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Thermal and Non-thermal X-Rays from the LMC Super Bubble 30 Dor C
We report on the discovery of thermal and non-thermal X-rays from the shells of the super bubble (SB) 30 Dor C in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The X-ray morphology is a nearly circular shell with a radius of ∼40 pc, which is bright on the northern and western sides. The spectra of the shells are different from region to region. The southern shell shows clear emission lines, and is well fitted with a model of a thin-thermal plasma (kT = 0.21 keV) in non-equilibrium ionization (NEI) plus a power-law component. This thermal plasma is located inside of the Hα emission, which is the outer edge of the shell of the SB. The northern and western sides of the SB are dim in Hα emission, but are bright in non-thermal (power-law) X-rays with a photon index of 2.1–2.9. The non-thermal X-ray shell traces the outer boundary of the radio shell. These features of thin-thermal and non-thermal X-rays are similar to those of SN 1006, a prototype of synchrotron X-ray shell, but the non-thermal component of 30 Dor C is about ten-times brighter than that of SN 1006. 30 Dor C is the first candidate of an extragalactic SB, in which energetic electrons are accelerating in the shell. The age is much older than that of SN 1006, and hence the particle acceleration time in this SB may be longer than those in normal shell-like SNRs. We found point-like sources associated with some of tight star clusters. The X-ray luminosity and spectrum are consistent with those of young clusters of massive stars. Point-like sources with non-thermal spectra are also found in the SB. These may be background objects (AGNs) or stellar remnants (neutron stars or black holes). Subject headings: acceleration of particles — ISM: individual (30 Dor C) — X-rays: ISM
118367993
POSSIBLE CHARGE-EXCHANGE X-RAY EMISSION IN THE CYGNUS LOOP DETECTED WITH SUZAKU
X-ray spectroscopic measurements of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant indicate that metal abundances throughout most of the remnant's rim are depleted to ~0.2 times the solar value. However, recent X-ray studies have revealed in some narrow regions along the outermost rim anomalously enhanced abundances (up to ~1 solar). The reason for these anomalous abundances is not understood. Here, we examine X-ray spectra in annular sectors covering nearly the entire rim of the Cygnus Loop using Suzaku (21 pointings) and XMM-Newton (1 pointing). We find that spectra in the enhanced abundance regions commonly show a strong emission feature at ~0.7?keV. This feature is likely a complex of He-like O K(? + ? + ), although other possibilities cannot be fully excluded. The intensity of this emission relative to He-like O K? appears to be too high to be explained as thermal emission. This fact, as well as the spatial concentration of the anomalous abundances in the outermost rim, leads us to propose an origin from charge-exchange processes between neutrals and H-like O. We show that the presence of charge-exchange emission could lead to the inference of apparently enhanced metal abundances using pure thermal emission models. Accounting for charge-exchange emission, the actual abundances could be uniformly low throughout the rim. The overall abundance depletion remains an open question.
6264457
Iron and Nickel Line Diagnostics for the Galactic Center Diffuse Emission
We have observed the diffuse X-ray emission from the Galactic center (GC) using the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Suzaku. The high-energy resolution and the low-background orbit provide excellent spectra of the GC diffuse X-rays (GCDX). The XIS found many emission lines in the GCDX near the energy of K-shell transitions of iron and nickel. The most pronounced features are Fe I Kat 6.4 keV and K-shell absorption edge at 7.1 keV, which are from neutral and/or low ionization states of iron, and the K-shell lines at 6.7 keV and 6.9 keV from He-like (Fe XXV K�) and hydrogenic (Fe XXVI Ly�) ions of iron. In addition, Klines from neutral or low ionization nickel (Ni I K�) and He-like nickel (Ni XXVII K�), and Fe I K�, Fe XXV K�, Fe XXVI Ly�, Fe XXV K and Fe XXVI Ly are detected for the first time. The line center energies and widths of Fe XXV Kand Fe XXVI Lyfavor a collisional excitation (CE) plasma for the origin of the GCDX. The electron temperature determined from the line flux ratio of Fe XXV-K�/ Fe XXV-Kis similar to the ionization temperature determined from that of Fe XXV-K�/FeXXVI-Ly�. Thus it would appear that the GCDX plasma is close to ionization equilibrium. The 6.7 keV flux and temperature distribution to the galactic longitude is smooth and monotonic, in contrast to the integrated point source flux distribution. These facts support the hypothesis that the GCDX is truly diffuse emission rather than the integration of the outputs of a large number of unresolved point sources. In addition, our results demonstrate that the chemical composition of Fe in the interstellar gas near the GC is constrained to be about 3.5 times solar.
