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Saint-Hilaire  Pascal  Benz  Arnold O. 《Solar physics》2002,210(1-2):287-306
We present the analysis of a compact flare that occurred on 26 February 2002 at 10:26 UT, seen by both RHESSI and TRACE. The size of the nearly circular hard X-ray source is determined to be 5.6 (±0.8)′′, using different methods. The power-law distribution of non-thermal photons is observed to extend down to 10 keV without flattening, and to soften with increasing distance from the flare kernel. The former indicates that the energy of the precipitating flare electron population is larger than previously estimated: it amounts to 2.6 (±0.8)×1030 erg above 10 keV, assuming thick-target emission. The thermal energy content of the soft X-ray source (isothermal temperature of 20.8 (±0.9) MK) and its radiated power were derived from the thermal emission at low energies. TRACE has observed a low-temperature ejection in the form of a constricted bubble, which is interpreted as a reconnection jet. Its initial energy of motion is estimated. Using data from both satellites, an energy budget for this flare is derived. The kinetic energy of the jet bulk motion and the thermal and radiated energies of the flare kernel were more than an order of magnitude smaller than the derived electron beam energy. A movie is available on the CD-ROM accompanying this volume. Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022478300679  相似文献   

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A study was made of the effect of low-temperature thermal fatigue on the generation of regular and irregular fractures in olivine-rich terrestrial rocks. The results appear to confirm the influence of thermal actions in the metamorphism of stony meteorites and lunar rocks.  相似文献   

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考虑焦耳耗散和热传导效应后对太阳爆发事件作进一步研究.数值结果表明,焦耳加热效应使等离子体团温度升高,热传导则将热量从高温区向低温区传输,同时考虑焦耳加热与热传导效应,模拟结果与作者1996年的结论(磁岛的运动方向与浮现场的温度、密度有关.磁岛向上运动撤离计算域或向下运动淹没于光球层,分别有向上或向下的高速流与之相对应)基本类似.这不仅揭示了磁通量对消与高速流产生的动力学原因、对红移、蓝移分量的非对称性作出合理解释,而且能更好地体现爆发事件中高速流的观测特征.  相似文献   

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We present initial results from a study of a sample of low-perihelion near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The 7–14 μm thermal emission spectra have been fitted with models of the thermal continuum to derive the asteroid’s effective diameter, geometric albedo and beaming parameter η. In this work, we concentrate on the thermal behavior and we find a trend of increasing η (lower thermal fluxes and cooler color temperatures) with increasing solar phase angle. The slope of this trend is somewhat different from that reported for other NEAs (e.g., Delbó 2004); if confirmed, this result would indicate that the thermal behavior of low-perihelion asteroids is different from that of other members of the NEA population. In addition, deviations of the observed continuum from the thermal model, which can be diagnostic of composition, are apparent in a few of our targets. A complete characterization of these intrinsically faint objects will benefit from the large ground based facilities described elsewhere in these proceedings.  相似文献   

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Polytropic solar wind flows in flow tubes whose cross-sectional area increases faster with radius than for a radial expansion have been studied by Kopp and Holzer (1976). Their use of a faster-than-radial expansion proved promising in analytically associating the high-speed streams observed near 1 AU with the relatively low values of electron densities observed in the lower corona. They could not, however, obtain quantitative agreement with observations. We have extended their work to include thermal conduction and have compared thermally conductive and polytropic flows in the lower corona for given high-speed conditions at 1 AU. The thermally conductive flows (calculated using the Spitzer (1962) thermal conductivity) do yield closer agreement with observations, although the predicted electron density is still too low and the predicted temperature is too high. We also considered a modified thermal conductivity which decreases more rapidly with increasing radius than does the Spitzer value. Again the results were improved, but the agreement could not be termed quantitative. We conclude that thermal conduction alone will not explain solar wind flows originating in coronal holes and that some other mechanism (such as wave pressure) is necessary.  相似文献   

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Lunar samples are magnetic primarily due to the body centered cubic (BBC) iron and ironnickel alloys they contain. Presented for the first time are results which demonstrate that the magnitude of the martensitic thermal remanence (MTRM) induced on quenching iron-nickel alloy in the geomagnetic field depends on the nickel content of the alloy. High magnetic stability is due to the increasing dislocation density and increasingly complex microstructures associated with increasing nickel content in the alloys. The results agree with the mechanical and structural properties of the alloys. The characteristic quench martensite microstructure observed on metallographic examination provides a recognition criterion for the MTRM mechanism. These results are important for lunar and meteoritic research intending to ascertain the paleofield responsible for the observed remanent magnetization.  相似文献   

