We present spectropolarimetric observations of the peculiar Type Ib/c SN 2005bf, in MCG+00-27-005, from 3600-8550Å. The SN was observed on 2005 April 30.9, 18 days after the first B-band light-curve maximum and 6 days before the second B-band light-curve maximum. The degree of the Interstellar Polarization, determined from depolarized emission lines in the spectrum, is found to be large with pm...

Let π : Z → X be a Galois covering of smooth projective curves with Galois group the Weyl group of a simple and simply connected Lie group G. For any dominant weight λ consider the curve Y = Z/Stab(λ). The Kanev correspondence defines an abelian subvariety Pλ of the Jacobian of Y . We compute the type of the polarization of the restriction of the canonical principal polarization of Jac(Y ) to P...

a r t i c l e i n f o Polarization curves from microbial fuel cells (MFCs) often show an unexpectedly large drop in voltage with increased current densities, leading to a phenomenon in the power density curve referred to as " power overshoot ". Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV, 1 mV s − 1) and variable external resistances (at fixed intervals of 20 min) over a single fed-batch cycle in an MFC both...

A logarithmic term is applied to account for the charge transfer overvoltage with most empirical polarization curve fitting equations for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. The logarithmic term applied with state-of-the-art fitting equations is proportional to the logarithm of the cell output current density. This provides good fitting characteristics with large current densities, but res...

In this paper, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) curve for 2×2 Dual-Polarized uncorrelated Rice MIMO channels is studied. Exact expressions for statistic information of mutual information exponent are derived. Impacts of channel parameters such as signal to noise ratio (SNR), k-factor and cross polarization discrimination (XPD) on mutual information exponent are analyzed. Compared to conven...

A novel fiber-optic twist sensor based on a dual-polarization distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) fiber grating laser is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. By beating the signal between the two polarizations of the laser which operates at 1543.154 nm, a signal of 30.78 MHz in frequency domain is observed. The twist will change the fiber birefringence, and resulting in the beat frequency va...

Multiferroic behavior of Bi4 - xNdxFeTi3O12 (0.0 ≤ × ≤ 0.25, × = 0.05) ceramic nanoparticles prepared through the egg-white method was investigated. The dielectric properties of the samples show normal behavior and are explained in the light of space charge polarization. Room temperature polarization-electric field (P-E) curves show that the samples are not saturated with maximum remanence pola...

The polarization patterns of skylight which arise due to the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere can be used by many insects for deriving compass information. Inspired by insects' polarized light compass, scientists have developed a new kind of navigation method. One of the key techniques in this method is the polarimetric sensor which is used to acquire direction information from skylight...

Observations for the linear polarization of comet Hyakutake (C/1996B2) are carriedout at three continuumwavebands: 3650Å, 4845Å and 6840Å. These observations were taken on March 13 and March 18, 1996 when the phase angles were 38.1 and 36.9, respectively. These results indicate an increase in the degree of polarizationwith phase angle andwavelength, in general. Present results show that comet H...

introduction: the human skin is an active medium from the optical point of view. therefore, the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques employing light are increasing. current optical techniques are based on the measurement of the intensity of reflected absorbed or backscattered light from or within skin. studies have shown that biological tissues, and in particular skin, demonstrate polarization...