55146394
The X-ray Study of Small-Scale Shock Structures in the Non-thermal SNRs
The shock front of SNRs is the most probable acceleration site of high energy particles (up to, or more than TeV) as already confirmed by the hard X-ray observations of the synchrotron emission from accelerated electrons. The remarkable spatial resolution of the X-ray observatory Chandra enables us to investigate the small-scale structure of the spatial distribution of accelerated electrons close to the shock front, which may lead us to deep understanding of acceleration mechanism. We have found hard X-ray filaments having a sharp rise in upstream and rather slow decay in downstream from the shocked region of six SNRs (Cas A, Tycho, Kepler, SN 1006, RCW 86, and 30 Dor C) using the Chandra archive data. For all the SNRs, we found that the scale width of the filaments is significantly smaller than that of the thermal plasma derived from the Sedov solution, The scale width becomes larger as increasing radius of the SNR, which may be followed by the understanding of the history of acceleration and energy loss of electrons in the shock front.
13583595
New CTI Correction Method for Spaced-Row Charge Injection of the Suzaku X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer
The charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) of the X-ray CCDs on board the Suzaku satellite (X-ray Imaging Spectrometers; XIS) has increased since the launch due to radiation damage, and the energy resolution has been degraded. To improve the CTI, we have applied a spaced-row charge injection (SCI) technique to the XIS in orbit; by injecting charges into CCD rows periodically, the CTI is actively decreased. The CTI in the SCI mode depends on the distance between a signal charge and a preceding injected row, and the pulse height shows periodic positional variations. Using in-flight data of onboard calibration sources and of the strong iron line from the Perseus cluster of galaxies, we studied the variation in detail. We developed a new method to correct the variation. By applying the new method, the energy resolution (FWHM) at 5.9 keV at March 2008 is ~155 eV for the front-illuminated CCDs and ~175 eV for the back-illuminated CCD.
53371172
Temporal and Spatial Analyses of Spectral Indices of Nonthermal Emissions Derived from Hard X-Rays and Microwaves
We studied electron spectral indices of nonthermal emissions seen in hard X-rays (HXRs) and microwaves. We analyzed 12 flares observed by the Hard X-Ray Telescope aboard Yohkoh, Nobeyama Radio Polarimeters, and the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH), and compared the spectral indices derived from total fluxes of HXRs and microwaves. Except for four events, which have very soft HXR spectra suffering from the thermal component, these flares show a gap Δδ between the electron spectral indices derived from HXRs δ X and those from microwaves δμ (Δδ = δ X – δμ) of about 1.6. Furthermore, from the start to the peak times of the HXR bursts, the time profiles of the HXR spectral index δ X evolve synchronously with those of the microwave spectral index δμ, keeping the constant gap. We also examined the spatially resolved distribution of the microwave spectral index by using NoRH data. The microwave spectral index δμ tends to be larger, which means a softer spectrum, at HXR footpoint sources with stronger magnetic field than that at the loop tops. These results suggest that the electron spectra are bent at around several hundreds of keV, and become harder at the higher energy range that contributes the microwave gyrosynchrotron emission.
123205079
Supersymmetry and Quenched Random Fields Revisited
The problem of obtaining the random field averages of the Green functions of the scalar field theories in the presence of the random fields is reformulated in terms of the superfield Feynman rule in the supermomentum space. The system is fully investigated from the viewpoint of supersymmetry, and the most general expression for the dimensional reduction is given under the super-rotation symmetry. It is pointed out that there is a case when the dimensional reduction by 2 occurs in the tree approximation even if the long range force for the spins and the long range correlation of the random field are incorporated in the system provided they satisfy some relation. Some discussion is given on two kinds of the quantities which both exhibit the dimensional reduction from the viewpoint of statistical physics.
