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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Multiple mergers generate ultraluminous infrared galaxy

ScienceDaily (June 29, 2012) ? First discovered from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite's (IRAS) all-sky survey in the mid-1980s, ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) are the most luminous class of galaxies in the relatively near or local Universe. Most of their energy output is in the infrared, suggesting that they contain a large amount of dust, an indication of immense star formation.

Astronomers have proposed different scenarios for the development of ULIRGs. Since ULIRGs' huge infrared luminosities (1012 Lsun), powered mostly by a large number of massive stars, are comparable to the high luminosity of quasars, the brightest class of active galactic nuclei, a 1988 scenario (Sanders, D. B., et al. 1988, ApJ, 325, 74)? proposed that ULIRGs were an intermediate phase in the evolution of quasars after a merger. Another scenario proposed by Professor Taniguchi and his associate in 1998 (Taniguchi, Y., & Shioya, Y. 1998, ApJ, 501, L167) hypothesized that multiple mergers among several galaxies explained the observational properties.

However, a number of questions remained unanswered:

1) How many galaxies were merged into one? and

2) Which types of galaxies were merged into one? Since then, explanations for the origins of ULIRGs have remained controversial.

The current team conducted research to help answer these questions and to propose a plausible, data-based explanation for the origin of ULIRGs.

The team made detailed optical imaging observations of Arp 220 using FOCAS (Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph) on the Subaru Telescope and the LRIS (Low Resolution Imaging Spectometer) on the Keck II Telescope. The new imaging data revealed a spectacular pair of tidal tails extending more than 50,000 light years. Intermediate-mass stars (with masses a few to several times that of the Sun), the remains of intense star formation events called "starbursts," dominate the composition of the tidal tails. The presence of an H? absorption line led to the first detection of these features. Dr. Kazuya Matsubayashi said, "I was very surprised when I found these H? absorption features in the two tidal tails."

What could explain these surprising features? A merger between two galaxies is necessary to cause a starburst in a merging system. Therefore, two post-starburst galaxies could have produced the two long tidal tails. However, four galaxies are needed to generate the two post-starburst galaxies. The post-starburst tidal tails revealed by the new observations suggest a new scenario for the merging history in Arp 220. The team suggests that the two observed tidal tails in Arp 220 need a merger between two advanced (i.e., post-starburst) merger remnants. In sum, four spiral galaxies are necessary to explain the observed post-starburst tidal tails in Arp 220. They conclude that Arp 220 comes from a multiple merger that includes at least four galaxies, not from a typical merger. The team thinks that this conclusion about Arp 220 can be applied to other galaxy groups.

There are a significant number of compact groups of galaxies in the Universe that could lead to multiple mergers. Professor Taniguchi noted, "Some of such compact groups have already merged into one. They are the ULIRGs observed to date." Some galaxies are associated together in a single gravitationally-bound group, and they will inevitably merge into one galaxy within several billion years.

Although ULIRGs are thought to evolve into quasars and then into giant early-type galaxies, future considerations of the evolution of galaxies will need to take into account the impact of multiple mergers, not just major mergers between two galaxies. Professor Taniguchi applied this principle to the fate of our Milky Way Galaxy: "Very recently, NASA announced that our Milky Way Galaxy will merge with the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) into a giant elliptical galaxy within several billion years. Please don't worry. That would only be a merger between two galaxies, so our Milky Way will not evolve into a ULIRG."

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Y. Taniguchi, K. Matsubayashi, M. Kajisawa, Y. Shioya, Y. Ohyama, T. Nagao, Y. Ideue, T. Murayama, J. Koda. Post-Starburst Tidal Tails in the Archetypical Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxy Arp 220. The Astrophysical Journal, 2012; 753 (1): 78 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/1/78

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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120629120318.htm

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Friday, June 29, 2012

HP ditches Windows RT tablet plans, Microsoft Surface to blame

Hewlett-Packard originally planned to release a Windows RT-powered tablet later this year. Due to Microsoft?s recent Surface announcement and the?high cost of licenses, however, the PC maker has scrapped its RT tablet plans. The rumor was first reported by?SemiAccurate, which is also hearing that ?just about every OEM out there is scrapping one or more [Windows RT] designs, with most renewing Android efforts with every resource at their disposal.?

