The space density of cataclysmic variables: constraints from the ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole survey     

M. L. Pretorius  C. Knigge  D. O'Donoghue  J. P. Henry  I. M. Gioia  C. R. Mullis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(3):1279-1288

We use the ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) survey to construct a small, but purely X-ray flux-limited sample of cataclysmic variable stars (CVs). The sample includes only four systems, two of which (RX J1715.6+6856 and RX J1831.7+6511) are new discoveries. We present time-resolved spectroscopy of the new CVs and measure orbital periods of 1.64 ± 0.02 and 4.01 ± 0.03 h for RX J1715.6+6856 and RX J1831.7+6511, respectively. We also estimate distances for all the CVs in our sample, based mainly on their apparent brightness in the infrared. The space density of the CV population represented by our small sample is  1.1^+2.3_−0.7× 10⁻⁵ pc⁻³  . We can also place upper limits on the space density of any subpopulation of CVs too faint to be included in the NEP survey. In particular, we show that if the overall space density of CVs is as high as  2 × 10⁻⁴ pc⁻³  (as has been predicted theoretically), the vast majority of CVs must be fainter than   L _X≃ 2 × 10²⁹ erg s⁻¹  .  相似文献   

支持向量机在海洋随机资料分析中的应用     

付晓  王晓燕  张海波  刘雷 《海洋技术学报》2008,27(1):89-91

在随机海洋资料的分析中,需要从大量的实际数据中提取出有用的信息来建立或检验各种海洋理论模型,因此我们要正确运用适当的手段来分析处理各种实际数据。文中简要介绍了数据挖掘中一项新的技术支持向量机,着重介绍了最优化问题的求解算法,以及如何应用于海洋资料的分析处理。  相似文献   

A protocol for classifying ecologically relevant marine zones,a statistical approach     

Els Verfaillie  Steven Degraer  Kristien Schelfaut  Wouter Willems  Vera Van Lancker 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2009

Mapping ecologically relevant zones in the marine environment has become increasingly important. Biological data are however often scarce and alternatives are being sought in optimal classifications of abiotic variables. The concept of ‘marine landscapes’ is based on a hierarchical classification of geological, hydrographic and other physical data. This approach is however subject to many assumptions and subjective decisions.  相似文献   

Reevaluation of historical ocean heat content variations with time-varying XBT and MBT depth bias corrections   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

Masayoshi Ishii  Masahide Kimoto 《Journal of Oceanography》2009,65(3):287-299

As reported in former studies, temperature observations obtained by expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) and mechanical bathythermographs (MBTs) appear to have positive biases as much as they affect major climate signals. These biases have not been fully taken into account in previous ocean temperature analyses, which have been widely used to detect global warming signals in the oceans. This report proposes a methodology for directly eliminating the biases from the XBT and MBT observations. In the case of XBT observation, assuming that the positive temperature biases mainly originate from greater depths given by conventional XBT fall-rate equations than the truth, a depth bias equation is constructed by fitting depth differences between XBT data and more accurate oceanographic observations to a linear equation of elapsed time. Such depth bias equations are introduced separately for each year and for each probe type. Uncertainty in the gradient of the linear equation is evaluated using a non-parametric test. The typical depth bias is +10 m at 700 m depth on average, which is probably caused by various indeterminable sources of error in the XBT observations as well as a lack of representativeness in the fall-rate equations adopted so far. Depth biases in MBT are fitted to quadratic equations of depth in a similar manner to the XBT method. Correcting the historical XBT and MBT depth biases by these equations allows a historical ocean temperature analysis to be conducted. In comparison with the previous temperature analysis, large differences are found in the present analysis as follows: the duration of large ocean heat content in the 1970s shortens dramatically, and recent ocean cooling becomes insignificant. The result is also in better agreement with tide gauge observations. On leave from the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency.  相似文献   

Inter-season and interannual variations in fish and macrocrustacean community structure on a eastern English Channel sandy beach: Influence of environmental factors     

