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R. Hanbury Brown 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1994,15(1):39-45
A brief account is given of the early development of a new sources. Following the chance discovery that it was unaffected by scintillation it was proposed to apply the same principle to measuring visible stars. This proposal met with vigorous opposition from physicists when it was realised that it implied that the time of arrival of photons in two mutually coherent beams of light must be correlated. Two laboratory experiments were done to demonstrate that this correlation does in fact take place. Then, after a pilot model had measured the angular size of Sirius, a full scale stellar intensity interferometer was built and installed at Narrabri in Australia. In a programme lasting 12 years it measured the angular diameters of 32 single stars in the spectral range O to F and established the first wholly empirical temperature scale for stars in that range. For the last 10 years the work has been continued by the construction of the larger and more sensitive Sydney University Stellar Interferometer called SUSI. 相似文献
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B. E. Zhilyaev A. V. Sergeev M. V. Andreev V. G. Godunova V. N. Reshetnik V. K. Taradii 《Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies》2013,29(3):120-130
A slitless UBVR spectrograph has been built for use on small telescopes. Test observations on the Zeiss-600 telescope at the Terskol peak demonstrated that the spectrograph is an efficient instrument for studying high-speed processes in variable stars with a high temporal resolution. The spectrograph resolving power R ≈ 100 in the vicinity of λ = 480 nm and the error in the determination of the wavelength is approximately 3 nm. The spectrograph provides a moderate signal-to-noise ratio for stars up to 16 m . It permits one to measure equivalent widths of unblended lines down to 0.1 nm. The developed special software based on the theory of quantum statistics makes it possible to detect relative variations in the spectrum of approximately 10?5–10?6 of the bolometric flux of the star. Observations with the spectrograph made it possible to detect variations of emissions in Balmer lines and Ca II H, K lines in the EV Lac flare star in the subsecond range. The spectroscopic monitoring permits one to study stellar flares with small amplitude, to carry out a comprehensive colorimetric analysis of flare plasma, and to determine temperatures and sizes of flares in the light intensity maximum. Observations of the transit of the HAT-P-1 B exoplanet demonstrate that the chromospheric activity power of the parent star does not vary during the transit. The slitless spectrograph with a low resolving capacity opens new prospects in studying active processes occurring on stars’ surfaces. 相似文献
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The USNO will undertake the construction and operation of a phase coherent, astrometric, optical interferometer which will be dedicated to the determination of stellar positions and motions. Building upon the experience gained from the MARK III Interferometer at Mount Wilson, the USNO instrument is currently in the very early stages of conceptualization and initial design. An abbreviated account of the experience gained with the MARK III is given. Examples of the issues and possibilities to be addressed in designing the new USNO instrument are outlined. Some background discussion involving interferometric techniques is included. 相似文献
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A. W. Blain 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,297(2):511-516
An extremely sensitive all-sky survey will be carried out in the millimetre/submillimetre waveband by the forthcoming ESA mission Planck Surveyor . The main scientific goal of the mission is to make very accurate measurements of the spatial power spectrum of primordial anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation; however, hundreds of thousands of distant dusty galaxies and quasars will also be detected. These sources are much more likely to be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies compared with sources discovered in surveys in other wavebands. Here the number of lenses expected in the survey is estimated, and techniques for discriminating between lensed and unlensed sources are discussed. A practical strategy for this discrimination is presented, based on exploiting the remarkable sensitivity and resolving power of large ground-based millimetre/submillimetre-wave interferometer arrays. More than a thousand gravitational lenses could be detected: a sample that would be an extremely valuable resource in observational cosmology. 相似文献
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A telescope based upon dark-lens diffractive optics would be a uniquely new instrument for solar astronomy. The image formation
process in such a telescope gives an intrinsically higher resolving power and a greatly reduced image intensity compared to
that of refracting or reflecting optical systems of similar lens dimension. This low image intensity would be an advantage
for solar observations made using a very large imaging element. After a brief overview of the history of solar instrument
