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M. D. Morrison J. R. Lemen L. W. Acton R. D. Bentley T. Kosugi S. Tsuneta Y. Ogawara T. Watanabe 《Solar physics》1991,136(1):105-110
All of the SOLAR-A telemetry data will be reformatted before distribution to the analysis computers and the various users. This paper gives an overview of the files which will be created and the format and organization which the files will use. The organization has been chosen to be efficient in space, to ease access to the data, and to allow for the data to be transportable to different machines. An observing log file will be created automatically using the reformatted data files as the input. It will be possible to perform searches with the observing log to list cases where instruments are in certain modes and/or seeing certain signal levels.After the launch the name of SOLAR-A has been changed to YOHKOH. 相似文献
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Cesare Barbieri Carlo Blanco Beatrice Bucciarelli Regina Coluzzi Andrea Di Paola Luciano Lanteri Gian Luca Li Causi Ettore Marilli Piero Massimino Vincenzo Mezzalira Stefano Mottola Roberto Nesci Alessandro Omizzolo Fernando Pedichini Francesca Rampazzi Corinne Rossi Ruggero Stagni Milcho Tsvetkov Roberto Viotti 《Experimental Astronomy》2003,15(1):29-43
There is a widespread interest to digitize the precious information contained in the astronomical plate archives, both for
the preservation of their content and for its fast distribution to all interested researchers in order to achieve their better
scientific exploitation. This paper presents the first results of our large-scale project to digitize the archive of plates
of the Italian Astronomical Observatories and of the Specola Vaticana. Similar systems, composed by commercial flat-bed retro-illuminated
scanners plus dedicated personal computers and acquisition and analysis software, have been installed in all participating
Institutes. Ad-hoc codes have been developed to acquire the data, to test the suitability of the machines to our scientific needs, and to reduce
the digital data in order to extract the astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic content. Two more elements complete the
overall project: the provision of high quality BVRI CCD sequences in selected fields with the Campo Imperatore telescopes,
and the distribution of the digitized information to all interested researchers via the Web. The methods we have derived in
the course of this project have been already applied successfully to plates taken by other Observatories, for instance at
Byurakan and at Hamburg. 相似文献
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R.L. Sorochenko 《Astronomische Nachrichten》1989,310(5):389-398
Radio recombination lines (RRL) discovered about 25 years ago became a very effective tool for the investigation of interstellar matter (ISM). These lines are unique by the number of transitions and the spectral range observed: from 2 mm to 20 m wavelength. This allows to study the ISM under variety of physical conditions which differ by 7 to 8 orders of magnitude in density and 3 orders of magnitude in temperature. RRL allow to determine the main physical conditions in HII and HI-CII regions, to map the galactic distribution of ionized hydrogen, and to obtain the helium abundance of the ISM. Furthermore, the information contained in the RRL allows to estimate the intensity of cosmic rays and to draw conclusions on the galactic evolution. The physical properties of the RRL and the results obtained by observations of RRLs are reviewed. 相似文献
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James M. Cordes 《Experimental Astronomy》2009,26(1-3):79-94
The early days of radio astronomy showed incredibly diverse experimentation in ways to sample the electromagnetic spectrum at radio wavelengths. In addition to obtaining adequate sensitivity by building large collection areas, a primary goal also was to achieve sufficient angular resolution to localize radio sources for multi-wavelength identification. This led to many creative designs and the invention of aperture synthesis and VLBI. Some of the basic telescope types remain to the present day, now implemented across the entire radio spectrum from wavelengths of tens of meters to submillimeter wavelengths. In recent years, as always, there is still the drive for greater sensitivity but a primary goal is now to achieve very large fields of view to complement high resolution and frequency coverage, leading to a new phase of experimentation. This is the “back to the future” aspect of current research and development for next-generation radio telescopes. In this paper I summarize the scientific motivations for development of new technology and telescopes since about 1990 and going forward for the next decade and longer. Relevant elements include highly optimized telescope optics and feed antenna designs, innovative fabrication methods for large reflectors and dipole arrays, digital implementations, and hardware vs. software processing. The emphasis will be on meter and centimeter wavelength telescopes but I include a brief discussion of millimeter wavelengths to put the longer wavelength enterprises into perspective. I do not discuss submillimeter wavelengths because they are covered in other papers. 相似文献