Microsoft reportedly had an active roll in helping its partners developer Windows RT tablets. The software giant then allegedly capitalized on the shortcomings of those designs while stole their most innovative features to create a direct competitor. Microsoft will also be able to price its tablet lower than others because it won?t be forced to pay its own licensing fees. Manufacturers are ?bailing fast? because they ?can?t hope to be competitive,? the report claimed.

Bloomberg confirmed parts of the report with an HP spokesperson, who said that the company will instead focus on x86-based Windows 8 tablets. ?The decision to go with x86 was influenced by input from our customers,? Somsak told Bloomberg. ?The robust and established ecosystem of x86 applications provides the best customer experience at this time and in the immediate future.?

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Sharapova, Serena Williams win at Wimbledon

Serena Williams of the United States reacts during a second round women's singles match against Melinda Czink of Hungary at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Maria Sharapova of Russia serves to Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria during a second round women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Maria Sharapova of Russia plays a return to Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria during a second round women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) ? On the verge of victory, Maria Sharapova briefly lost her bearings.

Sharapova's old serving problems resurfaced Thursday at Wimbledon, costing her the second set before she recovered to beat dangerous Tsvetana Pironkova, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (3), 6-0.

The Court 1 match took two days and ended three minutes after Serena Williams concluded her second-round victory on Centre Court, beating qualifier Melinda Czink 6-1, 6-4.

The No. 1-ranked Sharapova saved five set points in the first set and led the second set 3-1 when play was halted Tuesday because of darkness. She lost the first two games when the match resumed, and double-faulted on her first three service points in the tiebreaker.

"It felt like two matches in a way," Sharapova said. "Today I wanted to start off really well because I knew I was up a break. Didn't go according to plan. Really served sloppy."

Sharapova underwent shoulder surgery in 2008 and has been prone to double-faults, but in the final set she had no trouble with her serve ? or anything else. She won 21 of the last 27 points and finished with just 11 unforced errors.

Sharapova said she didn't make any major changes down the stretch.

"We were playing with the same balls; I played with the same racket," she said. "I just started doing things a little bit better."

Pironkova, ranked 38th, beat Venus Williams at Wimbledon each of the past two years,

"If she played on grass 365 days a year, she'd be top five probably," Sharapova said. "She has the perfect game for it."

But Sharapova's at her best in winner-take-all sets. She improved her record in three-set matches to 9-0 this year and 21-1 since the beginning of 2011.

She has won 14 consecutive matches, including the French Open this month to complete a career Grand Slam.

While Sharapova battled an erratic serve, with eight aces and 10 double-faults, four-time champion Serena Williams had no such trouble. She won 27 of 28 points on her first serve, including 10 aces, and never faced a break point. Czink twice whiffed on returns.

"I love my serve," Williams said, "and I love feeling good when I serve."

The sixth-seeded Williams could meet Sharapova in the final next week. A 17-year-old Sharapova defeated Williams for the Wimbledon title in 2004.

Others advancing included Americans Brian Baker, a qualifier ranked 126th, and No. 28-seeded Christina McHale.

Sara Errani committed only five unforced errors and beat Anne Keothavong of Britain 6-1, 6-1. The 25-year-old Errani, an Italian who has blossomed in Grand Slam competition this year, matched her best Wimbledon showing by advancing to the third round.

She was the French Open runner-up this month to Sharapova, and she's 12-2 in major tournaments in 2012. She began this year with a career record of 15-17 at majors.

Playing the day's first match on Court 2, the 10th-seeded Errani erased all three break points she faced and won in 61 minutes. That was a grueling effort compared with Wednesday, when she played only one point to complete a victory suspended overnight because of rain.

The fourth day of play began with sunshine and temperatures heading into the low 80s.

No. 7 David Ferrer defeated Kenny de Schepper 7-6 (1), 6-2, 6-4. No. 13 Gilles Simon, who stirred debate this week when he said men should be paid more than women at tennis tournaments, lost to Xavier Malisse 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

No. 8 Angelique Kerber beat Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-3.

Baker beat Jarkko Nieminen 6-0, 6-2, 6-4. McHale eliminated Mathilde Johansson 7-5, 7-5.