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Numerical study of lattice Landau gauge QCD and the Gribov copy problem
The infrared properties of lattice Landau gauge QCD of SU(3) are studied by measuring gluon propagator, ghost propagator, QCD running coupling and Kugo-Ojima parameter of β = 6.0 on 16 4 , 24 4 , 32 4 and β = 6.4 on 32 4 , 48 4 , 56 4 lattices. From the larger lattice measurements, we observe that the runnning coupling measured by the product of the gluon dressing function and the ghost dressing function squared rescaled to the perturbative QCD results near the highest lattice momentum has a maximum of about 2.2 at around q = 0.5  GeV/c , and either approaches a constant or even decreases as q approaches zero. The magnitude of the Kugo-Ojima parameter is getting larger but staying around −0.83 in contrast to the expected value of −1 in the continuum theory. We observe, however, that there is an exceptional sample which has larger magnitude of the Kugo-Ojima parameter and stronger infrared singularity of the ghost propagator. The reflection positivity of the 1-d Fourier transform of the gluon propagator of the exceptional sample is manifestly violated. The Gribov noise problem was studied by performing a fundamental modular gauge (FMG) fixing by making use of the parallel tempering method with β = 2.2 on 16 4 SU(2) configurations. In conclusion we found that while the gluon propagator almost noise free, the Kugo-Ojima parameter and the ghost propagator in the FMG become ∼ 5% less in the infrared region therefore they are noisy. It is expected that these qualitative aspects seen in SU(2) will be reflected in the infrared properties of SU(3) QCD as well.
123022148
Structure of the Gauge Transformation Group in the Square Integrable Space and Gribov's Ambiguity in the Coulomb Gauge
It is found that a well-defined gauge transformation group and the well-known discon­ nected structure of it emerge only from the square integrability with some natural assump­ tion of the boundedness on the gradient of the gauge field. The geometrical formulation of the Coulomb gauge fixing degeneracy is restated with more careful treatment to the dual space considered as space of distribution, than in our previous paper. A comment on the suitably restricted space version of the formulation is made. As such an example, '0 (3) symmetric' case is treated. Together with the discon­ nected structure of the gauge transformation group, it is found that there exist a lot of Coulomb gauge fixing degeneracies such that "topological number" jumps by any integer value between transverse fields.
119481701
Instanton Equations for the Supersymmetric CPN−1 Sigma Model on Non(anti)commutative Superspace
We study the instanton equation of the supersymmetric CP N −1 sigma model on non(anti)commutative superspace in two dimensions. We show that the undeformed instanton equation is consistent with the deformed equations of motion. Then we conclude that the instanton equation is not deformed by superspace non(anti)commutativity. 1. Introduction Studies of strings with non-trivial classical values of its field components have brought about new development in quantum field theories. If one allows some of the field components to possess background values on D-branes, one obtains new classes of quantum field theories in the low energy limits of string theory. They have novel features due to the non(anti)commutativity (NC) properties of spacetime coordinates or superspace coordinates. Superstring theory with its graviphoton field in the R-R sector having a self-dual background value gives rise to supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with N =1 /2 supersymmetry as an effective field theory, 1) providing a good realization of the NC superspace considered in different contexts some time ago. 2) NC field theories and SUSY field theories on NC superspace (field theories with deformed SUSY) have properties quite different from the usual field theories, and they need to be examined, in comparison with their commutative partners. Perturbative properties of SUSY field theories on NC superspace have been studied extensively in the last few years. Positive results have been obtained concerning the renormalizability of the model. 3)–5) One non-perturbative issue in deformed SUSY field theories is whether and how its instanton equation is modified from that of the usual SUSY field theories. This question has been studied in the case of super Yang-Mills theories in d = 4, and the modified self-dual equation has been derived, 6) and is extended to the NC deformed N = 2 SUSY case. 7) The solutions to this new self-dual equation have also been studied. 8) N = 2 SUSY CP N −1 models in d = 2 share many nice properties of super Yang-Mills theories and it allows exact treatment. From this point of view, we have constructed extension of the SUSY CP N −1 model to NC superspace. 5),9) The usual
16605019
Testing the seesaw mechanism at collider energies in the Randall-Sundrum model
The Randall-Sundrum model with gauge fields and fermions in the bulk has several attractive features including the gauge coupling unification, a candidate for the dark matter, and an explanation for the hierarchical Yukawa couplings. 
In this paper, we point out that the 1st Kaluza-Klein modes of right-handed neutrinos may be produced at colliders, for both Dirac and Majorana neutrino cases. Furthermore, we can see whether the neutrino masses are Dirac type or Majorana type from the mass spectrum of KK particles.