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A Vertical Resonance of g-Mode Oscillations in Warped Disks and QPOs in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries
Resonant oscillations in warped disks are examined in order to explain high-frequency QPOs and horizontalbranch QPOs in low-mass X-ray binaries. Different from our previous work, addressed to the same subjects, we relax in this paper the assumption that the disks are isothermal in the vertical direction. That is, the pressure, density, and temperature are assumed to be distributed in the vertical direction with a polytropic relation, and the polytropic index changes as the disk state changes. By this generalization and by some subsidiaries we can qualitatively explain, within the framework of our resonance model, observed large frequency variations in neutron-star QPOs and little variations in black-hole QPOs. We consider vertical resonances of g-mode oscillations, since they are most appropriate to explain observations.
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Resonant excitation of disk oscillations in deformed disks. VII. Stability criterion in MHD systems
In a disk with an oscillatory deformation from an axisymmetric state with frequency ωD and azimuthal wavenumber mD, two normal mode oscillations with a set of frequency and azimuthal wavenumber being (ω1, m1) and (ω2, m2) are resonantly coupled to each other through the disk deformation when the resonant conditions (ω1 + ω2 + ωD = 0 and m1 + m2 + mD = 0) are satisfied. In the case of hydrodynamical disks, the resonance amplifies the set of the oscillations if (E1/ω1)(E2/ω2) > 0 (Kato 2013b, PASJ, 65, 75), where E1 and E2 are wave energies of the two oscillations with ω1 and ω2, respectively. In this paper we show that this instability criterion is still valid even when the oscillations are ideal MHD ones in magnetized disks, if the displacements associated with the oscillations vanish on the boundary of the system.
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Frequency Correlations of QPOs Based on a Disk Oscillation Model in Warped Disks
In previous papers, we proposed a model that high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in black-hole and neutron-star X-ray binaries are disk oscillations (inertial-acoustic and/or g-mode oscillations) resonantly excited on warped disks. In this paper we examine whether time variations of the QPOs and their frequenc yc orrelations observed in neutron-star X-ray binaries can be accounted for by this disk-oscillation model. By assuming that a warp has a time-dependent precession, we can well describe the observed frequency correlations among kHz QPOs and low-frequency QPOs over a wide range of frequencies.
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Tidal Instability and Superhump by a Wave-Wave Resonant Model
On a disk deformed to a non-axisymmetric form, a set of oscillations can be excited by their resonant interaction through the disk deformation (Kato et al. 2011). This resonant instability process has been proposed to suggest a possible cause of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) observed in black-hole lowmass X-ray binaries. In the present paper, we examine whether the above-mentioned wave-wave resonant process can describe the tidal instability and superhump in dwarf novae. The results show that the process seems to well describe the observations. If this process is really the cause of the tidal instability and superhump, a two-armed oscillation with high frequency roughly on the magnitude of three times the orbital frequency is present on disks, although its expected amplitude may be small.
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Spin of Stellar-Mass Black Holes Estimated by a Model of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
We have proposed in previous papers that the high-frequency pair of quasi-periodic oscillations observed in black-hole binaries with a frequency ratio of 3 : 2 are inertial-acoustic oscillations (nearly horizontal oscillations with no node in the vertical direction) or g-mode oscillations, which are resonantly excited on warped relativistic disks. The resonance occurs through horizontal motions. In this model, the dimensionless spin parameter, a∗ ,o f the central sources can be estimated when their masses are known from other observations. This estimate is done for
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Simultaneous resonant excitation of low-frequency eccentric wave and tilt wave on tidally deformed disks
Simultaneous excitation of low-frequency eccentric precessing mode (one-armed p-mode) and tilt mode on tidally deformed disks is considered. If the orbit of the secondary star is eccentric and its orbital plane is misaligned with the disk plane of the primary, the above-mentioned two low-frequency oscillation modes are simultaneously excited on the primary disk, the former having prograte precession and the latter having retrograde precession. This excitation of disk oscillations is due to a wave–wave resonant excitation process considered by Kato (2013, PASJ, 65, 75). If parameter values relevant to Be/X-ray binary systems are adopted, the periods of these excited oscillations are around 10 times the orbital period of the secondary, which may be comparable with the timescale of giant outbursts observed in Be/X-ray systems.
