CCD imaging polarimetry of Comet 2P/Encke     

Nikolai N. Kiselev  Klaus Jockers 《Icarus》2004,168(2):385-391

We present results and analysis of imaging polarimetric observations of Comet 2P/Encke. The observations were carried out at the 2-m RCC telescope of the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory on December 13, 1993 and on January 14, 1994, at phase angles 51.1° and 80.5°, respectively. A wide-band red filter 6940/790 Å was used. This filter is transparent for the continuum and the weak emission bands of NH₂ and H₂O⁺. There is a sunward dust fan with well-defined polarization, which peaks at≈13% in the image obtained on January 14, 1994. Along the sunward fan the degree of polarization decreases progressively. Outside of the fan the coma displays a low polarization of ≈3%. We suggest that this low polarization is caused by the NH₂ emission in the pass-band of the red wide-band filter. Assuming a spherically symmetric NH₂ coma we are able to correct the observed polarization for this effect. The correction leads to an increase of the observed polarization by 1 to 4% at distances 10,000 and 1500 km from the nucleus. A rough estimate shows that the polarization in the near nucleus region of Comet Encke is similar to that for the dusty comets. Even after correction the polarization of Comet Encke's dust fan is significantly less that the polarization observed in dusty comets. The reasons influencing the distribution of dust polarization in the coma are discussed. More polarimetric and colorimetric observations of the dust in Comet Encke on its return in 2003 are needed.  相似文献   

Photographic observations of comet Hale-Bopp at the Pulkovo Observatory: The detection of dust envelopes     

Yu. N. Gnedin  A. A. Kiselev  T. P. Kiseleva  K. L. Maslennikov 《Astronomy Letters》2001,27(4):249-253

The photographic observations of comet Hale-Bopp with the 26-inch Pulkovo Observatory refractor in March–April, 1998, revealed three hemispherical gas-dust envelopes and one spiral jet in the comet head. We determined the angular distances of these envelopes from the comet nucleus and estimated their velocities. The masses and sizes of dust grains were estimated. We conclude that submicron-sized grains dominate in the envelopes. We also estimated the time scale of the comet nuclear activity, which manifests itself in dust ejection, the initial velocity of the ejected dust grains, and the ratio of the radiation-pressure force exerted on dust grains to the force of their gravitational attraction to the Sun. Our observations yielded an estimate for the radius of the comet nucleus, ～30 km.  相似文献   

Polarimetry of major Uranian moons at the 6-m telescope     

V. L. Afanasiev  V. K. Rosenbush  N. N. Kiselev 《Astrophysical Bulletin》2014,69(2):211-223

We present the results of polarimetric observations of the icymoons of Uranus (Ariel, Titania, Oberon, and Umbriel) performed at the 6-m BTA telescope of the SAO RAS with the SCORPIO-2 focal reducer within the phase angle range of $0_.^ \circ 06 - 2_.^ \circ 37$ . The parameters of the negative polarization branch (referred to the scattering plane) are obtained in the V filter: for Ariel the maximum branch depth of P _min ≈ ?1.4% is reached at the phase angle of α _min ≈ 1°; for Titania P _min ≈ ?1.2%, $\alpha _{\min } \approx 1_.^ \circ 4$ ; for Oberon P _min ≈ ?1.1%, $\alpha _{\min } \approx 1_.^ \circ 8$ . For Umbriel the polarization minimum was not reached: for the last measurement point at $\alpha _{\min } \approx 2_.^ \circ 4$ , polarization amounts to ?1.7%. The declining P _min and shifting α_min towards larger phase angles correlate with a decrease of the geometric albedo of the Uranian moons. There is no longitudinal dependence of polarization for the moons within the observational errors which indicates a similarity in the physical properties of the leading and trailing hemispheres. The phase-angle dependences of polarization for the major moons of Uranus are quite close to those observed in the group of small trans-Neptunian objects (Ixion, Huya, Varuna, 1999 DE9, etc.), which are characterized by a large gradient of negative polarization, about ?1% per degree in the phase-angle range of $0_.^ \circ 1 - 1^ \circ$ .  相似文献   

Deuterated water: partition functions and equilibrium constants     

Alan J. Hewitt  Natasha Doss  Nikolai F. Zobov  Oleg L. Polyansky  Jonathan Tennyson † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,356(3):1123-1126

HDO and D₂O are thought to be present in significant quantities in the coldest regions of the Universe. Partition functions are calculated for these species and used to calculate temperature dependent equilibrium constants for the most important fractionation reactions involving water. HDO may also be a key indicator of the absence of deuterium burning in very low mass stars. The HDO partition function calculation is extended to high  ( T ≤ 6000 K)  temperatures for this purpose.  相似文献   

