Suppression of resistive hose instability in a relativistic electron–positron flow     

Mitsuru Honda 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,376(2):871-880

This paper presents the effects of electron–positron pair production on the linear growth of the resistive hose instability of a filamentary beam that could lead to snake-like distortion. For both the rectangular radial density profile and the diffuse profile reflecting the Bennett-type equilibrium for a self-collimating flow, the modified eigenvalue equations are derived from a Vlasov–Maxwell equation. While for the simple rectangular profile, current perturbation is localized at the sharp radial edge, for the realistic Bennett profile with an obscure edge, it is non-locally distributed over the entire beam, removing catastrophic wave–particle resonance. The pair production effects likely decrease the betatron frequency, and expand the beam radius to increase the resistive decay time of the perturbed current; these also lead to a reduction of the growth rate. It is shown that, for the Bennett profile case, the characteristic growth distance for a preferential mode can exceed the observational length-scale of astrophysical jets. This might provide the key to the problem of the stabilized transport of the astrophysical jets including extragalactic jets up to  Mpc (∼3 × 10²⁴ cm)  scales.  相似文献   

Petrology and geochemistry of a silicate clast from the Mount Padbury mesosiderite: Implications for metal‐silicate mixing events of mesosiderite     

Minako Tamaki  Akira Yamaguchi  Keiji Misawa  Mitsuru Ebihara  Hiroshi Takeda 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2006,41(12):1919-1928

Abstract— Petrological and bulk geochemical studies were performed on a large silicate clast from the Mount Padbury mesosiderite. The silicate clast is composed mainly of pyroxene and plagioclase with minor amounts of ilmenite, spinel, and other accessory minerals, and it shows subophitic texture. Pyroxenes in the clast are similar to those in type 5 eucrites and could have experienced prolonged thermal metamorphism after rapid crystallization from a near‐surface melt. Ilmenite and spinel vary chemically, indicating growth under disequilibrium conditions. The clast seems to have experienced an episode of rapid reheating and cooling, possibly as a result of metal‐silicate mixing. Abundances of siderophile elements are obviously higher than in eucrites, although the clast is also extremely depleted in highly siderophile elements. The fractionated pattern can be explained by injection of Fe‐FeS melts generated by partial melting of metallic portions during metal‐silicate mixing. The silicate clast had a complex petrogenesis that could have included: 1) rapid crystallization from magma in a lava flow or a shallow intrusion; 2) prolonged thermal metamorphism to equilibrate the mineral compositions of pyroxene and plagioclase after primary crystallization; 3) metal‐silicate mixing probably caused by the impact of solid metal bodies on the surface of the mesosiderite parent body; and 4) partial melting of metal and sulfide portions (and silicate in some cases) caused by the collisional heating, which produced Fe‐FeS melts with highly fractionated siderophile elements that were injected into silicate portions along cracks and fractures.  相似文献   

Comparison of potentially toxic metals leaching from weathered rocks at a closed mine site between laboratory columns and field observation     

Omar R. Salinas Villafane  Toshifumi Igarashi  Mitsuru Kurosawa  Toshio Takase 《Applied Geochemistry》2012

Potentially toxic metals, such as Cu, Pb and Zn, are leached from weathered rocks at many closed mine sites due to the acidic environments and mineralogical modifications. The mobilized toxic metals may cause contamination of surrounding water bodies. In this study, both laboratory column experiments and field observations at a former mine located in the north of Japan were carried out to compare the leaching behavior of Cu, Pb and Zn. The thickness of the surface weathered rock was varied (10, 20 and 30 cm) for the columns experiments while porous cups for porewater sampling were set up at different depths (GL-15, -45, -70, and -95 cm) for the field observations. Deionized water was added once a week over 75 weeks to the columns to simulate rainfall while porewater was extracted by a vacuum pump in several sampling campaigns (over 18 months). Similar low pH and leaching behavior of potentially toxic metals were observed for column experiments and field observations. A moderate increase in concentration with depth was observed for Cu and Zn. However, no increase in concentration was observed for Pb. This suggests that the leaching of Cu and Zn is enhanced by the length of the flow pathway through the weathered rock layer while Pb concentration is restricted by the precipitation of insoluble Pb sulfate. Thus, the thickness of the weathered rock layer is an important parameter that should be taken into consideration to estimate the loads of some potentially toxic metals, which is important when designing remediation schemes.  相似文献   