development, a quantitative evaluation of the dark-lens diffracting solar telescope concept is presented, showing the potential
of this imaging method to meet or even to exceed the most demanding resolution goals currently being considered for future
space-borne solar telescopes. 相似文献
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P. R. Wilson 《Solar physics》1987,110(1):1-9
Conclusion Clearly there is no concensus or agreement at present about the nature and mechanism of the solar cycle or, indeed, about many of its observed features. However, by highlighting these areas of agreement and disagreement through the presentations and discussions during this meeting, it is hoped that the work of the Workshop Groups will be directed to resolving at least some of these questions at or before the next meeting (planned for August, 1987). In particular, it is hoped that Group V (The Sun as a Star) will be able to contribute through studies of the sun in relation to stellar cycles and activity. 相似文献
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恒星干涉仪的关键技术之一是用自适应光学技术来调节两相干光束之间的夹角,以保证干涉条纹可见度的损失最小。在我们的恒星干涉仪实验系统中,光束方向矫正系统就是为这一目的而研制的．该系统中的光子计数系统和8098单板机的软、硬件组成了补偿光束方向随大气扰动而变的系统．文章介绍了该伺服系统以及在实验系统联调时的试验结果。 相似文献
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The X-ray pulsar Vela X-1 was observed with TENMA throughout the entire period of eclipse in March 1984. The energy spectra at several phase angles showed the iron emission line at about 6.4 keV throughout the eclipse of Vela X-1 and its intensity at the mid-eclipse to be about 10% of that in the non-eclipsing phase, whereas the continuum intensity was about 1%. The result provides means of studying the contribution of the stellar wind to the fluorescence line and the structure of the stellar atmosphere.Paper presented at the IAU Third Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, held in Kyoto, Japan, between 30 September–6 October, 1984. 相似文献
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A new optical speckle interferometer for use at the 2.34 meter Vainu Bappu Telescope (VBT), at Vainu Bappu Observatory (VBO), Kavalur, India, has been designed and developed. Provisions have been made for observation both at the prime focus (f/3,25), as well as at the Cassegrain focus (f/13) of the said telescope. The technical details of this sensitive instrument and the design features are described. An interface between the telescope and the afore-mentioned interferometer is made based on a concept of eliminating the formation of eddies due to the hot air entrapment. The performances of this instrument has been tested both at the laboratory, as well as at the Cassegrain end of the telescope. It is being used routinely to observe the speckle-grams of close-binary (separation < 1 arc second) stars. The size of the Fried's parameter, ro, is also measured. 相似文献
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A cryogenic astronomical spectrometer for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is described. This spectrometer will employ an array of at least 20 detectors and provide a resolving power of 100 to 1500 at 1–5 m. The resolving power will be adjustable by changing gratings.Paper presented at the IAU Third Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, held in Kyoto, Japan, between 30 September–6 October, 1984. 相似文献
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《Planetary and Space Science》2007,55(5):618-630
Radio emission from extrasolar giant planets in close orbits around their host star is an active field of research, including both observational efforts and theoretical work aiming at reasonable predictions for different target planets. So far, most theoretical work assumed a distance-independent, constant stellar wind velocity. This approach is improved and expanded in two respects: first, from stellar wind models, it is known that at close distances the stellar wind is still slow and has not yet reached the velocity it has at larger distances. For this reason, less energy is available for the generation of planetary radio emission than predicted by simplified models. This correspondingly reduces the intensity of stellar wind-driven planetary radio emission, which is calculated taking into account the stellar age. Second, it can be shown that under certain conditions the steady stellar wind has to be replaced by stellar coronal mass ejections. In those cases, the planetary radio flux is strongly increased. The different flux levels expected for planets subject to different stellar wind conditions are analyzed and compared. In addition, different uncertainties in this radio flux estimation are calculated and discussed. 相似文献
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Simon Albrecht Andreas Quirrenbach Robert N. Tubbs Ramon Vink 《Experimental Astronomy》2010,27(3):157-186
The combination of high spatial and spectral resolution in optical astronomy enables new observational approaches to many
open problems in stellar and circumstellar astrophysics. However, constructing a high-resolution spectrograph for an interferometer
is a costly and time-intensive undertaking. Our aim is to show that, by coupling existing high-resolution spectrographs to
existing interferometers, one could observe in the domain of high spectral and spatial resolution, and avoid the construction