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K. Ohki 《Solar physics》1975,45(2):435-452
Interferometric radio observations together with soft X-ray observations are presented here to show that during the growth phase of soft X-ray flares, a large mass increase occurs simultaneously with the creation of an X-ray hot region in the corona. The lack of an increase of radio flux from pre-flare active regions absolutely excludes the possibility of the coronal accumulation of low-temperature matter just prior to flare onset. Therefore we suggest a hypothesis that a large amount of hot matter, which contains almost the entire energy in the flare, is supplied from the chromosphere into the corona during each flare. Since even small flares produce coronal hot regions radiating thermal soft X-rays and microwaves, the formation of the hot region may be a basic process in most flares. Energy, created by some instability in the corona, travels by thermal conduction to the chromosphere where the dense matter is heated and subsequently expands into the corona, producing the observed hot region. Impulsive heating of the chromosphere by nonthermal electrons which simultaneously emit hard X-rays is not sufficient to be the energy source in our model. Slower heating, which supplies the flare more energy than that supplied in the impulsive phase, is required. If the temperature of the energy source in the corona exceeds 2 × 107 K, the conductive energy flux becomes sufficient to exceed the radiation loss from the chromosphere-corona transition region. This excess energy may cause the chromospheric gas expansion.  相似文献   

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Hurlburt  N.E.  Matthews  P.C.  Rucklidge  A.M. 《Solar physics》2000,192(1-2):109-118
In recent years the study of how magnetic fields interact with thermal convection in the Sun has made significant advances. These are largely due to the rapidly increasing computer power and its application to more physically relevant parameters regimes and to more realistic physics and geometry in numerical models. Here we present a survey of recent results following one line of investigations and discuss and compare the results of these with observed phenomena.  相似文献   

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As on Earth, Titan’s atmosphere plays a major role in the cooling of heated surfaces. We have assessed the mechanisms by which Titan’s atmosphere, dominantly N2 at a surface pressure of 1.5 × 105 Pa, cools a warm or heated surface. These heated areas can be caused by impacts generating melt sheets and (possibly) by endogenic processes emplacing cryolavas (a low-temperature liquid that freezes on the surface). We find that for a cooling cryolava flow, lava lake, or impact melt body, heat loss is mainly driven by atmospheric convection. Radiative heat loss, a dominant heat loss mechanism with terrestrial silicate lava flows, plays only a minor role on Titan. Long-term cooling and solidification are dependent on melt sheet or flow thickness, and also local climate, because persistent winds will speed cooling. Relatively rapid cooling caused by winds reduces the detectability of these thermal events by instruments measuring surface thermal emission. Because surface temperature drops by ≈50% within ≈1 day of emplacement, fresh flows or impact melt may be difficult to detect via thermal emission unless an active eruption is directly observed. Cooling of flow or impact melt surfaces are orders of magnitude faster on Titan than on airless moons (e.g., Enceladus or Europa).Although upper surfaces cool fast, the internal cooling and solidification process is relatively slow. Cryolava flow lengths are, therefore, more likely to be volume (effusion) limited, rather than cooling-limited. More detailed modeling awaits constraints on the thermophysical properties of the likely cryomagmas and surface materials.  相似文献   

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Impulsive heating of the upper chromosphere by a very powerful thermal flux is studied as the cause of hard X-rays during a solar flare. The electron temperature at the boundary between the corona and chromosphere is assumed to change in accordance with the hard X-ray intensity in an elementary flare burst (EFB). A maximum value of about 108 K is reached after 5 s, after which the boundary temperature decreases. These high-temperature changes lead to fast propagation of heat into the chromosphere. Numerical solution of the hydrodynamic equations, which take into account all essential dissipative processes, shows that classical heat conduction is not valid due to heat flux saturation in the case of impulsive heating from a high-temperature source. The saturation effect and hydrodynamic flow along a magnetic field lead to electron temperature and density distributions such that the thermal X-ray spectrum of a high-temperature plasma can be well enough approximated by an exponential law or by two power-law spectra. According to this dissipative thermal model for the source of hard X-rays, the emission measure of the high-temperature plasma increases monotonously during the whole EFB even after the temperature maximum. Some results for the low-temperature region are discussed in connection with short-lived chromospheric bright points.  相似文献   

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高灵敏度太赫兹探测模块(High Sensitivity Terahertz Detection Module, HSTDM)是中国空间巡天望远镜---巡天光学设施的后端模块之一, 其核心探测器采用可工作于10K温区的氮化铌超导SIS (Superconductor Insulator Superconductor)混频器. 超导SIS混频前端的锁定机构在力学和热学方面需相应的特殊设计, 以应对发射阶段的力学振动以及工作运行阶段的隔热要求. 为了确认在80K温区锁定机构与混频器前端有效分离, 针对超导SIS混频前端发射锁定机构所用特氟龙材料热胀特性, 开展基于低温LVDT (Linear Variable Differential Transformer)测量和标记划痕法测量以及两种测量方法交叉验证. LVDT实验测量结果表明特氟龙材料收缩率随温度变化与理论模型基本一致, 在80K测得材料收缩率为1.86%. 据此分析, 超导SIS混频前端锁定机构在\lk 80K温度下可与10K冷级的超导SIS混频前端实现有效分离.  相似文献   

