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We report on the detection of very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac objects KUV 00311-1938 and PKS 1440-389 with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). H.E.S.S. observations were accompanied or preceded by multiwavelength observations with Fermi/LAT, XRT and UVOT onboard the Swift satellite, and ATOM. Based on an extrapolation of the Fermi/LAT spectrum towards the VHE gamma-ray regime, we deduce a 95 per cent confidence level upper limit on the unknown redshift of KUV 00311-1938 of z < 0.98 and of PKS 1440-389 of z < 0.53. When combined with previous spectroscopy results, the redshift of KUV 00311-1938 is constrained to 0.51 <= z < 0.98 and of PKS 1440-389 to 0.14 (sic) z < 0.53.
Bacterial chemotaxis-a fundamental example of directional navigation in the living world-is key to many biological processes, including the spreading of bacterial infections. Many bacterial species were recently reported to exhibit several distinct swimming modes-the flagella may, for example, push the cell body or wrap around it. How do the different run modes shape the chemotaxis strategy of a multimode swimmer? Here, we investigate chemotactic motion of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida as a model organism. By simultaneously tracking the position of the cell body and the configuration of its flagella, we demonstrate that individual run modes show different chemotactic responses in nutrition gradients and, thus, constitute distinct behavioral states. On the basis of an active particle model, we demonstrate that switching between multiple run states that differ in their speed and responsiveness provides the basis for robust and efficient chemotaxis in complex natural habitats.
During a dark night, it is possible to observe thousands of stars by eye. All these stars are located within the Milky Way, our home. Not all stars are the same, they can have different sizes, masses, temperatures and ages. Heavy stars do not live long (in astronomical terms), only a few million years, but stars less massive than the Sun can get more than ten billion years old. Such small stars that formed in the beginning of the Universe still shine today. These ancient stars are very helpful to learn more about the early Universe, the First Stars and the history of the Milky Way. But how do you recognise an ancient star? Using their chemical fingerprints! In the beginning of the Universe, there were only two chemical elements: hydrogen and helium (and a tiny bit of lithium). All the heavier elements like carbon, calcium and iron were only made later within stars and their explosions. The amount of chemical elements in the Universe increases with the number of stars that are born, evolve and explode. Stars that form later are born with more heavy elements, or a greater metallicity. In the field of astronomy that is called “Galactic Archaeology”, stars of various metallicities are used to study the history of the Milky Way. In this doctoral thesis, the focus is on metal-poor stars because these are expected to be the oldest and can therefore tell us a lot about the early history of our Galaxy.
Until today, we still have not discovered a metal-free star. The most metal-poor stars, however, give us important insights in the lives and deaths of the First Stars. Many of the oldest, most metal-poor stars have an unexpectedly large amount of carbon, compared to for example iron. These carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars tell us something about the very first stars in the Universe: they somehow produced a lot of carbon. If we look at the precise chemical fingerprints of the CEMP stars, we can learn a lot more. But our interpretation depends on the assumption that the chemical fingerprint of a star does not change during its life. In this thesis, new data is presented that shows that this assumption may be too simple: many extremely metal-poor CEMP stars are members of binary systems. Interactions between two stars in a binary system can pollute the surface of the stars. Likely not all of the CEMP stars in binary systems were actually polluted, but we should be very careful in our interpretations of the fingerprints of these stars.
The CEMP stars and other metal-poor stars are also important for our understanding of the early history of the Milky Way. Most researchers who study metal-poor stars look for these stars in the halo of the Milky Way: a huge diffuse Galactic component containing about 1% of the stars in our Galaxy. However, models predict that the oldest metal-poor stars are located in the center of the Milky Way, in the bulge. The metal-poor inner Galaxy is unfortunately difficult to study due to large amounts of dust between us and the center and an overwhelming majority of metal-rich stars. This thesis presents results from the successful Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS), a new survey looking for (and finding) the oldest stars in the bulge of the Milky Way. PIGS is using images with a specific color that is sensitive to the metallicity of stars, and can therefore efficiently select the metal-poor stars among millions of other, more metal-rich stars. The interesting candidates are followed up with spectroscopy, which is then analysed using two independent methods. With this strategy, PIGS has discovered the largest sample of metal-poor stars in the inner Galaxy to date. A new result from the PIGS data is that the metal-poor stars rotate more slowly around the Galactic center compared to the more metal-rich stars, and they show larger randomness in their motions as well. Another important contribution from PIGS is the discovery of tens of CEMP stars in the inner Galaxy, where previously only two such stars were known.
