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Using a consistent perturbation theory for collisionless disk-like and spherical star clusters, we construct a theory of slow
modes for systems having an extended central region with a nearly harmonic potential due to the presence of a fairly homogeneous
(on the scales of the stellar system) heavy, dynamically passive halo. In such systems, the stellar orbits are slowly precessing,
centrally symmetric ellipses (2: 1 orbits). We consider star clusters with monoenergetic distribution functions that monotonically
increase with angular momentum in the entire range of angular momenta (from purely radial orbits to circular ones) or have
a growing region only at low angular momenta. In these cases, there are orbits with a retrograde precession, i.e., in a direction
opposite to the orbital rotation of the star. The presence of a gravitational loss-cone instability, which is also observed
in systems of 1: 1 orbits in near-Keplerian potentials, is associated with such orbits. In contrast to 1: 1 systems, the loss-cone
instability takes place even for distribution functions monotonically increasing with angular momentum, including those for
systems with circular orbits. The regions of phase space with retrograde orbits do not disappear when the distribution function
is smeared in energy. We investigate the influence of a weak inhomogeneity of a heavy halo with a density that decreases with
distance from the center. 相似文献
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The observed association of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) with peculiar Type Ic supernovae gives support to Woosley‘s collapsar/hypernova
model, in which the GRB is produced by the collapse of the rapidly rotating core of a massive star to a black hole. The association
of LGRBs with small star-forming galaxies suggests low-metallicity to be a condition for a massive star to evolve to the collapsar
stage. Both completely-mixed single star models and binary star models are possible. In binary models the progenitor of the
GRB is a massive helium star with a close companion. We find that tidal synchronization during core-helium burning is reached
on a short timescale (less than a few millennia). However, the strong core-envelope coupling in the subsequent evolutionary
stages is likely to rule out helium stars with main-sequence companions as progenitors of hypernovae/GRBs. On the other hand,
helium stars in close binaries with a neutron-star or black-hole companion can, despite the strong core-envelope coupling
in the post-helium burning phase, retain sufficient core angular momentum to produce a hypernova/GRB. 相似文献
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Star formation in cooling flows is usually found to have an initial mass function deficient in massive stars, but the center
of the cooling flow in Hydra A has been shown to contain a significant number of early type stars. Here we use UV-spectra
obtained with the IUE satellite together with ground based data to constrain the nature of this young population. The data
is compatible with a burst of star formation with a Salpeter-like initial mass function, a burst age of about 4 107 yr, and
a total mass ≈ 108 M⊙.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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We present a method for solving problems in which a stellar wind interacts with the surrounding environment through the production of a 'double radiative shock' structure. This condition is generally met in problems involving winds ejected from young stars. We describe a method that can be applied to problems of winds with arbitrary time and angular dependence, interacting with a stationary environment with an arbitrary density distribution. We apply the method to the interaction of: a steady wind (with an instantaneous 'turning-on') with a power-law environmental density stratification, a 'wind plus jet' ejection with a toroidal environmental density stratification, and to the interaction of an isotropic wind with a clumpy environment. These three examples illustrate the wide range of possible applications of the proposed method. We also show a comparison between some of our thin-shell solutions and three-dimensional isothermal gasdynamic simulations of the flows. These comparisons are used as an evaluation of the applicability of our thin-shell solutions to the real flows. 相似文献
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The accretion disc in active galactic nucleus (AGN) is expected to produce strong outflows, in particular an ultraviolet (UV)-line-driven wind. Several observed spectral features, including the soft X-ray excess, have been associated with the accretion disc wind. However, current spectral models of the X-ray spectrum of AGN observed through an accretion disc wind, known to provide a good fit to the observed X-ray data, are ad hoc in their treatment of the outflow velocity and density of the wind material. In order to address these limitations we adopt a numerical computational method that links a series of radiative transfer calculations, incorporating the effect of a global velocity field in a self-consistent manner { xstar Simulation Chain for Outflows with Radiative Transfer ( xscort )}. We present a series of example spectra from the xscort code that allow us to examine the shape of AGN X-ray spectra seen through a smooth wind with terminal velocity of 0.3 c , as appropriate for a UV-line-driven wind. We calculate spectra for a range of different acceleration laws, density distributions, total column densities and ionization parameters, but all these have sharp features that contrast strongly with both the previous 'smeared absorption' models, and with the observed smoothness of the soft X-ray excess. This rules out absorption in a radiatively driven accretion disc wind as the origin of the soft X-ray excess, though a larger terminal velocity, possibly associated with material in a magnetically driven outflow/jet, may allow outflow models to recover a smooth excess. 相似文献
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We study the properties of power maps of solar acoustic waves filtered with direction filters and phase-velocity filters.
