A single merger scenario for making galaxies such as NGC 4550 possessing equal coplanar counter-rotating stellar disks is investigated by collisionless N-body technique. The scenario is successful in producing an axisymmetric disk made of two almost equal counter-rotating populations. The final disk shows a clear bimodal line profile in the outer part, which demonstrates that disk-disk mergers ...

We explore the possibility for the formation of Population III binaries. The collapse of a rotating cylinder is simulated with a three-dimensional, highresolution nested grid, assuming the thermal history of primordial gas. The simulations are done with dimensionless units, and the results are applicable to low-mass as well as massive systems by scaling with the initial density. We find that if...

The Bardeen-Petterson effect around a rapidly-rotating compact object causes a tilted accretion disk to warp into the equatorial plane of the rotating body. Viscous forces cause the accretion flow to divide into two distinct regions an inner aligned accretion disk and an outer tilted accretion disk. The transition between these two occurs at a characteristic radius that depends on the mass and ...

We present similarity solutions which describe the runaway collapse of a rotating isothermal cloud and its subsequent inside-out collapse. The similarity solutions contain the sound speed, c s , and the ratio of the speci c angular momentum to the mass, !, as model parameters. During the runaway collapse, the surface density of the disk is nearly constant in the central part and inversely propo...

Existence of an exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equations representing swirling flow consisting of two fluid layers is proven. It is assumed that the fluid in the bottom layer is injected into the swirl from a rotating disk. This describes the case when a disk melts in an ambient fluid and the melted fluid is removed by rotation of the disk.

Water wetting is a crucial issue in carbon dioxide (CO2) corrosion of multiphase flow pipelines made from mild steel. This study demonstrates the use of a novel benchtop apparatus, a horizontal rotating cylinder, to study the effect of water wetting on CO2 corrosion of mild steel in two-phase flow. The setup is similar to a standard rotating cylinder except for its horizontal orientation and th...

We report the detection of a massive rotating disk around the high-mass Class 0 candidate NGC7538 S. The disk is well-resolved with BIMA (θA =3 ′′ . 7) in 3.4 mm continuum and in HCN J=1→0. It is seen nearly edge on and has a size of ∼30,000 AU. A young, powerful outflow perpendicular to the rotating disk is mapped in SiO J=2→1 and HCO J=1→0. The dynamical age of the outflow is ≤ 10,000 yr. The...

The pupil is primarily regulated by prevailing light levels but is also modulated by perceptual and attentional factors. We measured pupil-size in typical adult humans viewing a bistable-rotating cylinder, constructed so the luminance of the front surface changes with perceived direction of rotation. In some participants, pupil diameter oscillated in phase with the ambiguous perception, more di...