Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 1989. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-106).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (University of Texas Digital Repository, viewed on Sept. 9, 2009). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-91). Also available in electronic version.

Submitted by Emanuel Varela Cardoso (emanuel.varela@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-10-09T19:22:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CAMILLA DOS SANTOS RODRIGUES LEITE – DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGFísica) 2012.pdf: 1293712 bytes, checksum: 38858a36d1603d9c94c3a7861fe88368 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-09T19:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CAMILLA DOS SANTOS RODRIGUES LEITE – DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGFísica) 2012.pdf: 1293712 bytes, checksum: 38858a36d1603d9c94c3a7861fe88368 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 / Capes / Uma caracterização bem elaborada das propriedades físicas das galáxias é de fundamental importância para entendermos o comportamento do Universo. Por outro lado, um dos grandes desafi os da Teoria da Relatividade Geral é encontrar soluções exatas com clara interpretação física. Nosso trabalho visa obter soluções exatas das equações de Einstein que possam representar modelos de discos galácticos, seguindo um método indireto para evitar a árdua tarefa de resolver as equações de Einstein diretamente. Para tanto, consideramos a ideia de uma hipersuperfície imersa em um espaço de dimensão superior, e utilizamos o formalismo da imersão associado ao Método "deslocar, cortar e refletir" (que pode ser considerado como uma adaptação do conhecido método das imagens, estudado em eletrostática), com o qual "cortando" e "colando" soluções conhecidas de vácuo, geramos soluções com fonte do tipo disco. Este procedimento é aqui denominado método da imersão, e constitui-se como uma ferramenta e ciente na modelagem de discos, visto que permite uma maior liberdade quanto à escolha da hipersuperfície de corte, e a consequente determinação das propriedades físicas (densidade, pressão, etc) do disco de matéria gerado. Este método, portanto, torna-se mais abrangente, uma vez que o método convencional se limita à analise de hipersuperfícies "planas", nas coordenadas consideradas. Através da aplicação desse método, verifi camos que o conteúdo material de um disco galáctico, idealizado como um disco de matéria infinitamente fino, é descrito por um tensor energia-momento super ficial cujas componentes podem ser escritas explicitamente em termos das funções de imersão. Estudando alguns casos particulares, reproduzimos os resultados encontrados na literatura. / The study of the physical properties of galaxies is very important to understand the behavior of the Universe. On the other hand, one of the great challenges of the General Theory of Relativity is to nd exact solutions which have a clear physical interpretation. Our work aims to obtain exact solutions of Einstein's equations that can represent models of galactic disks, by following an indirect method to avoid the di cult task of solving Einstein's equations directly. To this end, we consider the idea of a hypersurface embedded in a space of higher dimension, and we use the embedding formalism associated with the method of "displace", cut and reflect" (which can be considered as an adaptation of the known method of images, studied in electrostatics) on known vacuum solutions in order to generate solutions with disklike sources. This procedure, called the Embedding Method, is an e cient tool for modeling disks, as it allows great freedom in the choice of cutting hipersurfaces, and the consequent determination of physical properties (density, pressure, etc.) of the matter in the disk which is generated. Therefore, this method becomes more general than the conventional formulation of the method of "displace, cut and reflect", which works only to "plane" hypersurfaces (as viewed in the employed coordinate system). By applying the embedding formalism, we found that the material content of galactic disks, idealized as a in nitely thin disk of matter, is described by an energy-momentum tensor whose components can be written explicitly in terms of the embeeding functions. By studying individual cases, we reproduce some disk models found in the literature.