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The Flare Build-up Study (FBS) is primarily devoted to the study of various physical processes on the Sun prior to the occurrence of a solar flare. The relationship of these processes to the flare itself is then to be compared to similar, albeit smaller, processes in the magnetosopheric tail sometimes called the auroral flare. The Study of Travelling Interplanetary Phenomena (STIP) is devoted to specific studies of various phenomena from their inception on the Sun to their passage through the interplanetary medium. Some of these studies will be prior to and during both solar flare and magnetospheric substorm phenomena. Various scientific areas where the work of FBS and STIP would be mutually beneficial are discussed. 相似文献
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From a simple text interface to a graphical user interfaces—Astro-WISE provides the user with a wide range of possibilities to interact with the information system according to the user’s tasks and use cases. We describe a general approach to the interfacing of a scientific information system. We use this approach to create a number of services, which allows the user to browse the data stored in the system, to process the data and to exchange the newly created images and catalogs with the users within the system and wider astronomical community. Reusability of interfaces and services is another important feature of our approach. It reduces the time and resources spent to interface other information systems created from Astro-WISE. 相似文献
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John J. Eldridge Robert G. Izzard Christopher A. Tout 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,384(3):1109-1118
We compare our latest single and binary stellar model results from the Cambridge stars code to several sets of observations. We examine four stellar population ratios: the number of blue to red supergiants, the number of Wolf–Rayet stars to O supergiants, the number of red supergiants to Wolf–Rayet stars and the relative number of Wolf–Rayet subtypes, WC to WN stars. These four ratios provide a quantitative measure of nuclear burning lifetimes and the importance of mass loss during various stages of the stars' lifetimes. In addition, we compare our models to the relative rate of Type Ib/c to Type II supernovae to measure the amount of mass lost over the entire lives of all stars. We find reasonable agreement between the observationally inferred values and our predicted values by mixing single and binary star populations. However, there is evidence that extra mass loss is required to improve the agreement further, to reduce the number of red supergiants and increase the number of Wolf–Rayet stars. 相似文献
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To make detection andfollow-up observations of near-earth asteroids (NEOs), a new project tobuild 0.5 m and 1.0 m telescopes has been started with a support of theScience and Technology Agency in Japan. These are the first telescopesdesigned from its beginning to dedicate specifically to the NEOobservations and are expected to be one of the most efficient telescopesfor the NEO observations.It is expected to obtain several ten giga-bytedata per one clear night. Such large numbers of data are able to sharewith international groups. These sharing activities will contribute 1)for us to obtain data of asteroid with the lowest level of signal, and2) for those groups to study how to reduce astronomical data. 相似文献
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Riccardo Bevilacqua Jason S. Hall Marcello Romano 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2010,106(1):69-88
A novel two-phase hybrid controller is proposed to optimize propellant consumption during multiple spacecraft rendezvous maneuvers
in Low Earth Orbit. This controller exploits generated differentials in aerodynamic drag on each involved chaser spacecraft
to effect a propellant-free trajectory near to the target spacecraft during the first phase of the maneuver, and then uses
a fuel optimal control strategy via continuous low-thrust engines to effect a precision dock during the second phase. In particular,
by varying the imparted aerodynamic drag force on each of the chaser spacecraft, relative differential accelerations are generated
between each chaser and the target spacecraft along two of the three translational degrees of freedom. In order to generate
this required differential, each chaser spacecraft is assumed to include a system of rotating flat panels. Additionally, each
chaser spacecraft is assumed to have continuous low-thrust capability along the three translational degrees of freedom and
full-axis attitude control. Sample simulations are presented to support the validity and robustness of the proposed hybrid
controller to variations in the atmospheric density along with different spacecraft masses and ballistic coefficients. Furthermore,
the proposed hybrid controller is validated against a complete nonlinear orbital model to include relative navigation errors
typical of carrier-phase differential GPS (CDGPS). Limitations of the proposed controller appear relative to the target spacecraft’s
orbit eccentricity and a general characterization of the atmospheric density. Bounds on these variables are included to provide
a framework within which the proposed hybrid controller can effect an extremely low propellant rendezvous of multiple chaser
spacecraft to a desired target spacecraft. 相似文献