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Feature: Afghanistan wants its cultural heroes back

KABUL (Reuters) - - Interred a quarter century ago in Pakistan, the remains of Afghan poet Ustad Khalilullah Khalili now lie in a forlorn corner of Kabul University, brought here to be reburied so that no one else can lay claim to the revered poet-philosopher.

He has no epitaph; only a few wilted bouquets lie at the grave of Afghanistan's most prominent 20th century poet. Three policemen guard the site.

But if President Hamid Karzai - who ordered the remains be disinterred from a grave in the Pakistani city of Peshawar last month - has his way, the reburial will become an assertion of Afghan culture over encroachment by Pakistan and Iran.

"We brought him back from Pakistan because he was our poet and scholar," said Mohammad Hussain Yamin, head of the Persian and Dari department at Kabul University.

"We don't want someone in future to say that he belonged to Pakistan just because he lived the final years of his life there."

The assertion of cultural sovereignty is part of an effort to unite Afghanistan and prove it can stand on its own after most foreign troops leave at the end of 2014.

The government says it wants an end to "foreign interference", usually a reference to Pakistan, but also Iran with which it is locked in a fierce debate over ownership of some of the greatest poets and philosophers in the region.

Poetry is big in Afghanistan, from the time of the kings of the 10th century to the present day, permeating every level of society from children in school to warlords and even the austere Taliban who study long works of classical Persian poetry as part of their education in religious schools.

It's the thread that runs between Afghanistan's often warring ethnic groups whether Tajik, Hazara, Pashtun, Uzbek, Turkmen, Nuristani, Baluch, or any of the many other sub-groups and clans.

CULTURAL CLAIMS

But along with the death and destruction of the past three decades, Afghans say they also lost a chunk of their rich cultural heritage with Iran, Pakistan and even Turkey claiming parts of it.

Many, like Khalili, left the country to escape the wars and died in faraway lands which slowly began to claim them as their own, Afghanistan says.

Now it aims to get its heritage back.

"Iran wants to show the world it had a glorious past. This has been going on for years, they have been claiming many of our literary figures as their own. We cannot remain silent," said Jalal Noorani, an adviser at the Information and Culture Ministry.

Debate has long raged over Rumi, arguably the greatest Persian poet, but now as Afghanistan begins to stand on its feet, the claims and counter-claims have intensified not only over him but also others.

Rumi, known as Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi in Afghanistan and Mevlevi in Iran, was born in the 13th century in Balkh which was at the time an eastern part of the Persian empire of Khorasan but is now a province in northern Afghanistan.

His family moved and they eventually settled in present-day Turkey where he wrote some of the greatest mystic Sufi poetry in Persian.

Today, all three countries regard him as their national poet even though his poetry itself transcends borders, religion and ethnic divides.

Rumi's poetry is displayed on the walls of Tehran, sung in Iranian music and read in Iranian school books. Iranians are known to live with his poetry.

But Yamin says what is indisputable is that his origins were in Afghanistan. Rumi's occupies pride of place on a billboard in Yamin's room that gives details of the birth dates and place of birth of poets that others have laid claim to.

"We have repeatedly given evidence that these figures belong to Afghanistan, not Iran. When we sit down with the Iranians and discuss these issues, they don't offer any evidence. They say in the past both countries were one, so they call all these poets, philosophers Iranian," said Yasmin.

CHALLENGE

Iranian embassy officials could not be reached for comment and did not respond to an email.

In the past, Iranians have challenged Afghanistan to a test of history, suggesting they were waking up a bit late to claim inheritance.

At a concert in Kabul a few years ago, an Iranian singer challenged any member of the audience to speak for two minutes on Rumi since they claimed he was their own. Afghan authorities took offence and the concert had to end hastily.

"Afghans are a bit late at this. Iran and Turkey have stolen their thunder," said Mohammad Taqi, a U.S.-based columnist for Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper who has written extensively on the Pashtun heartland straddling Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Iran, he said, had milked Rumi and the whirling dervishes that his poetry inspired by setting up cultural centers on the pattern of Germany's Goethe Institute.

Still, this new burst of cultural revivalism in Afghanistan can help bridge the distance between the Tajiks and the Hazaras, and to a certain extent the Pashtuns, he said.

"A supra-ethnic Afghan identity needs non-violent icons."

