Three‐dimensional microstructure of samples recovered from asteroid 25143 Itokawa: Comparison with LL5 and LL6 chondrite particles     

Akira Tsuchiyama  Masayuki Uesugi  Kentaro Uesugi  Tsukasa Nakano  Ryo Noguchi  Toru Matsumoto  Junya Matsuno  Takashi Nagano  Yuta Imai  Akira Shimada  Akihisa Takeuchi  Yoshio Suzuki  Tomoki Nakamura  Takaaki Noguchi  Masanao Abe  Toru Yada  Akio Fujimura 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(2):172-187

In this study, the three‐dimensional (3‐D) microstructure of 48 Itokawa regolith particles was examined by synchrotron microtomography at SPring‐8 during the preliminary examination of Hayabusa samples. Moreover, the 3‐D microstructure of particles collected from two LL6 chondrites (Ensisheim and Kilabo meteorites) and an LL5 chondrite (Tuxtuac meteorite) was investigated by the same method for comparison. The modal abundances of minerals, especially olivine, bulk density, porosity, and grain size are similar in all samples, including voids and cracks. These results show that the Itokawa particles, which are surface materials from the S‐type asteroid Itokawa, are consistent with the LL chondrite materials in terms of not only elemental and isotopic composition of the minerals but also 3‐D microstructure. However, we could not determine whether the Itokawa particles are purely LL5, LL6, or a mixture of the two. No difference between the particles collected from Rooms A and B of the sample chamber, corresponding to the sampling sequence of the spacecraft's second and first touchdowns, respectively, was detected because of the statistically small amount of particles from Room B.  相似文献   

Degradation of algal lipids by deep-sea benthic foraminifera: An in situ tracer experiment     

Hidetaka Nomaki  Naohiko Ohkouchi  Petra Heinz  Hisami Suga  Yoshito Chikaraishi  Nanako O. Ogawa  Kouhei Matsumoto  Hiroshi Kitazato 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2009,56(9):1488-1503

We conducted an in situ feeding experiment using ¹³C-labeled unicellular algae in Sagami Bay, Japan (water depth, 1450 m), in order to understand the fate of lipid compounds in phytodetritus at the deep-sea floor. We examined the incorporation of excess ¹³C into lipid compounds extracted from bulk sediments and benthic foraminiferal cells. ¹³C-enriched fatty acids derived from ¹³C-labeled algae were exponentially degraded during 6 days of incubation in the sediment. Subsequent enrichments in ¹³C in sedimentary n-C_15, anteiso-C₁₇, and C₁₇ fatty acids indicated the microbial degradation of algal material and production of bacterial biomass in the sediment. We observed the incorporation of ¹³C-labeled algal phytol and fatty acids into foraminiferal cells. The compositions of ¹³C-labeled algal lipids in foraminiferal cells were different from those in the bulk sediments, indicating that foraminiferal feeding and digestion influenced the lipid distribution in the sediments. Furthermore, some sterols in Globobulimina affinis (e.g., 24-ethylcholesta-5,22-dien-3β-ol, 24-ethylcholest-5-en-3β-ol, and 23,24-dimethylcholesta-5,22E-dien-3β-ol) were newly produced via the modification of dietary algal sterols within 4–6 days. In addition to the effects of bacteria, feeding by benthic foraminifera can result in a significant reorganization of the composition of organic matter and influence benthic food webs and carbon cycling at the deep-sea floor.  相似文献   

A near-infrared fabry-perot imager at CRL 1.5m telescope and the structure and velocity field of shocked H2 emission in orion KL region     

H. Sugai  T. Usuda  H. Kawabata  M. Y. Inoue  H. Kataza  M. Tanaka 《Experimental Astronomy》1994,3(1-4):315-316

We have developed a near-infrared Fabry-Perot imager at the Nasmyth focus of the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) 1.5 m telescope at Tokyo. Using this wide field Fabry-Perot imager, we obtained continuum-subtracted images of the H₂ v=1–0 S(1) line for the Orion KL region.  相似文献   

Constraint on intergalactic dust from thermal history of intergalactic medium     

Akio K. Inoue †  Hideyuki Kamaya 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,341(3):L7-L11

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A simplified analysis method for piled raft foundations in non‐homogeneous soils     

Pastsakorn Kitiyodom  Tatsunori Matsumoto 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2003,27(2):85-109

A simplified method of numerical analysis based on elasticity theory has been developed for the analysis of axially and laterally loaded piled raft foundations embedded in non‐homogeneous soils and incorporated into a computer program “PRAB”. In this method, a hybrid model is employed in which the flexible raft is modelled as thin plates and the piles as elastic beams and the soil is treated as springs. The interactions between structural members, pile–soil–pile, pile–soil–raft and raft–soil–raft interactions, are approximated based on Mindlin's solutions for both vertical and lateral forces with consideration of non‐homogeneous soils. The validity of the proposed method is verified through comparisons with some published solutions for single piles, pile groups and capped pile groups in non‐homogeneous soils. Thereafter, the solutions from this approach for the analysis of axially and laterally loaded 4‐pile pile groups and 4‐pile piled rafts embedded in finite homogeneous and non‐homogeneous soil layers are compared with those from three‐dimensional finite element analysis. Good agreement between the present approach and the more rigorous finite element approach is demonstrated. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A 16 ka climate record deduced from δ13C and C/N ratio in Qinghai Lake sediments, northeastern Tibetan Plateau     