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We compare three previously independently studied crater morphologies - excess ejecta craters, perched craters, and pedestal craters - each of which has been proposed to form from impacts into an ice-rich surface layer. Our analysis identifies the specific similarities and differences between the crater types; the commonalities provide significant evidence for a genetic relationship among the morphologies. We use new surveys of excess ejecta and perched craters in the southern hemisphere in conjunction with prior studies of all of the morphologies to create a comprehensive overview of their geographic distributions and physical characteristics. From these analyses, we conclude that excess ejecta craters and perched craters are likely to have formed from the same mechanism, with excess ejecta craters appearing fresh while perched craters have experienced post-impact modification and infilling. Impacts that led to these two morphologies overwhelmed the ice-rich layer, penetrating into the underlying martian regolith, resulting in the excavation of rock that formed the blocky ejecta necessary to armor the surface and preserve the ice-rich deposits. Pedestal craters, which tend to be smaller in diameter, have the same average deposit thickness as excess ejecta and perched craters, and form in the same geographic regions. They rarely have ejecta around their crater rims, instead exhibiting a smooth pedestal surface. We interpret this to mean that they form from impacts into the same type of ice-rich paleodeposit, but that they do not penetrate through the icy surface layer, and thus do not generate a blocky ejecta covering. Instead, a process related to the impact event appears to produce a thin, indurated surface lag deposit that serves to preserve the ice-rich material. These results provide a new basis to identify the presence of Amazonian non-polar ice-rich deposits, to map their distribution in space and time, and to assess Amazonian climate history. Specifically, the ages, distribution and physical attributes of the crater types suggest that tens to hundreds of meters of ice-rich material has been episodically emplaced at mid latitudes in both hemispheres throughout the Amazonian due to obliquity-driven climate variations. These deposits likely accumulated more frequently in the northern lowlands, resulting in a larger population of all three crater morphologies in the northern hemisphere. 相似文献
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Raynor L. Duncombe 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1988,45(1-3):1-9
The review traces the progress from the early application of the Hollerith Tabulating Machine to the construction of astronomical tables by interpolation and to the evaluation of Brown's Tables of the Moon by L. J. Comrie in the late 1920's and early 1930's to the introduction of large programmable electronic calculators in the post World War II era. The early application of electromechanical punched-card machines to astronomical problems stemmed from the needs of the national ephemeris offices to evaluate theories of the Sun, Moon and planets and to subtabulate these positions to form the tables of daily values given in the national almanacs. These techniques were quickly applied to other astronomical problems such as the construction of star catalogs, the reduction of astrometric observations and the numerical integration of the equations of motion of objects in the solar system. 相似文献
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E.C. Levinthal W.B. Green J.A. Cutts E.D. Jahelka R.A. Johansen M.J. Sander J.B. Seidman A.T. Young L.A. Soderblom 《Icarus》1973,18(1):75-101
The purpose of this paper is to describe the system for the display, processing, and production of image-data products created to support the Mariner 9 Television Experiment. Of necessity, the system was large in order to respond to the needs of a large team of scientists with a broad scope of experimental objectives. The desire to generate processed data products as rapidly as possible to take advantage of adaptive planning during the mission, coupled with the complexities introduced by the nature of the vidicon camera, greatly increased the scale of the ground-image processing effort.This paper describes the systems that carried out the processes and delivered the products necessary for real-time and near-real-time analyses. References are made to the computer algorithms used for the, different levels of decalibration and analysis. 相似文献
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Ruta Kale K. S. Dwarakanath Dharam Vir Lal Joydeep Bagchi Surajit Paul Siddharth Malu Abhirup Datta Viral Parekh Prateek Sharma Mamta Pandey-Pommier 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2016,37(4):31
