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Energy spectra of cosmic ray nuclei in the charge range 5Z26 have been derived from the response of an acrylic plastic erenkov detector. Data were obtained using a balloon-borne detector and cover the energy range 320E2200 MeV amu–1. Spectra are derived from a formal deconvolution using the method of Lezniak (1975). Relative spectra of different elements are compared by observing the charge ratios. Secondary-primary ratios are observed to decrease with increasing energy, consistent with the effect previously observed at higher energy. Primary-to-primary ratios are constant for 6Z10 and 14Z26 but vary for 10Z14. This data is found to be consistent with existing data, where comparable, and lends strong support to the idea of two separate source populations contributing to the cosmic ray composition.Work supported by University of Maryland Grant NGR 21-002-316. 相似文献
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V. K. Balasubrahmanyan J. F. Ormes J. F. Arens F. Siohan G. B. Yodh M. Simon H. Spiegelhauer 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1980,71(1):135-145
The results from a ballon-borne gas Cherenkov counter (threshold 16.5 GeV nuc–1) and an ionization spectrometer are presented. The gas Cherenkov counter provides an absolute energy calibration for the response of the calorimeter for 5Z26 nuclei of cosmic rays. The contribution of scintillation to the gas Cherenkov pulse height has been obtained by independently selecting particles below the gas Cherenkov threshold using the ionization spectrometer. Energy spectra were derived by minimizing the 2 between a Monte Carlo simulated data and flight data. Best fit power laws (dN/dE=AE
–) were determined for C, N, O, Ne, Mg, and Si. The power laws, all consistent withE
–2.7, are not good fits to the data. A better fit is obtained using the spectrum derived from the spectrometer. The data from the ionization calorimeter (Simonet al., 1979) and the gas Cherenkov are thus completely self-consistent.On sabbatical leave from the University of Maryland. 相似文献
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Determinations of spatial and temporal variations in organic matter and nutrient dynamics in water and sediments are crucial for understanding changes in aquatic bodies. In this study, we (i) determine the spatial dynamics of dissolved inorganic nutrients, during the transition from the dry to the rainy season, and (ii) provide future productivity predictions for the Rufiji Delta mangroves, Tanzania, based on the input of various nutrients. Water samples were collected from six locations, three times per year between April 2012 and January 2014, and analysed for dissolved nutrients, total organic and inorganic carbon, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total carotenoids. The prediction of future net primary productivity in the Rufiji mangroves was undertaken using the software STELLA. The mean nutrient concentrations were of the order: nitrate > phosphate > ammonium > silica > dissolved organic carbon. The study revealed that high nutrient concentrations occurred in the northern part of the Rufiji Delta as a result of anthropogenic influence in the watershed. Modelling of nutrient inputs into the delta indicated enhanced primary productivity, which is expected to increase the vulnerability of water quality in the near future due to eutrophication. 相似文献
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湖北铜绿山矿床石英闪长岩的矿物学及Sr-Nd-Pb同位素特征 总被引：11，自引：8，他引：3
铜绿山是长江中下游鄂东南矿集区最重要的、大型夕卡岩型Cu-Fe(Au)矿床。本文对该矿区中与成矿密切的石英闪长岩进行了详细的矿物成分、地球化学及Sr-Nd-Pb同位素研究。结果表明:岩石中斜长石主要为更长石(An=21～31);角闪石贫Ti(0.2),高Mg/(Mg+Fe)(0.5),属于富镁角闪石;而黑云母为镁质黑云母。岩石的地球化学具有高硅(58.86%～67.71%),富碱(Na2O+K2O=5.67%～9.63%),富集轻稀土元素(LREE)和大离子亲石元素(LILE),并强亏损元素Nb、Ta、Ti等特征。岩石的(87Sr/86Sr)i为0.7055～0.7069,εNd(t)为-7.65～-3.44;(206Pb/204Pb)i=17.66～18.00,(207Pb/204Pb)i=15.49～15.56,(208Pb/204Pb)i=37.73～38.19。矿物成分、地球化学和同位素特征说明,铜绿山岩体与阳新岩体为同源岩浆的产物,源区为深度大于40km的富集地幔,经下地壳的混染及分离结晶作用形成。岩浆熔体形成的温度应大于889℃。角闪石和黑云母的温度计估算岩浆结晶温度分别为650～800℃和500～630℃,黑云母开始结晶温度略低于角闪石结晶结束温度,压力为1.49kbar,对应侵位深度约4.9km。岩浆具有利于Cu、Fe、Au等成矿元素进入熔体的条件,可能与板块俯冲作用相关。 相似文献
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J.A. Esposito E.R. Christian V.K. Balasubrahmanyan L.M. Barbier J.F. Ormes R.E. Streitmatter B. Acharya B. Luzietti A. Hesse U. Heinbach W. Heinrich M. Henkel C. Pfeifer M. Simon 《Astroparticle Physics》1992,1(1)
