The planet Jupiter     

Thérèse Encrenaz 《Astronomy and Astrophysics Review》1999,9(3-4):171-219

Summary. The exploration of Jupiter, the closest and biggest giant planet, has provided key information about the origin and evolution of the outer Solar system. Our knowledge has strongly benefited from the Voyager and Galileo space missions. We now have a good understanding of Jupiter's thermal structure, chemical composition and magnetospheric environment. There is still debate about the nature of the heating source responsible for the high thermospheric temperatures (precipitating particles and/or gravity waves). The measurement of elemental abundance ratios (C/H, N/H, S/H) gives strong support to the “nucleation” formation model, according to which giant planets formed from the accretion of an initial core and the collapse of the surrounding gaseous protosolar nebula. The D/H and He/He ratios are found to be representative of their protosolar value. The helium abundance, in contrast, appears to be slightly depleted in the outer envelope with respect to the protosolar value; this departure is interpreted as an evolutionary effect, due to the condensation of helium droplets in the liquid hydrogen ocean inside Jupiter's interior. The cloud structure of Jupiter, characterized by the belt-zone system, is globally understood; also present are specific features like regions of strong infrared radiation (“hot spots”), colder regions (“white ovals”) and the Great Red Spot (GRS). Clouds were surprisingly absent at the hot spot corresponding to the Galileo probe entry site, and the water abundance measured there was strongly depleted with respect to the solar O/H value. This probably implies that hot spots are dry, cloud-free regions of subsidence, while “normal” air, rich in condensibles, is transported upward by convective motions. As a result, the Jovian meteorology, still based on Halley-type cells, seems to be much more complex than a simple zone-belt system. The nature of the GRS, a giant anticyclonic storm, colder and higher than its environment, has been confirmed by the Galileo observations, but its internal structure appears to be very complex. Strong winds, probably driven by the Jovian internal source, were measured at deep tropospheric levels. The troposphere might be statically stable at pressures higher than 18 bars, but the extent of this putative radiative layer is still unknown. Received 23 November 1998  相似文献   

Cosmic Lithium-Beryllium-Boron Story     

Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam  Michel Cassé 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1999,265(1-4):77-86

Light element nucleosynthesis is an important chapter of nuclear astrophysics. Specifically, the rare and fragile light nuclei Lithium, Beryllium and Boron (LiBeB) are not generated in the normal course of stellar nucleosynthesis (except ⁷Li) and are, in fact, destroyed in stellar interiors. This characteristic is reflected in the low abundance of these simple species. Up to recently, the most plausible interpretation was that Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) interact with interstellar CNO to form LiBeB. Other origins have been also identified: primordial and stellar (⁷Li) and supernova neutrino spallation (⁷Li and ¹¹B). In contrast, ⁹Be, ¹⁰B and ⁶Li are pure spallative products. This last isotope presents a special interest since the ⁶Li/⁷Li ratio has been measured recently in a few halo stars offering a new constraint on the early galactic evolution of light elements. Optical measurements of the beryllium and boron abundances in halo stars have been achieved by the 10 meter KECK telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. These observations indicate a quasi linear correlation between Be and B vs Fe, at least at low metallicity, which, at first sight, is contradictory to a dominating GCR origin of the light elements which predicts a quadratic relationship. As a consequence, the theory of the origin and evolution of LiBeB nuclei has to be refined. Aside GCRs, which are accelerated in the general interstellar medium (ISM) and create LiBeB through the break up of CNO by fast protons and alphas, Wolf-Rayet stars (WR) and core collapse supernovae (SNII) grouped in superbubbles could produce copious amounts of light elements via the fragmentation in flight of rapid carbon and oxygen nuclei colliding with H and He in the ISM. In this case, LiBeB would be produced independently of the interstellar medium chemical composition and thus a primary origin is expected. These different processes are discussed in the framework of a galactic evolutionary model. More spectroscopic observations (specifically of O, Fe, Li, Be, B) in halo stars are required for a better understanding of the relative contribution of the various mechanisms. Future tests on the injection and acceleration of nuclei by supernovae and Wolf Rayet relying on gamma-ray line astronomy will be invoked in the perspective of the European INTEGRAL satellite. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Frequency distributions of solar gamma ray events related and not related with spes in 1980–1995     

