β Cen is a bright β Cephei variable and has long been suspected to be a binary. Here we report interferometric observations with the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope at a single epoch which show the star to be a binary with components separated by 15 milliarcsec and having approximately equal luminosities at 486 nm. We also present high-resolution spectra taken over five nights with the ESO CAT...

This paper presents a direct torque control strategy for double star synchronous machine fed by two three-level inverters. The analysis of the torque and the stator flux linkage reference frame shows that the concept of direct torque control can be extended easily to double star synchronous machine. The proposed approach consists to replace the switching tables by one artificial neural networks...

Let Tn denote the set of all unrooted and unlabeled trees with n vertices, and (i, j) a double-star. By assuming that every tree of Tn is equally likely, we show that the limiting distribution of the number of occurrences of the double-star (i, j) in Tn is normal. Based on this result, we obtain the asymptotic value of Randić index for trees. Fajtlowicz conjectured that for any connected graph ...

Abstract— This paper presents the simulation of three phase five-level modular multilevel cascade inverter based on double-star chopper-cell (DSCC). The multicarrier PWM techniques such as Phase disposition PWM (PDPWM), Phase opposition disposition PWM (PODPWM), Alternate phase opposition disposition PWM (APODPWM), and Phase shift PWM (PSPWM) is employed and a comparative study is done based on...

We present a new determination of the rotation period of the Ap star HD 208217 based on photometric and magnetic measurements. The variations of this star are remarkable by the strong anharmonicity of its lightcurves in all colours as well as by the double wave of its mean magnetic field modulus variations.

The first detections of afterglows from short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have confirmed the previous suspicion that they are triggered by a different central engine than long bursts. In particular, the recent detections of short GRBs in galaxies without star formation lends support to the idea that an old stellar population is involved. Most prominent are mergers of either double neutron stars or ...