Galactic mergers and gravitationally unbound populations     

Yu-Ting Wu  Ing-Guey Jiang 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,399(2):628-638

Motivated by the observations on the intracluster light and intergalactic stellar populations, N -body simulations are used to model the galactic merging events as a goal to investigate the production and distribution of gravitational unbound populations (GUPs). Both the parabolic and hyperbolic mergers are considered, and each category includes six models with different relative orientations between two galaxies. Our results show that there are more (about a factor of 2) GUPs after a hyperbolic merging event than after a parabolic one. In general, depending on the relative orientation and also on the relative velocity of the two galaxies in a merging pair, a head-on collision of a galaxy pair would only make a tiny fraction (less than 1 per cent) of the initial stellar mass luminous GUP, but a considerable fraction (8–14 per cent) of the dark matter becomes dark GUP.  相似文献   

The origin of the light distribution in spiral galaxies     

P. Sánchez-Blázquez  S. Courty  B. K. Gibson  C. B. Brook 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,398(2):591-606

We analyse a high-resolution, fully cosmological, hydrodynamical disc galaxy simulation, to study the source of the double-exponential light profiles seen in many stellar discs, and the effects of stellar radial migration upon the spatiotemporal evolution of both the disc age and metallicity distributions. We find a 'break' in the pure exponential stellar surface brightness profile, and trace its origin to a sharp decrease in the star formation per unit surface area, itself produced by a decrease in the gas volume density due to a warping of the gas disc. Star formation in the disc continues well beyond the break. We find that the break is more pronounced in bluer wavebands. By contrast, we find little or no break in the mass density profile. This is, in part, due to the net radial migration of stars towards the external parts of the disc. Beyond the break radius, we find that ∼60 per cent of the resident stars migrated from the inner disc, while ∼25 per cent formed in situ . Our simulated galaxy also has a minimum in the age profile at the break radius but, in disagreement with some previous studies, migration is not the main mechanism producing this shape. In our simulation, the disc metallicity gradient flattens with time, consistent with an 'inside-out' formation scenario. We do not find any difference in the intensity or the position of the break with inclination, suggesting that perhaps the differences found in empirical studies are driven by dust extinction.  相似文献   

Automated spectral classification using template matching     

Fu-Qing Duan Rong Liu Ping Guo Ming-Quan Zhou Fu-Chao Wu 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2009,9(3)

An automated spectral classification technique for large sky surveys is pro-posed. We firstly perform spectral line matching to determine redshift candidates for an observed spectrum, and then estimate the spectral class by measuring the similarity be-tween the observed spectrum and the shifted templates for each redshift candidate. As a byproduct of this approach, the spectral redshift can also be obtained with high accuracy. Compared with some approaches based on computerized learning methods in the liter-ature, the proposed approach needs no training, which is time-consuming and sensitive to selection of the training set. Both simulated data and observed spectra are used to test the approach; the results show that the proposed method is efficient, and it can achieve a correct classification rate as high as 92.9%, 97.9% and 98.8% for stars, galaxies and quasars, respectively.  相似文献   

Old stellar population synthesis: new age and mass estimates for Mayall Ⅱ = G1     

Jun Ma  Richard de Grijs  Zhou Fan  Soo-Chang Rey  Zhen-Yu Wu  Xu Zhou  Jiang-Hua Wu  Zhao-Ji Jiang  Jian-Sheng Chen  Kyungsook Lee  Sangmo Tony Sohn 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2009,9(6)

Mayall Ⅱ = G1 is one of the most luminous globular clusters (GCs) in M31. Here, we determine its age and mass by comparing multicolor photometry with theo-retical stellar population synthesis models. Based on far- and near-ultraviolet GALEX photometry, broad-band UBV RI, and infrared JHK8 2MASS data, we construct the most extensive spectral energy distribution of G1 to date, spanning the wavelength range from 1538 to 20000A. A quantitative comparison with a variety of simple stellar pop-ulation (SSP) models yields a mean age which is consistent with G1 being among the oldest building blocks of M31 and having formed within ～1.7Gyr after the Big Bang. Irrespective of the SSP model or stellar initial mass function adopted, the resulting mass estimates (of order 107M⊙) indicate that G1 is one of the most massive GCs in the Local Group. However, we speculate that the cluster's exceptionally high mass suggests that it may not be a genuine GC. Our results also suggest that G1 may contain, on average, (1.65±0.63) × 102L⊙ far-ultraviolet-bright, hot, extreme horizontal-branch stars, depend-ing on the adopted SSP model. In addition, we demonstrate that extensive multi-passband photometry coupled with SSP analysis enables one to obtain age estimates for old SSPs that have similar accuracies as those from integrated spectroscopy or resolved stellar pho-tometry, provided that some of the free parameters can be constrained independently.  相似文献   

Temperature dependent secondary organic aerosol formation from terpenes and aromatics     

T. M. Svendby  M. Lazaridis  K. Tørseth 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2008,59(1):25-46

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An economical optical cloud/fog detector     

