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W. Patrick McCray 《Experimental Astronomy》2009,25(1-3):79-89
Between the dedication of the 200” Hale Telescope in 1948 and the completion of today’s 8–10 m behemoths, astronomers’ most iconic symbol, the telescope itself—its design, its technology, and its use—was transformed as a research tool. The importance of this is deceptively simple: in astronomy, technological innovations have often led to new discoveries. Driven by the need to get as much observing time as possible and the desire to take advantage of the best observing conditions, modern observatories have experimented with new technologies and modes of collecting images and spectra. This entailed a re-casting of the telescope by astronomers and science managers as a factory of scientific data. At the same time, contemporary astronomers express considerable unease and apprehension about how these technological changes have altered, in ways subtle and profound, the nature of astronomical observing and what it meant to be an astronomer. This short essay addresses the issues associated with these recent changes in astronomical practice and their connections to astronomers’ desire for ever larger and more complex telescopes. 相似文献
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F. Kneer G. Scharmer W. Mattig A. Wyller G. Artzner P. Lemaire J. C. Vial 《Solar physics》1981,69(2):289-300
Observations with the French (L.P.S.P.) experiment on board OSO-8 of a sunspot and nearby plage region are described. The behaviour of the emission cores of the Ca II H and K and Mg II h and k resonance lines is very similar and the correspondence in intensity between the four lines persists in all observed features. In contrast, the Lyman lines show little correlation with the other lines. Their emission regions appear broader in the spectroheliograms than the underlying sunspot structure and must not necessarily possess a counterpart in lower layers. From the central intensity of L above the umbra an electron density of 4.3 × 1010 cm-3 n
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* 2.3 × 1011 cm-3 at 20 000 K is estimated.Mitteilungen aus dem Kiepenheuer-Institut Nr. 186.Stockholm Observatorium, S-13300 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.Laboratoire de Physique Stellaire et Planétaire, CNRS, P.O. Box 10, F-91370 Verrières-le-Buisson, France. 相似文献
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V band photometry of three RS CVn stars, II Peg, IM Peg and UX Ari, is carried out to study the physical properties of these variables. We verified the significant and regular optical photometric variability to be present in all three stars. The strong photometric variability and emission of Hα and Ca II H K using high resolution optical spectroscopy with the Hanle Echelle Spectrograph(HESP),which operates in conjunction with the Himalayan Chandra Telescope, verify the strong chromospheric activity which is present in RS CVn stars. The photometric studies of II Peg, UX Ari and IM Peg were subjected to light curve analysis for spot parameters using a two-starspot model. 相似文献
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G.W. Lockwood 《Icarus》1977,32(4):413-430
The brightnesses of Titan, Uranus, and Neptune in b (4718 ÅA) and y (5508 ÅA) have increased linearly since 1972 at rates ranging from 0.005 to 0.025 mag yr?1. The observations were made differentially on a number of nights each season with respect to a network of comparison stars whose relative magnitudes were determined by independent measurements. Solar phase coefficients were derived for each object, and all observations have been normalized to zero solar phase angle and mean heliocentric distances. No explanation for the changes has been found, but a possible influence of solar activity upon planetary albedo is suggested by the fact that all of the objects observed have brightened during the declining half of the solar cycle. 相似文献
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H. Zimmermann 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1982,84(2):505-517
For the direction to a number of stars the depletion of interstellar gaseous iron and titanium as well as the relative abundance of molecular hydrogen and the strength of the interstellar band at 4430 Å were determined by different authors and can be found in the literature. In this paper it is shown that the difference (A
c-Aco) is a more reliable measurement of the column density of 4430 Å absorbers than the usually used central depth,A
c, because the positive valueA
co ofA
c forE(B-V)=0, i.e. the intercept with theA
c axis of a least-squares fit to the observedA
c vsE(B-V) data, is with a high probability not caused by an interstellar effect.There was no correlation found between the interstellar depletion of iron and titanium, respectively, and (A
c-Aco), whereas a tendency exists that with increasing relative molecular hydrogen abundance the number of 4430 Å absorbers per hydrogen atom decreases. If the carriers of the 4430 Å absorbers are interstellar grains, then these grains must be altered during the same process in which molecular hydrogen is built. The found correlation is also compatible with the assumption that the 4430 Å absorber is related to an interstellar gaseous species. 相似文献
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Preliminary results of observations of a region containing known H stars are presented. The observations were made on the 2.6-m telescope of the V. A. Ambartsumian Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in August 2000. A VAGR integral field spectrograph was used in the observations. The size of the region studied is about 6×11 arcmin. Besides the two already known, five new H stars and five HHL objects were discovered in this region. One of these stars coincides with the well-known object RNO 127. One infrared and one cometary nebula were discovered. The presence of so many peculiar objects in a region of such size suggests that it is one of the youngest star-forming regions. 相似文献
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S. S. Sreekumar P. Vinod Essy Samuel J. P. Malkar A. R. Rao M. K. Hingar V. P. Madhav D. Debnath T. B. Kotoch Anuj Nandi S. Shaheda Begum Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti 《Experimental Astronomy》2011,29(1-2):109-133
The onboard software and data communication in the RT-2 Experiment onboard the Coronas?CPhoton satellite is organized in a hierarchical way to effectively handle and communicate asynchronous data generated by the X-ray detectors. A flexible data handling system is organized in the X-ray detector packages themselves and the processing electronic device, namely RT-2/E, has the necessary intelligence to communicate with the three scientific payloads by issuing commands and receiving data. It has direct interfacing with the Satellite systems and issues commands to the detectors and processes the detector data before sending to the satellite systems. The onboard software is configured with several novel features like (a) device independent communication scheme, (b) loss-less data compression and (c) Digital Signal Processor. Functionality of the onboard software along with the data structure, command structure, complex processing scheme etc. are discussed in this paper. 相似文献