Pérez Enriquez  R.  Miroshnichenko  L.I. 《Solar physics》1999,188(1):169-185

The advent of new and better instruments in space has resulted in a considerable increase in the number of solar gamma-ray events (GRE) detected. In this paper, we analyze available SMM/GRS and GRANAT/PHEBUS data on the hard X-ray and gamma-ray events, and their associations with solar proton events (SPE) at the Earth's orbit, for the observation period of 1980–1995. About 58% of the GREs under study were found to be SPE-related ones. Size (frequency) distributions have been obtained, for the first time, for the events with different types of emissions (bremsstrahlung, narrow GR lines, positron annihilation line, neutron capture line, SPEs, etc.). We discuss the possible relationships between size distributions implied by the parameter correlation. The distribution for GR events turns out to be generally harder than that for X-ray bursts. The GREs involving energetic particles in space are shown to have a harder frequency distribution in comparison with that for GREs without detectable SPEs. There is also a tendency for the GREs with highest fluences to be related with SPEs. Finally, no correlation seems to exist between the GRL fluence and maximum flux of >10 MeV protons near the Earth.  相似文献   

Accurate analytical nutation series     

Juan Getino  José M. Ferrándiz 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1999,306(4):L45-L49

In this letter we present the first accurate analytical nutation series, deduced from the Hamiltonian theory by the authors. They provide the highest accuracy ever obtained by any analytical nutation series, since the deviation in CEP (celestial ephemeris pole) offsets with respect to that of the IERS Conventions 1996 is kept below 1 mas in the time domain, in spite of still lacking ocanic corrections.  相似文献   

A model for the post‐collapse equilibrium of cosmological structure: truncated isothermal spheres from top-hat density perturbations     

Paul R. Shapiro    Ilian T. Iliev  Alejandro C. Raga 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1999,307(1):203-224

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Tectonic setting of the Azores Plateau deduced from a OBS survey   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Miranda  J.M.  Mendes Victor  L.A.  Simões  J.Z.  Luis  J.F.  Matias  L.  Shimamura  H.  Shiobara  H.  Nemoto  H  Mochizuki  H.  Hirn  A.  Lépine  J.C. 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1998,20(3):171-182

The studies of Azores seismicity generally show shocks with either normal faulting or right-lateral strike-slip along the ESE direction, compatible with a eastward relative motion of the Eurasian (EU) relative to the African (AF) plate. However, the 1 January 1980 earthquake was interpreted as a clear left-lateral strike-slip shock along the N150E direction. This pattern is difficult to explain in terms of the relative motion between the EU, AF and North American (NA) plates: all available models for the present day movement of this triple junction fail to explain the regional variability in the stress conditions of the area. Here we present data from a 34-day long Ocean Bottom Seismograph array deployment. We show that the seismicity is distributed along a band aligned with the island chain itself, and is concentrated along several faults with an approximate N150E strike, cutting the Azores plateau in all the area covered by the OBS network. The combination of these new results with other geophysical data permits us to conclude that the tectonic setting of the Azores plateau is characterised by the existence of two sets of faults, in the N120E and N150E directions, defining several crustal blocks, whose relative motion accommodates the interaction of the three megaplates. The deformation of these tectonic blocks is probably driven by the shear between the EU and AF plates. This model explains well the spatial variability of the stress conditions in the Azores domain, the combination of dextral and sinistral strike slip mechanisms and the observed seismotectonics of the Azores islands.  相似文献   

An early Miocene reefal platform in the Rama Ridge (Banda Sea, Indonesia)     

