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vi, 182 leaves, 2 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.) from the Dept. of Physics, University of Adelaide, 1973

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, June 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Physics, August 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

With the emergence of cloud-native applications, the need to secure networks and services creates new requirements concerning automation, manageability, and scalability across data centers. Several solutions have been developed to overcome the limitations of the conventional and well established IPsec suite as a secure tunneling solution. One strategy to meet these new requirements has been the design of software-based overlay networks. In this thesis, we assess the deployment of a traditional IPsec VPN solution against a new secure overlay mesh network called Nebula. We conduct a case study by provisioning an experimental system to evaluate Nebula in four key areas: reliability, security, manageability, and performance. We discuss the strengths of Nebula and its limitations for securing inter-service communication in distributed cloud applications. In terms of reliability, the thesis shows that Nebula falls short to meet its own goals of achieving host-to-host connectivity when attempting to traverse specific firewalls and NATs. With respect to security, Nebula provides certificate-based authentication and uses current and fast cryptographic algorithms and protocols from the Noise framework. Regarding manageability, Nebula is a modern solution with a loosely coupled design that allows scalability with cloud-ready features and easier deployment than IPsec. Finally, the performance of Nebula clearly shows an overhead for being a user-space software application. However, the overhead can be considered acceptable in certain server-to-server microservice interactions and is a fair trade-off for its ease of management in comparison to IPsec. / Med framväxten av molninbyggda applikationer skapar behovet av säkra nätverk och tjänster nya krav på automatisering, hanterbarhet och skalbarhet över datacenter. Flera lösningar har utvecklats för att övervinna begränsningarna i den konventionella och väletablerade IPsec-sviten som en säker tunnellösning. En strategi för att möta dessa nya krav har varit utformningen av mjukvarubaserade överläggsnätverk. I den här avhandlingen bedömer vi implementeringen av en traditionell IPsec VPN-lösning mot ett nytt säkert överläggsmeshnätverk som kallas Nebula. Vi genomför en fallstudie genom att bygga upp ett ett experimentellt system för att utvärdera Nebula inom fyra nyckelområden: tillförlitlighet, säkerhet, hanterbarhet och prestanda. Vi diskuterar styrkan i Nebula och dess begränsningar för att säkra kommunikation mellan tjänster i distribuerade molnapplikationer. När det gäller tillförlitlighet visar avhandlingen att Nebula inte uppfyller sina egna mål om att uppnå värd-tillvärd- anslutning när man försöker korsa specifika brandväggar och NAT. När det gäller säkerhet tillhandahåller Nebula certifikatbaserad autentisering och använder aktuella och snabba kryptografiska algoritmer och protokoll från Noise-ramverket. När det gäller hanterbarhet är Nebula en modern lösning med en löst kopplad design som möjliggör skalbarhet med molnklara funktioner och enklare distribution än IPsec. Slutligen visar prestandan hos Nebula tydligt en overhead för att vara en användarutrymme-programvara. Dock kan kostnaderna anses vara acceptabla i vissa server-till-server-mikroserviceinteraktioner och är en rättvis avvägning om vi tar i betraktande dess enkla hantering jämfört med IPsec.

This project is to search for Very High Energy (VHE) (10¹¹ eV to 10¹⁴ eV) gamma rays from the Crab nebula and pulsar using the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique. The technique uses an array of 37 photomultiplier tubes to record the images of the Cherenkov light pulses generated by energetic particles in the air showers initiated by VHE gamma rays or charged cosmic rays. Gamma-ray-like events are selected from numerous cosmic-ray events based on the predicted properties of the image, such as the size, shape, and orientation with respect to the axis of the detector. A steady weak flux of VHE gamma rays from the Crab is detected at high statistical significance (9 sigma), which is not usually achieved in VHE gamma-ray astronomy. No strong evidence of pulsed emission is found when the same data is folded at the Crab pulsar's radio ephemeris. The angular resolution of the technique cannot separate the emission coming from the nebula from that from the pulsar. Although it is generally believed that the unpulsed emission is coming from the nebula, there may be an unpulsed component coming at only a couple of light cylinder radii away from the pulsar too. Using the outer gap model of pulsar, the spectrum is derived and is found to be compatible with the observations.

O presente trabalho propõe-se a mapear espacialmente as propriedades físicas de um conjunto destes objetos, de morfologia bipolar, e então efetuar sua modelagem. Para este mapeamento foram executadas observações do Observatório Pico dos Dias (LNA/MCT) através das técnicas observacionais de espectroscopia de fenda longa e de campo integral. As modelagens foram executadas com o código de fotoionização CLOUDY em seu formato pseudo tridimensional, CLOUDY_3D. Nossos resultados mostram que as simulações são capazes de reproduzir em boa medida o quadro de observações realizadas, mesmo partindo de considerações simplificadoras para a construção do ambiente astrofísico analisado. Como produto, estabelece-se limites para os parâmetros dos objetos, tais como características da distribuição de matéria, propriedades da fonte central, distância e dimensões envolvidas. / This study aims to map spatially the physical properties of a set of objects, with bipolar morphology, and then build their models. For this mapping, observations were performed at the Pico dos Dias Observatory (LNA / MCT) using the observational techniques of long slit and integral field spectroscopy. Modeling was performed with the photoionization code CLOUDY in its pseudo three-dimensional format, CLOUDY_3D. Our results show that the simulations are able to reproduce the major features of observations, even taking simplifying assumptions for the astrophysical environment analyzed. As a product, it establishes limits for the parameters of objects, such as characteristics for the distribution of matter, properties of the central star, distances and related dimensions.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrphysics, August 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Emission nebulae are some of the most beautiful stellar phenomena. The newly formed hot stars inside the nebulae ionize the surrounding gas making it glow in variety of colors. The focus of this work is to find a method for interactive rendering of simulated emission nebulae. A rendering program has been developed to render and generate nebulae. The emission light color is evaluated as a function of the accumulated density between the gas and the ionizing star. The rendering program can render a large variety of nebulae from any viewpoint with interactive performance on PC hardware. The method proposed in this work is visually accurate to real nebulae.