Contributions of sandy lands and stony deserts to long-distance dust emission in China and Mongolia during 2000–2006   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Baolin Zhang  Atsushi Tsunekawa  Mitsuru Tsubo 《Global and Planetary Change》2008,60(3-4):487-504

More than 400 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images of dust storm events were collected and analyzed, and individual events were tracked back to their origins. Dust tracks were determined from color composite images, brightness temperature difference (BTD) and the NOAA Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model. The results showed that five regions (sandy lands in central Inner Mongolia and the adjacent area of Mongolia; the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang and Gansu provinces, western Inner Mongolia, and the adjacent southwestern area of Mongolia; the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia and the adjoining area of northern Inner Mongolia; sandy lands and deserts around the middle reaches of the Yellow River; and the area rimming the Taklimakan Desert) were the main contributors to long-lived mineral dusts in northern China and Mongolia. Of these dust production areas, sandy lands and stony deserts, rather than the sandy deserts of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, were found to be the dominant dust sources, accounting for more than 75% of regional dust emission events. Dust events in the Taklimakan Desert were often local phenomena, although they could also be transported eastward if they were uplifted high enough to escape the enclosing topographic highs. Dust sources in northwestern China are mainly alluvial fans and dry lake and river beds. Success in identifying the sources and trajectories of Asian dust storms would guide future ground-based research and steppe degradation countermeasures and help reduce the uncertainties in modern modeling of Asian dust.  相似文献   

A computational approach for the analysis of changes in polygon distributions     

Yukio Sadahiro  Mitsuru Umemura 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2001,3(2):137-154

 This paper develops a computational method for analyzing changes in polygon distributions. Unmovable polygons that change discontinuously without explicit functional linkage information are discussed. Six types of primitive events are used to describe the change: 1) generation, 2) disappearance, 3) expansion, 4) shrinkage, 5) union, and 6) division. The change of polygon distributions is decomposed into a combination of these events. A computational procedure for deducing a set of events from polygon distributions of two times is proposed. The method is applied to the analysis of the spatial competition between the major and small chains of convenience stores in Tokyo, Japan. Some empirical findings are shown. Received: 3 August 2000 / Accepted: 6 February 2001  相似文献   

Three topologically nontrivial choreographic motions of three bodies     

Milovan Šuvakov  Mitsuru Shibayama 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2016,124(2):155-162

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Neutron capture effects on samarium,europium, and gadolinium in Apollo 15 deep drill‐core samples     

Hiroshi HIDAKA  Mitsuru EBIHARA  Shigekazu YONEDA 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2000,35(3):581-589

Abstract— The isotopic compositions of Sm and Gd in seven lunar samples from the Apollo 15 deep drill core were determined to discuss the effects of neutron capture near the lunar surface. Large isotopic deviations of ¹⁵⁰Sm/¹⁴⁹Sm, ¹⁵⁶Gd/¹⁵⁵Gd, and ¹⁵⁸Gd/¹⁵⁷Gd derived from neutron capture effects were observed in all samples. Although neutron capture products in lunar samples were investigated extensively in the 1970s, our precise isotopic measurements resulted in several new findings. The neutron fluence in the Apollo 15 drill core is a function of depth with a symmetric peak at 190 g/cm² depth from the surface, confirming the results of earlier investigations. Neutron fluence values calculated from the isotopic shifts by comparison to artificially irradiated standard reagents were (5.16–7.49) × 10¹⁶ n/cm². These values are 1.3 to 1.4x larger than those previously reported. Variations of ε_Sm/ε_Gd with depth are interpreted as being due to variations in the neutron energy spectrum. Here ε_Sm and ε_Gd are defined as in previous studies of lunar neutron stratigraphy. Our data suggest that the neutron is more thermalized at the lower layers than it is at the upper layers. In addition to large isotopic shifts for ¹⁴⁹Sm, ¹⁵⁰Sm, ¹⁵⁵Gd, ¹⁵⁶Gd, ¹⁵⁷Gd, and ¹⁵⁸Gd, isotopic enrichments of ¹⁵²Gd and ¹⁵⁴Gd derived from neutron capture for ¹⁵¹Eu and ¹⁵³Eu, respectively, were also observed in all samples.  相似文献   

