The Magellanic System's Interactive Formations

Feasible Formations of Multi - Agent Systems 1

Feasible Formations of Multi-Agent Systems

Formations of multi-agent systems, such as satellites and aircraft, require that individual agents satisfy their kinematic equations while constantly maintaining inter-agent constraints. In this paper, we develop a systematic framework for studying formations of multiagent systems. In particular, we consider undirected formations for centralized formations and directed formations for decentrali...

Mosaic Pattern Formations in Multicellular Chemical Systems

A 2-dimensional array of coupled Brusselators cells is studied numerically. A variety of stationary patterns are obtained depending on the coupling strength of an activator and an inhibitor. Mosaic patterns of different motifs, in a very complicated spatial arrangement, are discovered. The mechanism that leads to the formation of the mosaic patterns consists of the formation of rings by an osci...

The Star Cluster Systems of the Magellanic Clouds

The characteristics of the cluster systems of the Magellanic Clouds, as inferred from integrated properties, are compared with those from individual cluster studies and from the field population. The agreement is generally satisfactory though in the case of the LMC, the lack of clusters older than ∼3 Gyr is not reflected in the field population. The possible origin(s) for this cluster " age-gap...

X-Ray Binary Systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud

We present the result of a systematic search for spectrally hard and soft X-ray binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). This search has been applied to ROSAT PSPC data (0.1-2.4 keV) collected during nine pointed observations towards this galaxy covering a time span of ∼2 years from October 91 till October 93. Strict selection criteria have been defined in order to confine the sample...