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The broad 2800 Å absorption feature discovered by Karim, Hoyle, and Wickramasingle is instrumental in origin. The feature is produced by IUE detector saturation effects in overexposed spectra. 相似文献
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César A. Zen Vasconcellos Dimiter Hadjimichef Magno Machado Benno Bodmann Marcelo Netz-Marzola Geovane Naysinger Mariana Vargas Magaña Peter O. Hess Horst Stöcker Steven Gullberg Remo Ruffini 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2024,345(2-3):e240029
We outline our experience in organizing the first edition of the Workshop on Matter, Astrophysics, Gravitation, Ions and Cosmology, held in virtual and in-person format, denominated MAGIC23, held from 6 to 10 March, 2023, in Praia do Rosa, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The event aimed to bring together leading academic scientists, professors, students, and research scholars for exchanging experiences and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, practical challenges, and experimental and theoretical solutions adopted in the investigation fields within the scope of the meeting. The workshop offered to the participants a platform for scientific and academic projects, partnerships, and presentation of high-quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results on topics related to matter, astrophysics, gravitation, ions, and cosmology. 相似文献
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Giorgio Strano 《Experimental Astronomy》2009,25(1-3):17-31
In the summer of 1609, Galileo Galilei started to improve upon the Dutch spyglass. Only a few months were needed to increase the magnifying power of the instrument up to 30 times. This transformation allowed Galileo to perform astronomical observations destined to change the traditional Universe. At present, the Institute and Museum of History of Science of Florence is conducting a research programme on the lenses of early telescopes. Historical research is combined with scientific analyses conducted by the National Institute of Applied Optics in Arcetri, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Florence, and the Glass Experimental Station in Murano. The shape and composition of the lenses are studied by applying different techniques. Moreover, the composition of early lenses and scientific glass objects are compared. Finally, Galileo’s observations are checked with an optical replica of Galileo’s telescope held at the Astrophysical Observatory in Arcetri. 相似文献
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Yu-Qin Chen Gang Zhao National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2002,2(2):151-160
1 INTRODUCTION In the past years, we were thrilled to the reports of discoveries of many planets around stars.These planetary systems outside the solar system (if exist) provide not only an independenttest of the formation theory of the solar system but also a chance to search for extraterrestriallife in the universe. Many studies have been made to identify the particularities of these stars,among which spectroscopic studies (e.g. Gonzalez et al. 2001; Santos et al. 2001; Zhao etaL. 2001… 相似文献
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The mass and radius of our closest neighbour Venus are only slightly smaller than those of the Earth indicating a similarity in composition. However, the lack of self-sustained internal magnetic field in Venus points to a difference in the core structure. The theory of tricritical phenomena has recently been used to study solidification at the high pressures and temperatures of the Earth, revealing how the Earth’s core works. This theoretical approach is here applied to Venus. While keeping Venus’ mantle density similar to the Earth’s, one obtains the gravitational acceleration g inside Venus, its moment of inertia factor, the size, pressure and density of its core, together with the planet’s temperature profile. Mainly due to the temperature difference between the core–mantle boundary and surface being 21% smaller than on the Earth, and the 11.5% smaller gravitational acceleration, Venus’ Rayleigh number Ra parameterizing mantle convection is only 54% of the Earth’s, offering a possible explanation for the present lack of plate tectonics on Venus. The theory as discussed predicts that Venus is molten at the centre, with temperature about 5200 K, and has 8 mol.% impurities there, slightly more impurities than in the Earth’s inner core boundary fluid. These impurities are likely to be a combination of MgO and MgSiO3. 相似文献
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Jeffrey M. Aristoff Joshua T. Horwood Aubrey B. Poore 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2014,118(1):13-28
We present a new variable-step Gauss–Legendre implicit-Runge–Kutta-based approach for orbit and uncertainty propagation, VGL-IRK, which includes adaptive step-size error control and which collectively, rather than individually, propagates nearby sigma points or states. The performance of VGL-IRK is compared to a professional (variable-step) implementation of Dormand–Prince 8(7) (DP8) and to a fixed-step, optimally-tuned, implementation of modified Chebyshev–Picard iteration (MCPI). Both nearly-circular and highly-elliptic orbits are considered using high-fidelity gravity models and realistic integration tolerances. VGL-IRK is shown to be up to eleven times faster than DP8 and up to 45 times faster than MCPI (for the same accuracy), in a serial computing environment. Parallelization of VGL-IRK and MCPI is also discussed. 相似文献
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Very Large Array (VLA) observations at wavelengths of 20 and 91 cm have been combined with data from the SOHO and RHESSI solar
missions to study the evolution of transequatorial loops connecting active regions on the solar surface. The radio observations
provide information about the acceleration and propagation of energetic electrons in these large-scale coronal magnetic structures
where energy release and transport take place. On one day, a long-lasting Type I noise storm at 91 cm was seen to intensify
and shift position above the northern hemisphere region following an impulsive hard X-ray burst in the southern hemisphere
footpoint region. VLA 20-cm observations as well as SOHO EIT EUV images showed evolving coronal plasma that appeared to move
across the solar equator during this time period. This suggests that the transequatorial loop acted as a conduit for energetic
particles or fields that may have triggered magnetic changes in the corona where the northern noise storm region was seen.
