This document lists 57 publications by John O'Reilly, including books, papers, and conference proceedings. The publications cover a wide range of topics including distributed computing, venture capital litigation, hedge fund litigation, object-oriented databases, multi-microprocessor computers, distributed systems, real-time control systems, signal processing, particle physics, and charmonium spectroscopy. Many of the publications were presented at major physics and computing conferences between 1976-1990.
Probing the innermost_regions_of_agn_jets_and_their_magnetic_fields_with_radi...Sérgio Sacani
Desde 1974, observações feitas com o chamado Long Baseline Interferometry, ou VLBI, combinaram sinais de um objeto cósmico recebidos em diferentes rádio telescópios espalhados pelo globo para criar uma antena com o tamanho equivalente à maior separação entre elas. Isso fez com que fosse possível fazer imagens com uma nitidez sem precedentes, com uma resolução 1000 vezes melhor do que Hubble consegue na luz visível. Agora, uma equipe internacional de astrônomos quebrou todos os recordes combinando 15 rádio telescópios na Terra e a antena de rádio da missão RadioAstron, da agência espacial russa, na órbita da Terra. O trabalho, liderado pelo Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, o IAA-CSIC, forneceu novas ideias sobre a natureza das galáxias ativas, onde um buraco negro extremamente massivo engole a matéria ao redor enquanto simultaneamente emite um par de jatos de partículas de alta energia e campos magnéticos a velocidades próximas da velocidade da luz.
Observações feitas no comprimento de onda das micro-ondas são essenciais para explorar esses jatos, já que os elétrons de alta energia se movendo em campos magnéticos são mais proficientes em produzir micro-ondas. Mas a maioria das galáxias ativas com jatos brilhantes estão a bilhões de anos-luz de distância da Terra, de modo que esses jatos são minúsculos no céu. Desse modo a alta resolução é essencial para observar esses jatos em ação e então revelar fenômenos como as ondas de choque e a turbulência que controla o quanto de luz é produzida num dado tempo. “Combinando pela primeira vez rádio telescópios na Terra com rádio telescópios no espaço, operando na máxima resolução, tem permitido que a nossa equipe crie uma antena que tem um tamanho equivalente a 8 vezes o diâmetro da Terra, correspondendo a 20 micro arcos de segundo”, disse José L; Gómez, o líder da equipe no Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC.
Direct Measure of Radiative And Dynamical Properties Of An Exoplanet AtmosphereSérgio Sacani
Two decades after the discovery of 51Pegb, the formation processes and atmospheres of short-period gas giants
remain poorly understood. Observations of eccentric systems provide key insights on those topics as they can
illuminate how a planet’s atmosphere responds to changes in incident flux. We report here the analysis of multi-day
multi-channel photometry of the eccentric (e ~ 0.93) hot Jupiter HD80606b obtained with the Spitzer Space
Telescope. The planet’s extreme eccentricity combined with the long coverage and exquisite precision of new
periastron-passage observations allow us to break the degeneracy between the radiative and dynamical timescales
of HD80606b’s atmosphere and constrain its global thermal response. Our analysis reveals that the atmospheric
layers probed heat rapidly (∼4 hr radiative timescale) from<500 to 1400 K as they absorb ~20% of the incoming
stellar flux during the periastron passage, while the planet’s rotation period is 93 35
85
-
+ hr, which exceeds the predicted
pseudo-synchronous period (40 hr).
Key words: methods: numerical – planet–star interactions – planets and satellites: atmospheres – planets and
satellites: dynamical evolution and stability – planets and satellites: individual (HD 80606 b) – techniques:
photometric
Probing the innermost_regions_of_agn_jets_and_their_magnetic_fields_with_radi...Sérgio Sacani
Desde 1974, observações feitas com o chamado Long Baseline Interferometry, ou VLBI, combinaram sinais de um objeto cósmico recebidos em diferentes rádio telescópios espalhados pelo globo para criar uma antena com o tamanho equivalente à maior separação entre elas. Isso fez com que fosse possível fazer imagens com uma nitidez sem precedentes, com uma resolução 1000 vezes melhor do que Hubble consegue na luz visível. Agora, uma equipe internacional de astrônomos quebrou todos os recordes combinando 15 rádio telescópios na Terra e a antena de rádio da missão RadioAstron, da agência espacial russa, na órbita da Terra. O trabalho, liderado pelo Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, o IAA-CSIC, forneceu novas ideias sobre a natureza das galáxias ativas, onde um buraco negro extremamente massivo engole a matéria ao redor enquanto simultaneamente emite um par de jatos de partículas de alta energia e campos magnéticos a velocidades próximas da velocidade da luz.