The new results from this thesis help us to understand the First Stars and the early history of the Milky Way. Ongoing and future large surveys will provide us with a lot of additional data in the coming years. It is an exciting time for the field of Galactic Archaeology.
In this dissertation we introduce a concept of light driven active and passive manipulation of colloids trapped at solid/liquid interface. The motion is induced due to generation of light driven diffusioosmotic flow (LDDO) upon irradiation with light of appropriate wavelength. The origin of the flow is due to osmotic pressure gradient resulting from a concentration gradient at the solid/liquid interface of the photosensitive surfactant present in colloidal dispersion. The photosensitive surfactant consists of a cationic head group and a hydrophobic tail in which azobenzene group is integrated in. The azobenzene is known to undergo reversible photo-isomerization from a stable trans to a meta stable cis state under irradiation with UV light. Exposure to light of larger wavelength results in back photo-isomerization from cis to trans state. The two isomers have different molecular properties, for instance, trans isomer has a rod like structure and low polarity (0 dipole moment), whereas cis one is bent and has a dipole moment of ~3 Debye. Being integrated in the hydrophobic tail of the surfactant molecule, the azobenzene state determines the hydrophobicity of the whole molecule: in the trans state the surfactant is more hydrophobic than in the cis-state. In this way many properties of the surfactant such as the CMC, solubility and the interaction potential with a solid surface can be altered by light. When the solution containing such a surfactant is irradiated with focused light, a concentration gradient of different isomers is formed near the boundary of the irradiated area near the solid surface resulting in osmotic pressure gradient. The generated diffusioosmotic (DO) flow carries the particles passively along.
The local-LDDO flow can be generated around and by each particle when mesoporous silica colloids are dispersed in the surfactant solution. This is because porous particles act as a sink/source which absorbs azobenzene molecule in trans state and expels it when it is in the cis state. The DO flows generated at each particle interact resulting in aggregation or separation depending upon the initial state of surfactant molecules. The kinetic of aggregation and separation can be controlled and manipulated by altering the parameters such as the wavelength and intensity of the applied light, as well as surfactant and particle concentration. Using two wavelengths simultaneously allows for dynamic gathering and separation creating fascinating patterns such as 2D disk of well separated particles or establishing collective complex behaviour of particle ensemble as described in this thesis.
The mechanism of l-LDDO is also used to generate self-propelled motion. This is possible when half of the porous particle is covered by metal layer, basically blocking the pores on one side. The LDDO flow generated on uncapped side pushes the particle forward resulting in a super diffusive motion. The system of porous particle and azobenzene containing surfactant molecule can be utilized for various application such as drug delivery, cargo transportation, self-assembling, micro motors/ machines or micro patterning.
The Earth's inner magnetosphere is a very dynamic system, mostly driven by the external solar wind forcing exerted upon the magnetic field of our planet. Disturbances in the solar wind, such as coronal mass ejections and co-rotating interaction regions, cause geomagnetic storms, which lead to prominent changes in charged particle populations of the inner magnetosphere - the plasmasphere, ring current, and radiation belts. Satellites operating in the regions of elevated energetic and relativistic electron fluxes can be damaged by deep dielectric or surface charging during severe space weather events. Predicting the dynamics of the charged particles and mitigating their effects on the infrastructure is of particular importance, due to our increasing reliance on space technologies.
The dynamics of particles in the plasmasphere, ring current, and radiation belts are strongly coupled by means of collisions and collisionless interactions with electromagnetic fields induced by the motion of charged particles. Multidimensional numerical models simplify the treatment of transport, acceleration, and loss processes of these particles, and allow us to predict how the near-Earth space environment responds to solar storms. The models inevitably rely on a number of simplifications and assumptions that affect model accuracy and complicate the interpretation of the results. In this dissertation, we quantify the processes that control electron dynamics in the inner magnetosphere, paying particular attention to the uncertainties of the employed numerical codes and tools.
We use a set of convenient analytical solutions for advection and diffusion equations to test the accuracy and stability of the four-dimensional Versatile Electron Radiation Belt (VERB-4D) code. We show that numerical schemes implemented in the code converge to the analytical solutions and that the VERB-4D code demonstrates stable behavior independent of the assumed time step. The order of the numerical scheme for the convection equation is demonstrated to affect results of ring current and radiation belt simulations, and it is crucially important to use high-order numerical schemes to decrease numerical errors in the model.
