We present multi-epoch, intermediate-dispersion linear spectropolarimetry of the pathological Wolf-Rayet star EZ CMa. The continuum polarization shows long-term quasi-periodic variations, both in polarization magnitude (range 0:8%) and position angle (60), and we observe changes in the polarization vector at emission-line wavelengths. We argue that the interstellar polarization (ISP) can be est...

A sample of large northern Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) galaxies has recently been observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). We present observations of the linearly polarized radio continuum emission in this WSRT-SINGS galaxy sample. Of the 28 galaxies treated in this paper, 21 are detected in polarized radio continuum at 18and 22-cm wavelengths. We utili...

in this paper, a general elastoplastic-damage constitutive model considering the effect of strain rate has been developed. the derivation of this model has been cast into the irreversible thermodynamics with internal variables within the fundamentals of continuum damage mechanics (cdm). the rate effect has been involved as an additional term into the plastic yield surface (dynamic plastic yield...

We present a model–independent study of the effects of a neutral Higgs boson without definite CP–parity in the process γγ → tt̄ around the mass pole of the Higgs boson. Near the resonance pole, the interference between the Higgs–exchange and the continuum amplitudes can be sizable if the photon beams are polarized and helicities of the top and anti–top quarks are measured. Study of these interfe...

It is shown that the continuum emission produced in the ablation of an Al target with nanosecond laser pulses is much more strongly polarized than the discrete line emission. This effect may be utilized to improve the resolution of the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy spectrum by using a polarizer to filter out the continuum background. The effects of laser fluence and focal position are al...

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time dependent gas velocity field resulting from 3D N-body sticky-particle simulations of a galaxy. The modeled clouds are affected by the ram pressure due to their...

Continuum robotic arms that are inspired from nature, have many advantages compared to traditional robots, which motivate researchers in this field. Dynamic modeling and controlling these robots are challenging subjects due to complicated nonlinearities and considerable uncertainties existing in these structures. In this paper, first a dynamic three-dimensional model of the continuum robotic ar...

The ultraviolet/optical continuum of quasars is thought to be from an accretion flow around a supermassive black hole, and it dominates the radiative output of quasars. However, the nature of this emission, often called the Big Blue Bump, has not been well understood. Robust evidence for its thermal nature would be a continuum opacity edge feature intrinsic to this component, but this has not b...