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Annotated Bibliography of Educational Materials on Legal Ethics
Rhode presents an annotated bibliography that includes references to written and audiovisual materials for legal ethics courses and curricular integration projects
Frivolous Litigation and Civil Justice Reform: Miscasting the Problem, Recasting the Solution
The pressure distribution over a long elliptical wing tip on a biplane in flight
This note presents the results of flight pressure-distribution tests on the right upper wing panel of a Douglas M-3 airplane equipped with an elliptical tip of length equal to the wing chord. The results are given in such form that the load distribution for any normal-force coefficient within the usual range encountered in flight may easily be determined
Pressure distribution on wing ribs of the VE-7 and TS airplanes in flight
This paper is the first of a series of notes, each of which presents the complete results of pressure distribution tests made by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, on single-wing ribs of the VE-7 and TS airplanes for a particular condition of flight. The level flight results are presented here in the form of curves and show the comparison between the pressure distribution over a representative thin wing, R.A.F.-15, and a moderately thick wing, U.S.A.-27, throughout the range of angle of attack
WIYN Imaging of the Globular Cluster Systems of the Spiral Galaxies NGC891 and NGC4013
We present results from a WIYN 3.5m telescope imaging study of the globular
cluster (GC) systems of the edge-on spiral galaxies NGC891 and NGC4013. We used
the 10' x 10' Minimosaic Imager to observe the galaxies in BVR filters to
projected radii of ~20 kpc from the galaxy centers. We combined the WIYN data
with archival and published data from WFPC2 and ACS on the Hubble Space
Telescope to assess the contamination level of the WIYN GC candidate sample and
to follow the GC systems further in toward the galaxies' centers. We
constructed radial distributions for the GC systems using both the WIYN and HST
data. The GC systems of NGC891 and NGC4013 extend to 9+/-3 kpc and 14+/-5 kpc,
respectively, before falling off to undetectable levels in our images. We use
the radial distributions to calculate global values for the total number (N_GC)
and specific frequencies (S_N and T) of GCs. NGC4013 has N_GC = 140+/-20, S_N =
1.0+/-0.2 and T = 1.9+/-0.5; our N_GC value is ~40% smaller than a previous
determination from the literature. The HST data were especially useful for
NGC891, because the GC system is concentrated toward the plane of the galaxy
and was only weakly detected in our WIYN images. Although NGC891 is thought to
resemble the Milky Way in its overall properties, it has only half as many GCs,
with N_GC = 70+/-20, S_N = 0.3+/-0.1 and T = 0.6+/-0.3. We also calculate the
galaxy-mass-normalized number of blue (metal-poor) GCs in NGC891 and NGC4013
and find that they fall along a general trend of increasing specific frequency
of blue GCs with increasing galaxy mass. Given currently available resources,
the optimal method for studying the global properties of extragalactic GC
systems is to combine HST data with wide-field, ground-based imaging with good
resolution. The results here demonstrate the advantage gained by using both
methods when possible.Comment: 43 pages, 11 figures 6 tables; accepted to The Astronomical Journal.
Online AJ version at http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/140/2/430
Wide-Field Imaging from Space of Early-Type Galaxies and Their Globular Clusters
Wide-field imaging from space will reveal a wealth of information about the
globular cluster systems of any galaxies in the local universe that are
observed by such a mission. Individual globular clusters around galaxies in the
local universe have compact sizes that are ideal for the excellent spatial
resolution afforded by space-based imaging, while systems of these globular
clusters have large spatial extent that can only be fully explored by
wide-field imaging. One example of the science return from such a study is the
determination of the major formation epoch(s) of galaxies from the ages of
their globular clusters determined via their optical to near-infrared colors. A
second example is determining the sites of metal-poor globular cluster
formation from their cosmological bias, which constrains the formation of
structures early in the universe.Comment: To appear in the conference proceedings of "Wide Field Imaging from
Space" published in New Astronomy Reviews, eds. T. McKay, A. Fruchter, & E.
Linde
The Globular Cluster Populations of Giant Galaxies: Mosaic Imaging of Five Moderate-Luminosity Early-Type Galaxies
This paper presents results from wide-field imaging of the globular cluster
(GC) systems of five intermediate-luminosity (M_V ~-21 to -22) early-type
galaxies. The aim is to accurately quantify the global properties of the GC
systems by measuring them out to large radii. We obtained BVR imaging of four
lenticular galaxies (NGC 5866, NGC 4762, NGC 4754, NGC 3384) and one elliptical
galaxy (NGC 5813) using the KPNO 4m telescope and MOSAIC imager and traced the
GC population to projected galactocentric radii ranging from ~20 kpc to 120
kpc. We combine our imaging with Hubble Space Telescope data to measure the GC
surface density close to the galaxy center. We calculate the total number of
GCs (N_GC) from the integrated radial profile and find N_GC = 340 +/- 80 for
NGC 5866, N_GC = 2900 +/- 400 for NGC 5813, N_GC = 270 +/- 30 for NGC 4762,
N_GC = 115 +/- 15$ for NGC 4754, and N_GC = 120 +/- 30 for NGC 3384. The
measured GC specific frequencies are S_N between 0.6 and 3.6 and T in the range
0.9 to 4.2. These values are consistent with the mean specific frequencies for
the galaxies' morphological types found by our survey and other published data.
Three galaxies (NGC 5866, NGC 5813, NGC 4762) had sufficient numbers of GC
candidates to investigate color bimodality and color gradients in the GC
systems. NGC 5813 shows strong evidence (>3 sigma) for bimodality and a B-R
color gradient resulting from a more centrally concentrated red (metal-rich) GC
subpopulation. We find no evidence for statistically significant color
gradients in the other two galaxies.Comment: 61 pages, 21 figures, 11 tables. Accepted for publication in The
Astronomical Journa
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