The Monitor project: the search for transits in the open cluster NGC 2362     

Adam A. Miller  Jonathan Irwin  Suzanne Aigrain  Simon Hodgkin  Leslie Hebb 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(1):349-363

We present the results of a systematic search for transiting planets in a ∼5 Myr open cluster, NGC 2362. We observed ∼1200 candidate cluster members, of which ∼475 are believed to be genuine cluster members, for a total of ∼100 h. We identify 15 light curves with reductions in flux that pass all our detection criteria, and six of the candidates have occultation depths compatible with a planetary companion. The variability in these six light curves would require very large planets to reproduce the observed transit depth. If we assume that none of our candidates are, in fact, planets then we can place upper limits on the fraction of stars with hot Jupiters (HJs) in NGC 2362. We obtain 99 per cent confidence upper limits of 0.22 and 0.70 on the fraction of stars with HJs ( f _p) for 1–3 and 3–10 d orbits, respectively, assuming all HJs have a planetary radius of 1.5 R _Jup. These upper limits represent observational constraints on the number of stars with HJs at an age ≲10 Myr, when the vast majority of stars are thought to have lost their protoplanetary discs. Finally, we extend our results to the entire Monitor project, a survey searching young, open clusters for planetary transits, and find that the survey as currently designed should be capable of placing upper limits on f _p near the observed values of f _p in the solar neighbourhood.  相似文献   

Unconformity between a Late Miocene–Pliocene accretionary prism (Nishizaki Formation) and Pliocene trench‐slope sediments (Kagamigaura Formation), central Japan     

Yuzuru Yamamoto  Shun Chiyonobu  Toshiyuki Kurihara  Asuka Yamaguchi  Shoko Hina  Mari Hamahashi  Hugues Raimbourg  Romain Augier  Leslie Gadenne 《Island Arc》2012,21(4):231-234

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静压桩残余应力的长期观测性状     

俞峰  谭国焕  杨峻  李启光 《岩土力学》2011,32(8):2318-2324

静压桩施工过程中,可能会沿桩身形成很大的残余应力。通过在砂性土中1根长约26 m静压桩的原位试验,观测了沉桩结束后的残余应力在后续的循环载荷试验、3根邻桩顺次压入、第2次载荷试验以及较长静置期内的长期变化情况,试验历时约212 d。结果显示,循环载荷试验加载水平与循环次数的增加会造成残余应力的进一步累积。邻桩压入使既有桩残余压应力减小,与邻桩即时贯入深度一致的桩身残余应力测点受其影响最明显。桩身残余应力在长时间内会逐步消散至某一稳定值,其时间效应主要与砂性土的蠕变有关,它使得桩周土的土拱效应减弱,并使桩端土的接触压力减小。  相似文献   

Obituaries     

Leslie J. King  Richard Bedford  Murray Fastier  John Macaulay 《New Zealand geographer》2009,65(2):155-158

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边坡稳定性分析的无条分法   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

郑宏  谭国焕  刘德富 《岩土力学》2007,28(7):1285-1291

基于滑面应力修正技术并取整个滑体为受力体,实现了对滑体的整体极限平衡分析。同时,利用Green公式将有关域积分转化为边界积分,而无需再对滑体进行条分。该方法数值特性好,亦可方便地将二维的成果向三维推广,从而实现满足全部6个平衡条件的三维严格极限平衡法。本文是二维部分的成果。  相似文献   

Dense cores in the L1630 molecular cloud: discovering new protostars with SCUBA     

Robin R. Phillips †  y G. Gibb ‡  Leslie T. Little 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(3):927-936

Maps of the 450- and 850-μm dust continuum emission from three star-forming condensations within the Lynds 1630 molecular cloud, made with the SCUBA bolometer array, reveal the presence of four new submillimetre sources, each of a few solar masses (two of which are probably class I and two of which are class 0), as well as several sources the existence of which was previously known. The sources are located in filaments and appear elongated when observed at 450 μm. They probably have dust temperatures in the range 10 to 20 K, in good agreement with previous ammonia temperature estimates. Attempts to fit their structures with power-law and Gaussian density distributions suggest that the central distribution is flatter than expected for a simple singular isothermal sphere.
Although the statistics are poor, our results suggest that the ratio of 'protostellar core' mass to total virial mass may be similar for both large and small condensations.  相似文献   

