There is compelling evidence that at least some clusters of galaxies are powerful sources of non-thermal radiation. In all cases where this radiation has been detected, a general trend is that high energy densities of cosmic rays and correspondingly low values of the average magnetic field are required in order to have a self-consistent picture of the multiwavelength observations. Mergers of cl...

The objective of this article is to build up a general theory of geometrical optics for spinning light rays in an inhomogeneous and anisotropic medium modeled on a Finsler manifold. The prerequisites of local Finsler geometry are reviewed together with the main properties of the Cartan connection used in this work. Then, the principles of Finslerian spinoptics are formulated on the grounds of p...

Neutrinos from far away sources annihilating at the Z resonance on relic neutrinos may give origin to the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. Here we present predictions of this mechanism with relic neutrinos lighter than 1 eV, which do not gravitationally cluster. We show that not only the super GZK events, but the “ankle” and all events above it can be accounted for. Most primaries above the ankle ...

The purpose of this short paper is to recall the theory of the (homogenized) spectral problem for a Schrödinger equation with a polynomial potential developed in the 60’s by M. Evgrafov with M. Fedoryuk, and, by Y. Sibuya and its relation with quadratic differentials. We derive from these results that the accumulation rays of the eigenvalues of this problem are in 1 − 1-correspondence with the ...

The variability of rainfall and drop size distributions (DSDs) as a function of large-scale atmospheric conditions and storm characteristics is investigated using measurements from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) facility at Darwin, Australia. Observations are obtained from an impact disdrometer with a near continuous record of operation over five consecutive wet seasons (20...

Gammaand X-rays resulting from radioactive decays provide a potentially powerful tool to investigate the explosion physics of supernovae, since the distribution and the amount of radioactive isotopes are strongly dependent on properties of the explosion. In this paper, expected features of these high energy emissions are presented for bipolar jet-induced explosion models, which are recently fav...

We study Doppler effects in curved space-time, i.e. the frequency shifts induced on electromagnetic signals propagating in the gravitational field. In particular, we focus on the frequency shift due to the bending of light rays in weak gravitational fields. We consider, using the PPN formalism, the gravitational field of an axially symmetric distribution of mass. The zeroth order, i.e. the sphe...

We have identified a cooperative interaction between radiation and intratumoral injection of anti-GD2 immunocytokine (hu14.18-IL2) in murine tumor models. In a moderate size (~200 mm), single tumor, B78 melanoma model this combination results in complete tumor regression in 71% of animals and a memory T cell response. We hypothesized that intratumoral immunocytokine would improve local and absc...

A plane-symmetric inhomogeneous cosmological model of perfect fluid distribution with electro-magnetic field is obtained. The source of the magnetic field is due to an electric current produced along the z-axis. F12 is the non-vanishing component of electromagnetic field tensor. To get a deterministic solution, we assume the free gravitational field is Petrov type-II non-degenerate. The behavio...

Simultaneous observations of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar IGR J00291+5934 by International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer during the 2004 December outburst are analysed. The average spectrum is well described by thermal Comptonization with an electron temperature of 50 keV and Thomson optical depth τT ∼ 1 in a slab geometry. The spectral shape is a...