Estimating the Risk of Satellite Collisions in Densely Populated Orbit Shells

Low Earth Orbit is becoming crowded with satellites. Updating estimates of collision probabilities is important as new deployments are authorised but is difficult because only limited information is given. This report investigates developing analytic estimates of collision probabilities. A survey of approaches reported in the literature is carried out. A collision involving a satellite from the Iridium cluster is reviewed. A simple analytic expression for the collision probability between two satellites is derived using the smallness of several dimensionless ratios appearing in the problem. Single collision probabilities are then extended to orbital planes populated by n satellites with the aim of finding the optimal point at which to traverse such an orbit. This report demonstrates that analytic estimates relevant to the problem can be made. Further work should focus on: making these estimates rigorous by using a formal asymptotic approach, considering multiple orbital planes and introducing time dependence

Parking 3-sphere swimmer. I. Energy minimizing strokes

The paper is about the parking 3-sphere swimmer ($\text{sPr}_3$). This is a low-Reynolds number model swimmer composed of three balls of equal radii. The three balls can move along three horizontal axes (supported in the same plane) that mutually meet at the center of $\text{sPr}_3$ with angles of $120^{\circ}$. The governing dynamical system is introduced and the implications of its geometric symmetries revealed. It is then shown that, in the first order range of small strokes, optimal periodic strokes are ellipses embedded in 3d space, i.e., closed curves of the form $t\in [0,2\pi] \mapsto (\cos t)u + (\sin t)v$ for suitable orthogonal vectors $u$ and $v$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$. A simple analytic expression for the vectors $u$ and $v$ is derived. The results of the paper are used in a second article where the real physical dynamics of $\text{sPr}_3$ is analyzed in the asymptotic range of very long arms.

CORRELATION IDENTIFICATION IN BIPARTITE PAULI CHANNELS

The classical communication capacities of quantum Pauli channels with memory (correlation) are known to exhibit a transition effect. We revisit this phenomenon from the standpoint of the functionally analogous task of Pauli channel correlation identification. We treat the complete class of Pauli channels with correlation and determine the maximum quantum Fisher information achievable both with pure separable channel probe states and with maximally entangled bipartite probe states. A comparison of these Fisher informations reveals four distinct classes of Pauli channels and shows that only those channels that exceed a certain parametric threshold exhibit a transition effect. For those Pauli channels that exhibit this effect, the threshold at which it occurs has a simple analytic expression.

A VALUATION FORMULA FOR MULTI-ASSET, MULTI-PERIOD BINARIES IN A BLACK–SCHOLES ECONOMY

We present a new valuation formula for a generic, multi-period binary option in a multi-asset Black–Scholes economy. The payoff of this so-called M-binary is the most general possible, subject to the condition that a simple analytic expression exists for the present value. Portfolios of M-binaries can be used to statically replicate many European exotics for which there exist closed-form Black–Scholes prices.

Generalization of the two-dimensional Child–Langmuir law for non-zero injection velocities in a planar diode

A simple analytic expression of the two-dimensional Child–Langmuir law is derived for non-zero injection velocities and Lau's result is obtained in our model by setting the injection velocity equal to zero. The calculation results show that the modify term in our model is larger than Lau's with a non-zero electronic initial energy, and it is twice as large as Lau's when the electronic initial energy is much greater than the potential energy of the gap.

Heavy Ion Acceleration by Double-cyclotron Absorption: Some Analytic Approximations

possible to accelerate heavy ions in a magnetised plasma via a process where an ion simultaneously absorbs two gyromagnetic waves whose frequencies sum to the ion gyrofrequency. Analytic approximations to the probability of such double-cyclotron absorption are derived. A particularly simple approximation is presented for the special case where the waves all have frequencies very close to half the ion gyrofrequency. The rate of perpendicular acceleration of the ions due to double-cyclotron absorption is considered, and a simple analytic expression is derived for the case here the waves have the quasimonochromatic distribution mentioned above. One possible application of these proximatio.ns is to investigate the proposal that perpendicular acceleration of oxygen (0+) ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, due to double-cyclotron absorption, may give rise to O+-conic distributions

Effects of iron on a toroidal conductor

The effects of iron on the uniformity of the field produced by a current-carrying axisymmetric conductor are considered. Using a perturbation analysis a simple analytic expression is obtained which describes the field close to the axis of symmetry. A Fourier series approach is also used to provide an analytical solution to the problem and the accuracy of the perturbation method is estimated by comparing results.