Based on astrometry from an orbit derived byHubble Space Telescope imagery, Charon’s orbital eccentricity has been reported to be in the range of 0.003–0.008. Solar and planetary tides are orders of magnitude too small to induce the reported eccentricity. This nonzero value, if correct, therefore indicates some significant forcing against the two-body tidal equilibrium value, which should forma...

We survey the literature on the eccentricity sequence of a connected graph and make the following contribution. The eccentricity sequence of a graph G is the list of its eccentricities in non-increasing order. Two graphs G1 and G2 are co-eccentric when they have the same eccentricity sequence. Then, we say that G1 and G2 are co-eccentric mates. We characterize the eccentricity sequence of almos...

Eccentricity-dependent resolution losses are sometimes compensated for in psychophysical experiments by magnifying (scaling) stimuli at each eccentricity. The use of either pre-selected scaling factors or unscaled stimuli sometimes leads to non-monotonic changes in performance as a function of eccentricity. We argue that such non-monotonic changes arise when performance is limited by more than ...

The eccentricity of a vertex is the maximum distance from it to another vertex and the average eccentricity ecc(G) of a graph G is the mean value of eccentricities of all vertices of G. The average eccentricity is deeply connected with a topological descriptor called the eccentric connectivity index, defined as a sum of products of vertex degrees and eccentricities. In this paper we analyze ext...

We measured two- and three-line spatial interval and alignment thresholds for a wide range of separations and eccentricities. In order to avoid confounding the role of separation and eccentricity, the test lines were presented on iso-eccentric arcs, with radii between 0.625 and 10 deg. The iso-eccentric paradigm allows separation to be varied over a large range while holding eccentricity consta...

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Using the characteristic property of chordal graphs that they are the intersection graphs of subtrees of a tree, Erich Prisner showed that every chordal graph admits an eccentricity 2approximating spanning tree. That is, every chordal graph G has a spanning tree T such that eccT (v) − eccG(v) ≤ 2 for every vertex v, where eccG(v) (eccT (v)) is the eccentricity of a vertex v in G (in T , respect...

The serial pattern found for conjunction visual-search tasks has been attributed to covert attentional shifts, even though the possible contributions of target location have not been considered. To investigate the effect of target location on orientation x color conjunction searches, the target's duration and its position in the display were manipulated. The display was present either until obs...