Jacqueline H. Carrillo  Scott E. Emert  D. Eli Sherman  Pierre Herckes  Jeffrey L. Collett Jr.   《Atmospheric Research》2008,87(3-4):259

A new, relatively low cost instrument has been developed to detect the presence of fog or cloud for fog/cloud sampling applications. The instrument uses attenuation of an 880 nm light emitting diode signal to detect cloud/fog drops in the optical path between a sending and receiving arm. Laboratory and field testing under a variety of conditions and fog types were carried out to determine the ability of the optical fog detector (OFD) to accurately detect cloud/fog presence as well as to provide some measure of liquid water content. Results indicated that the OFD provided a reliable estimate of fog presence as well as a reasonable estimate of liquid water content (LWC) under several different conditions. The OFD does appear to have an interference from rain, resulting in an overestimation of LWC during rainfall. This may occasionally give a false positive indication of fog presence.  相似文献   

Changes of cloud water chemical composition in the Western Sudety Mountains, Poland     

Marek B&#x;a  Mieczys&#x;aw Sobik  Ryszard Twarowski 《Atmospheric Research》2008,87(3-4):224

The changing chemical composition of cloud water and precipitation in the Western Sudety Mountains are discussed against the background of air-pollution changes in the Black Triangle since the 1980s until September 2004. A marked reduction of sulphur dioxide emissions between the early 1990's and the present (from almost 2 million tons to around 0.2 million tons) has been observed, with a substantial decline of sulphate and hydrogen concentration in cloud water (SO₄²⁻ from more than 200 to around 70 μmol l^− 1; H⁺ from 150 to 50 μmol l^− 1) and precipitation (SO₄²⁻ from around 80 to 20–30 μmol l^− 1; H⁺ from around 60 to 10–15 μmol l^− 1) samples. At some sites, where fog/cloud becomes the major source of pollutants, deposition hot spots are still observed where, for example, nitrogen deposition can exceed 20 times the relevant critical load. The results show that monitoring of cloud water chemistry can be a sensitive indicator of pollutant emissions.  相似文献   

机载微波辐射计反演云液水含量的云物理方法   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

周珺  雷恒池  魏重 《大气科学》2008,32(5):1071-1082

用一维层状云模式产生云样本,通过统计回归求得机载对空微波辐射计测云中路径积分液态水含量的反演系数,与用历史探空统计资料作相对湿度诊断产生云样本的反演方法进行了比较,并通过因素分析、数值模拟检验等方法对机载微波辐射计的探测误差进行估计。对2001年7月8日的个例分析表明,用云模式得到的统计样本,由于加入了对层状云物理过程的考虑,较为符合当天的实际天气情况,在一定程度上减小了由于背景大气条件、云温、云内含水量的垂直分布等的不确定性所引起的反演误差。对反演精度的数值模拟检验表明,各高度层的均方根相对误差在9.5%～12.7%之间,反演精度在所有高度上都高于原方法。对探测误差的因素分析表明,与仪器漂移及背景场引起的误差相比,由云液水垂直分布的不确定所引起的误差是不可忽略的。因此为进一步提高反演精度,根据实际宏观观测资料,对云模式产生的大量样本进行筛选,从中选取与实际云况较为符合的云样本进行拟合,结果表明,采用这一措施可以使反演精度得到进一步改善。  相似文献   

利用太阳光度计反演郑州地区水汽含量   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

张海鸥  郑有飞  蔡子颖  潘超 《气象科技》2009,37(5):576-579

利用CE-318型太阳光度计936 nm波段的太阳辐射观测资料,采用改进的Langley法反演了郑州地区大气柱水汽含量,并分析了大气柱水汽含量与地面水汽压之间的关系。结果表明:郑州地区大气柱水汽含量的季节变化:夏季>秋季>春季>冬季,日变化为早晚低,中午高;郑州地区大气柱水汽含量与地面水汽压之间存在着良好的线性关系。  相似文献   

青藏高原三江源区退化草地生态系统的地表反照率特征   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

冯超-  古松  赵亮  徐世晓  周华坤  李英年  徐维新-  吴力博- 《高原气象》2010,29(1):70-77

为了揭示青藏高原三江源区草地退化对生态系统地表反照率的影响,利用2006年12月至2007年11月一整年的观测数据,分析了地表反照率的季和日变化特征及其影响因子。退化草地生态系统的年均地表反照率为0.22,生长季(5～9月)的平均地表反照率为0.18,非生长季为0.25。在植物生长初期的5月,地表反照率主要受土壤水分影响,5月末至6月初出现全年最低值;植物生长旺季的7～8月,受植被的影响地表反照率相对较稳定,并略高于生长季中其它各月。地表反照率的日变化呈"U"型,阴天的地表反照率高于晴天。全年地表反照率出现的最大频率集中在0.20附近,非生长季在0.22附近,生长季在0.18附近。退化草地生态系统生长季地表反照率的变化受土壤水分和植被的的影响,而非生长季受积雪的影响较大。  相似文献