On the reduction and presentation of data in astronomical two-channel photopolarimetry     

G. Leyshon 《Experimental Astronomy》1998,8(2):153-175

Many different methods exist for reducing data obtained when an astronomical source is studied with a two-channel polarimeter, such as a Wollaston prism system. This paper presents a rigorous method of reducing the data from raw aperture photometry, and evaluates errors both by a statistical treatment, and by propagating the measured sky noise from each frame. The reduction process performs a hypothesis test for the presence of linear polarization. The probability of there being a non-zero polarization is obtained, and the best method of obtaining the normalized Stokes Parameters is discussed. Point and interval estimates are obtained for the degree of linear polarization, which is subject to positive bias; and the polarization axis is found.  相似文献   

A new parallel PM code for very large-scale cosmological simulations     

Tom MacFarland  H. M. P. Couchman  F. R. Pearce  Jakob Pichlmeier   《New Astronomy》1998,3(8):687-705

We have developed a parallel Particle–Particle, Particle–Mesh (P³M) simulation code for the Cray T3E parallel supercomputer that is well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in cosmological contexts. The parallel code is based upon the public-domain serial Adaptive P³M-SPH (http://coho.astro.uwo.ca/pub/hydra/hydra.html) code of Couchman et al. (1995)[ApJ, 452, 797]. The algorithm resolves gravitational forces into a long-range component computed by discretizing the mass distribution and solving Poisson's equation on a grid using an FFT convolution method, and a short-range component computed by direct force summation for sufficiently close particle pairs. The code consists primarily of a particle–particle computation parallelized by domain decomposition over blocks of neighbour-cells, a more regular mesh calculation distributed in planes along one dimension, and several transformations between the two distributions. The load balancing of the P³M code is static, since this greatly aids the ongoing implementation of parallel adaptive refinements of the particle and mesh systems. Great care was taken throughout to make optimal use of the available memory, so that a version of the current implementation has been used to simulate systems of up to 10⁹ particles with a 1024³ mesh for the long-range force computation. These are the largest Cosmological N-body simulations of which we are aware. We discuss these memory optimizations as well as those motivated by computational performance. Performance results are very encouraging, and, even without refinements, the code has been used effectively for simulations in which the particle distribution becomes highly clustered as well as for other non-uniform systems of astrophysical interest.  相似文献   

Batse time-resolved observations of GRBs: the burst ‘topographic’ map     

R. D. Preece  M. S. Briggs  G. N. Pendleton  W. S. Paciesas  D. L. Band  L. A. Ford 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):149-152

It is a well-known observation that many GRBs have spectra with curvature in the less than 1 MeV regime, but flatten out to approximately a -2 power law at higher energies. The large collecting area of BATSE allows spectral studies with unprecedented time resolution. We are conducting a systematic study of time-resolved spectroscopy of GRBs observed by BATSE. Several aspects of this survey are discussed: correlations among fit parameters and between fit parameters and intensity; screening for spectral features using-residual contour maps; and an introduction to the GRB topographic map and its possible qualitative diagnostic abilities.  相似文献   

Study on the Method of Short-Term Synthetic Earthquake Prediction in the North China Region     

Ping Jianjun 《中国地震研究》2004,18(2):188-199

Based on the extraction and calculation of the short-term seismic precursory information magnitude from the 114 major precursory observations in the North China region, and together with consideration of factors such as geological structure, seismicity, crustal thickness, and in particular, the current geodynamics of the region, the authors studied the time-space evolutionchara cteristics of the short-term earthquake precursory information magnitude and its relationship with earthquakes and proposed the index and method for the short-term synthetic prediction of earthquakes with Ms ≥ 5.0 in the North China region. The inspection through Rvidue shows that the method is effective to a effective to a certain extent for earthquake prediction.  相似文献   

基于气象卫星资料的地类面积计算方法   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

纪平  易浩若 《国土资源遥感》1999,10(2):55-59

提出了二种用NOAA卫星数据不通过几何校正,就能快速、准确计算各地类面积的思想,同时给出了计算方法并通过实例进行了验证。  相似文献   

Age compositions of flatfish stocks as determined by a new otolithometric method, its application in the estimation of growth, spawning potential and fisheries management     