(Editing by Rob Taylor and Robert Birsel)

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Brother of lesbian teen shot in head: She's 'fighting'

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Siblings Patricia Martinez, left, Hilario Chapa, and Mary Kristene Chapa on April 28, 2012. Kristene Chapa was found shot in the head, along with her girlfriend, in a South Texas park on Saturday. She is recovering in the intensive care unit of a hospital.

By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com

When Hilario Chapa went to a hospital to identify his sister, who was found shot in the head along with her girlfriend in a South Texas park, her face was unrecognizable. He and another sibling had to check her hands and feet and the rest of her body instead, in order to determine this was Mary Kristene Chapa, their sister.

But days after the brutal attack that left Kristene?s girlfriend, Mollie Olgin, dead, the 18-year-old has opened her eyes and is making inquiries about her recovery, though she has to write on a clipboard and use sign language to communicate, and she has little sensation on the left side of her body, her brother said.

?I do believe she knows what?s happened, but she hasn?t chosen to talk (about) it on her own,? he said. ?I?m under the impression that she doesn?t know? who did it.

?I think she?s pissed about what happened to her and I think she?s ready to get up and take off walking if she could,? he added.

The swelling from the gunshot has gone down, but it's unclear when she'll be able to leave the intensive care unit, said Chapa, 32, who also spoke to NBC Latino.

?All that we?ve gotten from the doctors is that she is making very ? impressive progress,? he told msnbc.com, saying it had been "rough." "I can?t even imagine how the other family feels about this situation. ... It?s very tragic.?

Olgin, 19, and Chapa were found in a grassy area of the park by a couple Saturday morning with gunshot wounds to the head in Portland, Texas, Police Chief Randy Wright said. Olgin, a first-year university student living in Corpus Christi, died; Chapa, of Sinton, was alive and rushed to an area hospital.

Police have recovered a bullet casing from a large-caliber gun at the scene, leading investigators to believe the shootings occurred where the pair was found, but they haven?t found the weapon. Two witnesses said they heard what could have been gunshots or firecrackers just before midnight last Friday but did not report it at the time, he said.

In the community of Portland, the crime rate is low, with the last homicide occurring in 2010, Wright said. The police haven?t established a motive for the attack on the girls, who were planning to spend some time in the park that fateful Friday night before seeing a movie, Olgin?s father, Mario, told local television station kiiitv.com.

"Information from family and friends indicates that Mollie and Mary were engaged in a same-sex relationship. However, there is no current evidence to indicate the attacks were motivated by that relationship," the police chief said.

Wright told msnbc.com on Monday that: ?It appears as if ? this was not just a random attack, but that?s something that we really have to develop over time.?

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The thought of an attack on his sister because she is gay is incomprehensible to Chapa. She is an ?all-American kid,? who excels at her studies as well as at softball (she is a pitcher), and is well liked, he said.

?A lot of people want to speculate it was a hate crime. I just can?t comprehend why somebody would shoot two ? 18 or 19 year old girl(s) over a hate crime,? he said. ?The brutality of it, you know, it?s just unimaginable.?

Police are investigating the shooting of two teenage girls in a same-sex relationship in a small Texas community along the Gulf of Mexico. KRIS reporter Lindsay Curtis has the story.

?I know that Texas has a lot of stereotypes ? but South Texas really is a good place,? he added. ?You don?t see a lot of hate crimes going on down here. You don?t hear about gay bashing or anything like that.?

Chapa didn?t know his sister was gay before the shootings, though he had thought she might be. He said his mother and other sister already knew. Friends say the pair had been going out since mid-February.

?Our family is very supportive,? he said. ?We will take Kristina ? for who she is and what she wanted to be, and we will support her in that.?

Chapa said his sister has maintained a stoic face: "You just see her fighting," he said, noting she was eagerly asking questions about her condition.

?She?s moving her right side very strongly,? he said. ?But her left side, they haven?t used that word (paralysis), it?s too early to tell. ... She just hasn?t moved it.

"No one is saying she?s paralyzed," he added, noting that he believed his parents had said she experienced some feeling on her left side.

Kristene has written Mollie?s name down a few times, but Chapa said he worried about telling her she was killed, fearing it could cause a medical setback.

?I'm kind of afraid," he said. "She is in such a fragile state right now.?

?The shooting has taken its toll on the family. The parents are maintaining a 24-hour vigil at the hospital and Chapa said he was initially a wreck.