J.-J. Cornée  J. Butterlin  P. Saint-Marc  J.-P. Rehault  C. Honthaas  A. Laurenti-Ribaud  C. Chaix  M. Villeneuve  Y. Anantasena 《Geo-Marine Letters》1998,18(1):34-39

 In December 1995 we dredged early Miocene coral-reef carbonates and early/middle Pliocene slope carbonates outcropping on the submerged Rama Ridge. This indicates that some of the Banda Sea Ridges were present during early Miocene times. Subsequent major tectonic subsidence occurred between middle Miocene and early Pliocene times. These results concur with the hypothesis of a relatively recent age for the North Banda Sea basement. Received: 5 March 1997 / Revision received: 23 October 1997  相似文献   

Direct Assessment of Wood’s Metal Wettability on Quartz     

M. Darot  T. Reuschlé 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1999,155(1):119-129

--A tensiometric method (Wilhelmy plate) is used to study Wood's metal dynamic wettability on specially prepared surfaces of quartz single crystals at low velocities of immersion (2 to 16 wm/s). After correction for buoyancy, the force exerted on the plate by the molten metal is used to derive the unit work of wetting n cos Š where n is the Wood's metal surface tension and Š is the interfacial contact angle. Tests at different temperatures (85, 120 and 200°C) show that below 120°C, viscosity effects cannot be neglected. At an immersion/emersion rate of 2 wm/s, n cos Š is in the range 0.417-0.444 N/m at 120°C, and 0.432-0.458 N/m at 200°C. These figures allow the conversion of injection pressures into capillary diameters during Wood's metal injection tests. The method is promising since it may be used in porous materials to check the sensitivity of the unit work of wetting n cos Š to parameters such as roughness and mineralogy, which are known to vary in a wide range within the pores and cracks of rocks.  相似文献   

Nomogram for the Height of the Daytime Mixed Layer     

Kenneth Nyrén  Sven-Erik Gryning 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1999,91(2):307-322

A method to construct a nomogram of the daytime mixed-layer-height evolution is presented. The nomogram will be specific for a given location and land surface type and is intended to be an easy tool to achieve a general understanding of mixed-layer behaviour. Also it is a pedagogical graphical one-pager that displays the bulk of data that controls the evolution of the mixed layer. Nomograms from northern, central and southern Europe are presented and discussed. Comparison with data from two sites shows good agreement although the nomograms overestimated the mixing height when it was low.  相似文献   

Tectonic significance of an earthquake sequence in the Zacoalco half-graben, Jalisco, Mexico     

Javier F. Pacheco  Carlos A. Mortera-Gutirrez  Hugo Delgado  Shri K. Singh  Raúl W. Valenzuela  Nicolai M. Shapiro  Miguel A. Santoyo  Alejandro Hurtado  Ricardo Barrn  Esteban Gutirrez-Moguel 《Journal of South American Earth Sciences》1999,12(6):55

We studied a sequence of small earthquakes that occurred during the months of April and May of 1997, in Jalisco, southwestern Mexico. The earthquakes were located along a set of active faults that form the Zacoalco half-graben (La Lima fault system), west of Lake Chapala, within the rift–rift–rift triple junction. A total of 33 events were located, with magnitudes ranging from 1.5 to 3.5, recorded by a portable array of broadband seismographs. We identified two groups of events: one corresponding to a shallow normal fault, synthetic to La Lima fault system, and another group associated with a deeper fault. The events that occurred on the synthetic fault show normal faulting oriented on a NW–SE plane, dipping shallowly towards the SW. The other group of mechanisms showed either a normal fault oriented NW–SE and dipping steeply to the NE, or a very shallow-dipping normal fault, dipping to the SW. Earthquake distribution and fault plane solutions suggest that the Zacoalco half-graben developed from blocks that rotate as slip occurs on listric faults. These mechanisms could represent the type of motion expected for larger earthquakes in the area, like the one that occurred in 1568.  相似文献