Long Range Science Perspectives for the VLTI     

A. Eckart  T. Bertram  N. Mouawad  T. Viehmann  C. Straubmeier  J. Zuther 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2003,286(1-2):269-276

VLTI interferometry will allow imaging of galactic and extragalactic sources with milliarcsecond angular resolution. For moderately bright sources the spectral resolution will be of the order of 10000. These capabilities will allow detailed studies of solar system objects, stars, proto-planetary systems and the detection of hot extra-solar planets. The observations of galactic nuclei will allow unprecedented measurements of physical parameters in these systems. VLTI will be a prime instrument to study the immediate environment of the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. With the exception of a few `self-referencing' sources the observations of extragalactic nuclei will benefit from an extended capability for simultaneous measurements of nearby reference sources for fringe tracking. With beam combination instruments like AMBER, MIDI, PRIMA, and GENIE the VLTI will reach full maturity at a time when other interferometric instruments at different wavelengths will be fully operational. Most important are ALMA (in the mm- and sub-mm-domain), LOFAR and SKA (in the radio meter to centimeter domain) and of course VLB-networks in the radio, and other – at that time –well developed interferometers in the optical. A major scientific potential of future scientific VLTI programs will lie in an efficient combination of these high angular resolution capabilities. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

银河系厚盘及其形成机制     

温文  赵君亮 《天文学进展》2004,22(3):235-244

银河系厚盘的发现，对于研究银河系以至星系的结构和演化具有重要意义。在简单回顾银河系结构研究史和厚盘发现过程的基础上，综合介绍了人们对银河系厚盘各方面性质认识的现状，并对迄今为止所提出的几种厚盘形成机制作了比较详细的说明和讨论。就目前来看，与伴星系的并合可能是形成厚盘最为可能的机制。  相似文献   

Dynamic Inuit Social Strategies in Changing Environments: A Long-Term Perspective     

T. Max Friesen 《Geografisk tidskrift / udgivet af Bestyrelsen for Det Kongelige danske geografiske selskab》2013,113(2):215-225

Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):215–225, 2010

This paper presents an overview of the International Polar Year (IPY) research programme Dynamic Inuit Social Strategies in Changing Environments: A Long-Term Perspective. For this project, research teams from six separate multi-year subprojects performed fieldwork across much of the Canadian Arctic. Fieldwork and analysis revolved around two primary processes critical to the understanding of Inuit history: first, is the migration from Alaska to the east by the earliest Inuit, known as ‘Thule’, an apparently rapid event which replaced populations of the earlier, and culturally very different Dorset tradition; second, is the transformation of Thule Inuit into their more diverse recent cultural forms, involving abandonment of some regions, combined with major changes in settlement patterns, artifact form, architecture, economy, and social organization. The ultimate goal of the project is to understand the variable roles of climate change and social structures on the culture change which can be observed during the past 800 years of Inuit history.  相似文献   

Non-local effects in the mean-field disc dynamo: II – numerical and asymptotic solutions     

Ashley P. Willis  Anvar Shukurov  Andrew M. Soward  Dmitry Sokoloff 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(4):345-363

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Magnetic field reversals and galactic dynamos     

David Moss 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(5):497-505

We argue that global magnetic field reversals similar to those observed in the Milky Way occur quite frequently in mean-field galactic dynamo models that have relatively strong, random, seed magnetic fields that are localized in discrete regions. The number of reversals decreases to zero with reduction of the seed strength, efficiency of the galactic dynamo and size of the spots of the seed field. A systematic observational search for magnetic field reversals in a representative sample of spiral galaxies promises to give valuable information concerning seed magnetic fields and, in this way, to clarify the initial stages of galactic magnetic field evolution.  相似文献   

Regularities in the distribution of star/gas complexes in the spiral arms of our galaxy and M31     

