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ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) belinski@icra.it |
Coauthors: M. V. Barkov and G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Institute of Cosmic Research (IKI), Moscow, Russia |
An exact General Relativity solution for the Motion and Intersections of Self-Gravitating Shells in the Field of a Massive Black Hole | |
It is found the complete exact solution in the General Relativity for the intersection process of two massive selfgravitating spherically symmetric shells (in general with tangential pressure). It is shown how one can calculate all shellOs parameters after intersection in terms of the parameters before the intersection. The solution was applied to the analysis of matter ejection effect from stellar clusters. Also it is shown that the motion of two intersecting shells in general reveal a chaotic behaviour. |
ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) Dept of Fisica Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma, Italia bianco@icra.it |
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The equitemporal surfaces in GRB afterglows | |
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Istituto
per Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone”, via del Policlinico, 137, I-00161, Roma - Italy binid@icra.it |
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On the Fermi work on a gravitating charge | |
Test particle motion as well as Maxwell equations are discussed in the frame of an accelerated observer using Fermi coordinates. |
chardonnet@icra.it |
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The gamma ray bursts: a new window on cosmology ? | |
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University Campus Biomed. of Rome, Via E. Longoni, 83, Rome, ITALY filippi@icra.it |
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Galactic models with rotation and vorticity | |
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fraschetti@icra.it |
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GRB 980425/SN 1998 bw association within EMBH model | |
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Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Lecce INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Via Arnesano, CP 193, I-73100 Lecce, Italy |
ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) P.le della Repubblica, 10 65100 Pescara, Italia geralico@icra.it |
On the charge in Reissner-Nordström geometry | |
The
interaction of a Reissner-Nordström black hole with charged test particle
is studied together with the lines of force of their electric fields. |
ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) P.le della Repubblica, 10 65100 Pescara, Italia gurzadyan@icra.it |
Department of Theoretical Physics Yerevan Physics institute, Yerevan 375036, Armenia |
Ellipticity analysis of CMB maps | |
I review the recent studies of Boomerang and WMAP CMB maps which revealed ellipticity of anisotropies independent on the temperature threshold. The algorithms of the study of anisotropy areas are discussed. The ellipticity is detected at scales both smaller and larger than the horizon at the large scattering epoch. If this effect is due to geodesic mixing and hence due to non precisely zero curvature of the hyperbolic Universe, it can be related with the low multipole anomaly detected by WMAP. |
dept of phys. univ. of arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA peterbi@att.net |
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The formation of the first objects from the primordial gas: the log-normal model | |
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study the baryonic gas clouds (the IGM) in the universe before the
reionization with the lognormal model which is shown to be dynamcially legitimate
in describing the fluctuation evolution in quasilinear as well as
nonlinear regimes in recent years. The probability distribution function
of the mass field in the LN model is long tailed and so plays an important
role in rare events, such as the formation of the first generation of
baryonic objects. We calculate density and velocity distributions of the
IGM at very high spatial resolutions, and simulate the distributions at
resolution of 0.15 kpc from z=7 to 15 in the LCDM cosmological model. We
performed a statistics of the hydrogen clouds including column densities,
clumping factors, sizes, masses, and spatial number density etc. One of
our goals is to identify which hydrogen clouds are going to collapse. By
inspecting the mass density profile and the velocity profile of clouds, we
found that the velocity outflow significantly postpones the collapsing
process in less massive clouds, in spite of their masses are larger than
the Jeans mass. Consequently, only massive (> 10^5 M_sun) clouds can
form objects at higher redshift, and less massive (10^4-10^5) collapsed
objects are formed later. |
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085 - USA jantzen@icra.it |
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Fermi Time and the Square Root of 2 | |
By examining the geodesic equation in a Fermi coordinate system using the gravitoelectromagnetic splitting, rewritten as a relative acceleration equation, one sees that the special property of the speed of light as a constant solution is transferred to the coordinate speed $\sqrt{2}$ for the approximation of the Fermi coordinates when using the coordinate time instead of the Fermi coordinate observer proper time. However, examining the exact Fermi coordinates in Rindler spacetime for uniform acceleration along a fixed direction, one sees that this is an artifact of the limitations of the Fermi coordinate approximation, frozen in at the lowest order of the approximation, and when higher order terms become important one sees that it is really the speed of light which is the important speed. |
Liu
Ji-Ren
Center for astrophysics University of Science and technology of C Hefei, Anhui, 230026 P.R.China liujr@mail.ustc.edu.cn |
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Using Scale-Scale Correlation to Detect SZ effect in WMAP | |
Rencently
WMAP observation had provided CMB data with high quanlity, such data
excited interest on additional anisotropy, SZ effects is such a candidate.