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We report here on a survey of distal fine-grained ejecta deposits on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. On all three planets, fine-grained ejecta form circular haloes that extend beyond the continuous ejecta and other types of distal deposits such as run-out lobes or ramparts. Using Earth-based radar images, we find that lunar fine-grained ejecta haloes represent meters-thick deposits with abrupt margins, and are depleted in rocks ?1 cm in diameter. Martian haloes show low nighttime thermal IR temperatures and thermal inertia, indicating the presence of fine particles estimated to range from ∼10 μm to 10 mm. Using the large sample sizes afforded by global datasets for Venus and Mars, and a complete nearside radar map for the Moon, we establish statistically robust scaling relationships between crater radius R and fine-grained ejecta run-out r* for all three planets. On the Moon, r* ∼ R−0.18 for craters 5-640 km in diameter. For Venus, radar-dark haloes are larger than those on the Moon, but scale as r* ∼ R−0.49, consistent with ejecta entrainment in Venus’ dense atmosphere. On Mars, fine-ejecta haloes are larger than lunar haloes for a given crater size, indicating entrainment of ejecta by the atmosphere or vaporized subsurface volatiles, but scale as R−0.13, similar to the ballistic lunar scaling. Ejecta suspension in vortices generated by passage of the ejecta curtain is predicted to result in ejecta run-out that scales with crater size as R1/2, and the wind speeds so generated may be insufficient to transport particles at the larger end of the calculated range. The observed scaling and morphology of the low-temperature haloes leads us rather to favor winds generated by early-stage vapor plume expansion as the emplacement mechanism for low-temperature halo materials.  相似文献   

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The radio source Sgr A and neighbouring features have been mapped at a frequency of 843 MHz with a beamwidth of 43 × 87 arcsec. Comparisons have been made with published maps of comparable resolution at different frequencies in order to differentiate thermal and nonthermal regions. The arc feature to the north of Sgr A appears to consist of low-temperature ionized hydrogen and to extend partly over Sgr A itself causing patchy absorption at low frequencies; there is some evidence that the hydrogen in the arc has been expelled from the galactic nucleus. Previous suggestions that Sgr A East is a supernova remnant have been examined and the interpretation is found to be quite likely, but not compelling. The diffuse component of Sgr A West appears to be due entirely to ionized hydrogen surrounding the nucleus.  相似文献   

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We investigate the effects of strain localization on the formation of Ganymede’s grooved terrain by numerically modeling the extension of an ice lithosphere in which the yield strength of the ice decreases as the magnitude of the plastic strain increases. We do this to more realistically model fault strength, which is expected to vary with slip during initial fault development. We find that the inclusion of strain weakening leads to the formation of periodic structures with amplitudes of 200-500 m, consistent with the observed amplitudes of Ganymede’s large-scale grooves. The morphology of the deformation that results from extension depends both on the thermal gradient, which sets the lithospheric thickness, and on the rate at which the yield strength of the ice decreases with increasing plastic strain. Slow weakening with strain leads to low-amplitude, periodic structures, whereas moderate to rapid weakening with strain leads to large-amplitude, non-periodic structures. The combined influence of the thermal gradient and the weakening rate leads to the formation of complex surface deformation and may help explain the variety of surface morphologies observed within the grooved terrain.  相似文献   

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We present a new experimental result of fragment spin-rate in impact disruption, using a thin glass plate. A cylindrical projectile impacts on a side (edge) of the plate. Dispersed fragments are observed using a high-speed camera and the spin rates of fragments are measured. We find that the measured fragment spin-rate decreases with increasing size. Assuming that the rotational energy of fragments is supplied from the residual stress, the spin rate ω decreases with increasing fragment size r as ωr−1, which explains the above experimental results. This size-dependence is similar to that of the observed spin rates of small fast-rotating asteroids. Our results suggest that spin rates of fragments of small asteroids immediately after disruption may have a similar size-dependence, and can provide constraints on the subsequent spin-state evolution of small asteroids due to thermal torques.  相似文献   

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the thermal stability of a fluid layer with permeable boundaries and a variable gravitational field. It is observed that the principle of exchange of stabilities is valid when the layer is heated form below and the complex growth rate of an arbitrary oscillatory mode exists outside of a circle whose radius depends upon the permeability parameter, Prandtl number and wavelength of the mode. In the case of a layer heated from below, gravity increasing upward has a destabilizing effect whereas the permeability parameter has a stabilizing effect.  相似文献   

