Radiation mechanisms and geometry of Cygnus X-1 in the soft state     

Marek Gierli&#;ski  rzej A. Zdziarski  Juri Poutanen  Paolo S. Coppi  Ken Ebisawa  W. Neil Johnson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1999,309(2):496-512

We present X-ray/ γ -ray spectra of Cyg X-1 observed during the transition from the hard to the soft state and in the soft state by ASCA , RXTE and CGRO /OSSE in 1996 May and June. The spectra consist of a dominant soft component below ∼2 keV and a power-law-like continuum extending to at least ∼800 keV. We interpret them as emission from an optically thick, cold accretion disc and from an optically thin, non-thermal corona above the disc. A fraction f ≳0.5 of total available power is dissipated in the corona.
We model the soft component by multicolour blackbody disc emission taking into account the torque-free inner-boundary condition. If the disc extends down to the minimum stable orbit, the ASCA RXTE data yield the most probable black hole mass of M _X≈10 M_⊙ and an accretion rate,     , locating Cyg X-1 in the soft state in the upper part of the stable, gas-pressure-dominated, accretion-disc solution branch.
The spectrum of the corona is well modelled by repeated Compton scattering of seed photons from the disc off electrons with a hybrid, thermal/non-thermal distribution. The electron distribution can be characterized by a Maxwellian with an equilibrium temperature of kT _e∼30–50 keV, a Thomson optical depth of τ ∼0.3 and a quasi-power-law tail. The compactness of the corona is 2≲ℓ_h≲7, and a presence of a significant population of electron–positron pairs is ruled out.
We find strong signatures of Compton reflection from a cold and ionized medium, presumably an accretion disc, with an apparent reflector solid angle, Ω/2π∼0.5–0.7. The reflected continuum is accompanied by a broad iron K α line.  相似文献   

北大西洋涛动与欧亚冬季气温     

任广成 《成都信息工程学院学报》1990,(Z1)

本文首先分析了北大西洋涛动的自身振动及其对欧亚地区冬季气温的影响,而后又对北大西洋涛动与500hpa西风指数变异之联系作了探讨。结果发现:北大西洋涛动存在着较显著的9年变化周期,其强弱变化对欧亚大范围冬季气温具有一定程度的影响,尤其是对大西涛动与同期和前期5月及10月特定区域500hpa西风指数关系密切。  相似文献   

Broad-band X-ray/γ-ray spectra and binary parameters of GX 339–4 and their astrophysical implications     

Andrzej A. Zdziarski  Juri Poutanen  Joanna Mikolajewska  Marek Gierli&#;ski  Ken Ebisawa  & W. Neil Johnson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,301(2):435-450

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Crabs,leeches and trypanosomes: an unholy trinity?     

Hemmingsen W  Jansen PA  Mackenzie K 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,50(3):336-339

The red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus was deliberately introduced to the Barents Sea in the 1960s and 1970s from its native area in the North Pacific. The carapace of these crabs is a favoured substrate for the leech Johanssonia arctica to deposit its eggs, and the leech is a vector for a trypanosome blood parasite of marine fish, including cod. We examined cod for trypanosome infections during annual cruises along the coast of Finnmark in North Norway over three successive years from stations along a gradient of over 1000 km. In every year the level of trypanosome infection in cod was significantly highest in the area with the greatest density of king crabs. We propose the hypothesis that the burgeoning population of red king crabs in this area is indirectly responsible for increased transmission of trypanosomes to cod by promoting an increase in the population of the leech vector.  相似文献   

Are increased nutrient inputs responsible for more outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish? An appraisal of the evidence     

Brodie J  Fabricius K  De'ath G  Okaji K 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,51(1-4):266-278

The cause(s) of primary outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) are still subject to scientific controversy. The possibility of primary outbreaks being linked to terrestrial runoff has been postulated a number of times, suggesting that enhanced nutrient supply is critical for enhanced A. planci larval development. This paper examines the evidence for such a cause, focussing particularly on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Nutrient discharges from rivers have increased at least four-fold in the central GBR over the last century, and concentrations of large phyto-plankton (>2 microm) of the inshore central GBR shelf in the wet season when A. planci larvae develop, is double that of other places and times. Larval development, growth and survival increase almost ten-fold with doubled concentrations of large phyto-plankton. This and other lines of evidence suggest that frequent A. planci outbreaks on the GBR may indeed be a result of increased nutrient delivery from the land.  相似文献   

Introduction to the Proceedings of the GLOBEC Symposium on Effects of Climate Variability on Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems     

George L. Hunt Jr.  Ken Drinkwater 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2007,54(23-26):2453

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Evidence of change in the winter mixed layer in the Northeast Pacific Ocean   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Howard Freeland  Ken Denman  C.S. Wong  Frank Whitney  Renée Jacques 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》1997,44(12):2117-2129

Sea-surface temperatures in the Northeast Pacific Ocean show a warming trend, and salinities show a declining trend, in data collected over the last 60 years. These changes combine to reduce the density of the surface layer over a large area of the Northeast Pacific. The declining surface density changes the energetic requirements for the formation of a surface mixed layer, and observations at Ocean Station Papa indicate that mid-winter mixed layer depths are showing a marked decline. The reduction in the depth of penetration of the winter-time mixed layer should reduce the nutrients entrained into the upper ocean each winter. Observations suggest that near surface nutrient levels are declining at Papa but remain well above levels that might inhibit productivity. However, at present the productivity of large phytoplankton appears to be limited by iron supply which is thought to be mainly from the atmosphere. A shallower mixed layer depth could increase the concentration of iron in this layer. The increase in iron would increase the utilization of nitrate, mainly by diatoms, and new production and the f ratio would increase.  相似文献   

