the profiles of components constituting the NGC 1550 system; the...
0901.4626v1
2009-02-02
Type-Ia Supernova-driven Galactic Bulge Wind
Stellar feedback in galactic bulges plays an essential role in shaping the evolution of galaxies. To quantify this role and facilitate comparisons with X-ray observations, we conduct 3D hydrodynamical simulations with the adaptive mesh refinement code, FLASH, to investigate the physical properties of hot gas inside a g...
0902.0386v1
2009-02-10
A Study of the Accuracy of Mass-Radius Relationships for Silicate-Rich and Ice-Rich Planets up to 100 Earth Masses
A mass-radius relationship is proposed for solid planets and solid cores ranging from 1 to 100 Earth-mass planets. It relies on the assumption that solid spheres are composed of iron and silicates, around which a variable amount of water is added. The M-R law has been set up assuming that the planetary composition is s...
0902.1640v1
2009-02-20
Frustrated Magnetic Interactions, Giant Magneto-Elastic Coupling, and Magnetic Phonons in Iron-Pnictides
We present a detailed first principles study of Fe-pnictides with particular emphasis on competing magnetic interactions, structural phase transition, giant magneto-elastic coupling and its effect on phonons. The exchange interactions $J_{i,j}(R)$ are calculated up to $\approx 12 $\AA $. We find that $J_{i,j}(R)$ has a...
0902.3462v1
2009-03-20
Spectral Analysis of the Accretion Flow in NGC 1052 with Suzaku
We present an analysis of the 101 ks, 2007 Suzaku spectrum of the LINER galaxy NGC 1052. The 0.5-10 keV continuum is well-modeled by a power-law modified by Galactic and intrinsic absorption, and it exhibits a soft, thermal emission component below 1 keV. Both a narrow core and a broader component of Fe K emission cent...
0903.3583v1
2009-04-06
New insight into the physics of iron pnictides from optical and penetration depth data
We report theoretical values for the unscreened plasma frequencies Omega_p of several Fe pnictides obtained from DFT based calculations within the LDA and compare them with experimental plasma frequencies obtained from reflectivity data. The sizable renormalization observed for all considered compounds points to the pr...
0904.0827v1
2009-04-07
Search for associations containing young stars (SACY):II. Chemical abundances of stars in 11 young Associations in the Solar neighborhood
The recently discovered coeval, moving groups of young stellar objects in the solar neighborhood represent invaluable laboratories to study recent star formation and to search for high metallicity stars which can be included in future exo-planet surveys. In this study we derived through an uniform and homogeneous metho...
0904.1221v1
2009-06-17
On the metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk
Aims: The iron abundance gradient in the Galactic stellar disk provides fundamental constraints on the chemical evolution of this important Galaxy component. However the spread around the mean slope is, at fixed Galactocentric distance, larger than estimated uncertainties. Methods: To provide quantitative constraints o...
0906.3140v1
2009-10-09
Critical change in the Fermi surface of iron arsenic superconductors at the onset of superconductivity
The phase diagram of a correlated material is the result of a complex interplay between several degrees of freedom, providing a map of the material's behavior. One can understand (and ultimately control) the material's ground state by associating features and regions of the phase diagram, with specific physical events ...
0910.1799v2
2009-11-06
Accurate Fundamental Parameters or A, F, and G-type Supergiants in the Solar Neighbourhood
The following parameters are determined for 63 Galactic supergiants in the solar neighbourhood: effective temperature Teff, surface gravity log g, iron abundance log e(Fe), microturbulent parameter Vt, mass M/Msun, age t and distance d. A significant improvement in the accuracy of the determination of log g and, all pa...
0911.1335v2
2009-12-09
Empirically Derived Integrated Stellar Yields of Fe-Peak Elements
We present here the initial results of a new study of massive star yields of Fe-peak elements. We have compiled from the literature a database of carefully determined solar neighborhood stellar abundances of seven iron-peak elements, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni and then plotted [X/Fe] versus [Fe/H] to study the trend...
0912.1816v1
2010-01-03
Suzaku Monitoring of the Iron K Emission Line in the Type 1 AGN NGC 5548
We present 7 sequential weekly observations of NGC 5548 conducted in 2007 with the \textit{Suzaku} X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) in the 0.2-12 keV band and Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) in 10-600 keV band. The iron K$\alpha$ line is well detected in all seven observations and K$\beta$ line is also detected in four obser...
1001.0356v1
2010-01-07
Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion
Stars with initial masses 10 M_{solar} < M_{initial} < 100 M_{solar} fuse progressively heavier elements in their centres, up to inert iron. The core then gravitationally collapses to a neutron star or a black hole, leading to an explosion -- an iron-core-collapse supernova (SN). In contrast, extremely massive stars (M...
1001.1156v1
2010-03-29
Ferromagnetism in defect-ridden oxides and related materials
The existence of high-temperature ferromagnetism in thin films and nanoparticles of oxides containing small quantities of magnetic dopants remains controversial. Some regard these materials as dilute magnetic semiconductors, while others think they are ferromagnetic only because the magnetic dopants form secondary ferr...
1003.5558v1