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Abstract The matrix of Vigarano, a meteorite which belongs to the reduced subgroup of the CV3 chondrites, contains small amounts (<10%) of ferrihydrite and smectite. These hydrous minerals occur together as fine fibrous intergrowths between anhydrous silicate and oxide grains. Coarser crystals of ferrihydrite fill fractures that cut matrix minerals, and smectite also lines narrow channels within olivine grains. These channels may have formed by preferential alteration of olivines along (100)-parallel defects. Formation of ferrihydrite and smectite in the matrix of Vigarano was the result of mild aqueous alteration in a low-temperature (<150 °C), oxidising parent body environment. Partial equilibration of matrix olivines indicates that alteration was followed by thermal metamorphism with a peak temperature of 400–500 °C. Mineralogically similar alteration products, which also were formed by parent body processes, have previously been described from the matrices of four CV meteorites: Bali, Grosnaja, Kaba and Mokoia, all of which belong to the oxidised subgroup. This discovery of the products of oxidative aqueous alteration in Vigarano has important consequences for understanding the chemical and thermal history of the CV class of meteorites.  相似文献   

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M.H. Moore  R.F. Ferrante  J.N. Stone 《Icarus》2007,190(1):260-273
Although water- and ammonia-ices have been observed or postulated as important components of the icy surfaces of planetary satellites in the outer Solar System, significant gaps exist in our knowledge of the spectra and behavior of such mixtures under astrophysical conditions. To that end, we have completed low-temperature spectroscopic studies (1-20 μm) of water-ammonia mixtures, with an emphasis on features in the near-IR, a region which is accessible to ground-based observations. The influences of composition, formation temperature, thermal- and radiation-processing, and phase (crystalline or amorphous) of the components were examined. Spectra of both pure NH3 and H2O-NH3 icy mixtures with ratios from 0.7 to 57 were measured at temperatures from 10 to 120 K. Conditions for the formation and thermal stability of the ammonia hemihydrate (2NH3⋅H2O) and the ammonia monohydrate (NH3⋅H2O) have been examined. Band positions of NH3 in different H2O-ices and major band positions of the hydrates were measured. We report spectral shifts that depend on concentration and temperature. The radiation-induced amorphization of the hemihydrate was observed and the radiation destruction of NH3 in H2O-ices was measured. Implications of these results for the formation, stability, and detection of ammonia on outer satellite surfaces are discussed.  相似文献   

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Data collected by Phoenix Lander’s Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (Phoenix-TEGA) indicate carbonate thermal decomposition at both low and high temperatures. The high-temperature thermal decomposition is consistent with calcite, dolomite, or ankerite, (3–6 wt.%) or any combination of these phase or, presumably, solid solutions of these phases having intermediate composition. The low-temperature thermal decomposition is consistent with the presence of magnesite or siderite, their solid solutions, or any combination of magnesite and siderite, and possibly other carbon-bearing phases (e.g., organics). The carbonate concentration for the low temperature release, assuming magnesite–siderite, is ~1.0 wt.%. This revised interpretation of the Phoenix-TEGA data resulted from new laboratory measurements of carbonate decomposition at a Phoenix-like 12 mbar atmospheric pressure. Phoenix carbonate was inherited in ejecta from the Vastitas Borealis and Scandia regions, inherited from material deposited by aeolian processes, and/or formed in situ at the Phoenix Landing site (pedogenesis). Inherited carbonate implies multiple formation pathways may be represented by carbonates at the Phoenix Landing site. Soil carbonates and associated moderate alkalinity indicate that the soil pH is favorable for microbial activity at the Phoenix Landing site and presumably throughout the martian northern plains.  相似文献   

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Unique long-term visibility variations are detected when the quiet Sun is observed with interferometers operating at 8 mm and 11 cm wavelength with angular resolutions of 0.5. Quasiperiodic fluctuations in fringe amplitude are observed with periods between 20 and 30 min, and with amplitude nulls which are correlated with 180° phase changes. These variations are interpreted in terms of a changing projected baseline while viewing a few sources with angular sizes of 0.5 which are distributed within the main interferometer beam with typical angular separations of 7. The observed variations cannot be due to expanding or contracting sources of the type envisaged by Bocchia and Poumeyrol (1976) when explaining similar variations observed at 8 mm wavelength. A comparison of the flux observed at 8 mm and 11 cm indicates that the individual sources are optically thick thermal radiators with a flux which decreases with increasing wavelength, but with a temperature which increases with increasing wavelength where higher, hotter levels of the chromosphere are observed. For a source whose angular size is 0.5, the observed flux values correspond to respective temperatures of 5000 K and 19 000 K at 8 mm and 11cm - suggesting that elements of the chromospheric network are being observed. A thermal origin for the individual sources is consistent with the lack of any detectable circular or linear polarization (< 10%) in the interferometer signal.  相似文献   

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