It's contribution to CMB had been debated. |
ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) Dept of Fisica Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma, Italia lattanzi@icra.it |
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Neutrino asymmetry and cosmological parameters estimation | |
The recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background data carried out by the WMAP team seems to show that the sum of the neutrino masses is <0.7 eV. However, this result is not model-independent, depending on precise assumptions on the cosmological model. We study how this result is modified when the assumption of perfect lepton symmetry is dropped out. |
dept of phys. univ. of arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA fanglz@physics.arizona.edu |
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The discrepancy between the large scale structures of baryon gas and dark matter in the universe | |
I will present the investigation on the relationship between the
mass and velocity fields of the intergalactic medium (IGM) and dark matter. |
Purple Mountain Observatory 2 Beijing, Xi Lu Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008 P.R.China fengll@ustc.edu.cn |
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A Hybrid Cosmological Hydrodynamic/N-body Code Based on a Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Scheme | |
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will present a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on
weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic
conservation laws. WENO is a higher order accurate finite difference scheme designed for problems with piecewise smooth solutions containing discontinuities, and has been successfully applied for problems involving both shocks and complicated smooth solution structures. We couple hydrodynamics based on the WENO scheme with standard Poisson solver - particle-mesh (PM) algorithm for evolving the self-gravitating system. The third order low storage total variation diminishing (TVD) Runge-Kutta scheme has been used for the time integration of the system. To test accuracy and convergence rate of the code, we subject it to a number of typical tests including the Sod shock tube in multidimensions, the Sedov blast wave and formation of the Zeldovich pancake. These tests validate the WENO hydrodynamics with fast convergence rate and high accuracy. We also evolve a low density flat cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) to explore the validity of the code in practical simulations. |
ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) Dept of Fisica Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma, Italia Ruffini@icra.it |
Gamma Ray Bursts |
Center for astrophysics University of Science and technology of China Hefei, Anhui, 230026 P.R.China spxiang@ustc.edu.cn |
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National Astronomical Observatories, A20 Datun Road, Chaoyang Beijing 100012 P.R. China xyxia@ns.bao.ac.cn |
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Properties of Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galxies | |
We study the properties of hot gaseous halos in 10 nearby
ultraluminous IRAS galaxies observed with the ACIS instrument on board
Chandra. |
ICRA ( International Center for Relativistic Astrophisics ) Dept. of Fisica Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma, Italia xue@icra.it |
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On the dynamical formation of the Dyadosphere | |
We describe electron-positron pairs creation around an electrically charged star core collapsing to an electromagnetic black hole (EMBH), as well as pairs annihilation into photons. We use the kinetic Vlasov equation formalism for the pairs and photons and show that a regime of plasma oscillations is established around the core. As a byproduct of our analysis we can provide an estimate for the thermalization time scale. |
Shanghai Astr. Observatory Shanghai, 200030 P.R.China jingmpa2000@yahoo.com |
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Simulating the structure formation in the Universe | |
In
this talk I present the current status of the research activities at the
Partner Group of MPA in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. The backbone
for our research is high resolution simulations. With these simulations,
we have discovered a tight relation between the inner radius of dark
matter halos and the mass within the inner radius. Based on this finding,
we have developed a recipe for predicting the concentration parameter of
dark matter halos from their mass accretion history. This prescription has
been demonstrated to be significantly more accurate than the previous
empirical formula, and can be applied to many research subjects in
cosmology. We have also implemented the semi-analytical modeling of galaxy
formation into our simulations. Because the subhalos are well resolved,
the dynamical merger of galaxies, which is a key process to drive the
evolution of galaxies, can be reliably followed in our simulations. Our
model, for the first time, can reproduce very well the luminosity
functions of galaxies in the five wavebands of the SDSS observation. I
also present our recent measurement for the luminosity dependence of the
pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey,
and demonstrate that the statistic is an important input for the galaxy
formation models, including the halo occupation models. In collaboration
with the University of Toronto, we have already started our campaign for a
new sample of giant simulations, which aims at cosmological simulations of
8 billion particles and individual halo simulations of 100 million
particles. These simulations will be more accurate than ever to predict
how the structures have developed in our Universe. |
Dept. of Physics, Graduate School, P.O.Box 3908, Beijing, 100039 P.R. China zugan_deng@yahoo.com |
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The formation of Bulge in Late-type Galaxies | |
The
dynamical evolution of super star clusters (SSCs) moving in the background
of a dark matter halo has been investigated as a possible event
responsible for the formation
of bulges in late-type spirals. |