Gallium, gold, and platinum group metals in manganese rocks of Southern Sikhote Alin     

V. T. Kazachenko  N. V. Miroshnichenko  E. V. Perevoznikova  V. M. Chubarov  V. I. Kiselev  V. A. Solyanik 《Doklady Earth Sciences》2006,407(3):429-433

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polarimetric and photometric observations of split comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)     

Rosenbush  Vera  Kiselev  Nikolai  Velichko  Sergey 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2002,90(1-4):423-433

We present the results of polarimetric and photometricobservations of split Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR), which wereobtained at the 70-cm telescope of the Astronomical Observatoryof Kharkiv National University between 30 June and 31 July 2001.The brightest fragment of the comet, nucleus B, was observed.Eight narrowband cometary filters in the continuum and in emissionbands and a wideband red filter have been used. The comet wasobserved through apertures of 88, 33, and 19 arcsec. Polarizationphase curves were obtained for the continuum and for the firsttime, for NH₂(0, 7, 0) emission. The degree of polarization ofthe light scattered by the dust decreases with the increase ofaperture size. An important temporal variation of the polarizationwith a rotation of the polarization plane was observed at twophase angles (26.5° and 36.2°). Molecular column densities and production rates of CN, C₂,C₃, and NH₂ species are calculated in the framework of theHaser model. A comparative analysis of the temporal variations ofthe visual magnitudes, gas and dust production rates, dust colorand polarization are presented.  相似文献   

Reconciling Observational Challenges to the Impulsive-Piston Shock-Excitation Scenario. II. Shock Waves Produced in CME-Less Events with a Null-Point Topology     

Grechnev  V. V.  Kiselev  V. I.  Uralov  A. M.  Myshyakov  I. I. 《Solar physics》2022,297(9):1-29

Solar Physics - The problem of bias, meaning over- or under-estimation, of the component perpendicular to the line-of-sight [ $B_{\perp }$ ] in vector magnetic-field maps is discussed. Previous...  相似文献   

Geo‐parsing Messages from Microtext     

Judith Gelernter  Nikolai Mushegian 《Transactions in GIS》2011,15(6):753-773

Widespread use of social media during crises has become commonplace, as shown by the volume of messages during the Haiti earthquake of 2010 and Japan tsunami of 2011. Location mentions are particularly important in disaster messages as they can show emergency responders where problems have occurred. This article explores the sorts of locations that occur in disaster‐related social messages, how well off‐the‐shelf software identifies those locations, and what is needed to improve automated location identification, called geo‐parsing. To do this, we have sampled Twitter messages from the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. We annotated locations in messages manually to make a gold standard by which to measure locations identified by a Named Entity Recognition software. The Stanford NER software found some locations that were proper nouns, but did not identify locations that were not capitalized, local streets and buildings, or non‐standard place abbreviations and mis‐spellings that are plentiful in microtext. We review how these problems might be solved in software research, and model a readable crisis map that shows crisis location clusters via enlarged place labels.  相似文献   

Radiolarians from Upper Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian and Upper Kimmeridgian) deposits of Yaroslavl oblast     

N. Yu. Bragin  D. N. Kiselev 《Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation》2013,21(6):628-636

The middle Oxfordian and late Kimmeridgian radiolarian assemblages from Upper Jurassic deposits of Yaroslavl oblast are studied for the first time. The middle Oxfordian assemblage is dominated by stauraxonic morphotypes of genera Paronaella and Pseudocrucella occurring in association with discoid forms. Nassellarian radiolarians are very rare in this assemblage of extremely low taxonomic diversity, which is lacking spheroidal morphotypes. The late Kimmeridgian assemblage is more diverse in morphological and taxonomic aspects. It includes spheroidal forms, those of the family Pantanelliidae Pessagno inclusive, and more frequent nassellarian species, but stauraxonic radiolarians are less abundant in its composition. This assemblage is comparable to a considerable extent with the Kimmeridgian radiolarians from Moscow oblast, being of the South Boreal type according to its composition.  相似文献   

Physics of seasonally ice-covered lakes: a review   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Georgiy Kirillin  Matti Lepp?ranta  Arkady Terzhevik  Nikolai Granin  Juliane Bernhardt  Christof Engelhardt  Tatyana Efremova  Sergey Golosov  Nikolai Palshin  Pavel Sherstyankin  Galina Zdorovennova  Roman Zdorovennov 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2012,74(4):659-682

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