Birthrates and delay times of Type Ia supernovae

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in diverse areas of astrophysics, from the chemical evolution of galaxies to observational cosmology. However, the nature of the progenitors of SNe Ia is still unclear. In this paper, according to a detailed binary population synthesis study, we obtained SN Ia birthrates and delay times from different progenitor models, and compared them with observations. We find that the Galactic SN Ia birthrate from the double-degenerate (DD) model is close to those infe...     

Effect of ultrasonic power on the stability of low-molecular-weight oyster peptides functional-nutrition W1/O/W2 double emulsion

Ultrasonic-assisted treatment is an eco-friendly and cost-effective emulsification method, and the acoustic cavitation effect produced by ultrasonic equipment is conducive to the formation of stable emulsion. However, its effect on the underlying stability of low-molecular-weight oyster peptides (LOPs) functional-nutrition W₁/O/W₂ double emulsion has not been reported. The effects of different ultrasonic power (50, 75, 100, 125, and 150 W) on the stability of double emulsions and the ability to mask the fishy odor of LOPs were investigated. Low ultrasonic power (50 W and 75 W) treatment failed to form a well-stabilized double emulsion, and excessive ultrasound treatment (150 W) destroyed its structure. At an ultrasonic power of 125 W, smaller particle-sized double emulsion was formed with more uniform distribution, more whiteness, and a lower viscosity coefficient. Meanwhile, the cavitation effect generated by 125 W ultrasonic power improved storage, and oxidative stabilities, emulsifying properties of double emulsion by reducing the droplet size and improved sensorial acceptability by masking the undesirable flavor of LOPs. The structure of the double emulsion was further confirmed by optical microscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy. The ultrasonic-assisted treatment is of potential value for the industrial application of double emulsion in functional-nutrition foods.     

Intersubband absorption in strained AlGaN/GaN double quantum wells

The intersubband absorption of the four-energy-level system in strained AlGaN/GaN double quantum wells is calculated by considering the polarization effect and the strain modification on material parameters (e.g., the conduction band offset, the electron effective mass and the static dielectric constant). It is found that the electron wavefunctions mainly locate at the left well and penetrate into the left barrier. The absorption spectrum exhibits multiple peaks contributed by different transitions. The position and height of absorption peaks are not very sensitive to the structural parameters (i.e., composition and thickness) of the central barrier because of the strong built-in electric field. However, the coupling between two wells can be enhanced by strain modulation.     

Multiple re-configurable intelligent surfaces based physical layer eavesdropper detection for V2I communications

Inspired by the promising potential of re-configurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided transmission in achieving the vision of 6th Generation (6G) network, we analyze the security model for a vehicular-to-infrastructure (V2I) network by considering multiple RISs (M-RIS) on buildings to act as passive relays at fixed distances from a source. In addition, multiple eavesdroppers are presented in the vicinity of the intended destination. Our aim is to enhance the secrecy capacity (SC) and to minimize secrecy outage probability (SOP) in presence of multiple eavesdroppers with the help of M-RIS in V2I communications. We propose a key-less physical layer security using beam-forming by exploiting M-RIS. The proposed approach assumes the concept of detecting eavesdroppers before the information can be transmitted via beam-forming by utilizing M-RIS. The results reveal that with consideration of M-RIS and beam-forming, the achievable SC and SOP performance is significantly improved while imposing minimum power consumption and fewer RIS reflectors.     

Investigation in thorium phosphate by NMR II-phosphorus dipolar networks

With through space and through bond experiments in two-dimensional NMR we analyze the transformation from the thorium phosphate-hydrogen phosphate hydrate (TPHPH) to the β form of the thorium phosphate diphosphate (β-TPD) in relation with the phosphorus networks. These techniques are complementary: the through space coupling gives an insight on the dipolar phosphorus networks while the through bond coupling is particularly efficient in the detection of the P₂O₇ groups. With these experiments we show that in a first step, by heating the precursor TPHPH above 250 °C, it transforms into an form of TPD. This transformation is due to the complete condensation of hydrogen phosphate groups HPO₄ into P₂O₇ entities. By heating -TPD above 950 °C it transforms into its well-known β form. The form is characterized by a hygroscopic behavior: some water molecules are present near the P₂O₇ groups that makes non-equivalent their phosphorus nuclei. PO₄ dipolar networks are always present in the form. The main effect of these PO₄ and P₂O₇ units is to give the system a channel structure and the water enters in them.     