A direction filter is used to isolate acoustic waves propagating in a narrow range of directions. The acoustic-power map of
the waves filtered with a direction filter shows extended reduced-power features behind magnetic regions with respect to the
wave direction. A phase-velocity filter is further applied to isolate waves with similar wave paths. In the power maps of
the waves filtered with both a direction filter and a phase-velocity filter, a reduced-power image of a sunspot appears behind
the sunspot with respect to the wave direction. The distance between the sunspot and the secondary image is consistent with
the one-skip travel distance of the wave packet associated with the phase-velocity filter. The waves filtered with direction
and phase-velocity filters at the location of the secondary image could be used to probe the sunspot. In the quiet Sun, spatial
fluctuations exist in any acoustic-power map. These fluctuations are mainly caused by interference among modes with the same
frequency. The fluctuations are random with two properties: They change rapidly with time, and their magnitude decreases with
the square root of the number of frames used in computing the acoustic-power map. 相似文献
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High resolution observations of horizontal proper motions, as well as vertical Doppler velocities measured over two selected regions of small scale magnetic elements show a coherent behaviour. In a region with two opposite polarities, approching with a velocity of 0.4 km s-1, the material in between moves downwards with a velocity of 0.10 to 0.45 km s-1; while in a region with two peaks of the same polarity, moving apart with a velocity of 0.3 km s-1, the material in between moves predominantly upwards, with a velocity of up to 0.3 km s-1. 相似文献
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I. I. Romanyuk E. A. Semenko I. A. Yakunin D. O. Kudryavtsev A. V. Moiseeva 《Astrophysical Bulletin》2016,71(4):436-446
We present the results of magnetic field measurements of four chemically peculiar (CP) stars, the members of the Orion stellar association OB1. Observations were carried out with the circular polarization analyzer at the Main Stellar Spectrograph of the 6-m telescope. All the studied stars refer to the subtype of Bp stars with weak helium lines. Canadian astronomer E. F. Borra detected a magnetic field in three of them (HD35456, HD36313, and HD36526) from the Balmer line magnetometer observations. HD35881 was observed for the first time for the purpose to search for a magnetic field. We obtained the following results: HD35456 is a magnetic star with longitudinal field variation range from +300 to +650 G and a period of 4.9506 days; HD35881 is possible a new magnetic star, the longitudinal component of which varies from?1 to +1 kGwith a period of 0.6998 days, however, a small number of lines broadened by rotation does not allow us to conduct measurements more accurately; HD36313 is a binary star with the components similar in brightness, the primary component is a magnetic star with broad lines, the magnetic field of the secondary component (the star with narrow lines) was not detected. Measurements in the Hβ hydrogen line showed the variations of the longitudinal component from ?1.5 to +2 kG with a period of 1.17862 days; a strong longitudinal field was detected in HD36526 (from 0 to +3000 G) varying with a rotation period of the star of 3.081 days. In all the cases, we observe considerable discrepancies with the data on magnetic fields of these objects obtained earlier. 相似文献
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Paul J. Wiita 《New Astronomy》2010,15(1):96-101
We show that the northern middle radio lobe of Cen A, an intriguing and much debated manifestation of radio lobe asymmetry, can be understood in terms of a direct interaction of the northern jet with a gaseous cloud associated with a stellar shell. This same basic mechanism was proposed earlier for the northern inner lobe, but new data allows a more detailed case to be made for the northern middle lobe. Although such an interaction can presently be demonstrated only for Cen A, the nearest radio galaxy, it is likely to be a fairly common occurrence and it provides an alternative to models invoking episodic nuclear activity, possibly accompanied with jet precession, for radio galaxies with multiple lobes and S-shapes. This proposed scenario may also play a key role in the origin of prominent radio galaxy morphological classes, such as the Wide-Angle-Tail sources and the Z-symmetric X-shaped radio sources. The strong tendency for radio lobes to be more distorted in double radio sources with jets that are in closer alignment with the optical major axis of the host elliptical galaxy can likewise be understood in terms of jet–shell interactions. In the frequent cases when jet activity is triggered by mergers of a large elliptical galaxy with a disk galaxy containing cold gas the impact of the gas associated with stellar shells upon the jets is likely to have significant manifestations. 相似文献
