The photoevaporation of discs around young stars in massive clusters     

C. J. Clarke 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,376(3):1350-1356

We present models in which the photoevaporation of discs around young stars by an external ultraviolet source (as computed by Adams et al.) is coupled with the internal viscous evolution of the discs. These models are applied to the case of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), where the presence of a strong ultraviolet field from the central OB stars, together with a detailed census of circumstellar discs and photoevaporative flows, is well established. In particular we investigate the constraints that are placed on the initial disc properties in the ONC by the twin requirement that most stars possess a disc on a scale of a few astronomical unit (au), but that only a minority (<20 per cent) are resolved by Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) at a scale of 50 au. We find that these requirements place very weak constraints on the initial radius distribution of circumstellar discs: the resulting size distribution readily forgets the initial radius distribution, owing to the strong positive dependence of the photoevaporation rate on disc radius. Instead, the scarcity of large discs reflects the relative scarcity of initially massive discs (with mass  >0.1 M_⊙  ). The ubiquity of discs on a small scale, on the other hand, mainly constrains the time-span over which the discs have been exposed to the ultraviolet field (<2 Myr). We argue that the discs that are resolved by HST represent a population of discs in which self-gravity was important at the time that the dominant central OB star switched on, but that, according to our models, self-gravity is unlikely to be important in these discs at the present time. We discuss the implications of our results for the so-called proplyd lifetime problem.  相似文献   

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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XMM-Newton observations of the isolated neutron star 1RXS J214303.7+065419/RBS1774     

Mark Cropper  Silvia Zane  Roberto Turolla  Luca Zampieri  Matteo Chieregato  Jeremy Drake  Aldo Treves 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):161-166

We report XMM-Newton observations of the isolated neutron star RBS1774 and confirm its membership as an XDINS. The X-ray spectrum is best fit with an absorbed blackbody with temperature kT=101 eV and absorption edge at 0.7 keV. No power law component is required. An absorption feature in the RGS data at 0.4 keV is not evident in the EPIC data, but it is not possible to resolve this inconsistency. The star is not seen in the UV OM data to m _AB ∼21. There is a sinusoidal variation in the X-ray flux at a period of 9.437 s with an amplitude of 4%. The age as determined from cooling and magnetic field decay arguments is 10⁵–10⁶ yr for a neutron star mass of 1.35–1.5 M_⊙.   相似文献   

SDSS J1130+0058 an X-shaped radio source with double-peaked low-ionization emission lines: a binary black hole system?     

Xue-Guang Zhang  D. Dultzin-Hacyan  Ting-Gui Wang 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,377(3):1215-1221

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新一代天气雷达(CINRAD)体扫模式起始仰角探讨     

卢兴来  邵伟军 《成都信息工程学院学报》2007,22(5):633-636

CINRAD所采用的各种体扫模式(VCP)均以仰角0.5°为起始进行扫描,通过分析雷达发射波束宽度、地物杂波对产品影响、雷达测量低仰角回波的重要性等因素,提出了CINRAD在低仰角观测时选取低仰角的原则,以及低仰角观测时应注意的问题.  相似文献   

An observational constraint on the existence of proto-superclusters at z =3.3     

Ravi Subrahmanyan  G. Swarup 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1990,11(2):237-253

Observations have been conducted using the Ooty Radio Telescope in order to place constraints on the evolutionary scenario leading to the formation of the present day superclusters. The experiment attempted to detect 21 cm emission from massive neutral hydrogen condensates at a redshift ofz = 3.3. In an Einstein de-Sitter universe with baryon density Ω = 0.05, about ten condensates were expected in the volume surveyed if superclusters, having H I masses ≃5 × 10₁₅ M _⊙, were the first objects to separate out of the Hubble expansion. The sensitivity of our experiment rules out the existence of these condensates atz = 3.3 unless their lifetimes are less than one-tenth the dispersion in their epoch of formation or the proto-superclusters subtend angles greater than 6 arcmin. The result indicates that superclusters form at z > 3.3 if indeed they were the first objects to condense out of the Hubble flow. An erratum to this article is available at .  相似文献   

Isophotal shapes of elliptical/lenticular galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey     

C. N. Hao  S. Mao  Z. G. Deng  X. Y. Xia  Hong Wu 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,370(3):1339-1350

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On the sublimation of ice particles on the surface of Mars; with applications to the 2007/8 Phoenix Scout mission     

Peter A. Taylor  Konstantin Baibakov  Michael H. Hecht  P.-Y. Li  Luis Prieto 《Icarus》2006,181(2):375-387

Experimental studies related to the sublimation of ice, in bulk or as small particles, alone or mixed with dust similar to that expected on the surface of Mars, are reported. The experiments, a cloud physics particle sublimation model, and a convection model presented by Ingersoll, all indicate a strong dependence of sublimation rate on temperature, and this appears to be the dominant factor, assuming that the relative humidity of the air is fairly low. In addition the rate of loss of water vapour appears to depend primarily on exposed surface area and less on particle size and the total mass of the sample, or the mass of ice in the sample. The 2007/8 Phoenix Scout mission plans to obtain and analyse samples of sub-surface ice from about 70° N on Mars. A concern is that these samples, in the form of ice chips of size about 1 mm diameter, could be prone to sublimation when exposed for prolonged periods (many hours) to a relatively warm and dry atmosphere. Our laboratory simulations confirm that this could be a problem if particles are simply left lying on the surface, but also indicate that samples kept suitably cold and collected together in confined piles will survive long enough for the collection and delivery (to the analysis instruments) procedure to be completed.  相似文献   

Velocity structure of the western Mediterranean from inversion of P-wave traveltimes     

V. S. Gobarenko  S. B. Nikolova  S. J. Sokolova 《Geophysical Journal International》1990,101(3):557-564

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短蛸(Octopus ocellatus)酪氨酸蛋白激酶基因的克隆及其mRNA在细菌刺激后的表达规律     

张冉冉  韦秀梅  杨建敏  王卫军  刘相全  冯艳微 《海洋与湖沼》2015,46(1):173-180

从前期构建的短蛸(Octopus ocellatus)c DNA文库中克隆获得了一个短蛸酪氨酸蛋白激酶(Oo Btk)基因的c DNA全长,其c DNA全长1191 bp,包括5’非编码区(UTR)259 bp,3’UTR 227 bp,开放阅读框(ORF)705 bp,编码234个氨基酸,预测理论等电点为8.50,分子量为27.7 k Da。运用实时荧光定量PCR法分析了在健康短蛸的不同组织以及鳗弧菌和藤黄微球菌刺激后血细胞中Oo Btk的表达规律,结果表明:Oo Btk在肌肉、外套膜、鳃、鳃心、系统心脏、肝胰脏、肾囊、胃、性腺和血细胞等各检测组织中均有表达,其中在肝胰脏的表达量最高;短蛸经鳗弧菌和藤黄微球菌刺激后,Oo Btk在血细胞中的表达量呈现出了明显的被诱导表达趋势,在鳗弧菌和藤黄微球菌刺激后6 h表达即增强,并分别在鳗弧菌刺激后48 h和藤黄微球菌刺激后12 h达到最高。Oo Btk参与短蛸对于鳗弧菌和藤黄微球菌刺激的应答过程。  相似文献