The intra-cluster and inter-galactic media that pervade the large scale structure of the Universe are known to be magnetized at sub-micro Gauss to micro Gauss levels and to contain cosmic rays. The acceleration of cosmic rays and their evolution along with that of magnetic fields in these media is still not well understood. Diffuse radio sources of synchrotron origin associated with the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) such as radio halos, relics and mini-halos are direct probes of the underlying mechanisms of cosmic ray acceleration. Observations with radio telescopes such as the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, the Very Large Array and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope have led to the discoveries of about 80 such sources and allowed detailed studies in the frequency range 0.15–1.4 GHz of a few. These studies have revealed scaling relations between the thermal and non-thermal properties of clusters and favour the role of shocks in the formation of radio relics and of turbulent re-acceleration in the formation of radio halos and mini-halos. The radio halos are known to occur in merging clusters and mini-halos are detected in about half of the cool-core clusters. Due to the limitations of current radio telescopes, low mass galaxy clusters and galaxy groups remain unexplored as they are expected to contain much weaker radio sources. Distinguishing between the primary and the secondary models of cosmic ray acceleration mechanisms requires spectral measurements over a wide range of radio frequencies and with high sensitivity. Simulations have also predicted weak diffuse radio sources associated with filaments connecting galaxy clusters. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a next generation radio telescope that will operate in the frequency range of 0.05–20 GHz with unprecedented sensitivities and resolutions. The expected detection limits of SKA will reveal a few hundred to thousand new radio halos, relics and mini-halos providing the first large and comprehensive samples for their study. The wide frequency coverage along with sensitivity to extended structures will be able to constrain the cosmic ray acceleration mechanisms. The higher frequency (>5 GHz) observations will be able to use the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect to probe the ICM pressure in addition to tracers such as lobes of head–tail radio sources. The SKA also opens prospects to detect the ‘off-state’ or the lowest level of radio emission from the ICM predicted by the hadronic models and the turbulent re-acceleration models. 相似文献
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Jakob Walcher Brent Groves Tamás Budavári Daniel Dale 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2011,331(1):1-51
Fitting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is an almost universally used technique that has matured significantly
in the last decade. Model predictions and fitting procedures have improved significantly over this time, attempting to keep
up with the vastly increased volume and quality of available data. We review here the field of SED fitting, describing the
modelling of ultraviolet to infrared galaxy SEDs, the creation of multiwavelength data sets, and the methods used to fit model
SEDs to observed galaxy data sets. We touch upon the achievements and challenges in the major ingredients of SED fitting,
with a special emphasis on describing the interplay between the quality of the available data, the quality of the available
models, and the best fitting technique to use in order to obtain a realistic measurement as well as realistic uncertainties.
We conclude that SED fitting can be used effectively to derive a range of physical properties of galaxies, such as redshift,
stellar masses, star formation rates, dust masses, and metallicities, with care taken not to over-interpret the available
data. Yet there still exist many issues such as estimating the age of the oldest stars in a galaxy, finer details of dust
properties and dust-star geometry, and the influences of poorly understood, luminous stellar types and phases. The challenge
for the coming years will be to improve both the models and the observational data sets to resolve these uncertainties. The
present review will be made available on an interactive, moderated web page (), where the community can access and change the text. The intention is to expand the text and keep it up to date over the
coming years. 相似文献
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The supply rates of Na and K to the atmosphere of Mercury by processes acting on the extreme surface—thermal vaporization, photon-stimulated desorption (PSD), and ion-sputtering—are limited by the rates at which atoms can be supplied to the extreme surface by diffusion from inside the regolith grains. Supply rates to the atmosphere are further regulated by ion retention and by gardening rates that supply new grains to the surface. We consider the limits on supply of sodium and potassium atoms to the atmosphere, and rates of photoion recycling to the surface. Thermal vaporization rates are severely limited by the ability of atoms to diffuse to the surface of the grain. Therefore, the diffusion-limited thermal vaporization rates on Mercury's surface are comparable to or less than the PSD rates. Ion sputtering is primarily due to highly ionized heavy ions, even though they represent a small fraction of the solar wind. We have shown that up to 60% of the Na photoions are deposited on the surface of Mercury. Ion recycling to the surface can have a long-term effect on the regolith abundance if an average recycling pattern persists such that more ions return to a particular area than are launched there. It is unknown whether the formation of latitude bands of >100% ion retention persist on average despite a rapidly changing magnetosphere. The total exospheric column of sodium observed at Mercury between 1997 to 2003 varied by a factor of 2-3 from perihelion to aphelion. 相似文献
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Philip L. Woodworth 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2004,94(1-2):93-102
Global sea level rise will present a major scientific, environmental and socio-economic challenge during the 21st century.