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Elena D'Onghia reas Burkert Giuseppe Murante Sadegh Khochfar 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,372(4):1525-1530
The processes are investigated by which gas loses its angular momentum during the protogalactic collapse phase, leading to disc galaxies that are too compact with respect to the observations. High-resolution N -body/SPH simulations in a cosmological context are presented including cold gas and dark matter (DM). A halo with quiet merging activity since redshift z ∼ 3.8 and with a high-spin parameter is analysed that should be an ideal candidate for the formation of an extended galactic disc. We show that the gas and the DM have similar specific angular momenta until a merger event occurs at z ∼ 2 with a mass ratio of 5:1. All the gas involved in the merger loses a substantial fraction of its specific angular momentum due to tidal torques and dynamical friction processes falls quickly into the centre. In contrast, gas infall through small subclumps or accretion does not lead to catastrophic angular momentum loss. In fact, a new extended disc begins to form from gas that was not involved in the 5:1 merger event and that falls in subsequently. We argue that the angular momentum problem of disc galaxy formation is a merger problem: in cold dark matter cosmology substantial mergers with mass ratios of 1:1 to 6:1 are expected to occur in almost all galaxies. We suggest that energetic feedback processes could in principle solve this problem, however only if the heating occurs at the time or shortly before the last substantial merger event. Good candidates for such a coordinated feedback would be a merger-triggered starburst or central black hole heating. If a large fraction of the low angular momentum gas would be ejected, late-type galaxies could form with a dominant extended disc component, resulting from late infall, a small bulge-to-disc ratio and a low baryon fraction, in agreement with observations. 相似文献
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《New Astronomy》2020
The fundamentals of the whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators are well established in the literature, with several successful proof-of-concept experiments. One remarkable benefit of this technology is the room-temperature operation. This characteristic could be used to build a new generation of radiometers that do not need to be cooled down to cryogenic temperatures to reach high sensitivities. In this article, a study of the viability of technological transfer is undertaken, beginning with a brief review of the theoretical background that will be applied and leading to a proposal for a novel spectro-polarimeter design. Simulations for a radiometer based on WGM resonance are analyzed and compared with state-of-the-art coherent receivers. The results are then discussed, finding that although promising, WGM technology needs R&D in several directions in order to be competitive, whose are suggested by the authors with the idea of inspiring the work of the researchers in the field towards a new direction or approach. 相似文献
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Bruno Victorino Sarli Yasuhiro Kawakatsu 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2017,127(2):233-258
Recently, with new trajectory design techniques and use of low-thrust propulsion systems, missions have become more efficient and cheaper with respect to propellant. As a way to increase the mission’s value and scientific return, secondary targets close to the main trajectory are often added with a small change in the transfer trajectory. As a result of their large number, importance and facility to perform a flyby, asteroids are commonly used as such targets. This work uses the Primer Vector theory to define the direction and magnitude of the thrust for a minimum fuel consumption problem. The design of a low-thrust trajectory with a midcourse asteroid flyby is not only challenging for the low-thrust problem solution, but also with respect to the selection of a target and its flyby point. Currently more than 700,000 minor bodies have been identified, which generates a very large number of possible flyby points. This work uses a combination of reachability, reference orbit, and linear theory to select appropriate candidates, drastically reducing the simulation time, to be later included in the main trajectory and optimized. Two test cases are presented using the aforementioned selection process and optimization to add and design a secondary flyby to a mission with the primary objective of 3200 Phaethon flyby and 25143 Itokawa rendezvous. 相似文献
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Coherent structures entailing the existence of double layers have been studied in magnetised plasma contaminated with dust
charging fluctuations. It has been shown that the dust charging in magnetic plasma leads to complexity in the derivation of
