Magnetopause plasma transients: mapping into the auroral ionosphere

Attention is focused on a specific category of auroral event occurring predominantly during a southward directed interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Coordinated observations from the ground and satellites in polar orbit have been used to study the temporal/spatial development of the events in relation to the background patterns of particle precipitation and ionospheric convection as well as the field-aligned current and ion drift characteristics of the individual events. Both prenoon and postnoon sector events are reported. In one case the auroral event was observed near the zero point potential line separating the morning and postnoon convection cells. The available data indicate that this auroral event sequence is a signature of quasi-periodic bursts of particle entry from the magnetosheath along flux tubes convecting into the polar cap, representing structures of enhanced IMF B_Y-related convection poleward of the persistent cleft aurora. Such events may be initiated by localized patches of enhanced merging rate at the dayside magnetopause     

Rotational Spectra of Argon Acetone: A Two-Top Internally Rotating Complex

The rotational spectra of the argon acetone weakly bound complex was studied by pulsed jet Fabry-Perot Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. Over 500 transitions of the complex were measured between 5.5 and 26 GHz from J=2-1 to J=12-11. The two methyl groups undergo hindered internal rotation resulting in four or five internal rotation states. The microwave transitions are within these states, resulting in a splitting of each rotational transition into four and sometimes five distinct transitions. The three-fold barrier to internal rotation is determined to be 260 cm⁻¹, 2% less than the 266 cm⁻¹ barrier in acetone itself. The structure of the complex has the argon atom above the heavy atom plane of the acetone, 3.52 Å from the CO bond and approximately in the C_s plane, which is perpendicular to the CCC plane of acetone.     

Luminescence of self-trapped excitons in calcium fluoride under pulsed electron irradiation

Time-resolved pulsed spectroscopy was used to measure the luminescence spectra of calcium fluoride. Characteristic features of the luminescence of self-trapped excitons are discussed. It is shown that various configurations of self-trapped excitons incorporating hole nuclei of a more complex structure, may be formed in CaF₂ crystals. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 40, 1226–1227 (July 1998)     

Synthesis of metabolites of 3-O-t-butylmorphine

The synthesis of 2-hydroxymethyl-2-propylmorphine ( 5 ) and 2-hydroxymethyl-2-propylnormorphine ( 7 ), the major rat urinary metabolites of 3-O-t-butylmorphine ( 3 ) are described.     

Violation of KNO scaling and the NBD phenomenon in the framework of the statistical bootstrap model

The connection is considered of multiplicity distributions in three stages: partonic, hadronization, and hadronic. An interpretation of the LoPHD parameter is found. It is shown that under specific hypotheses on the form of the mass spectrum, the statistical bootstrap model leads to the negative binomial distribution (NBD) at the hadronic stage of development of the multiple production process with specific analytic dependences of the parameters of the NBD.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 28–32, May, 1991.One of the authors (V. I. Kuvshinov) is thankful to R. Hagedorn and G. Burgers for numerous discussions.     

Taylor-Galerkin algorithms for viscoelastic flow: Application to a model problem

Coupled and decoupled Taylor-Galerkin algorithms are considered for viscoelastic flow and a model problem—transient startup Poiseuille flow in a channel under a fixed pressure gradient. All algorithms reproduce the steady-state solutions and are stable at high elasticity numbers (E). For a fixed mesh, the coupled and decoupled versions (TGC and TGD) give exceptional time-accuracy at low elasticity numbers [to within O(1%) at E = 1] and reasonable accuracy at high elasticity numbers [to within O(10%) at E = 10, 100]. By definition, the decoupled false-transient scheme (TGF), which uses different time scales for velocity and stress time stepping, provides a poor transient history. Where the main requirement is to compute a steady-state algorithm efficiency is crucial. The TGF scheme attains a steady state between six to eight times faster than does the TGC scheme, and the latter is over twice as fast as the TGD form. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Inhomogeneities in silicon p-n-junctions

Latent macroscopic defects in silicon are detected by electrical and electron microscope measurements. They lead to anomalous temperature dependence of the Fermi level position and growth in the hole capture coefficient. A level with energy of 0.55 eV measured from the conduction zone controls the recombination process. It is proposed that macroscopic defects develop upon association of oxygen-silicon vacancy complexes. Action of an electron beam leads to reversible changes which increase upon multiple scanning, affecting the value of the diffusion length.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 71–75, April, 1991.