We are presenting a wide-field image of the Mon R2 star forming region obtained with WFCAM on UKIRT in the 2.12 μm filter centered on the H2 1–0 S(1) emission line. We report the discovery of 15 new H2 jets in Mon R2 and two in L 1646 and confirm most of these discoveries using archival Spitzer IRAC 4.5 μm and 8.0 μm images. We find that many of these protostellar jets are found in projection a...

The Monoceros R2 region was first recognized as a chain of reflection nebulae illuminated by Aand B-type stars. These nebulae are associated with a giant molecular cloud that is one of the closest massive star forming regions to the Sun. This chapter reviews the properties of the Mon R2 region, including the namesake reflection nebulae, the large scale molecular cloud, global star formation act...

Convergence of diagonal Padé approximants is studied for a class of functions which admit the integral representation F(λ) = r1(λ) R 1 −1 tdσ(t) t−λ + r2(λ), where σ is a finite nonnegative measure on [−1, 1], r1, r2 are real rational functions bounded at ∞, and r1 is nonnegative for real λ. Sufficient conditions for the convergence of a subsequence of diagonal Padé approximants of F on R \ [−1...

We show that the intersection of three subgroups in a free group is related to the computation of the third homotopy group π3. This generalizes a result of Gutierrez-Ratcliffe who relate the intersection of two subgroups with the computation of π2. Let K be a twodimensional CW-complex with subcomplexes K1,K2,K3 such that K = K1 ∪ K2 ∪ K3 and K1 ∩ K2 ∩ K3 is the 1-skeleton K of K. We construct a...

The effect of high volume fraction of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) transverse relaxation rates (R2 = 1/T2 and R2* = 1/T2*) is investigated using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. Theoretical models assume that particles occupy a small volume fraction of the sample space. Results presented in this work show that models based on both motional averaged (MAR) and sta...

The Robonaut 2 (R2) platform, as shown in Figure 1, was designed through a collaboration between NASA and General Motors to be a capable robotic assistant with the dexterity similar to a suited astronaut [1]. An R2 robot was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2011 and, in doing so, became the first humanoid robot in space. Its capabilities are presently being tested and e...

PURPOSE The aim of this work was to quantify the extent of lipid-rich necrotic core (LRNC) and intraplaque hemorrhage (IPH) in atherosclerotic plaques. METHODS Patients scheduled for carotid endarterectomy underwent four-point Dixon and T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 3 Tesla. Fat and R2* maps were generated from the Dixon sequence at the acquired spatial resolution of 0.60 × ...