of a new complex and expensive instrument. We investigate in this article the different challenges which arise from combining
an interferometer with a high-resolution spectrograph. The requirements for the different sub-systems are determined, with
special attention given to the problems of fringe tracking and dispersion. A concept study for the combination of the VLTI
(Very Large Telescope Interferometer) with UVES (UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph) is carried out, and several other specific
instrument pairings are discussed. We show that the proposed combination of an interferometer with a high-resolution spectrograph
is indeed feasible with current technology, for a fraction of the cost of building a whole new spectrograph. The impact on
the existing instruments and their ongoing programs would be minimal. 相似文献
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It is shown that in high-temperature stars in which high speed mass loss is occurring, the rapidly recombining plasma in the stellar envelope can act as an amplifying medium. Model calculations for laser action in Heii 4686, using the collisional-radiative model, are presented. Menzel's hypothesis of laser action in distended stellar atmospheres is shown to be fully substantiated. The relevance of these results in resolving the problem of intensity anomalies in the spectra of Wolf-Rayet stars is pointed out. 相似文献
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Existing instruments are unable to detect planets about stars other than the Sun but such detection would be important for the theory of origin of our solar system and in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Infrared offers an advantage of about 105 over visible light as regards the ratio of power received from star and planet. Infrared interferometry from Earth orbit would allow discrimination against the stellar infrared by the placement of an interference null on the star and a spinning infrared interferometer would modulate the planetary emission to permit extraction by synchronous detection from the background level. The limit to sensitivity will be set by thermal emission from the zodiacal light particles near the Earth's orbit unless the interferometer is launched out of the ecliptic or out to the orbit of Jupiter, in which case instrumental limitations will dominate. Technological developments in several fields will be required as also with astrometry, spectroscopic radial velocity measurement, and direct photography from orbit, three approaches with which infrared interferometry should be carefully compared. 相似文献
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The low frequency array (LOFAR) radiotelescope will be a powerful instrument for answering fundamental, unresolved scientific questions concerning solar system radio phenomena and related emissions from nearby stellar systems. This paper reviews the phenomena, emission mechanisms, open scientific questions, and LOFAR's capabilities. LOFAR will detect metric solar radio bursts in the corona and interplanetary medium, out to distances of order 10 solar radii, as well as Jovian radio emissions. Arguments are given that LOFAR may be sufficiently sensitive to detect stellar analoges of solar type II and III bursts, and may detect cyclotron-maser emissions from extra-solar planets. LOFAR may also aid space weather research, by passively detecting coronal mass ejections (CMEs) via scintillation and Faraday rotation effects, or by detecting radar signals bounced off CMEs and coronal density structures if a suitable solar radar is developed. 相似文献
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C. J. Hansen H.‐G. Ludwig W. Seifert A. Koch W. Xu E. Caffau N. Christlieb A. J. Korn K. Lind L. Sbordone G. Ruchti S. Feltzing R. S. de Jong S. Barden O. Schnurr 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2015,336(7):665-676
From stellar spectra, a variety of physical properties of stars can be derived. In particular, the chemical composition of stellar atmospheres can be inferred from absorption line analyses. These provide key information on large scales, such as the formation of our Galaxy, down to the small‐scale nucleosynthesis processes that take place in stars and supernovae. By extending the observed wavelength range toward bluer wavelengths, we optimize such studies to also include critical absorption lines in metal‐poor stars, and allow for studies of heavy elements (Z ≥ 38) whose formation processes remain poorly constrained. In this context, spectrographs optimized for observing blue wavelength ranges are essential, since many absorption lines at redder wavelengths are too weak to be detected in metal‐poor stars. This means that some elements cannot be studied in the visual‐redder regions, and important scientific tracers and science cases are lost. The present era of large public surveys will target millions of stars. It is therefore important that the next generation of spectrographs are designed such that they cover a wide wavelength range and can observe a large number of stars simultaneously. Only then, we can gain the full information from stellar spectra, from both metal‐poor to metal‐rich ones, that will allow us to understand the