SHEN Ji  WANG Yong  LIU Xingqi  Ryo Matsumoto 《中国海洋湖沼学报》2006,24(2)

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Fragmentation of a Molecular Cloud Core versus Fragmentation of the Massive Protoplanetary Disk in the Main Accretion Phase     

T. Matsumoto  T. Hanawa 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2004,292(1-4):273-278

We present three-dimensional numerical simulations on binary formation through fragmentation. The simulations follow gravitational collapse of a molecular cloud core up to growth of the first core by accretion. At the initial stage, the gravity is only slightly dominant over the gas pressure. We made various models by changing initial velocity distribution (rotation speed, rotation law, and bar-mode perturbation). The cloud fragments whenever the cloud rotates sufficiently slowly to allow collapse but faster enough to form a disk before first-core formation. The latter condition is equivalent to Ω₀ t _ff ? 0.05, where Ω₀ and t _ff f denote the initial central angular velocity and the freefall time measured from the central density, and the condition is independent of the initial rotation law and bar-mode perturbation. Fragmentation is classified into six types. When the initial cloud rotates rigidly the cloud collapses to form a adiabatic disk supported by rotation. When the bar-mode perturbation is very minor, the disk deforms to a rotating bar, and the bar fragments. Otherwise, the adiabatic disk evolves into a central core surrounded by a circumstellar disk, and the the circumstellar disk fragments. When the initial cloud rotates differentially, the cloud deforms to a ring or bar in the isothermal collapse phase. The ring fragments into free or more cores, while the bar fragments into only two cores. In the latter case, the core merges due to low orbital angular momentum and new satellite cores form in the later stages.  相似文献   

Selection criteria for linear regression models to estimate individual tree biomasses in the Atlantic Rain Forest,Brazil     

Carlos Roberto Sanquetta  Ana Paula Dalla Corte  Alexandre Behling  Luani Rosa de Oliveira Piva  Sylvio Péllico Netto  Aurélio Lourenço Rodrigues  Mateus Niroh Inoue Sanquetta 《Carbon balance and management》2018,13(1):25

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Large-amplitude variables near the Galactic Centre     

I. S. Glass  S. Matsumoto  B. S. Carter  K. Sekiguchi 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,321(1):77-95

We report here the results of a 4-yr K -band (2.2 μm) survey for large-amplitude variable stars in a     area centred on the Galactic Centre. A total of 409 likely long-period variables (LPVs) were detected, for which positions, amplitudes, average magnitudes and periods were obtained whenever possible. The surface density of LPVs is more than ten times greater than in the Sgr I Baade window at        
The limits of completeness arising from interstellar and circumstellar absorption are discussed. Most of the area suffers interstellar extinction of     The shorter-period LPVs are less luminous than the longer-period ones and may be slightly under-represented in the data. Extremely heavy extinction     which affects the probability of detecting variables, occurs in less than 25 per cent of the area.
Almost all of the LPVs are Miras or OH/IR stars, with periods ranging from 150 d to about 800 d. K -band counterparts have been found for 59 per cent of the 109 known OH sources in the field. The average period of the variables found is 427 d, while that of the OH/IR stars is 524 d. For comparison, the average period in the Sgr I window, which contains no known OH/IR stars, is 333 d and only two stars are detected with     The survey field also contains a number of long-period, large-amplitude variables that are not OH emitters.  相似文献   

Tsunami deposit associated with the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in the Hasunuma site of the Kujukuri coastal plain,Japan          下载免费PDF全文

Dan Matsumoto  Yuki Sawai  Koichiro Tanigawa  Osamu Fujiwara  Yuichi Namegaya  Masanobu Shishikura  Kyoko Kagohara  Haruo Kimura 《Island Arc》2016,25(5):369-385

We describe the detailed sedimentary characteristics of a tsunami deposit associated with the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in Hasunuma, a site on the Kujukuri coastal plain, Japan. The thick tsunami deposit was limited to within 350 m from the coastline whereas the inundation area extended about 1 km from the coastline. The tsunami deposit was sampled by excavation at 29 locations along three transects and studied using peels, soft‐X imaging and grain‐size analysis. The deposit covers the pre‐existing soil and reached a maximum measured thickness of 35 cm. It consists mainly of well‐sorted medium to fine sand. On the basis of sedimentary structures and changes in grain size, we divided the tsunami deposit into several sedimentary units, which may correspond to multiple inundation flows. The numbers of units and their sedimentary features vary among the three transects, despite the similar topography. This variation implies a considerable influence of local effects such as elevation, vegetation, microtopography, and distance from footpaths, on the tsunami‐related sedimentation.  相似文献