Radiative shock waves may be subject to a global thermal instability in which the cooling layer and shock front undergo growing resonant oscillations. For strong hydrodynamic shocks, the presence of the overstability depends on the temperature and density indices of power-law cooling functions and the specific heat ratio (α, β and γ , respectively). Here, we investigate the stabilizing influenc...

Powder neutron diffraction has been used to study the nature of the structural transition away from the Fd3m cubic structure upon cooling below ∼285 K in the spinel LiMn2O4. We report powder data taken between 10 K and 333 K and propose a large cell tetragonal structure in space group I41/amd for the material at 100 K. While complete segregation of the Mn3+ and Mn4+ ions is not possible in this...

An 8.3 hour observation of the Abell 2256 galaxy cluster using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) proportional counter array (PCA) produced a high quality spectrum in the 2 30 keV range. Joint fitting with the 0.7 11 keV spectrum obtained with the Advanced Satellite for Astrophysics and Cosmology (ASCA) Gas Imaging spectrometer (GIS) gives an upperlimit of ∼2.3×10−7 photons cm−2 sec−1 keV−1...

For Y B a 2 C u 3 0 7 _ a powder samples of different average grain sizes the temperature dependences of 6 Cu NQR frequencies and signal intensities are reported for the Cu (1) site in a temperature range of 4 300 K. Both quantities show a non-monotonic behaviour in the vicinity of the superconduction transition temperature Tc. In the superconducting state the line shape of the NQR signal in ze...

BACKGROUND This pilot study in five healthy adult humans forms the pre-clinical assessment of the effect of a forced convective head cooling device on intracranial temperature, measured non-invasively by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). METHODS After a 10 min baseline with no cooling, subjects received 30 min of head cooling followed by 30 min of head and neck cooling via a hood and nec...

The element-specific magnetic structure of an epitaxially grown Mn_52Pd_48/Fe bilayer showing exchange bias was investigated with atomic-layer depth sensitivity at the antiferromagnet/ferromagnet interface by soft-x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and magnetic reflectivity. A complex magnetic interfacial configuration, consisting of a 2-monolayer-thick induced ferromagnetic region, and pinned u...

We propose a usage of microwave radiation in a magnetic trap for improving the cooling and trapping of cold antihydrogen atoms which are initially produced in high magnetic moment states. Inducing transitions toward lower magnetic moments near the turning points of the atom in the trap, followed by spontaneous emission, should enhance the number of trappable atoms. We present results of simulat...

The effect of a strong magnetic field on the modified Urca process in neutron star cores is considered in this paper. It is found that this effect is significant when the interior magnetic field is greater than 1018 G, especially at some resonant states. In these situations, the strong magnetic field will significantly increase the rate of neutrino emission and influence the cooling of neutron ...