the Sagdeev wave equation, but under way new procedure enable one to study the nature of double layers showing the effective
role of the constituents of the plasma. A parametric analysis is a subject of interest in laboratory and space plasmas, and
it has been explained with the input of various typical plasma numerics. The proposed mathematical mechanism has shown the
success to yield plasma acoustic modes in a dusty plasma which, in turn, has been solved convincingly for double layers. Observations
have been evaluated in an appropriate model with a view to agree with the observations in astrophysical problems dealing with
present new findings. 相似文献
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We suggest a model based on the representation of the stellar magnetic field as a superposition of a finite number of poloidal and toroidal free decay modes to describe the dynamo action in fully convective stars. For the adopted law of stellar differential rotation, we determined the dynamo number in exceeding which the generation of a cyclically varying magnetic field is possible in stars without a radiative core and derived an expression for the period of the cycle. The dynamo cycles in fully convective stars and in stars with thin convective envelopes are shown to differ qualitatively: first, the distributions of spots in latitude during the cycle are different for these two types of stars and, second, the model predicts a great weakening of the spot formation in fully convective stars at certain phases of the cycle. To compare the theory with observations, we have analyzed the historical light curve for the weak-line T Tauri star V410 Tau and found that its long-term activity is not a well-defined cycle with a definite period—its activity is more likely quasi-cyclic with a characteristic time of ～4 yr and with a chaotic component superimposed. we have also concluded that a redistribution of spots in longitude is responsible for the secular brightness variations in the star. This does not allow the results of photometric observations to be directly compared with predictions of ourmodel, in which, for simplicity, we assumed a symmetry in longitude and investigated the temporal evolution of the spot distribution in latitude. Therefore, we discuss the questions of what and how observations can be compared with predictions of the dynamo theory. 相似文献
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V. Batllo 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1998,71(3):191-201
The objective of this paper is to develop a simple model of an encounter between a comet and a planet, with a subsequent capture
or an escape, and to study the potential consequences. The hypothetical scenario is as follows: a comet with a conic orbit
meets close to one of its vertices (located near the ecliptic plane), a jovian planet, and transforms its orbit. There are
two hypotheses which are made for the shock: this vertex becomes one of the final vertices and the orbital plane of the comet
is unchanged during the encounter as it was the case for Brooks 2 in 1886.
In this model, it was able to find an equation which was then used to obtain the pre‐ and post‐encounter orbits elements and
the kind of orbit (ellipse, hyperbola, parabola) with respect to the initial inclination. The numerical experiments with the
observed comets often provide pre‐encounter orbits with an aphelion point located near another jovian planet farther from
the Sun, and so on with sometimes several planets, or with an aphelion point located beyond the Pluto orbit.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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K. Brinkfeldt H. Gunell P. C:son Brandt R.A. Frahm E. Kallio Y. Futaana R. Lundin M. Yamauchi J.R. Sharber A.J. Coates D.O. Kataria T. Säles W. Schmidt J. Luhmann D. Williams C.C. Curtis B.R. Sandel M. Carter A. Fedorov S. McKenna-Lawler R. Cerulli-Irelli P. Wurz N. Krupp M. Fränz C. Dierker 《Icarus》2006,182(2):439-447
We present measurements with an Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imager on board Mars Express when the spacecraft moves into Mars eclipse. Solar wind ions charge exchange with the extended Mars exosphere to produce ENAs that can spread into the eclipse of Mars due to the ions' thermal spread. Our measurements show a lingering signal from the Sun direction for several minutes as the spacecraft moves into the eclipse. However, our ENA imager is also sensitive to UV photons and we compare the measurements to ENA simulations and a simplified model of UV scattering in the exosphere. Simulations and further comparisons with an electron spectrometer sensitive to photoelectrons generated when UV photons interact with the spacecraft suggest that what we are seeing in Mars' eclipse are ENAs from upstream of the bow shock produced in charge exchange with solar wind ions with a non-zero temperature. The measurements are a precursor to a new technique called ENA sounding to measure solar wind and planetary exosphere properties in the future. 相似文献
