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Elliot, Benton R., 1842-1910 : Confederate Service Record, 1907.
No full textThis service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran Benton R. Elliot, 1842-1910, dated from 1907.All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.).The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html1 leaf, 2 pdf pages.Regiment & Battles mentioned: Confederate States of America. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 10th ; Pea Ridge, Battle of, Ark., 1862 ; Prairie Grove, Battle of, Ark., 1862
Benton, R B, 3796038
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/371456Surname: BENTON
Given Name(s) or Initials: R B
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 3796038
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: SEA-4838181951
Item: [2016.0049.03783] "Benton, R B, 3796038
Olive Benton, interviewed by Miranda Coombs
Full text linkOlive Benton, interviewed by Miranda Coombs, May 2, 2003, in Benton’s home in Bangor, Maine. Benton was born in Etna, Maine. Topics covered include Benton’s experiences in the Army during the Korean War; basic training; segregation of men and women in the military bases; being in Tokyo during the Korean War; treatment of lesbians; homosexuality unacceptable in the military; Benton’s relationships within the military; her marriage and death of her husband; treatment of soldiers in foreign countries; Benton’s willingness to rejoin the military. Text: 27 pp. transcript. Time: 00:41:13. Photographs: p14549-p14551.
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Erratum: The elliptical power law profile lens (Astronomy and Astrophysics (2015) 580 (A79) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526773)
No full textThe authors would like to point out two errors in the article as it was originally published. Due to a typographical error, Eq. (17) erroneously expresses the shear of the elliptical power law profile lens in the elliptic coordinates R and ' instead of the physical polar coordinates r and ø. The correct expression is (r; ø) = -ei2ø κ (r) + (1 - t) ei ø α (r; ø) r ; (17) i.e. the same formula with the substitutions R → r and α → ø. This result correctly recovers the singular isothermal ellipsoid result γ = -κ (z/z∗) = -ei2ø when t = 1. The preceding Eq. (16) is correct. Furthermore, Fig. 2 incorrectly contains and refers to the pseudo-caustics for power law profile lenses with slope t > 1. Since the main result of the original paper shows that the elliptical lenses have the same (elliptical) radial profile as the circular ones, the degenerate critical line at the origin R = 0 is mapped to R = 1 when t > 1, just as in the circular case. Hence only the isothermal case t = 1 has a pseudo-caustic at finite radius. The dashed lines in the plot are due to a numerical error. A corrected version of Fig. 2 is shown below. (Figure Presented)
Fort Benton
No full textA slide of a section of a painting by Charles M. Russell. This part of the painting, titled "Wagon Boss", shows Fort Benton
"Benton" Steamboat
No full textA slide showing the "Benton" steamboat which regularly docked at Fort Benton, Montana
Neutrino masses, dark energy and the gravitational lensing of pre-galactic H i
No full textWe study the constraints which the next generation of radio telescopes could place on the mass and number of neutrino species by studying the gravitational lensing of high-redshift 21-cm emission in combination with wide-angle surveys of galaxy lensing. We use simple characterizations of reionization history and of proposed telescope designs to forecast the constraints and detectability threshold for neutrinos. It is found that the degeneracy between neutrino parameters and dark energy parameters is significantly reduced by incorporating 21-cm lensing. The combination of galaxy and 21-cm lensing could constrain the sum of the neutrino masses to within ∼0.04 eV and the number of species to within ∼0.1. This is an improvement of a factor of 2.6 in mass and 1.4 in number over a galaxy lensing survey alone. This includes marginalizing over an 11-parameter cosmological model with a two-parameter model for the dark energy equation of state. If the dark energy equation of state is held fixed at w ≡ p/ρ = -1, the constraints improve to ∼0.025 eV and 0.04. These forecasted errors depend critically on the fraction of sky that can be surveyed in redshifted 21-cm emission (25 per cent is assumed here) and the redshift of reionization (z = 7 is assumed here). It is also found that neutrinos with masses too small to be detected in the data could none the less cause a significant bias in the measured dark energy equation of state. © 2009 The Author. Journal compilation. © 2009 RAS
Zooming into the Cosmic Horseshoe:New insights on the lens profile and the source shape
No full textThe gravitational lens SDSS J1148+1930, also known as the Cosmic Horseshoe, is one of the biggest and most detailed Einstein rings ever observed.We use the forward reconstruction method implemented in the lens-fitting code LENSED to investigate in great detail the properties of the lens and background source. We model the lens with different mass distributions, focusing in particular on the determination of the slope of the dark-matter component. The inherent degeneracy between the lens slope and the source size can be broken when we can isolate separate components of each lensed image, as in this case. For an elliptical power-law model, κ(r)~r-t, the results favour a flatter-than-isothermal slope with amaximum-likelihood value of t=0.08. Instead, when we consider the contribution of the baryonic matter separately, the maximum-likelihood value of the slope of the dark-matter component is t = 0.31 or t = 0.44, depending on the assumed initial mass function. We discuss the origin of this result by analysing in detail how the images and the sources change when the slope t changes. We also demonstrate that these slope values at the Einstein radius are not inconsistent with the recent forecast from the theory of structure formation in the ΛCDM model.</p
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