On another day, a hard X-ray burst detected at the limb was accompanied by impulsive 20- and 91-cm burst emission along a
loop connecting to an active region in the same hemisphere but about 5′ away, again suggesting particle propagation and remote
flare triggering across interconnecting loops. 相似文献
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In this paper we compare outcomes of some extended phantom-like cosmologies with each other and also with ΛCDM and ΛDGP. We
focus on the variation of the luminosity distances, the age of the universe and the deceleration parameter versus the redshift
in these scenarios. In a dynamical system approach, we show that the accelerating phase of the universe in the f(R)-DGP scenario is stable if one consider the curvature fluid as a phantom scalar field in the equivalent scalar-tensor theory, otherwise it is a transient and unstable phenomenon. Up
to the parameters values adopted in this paper, the extended F(R,ϕ)-DGP scenario is closer to the ΛCDM scenario than other proposed models. All of these scenarios explain the late-time cosmic
speed-up in their normal DGP branches, but the redshift at which transition to the accelerating phase occurs are different:
while the ΛDGP model transits to the accelerating phase much earlier, the F(R,ϕ)-DGP model transits to this phase much later than other scenarios. Also, within the parameter spaces adopted in this paper,
the age of the universe in the f(R)-DGP model is larger than ΛCDM, but this age in F(G,ϕ)-DGP is smaller than ΛCDM. 相似文献
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E. T. Dunham A. Sheikh D. Opara N. Matsuda M.-C. Liu K. D. McKeegan 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2023,58(5):643-671
As the Sun was forming, calcium–aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) were the first rocks to have condensed in the hottest regions of the solar nebula disk. Carbonaceous chondrites (CCs) contain abundant CAIs but are thought to have accreted in the outer Solar System, requiring that CAIs must have been transported outward. Curiously, CAIs are rare in ordinary, enstatite, rumuruti, and kakangari chondrites, non-carbonaceous chondrites (NCs), that likely formed in the inner Solar System. Thus, CAI abundances and characteristics can provide constraints on the early dynamical evolution of the disk. In this work, we address whether the hypothesis of an early-formed proto-Jupiter “opening a gap” in the disk can explain the dichotomy in the relative abundance of CAIs in CC and NC chondrites. We searched 76 NC meteorite sections to find 232 CAIs which have an average apparent diameter of 46 μm and comprise 0.01 area%, about half the size of and ~200 times less abundant than CC CAIs on average. Unlike CC CAIs, only 4% of the NC CAIs contain melilite and most contain alteration features suggesting that NC CAIs underwent pervasive fluid-assisted thermal metamorphism on asteroidal parent bodies. However, based on NC CAI populations correlating with meteorite metamorphic grade, we argue that disk dynamics is likely the primary reason behind the existence of small (<100 μm) and rare NC CAIs. Our data support astrophysical models which suggest that, after outward transport of CAIs, formation of a gap in the disk trapped CAIs in the outer Solar System. 相似文献
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Here we present new adaptive optics observations of the Quaoar–Weywot system. With these new observations we determine an improved system orbit. Due to a 0.39 day alias that exists in available observations, four possible orbital solutions are available with periods of ～11.6, ～12.0, ～12.4, and ～12.8 days. From the possible orbital solutions, system masses of 1.3–1.5 ± 0.1 × 1021 kg are found. These observations provide an updated density for Quaoar of 2.7–5.0 g cm?3. In all cases, Weywot’s orbit is eccentric, with possible values ～0.13–0.16. We present a reanalysis of the tidal orbital evolution of the Quaoar–Weywot system. We have found that Weywot has probably evolved to a state of synchronous rotation, and has likely preserved its initial inclination over the age of the Solar System. We find that for plausible values of the effective tidal dissipation factor tides produce a very slow evolution of Weywot’s eccentricity and semi-major axis. Accordingly, it appears that Weywot’s eccentricity likely did not tidally evolve to its current value from an initially circular orbit. Rather, it seems that some other mechanism has raised its eccentricity post-formation, or Weywot formed with a non-negligible eccentricity. 相似文献