Wonderful Mira.

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Recent observations of the Mira AB binary system have revealed a surrounding arc-like structure and a stream of material stretching 2 degrees away in opposition to the arc. The alignment of the proper motion vector and the arc-like structure shows the structures to be a bow shock and accompanying tail. We have successfully hydrodynamically modelled the bow shock and tail as the interaction betw...

LINEAR PULSATION CHARACTERISTICS OF MIRA VARIABLE STARS

The linear adiabatic pulsation-periods of Mira variable stars have been derived. Approximately 2701[1]models were calculated for M = 0.7 MΘ to 2 MΘ stars with radii from 180 RΘ to 340 RΘ and luminosities from 2800 LΘ to 10,000 LΘ. The chemical composition of all models is (X,Z) = (0.7,0.02). From the result of this study, linear relations on Luminosity-Period-Mass relationship and luminosity-pe...

Mira Krendel and Mark S . Mooseker Myosins : Tails ( and Heads ) of Functional Diversity

Classification of Strict Wonderful Varieties

In the setting of strict wonderful varieties we answer positively to Luna’s conjecture, saying that wonderful varieties are classified by combinatorial objects, the so-called spherical systems. In particular, we prove that strict wonderful varieties are mostly obtained from symmetric spaces, spherical nilpotent orbits or model spaces. To make the paper self-contained as much as possible, we sha...

Parallelization of MIRA Whole Genome and EST Sequence Assembler

The genome assembly problem is to generate the original DNA sequence of the organism from a large set of short overlapping fragments. MIRA is an open source assembler based on the Overlap Layout Consensus (OLC) graph model which addresses the assembly problem and is widely used by biologists [1,2]. Like other assemblers MIRA takes a long time to compute the assembly for large number of sequence...