Detailed analysis of fan-shaped jets in three dimensional numerical simulation

We performed three dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the magnetic reconnection using an initially shearing magnetic field configuration（force free field with a current sheet in the middle of the computational box）.It is shown that there are two types of reconnection jets：the ordinary reconnection jets and fan-shaped jets,which are formed along the guide magnetic field.The fan-shaped jets are significantly different from the ordinary reconnection jets which are ejected by magnetic tension force.There are two driving forces for accelerating the fan-shaped jets.One is the Lorentz force which initially dominates the motion of fluid elements,and then the gas pressure gradient force accelerates the fluid elements in the later stage.The dependence on magnetic reconnection angle and resistivity value has also been studied.The formation and evolution of these jets provide a new understanding of dynamic magnetohydrodynamic jets.

Multiband fitting to three long GRBs with Fermi/LAT data:structured ejecta sweeping up a density-jump medium

We present broadband （radio, optical, X-ray and GeV） fits to the afterglow light curves and spectra of three long-duration gamma-ray bursts （GRBs 080916C, 090902B, and 090926A） detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor and Large Area Telescope （LAT） instruments on the Fermi satellite. Using the observed broadband data, we study the origin of the high energy emission, and suggest that the early-time GeV emission and the late-time radio, optical, and X-ray afterglows can be under- stood as being due to synchrotron emission from an external forward shock caused by structured ejecta propagating in a wind bubble jumping to a homogeneous density medium. If the ceasing time for a majority of the energy injection is assumed to be close to the deceleration time of the forward shock, the structured ejecta with con- tinuous energy injection towards the forward shock can well explain the early rising feature of the GeV mission from these bursts, and the density-jump medium can ac- count for some particular plateaus or flares in the late afterglows. From our fits, we find that, on one hand, the external shock origin of the GeV photons will make the optical depth not have a significant contribution to the early LAT rising part, which will loosen the strong constraint of lower limits of the Lorentz factor. On the other hand, these Fermi-LAT events preferentially occur in a low-density circumburst environment, in which case the Klein-Nishina cutoff will significantly suppress the Self- Synchrotron Compton radiation. Such an environment might result from superbubbles or low-metallicity progenitor stars （which have a low mass-loss rate at late times of stellar evolution） of type Ib/c supernovae.

Systematic differences in position and proper-motion between the PPMX and UCAC3 catalogs

Considered to be extensions of the Hipparcos reference system, PPMX and UCAC3 are two of the most important astrometric catalogs released in current years. Extensive analyses of these two large catalogs have been made in order to determine the local and overall systematic biases. The regional and magnitude dependent differences in stellar position and proper motion are comparable to random errors and are even larger in the northern hemisphere. The global orientation bias vector ε between the two systems is also significant （up to 17 mas）, which shows the overall differences of the PPMX and UCAC3 catalogs and their reference systems. On the other hand, the term for the global rotation vector a; is small （tenths of mas per year）： it is reasonable to believe that the PPMX and UCAC3 reference frames do not rotate with respect to each other. Because of plate dependent and field-to-field errors in the UCAC3 catalog, we suggest that positions and proper motions of UCAC3 stars in the northern hemisphere （δ 〉 -20°） should be used with caution.

On Be/X-ray binaries with an intermediate-mass black hole

We adopt the tidal truncation model proposed by Negueruela and Okazaki for Be/X-ray binaries to investigate the influence of intermediate-mass black holes （IMBHs） on Be-star disks. We show that the viscous decretion disks around Be stars are generally truncated ineffectively under the tidal force of IMBHs. Combining this with observations of Be/X-ray binaries, we suggest that Be/IMBH X-ray binaries may appear as recurrent luminous X-ray transients with quasi-periodic X-ray outbursts.