Spatial variability of flow parameters in a stratified sand     

Leslie Smith 《Mathematical Geology》1981,13(1):1-21

The spatial variability in porosity, hydraulic conductivity, compressibility, and various grain size fractions is analyzed for several sets of samples from the Quadra Sand. This unit is a well-sorted, medium grained, horizontally stratified sand with relatively few silt or gravel interbeds. Both random and uniformly spaced sample plans are used. The heterogeneity of the flow parameters is characterized by frequency histograms and their estimated moments, by their sample autocorrelation functions, and the estimated power spectra. Emphasis is placed on the nature of the spatial dependence between neighboring values of the flow parameters. A nearest neighbor stochastic process model is fit to the data to consider its adequacy in describing the spatial dependence within the porosity and hydraulic conductivity sequences. Even though the Quadra Sand is relatively uniform, a fairly complex spatial structure is observed. A simple monotonically decaying autocorrelation function may not adequately represent the spatial continuity. Statistical anisotropy is observed in both the extent of the spatial autocorrelation and in its functional form. Results show the importance of scale in constructing a probability model to describe the spatial variability.  相似文献   

ELEMENTS OF SPATIAL STATISTICAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS*     

Leslie Curry 《The Professional geographer》1983,35(2):149-157

Statistical systems analysis for practical map analysis is introduced. Maps are partitioned into scale components by cascaded averaging and differencing and, by regressing values of two phenomena at each scale, the transfer function is estimated for the area domain. Z transforms demonstrate its relation to the impulse response function in the distance domain. Applications are made.  相似文献   

Long-term water budget estimation with the modified distributed model – LISFLOOD-WB over the Lushi basin, China     

X. Mo  K. J. Beven  S. Liu  L. M. Leslie  A. P. J. De Roo 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2005,90(1-2):1-16

Summary In a modification of the distributed hydrological model, LISFLOOD-WB, a two-source canopy scheme is used to predict both the canopy transpiration and soil evaporation. A revised soil storage capacity curve from the Xinanjiang model is applied to take into account the sub-grid heterogeneity. The modified model is used to estimate the long-term (1980–1997) water budget of the Lushi basin (4423 km²), China. All the input data fields are integrated in a four-dimensional GIS data structure with a raster grid spacing of 1-km. The basin channel network is determined from digital elevation data, and the spatial pattern of canopy leaf area index (LAI) is retrieved from NOAA/AVHRR NDVI images. Generally, the model efficiency for discharge prediction is acceptable, but the discharges are overestimated in the driest years and underestimated in the wettest years. The results indicated that the influence of inter-annual variation of spatial patterns of LAI detected by NOAA/AVHRR NDVI on the estimates of annual evapotranspiration is negligible. Annually averaged ratios of overland flow, infiltration and canopy interception to precipitation are 24±7%, 56±10% and 20±2%, respectively. The inter-annual variations of precipitation and predicted evapotranspiration are relatively high with standard deviations of 5.1 mm day⁻¹ and 2.4 mm day⁻¹, respectively, whereas the inter-annual variation of the net radiation is much less. Monthly temporal patterns of soil moisture follow precipitation strongly. Spatially precipitation and LAI are both significantly correlated with evapotranspiration, although precipitation has a slightly more dominant control. The linear relationship between water yield and LAI is weak on a grid by grid basis.  相似文献   

Independent component analysis for UXO detection in highly cluttered environments     

Chandra S. Throckmorton  Stacy L. Tantum  Yingyi Tan  Leslie M. Collins   《Journal of Applied Geophysics》2007,61(3-4):304-317

Statistical signal processing techniques have shown progress in discriminating UXO from clutter when the objects occur in isolation. Under this condition, only a single object contributes to the measured sensor data. For multiple closely spaced subsurface objects, however, the unprocessed sensor measurement is a mixture of the responses from several objects. Consequently, the unprocessed measurements cannot be used directly to discriminate UXO from clutter. In this paper, we implement independent component analysis (ICA), a well-established blind source separation (BSS) technique, to recover the unobserved object signatures from the mixed measurement data obtained by simulating electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensor data, and then use the recovered signatures for UXO/clutter discrimination. Discrimination performance depends on multiple factors, including the number of clutter objects in proximity to the UXO, the separation distance between the UXO and clutter, and the number of mixed measurements available. Simulation results are presented illustrating the impact of these factors on discrimination performance.  相似文献