The PROWQM physical–biological model with benthic–pelagic coupling applied to the northern North Sea     

Jae-Young Lee  Paul Tett  Ken Jones  Sarah Jones  Patrick Luyten  Claire Smith  Karen Wild-Allen   《Journal of Sea Research》2002,48(4):57

PROWQM, a 1-D depth resolving model which couples physical and microbiological processes in the water column with sedimentation/resuspension and benthic mineralisation processes, has been used to simulate seasonal changes of chlorophyll, nutrients and oxygen at the PROVESS north site (59°20′N 1°00′E) in the North Sea. PROWQM is derived from the 3-D model COHERENS, and improves COHEREN's benthic and pelagic biology.The physical sub-model of PROWQM implicitly solves turbulence closure equations forced by climatological, or realistic high-frequency, meteorological and tidal data. The pelagic biological sub-model 2MPPD includes a ‘diatomy’ microplankton (mp1) and a ‘flagellatey’ (or microbial loop) microplankton (mp2), the cycling of silicon and nitrogen, slow-sinking detritus, and fast-sinking phytodetritus. Phytodetritus is formed by shear-driven aggregation of particulate material, using a simple algorithm for bulk processes that is derived by considering the interactions of single cells. The microplankton compartments include heterotrophic bacteria and protozoa as well as phytoplankton, and most microplankton rates are specified with the aid of a ‘heterotroph fraction’ parameter, which was 0.125 for mp1 and 0.6 for mp2. The microbiological system is closed by mesozooplankton grazing pressures imposed as time varying series determined from observed zooplankton abundance. The benthic boundary sub-model includes a superficial fluff layer and a nutrient element reservoir in the consolidated sediment. Particulate material in the fluff layer can be resuspended (in response to bed stress by near-bed flows), mineralised or carried by bioturbation into the underlying, consolidated, sediment, where it is mineralised and its nutrients returned to the water-column at rates mainly dependent on (implicit) macrobenthic pumping. Benthic denitrification can occur when mineralisation rates exceed oxygen supply.Verification of the PROWQM numerical implementation used test cases and checks for nutrient element conservation. Simulations with realistic forcing, for a range of parameter values, were compared with historic observations in the NOWESP data set and during FLEX76, and with those made during the PROVESS cruises in autumn 1998. PROWQM provided a good simulation of the seasonal succession from a diatom-dominated spring bloom to summer dominance by small flagellates. The simulations included sedimentation of organic matter from the spring bloom, and qualitatively realistic behaviour of the fluff layer, but decay rates were too slow and there was almost no denitrification. The simulated surface mixed layer was too shallow during the summer. Simulated annual net microplankton primary production was in between 59 and 91 g C m⁻² y⁻¹. A large proportion of mineralisation, 28–47% of nitrogen and 40–67% of silicon mineralisation, took place as a result of the decay of sinking and resuspended detritus whilst in the water column.PROWQM is discussed in relation to other models that have been used to simulate this part of the North Sea, in particular the simpler ECOHAM1 and the more complex ERSEM, and in relation to PROWQM's evolution from COHERENS.  相似文献   

Sedimentary C/S relationships in a large tropical estuary: Evidence for refractory carbon inputs from mangroves     

Ken J. Woolfe  Paul J. Dale  Gregg J. Brunskill 《Geo-Marine Letters》1995,15(3-4):140-144

Mud islands in the Fly River estuary were deposited under dominantly brackish conditions. Changes in C/S ratio with depth in sediment cores reflect geomorphic development of islands and/or changes in location of river channels. An unusual feature of the C/S relationships is positive carbon-axis intercepts, indicating the presence of an organic phase that is resistant to decomposition. Nonzero intercepts mean that the slope of the C/S plot, and not individual C/S values, must be used to determine paleoenvironments. Moreover, a nonzero intercept may be useful for indicating proximity to a source of refractory carbon, such as mangroves.  相似文献   

Ocean bottom seismometer detection of earthquakes on the Gorda Rise near 41.5° north     

Keith A. Sverdrup  Ken C. Macdonald  William A. Prothero 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1985,7(4):439-453

The spatial and temporal distribution of microearthquake activity associated with the southern section of the Gorda Rise was monitored during a three week period using an array of four ocean bottom seismometers (OBS's) located at 41.5° N, 127.5° W on the rise axis. Sixty-two events were detected, of which roughly half occurred during a seismic swarm following an event of magnitude 4.9 that was well-recorded on land. A total of eighteen earthquakes could be located, seventeen of which originated from the valley floor, walls, and crestal mountains while the remaining event was located to the east of the rise in the Gorda plate. Well-constrained focal depths for four earthquakes ranged from roughly 4 to 12 km. Depths in excess of 10 km for two of the events provide strong evidence for the absence of a shallow steady-state magma chamber beneath the slow-spreading portion of the Gorda rise. Most of the events are believed to be the result of uplift of the crustal blocks comprising the valley walls. Four events located at an offset of the rise near 41.5° N may be related to strike-slip movement on a developing transform fault. Two of the events that occurred during the survey were large enough to be detected and located by land-based instruments. Comparison of these locations with the OBS locations indicates that well-recorded events having magnitudes of at least 4.5 are routinely mislocated 40–50 km to the east of their actual locations in this area while lower magnitude, poorly recorded earthquakes may have significantly larger location errors.  相似文献