Doctors have told them almost no one survives this kind of shooting, especially given the long period of time between being shot and found. It was an "amazing thing,? he said.

The shooting has also hit the family hard financially. Chapa?s father had just started a new job in West Texas and had not yet enrolled for health insurance, so Kristene is without coverage. They are seeking donations to help them pay for the medical care, which doesn?t yet have an end in sight. (Donations can be made here)

The family has yet to meet with Olgin?s family, though they hope to soon and to provide them support as well, said Chapa, who had never met Mollie.

Chapa has taken time off work from his job as an equipment cleaner at the Corpus Christi Army Depot to focus on his sister?s recovery. During these tough days, he said it is Kristene who gives him encouragement.

"I can honestly say that just watching my sister progress, watching her come back to us, and ? seeing her strength, it gives me strength,? he said. ?There?s nothing that anybody can tell you ? all you can really do is just hang onto hope and just watching her gives me hope.?

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

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Darkness is stirring. The calm before the storm is slowly ending. The world is now in the hands of the strong. This, is your legend. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

This Is How Artists Draw All That Amazing 3D Street Chalk Art [Video]

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Pacers part ways with Larry Bird

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Pacers part ways with Larry Bird
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FILE - This May 30, 2012 file photo shows Larry Bird, Indiana Pacers president of basketball operations, talking about the teams future during a news conference in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Larry Bird is leaving the Indiana Pacers. The newspaper reported the move Tuesday, June 26, 2012, citing an unidentified person with direct knowledge of the situation, and said Bird was meeting with team owner Herb Simon. The Pacers and Simon declined comment on the report. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2011, file photo, Indiana Pacers general manager David Morway, bottom left, president of basketball operations Larry Bird, top right, his wife Dinah Mattingly and team owner Herb Simon, center, watch an NBA basketball game between the Pacers and the Orlando Magic in Indianapolis. Morway, who was hired by the Pacers in 1999 and had been GM since 2008, has resigned as general manager of the Pacers amid reports that Larry Bird is on the way out, too, according to the Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? The Indiana Pacers have parted ways with Larry Bird.

Owner Herb Simon announced the move Wednesday, one day before the NBA draft. He said Bird will stay on for the draft, when the Pacers are scheduled to pick No. 26 overall in the first round.

The 55-year-old Bird was the Pacers coach from 1997-2000, taking the team to its only NBA Finals appearance that final year, before returning to the front office in 2003. He took full control as president of basketball decisions after the 2007-08 season, when Donnie Walsh left to become the New York Knicks' president.

Walsh is returning as the Pacers' president. Kevin Pritchard, the director of player personnel, is being promoted to general manager, replacing David Morway, who resigned Tuesday.

Bird said health issues were among the reasons for his departure.

"I just think it's time," he said.

Bird had said just a month ago that he wanted to stay and expressed interest in a three-year deal rather than the annual "handshake" agreements he had with Simon. Bird recently was named the NBA Executive of the Year after building a tough, young team that lost to eventual champion Miami in six games in the playoffs.

The former Indiana State star won three MVP awards and three NBA titles during his Hall of Fame career with Boston.

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Immigrants Crucial To Innovation

gollum123 sends this excerpt from the NY Times:
"Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study (PDF) to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants played a role in more than three out of four patents at the nation's top research universities. Conducted by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a nonprofit group co-founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, the study notes that nearly all the patents were in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM fields that are a crucial driver of job growth. ... The Partnership for a New American Economy released a paper in May saying that other nations were aggressively courting highly skilled citizens who had settled in the United States, urging them to return to their home countries. The partnership supports legislation that would make it easier for foreign-born STEM graduates and entrepreneurs to stay in the United States. ... The study notes that nine out of 10 patents at the University of Illinois system in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor. Of those, 64 percent had a foreign inventor who was not yet a professor but rather a student, researcher or postdoctoral fellow, a group more likely to face immigration problems."

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Vietnam police arrest 26 for Euro gambling ring

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Video: Tropical Storm Debby Spawns Tornadoes

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Apple Chomps At App Store Search? Developers See Shift In Search Results

Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers. If you?re a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name to help with visibility, things could get tougher from here on out. But if you're a popular and well-reviewed app, things might be looking up. This could be an early step in the general revamp of App Store search and discovery that MG Siegler heard about when he broke the news in February that Apple had acquired app discovery startup Chomp.