Jonathan Selleslagh  Rachid Amara 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2008,77(4):721-730

The intertidal zone of an exposed sandy beach on the French coast of the English Channel was sampled with a 1.5 m beam-trawl over five years (2000 and 2003–2006) at weekly intervals. The fish and macrocrustacean catches were analysed to determine the inter-season and interannual variation in community structure and relate these variations to changes in the major environmental variables. Only six species (plaice Pleuronectes platessa, common goby Pomatoschistus microps, sprat Sprattus sprattus, sand eel Ammodytes tobianus, brown shrimp Crangon crangon and shore crab Carcinus maenas) from the 27 species captured can be considered as dominant species of the intertidal zone, and they accounted for >90% of total numbers. Most individuals caught were young-of-the-year or juvenile. Analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) and similarities percentage (SIMPER) indicated that inter-season variability of community structure (mean average similarity = 47%) was more pronounced than interannual variability (mean average similarity = 65%). Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) indicates that a substantial component (32.2%) of the measured inter-season variation in community structure can be explained by environmental factors (mainly water temperature). The main inter-season changes in the abundance and community structure were due to the variation of the six key species and reflect the different times of their recruitment. During the five years of the study, the structure of the fish and macrocrustacean spring community persisted from year to year, with the dominant species reappearing consistently even though their abundances fluctuated from year to year. This interannual variation probably reflects variable recruitment success influenced by physico-chemical conditions. In spite of the considerable interannual variation (40 times) in the spring bloom of the prymnesiophyte alga Phaeocystis globosa we found no effect of this bloom on either fish and macrocrustacean species densities or diversity index.  相似文献   

Newly discovered cataclysmic variables from the INT/WFC photometric Hα survey of the northern Galactic plane     

A. R. Witham  C. Knigge  A. Aungwerojwit  J. E. Drew  B. T. Gänsicke  R. Greimel  P. J. Groot  G. H. A. Roelofs  D. Steeghs  P. A. Woudt 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(3):1158-1168

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Outbursts of EX Hydrae revisited     

N. Mhlahlo  D. A. H. Buckley  V. S. Dhillon  S. B. Potter  B. Warner  P. A. Woudt 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,380(1):353-364

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SW Sextantis stars: the dominant population of cataclysmic variables with orbital periods between 3 and 4 h     

P. Rodríguez-Gil  B. T. Gänsicke  H.-J. Hagen  S. Araujo-Betancor  A. Aungwerojwit  C. Allende Prieto  D. Boyd  J. Casares  D. Engels  O. Giannakis  E. T. Harlaftis  J. Kube  H. Lehto  I. G. Martínez-Pais  R. Schwarz  W. Skidmore  A. Staude  M. A. P. Torres 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,377(4):1747-1762

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海洋大数据处理软件体系结构设计     

孙朝随  刘青  胡桐  郭忠文 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》2015,45(2):134-137

针对海洋数据格式与海洋信息应用系统的异构性,提出一种基于移动代码(Mobile code)的海洋大数据处理软件体系结构。首先,利用统一的网络服务接口与数据交换格式,规范海洋信息应用系统之间的数据访问与共享。其次,通过移动代码将海洋大数据的处理过程移至云端,提高信息处理效率。应用示例实现了异构海洋信息应用系统间的互操作,并且缩短了海量数据的处理时间,验证了该体系结构在海洋大数据处理中的通用性与有效性。  相似文献   

物理海洋传感器现状及未来发展趋势     

李红志  贾文娟  任炜  王祎  高艳波  赵宇梅 《海洋技术学报》2015,34(3):43-47

文中对目前我国物理海洋要素观测传感器技术发展现状进行了分析。在国家科技计划支持下,我国的物理海洋观测传感器技术取得了快速发展,但与国际上先进的传感器技术水平相比,国内具有自主知识产权的传感器仍有较大差距。随着未来海洋观测需求的不断发展,小型、轻重量、低功耗、高精度、高灵敏、智能化新型传感器必将是今后5~10年研究与开发的重点。  相似文献