A method for non-parametric damage detection through the use of neural networks     

Mitsuru Nakamura  Sami F. Masri  Anastassios G. Chassiakos  Thomas K. Caughey 《地震工程与结构动力学》1998,27(9):997-1010

A neural network-based approach is presented for the detection of changes in the characteristics of structure-unknown systems. The approach relies on the use of vibration measurements from a ‘healthy’ system to train a neural network for identification purposes. Subsequently, the trained network is fed comparable vibration measurements from the same structure under different episodes of response in order to monitor the health of the structure. The methodology is applied to actual data obtained from ambient vibration measurements on a steel building structure that was damaged under strong seismic motion during the Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake of 17 January 1995. The measurements were done before and after repairs to the damaged frame were made. A neural network is trained with data after the repairs, which represents ‘healthy’ condition of the building. The trained network, which is subsequently fed data before the repairs, successfully identified the difference between the damaged storey and the undamaged storey. Through this study, it is shown that the proposed approach has the potential of being a practical tool for a damage detection methodology applied to smart civil structures. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A Transit of Venus Possibly Misinterpreted as an Unaided-Eye Sunspot Observation in China on 9 December 1874     

Hayakawa  Hisashi  Sôma  Mitsuru  Tanikawa  Kiyotaka  Willis  David M.  Wild  Matthew N.  Macdonald  Lee T.  Imada  Shinsuke  Hattori  Kentaro  Richard Stephenson  F. 《Solar physics》2019,294(9):1-13

Solar Physics - Large sunspots can be observed with the unaided eye under suitable atmospheric seeing conditions. Such observations are of particular value because the frequency of their appearance...  相似文献   

Mineral chemistry of MUSES‐C Regio inferred from analysis of dust particles collected from the first‐ and second‐touchdown sites on asteroid Itokawa     

Tomoki Nakamura  Aiko Nakato  Hatsumi Ishida  Shigeru Wakita  Takaaki Noguchi  Michael E. Zolensky  Masahiko Tanaka  Makoto Kimura  Akira Tshuchiyama  Toshihiro Ogami  Takahito Hashimoto  Mitsuru Konno  Masayuki Uesugi  Toru Yada  Kei Shirai  Akio Fujimura  Ryuji Okazaki  Scott. A. Sandford  Yukihiro Ishibashi  Masanao Abe  Tatsuaki Okada  Munetaka Ueno  Junichiro Kawaguchi 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(2):215-227

The mineralogy and mineral chemistry of Itokawa dust particles captured during the first and second touchdowns on the MUSES‐C Regio were characterized by synchrotron‐radiation X‐ray diffraction and field‐emission electron microprobe analysis. Olivine and low‐ and high‐Ca pyroxene, plagioclase, and merrillite compositions of the first‐touchdown particles are similar to those of the second‐touchdown particles. The two touchdown sites are separated by approximately 100 meters and therefore the similarity suggests that MUSES‐C Regio is covered with dust particles of uniform mineral chemistry of LL chondrites. Quantitative compositional properties of 48 dust particles, including both first‐ and second‐touchdown samples, indicate that dust particles of MUSES‐C Regio have experienced prolonged thermal metamorphism, but they are not fully equilibrated in terms of chemical composition. This suggests that MUSES‐C particles were heated in a single asteroid at different temperatures. During slow cooling from a peak temperature of approximately 800 °C, chemical compositions of plagioclase and K‐feldspar seem to have been modified: Ab and Or contents changed during cooling, but An did not. This compositional modification is reproduced by a numerical simulation that modeled the cooling process of a 50 km sized Itokawa parent asteroid. After cooling, some particles have been heavily impacted and heated, which resulted in heterogeneous distributions of Na and K within plagioclase crystals. Impact‐induced chemical modification of plagioclase was verified by a comparison to a shock vein in the Kilabo LL6 ordinary chondrite where Na‐K distributions of plagioclase have been disturbed.  相似文献