Using the thoroughly tested VERB-4D code, we model the dynamics of the ring current electrons during the 17 March 2013 storm. The discrepancies between the model and observations above 4.5 Earth's radii can be explained by uncertainties in the outer boundary conditions. Simulation results indicate that the electrons were transported from the geostationary orbit towards the Earth by the global-scale electric and magnetic fields.
We investigate how simulation results depend on the input models and parameters. The model is shown to be particularly sensitive to the global electric field and electron lifetimes below 4.5 Earth's radii. The effects of radial diffusion and subauroral polarization streams are also quantified.
We developed a data-assimilative code that blends together a convection model of energetic electron transport and loss and Van Allen Probes satellite data by means of the Kalman filter. We show that the Kalman filter can correct model uncertainties in the convection electric field, electron lifetimes, and boundary conditions. It is also demonstrated how the innovation vector - the difference between observations and model prediction - can be used to identify physical processes missing in the model of energetic electron dynamics.
We computed radial profiles of phase space density of ultrarelativistic electrons, using Van Allen Probes measurements. We analyze the shape of the profiles during geomagnetically quiet and disturbed times and show that the formation of new local minimums in the radial profiles coincides with the ground observations of electromagnetic ion-cyclotron (EMIC) waves. This correlation indicates that EMIC waves are responsible for the loss of ultrarelativistic electrons from the heart of the outer radiation belt into the Earth's atmosphere.
During the last decade, intracellular actin waves have attracted much attention due to their essential role in various cellular functions, ranging from motility to cytokinesis. Experimental methods have advanced significantly and can capture the dynamics of actin waves over a large range of spatio-temporal scales. However, the corresponding coarse-grained theory mostly avoids the full complexity of this multi-scale phenomenon. In this perspective, we focus on a minimal continuum model of activator–inhibitor type and highlight the qualitative role of mass conservation, which is typically overlooked. Specifically, our interest is to connect between the mathematical mechanisms of pattern formation in the presence of a large-scale mode, due to mass conservation, and distinct behaviors of actin waves.
From dawn till dusk
(2020)
Supernova remnants are believed to be the source of cosmic rays with energies up to 10^15 eV that are produced within our Galaxy. The acceleration mechanism associated with the collision-less shocks in supernova remnants - diffusive shock acceleration - predicts a spectral index of the accelerated non-thermal particles of s = 2. However, measurements of non-thermal emission in radio, X-rays and gamma-rays reveal significant deviations of the particles spectral index from the canonical value of s = 2.
The youngest Galactic supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 is an interesting target for next-generation gamma-ray observatories. So far, the remnant is only detected in the radio and the X-ray bands, but its young age of ≈100 yrs and inferred shock speed of ≈ 14, 000 km/s could make it an efficient particle accelerator.
I performed spherical symmetric 1D simulations with the RATPaC code, in which I simultaneously solved the transport equation for cosmic rays, the transport equation for magnetic turbulence, and the hydro-dynamical equations for the gas flow. Separately computed distributions of the particles accelerated at the forward and the reverse shock were then used to calculate the spectra of synchrotron, inverse Compton, and Pion-decay radiation from the source.
The emission from G1.9+0.3 can be self-consistently explained within the test-particle limit. I find that the X-ray flux is dominated by emission from the forward shock while most of the radio emission originates near the reverse shock, which makes G1.9+0.3 the first remnant with non-thermal radiation detected from the reverse shock. The flux of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from G1.9+0.3 is expected to be close to the sensitivity threshold of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The limited time available to grow large-scale turbulence limits the maximum energy of particles to values below 100 TeV, hence G1.9+0.3 is not a PeVatron.
Although there are many models for the acceleration of cosmic rays in Supernova remnants, the escape of cosmic rays from these sources is yet understudied.
I use our time-dependent acceleration code RATPaC to study the acceleration of cosmic rays and their escape in post-adiabatic Supernova remnants and calculate the subsequent gamma-ray emission from inverse-Compton scattering and Pion decay. My simulations span 100,000 years, thus covering the free-expansion, the Sedov-Taylor, and the beginning of the post-adiabatic phase of the remnant’s evolution.