abstract: The lowest-mass stars, known as M-dwarfs, form target samples for upcoming exoplanet searches, and together with lower-mass substellar objects known as brown dwarfs, are among prime targets for detailed study with high-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging and sub-millimeter interferometry. In this thesis, I describe results from three studies investigating the companion properties and environments of low-mass systems: (1) The 245-star M-dwarfs in Multiples (MinMs) Survey, a volume-limited survey of field M-dwarf companions within 15 pc, (2) the Taurus Boundary of Stellar/Substellar (TBOSS) Survey, an ongoing study of disk properties for low-mass members within the Taurus star-forming region, and (3) spectroscopy of a brown dwarf companion using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). Direct imaging of M-dwarfs is a sensitive technique to identify low-mass companions over a wide range of orbital separation, and the high proper motion of nearby M-dwarfs eases confirmation of new multiple stars. Combining AO and wide-field imaging, the MinMs Survey provides new measurements of the companion star fraction (CSF), separation distribution, and mass ratio distribution for the nearest K7-M6 dwarfs. These results demonstrate the closer orbital separations (~6 AU) and lower frequency (~23% CSF) of M-dwarf binaries relative to higher-mass stars. From the TBOSS project, I report 885µm Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array continuum measurements for 24 Taurus members spanning the stellar/substellar boundary (M4-M7.75). Observations of submillimeter emission from dust grains around the lowest-mass hosts show decreasing disk dust mass for decreasing host star mass, consistent with low frequencies of giant planets around M-dwarfs. Compared to the older stellar association of Upper Scorpius, Taurus disks have a factor of four higher mass in submillimeter-sized grains. From the GPI Exoplanet Survey, I describe near-infrared spectroscopy of an unusually red companion orbiting inside the debris disk of an F5V star. As the second brown dwarf discovered within the innermost region of a debris disk, the properties of this system offer important dynamical constraints for companion-disk interaction and a useful benchmark for brown dwarf and giant planet atmospheric study. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Astrophysics 2017

Les disques aubagés, que l’on trouve dans les turbomachines, sont des structures complexes dont le comportement vibratoire est généralement déterminé par l’exploitation de conditions de symétrie dans leur configuration nominale. Cette symétrie disparaît lorsque l’on assemble plusieurs de ces disques pour former un rotor ou que l’on introduit une variabilité spatiale des paramètres mécaniques (on parle de désaccordage intentionnel ou non). Le raffinement des maillages, nécessaire à une évaluation correcte de la répartition des contraintes, conduirait à des modèles de rotor complet de taille prohibitive (plusieurs dizaines de millions de degrés de liberté). L’objectif de cette thèse est donc l’introduction de méthodologies de réduction qui par combinaison de calculs acceptables permettent d’étudier de façon fine la dynamique d’ensemble sur des modèles 3D fins multi-étages et potentiellement désaccordés. L’étude des transformations de Fourier séparées des réponses de chaque étage permet, dans un premier temps, de bien comprendre les effets de couplage inter-harmonique liés au couplage inter-disque et au désaccordage. A partir de ce constat, une première méthode utilise les résultats de calculs en symétrie cyclique et à secteur encastré pour construire un modèle de secteur exact pour certains modes dits cibles et de très bonne qualité pour les autres modes. Cette méthode est ensuite étendue au cas multi-étage en construisant des bases de réduction de secteur par combinaison de solutions mono-harmoniques. Les illustrations montrent que la méthodologie proposée permet le traitement de modèles de très grande taille, tout en restant compatible avec une grande richesse de post-traitements (calculs de modes, calculs de réponses forcées, analyses de leur contenu harmonique spatial, répartition d’énergie et effets de localisation...). La méthodologie est enfin étendue à la gestion de modèles paramétrés en vitesse de rotation. L’enrichissement des ensembles de modes cibles par des calculs à trois vitesses permet ainsi une reconstruction rapide de l’évolution des fréquences pour l’ensemble d’un intervalle. / Bladed disks found in turbomachines are complex structures whose vibration characteristics are generally determined by exploiting the symmetry properties of their nominal configuration. This symmetry no longer exists either when disks are assembled to form a rotor or when discrepancies in the mechanical parameters are introduced (intentional or unintentional mistuning). Fine meshes required to correctly evaluate stress distributions would lead to prohibitive model sizes (typically a few million degrees of freedom). The objective of this thesis is to introduce model reduction techniques that rely on the combination of separate computations of acceptable size. This provides a means for in-depth studies of the behaviour of dense 3D models of multi-stage bladed rotors with possible mistuning. At first, Fourier transforms performed separately on each individual disk allows to understand the inter-harmonic coupling induced by inter-stage coupling and mistuning. From this study, a first method uses cyclically symmetric solutions plus sector modes with fixed inter-sector interfaces to build a reduced sector model. The latter is exact for target modes and very accurate for others. This method is extended to multi-stage assemblies by employing multi-stage mono-harmonic eigensolutions. Illustrations focus on the proposed methodology that enables to deal with large scale industrial models while remaining compatible with various post-processing procedures (free or forced response computations, analysis of their spatial harmonic content, energy distributions and localization effects...). This methodology is finally extended to the handling of parametric models depending on the rotation speed. The enrichment of the initial sets of target vectors with computations at three rotation speeds enables a fast and accurate recovery of the evolution of the eigenfrequencies with respect to the rotation speed in any operating range.