A Large Isotopic Composition Experiment (ALICE) is a balloon-borne spectrometer which can determine the elemental and isotopic composition of galactic cosmic rays with energies near 1 GeV/nucleon. ALICE was flown from Prince Albert, Canada in August 1987, and remained at float altitude (120000 feet) for 14.7 hours. In this paper, we describe the experimental methods and analysis which will be used for subsequent isotopic analysis. We obtained very precise charge resolution over the entire designed range: 0.10 and 0.16 charge units at neon and iron, respectively. Results on the galactic cosmic ray abundances and absolute fluxes of the elements from neon through nickel are reported. 相似文献
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Recent observations of the spectra of cosmic ray helium, M, LH and VH nuclei in the energy range from 200 MeV/nuc to>22 GeV/nuc are reported. The differential spectra of all of these groups of nuclei are found to have a maximum at 300–400 MeV/nuc at sunspot minimum. The average exponents on the integral rigidity spectra in the range 5 to 50 GV are 1.54±0.03 for He nuclei, 1.50±0.04 for M nuclei, 1.47±0.06 for LH nuclei and 1.40±0.08 for VH nuclei. The spectra of these groups of nuclei are compared and it is found that the average He/M, He/LH and He/VH ratios are 16±1, 70±3 and 200±15 respectively. These values are reasonably constant from the highest down to the lowest energies measured although some evidence for a dip is present in the 500–1000 MeV/nuc range for both the He/LH and He/VH ratios. Solar modulation effects on these ratios are discussed and it is concluded that the ratios measured at earth are representative of those existing in interstellar space only if energy loss processes in interplanetary space are unimportant. The influence of interstellar propagation on the spectra and charge ratios at low energies arising from ionization energy loss and nuclear spallation during matter traversal is examined. It is found that propagation models that contain a large number of relatively short path lengths significantly modify the expected effects of ionization energy loss at low energies. Specifically it is suggested that the presently measured charge ratios are consistent with the passage of the average cosmic radiation through enough matter to reproduce the abundances of the so-called fragmentation nuclei, Li, Be, B and He3. Two component models are not required to explain our data. Rather we feel that a better representation of the situation results from considering a continuous spatial distribution of sources which, along with the actual interstellar propagation conditions, leads to a particular distribution of matter path lengths. It is pointed out that large differences exist in the approaches used in the literature to calculate the effects of matter traversal in interstellar space at low energies. These differences play an important role in the interpretation of the experimental results. Significant modifications of the charge ratios at low energies can also be obtained by requiring that some of the matter traversal occur in the cosmic ray sources themselves during the cosmic ray acceleration process. This may be sufficient to produce charge ratios that are essentially flat at low energies even in the presence of interstellar ionization loss. 相似文献
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We report on new measurements of the spectra of Li, Be and B nuclei in the primary cosmic radiation in the energy range 100 MeV/nuc to >22 BeV/nuc. The differential spectrum of these light nuclei is found to have a maximum at 400 MeV/nuc in 1966. The L/M ratio is found to be equal to 0.25±0.01, constant over the entire energy range of the measurement. Atmospheric and solar modulation effects on the L nuclei and the L/M ratio are discussed. It is concluded that this ratio is representative of conditions in interstellar space. Using the most recently available fragmentation parameters gives a material path length of 3.6 g/cm2 of hydrogen for the particles producing the L nuclei. The absence of any variation of the L/M ratio with energy places severe constraints on models for the propagation of cosmic rays. Models in which the material path length is a strong function of energy — or that exhibit an exponential path-length distribution for a fixed energy are incompatible with these results. An examination of the abundance ratios of the individual L nuclei separately reveals major discrepancies with the predictions of interstellar diffusion theory based on presently accepted fragmentation parameters. The constancy of the measured Li/M and B/M ratios with energy is not in accord with the large energy dependence of these ratios expected from the energy dependence of the fragmentation