At later stages of the evolution cosmic rays over a wide range of energy can reside outside of the remnant, creating spectra that are softer than predicted by standard diffusive shock acceleration and feature breaks in the 10 - 100 GeV-range. The total spectrum of cosmic rays released into the interstellar medium has a spectral index of s ≈ 2.4 above roughly 10 GeV which is close to that required by Galactic propagation models. I further find the gamma-ray luminosity to peak around an age of 4,000 years for inverse-Compton-dominated high-energy emission. Remnants expanding in low-density media emit generally more inverse-Compton radiation matching the fact that the brightest known supernova remnants - RCW86, Vela Jr, HESSJ1721-347 and RXJ1713.7-3946 - are all expanding in low density environments.
The importance of feedback from the cosmic-rays on the hydrodynamical evolution of the remnants is debated as a possibility to obtain soft cosmic-ray spectra at low energies.
I performed spherically symmetric 1-D simulations with a modified version of the RATPaC code, in which I simultaneously solve the transport equation for cosmic rays and the hydrodynamical equations, including the back-reaction of the cosmic-ray pressure on the flow profiles.
Besides the known modification of the flow profiles and the consequently curved cosmic-ray spectra, steady-state models for non-linear diffusive shock acceleration overpredict the total compression ratio that can be reached with cosmic-ray feedback, as there is limited time for building these modifications. Further, I find modifications to the downstream flow structure that change the evolutionary behavior of the remnant and trigger a cosmic-ray-induced instability close to the contact discontinuity, if and when the cosmic-ray pressure becomes dominant there.
According to established understanding, deep-water formation in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean keeps the deep ocean cold, counter-acting the downward mixing of heat from the warmer surface waters in the bulk of the world ocean. Therefore, periods of strong Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) are expected to coincide with cooling of the deep ocean and warming of the surface waters. It has recently been proposed that this relation may have reversed due to global warming, and that during the past decades a strong AMOC coincides with warming of the deep ocean and relative cooling of the surface, by transporting increasingly warmer waters downward. Here we present multiple lines of evidence, including a statistical evaluation of the observed global mean temperature, ocean heat content, and different AMOC proxies, that lead to the opposite conclusion: even during the current ongoing global temperature rise a strong AMOC warms the surface. The observed weakening of the AMOC has therefore delayed global surface warming rather than enhancing it.
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The overturning circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has weakened in response to global warming, as predicted by climate models. Since it plays an important role in transporting heat, nutrients and carbon, a slowdown will affect global climate processes and the global mean temperature. Scientists have questioned whether this slowdown has worked to cool or warm global surface temperatures. This study analyses the overturning strength and global mean temperature evolution of the past decades and shows that a slowdown acts to reduce the global mean temperature. This is because a slower overturning means less water sinks into the deep ocean in the subpolar North Atlantic. As the surface waters are cold there, the sinking normally cools the deep ocean and thereby indirectly warms the surface, thus less sinking implies less surface warming and has a cooling effect. For the foreseeable future, this means that the slowing of the overturning will likely continue to slightly reduce the effect of the general warming due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.