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Israel jittery after Brotherhood victory in Egypt

JERUSALEM (AP) ? The Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egyptian presidential elections, announced Sunday, has raised fears in Israel that its strategic 1979 peace agreement with its southern neighbor could be in danger.

In contrast, in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, ecstatic residents flocked into the streets, fired guns in the air and handed out candy in celebration.

Israel's peace agreement with Egypt, its first with an Arab country, is a cornerstone of Israeli security. The agreement ended decades of hostilities, with to five wars and thousands of deaths.

While relations have never been warm, Egypt has upheld the deal, keeping its bordering Sinai peninsula largely demilitarized, allowing the Israeli military to focus on other hostile borders with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.

In a statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he respected the results of Egypt's democratic process and hoped the peace agreement would remain intact.

"Israel expects to continue cooperation with the Egyptian government on the basis of the peace agreement between the two countries, which is of interest to the two peoples and contributes to regional stability," he said.

With the Egyptian military still the ultimate power in Egypt, senior Israeli defense officials who maintain contacts with Egypt said Sunday that they do not expect any immediate changes in relations. Over the long term, they warned, the Brotherhood may seek to cancel the peace agreement. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a sensitive security assessment.

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a pan-Arabic movement that favors creation of a Muslim state that encompasses the entire Middle East. It has never given up that goal, but as it gains official power in Egypt, winning parliamentary elections and now the presidency, it has indicated pragmatic willingness to accept the existence of Israel.

Addressing his nation Sunday evening, Morsi declared he had a "message of peace. We will respect all international agreements," he said, without mentioning Israel.

Although some Brotherhood leaders have said they will never meet with an Israeli official, they have been careful to say they would not cancel the treaty. Like many other Egyptians, they favor amendments ? primarily to allow more Egyptian troops into the Sinai. Israel has already permitted an increase of troops there, demanding that Egypt bring violent extremists under control.

Armed gangs are believed to control wide swaths of territory, smugglers have helped thousands of African migrant workers sneak into Israel and various Arab militant groups, some believed to have ties to al-Qaida, operate freely.

Eli Shaked, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said the Egyptians would "have a lot to lose" if they canceled the peace, including Western investment and billions of dollars in U.S. aid. Even so, he warned, the treaty was not safe.

In the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of joyous Palestinians took to the streets across the territory after the result was announced.

Gunmen fired automatic weapons in the air, and mosque loudspeakers reverberated with prayers. Some revelers handed out candy on street corners.

The celebrations were marred when one person was killed and six others wounded by celebratory gunfire.

Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood's ascent to power in Egypt has raised hopes that Gaza's relations with its powerful southern neighbor will improve.

"Today is new era for us in Gaza. The days of suffering due to the Egyptian authorities are over, said Rawhi Talab, 51, a food store owner.

Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar told a rally in downtown Gaza that "the heart of Jerusalem has started to beat again," adding, "We are not asking Egypt to fight on our behalf." Hamas does not recognize Israel.

Mubarak collaborated with Israel in a blockade of Gaza. The blockade, first imposed after Hamas-linked gunmen captured an Israeli soldier in 2006, was tightened the following year when Hamas violently seized power in the seaside strip.

Israel said the blockade was needed to prevent arms shipments to Hamas. Under heavy international pressure, Israel lifted some limits two years ago and Egypt eased travel restrictions after Mubarak's ouster.

Morsi has not yet said what plans he has for dealing with Gaza, which shares a 15-kilometer (nine-mile) border with Egypt, which ruled Gaza from 1948 to 1967.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh phoned Morsi to congratulate him on becoming Egypt's first Islamist president. "This is a victory for all Arabs and Muslims, and this is God's promise to his believers," the Hamas leader said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a secular leader who governs in the West Bank, also congratulated Morsi. "The president expressed his respect for the choice of the great Egyptian people," according to a statement from the official Wafa news agency.

The leaders of Kuwait and Bahrain sent cables to Morsi congratulating him, according to statements carried by their official news agencies.

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Barzak reported from Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Ian Deitch and Blake Sobczak in Jerusalem, Mark Lavie in Cairo, Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, and Adam Schreck in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.

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