This paper is a study of the mass distribution in the central 35 ≃ 1.7 kpc of the E5 galaxy NGC 3377. Stellar rotation velocity and velocity dispersion profiles (seeing σ∗ = 0. 20 – 0. 56) and V -band surface photometry (σ∗ = 0. 20 – 0. 26) have been obtained with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. NGC 3377 is kinematically similar to M32: the central kinematic gradients are steep. There is an...

Mesogenic dibenzophenazine derivatives have been synthesized and their liquid crystalline, fluorescent and electrochemical properties have been studied. All compounds form the Colhd phase, one of them (4-hydroxyphenyl 2,3,6,7-tetrakisoctyloxy-dibenzo[a,c]phenazine-11-carboxylate, 4) additionally shows an unusual columnar structure with p2mg symmetry, which is a partially lamellarized columnar p...

In this research, a combination of in situ photoconductivity (σ) and kinetic simulations was used to study the role of electron interfacial transfer (IT) in the gaseous photocatalysis of formic acid by mesoporous nanocrystalline TiO2. The effects of light intensity, initial formic acid concentrations, oxygen amounts, and temperature on the in situ σ and the photocatalytic courses were studied i...

In this paper we compute the σ-invariants (sometimes also called the smooth Yamabe invariants) of RP and RP × S1 (which are equal) and show that the only prime 3-manifolds with larger σ-invariants are S3, S2 × S1, and S2×̃S1 (the nonorientable S2 bundle over S1). More generally, we show that any 3-manifold with σ-invariant greater than RP is either S3, a connect sum with an S2 bundle over S1, or...

In the present study we have characterized the halogen bonding in selected molecules H3N-ICF3 (1-NH 3 ), (PH3)2C-ICF3 (1-CPH 3 ), C3H7Br-(IN2H2C3)2C6H4 (2-Br), H2-(IN2H2C3)2C6H4 (2-H 2 ) and Cl-(IC6F5)2C7H10N2O5 (3-Cl), containing from one halogen bond (1-NH 3 , 1-CPH 3 ) up to four connections in 3-Cl (the two Cl-HN and two Cl-I), based on recently proposed ETS-NOCV analysis. It was found base...

We utilize the local velocity dispersion function (VDF) of spheroids, together with their inferred age– distributions, to predict the VDF at higher redshifts (0 < z ∼< 6), under the assumption that (i) most of the stars in each nearby spheroid formed in a single episode, and (ii) the velocity dispersion σ remained nearly constant afterward. We assume further that a supermassive black hole (BH) ...

We consider the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) on the periodic chain in the presence of a single impurity site that is inaccessible to other particles and therefore acts as a static defect. Particles are allowed to advance any distance l ≥ 1 on the right with a probability that decays as l−(1+σ), where σ > 1. Despite the long range of the hopping, we find the same type of p...

The condition for the existence of the superradiance modes is derived for the incident scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational waves when the spacetime background is a higher-dimensional rotating black hole with multiple angular momentum parameters. The final expression of the condition is 0 < ω < ∑ i miΩi, where Ωi is an angular frequency of the black hole and, ω and mi are the energy of the...

We present the results of a recent reverberation-mapping campaign undertaken to improve measurements of the radius of the broad line region and the central black hole mass of the quasar PG2130+099. Cross correlation of the 5100 Å continuum and Hβ emission-line light curves yields a time lag of 22.9 −4.3 days, corresponding to a central black hole mass MBH = (3.8 ± 1.5)×10M⊙. This value supports...