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Polarimetric observations of the light scattered by dust have been carried out at Pic-du-Midi Observatory with the 2 m telescope
in June and September–October 1996, and at Haute-Provence Observatory with the 0.80 m telescope in April 1997. They cover
a total number of 11 nights and a large (6.9°–47.7°) phase angle range. The spatial resolution allows to underline structures
in the coma, as well in the brightness images as in the polarization maps, with a correlation between the regions of bright
structures and the regions of higher polarization. A clear difference appears between the sunward and antisunward side, with
higher polarization on the antisunward side. The phase angle coverage allows us to obtain a polarimetric phase curve for the
whole coma and to compare it with other cometary phase curves. The degree of polarization is higher for Hale-Bopp than for
the comets previously observed.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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J.Kleyna M. I.Wilkinson N. W.Evans G.Gilmore C.Frayn 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,330(4):792-806
We present stellar radial velocity data for the Draco dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy obtained using the AF2/WYFFOS instrument combination on the William Herschel Telescope. Our data set consists of 186 member stars, 159 of which have good quality velocities, extending to a magnitude V ≈19.5 with a mean velocity precision of ≈2 km s−1 . As this survey is based on a high-precision photometric target list, it contains many more Draco members at large radii. For the first time, this allows a robust determination of the radial behaviour of the velocity dispersion in a dSph.
We find statistically strong evidence of a rising velocity dispersion consistent with a dark matter halo that has a gently rising rotation curve. There is a <2 σ signature of rotation about the long axis, inconsistent with tidal disruption as the source of the rising dispersion. By comparing our data set with earlier velocities, we find that Draco probably has a binary distribution and fraction comparable to those in the solar neighbourhood.
We apply a novel maximum likelihood algorithm and fit the velocity data to a two parameter spherical model with an adjustable dark matter content and velocity anisotropy. Draco is best fit by a weakly tangentially anisotropic distribution of stellar orbits in a dark matter halo with a very slowly rising rotation law ( vcirc ∝ r 0.17 ) . We are able to rule out both a mass-follows-light distribution and an extended halo with a harmonic core at the 2.5 to 3 σ significance level, depending on the details of our assumptions about Draco's stellar binary population. Our modelling lends support to the idea that the dark matter in dwarf spheroidals is distributed in the form of massive, nearly isothermal haloes. 相似文献
We find statistically strong evidence of a rising velocity dispersion consistent with a dark matter halo that has a gently rising rotation curve. There is a <2 σ signature of rotation about the long axis, inconsistent with tidal disruption as the source of the rising dispersion. By comparing our data set with earlier velocities, we find that Draco probably has a binary distribution and fraction comparable to those in the solar neighbourhood.
We apply a novel maximum likelihood algorithm and fit the velocity data to a two parameter spherical model with an adjustable dark matter content and velocity anisotropy. Draco is best fit by a weakly tangentially anisotropic distribution of stellar orbits in a dark matter halo with a very slowly rising rotation law ( v
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Hannah Parkinson Shaun Cole John Helly 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,383(2):557-564
We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm to generate merger trees describing the formation history of dark matter haloes. The algorithm is a modification of the algorithm of Cole et al. used in the galform semi-analytic galaxy formation model. As such, it is based on the Extended Press–Schechter theory and so should be applicable to hierarchical models with a wide range of power spectra and cosmological models. It is tuned to be in accurate agreement with the conditional mass functions found in the analysis of merger trees extracted from the Λ cold dark matter Millennium N -body simulation. We present a comparison of its predictions not only with these conditional mass functions, but also with additional statistics of the Millennium Simulation halo merger histories. In all cases, we find it to be in good agreement with the Millennium Simulation and thus it should prove to be a very useful tool for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and for modelling hierarchical structure formation in general. We have made our merger tree generation code and code to navigate the trees available at http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~cole/merger_trees . 相似文献