Light-curve classification in massive variability surveys – I. Microlensing     

Vasily Belokurov  N. Wyn Evans  Yann Le Du 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,341(4):1373-1384

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Data mining in the young open cluster IC 2391     

R. J. Dodd 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,355(3):959-972

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Transforming observational data and theoretical isochrones into the ACS/WFC Vega-mag system     

Luigi R. Bedin †  Santi Cassisi  Fiorella Castelli  Giampaolo Piotto  Jay Anderson  Maurizio Salaris  Yazan Momany  Adriano Pietrinferni 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,357(3):1038-1048

We propose a zero-point photometric calibration of the data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Wide Field Channel (WFC) on board the Hubble Space Telescope , based on a spectrum of Vega and the most up-to-date in-flight transmission curves of the camera. This calibration is accurate at the level of a few hundredths of a magnitude. The main purpose of this effort is to transform the entire set of evolutionary models into a simple observational photometric system for ACS/WFC data, and to make them available to the astronomical community. We provide the zero-points for the most used ACS/WFC bands, and give basic recipes for calibrating both the observed data and the models. We also present the colour–magnitude diagram from ACS data of five Galactic globular clusters, spanning the metallicity range  −2.2 <[Fe/H] < −0.04  , and we provide fiducial points representing their sequences from several magnitudes below the turn-off to the red giant branch tip. The observed sequences are compared with the models in the newly defined photometric system.  相似文献   

Numerical simulations of weak lensing measurements     

David J. Bacon  Alexandre Refregier  Douglas Clowe  Richard S. Ellis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,325(3):1065-1074

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Intermediate-age Galactic open clusters: fundamental parameters of NGC 2627     

Andrés E. Piatti  Juan J. Clariá  Andrea V. Ahumada 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,346(2):390-402

Charge-coupled device (CCD) photometry in the Johnson V , Kron–Cousins I and Washington CMT ₁ systems is presented in the field of the poorly known open cluster NGC 2627. Four independent Washington abundance indices yield a mean cluster metallicity of  [Fe/H]=−0.12 ± 0.08  , which is compatible with the existence of a radial gradient in the Galactic disc. The resultant colour–magnitude diagrams indicate that the cluster is an intermediate-age object of 1.4 Gyr. Based on the best fits of the Geneva group's isochrones to the ( V , V − I ) and  ( T ₁, C − T ₁)  diagrams, we estimate   E ( V − I ) = 0.25 ± 0.05  and   V − M_V = 11.80 ± 0.25  for  log  t = 9.15  , and   E ( C − T ₁) = 0.23 ± 0.07  and   T ₁− M _{T 1}= 11.85 ± 0.25  for  log  t = 9.10  , respectively, assuming solar metal content. The derived reddening value   E ( C − T ₁)  implies   E ( B − V ) = 0.12 ± 0.07  and a distance from the Sun of  2.0 ± 0.4 kpc  . Using the WEBDA data base and the available literature, we re-examined the overall properties of all the open clusters with ages between 0.6 and 2.5 Gyr. We identified peaks of cluster formation at 0.7–0.8, 1.0–1.1, 1.6–1.7 and 2.0–2.1 Gyr, separated by relative quiescent epochs of ∼0.2–0.3 Gyr. We also estimated a radial abundance gradient of  −0.08 ± 0.02  , which is consistent with the most recent determinations for the Galactic disc, but no clear evidence for a gradient perpendicular to the Galactic plane is found.  相似文献   

Automated Separation of Stars and Normal Galaxies Based on Statistical Mixture Modeling with RBF Neural Networks     

Dong-Mei Qin  Ping Guo  Zhan-Yi Hu  Yong-Heng ZhaoNational Laboratory of Pattern Recognition Laboratory  Institute of Automation  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing  dmqin@nlpr.ia.ac.cnDepartment of Computer Sciences  Beijing Normal University  Beijing National Astronomical Observatories  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2003,3(3)

For LAMOST, the largest sky survey program in China, the solution of the problem of automatic discrimination of stars from galaxies by spectra has shown that the results of the PSF test can be significantly refined. However, the problem is made worse when the redshifts of galaxies are not available. We present a new automatic method of star/(normal) galaxy separation, which is based on Statistical Mixture Modeling with Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (SMM-RBFNN). This work is a continuation of our previous one, where active and non-active celestial objects were successfully segregated. By combining the method in this paper and the previous one, stars can now be effectively separated from galaxies and AGNs by their spectra-a major goal of LAMOST, and an indispensable step in any automatic spectrum classification system. In our work, the training set includes standard stellar spectra from Jacoby's spectrum library and simulated galaxy spectra of EO, SO, Sa, Sb types with redshift ranging from 0 to 1  相似文献   

A search for high-redshift molecular absorption lines towards millimetre-loud, optically faint quasars     

M. T. Murphy  S. J. Curran  J. K. Webb 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,342(3):830-836

We describe initial results of a search for redshifted molecular absorption towards four millimetre-loud, optically faint quasars. A wide frequency bandwidth of up to 23 GHz per quasar was scanned using the Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope at La Silla. Using a search list of commonly detected molecules, we obtained nearly complete redshift coverage up to   z _abs= 5  . The sensitivity of our data is adequate to have revealed absorption systems with characteristics similar to those seen in the four known redshifted millimetre-band absorption systems, but none were found. Our frequency-scan technique nevertheless demonstrates the value of wide-band correlator instruments for searches such as these. We suggest that a somewhat larger sample of similar observations should lead to the discovery of new millimetre-band absorption systems.  相似文献   

Fundamental parameters of the LMC clusters NGC 1836, NGC 1860, NGC 1865, SL 444, LW 224 and SL 548     

Andrés E. Piatti  Eduardo Bica  Doug Geisler  Juan J. Clariá 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,344(3):965-977

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数字图像压缩方法在天文上的应用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

栗志  周卫红 《天文学进展》1996,(3)

概述了数字图像压缩技术在天文领域应用的必要性。针对天文观测的特点和研究的需要，经过研究、分析和比较，提出了天文图像压缩的可行方案。通过应用计算机编程及压缩实验并给出相应的结果。  相似文献   

Measurement of radiative lifetimes and determination of transition probabilities of astrophysical interest in Ho iii     

E. Biémont  P. Palmeri  P. Quinet  G. Paquin  Z. G. Zhang  G. Somesfalean  S. Svanberg 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,328(4):1085-1090

Lifetimes of six levels belonging to the 4f¹⁰6p configuration of Ho  iii have been measured for the first time using the time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence method. They are compared with multiconfigurational pseudo-relativistic Hartree–Fock calculations. A very good agreement is found. Using the experimental lifetimes and theoretical branching fractions, a first set of transition probabilities of astrophysical interest has been obtained for this ion.  相似文献