Observações feitas no comprimento de onda das micro-ondas são essenciais para explorar esses jatos, já que os elétrons de alta energia se movendo em campos magnéticos são mais proficientes em produzir micro-ondas. Mas a maioria das galáxias ativas com jatos brilhantes estão a bilhões de anos-luz de distância da Terra, de modo que esses jatos são minúsculos no céu. Desse modo a alta resolução é essencial para observar esses jatos em ação e então revelar fenômenos como as ondas de choque e a turbulência que controla o quanto de luz é produzida num dado tempo. “Combinando pela primeira vez rádio telescópios na Terra com rádio telescópios no espaço, operando na máxima resolução, tem permitido que a nossa equipe crie uma antena que tem um tamanho equivalente a 8 vezes o diâmetro da Terra, correspondendo a 20 micro arcos de segundo”, disse José L; Gómez, o líder da equipe no Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC.
Direct Measure of Radiative And Dynamical Properties Of An Exoplanet AtmosphereSérgio Sacani
Two decades after the discovery of 51Pegb, the formation processes and atmospheres of short-period gas giants
remain poorly understood. Observations of eccentric systems provide key insights on those topics as they can
illuminate how a planet’s atmosphere responds to changes in incident flux. We report here the analysis of multi-day
multi-channel photometry of the eccentric (e ~ 0.93) hot Jupiter HD80606b obtained with the Spitzer Space
Telescope. The planet’s extreme eccentricity combined with the long coverage and exquisite precision of new
periastron-passage observations allow us to break the degeneracy between the radiative and dynamical timescales
of HD80606b’s atmosphere and constrain its global thermal response. Our analysis reveals that the atmospheric
layers probed heat rapidly (∼4 hr radiative timescale) from<500 to 1400 K as they absorb ~20% of the incoming
stellar flux during the periastron passage, while the planet’s rotation period is 93 35
85
-
+ hr, which exceeds the predicted
pseudo-synchronous period (40 hr).
Key words: methods: numerical – planet–star interactions – planets and satellites: atmospheres – planets and
satellites: dynamical evolution and stability – planets and satellites: individual (HD 80606 b) – techniques:
photometric
The project Nea Oikonomia 2012-2016 is a strategic plan for Greece made by Giorgos Protonotarios during June-September 2011. You can find this plan in two articles on Capitalinvest.gr, Link http://www.capitalinvest.gr/info.php?category_id=42&product_id=260
Complete Photoproduction Experiments - 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon, Virginia, USA, 31 May-4 June 2010. AIP Conference Proceedings, October 2011, Vol. 1374, pp. 17-22, ISSN: 0094-243X, doi: 10.1063/1.3647092
di A. D’Angelo, K. Ardashev, C. Bade, O. Bartalini, V. Bellini, M. Blecher, J. P. Bocquet, M. Capogni, A. Caracappa, L. E. Casano, M. Castoldi, R. Di Salvo, A. Fantini, D. Franco, G. Gervino, F. Ghio, G. Giardina, C. Gibson, B. Girolami, A. Giusa, H. Glu, K. Hicks, S. Hoblit, A. Honig, T. Kageya, M. Khandaker, O. C. Kistner, S. Kizilgul, S. Kucuker, A. Lapikf, A. Lehmann, P. Levi Sandri, A. Lleres, M. Lowry, M. Lucas, J. Mahon, F. Mammoliti, G. Mandaglio, M. Manganaro, L. Miceli, D. Moricciani, A. Mushkarenkovf, V. Nedorezovf, B. Norum, M. Papb, B. Preedom, H. Seyfarthb, C. Randieri, D. Rebreyend, N. Rudnevf, G. Russo, A. Sandorfi, C. Schaerf, M. L. Sperduto, H. Stroher, M. C. Sutera, C. E. Thorn, A. Turingef, V. Vegna, C. S. Whisnanth, K. Wang, X. Wei (2011)
Abstract
The extraction of resonance parameters from meson photo-reaction data is a challenging effort, that would greatly benefit from the availability of several polarization observables, measured for each reaction channel on both proton and neutron targets. In the aim of obtaining such complete experiments, polarized photon beams and targets have been developed at facilities, worldwide. We report on the latest results from the LEGS and GRAAL collaborations, providing single and double polarization measurements on pseudo-scalar meson photo-production from the nucleon.