HD 100453AB is a 10 +/- 2 Myr old binary whose protoplanetary disk was recently revealed to host a global two-armed spiral structure. Given the relatively small projected separation of the binary (1.'' 05, or similar to 108 au), gravitational perturbations by the binary seemed to be a likely driving force behind the formation of the spiral arms. However, the orbit of these stars remained poorly understood, which prevented a proper treatment of the dynamical influence of the companion on the disk. We observed HD. 100453AB between 2015 and 2017, utilizing extreme adaptive optics systems on the Very Large Telescope and the Magellan Clay Telescope. We combined the astrometry from these observations with published data to constrain the parameters of the binary's orbit to a = 1.'' 06 +/- 0.'' 09, e = 0.17 +/- 0.07, and i = 32 degrees.5 +/- 6 degrees.5. We utilized publicly available ALMA (CO)-C-12 data to constrain the inclination of the disk, i(disk) similar to 28 degrees, which is relatively coplanar with the orbit of the companion and consistent with previous estimates from scattered light images. Finally, we input these constraints into hydrodynamic and radiative transfer simulations to model the structural evolution of the disk. We find that the spiral structure and truncation of the circumprimary disk in HD 100453 are consistent with a companion-driven origin. Furthermore, we find that the primary star's rotation, its outer disk, and the companion exhibit roughly the same direction of angular momentum, and thus the system likely formed from the same parent body of material.

We present Magellan adaptive optics Ha imaging of HH 508, which has the highest surface brightness among protostellar jets in the Orion Nebula. We find that HH 508 actually has a shorter component to the west, and a longer and knotty component to the east. The east component has a kink at 0.'' 3 from the jet-driving star theta(1) Ori B-2, so it may have been deflected by the wind/radiation from the nearby theta(1) Ori B1B5. The origin of both components is unclear, but if each of them is a separate jet, then theta(1) Ori B-2 may be a tight binary. Alternatively, HH 508 may be a slow-moving outflow, and each component represents an illuminated cavity wall. The ionization front surrounding theta(1) Ori B2B3 does not directly face theta(1) Ori B1B5, suggesting that the EUV radiation from theta(1) Ori C plays a dominant role in affecting the morphology of proplyds even in the vicinity of theta(1) Ori B1B5. Finally, we report an Ha blob that might be ejected by the binary proplyd LV 1.

Orientador: Patricio Anibal Letelier Sotomayor / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T00:06:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vogt_Daniel_D.pdf: 2048895 bytes, checksum: d7173036404048baab332998c8c336cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Soluções exatas das equações do campo de Einstein que representam espaços-tempo com distribuições de matéria em forma de discos são construídas pelo método inverso (método das imagens). Estas soluções incluem discos estáticos ínos de fluido perfeito com e sem halos, discos estáticos finos de fluido perfeito com carga elétrica e modelos de discos finos formados por poeira carregada. São estudadas ainda novas soluções em vários sistemas de coordenadas que representam discos estáticos grossos com espessura constante. Uma forma particular para a métrica isotrópica em coordenadas cilíndricas é usada para obter-se versões relativísticas de pares potencial-densidade Newtonianos comumente usados na Astronomia Galáctica. Um modelo relativístico simplificado, porém exato, de um núcleo ativo de galáxia também é apresentado. Finalmente, é feito um estudo de alguns pares-potencial densidade Newtonianos obtidos a partir da expansão multipolar do potencial Newtoniano que generalizam pares conhecidos / Abstract: Exact solutions of Einstein field equations that represent space-times with disklike matter distributions are constructed using the inverse method (image method). These solutions include static thin perfect uid disks with and without halos, static thin charged perfect uid disks and models of thin charged dust disks. New solutions in various coordinate systems that represent static thick disks with constant thickness are also studied. A particular form of the isotropic metric in cylindrical coordinates is employed to obtain relativistic versions of Newtonian potential-density pairs commonly used in Galactic Astronomy. A simplified, although exact, relativistic model of an active galactic nuclei is also presented. Finally, some Newtonian potential-density pairs obtained from the Newtonian multipolar expansion that generalize known pairs are studied. / Doutorado / Física / Doutor em Ciências

