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Radiation-driven evolution of low-mass x-ray binaries and the formation of millisecond pulsars

Description: Recent data on low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) pose a challenge to evolutionary theories which neglect the effects of disk and comparison irradiation. Here we discuss the main features of a radiation-driven (RD) evolutionary model that may be applicable to several LMXBs. According to this model, radiation from the accreting compact star in LMXBs vaporizes'' the accretion disk and the companion star by driving a self-sustained mass loss until a sudden accretion-tur… more
Date: August 8, 1991
Creator: Tavani, M. (Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States) California Univ., Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of telerobotic control to remote processing of nuclear material

Description: In processing radioactive material there are certain steps which have customarily required operators working at glove box enclosures. This can subject the operators to low level radiation dosages and the risk of accidental contamination, as well as generate significant radioactive waste to accommodate the human interaction. An automated system is being developed to replace the operator at the glove box and thus remove the human from these risks, and minimize waste. Although most of the processi… more
Date: July 8, 1991
Creator: Merrill, R. D.; Grasz, E. L.; Herget, C. J.; Gavel, D. T.; Addis, R. B. & DeMinico, G. A.
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Editing graphs for maximum effect

Description: The paper contains over eighty rules for editing graphs, arranged under nine major headings in a logical sequence for editing all the graphs in a manuscript. It is excerpted from a monograph used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to train beginning technical editors in editing graphs; a corresponding Hypercard stack is also used in this training. 6 refs., 4 figs.
Date: January 8, 1991
Creator: Murphy, P. W. & Rhiner, R. W.
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Competing electron-electron/electron-phonon interactions and polyacetylene

Description: Using Lanczos exact diagonalization, we investigate the effects of the competition between the electro-electron and electron-phonon interactions in the context of the 1-D tight-binding Peierls-Hubbard Hamiltonian, studying various structural, optical, and vibrational properties of strongly correlated systems. We use polyacetylene as our experimental guide, and perform a parameter space search to determine the level at which a unique set of parameters can model this prototypical conducting polym… more
Date: April 8, 1991
Creator: Gammel, J.T. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA) Bayreuth Univ. (Germany, F.R.). Physics Inst.); Campbell, D.K. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)) & Loh, E.Y. Jr. (Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge, MA (USA))
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Vaporizing neutron stars in low-mass x-ray binaries and the statistics of millisecond pulsars

Description: Recent data on low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and msec pulsars (MSPs) pose a challenge to evolutionary which neglect the effects of disk and companion irradiation. Here we discuss the main features of a radiation-driven (RD) evolutionary model that may be applicable to several LMXBs. According to this model, irradiation from the accreting compact star LMXBs vaporizes'' the accretion disk and the companion star by driving a self-sustained mass loss until a sudden accretion-turn of occurs. The m… more
Date: August 8, 1991
Creator: Tavani, M. (California Univ., Livermore, CA (United States). Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MCNP neutron benchmarks

Description: Over 50 neutron benchmark calculations have recently been completed as part of an ongoing program to validate the MCNP Monte Carlo radiation transport code. The new and significant aspects of this work are as follows: These calculations are the first attempt at a validation program for MCNP and the first official benchmarking of version 4 of the code. We believe the chosen set of benchmarks is a comprehensive set that may be useful for benchmarking other radiation transport codes and data libra… more
Date: October 8, 1991
Creator: Hendricks, John S.; Whalen, Daniel J.; Cardon, David A. & Uhle, Jennifer L.
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