aforementioned formation scenarios in greater detail. Here we describe the requirements driving the design of the forthcoming survey instrument 4MOST, a multi‐object spectrograph commissioned for the ESO VISTA 4 m‐telescope. While 4MOST is also intended for studies of active galactic nuclei, baryonic acoustic oscillations, weak lensing, cosmological constants, supernovae and other transients, we focus here on high‐density, wide‐area survey of stars and the science that can be achieved with high‐resolution stellar spectroscopy. Scientific and technical requirements that governed the design are described along with a thorough line blending analysis. For the high‐resolution spectrograph, we find that a sampling of ≥2.5 (pixels per resolving element), spectral resolution of 18000 or higher, and a wavelength range covering 393–436 nm, is the most well‐balanced solution for the instrument. A spectrograph with these characteristics will enable accurate abundance analysis (±0.1 dex) in the blue and allow us to confront the outlined scientific questions. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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M. Balcells 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,263(1-4):361-364
EMIR is a near-infrared (NIR) multi-object spectrograph (MOS) proposed for first-generation common user instrument of the
Gran Telescopio Canarias GTC. It has three observing modes: imaging, multiobject spectroscopy and integral-field spectroscopy,
in the NIR Z, J, H and K bands. The design uses cryogenic multislit masks to allow simultaneous spectroscopy of up to approximately
50 objects. The spectral resolution R=5000 allows for effective "see through" the OH line forest that dominates the J and
H sky backgrounds. EMIR addresses one of the fundamental goals of large telescopes, the spectroscopy of large quantities of
faint sources. Science applications include young stellar objects embedded in molecular clouds, brown dwarfs, stellar clusters,
resolved population in external galaxies and distant galaxies. EMIR is being designed by a consortium of Spanish, UK and French
Institutes. Project updates and information will be posted at http://www.ucm.es/info/emir/.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Observations of the pair of galaxies VV 330 with the SCORPIO multimode instrument on the 6-m Special Astrophysical Observatory telescope are presented. Large-scale velocity fields of the ionized gas in Hα and brightness distributions in continuum and Hα have been constructed for both galaxies with the help of a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer. Long-slit spectroscopy is used to study the stellar kinematics. Analysis of the data obtained has revealed a complex structure in each of the pair components. Three kinematic subsystems have been identified in UGC 5600: a stellar disk, an “inner gas ring” turned with respect to the disk through ～80°, and an outer gas disk. The stellar and outer gas disks are noncoplanar. Possible scenarios for the formation of the observed multicomponent kinematic galactic structure are considered, including the case where the large-scale velocity field of the gas is represented by the kinematic model of a disk with a warp. The velocity field in the second galaxy of the pair, UGC 5609, is more regular. A joint analysis of the data on the photometric structure and the velocity field has shown that this is probably a late-type spiral galaxy whose shape is distorted by the gravitational interaction, possibly, with UGC 5600. 相似文献
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Luiz Paulo R. Vaz 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1985,113(2):349-364
The weakest point in the modern models of eclipsing binary systems (EBS) is the treatment given to the effects of mutual irradiation. In this review, which does not have a similar one in the literature, I tried to collect all the work done on the irradiation problem until the middle of 1984, in order to make possible an evaluation of the present status of problem. Special emphasis is given to the applicability of the results to the analysis of EBS. The treatment given to the effect by the early studies as well as by practically all the modern models of EBS is described, and special attention is given to works analysing the problem using stellar model atmospheres. It turns out that the effect is more complex than suspected earlier, but that significant progress has been made recently.Review article. 相似文献
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We investigate the variability of the magnetic field of a well-known Ap star 52 Her. The 15-year longmagnetic monitoring and analysis of the literature data demonstrates the lack of a long-period variability of the stellar magnetic field, and an absence of precession of the rotation axis of the binary’s main component. We refined the period of variability of the K Ca II line intensity, presumably being the rotation period of the main component. These measurements allowed to specify the parameters of the mean magnetic phase curve, obtained from the lines of metals, and to detect a significant difference from the phase curve, built from the hydrogen lines. Possible causes of the unusual variability of the stellar magnetic field are discussed. 相似文献