This paper reviews the main oceanographic and geophysical processes which contribute to sea level change, with particular
emphasis on the ability of space gravity missions to contribute to an enhancement of our understanding of the various processes,
and ultimately to a better understanding of sea level change itself. Of special importance is the need to understand better
the ocean circulation, and the contribution of ocean thermal expansion to sea level change. 相似文献
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Recent orbital and landed missions have provided substantial evidence for ancient liquid water on the martian surface as well as evidence of more recent sedimentary deposits formed by water and/or ice. These observations raise serious questions regarding an independent origin and evolution of life on Mars. Future missions seek to identify signs of extinct martian biota in the form of biomarkers or morphological characteristics, but the inherent danger of spacecraft-borne terrestrial life makes the possibility of forward contamination a serious threat not only to the life detection experiments, but also to any extant martian ecosystem. A variety of cold and desiccation-tolerant organisms were exposed to 40 days of simulated martian surface conditions while embedded within several centimeters of regolith simulant in order to ascertain the plausibility of such organisms’ survival as a function of environmental parameters and burial depth. Relevant amino acid biomarkers associated with terrestrial life were also analyzed in order to understand the feasibility of detecting chemical evidence for previous biological activity. Results indicate that stresses due to desiccation and oxidation were the primary deterrent to organism survival, and that the effects of UV-associated damage, diurnal temperature variations, and reactive atmospheric species were minimal. Organisms with resistance to desiccation and radiation environments showed increased levels of survival after the experiment compared to organisms characterized as psychrotolerant. Amino acid analysis indicated the presence of an oxidation mechanism that migrated downward through the samples during the course of the experiment and likely represents the formation of various oxidizing species at mineral surfaces as water vapor diffused through the regolith. Current sterilization protocols may specifically select for organisms best adapted to survival at the martian surface, namely species that show tolerance to radical-induced oxidative damage and low water activity environments. Additionally, any hypothetical martian ecosystems may have evolved similar physiological traits that allow sporadic metabolism during periods of increased water activity. 相似文献
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Jurkevich方法通常用来发现光变曲线的周期 ,并且根据V2 m 极小值的大小来验证所发现的光变周期可靠性。但是 ,这种验证方法又带有一定的不确定性 ,最佳的方法是把所发现的周期与观测光变曲线拟合 ,得出每一个周期的振幅 ,以振幅大小来验证所发现的光变周期的可靠性。将此方法用于OJ2 87的历史光变曲线 ,得到其最主要的周期为 11.9年 ,与其它结果相符合。 相似文献
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Andrea Pacifici 《Planetary and Space Science》2009,57(5-6):571-578
Throughout the Cenozoic Era, the geological history of the Argentinean Patagonia was dominated by basaltic volcanism and glacial and periglacial environments. Several geological and geomorphological processes that concurred to the sculpting of the landscape of this area could have been similar to those responsible of the shaping of the Martian surface. In this work a survey of some high-resolution satellite images of the Argentinean Patagonia is performed in order to identify possible geomorphological analogs of the Martian surface. Several morphologies that resemble Martian features are presented and discussed. They consist of proglacial and periglacial features, relatively small circular depressions, gullies, fan-deltas, eolian streaks, and diluvial dunes. Results suggest that the Argentinean Patagonia appears to consist of an interesting terrestrial analog for the Martian landscape. Furthermore, the study area shows to be interesting in order to test robotic instruments and human missions equipment, to train astronauts of future human expeditions to Mars, and to perform astrobiological experiments. 相似文献