In the last decade the photovoltaic research has been preponderantly overturned by the arrival of metal halide perovskites. The introduction of this class of materials in the academic research for renewable energy literally shifted the focus of a large number of research groups and institutions. The attractiveness of halide perovskites lays particularly on their skyrocketing efficiencies and relatively simple and cheap fabrication methods. Specifically, the latter allowed for a quick development of this research in many universities and institutes around the world at the same time. The outcome has been a fast and beneficial increase in knowledge with a consequent terrific improvement of this new technology. On the other side, the enormous amount of research promoted an immense outgrowth of scientific literature, perpetually published. Halide perovskite solar cells are now effectively competing with other established photovoltaic technologies in terms of power conversion efficiencies and production costs. Despite the tremendous improvement, a thorough understanding of the energy losses in these systems is of imperative importance to unlock the full thermodynamic potential of this material. This thesis focuses on the understanding of the non-radiative recombination processes in the neat perovskite and in complete devices. Specifically, photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) measurements were applied to multilayer stacks and cells under different illumination conditions to accurately determine the quasi-Fermi levels splitting (QFLS) in the absorber, and compare it with the external open-circuit voltage of the device (V_OC). Combined with drift-diffusion simulations, this approach allowed us to pinpoint the sites of predominant recombination, but also to investigate the dynamics of the underlying processes. As such, the internal and external ideality factors, associated to the QFLS and V_OC respectively, are studied with the aim of understanding the type of recombination processes taking place in the multilayered architecture of the device. Our findings highlight the failure of the equality between QFLS and V_OC in the case of strong interface recombination, as well as the detrimental effect of all commonly used transport layers in terms of V_OC losses. In these regards, we show how, in most perovskite solar cells, different recombination processes can affect the internal QFLS and the external V_OC and that interface recombination dictates the V_OC losses. This line of arguments allowed to rationalize that, in our devices, the external ideality factor is completely dominated by interface recombination, and that this process can alone be responsible for values of the ideality factor between 1 and 2, typically observed in perovskite solar cells. Importantly, our studies demonstrated how strong interface recombination can lower the ideality factor towards values of 1, often misinterpreted as pure radiative second order recombination. As such, a comprehensive understanding of the recombination loss mechanisms currently limiting the device performance was achieved. In order to reach the full thermodynamic potential of the perovskite absorber, the interfaces of both the electron and hole transport layers (ETL/HTL) must be properly addressed and improved. From here, the second part of the research work is devoted on reducing the interfacial non-radiative energy losses by optimizing the structure and energetics of the relevant interface in our solar cell devices, with the aim of bringing their quasi-Fermi level splitting closer to its radiative limit. As such, the interfaces have been carefully addressed and optimized with different methodologies. First, a small amount of Sr is added into the perovskite precursor solution with the effect of effectively reducing surface and interface recombination. In this case, devices with V_OC up to 1.23 V were achieved and the energy losses were minimized to as low as 100 meV from the radiative limit of the material. Through a combination of different methods, we showed that these improvements are related to a strong n-type surface doping, which repels the holes in the perovskite from the surface and the interface with the ETL. Second, a more general device improvement was achieved by depositing a defect-passivating poly(ionic-liquid) layer on top of the perovskite absorber. The resulting devices featured a concomitant improvement of the V_OC and fill factor, up to 1.17 V and 83% respectively, reaching efficiency as high as 21.4%. Moreover, the protecting polymer layer helped to enhance the stability of the devices under prolonged maximum power point tracking measurements. Lastly, PLQY measurements are used to investigate the recombination mechanisms in halide-segregated large bandgap perovskite materials. Here, our findings showed how few iodide-rich low-energy domains act as highly efficient radiative recombination centers, capable of generating PLQY values up to 25%. Coupling these results with a detailed microscopic cathodoluminescence analysis and absorption profiles allowed to demonstrate how the emission from these low energy domains is due to the trapping of the carriers photogenerated in the Br-rich high-energy domains. Thereby, the strong implications of this phenomenon are discussed in relation to the failure of the optical reciprocity between absorption and emission and on the consequent applicability of the Shockley-Queisser theory for studying the energy losses such systems. In conclusion, the identification and quantification of the non-radiative QFLS and V_OC losses provided a base knowledge of the fundamental limitation of perovskite solar cells and served as guidance for future optimization and development of this technology. Furthermore, by providing practical examples of solar cell improvements, we corroborated the correctness of our fundamental understanding and proposed new methodologies to be further explored by new generations of scientists.
We investigate the initiation and early evolution of 12 solar eruptions, including six active-region hot channel and six quiescent filament eruptions, which were well observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, as well as by the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory for the latter. The sample includes one failed eruption and 11 coronal mass ejections, with velocities ranging from 493 to 2140 km s(-1). A detailed analysis of the eruption kinematics yields the following main results. (1) The early evolution of all events consists of a slow-rise phase followed by a main-acceleration phase, the height-time profiles of which differ markedly and can be best fit, respectively, by a linear and an exponential function. This indicates that different physical processes dominate in these phases, which is at variance with models that involve a single process. (2) The kinematic evolution of the eruptions tends to be synchronized with the flare light curve in both phases. The synchronization is often but not always close. A delayed onset of the impulsive flare phase is found in the majority of the filament eruptions (five out of six). This delay and its trend to be larger for slower eruptions favor ideal MHD instability models. (3) The average decay index at the onset heights of the main acceleration is close to the threshold of the torus instability for both groups of events (although, it is based on a tentative coronal field model for the hot channels), suggesting that this instability initiates and possibly drives the main acceleration.