Luminescent molecular hybrid system derived from 2-furancarboxylic acid and silylated monomer coordinated to rare earth ions

In this study, silica-based organic-inorganic hybrids were prepared by the sol-gel method. Tetraethoxysilane (abbreviated as TEOS) and a kind of monomer (abbreviated as FA-APES) derived from modified 2-furancarboxylic acid (abbreviated as FA) with (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (abbreviated as APES) were used as the inorganic and organic fragments, respectively. Coordination reaction between lanthanides (europium and terbium ions) and CO group of the monomer happened simultaneously. And after days of aging process the resultant materials showed characteristic luminescence of lanthanides. The enhancement of luminescence can be seen by the comparison with simply doped lanthanide hybrid systems. And it can be explained by the coordination ability of the organic counterpart. IR, NMR, UV-vis absorption, low-temperature phosphorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy were applied to characterize and the above spectroscopic data revealed that the triplet state energy of organic ligand matches with the emissive energy level of lanthanides (especially of Tb³⁺).     

Hypernuclear physics for neutron stars

The role of hypernuclear physics for the physics of neutron stars is delineated. Hypernuclear potentials in dense matter control the hyperon composition of dense neutron star matter. The three-body interactions of nucleons and hyperons determine the stiffness of the neutron star equation of state and thereby the maximum neutron star mass. Two-body hyperon–nucleon and hyperon–hyperon interactions give rise to hyperon pairing which exponentially suppresses cooling of neutron stars via the direct hyperon URCA processes. Nonmesonic weak reactions with hyperons in dense neutron star matter govern the gravitational wave emissions due to the r-mode instability of rotating neutron stars.     

Search for carbon stars and DZ white dwarfs in SDSS spectra survey through machine learning

Carbon stars and DZ white dwarfs are two types of rare objects in the Galaxy.In this paper,we have applied the label propagation algorithm to search for these two types of stars from Data Release Eight(DR8)of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS),which is verified to be efcient by calculating precision and recall.From nearly two million spectra including stars,galaxies and QSOs,we have found 260 new carbon stars in which 96 stars have been identified as dwarfs and 7 identified as giants,and 11 composition spectrum systems(each of them consists of a white dwarf and a carbon star).Similarly,using the label propagation method,we have obtained 29 new DZ white dwarfs from SDSS DR8.Compared with PCA reconstructed spectra,the 29 findings are typical DZ white dwarfs.We have also investigated their proper motions by comparing them with proper motion distribution of 9,374 white dwarfs,and found that they satisfy the current observed white dwarfs by SDSS generally have large proper motions.In addition,we have estimated their efective temperatures by fitting the polynomial relationship between efective temperature and g-r color of known DZ white dwarfs,and found 12 of the 29 new DZ white dwarfs are cool,in which nine are between 6,000 K and 6,600 K,and three are below 6,000 K.     

Zero Expectile Processes and Bayesian Spatial Regression

We introduce new classes of stationary spatial processes with asymmetric, sub-Gaussian marginal distributions using the idea of expectiles. We derive theoretical properties of the proposed processes. Moreover, we use the proposed spatial processes to formulate a spatial regression model for point-referenced data where the spatially correlated errors have skewed marginal distribution. We introduce a Bayesian computational procedure for model fitting and inference for this class of spatial regression models. We compare the performance of the proposed method with the traditional Gaussian process-based spatial regression through simulation studies and by applying it to a dataset on air pollution in California.