Intensity and isoseismal map of 25th November 2007 Delhi earthquake

An earthquake of magnitude ML: 4.3 occurred on 25th November 2007 (2312 UTC) in Delhi with hypocenter at 28.56° N / 77.08° E and focal depth 33.1 km. The epicenter was at about 21 km SW of Delhi University. It was widely felt in and around Delhi and created panic among the local populace. A macroseismic survey was conducted in about ten days starting from 27th November, 2007 at 89 locations covering an area of about 1500 sq. km in Delhi and its neighborhood through a questionnaire. The results of the macroseismic survey allowed establishment of spatial distribution of the earthquake effects in the form of isoseismal map generated using geo-statistical analysis tool of ArcGIS 9.1. The isoseismal map shows that most parts of Delhi region experienced an intensity of V on MMI scale, except on northern most region of Delhi where intensity was found IV. The mean isoseismal radii for the zones V, IV, III and II are 29.13, 57.78, 83.63 and 100.75 km, respectively. The orientation of elongated epicentral track of intensity field shows that the stress release was pronounced along Delhi-Sargodha ridge and earthquake was attributed to activities of this ridge.

Structural Complexity and Informational Transfer in Spatial Log-Gaussian Cox Processes

The doubly stochastic mechanism generating the realizations of spatial log-Gaussian Cox processes is empirically assessed in terms of generalized entropy, divergence and complexity measures. The aim is to characterize the contribution to stochasticity from the two phases involved, in relation to the transfer of information from the intensity field to the resulting point pattern, as well as regarding their marginal random structure. A number of scenarios are explored regarding the Matérn model for the covariance of the underlying log-intensity random field. Sensitivity with respect to varying values of the model parameters, as well as of the deformation parameters involved in the generalized informational measures, is analyzed on the basis of regular lattice partitionings. Both a marginal global assessment based on entropy and complexity measures, and a joint local assessment based on divergence and relative complexity measures, are addressed. A Poisson process and a log-Gaussian Cox process with white noise intensity, the first providing an upper bound for entropy, are considered as reference cases. Differences regarding the transfer of structural information from the intensity field to the subsequently generated point patterns, reflected by entropy, divergence and complexity estimates, are discussed according to the specifications considered. In particular, the magnitude of the decrease in marginal entropy estimates between the intensity random fields and the corresponding point patterns quantitatively discriminates the global effect of the additional source of variability involved in the second phase of the double stochasticity.

Image classification and cognition using contour curvature statistics

Although the higher order mechanisms behind object representation and classification in the visual system are still not well understood, there are hints that simple shape primitives such as “curviness” might activate neural activation and guide this process. Drawing on elementary invariance principles, we propose that a statistical geometric object, the probability distribution of the normalized contour curvatures (NCC) in the intensity field of a planar image, has the potential to represent and classify categories of objects. We show that NCC is sufficient for discriminating between cognitive categories such as animacy, size and type, and demonstrate the robustness of this metric to variation in illumination and viewpoint, consistent with neurobiological constraints and psychological experiments. A generative model for producing artificial images with the observed NCC distributions highlights the key features that our metric captures and just as importantly, those that it does not. More broadly, our study points to the need for statistical geometric approaches to cognition that build in both the statistics and the natural invariances of the sensory world.

Study of the propagation of a light beam at the exit of a single-mode and multimode optical fiber

Traditionally, optical fibers have been used as communication lines and optical sensors; however, these have multiple other uses, for example, the interaction and entrapment of microparticles. This article studies the computational modelling of the propagation of light that comes out of conventional, single-mode and multimode optical fibers, which is of interest when studying the interaction of light with microparticles. As a parameter of analysis and quantification we use the degree of diffraction of the light propagation beams, at different distances from the optical fibers. Resulted intensity field distributions give us important microscopic information to consider for light interaction with such microparticles.

Error Inherent in Simulating Planetary Thermal Effect on the Spacecraft Surface by using Isotropic Planetary Radiation Intensity Field Model Instead of Anisotropic

In order to mathematically simulate the thermal effect that radiation emitted by planets has on spacecraft, two intensity field models describing planetary radiation may be used depending on the emitter specifics: isotropic and anisotropic. The isotropic model is based on the assumption that the local surface density of outgoing radiation flux is the same for all surface regions visible from orbit. In the case of the anisotropic model this value is assumed to be proportional to the zenith angle cosine for each surface element on the side of the planet that is illuminated by the Sun. Published results of studies concerning developing planetary radiation field simulators indicate that thermal vacuum installations where the working volume is comparable to the total installation volume can only reproduce the sotropic planetary radiation intensity field model. It is a pressing issue to determine whether and when it is possible to replace the anisotropic model with an isotropic one when physically simulating the effect that the solar radiation reflected from a planet and intrinsic radiation flows generated by planets with no atmosphere have on spacecraft. The investigation that we conducted regarding this issue was based on comparing the results of computing the irradiance of spacecraft elements using the models under consideration. These computation results allowed us to conclude that it is possible to physically simulate the effect of solar radiation flows reflected from planets combined with intrinsic (infrared) radiation flows generated by planets with no atmosphere by means of using simulators reproducing isotropic radiation fields in their working volumes

A large field-of-view metasurface for complex-amplitude hologram breaking numerical aperture limitation

Owing to the potential to manipulate simultaneously amplitude and phase of electromagnetic wave, complex-amplitude holographic metasurfaces (CAHMs) can achieve improved image-reconstruction quality compared with amplitude-only and phase-only ones. However, prevailing design methods based on Huygens–Fresnel theory for CAHMs, e.g., Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction theory (RSDT), restrict acquisition of high-precision reconstruction in a large field of view (FOV), especially in the small numerical aperture (NA) scenario. To this end, a CAHM consisting of Sine-shaped meta-atoms is proposed in a microwave region, enabled by a novel complex amplitude retrieval method, to realize large FOV holograms while breaking the large NA limitation. Calculations and full-wave simulations demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve superior-quality holograms, even for nonparaxial holograms in a relatively small NA scenario, thus improving FOV and aperture utilization efficiency of CAHMs. The reconstruction comparison of a complex multi-intensity field distribution between CAHM prototypes designed by our method and by RSDT further confirms this point. We also compare both theoretically and experimentally the CAHM by our method with the phase-only metasurface by weighted Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm. Superior-quality holograms with suppressed background noise and relieved deformation, promised by the extra amplitude manipulation freedom, is witnessed. Finally, due to its wavelength irrelevance, the proposed method is applicable to the entire spectrum, spanning from microwave to optics.

The Alcock Paczynski test with voids in 21 cm intensity field

ABSTRACT Feasibility of the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test by stacking voids in the 21 cm line intensity field is presented. We analyse the IllustrisTNG simulation to obtain the 21 cm signal map. We then randomly distribute particles depending on the 21 cm intensity field to find voids by using publicly available code, VIDE. As in the galaxy clustering, the shape of the stacked void in the 21 cm field is squashed along the line of sight due to the peculiar velocities in redshift space, although it becomes spherical in real space. The redshift-space distortion for the stacked void weakly depends on redshift and we show that the dependency can be well described by the linear prediction, with the amplitude of the offset being free parameters. We find that the AP test using the stacked voids in a 21 cm intensity map is feasible and the parameter estimation on Ωm and w is unbiased.