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VARIOUS RINSING EFFECTS TO MITIGATE CONTAMINANTS BROUGHT BY BCP ON NIOBIUM SRF CAVITY SURFACE
Various rinsing processes have been widely used after the surface treatment for niobium cavities. After the chemical treatment of the cavities some residues from the etching acids are left on the surface. To examine rinsing effects in detail, we carried out BCP experiment followed by post-polishing methods on a series of niobium samples at KEK. As a result of the BCP process [1,2] some contaminants like fluorine, carbon, etc. have been detected at the surfaces which may be the prominent cause of limiting the performance of SRF cavities. To remove these contaminants, various rinsing processes such as ultra pure water rinse, ultrasonic pure water rinse, alcoholic rinse, detergent rinse, high pressure water rinse (HPR) have been used after the BCP. In this article, we report the effect of HPR with different high pressures on the contaminants. The surface of the samples treated with HPR was analyzed using X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy.
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Proton compton scattering at backward angles in the energy range from 400 MeV to 1050 MeV
Abstract Differential cross sections of proton Compton scattering have been measured in the energy range between 400 MeV and 1050 MeV at C.M.S. angles of 150° and 160°. The recoil proton was detected with a magnetic spectrometer using multi-wire proportional chambers and multi-wire spark chambers. The scattered photon was detected with a lead glass Cerenkov counter of the total absorptive type with two layers of multi-wire proportional chambers which measured the horizontal and vertical positions of the scattered photon. The proton Compton scattering was differentiated from the background of the π 0 photoproduction events with the use of angular correlations between the recoil proton and the scattered photon. The cross-section data show the clear second resonance peak at E γ = 750 MeV and a bump around E γ = 925 MeV at both angles. Also the angular distributions show the backward peak in the energy range between 700 MeV and 950 MeV. The data are compared with theoretical calculations based on an isobar model with some phases for the resonances. In this calculation, the proton Compton data were fitted varying the photocouplings of the nucleon resonances around the bump and the phases below the third resonances as free parameters. The calculation reproduced the angular distribution of differential cross sections well. However, it was inevitable that we use large photocouplings of P 33 (1600) in order to fit the bump.
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An idea of dynamical cooling of electron beam in SR ring
A beam cooling method which uses a stimulated emission of radiation by relativistic electrons in a magnetic field, is proposed to apply to an electron beam in synchrotron radiation rings. The simulation is produced by a traveling RF electric field in a transmission line against the beam. Averaging the emission power over electron energy distributions, the net emission from the beam is taken place in a certain frequency region. Some conditions for the energy emission are discussed. The emission power is shown to be enough large to decrease the horizontal emittance of the beam to a very small value in typical synchrotron radiation rings.<<ETX>>
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Surface Study on Niobium Stain after Electro-polishing for Super-conducting RF Cavity
In development of superconducting radio-frequency niobium cavities, there are problems in low performances of electro-polished (EP) cavities with a fresh EP solution due to stains on the surfaces with discoloration. Although the stain problems have been known from the past researches, the detailed study with surface analysis has not been carried out. In this study, the stains on the niobium surfaces were observed with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Auger electron spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope. According to results of XPS, there are some differences in atomic components at the stained and non-stained surfaces, ex, a little amount of fluorine and no metal oxide were found only at the stained surface. In this article, we will describe the detail of the XPS results.
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Optical field ionization effects on the generation of wakefields with short pulse lasers
Abstract In recent experiments involving high intensity short pulse lasers, large wakefields have been observed to occur even when the pulse is much longer than the length necessary to generate wakefields. It was observed in the experiments that the plasma wave starts near the position of the ionization front. The whole process of wake amplification from optical field ionization to Raman scattering is investigated by using a one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation code which includes the effect of optical field ionization.