We present a complete spectroscopic survey of 2414 2MASS-selected blue horizontal branch (BHB) candidates selected over 4300 deg of the sky. We identify 655 BHB stars in this non-kinematically selected sample. We calculate the luminosity function of field BHB stars and find evidence for very few hot BHB stars in the field. The BHB stars located at a distance from the Galactic plane |Z| < 4 kpc ...

It was established by X. Mo and the author that the dimension of each irreducible component of the moduli space Λd^^giX) of branched superminimal immersions of degree d from a Riemann surface X of genus g into C P 3 lay between 2d—4g+4 and 2d — g+4 for d sufficiently large, where the upper bound was always assumed by the irreducible component of totally geodesic branched superminimal immersions...

[1] Motions of three hundred and sixty Global Positioning System (GPS) sites in Canada and the United States yield a detailed image of the vertical and horizontal velocity fields within the nominally stable interior of the North American plate. By far the strongest signal is the effect of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) due to ice mass unloading during deglaciation. Vertical velocities show ...

Summertime low-level winds over the ocean adjacent to the California coast are typically from the north, roughly parallel to the coastline. Past Point Conception the flow often turns eastward, thereby generating cyclonic vorticity in the California Bight. Clouds are frequently present when the cyclonic motion is well developed and at such times the circulation is referred to as a Catalina eddy....

The temperature of the surface soil layer around different orientation walls was investigated horizontally along several construction-soil micro-gradients in Beijing, China. On a diurnal scale, similar fluctuating trends in T0 and T50 (temperature of surface soil layer, 0 and 0.5 m from the building baseline) adjacent to the external walls of buildings with the same orientation usually appeared...

A stochastic radiative transfer equation for the mean l( → X), cosine of polar angle of direction → X d( → X2 → X0), Dirac delta function field and its solution for the case of discontinuous vegetation canopies is discussed in this article. The equation set v(→r ), indicator function Fdir(k), extraterrestrial solar radiance at the top of satisfies the law of energy conservation and is amenable ...

The formation mechanism of the Santa Cruz eddy (SCE) is investigated using the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University–National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5). Simulations of 25–26 August 2000 showed that two eddy instances formed on that night, a finding supported by observations. The two eddies had similar behavior: they both formed in the sheltered Santa Cruz, C...

Abstract. We study the density of the roots of the derivative of the characteristic polynomial Z(U, z) of an N × N random unitary matrix with distribution given by Haar measure on the unitary group. Based on previous random matrix theory models of the Riemann zeta function ζ(s), this is expected to be an accurate description for the horizontal distribution of the zeros of ζ (s) to the right of ...

We consider a long-range growth dynamics on the two-dimensional integer lattice, initialized by a finite set of occupied points. Subsequently, a site x becomes occupied if the pair consisting of the counts of occupied sites along the entire horizontal and vertical lines through x lies outside a fixed Young diagram Z. We study the extremal quantity μ(Z), the maximal finite time at which the latt...