ABSTRACT Observations by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) have enabled us to explore the population of non-recycled gamma-ray pulsars with a set of 112 objects. It was recently noted that there ...are apparent differences in the properties of radio-quiet and radio-loud subsets. In particular, the average observed radio-loud pulsar is younger than the average radio-quiet one and is located at lower Galactic latitude. Even so, the analysis based on the full list of pulsars may suffer from selection effects. Namely, most radio-loud pulsars are first discovered in the radio band, while radio-quiet ones are found using the gamma-ray data. In this work we perform a blind search for gamma-ray pulsars using the Fermi-LAT data alone, using all point sources from the 3FGL catalog as the candidates. Unlike our previous work, the present catalog is constructed with a semi-coherent method based on the time-differencing technique and covers the full range of characteristic ages down to 1 kyr. The search resulted in a catalog of 40 non-recycled pulsars, 25 of which are radio-quiet. All pulsars found in the search were previously known gamma-ray pulsars. We find no statistically significant differences in age or in distributions in Galactic latitude for the radio-loud and radio-quiet pulsars, while the distributions in rotation period are marginally different with a statistical probability of . The fraction of radio-quiet pulsars is estimated as . The results are in agreement with the predictions of the outer magnetosphere models, while the polar cap models are disfavored.
The separation of heterogeneous systems, of which gas is the solid medium, is a common process of the chemical and oil and gas industries. The quality of gas flow separation affects the efficiency of ...the entire process. This paper provides a research of the effect of the geometrical dimensions of a regular separation pack composed of corrugated sheets on the efficiency of fine particle capture. Information-measuring system based on simulation using computer simulation using finite element method is proposed for evaluation.
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Galactic sites of acceleration of cosmic rays to energies of order 10
15
eV and higher, dubbed PeVatrons, reveal themselves by recently discovered gamma radiation of energies above 100 TeV. ...However, joint gamma-ray and neutrino production, which marks unambiguously cosmic-ray interactions with ambient matter and radiation, was not observed until now. In 2020 November, the IceCube neutrino observatory reported an ∼150 TeV neutrino event from the direction of one of the most promising Galactic PeVatrons, the Cygnus Cocoon. Here we report on the observation of a 3.1
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(post-trial) excess of atmospheric air showers from the same direction, observed by the Carpet–2 experiment and consistent with a few months flare in photons above 300 TeV, in temporal coincidence with the neutrino event. The fluence of the gamma-ray flare is of the same order as that expected from the neutrino observation, assuming the standard mechanism of neutrino production. This is the first evidence for the joint production of high-energy neutrinos and gamma-rays in a Galactic source.
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In experiments on the ignition of the stoichiometric mixture of hydrogen and oxygen over strips of palladium and platinum foil at a total pressure of up to 200 Torr and initial temperature up to ...300°C, the temperature of the foils during ignition was measured using an infrared camera and data on temperature dependence of metal resistivity. The temperature of the ignition initiated at 40 Torr over a heated palladium foil was shown to be ~100°C lower than that over a platinum foil. Even the minimal measured foil temperature (623°C) is sufficient to ignite the explosive mixture, implying that the influence of a catalytic reaction of hydrogen oxidation over the noble metals is insignificant in the case of initiated ignition. The presence of water vapor was found to prevent ignition. In the case of thermal ignition, it was found out that at a pressure of up to 180 Torr and 288°C the catalytic activity of the palladium foil is significantly higher than that of the platinum foil. The palladium foil activity is manifested in the competition of two processes: the emergence of local ignition centers on the foil, from which a combustion wave propagates, and a dark catalytic reaction of transformation of the explosive mixture into water.
We report on the search of astrophysical gamma rays with energies in the 100 TeV to several PeV range arriving in directional and temporal coincidence with public alerts from HAWC (TeV gamma rays) ...and IceCube (neutrinos above ∼ 100TeV). The observations have been performed with the Carpet-2 air-shower detector at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory, working in the “photon-friendly” mode since 2018. Photon candidate showers are selected by their low muon content. No significant excess of the photon candidates have been observed, and upper limits on gamma-ray fluences associated with the alerts are obtained. For events with good viewing conditions, the Carpet-2 effective area for photons is of the order of the IceCube effective area for neutrinos of the same energy, so the constraints start to probe the production of neutrinos in fast flares of Galactic sources.
The current situation in cosmology and particle physics, which are two closely related fields of fundamental physics, is unique. The Standard Model of particle physics excellently reproduces all ...existing experimental data except for neutrino oscillations. Similarly, the comparison of the standard cosmological model with astronomical observations indicates that we well understand the evolution of the Universe from its “birth” to the present. However, to understand mechanisms of numerous cosmological phenomena, it is certainly necessary to go beyond the Standard Model. These are primarily the problems of dark matter and dark energy, generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, and the mechanism of inflation expansion. The problem of the appearance of cosmic magnetic fields and the recent problem of the existence of massive black holes whose number in the Universe is much larger than the expected values are among less known, but also very important problems in conventional cosmology and astrophysics. To understand and possibly solve these problems, it is very important to provide deep insight into the Universe and to obtain data on physical processes at the early stages of the cosmological evolution. Multi-messenger observations involving all possible messengers (“windows”) provide a powerful tool for this. In addition to conventional detection of electromagnetic radiation in all bands and all types of cosmic rays, the observations of gravitational waves have recently opened a new window. A complex analysis of information obtained from various astronomical data has been performed in our works supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 20-42-09010 “Opening of New Windows to the Early Universe by Means of Multi-Messenger Astronomy”). In particular, the characteristics of cosmic magnetic fields and possible mechanisms of their appearance have been studied and the observed manifestations of primary black holes have been examined using the data on gravitational waves observed at the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA interferometers.
It is shown that the front of the flame of a thoroughly mixed diluted methane-oxygen mixture at 298 K and 100–300 Torr propagating to the ends of hollow cylindrical and conical obstacles does not ...form a von Kármán path (vortex shedding) behind them; however, this instability occurs under the same conditions in the flow of hot products after obstacles. The reason that vortex shedding is not observed behind an obstacle during flame propagation but appears in the course of propagation of a reflected stream of hot products is that thermal conductivity reduces the curvature of the flame and leads to its stabilization. Indeed, the convex areas of the chemical reaction zone in a combustible mixture give off more heat in relation to cold ones than in a flat flame: the heat from them is not only transmitted forward in the direction of flame propagation but also in the lateral directions. The resulting cooling of the reaction zone causes the flame regions that burst forward to lag behind. The opposite situation is observed in concave areas, where the temperature rises for the same reasons. The rate of reactions increases and they spread forward faster as the flame spreads. Thus, the surface of the curved front of the flame is evened out. In other words, thermal conductivity has a stabilizing effect on a curved flame. This effect is missing in non-reactive gas. This effect is absent in a nonreacting gas. Calculations based on the acoustic approximation of the Navier–Stokes equations for a compressible reacting medium make it possible to take into account the main observed feature of the flame front approaching an obstacle in the form of a cylinder: vortex shedding is not observed behind the obstacle during flame propagation. Thus, a qualitative model allows obtaining both the mode of the emergence of a von Kármán instability in a chemically inert gas and its absence during flame propagation.
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