cross-sections. The low Li/M ratio and high B/M ratio to be expected if these nuclei are created at a much lower energy than we observe are also not found. This presents difficulties for theories which suggest that the passage through matter has occurred at low energies subsequently followed by considerable acceleration.The Be/M ratio in cosmic rays is anomalous in that it is 40% larger than expected on the basis of the fragmentation cross-sections. Evidence presented here on the isotopic composition of Be nuclei suggests that this discrepancy is due to an enhanced abundance of Be9 or Be10 in cosmic rays. This discrepancy complicates the determination of a cosmic-ray age using the decay of Be10 into B.Nevertheless the Be/B ratio is observed to remain constant at 0.42±0.03 over the energy range from 100 MeV/nuc to over 10 BeV/nuc. Unless the fragmentation parameters into the various isotopes of Be and B are such that e.g. (Be/B)<0.05 as a result of this decay, then the age of cosmic rays is either >3×108 years or <106 years. The further observation that the mass to charge ratio of all Be nuclei of energy 1 BeV/nuc is =2.05±0.1 suggests that Be10 is present at these energies. This supports the idea of a short lifetime. 相似文献
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Morris RV Golden DC Bell JF rd Lauer HV Adams JB 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1993,57(19):4597-4609
We have examined a Hawaiian palagonitic tephra sample (PN-9) that has spectroscopic similarities to Martian bright regions using a number of analytical techniques, including Mossbauer and reflectance spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, instrumental neutron activation analysis, electron probe microanalysis, transmission electron microscopy, and dithionite-citrate-bicarbonate extraction. Chemically, PN-9 has a Hawaiitic composition with alkali (and presumably silica) loss resulting from leaching by meteoric water during palagonitization; no Ce anomaly is present in the REE pattern. Mineralogically, our results show that nanophase ferric oxide (np-Ox) particles (either nanophase hematite (np-Hm) or a mixture of ferrihydrite and np-Hm) are responsible for the distinctive ferric doublet and visible-wavelength ferric absorption edge observed in Mossbauer and reflectivity spectra, respectively, for this and other spectrally similar palagonitic samples. The np-Ox particles appear to be imbedded in a hydrated aluminosilicate matrix material; no evidence was found for phyllosilicates. Other iron-bearing phases observed are titanomagnetite, which accounts for the magnetic nature of the sample; olivine; pyroxene; and glass. By analogy, np-Ox is likely the primary pigmenting agent of the bright soils and dust of Mars. 相似文献
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J. A. Lezniak J. F. Ormes T. T. von Rosenvinge W. R. Webber 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1969,5(1):103-112
New measurements of the intensity and spectrum of cosmic ray nitrogen nuclei made by instruments flown on balloons and on the Pioneer-8 space probe are reported. The nitrogen spectrum is found to be identical with that of the other medium nuclei, carbon and oxygen, over the range of measurement from 100 MeV/nuc to > 22 GeV/nuc. The ratio of N to all M nuclei is found to be =0.125, constant to within 10% over this energy range. This ratio is extrapolated to the cosmic-ray source using the most recently obtained abundances of oxygen and heavier nuclei and fragmentation parameters for the production of nitrogen from these nuclei. Taking an average material path length of 4 g/cm2 of hydrogen constant with energy, as required to make the abundance of L nuclei 0 at the cosmic-ray source, the resulting N/M source ratio is 0.03. In other words, to the same degree that the so-called L nuclei are absent in the cosmic-ray sources, N nuclei are also absent. This nitrogen abundance is therefore different from the estimated solar atmospheric abundance of 0.10 for the N/M ratio which is believed to represent the integrated effects of nucleo-synthesis in the galaxy at the time of the formation of the sun. Nevertheless under certain conditions in the CNO bi-cycle that operates for the production of nitrogen in stellar objects a negligible production of nitrogen might be expected. It is suggested that these conditions exist in the cosmic-ray sources. The C/O ratio of 0.9 deduced for cosmic-ray sources is compatible with the observed low nitrogen abundance arising in this CNO bi-cycle.NRC-NASA Resident Research Associate at Goddard Space Flight Center. 相似文献