The project Nea Oikonomia 2012-2016 is a strategic plan for Greece made by Giorgos Protonotarios during June-September 2011. You can find this plan in two articles on Capitalinvest.gr, Link http://www.capitalinvest.gr/info.php?category_id=42&product_id=260
Complete Photoproduction Experiments - 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon, Virginia, USA, 31 May-4 June 2010. AIP Conference Proceedings, October 2011, Vol. 1374, pp. 17-22, ISSN: 0094-243X, doi: 10.1063/1.3647092
di A. D’Angelo, K. Ardashev, C. Bade, O. Bartalini, V. Bellini, M. Blecher, J. P. Bocquet, M. Capogni, A. Caracappa, L. E. Casano, M. Castoldi, R. Di Salvo, A. Fantini, D. Franco, G. Gervino, F. Ghio, G. Giardina, C. Gibson, B. Girolami, A. Giusa, H. Glu, K. Hicks, S. Hoblit, A. Honig, T. Kageya, M. Khandaker, O. C. Kistner, S. Kizilgul, S. Kucuker, A. Lapikf, A. Lehmann, P. Levi Sandri, A. Lleres, M. Lowry, M. Lucas, J. Mahon, F. Mammoliti, G. Mandaglio, M. Manganaro, L. Miceli, D. Moricciani, A. Mushkarenkovf, V. Nedorezovf, B. Norum, M. Papb, B. Preedom, H. Seyfarthb, C. Randieri, D. Rebreyend, N. Rudnevf, G. Russo, A. Sandorfi, C. Schaerf, M. L. Sperduto, H. Stroher, M. C. Sutera, C. E. Thorn, A. Turingef, V. Vegna, C. S. Whisnanth, K. Wang, X. Wei (2011)
Abstract
The extraction of resonance parameters from meson photo-reaction data is a challenging effort, that would greatly benefit from the availability of several polarization observables, measured for each reaction channel on both proton and neutron targets. In the aim of obtaining such complete experiments, polarized photon beams and targets have been developed at facilities, worldwide. We report on the latest results from the LEGS and GRAAL collaborations, providing single and double polarization measurements on pseudo-scalar meson photo-production from the nucleon.
A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole b...Sérgio Sacani
Observations of binary stars containing an accreting black hole or neutron star often show
x-ray emission extending to high energies (>10 kilo–electron volts), which is ascribed to
an accretion disk corona of energetic particles akin to those seen in the solar corona.
Despite their ubiquity, the physical conditions in accretion disk coronae remain poorly
constrained. Using simultaneous infrared, optical, x-ray, and radio observations of the
Galactic black hole system V404 Cygni, showing a rapid synchrotron cooling event in its
2015 outburst, we present a precise 461 ± 12 gauss magnetic field measurement in the
corona. This measurement is substantially lower than previous estimates for such systems,
providing constraints on physical models of accretion physics in black hole and neutron
star binary systems.
A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole b...Sérgio Sacani
Observations of binary stars containing an accreting black hole or neutron star often show
x-ray emission extending to high energies (>10 kilo–electron volts), which is ascribed to
an accretion disk corona of energetic particles akin to those seen in the solar corona.
Despite their ubiquity, the physical conditions in accretion disk coronae remain poorly
constrained. Using simultaneous infrared, optical, x-ray, and radio observations of the
Galactic black hole system V404 Cygni, showing a rapid synchrotron cooling event in its
2015 outburst, we present a precise 461 ± 12 gauss magnetic field measurement in the
corona. This measurement is substantially lower than previous estimates for such systems,
providing constraints on physical models of accretion physics in black hole and neutron
star binary systems.
A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole b...
