A 3-dimensional, fully nonlinear numerical geodynamo model is used to study the core-mantle coupling arising from a non-hydrostatic pressure field acting on an aspherical core-mantle boundary (CMB) based on a seismological model. The simulation results demonstrate that the topographic coupling torque is close to being proportional to the square of the amplitude of the CMB topography. We conclud...

The title compound, C(15)H(13)ClN(2)O(2)·CH(4)O, consists of a 4-chloro-N'-(4-meth-oxy-benzyl-idene)benzohydrazide (CMB) mol-ecule and a methanol mol-ecule of crystallization. It was obtained by the condensation of 4-meth-oxy-benzaldehyde with 4-chloro-benzohydrazide. In the CMB mol-ecule, the dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 50.1 (3)°. The methanol mol-ecule is linked to the CMB...

We develop the formalism necessary to study four-point functions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We determine the general form of CMB trispectra, with the constraints imposed by the assumption of statistical isotropy of the CMB fields, and derive expressions for their estimators, as well as their Gaussian noise properties. We apply these techniques ...

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), large scale structure (LSS) and standard candles such as Type 1a Supernovae (SN) each place different constraints on the values of cosmological parameters. We assume an inflationary Cold Dark Matter model with a cosmological constant, in which the initial density perturbations in the universe are adiabatic. We discuss the parameter degenera...

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies probe the primordial density field at the edge of the observable Universe. There is a limiting precision (“cosmic variance”) with which anisotropies can determine the amplitude of primordial mass fluctuations. This arises because the surface of last scatter (SLS) probes only a finite two-dimensional slice of the Universe. Probing other SLSs observe...

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) contains information about the details of the universe just prior to the decoupling of radiation and baryons at z ∼ 1100, as well as the universe the CMB photons have since traversed. Degree-scale measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB have and will continue to give us information about the universe at decoupling;...

The linear anisotropies in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation and its polarization provide a clean picture of fluctuations in the universe some 370 kyr after the big bang. Simple physics connects these fluctuations with those present in the ultra-high-energy universe, and this makes the CMB anisotropies a powerful tool for constraining the fundamental physics tha...

We emphasize that the estimation of cosmological parameters from CMB anisotropy data, such as the recent high resolution maps from BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1, requires assumptions on the primordial spectra. The latter are predicted from inflation. The physically best motivated scenario is slow-roll inflation. However, very often the unphysical power-law inflation scenario is (implicitly) assumed in...

Since cosmic-microwave-background (CMB) and large-scale-structure (LSS) data will shortly improve dramatically with the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) and Planck Surveyor, and the Anglo-Australian 2-Degree Field (2dF) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), respectively, it is timely to ask which of the CMB or LSS will provide a better probe of primordial nongaussianity. In this paper we conside...

Currently, there is a trend of an increasing number of Plasmodium vivax malaria cases in China that are imported across its Southeast Asia border, especially in the China-Myanmar border area (CMB). To date, little is known about the genetic diversity of P. vivax in this region. In this paper, we report the first genome sequencing of a P. vivax isolate (CMB-1) from a vivax malaria patient in CMB...