Yu. N. Efremov 《Astronomy Letters》2009,35(8):507-517

The fragmentation of gaseous spiral arms in the outer Galaxy into superclouds has been studied using recently published data on the HI distribution in the Galactic disk. Regular chains of superclouds have been found or confirmed in the Cygnus (Outer) and Carina arms, with the spacings between the superclouds being concentrated near 0.1 and 0.2 of the solar Galactocentric distance. The star complexes in the northwestern arm of the galaxy M31 are spaced, on average, 1.2 kpc apart, with the most distinct chain of complexes being located in the arm region where Beck et al. (1989) detected a strong and wavy (along the arm) magnetic field. Its wavelength turns out to be related to the spacing between the complexes. In this arm, the HII regions lie inside the star complexes, which, in turn, are located inside the gas-dust lane. In contrast, the southwestern arm of M31 is split into a gas-dust lane and a dense stellar arm, which is not fragmented into star complexes. Here, the HII regions are located along the boundary between the gas-dust and stellar components of the arm; other evidence for the presence of a spiral shock wave triggering star formation is also observed, which is probably attributable to the large pitch angle of this segment of the southwestern arm. It may be suggested that the shock wave rapidly leads to star formation everywhere in this arm, while in the northwestern arm, where the shock wave is absent, star formation begins in the superclouds formed along the arm by the magneto-gravitational instability. This is how the chains of star complexes in the northwestern arm of M31 and, obviously, the chains of superclouds in the Carina and Cygnus arms of our Galaxy have been formed. The detection of a regularmagnetic field in the corresponding segments of these arms can be predicted.  相似文献   

The Prediction of winter surface air temperature          下载免费PDF全文

FAN Ke 《大气和海洋科学快报》2009,2(1):14-17

The author investigates the prediction of Northeast China’s winter surface air temperature (SAT),and first forecast the year to year increment in the predic-tand and then predict the predictand.Thus,in the first step,we determined the predictors for an increment in winter SAT by analyzing the atmospheric variability associated with an increment in winter SAT.Then,multi-linear re-gression was applied to establish a prediction model for an increment in winter SAT in Northeast China.The pre-diction model shows a high correlation coefficient (0.73) between the simulated and observed annual increments in winter SAT in Northeast China throughout the period 1965-2002,with a relative root mean square error of -7.9%.The prediction model makes a reasonable hindcast for 2003-08,with an average relative root mean square error of -7.2%.The prediction model can capture the in-creasing trend of winter SAT in Northeast China from 1965-2008.The results suggest that this approach to forecasting an annual increment in winter SAT in North-east China would be relevant in operational seasonal forecasts.  相似文献   

Gas dynamics and structure of galaxies     

Kazushi Sakamoto 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2008,313(1-3):245-251

Between gas dynamics and structure of galaxies is a two-way relation. On one hand, gas dynamics in a galaxy is largely determined by the structure of the galaxy, and on the other hand, gas dynamics can gradually alter the galaxy structure through redistribution of mass and angular momentum within the galaxy. The first half of this relation should mostly determine gas distribution and regulate star formation in undisturbed spirals, and the second half has been suggested to cause secular evolution of spiral galaxies—a slow mode of galaxy evolution in the absence of major mergers. Our knowledge on this relation is going to be greatly deepened by the ALMA. Focusing on the galaxy evolution through gas dynamics, I briefly review what we know about the subject. Then I try to look out what the ALMA can do to answer open questions in the field. It is pointed out that the ALMA will be able to fully map all the spiral galaxies between 1 and 25 Mpc at 1″ resolution in 1000 hours.  相似文献   

1997年1月7日至11日广州站宇宙线强度变化特征的小波分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

乐贵明  叶宗海  余绍华  龚菊红 《地球物理学报》2004,47(2):190-194

1997年1月6日爆发的日冕物质抛射（CME）到达地球时引起了强烈的地球物理效应,CME在行 星际空间传播时,广州的多方向μ介子望远镜观测到银河宇宙线强度的变化. 本文采用 小波分析方法分析了磁暴前后广州台宇宙线强度的频谱变化特征,结果表明,在磁暴前 宇宙线周期为16～32h的信号发生了较明显的变化,其中周期为24～32h的周期特征过去没有 被报道过. 广州台垂直方向宇宙线强度的谱在磁暴发生前48h就出现明显的变化,比各向异 性分析方法得到的时间提前量更大. 同时还分析了几个方向宇宙线强度的最强信号以及达到 最大值的时间,并进行了简要的分析与讨论.  相似文献   

Introduction to plasma astrophysics and cosmology     

Anthony L. Peratt 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,227(1-2):3-11

The year 1996 marks the Centennial Celebration of the founding of Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology; its origins may be traced to the seminal research first published by Kristian Birkeland in 1896. This special workshop issue reports on advances in issues of importance to the plasma universe; topics as timely as when first raised a century ago.  相似文献