John O'Reilly's Publications
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John O’Reilly’s Publications
Books
1. Tutorial on Distributed Control, IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring, MD (1982) (co-author)
2. Distributed Computing: Concepts and Implementations, IEEE Press, New York, NY (1984) (co-author)
3. Annual Review of Venture Capital Litigation, Page Mill Publishing, Bradenton, FL (2015)
4. Annual Review of Hedge Fund Litigation, Page Mill Publishing, Bradenton, FL (2015)
Papers and Conference Proceedings
1. “MAPPER - A Distributed Object-Oriented Database Application,” Proc. Computing in Aerospace
Conference, San Antonio, Texas (1995)
2. “ARACHNID: A prototype object-oriented database tool for distributed systems,” Third Inter. Symp. on
Space Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems, Part 1, p. 177-183 (1995).
3. “Innovative Architectures for Dense Multi-Microprocessor Computers,” Computers & Structures, 30,
347-355 (1988)
4. “Resource Management in Advanced Distributed Computer Systems,” Proc. Advantech, Shanghai, PRC
(1984)
5. “Task Allocation in a Distributed Computer System,” Proc. INFOCOM (1982)
6. “Theory of Real-Time Control,” In Handbook on Software Engineering, C.R. Vick and C.V. Ramamoorthy
(eds.), Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY (1982)
7. “Real-Time Control in Distributed Systems,” IEEE Computer Society Real-Time Systems Conference,
Miami, FL (1982)
8. “Software Allocation for Distributed Signal Processors,” Real-Time Signal Processing V, Proceedings of
the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 341, 339 (1982)
9. “Charmonium Spectroscopy from Inclusive Photons in ‘ and J/ Radiative Decays,” Phys. Rev. D34,
711 (1986)
10. “Identification of a Pseudoscalar State at 1440 MeV in J/ Radiative Decays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 219
(1983)
11. “Identification of a Pseudoscalar State at 1440 MeV in J/ Radiative Decays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 259
(1983)
12. “A Study of the Decay J/ π π,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1499 (1983)
13. “A Study of the Decay J/ π π,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 859 (1983)
14. “Observation of the Production of Mesons in Two Photon Collisions,” Phys. Rev. D28, 2896 (1983)
15. “Observation of the Radiative Decay J/ π π,” Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, Paris,
France, 1982. (J. Physique 43, Supp.C-3)
16. “Identification of a Pseudoscalar State at 1440 MeV in J/ Radiative Decays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 259
(1982)
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17. “Measurement of the Branching Ratio and Polarization for J/ f(1270),” Phys. Rev. D25, 3065
(1982)
18. “Upper Limit for J/ + AXION,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 903 (1982)
19. “Production of π0
π0
and π0
in Photon-Photon Collisions,” Phys. Lett. 110B, 82 (1982)
20. “Observation of an Resonance in J/ Radiative Decays,” Phys. Rev. D25, p? (1982)
21. “Evidence for an Resonance in J/ Radiative Decays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 458 (1982)
22. “Observation of ‘c Candidate State with Mass 3592 ±5 MeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 70 (1982)
23. “Charmonium Spectroscopy from Inclusive Photons in J/ and ‘ Decays,” Proc. of the XVII the
Rencontre de Moriond, Les Arcs, France (1982)
24. “A Study of the Reaction ‘ ,” Phys. Rev. D25, 2259 (1982)
25. “A Search for Heavy Excited Electrons in e+
e-
Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 6.5 GeV,” Ph.D.
Thesis, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (1981)
26. “Measurement of Inclusive Production in e+
e-
Interactions Near Charm Threshold,” Phys. Rev. Lett.