Satoshi Katayama  Masayuki Yamamoto  Shigeaki Gorie 《Journal of Sea Research》2010,64(4):451-456

We developed an ageing methodology and examined age composition of three flatfish stocks inhabiting the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Ages were difficult to determine for three-lined tongue sole (Cynoglossus abbreviates) and ridged-eye flounder (Pleuronichthys cornutus) because the first year annulus ring was often indistinct; therefore, we used directional change in otolith growth to distinguish it. Sectioning and etching methods were powerful tools for identifying annual checks for red tongue sole (Cynoglossus joyneri). Using these ageing methods, we determined age–length relationships and growth curves. The age composition of the populations studied and of the landings showed that a large proportion of the latter consisted of individuals under the mean age of sexual maturity, thereby reducing the percent spawning potential ratio (%SPR) to ≈ 20% for all species. These findings suggest that fishing pressure on immature fish is leading to overfishing of these flatfish stocks.  相似文献   

The Detection and Investigations of Strong Pulses from PSR B1237+25     

MIJIT Mamatali  WEN Zhi-gang  WANG Na  WANG Zhao-jun  YUAN Jian-ping  YUEN Rai  YAN Wen-ming 《Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics》2021,45(2):172-189

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Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature     

《Global Environmental Change》2021

The question whether and how climatic factors influence human migration has gained both academic and public interest in the past years. Based on two meta-analyses, this paper systematically reviews the quantitative empirical literature on climate-related migration from a methodological perspective. In total, information from 127 original micro- and macro-level studies is analyzed to assess how different concepts, research designs, and analytical methods shape our understanding of climate migration. We provide an overview of common methodological approaches and present evidence on their potential implications for the estimation of climatic impacts. We identify five key challenges, which relate to the i) measurement of migration and ii) climatic events, iii) the integration and aggregation of data, iv) the identification of causal relationships, and v) the exploration of contextual influences and mechanisms. Advances in research and modelling are discussed together with best practice cases to provide guidance to researchers studying the climate-migration nexus. We recommend for future empirical studies to employ approaches that are of relevance for and reflect local contexts, ensuring high levels of comparability and transparency.  相似文献   

经自适应网格改造后的SHASTA程序和磁重联数值实验     

沈呈彩  林隽 《天文学报》2009,50(4)

SHASTA(Shaarp and smooth Transport Algorithm)是求解二维磁流体动力学问题的单一网格程序.在将其用于磁重联问题的数值模拟时,它被修改成为采用自适应网格方法的程序.修改后的程序可以针对扩散区进行细化计算.在SHASTA程序的自适应计算实现过程中,采用了插入式的自适应修改策略,原二维磁流体力学偏微分方程的求解算法被作为独立单元使用.另外,修改中使用分层的数据结构,将每个细化层次的物理量用二维可变数组描述,并标记磁场和压强分布的陡变区为细化区域,再通过插值的方法得到细化层网格点上的物理量分布和边界条件,最后细化区域的细化计算结果被赋予给其上一层网格,并对其内容进行更新.采用细化计算进行的磁重联的模拟实验表明,相比单一网格计算,细节分辨率得到提高,相应的计算时间的增加则与模拟中的参数选择有关;而自适应程序部分带来的计算精度和稳定性的影响则依赖于边界设置,单步长的推进策略和插值算法.  相似文献   

Spectral Extraction Algorithm for LAMOST Two-dimensional Fiber-spectroscopic Images     

Bo CuiZhong-fu Ye  Zhong-rui Bai 《Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics》2009

This paper describes the method of spectral extraction to be used for the data processing of LAMOST's two-dimensional fiber-spectroscopic images. The effect of the selection of sampling points on the result of spectral extraction is analyzed. Based on the characteristics of Gaussian distribution functions and some experiments, the selection range of sampling points is defined, and the problem that some negative flux values appear in the result of spectral extraction is resolved. In addition, aiming at the problem that rather large errors exist in the result of spectral extraction under strong noise background, an improved extraction method based on the frequency-domain filtering is proposed. By using the FFT and low-pass filter, the sharp noises affecting the real fiber profiles are removed at first, before the normal spectral extraction is performed. Experiments and tests are made by using the simulative data provided by the data processing system of the LAMOST telescope, and the results indicate that the improved extraction method is feasible and effective.  相似文献