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Intervención educativa en la dislexia evolutiva: algunos aspectos psicobiológicos a considerar.
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Interface control of the magnetic chirality in CoFeB|MgO heterosctructures with heavy metal underlayers
Recent advances in the understanding of spin orbital effects in ultrathin
magnetic heterostructures have opened new paradigms to control magnetic moments
electrically. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is said to play a key
role in forming a Neel-type domain wall that can be driven by the spin Hall
torque, a torque resulting from the spin current generated in a neighboring
non-magnetic layer via the spin Hall effect. Here we show that the strength and
sign of the DMI can be changed by modifying the adjacent heavy metal underlayer
(X) in perpendicularly magnetized X|CoFeB|MgO heterstructures. Albeit the same
spin Hall angle, a domain wall moves along or against the electron flow
depending on the underlayer. We find that the sense of rotation of a domain
wall spiral11 is reversed when the underlayer is changed from Hf to W and the
strength of DMI varies as the number of 5d electrons of the heavy metal layer
changes. The DMI can even be tuned by adding nitrogen to the underlayer, thus
allowing interface engineering of the magnetic texture in ultrathin magnetic
heterostructures.Comment: Extended version of arXiv:1308.175
Magnetic Reconnection, Cosmic Ray Acceleration, and Gamma-Ray emission around Black Holes and Relativistic Jets
Particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection is now recognized as an
important process in magnetically dominated regions of galactic and
extragalactic black hole sources. This process helps to solve current puzzles
specially related to the origin of the very high energy flare emission in these
sources. In this review, we discuss this acceleration mechanism and show recent
analytical studies and multidimensional numerical SRMHD and GRMHD (special and
general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical) simulations with the injection of
test particles, which help us to understand this process both in relativistic
jets and coronal regions of these sources. The very high energy and neutrino
emission resulting from the accelerated particles by reconnection is also
discussed.Comment: Invited Review at the International Conference on Black Holes as
Cosmic Batteries: UHECRs and Multimessenger Astronomy - BHCB2018, 12-15
September, 2018, Foz du Iguazu, Brasil, in press in Procs. of Science. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1608.0317
Probing large-scale wind structures in Vela X-1 using off-states with INTEGRAL
Vela X-1 is the prototype of the class of wind-fed accreting pulsars in high
mass X-ray binaries hosting a supergiant donor. We have analyzed in a
systematic way ten years of INTEGRAL data of Vela X-1 (22-50 keV) and we found
that when outside the X-ray eclipse, the source undergoes several luminosity
drops where the hard X-rays luminosity goes below 3x10^35 erg/s, becoming
undetected by INTEGRAL. These drops in the X-ray flux are usually referred to
as "off-states" in the literature. We have investigated the distribution of
these off-states along the Vela X-1 ~8.9 d orbit, finding that their orbital
occurrence displays an asymmetric distribution, with a higher probability to
observe an off-state near the pre-eclipse than during the post-eclipse. This
asymmetry can be explained by scattering of hard X-rays in a region of ionized
wind, able to reduce the source hard X-ray brightness preferentially near
eclipse ingress. We associate this ionized large-scale wind structure with the
photoionization wake produced by the interaction of the supergiant wind with
the X-ray emission from the neutron star. We emphasize that this observational
result could be obtained thanks to the accumulation of a decade of INTEGRAL
data, with observations covering the whole orbit several times, allowing us to
detect an asymmetric pattern in the orbital distribution of off-states in Vela
X-1.Comment: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society (5 pages, 3 figures). A few typos fixed to match the published
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