Intermediate mass black holes in accreting binaries: formation, evolution and observational appearance     

Simon F. Portegies Zwart  Jasinta Dewi  Tom Maccarone 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,355(2):413-423

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我国应建立测绘监理制度     

王威 《地理信息世界》2002,(1)

测绘监理是依据测绘行政法规和技术标准 ,综合运用法律、经济、行政、技术标准和有关政策 ,为确保测绘行为的合法性和科学性对测绘项目所进行的全过程有效监控。建立一套符合中国国情的测绘工程监理制度 ,对我国的测绘行政管理具有十分重要的意义  相似文献   

A SAURON study of M32: measuring the intrinsic flattening and the central black hole mass     

E. K. Verolme  M. Cappellari  Y. Copin  R. P. van der Marel  R. Bacon  M. Bureau    R. L. Davies  B. M. Miller  P. T. de Zeeuw 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,335(3):517-525

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Global very long-baseline interferometry observations of compact radio sources in M82     

A. R. McDonald  T. W. B. Muxlow  A. Pedlar  M. A. Garrett  K. A. Wills  S. T. Garrington  P. J. Diamond  P. N. Wilkinson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,322(1):100-106

Observations of the starburst galaxy, M82, have been made with a 20-station global very long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) array at λ 18 cm. Maps are presented of the brightest young supernova remnants (SNR) in M82 and the wide-field mapping techniques used in making images over a field of view of ∼1 arcmin with 3-milliarcsecond resolution are discussed. A limit has been placed on the power-law deceleration of the young supernova remnant (SNR) 43.31+592 with an index greater than 0.73±0.11 from observations with the European VLBI Network. Using the global array we have resolved compact knots of radio emission in the source which, with future global observations, will enable better constraints to be placed on the expansion parameters of this SNR.
The latest global observations have also provided high-resolution images of the most compact radio source in M82, 41.95+575. We determine an upper limit to the radial expansion rate along the major axis of 2000 km s⁻¹. However, the new images also show structure resembling that of collimated ejection which brings into question the previous explanation of the source as being a result of the confinement of a supernova by a high-density circumstellar medium.
It is apparent that we are now able to image the brightest supernova remnants in M82 with a linear scale which allows direct comparison with galactic SNR such as Cassiopeia A.  相似文献   

The short-period supersoft source in M31     

A. R. King  J. P. Osborne  K. Schenker 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,329(2):L43-L46

We show that the recently discovered short period supersoft source in M31 is probably a progenitor of a magnetic cataclysmic variable (CV). The white dwarf spins asynchronously because of the current high accretion rate. However its fieldstrength is typical of an AM Herculis system, which is what it will ultimately become. We discuss the relevance of this system to CV evolution, and its relation to some particular CVs with special characteristics.  相似文献   

Chemical abundances of planetary nebulae from optical recombination lines – III. The Galactic bulge PN M 1-42 and M 2-36     

X.-W. Liu  S.-G. Luo  M.J. Barlow  I.J. Danziger  P.J. Storey 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(1):141-168

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Hydrodynamics of photoionized columns in the Eagle Nebula, M 16     

R.J.R. Williams  D. Ward-Thompson  A.P. Whitworth 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(3):788-798

We present hydrodynamical simulations of the formation, structure and evolution of photoionized columns, with parameters based on those observed in the Eagle Nebula. On the basis of these simulations we argue that there is no unequivocal evidence that the dense neutral clumps at heads of the columns were cores in the pre-existing molecular cloud. In our simulations, a variety of initial conditions leads to the formation and maintenance of near-equilibrium columns. Therefore, it is likely that narrow columns will often occur in regions with large-scale inhomogeneities, but that observations of such columns can tell us little about the processes by which they formed. The manner in which the columns in our simulations develop suggests that their evolution may result in extended sequences of radiation-induced star formation.  相似文献   

On the mass of M31     

S. T. Gottesman  J. H. HunterJr    V. Boonyasait 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,337(1):34-40

Recent work by several groups has established the properties of the dwarf satellites to M31. We reexamine the reported kinematics of this group employing a fresh technique we have developed previously. By calculating the distribution of a χ statistic (which we define in the paper) for the M31 system, we conclude that the total mass (disc plus halo) of the primary is unlikely to be as great as that of our own Milky Way. In fact the χ distribution for M31 indicates that, like NGC 3992, it does not have a massive halo. In contrast, the analysis of the satellites of NGC 1961 and NGC 5084 provides strong evidence for massive haloes surrounding both spiral galaxies.  相似文献   

Narrow-band CCD photometry of giant H ii regions     

Guillermo Bosch †  Elena Terlevich ‡  Roberto Terlevich § 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,329(3):481-496

We have obtained accurate CCD narrow-band Hβ and Hα photometry of giant H  ii regions (GEHRs) in M33, NGC 6822 and M101. Comparison with previous determinations of emission-line fluxes shows large discrepancies; their probable origins are discussed. Combining our new photometric data with global velocity dispersion ( σ ) derived from emission linewidths, we review the     relation. A re-analysis of the properties of the GEHRs included in our sample shows that age spread and the superposition of components in multiple regions introduce a considerable spread in the regression. Combining the information available in the literature regarding ages of the associated clusters, evolutionary footprints on the interstellar medium, and kinematical properties of the knots that build up the multiple GEHRs, we find that a subsample – which we refer to as young and single GEHRs – do follow a tight relation in the     plane.  相似文献   

Hubble Space Telescope photometry of globular clusters in the Sombrero galaxy     

Søren S. Larsen  Duncan A. Forbes  Jean P. Brodie 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(4):1116-1126

We explore the rich globular cluster (GC) system of the nearby Sa galaxy M104, the 'Sombrero' (NGC 4594), using archive Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 data. The GC colour distribution is found to be bimodal at the >99 per cent confidence level, with peaks at     and     . The inferred metallicities are very similar to those of GCs in our Galaxy and M31. However, the Sombrero reveals a much enhanced number of red (metal-rich) GCs compared to other well-studied spirals. Because the Sombrero is dominated by a huge bulge and only has a modest disc, we associate the two subpopulations with the halo and bulge components, respectively. Thus our analysis supports the view that the metal-rich GCs in spirals are associated with the bulge rather than with the disc. The Sombrero GCs have typical effective (half-light) radii of ∼2 pc with the red ones being ∼30 per cent smaller than the blue ones. We identify many similarities between the GC system of the Sombrero and those of both late-type spirals and early-type galaxies. Thus both the GC system and the Hubble type of the Sombrero galaxy appear to be intermediate in their nature.  相似文献