Long term spectral variability in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14     

Andrea Tiengo  Paolo Esposito  Sandro Mereghetti  Lara Sidoli  Diego Götz  Marco Feroci  Roberto Turolla  Silvia Zane  Gian Luca Israel  Luigi Stella  Peter Woods 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):33-37

We present a systematic analysis of all the BeppoSAX data of SGR1900+14. The observations spanning five years show that the source was brighter than usual on two occasions: ～20 days after the August 1998 giant flare and during the 10⁵?s long X-ray afterglow following the April 2001 intermediate flare. In the latter case, we explore the possibility of describing the observed short term spectral evolution only with a change of the temperature of the blackbody component. In the only BeppoSAX observation performed before the giant flare, the spectrum of the SGR1900+14 persistent emission was significantly harder and detected also above 10 keV with the PDS instrument. In the last BeppoSAX observation (April 2002) the flux was at least a factor 1.2 below the historical level, suggesting that the source was entering a quiescent period.  相似文献   

A Compton reflection dominated spectrum in a peculiar accreting neutron star     

N. Rea  L. Stella  G. L. Israel  G. Matt  S. Zane  A. Segreto  T. Oosterbroek  M. Orlandini 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,364(4):1229-1238

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Studies of neutron stars at optical/IR wavelengths     

R. P. Mignani  S. Bagnulo  A. De Luca  G. L. Israel  G. Lo Curto  C. Motch  R. Perna  N. Rea  R. Turolla  S. Zane 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):203-210

In the last years, optical studies of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) have expanded from the more classical rotation-powered ones to other categories, like the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and the Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs), which make up the class of the magnetars, the radio-quiet INSs with X-ray thermal emission and, more recently, the enigmatic Compact Central Objects (CCOs) in supernova remnants. Apart from 10 rotation-powered pulsars, so far optical/IR counterparts have been found for 5 magnetars and for 4 INSs. In this work we present some of the latest observational results obtained from optical/IR observations of different types of INSs.  相似文献   

Discovery of the near-infrared counterpart of the X-ray transient XTE J1908+094     

S. Chaty  R. P. Mignani  G. L. Israel 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,337(3):L23-L26

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MMIV: de SGR 1806–20 Anno Mirabili     

GianLuca Israel 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):25-31

On 27th December 2004 SGR 1806–20, one of the most active Soft γ-ray Repeaters (SGRs), displayed an extremely rare event, also known as giant flare, during which up to 10⁴⁷ ergs were released in the ∼1–1000 keV range in less than 1 s. Before and after the giant flare we carried out IR observations by using adaptive optics (NAOS-CONICA) mounted on VLT which provided images of unprecedented quality (FWHM better than 0.1″). We discovered the likely IR counterpart to SGR 1806–20 based on positional coincidence with the VLA uncertainty region and flux variability of a factor of about 2 correlated with that at higher energies. Moreover, by analysing the Rossi-XTE/PCA data we have discovered rapid Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the pulsating tail of the 27th December 2004 giant flare of SGR 1806–20. QPOs at ∼92.5 Hz are detected in a 50 s interval starting 170 s after the onset of the giant flare. These QPOs appear to be associated with increased emission by a relatively hard unpulsed component and are seen only over phases of the 7.56 s spin period pulsations away from the main peak. QPOs at ∼18 and ∼30 Hz are also detected ∼200–300 s after the onset of the giant flare. This is the first time that QPOs are unambiguously detected in the flux of a Soft Gamma-ray Repeater, or any other isolated neutron star. We interpret the highest QPOs in terms of the coupling of toroidal seismic modes with Alfvén waves propagating along magnetospheric field lines. The lowest frequency QPO might instead provide indirect evidence on the strength of the internal magnetic field of the neutron star.   相似文献   

Dynamics of contaminants in phosphogypsum of the fertilizer industry of Huelva (SW Spain): From phosphate rock ore to the environment     

Rafael Pérez-López  José Miguel Nieto  Israel López-Coto  Juan Luis Aguado  Juan Pedro Bolívar  María Santisteban 《Applied Geochemistry》2010

The dynamics of trace elements from phosphate rock ore to the environment in a phosphoric acid plant located in SW Spain and the impact of phosphogypsum wastes were investigated through total digestion and BCR-sequential extraction. Based on total concentration, element transfer factors as criteria for examining the potential environmental risk of waste with respect to ore rock were calculated, and it was observed that most trace elements are only transferred into phosphogypsum at rates of 2–12%. However, based on those concentrations that are likely to be most readily mobile in the environment, phosphogypsum acts as a higher emission source of contaminants than the original rock. About 100 million tonnes of phosphogypsum are stack-piled in a dump of 1200 ha over salt-marshes of an estuary formed by the confluence of the Tinto and Odiel rivers. Phosphogypsum has been applied, at the recommended rate of 20–25 t/ha since 1978–2001, to improve fertility and reduce Na saturation in agricultural soils of the Guadalquivir river valley (140 km²). Phosphogypsum capacity as a source of mobile contaminants in three environmental scenarios (water leaching, exposure to oxidising and reducing conditions) was quantified by combining sequential extraction and waste mass. The amounts of mobile contaminants that could be released for every tonne of phosphogypsum are approximately 7 × 10² g Sr, 1.1 × 10² g Fe, 55 g Y, 30 g Ce, 12 g Cr, 11 g Ti, 5 g Zn, 4 g each of Cu and Pb, 3 g each of V and Cd, 2 g each of As and Ni and 1 g U. Multiplying these amounts by 100 Mt and 20–25 t/ha, it is possible to calculate risk assessments of phosphogypsum for both estuarine zones, e.g. in a hypothetical stack collapse and waste spilling, and agricultural soils, respectively.  相似文献   

Shear Strength Development with Burial in Eel River Margin Slope Sediments     

Jacques Locat  Homa Lee  Robert Kayen  Ken Israel  Marie-Claude Savoie  Éric Boulanger 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(2):111-135

As part of the STRATAFORM project, a series of cores were obtained from the Eel River Margin area of Eureka, California. The geotechnical analysis of intact specimens and of reconstituted samples provides some insight on the development of shear strength with burial. The results show the effect of bioturbation in the early part of the lifetime of a sediment. SEDCON tests were used to proposed various relationships which help predict the changes in density, liquidity index, and strength as a function of depth. These relationships are found useful from near the water sediment-interface down to a depth of at least 400 m in the sediment column.  相似文献   

On the uniqueness of image reconstruction from the amplitude of radiointerferometric response     

A. M. Finkelstein  O. M. Kosheleva  V. Ja. Kreînovič 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1983,92(1):31-36

The theorem is proved that presents a rigorous foundation of the possibility of unique reconstruction of the radio-image of the sourceI(r) from the modulus of visibility function |V(b|=|Î(r)|. This results gives a rigorous explanation of the efficiency of different numerical methods of the image reconstruction using only amplitude data which are widespread in radio-astronomy.  相似文献   

The singularities in quantum cosmology     

A. M. Finkelstein  V. YA. Kreînovich 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1987,137(1):73-76

A cosmological model is proposed, in which quantum effects lead to infinitely many terms nonlinear in curvature, and these terms lead to the following conclusion: the physical singularity (i.e., a state with infinite matter densityp) occurs int10^–43 s, when the curvature is finite. An attempt is made to give physical interpretation of this model from the viewpoint of the foam-like model of space-time.  相似文献   

Gilbert Gaucher,Sylvie Burdin,Geologie, geomorphologie et hydrologie des terrains salés,Press Universitaires de France (1974), p. 240, F.F.40.00     

Israel Zak 《Earth》1976,12(1):69-70

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