47, 760 (1981)
27. “Recent Results from the Crystal Ball,” Proc. SLAC Summer Institute in Particle Physics, Stanford, CA
(1981)
28. “Recent Results from the Crystal Ball,” Proc. Amer. Inst. Phys. 59, 185 (1981)
29. “Studies of Charmonium Using the Crystal Ball,” Proc. of the XVIth Rencontre de Moriond, Les Arcs,
France (1981)
30. “Observation of anc Candidate State withMass2978±9MeV,”Phys. Rev.Lett. 45, 1150 (1980)
31. “Measurement of the Decays ‘(3684) (3095) + (D0),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 959 (1980)
32. “The Decay J/ and the Search for the c,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 44, 712 (1980)
33. “e+e- Physics near Charm Threshold Via the Crystal Ball,” Proc. of the Vanderbilt Symposium on High
Energy e+
e-
Interactions, Nashville, Tennessee (1980)
34. “Production and Decay of D* Mesons,” Proc. of the XXth International Conference on High Energy
Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (1980)
35. “Measurement of Inclusive Production in e+
e-
Interactions Near Charm Threshold,” Proc. of the XXth
International Conference on High Energy Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (1980)
36. “Hadronic Decays of the c,” Proc. of the XXth International Conference on High Energy Physics, Univ.
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (1980)
37. “Crystal Ball Studies of the Reaction ,” Proc of the XXth Conference on High Energy Physics,
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (1980)
38. “Radiative decays of and ‘,” Proc. of the XVth Rencontre de Moriond, Les Arcs, France (1980)
39. “Recent results from the Crystal Ball,” Proc. SLAC Summer Institute in Particle Physics, Stanford, CA
(1980)
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40. “The Crystal Ball Data Acquisition System,” Paper presented at the Conference on Data Acquisition
Systems in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Santa Fe, May 1979; Published in IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 4395
(1979)
41. “What is Smaller Than...,” Chemistry 52, 4 (1979).
42. “The Crystal Ball Experiment,” Proc. Conf. on Particle Physics in the GeV Region, pp. 559-572, Tokyo
1979
43. “Use of a Low Energy Proton Accelerator for Calibrating a Large NaI (Tl) Array in a High Energy
Experiment,” Paper presented at the Fifth Conference on the Application of Small Accelerators, Denton,
Texas, November 1978; Published in IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 1535 (1979)
44. “Compact Multiwire Proportional Chambers and Electronics for the Crystal Ball Detector,” Paper
presented at the Nuclear Science Symposium, Washington, D.C., October 1978; Published in IEEE
Trans. Nucl. Sci. 173 (1979)
45. “Results from the Crystal Ball Detector at SPEAR,” Proc. of the International Symposium on Lepton and
Photon Interactions at High Energy, Batavia, Illinois (1979)
46. “Initial Studies of the Charmonium System Using the Crystal Ball Detector at SPEAR,” Proc. of the XIVth
Rencontre de Moriond, Les Arcs, France (1979)
47. “Hadron Production in e+
e-
Annihilation From √S = 5-Gev To 7.4-GeV,” SLAC-PUB-5160, January 1990,
submitted to Phys. Rev. D
48. “Measurements of Total Hadronic and Inclusive D* Cross-Sections in e+
e-
Annihilations Between 3.87-
GeV and 4.5-GeV,” SLAC-PUB-4160, December 1986, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
49. “Results on Charmonium from the Crystal Ball,” Proc. of the APS High Energy Physics Conference,
Geneva, Switzerland (1979)
50. “Recent Results from the Crystal Ball Detector at SPEAR,” Proc. of the APS High Energy Physics
Conference, pp. 185-202, Montreal, Canada (1979)
51. “Preliminary Crystal Ball Results from an Energy Scan in the 4 GeV Region, and Some Charmonium
Results in Exclusive Channels,” Proc. of the Hawaii Topical Conference in Particle Physics, Honolulu,
Hawaii (1979)
52. “Recent Results from the Crystal Ball,” Proc. of the SLAC Summer Institute in Particle Physics, Stanford,
CA (1979)
53. “Design and Performance of a Modularized NaI (Tl) Detector,” Paper Presented at the Nuclear Science
Symposium, San Francisco, October 1977; IEEE Tran. Nucl. Sci. 333 (1978)
54. “What is Smaller Than...,” WPI Journal 82, No. 1, 2 (1978)
55. “A Study and Comparison of the Inclusive Reactions π+n 0X and K-p anti-K*0 X,” Nucl. Phys.
B119, 1 (1977)
56. “A Study of Inclusive Vector Meson Production,” Phys. Lett. 63B, 461 (1976)
57. “Comparison of the Reactions D+n 0X and Kp K*0X,” Presented at the Washington, D.C.
meeting of the American Physical Society, (1976); Bull. Amer. Phy. Soc. 21, 646 (1976)