Nesta dissertação discutimos o processo da acreção de materia sobre objetos compactos em suas diferentes abordagens. Iniciando com o caso clássico, estudamos sua contraparte relativística e, por fim, investigamos a acreção de fluidos cosmológicos (energia escura e matéria escura) em buracos negros. Devido a simetria esférica adotada, a formação dos chamados discos de acréscimo é proibida (tanto no caso clássico quanto no relativístico) e, portanto, os problemas relacionados com a física dos discos (sua formação e evolução) não foram investigados. No contexto clássico, analisamos inicialmente a chamada acreçao de Bondi, onde o fluido acretado obedece a uma equação de estado politropica e o processo de acreção é descrito pela hidrodinâmica euleriana. A existância de 6 tipos possíveis de solucões para o campo de velocidades é identicada e suas consequências fsicas são discutidas em detalhe. Apenas uma dessas soluções descreve de forma fisicamente consistente o processo de acreção. A taxa de materia acretada é constante, um resultado esperado devido a hipotese de regime estacionário. O estudo do caso relativstico é completamente baseado na Teoria da Relatividade Geral, com o campo gravitacional do corpo central sendo descrito pela metrica de Schwarzschild. O processo relativstico também ocorre sob condições estacionárias e, portanto, a taxa de acreção resultante também é constante. Uma atenção especial foi dedicada para a acreção de fluidos cosmologicos satisfazendo uma equação de estado linear e tambem para o chamado gás de Chaplygin. Estudamos separadamente o comportamento espacial do fluido na região dominada pela acreção e também a influência da evolução cosmologica nas regiões mais distantes. Mostramos que a massa do buraco negro central pode apresentar uma evolução no tempo em escala cosmológica. Os resultados de Babichev (caso linear) e o gás de Chaplygin foram unicadamente descritos através de uma equacão de estado generalizada. Por fim, determinamos também sob que condições a acreção de matéria pode provocar mudancas significativas na massa do buraco negro. / In this dissertation the matter accretion process upon compact objects is discussed in its diferent approaches. Starting with the classical case, the relativistic type was studied and, in the end, the accretion of cosmological fluids (dark energy and dark matter) onto a black hole is investigated. Due to spherical symmetry adopted, the formation of accretion disks is forbidden (both in the classical and relativistic case) and, thus, the problems related to disk physics (the formation and evolution) were not investigated. On the classical approach, the so called Bondi accretion is examined, in which the matter flux occurs according to a polytropic equation of state and the accretion itself is described by the Eulerian hydrodynamic. The existence of 6 possible families of solutions for the velocity field is identied and its physical consequences are thoroughly discussed. Only one of these solutions describes the accretion process in a physically consistent manner. The mass accretion rate is found to be constant, as expected duo to the steady-state hypothesis. The relativistic approach is completely based on the General Relativity Theory. In this case, the gravitational field of the central body is described by the Schwarzschild metric. The relativistic process also occurs in steady-state conditions and, therefore, the accretion flux also is constant. A particular interest is given to the accretion of cosmological fluids with a linear equation of state and of Chaplygin gas. Both the spacial behaviour of the fluids in the accretion dominated region and their cosmological evolution in farther regions are looked into individually. The mass of the central black hole\'s evolution is shown to occur in cosmological times. The Babichev (linear equation of state) and Chaplygin results were unied through a generalised equation of state. At last, it is also determined under which conditions the accretion of cosmological fluids can have astonishing effects on the black hole\'s mass.