Ground-based near infrared spectroscopy of Jupiter's ring and moons     

Michael H. Wong  Imke de Pater 《Icarus》2006,185(2):403-415

The backscattered reflectivity of Jupiter's ring has been previously measured over distinct visible and near infrared wavelength bands by a number of ground-based and spaceborne instruments. We present spectra of Jupiter's main ring from 2.21-2.46 μm taken with the NIRSPEC spectrometer at the W.M. Keck observatory. At these wavelengths, scattered light from Jupiter is minimal due to the strong absorption of methane in the planet's atmosphere. We find an overall flat spectral slope over this wavelength interval, except for a possible red slope shortward of 2.25 μm. We extended the spectral coverage of the ring to shorter wavelengths by adding a narrow-band image at 1.64 μm, and show results from 2.27-μm images over phase angles of 1.2°-11.0°. Our images at 1.64 and 2.27 μm reveal that the halo contribution is stronger at the shorter wavelength, possibly due to the redder spectrum of the ring parent bodies as compared with the halo dust component. We find no variation in main ring reflectivity over the 1.2°-11.0° phase angle range at 2.27 μm. We use adaptive optics imaging at the longer wavelength L′ band (3.4-4.1 μm) to determine a 2-σ upper limit of 22 m of vertically-integrated I/F. Our observing campaign also produced an L′ image of Callisto, showing a darker leading hemisphere, and a spectrum of Amalthea over the 2.2-2.5 and 2.85-3.03 μm ranges, showing deep 3-μm absorption.  相似文献   

Observations of the cosmic microwave background and galactic foregrounds at 12–17 GHz with the COSMOSOMAS experiment     

S. Fernández-Cerezo  C. M. Gutiérrez  R. Rebolo  R. A. Watson  R. J. Hoyland  S. R. Hildebrandt  J. A. Rubiño-Martín  J. F. Macías-Pérez  P. Sosa Molina 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,370(1):15-24

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Dead zones and extrasolar planetary properties   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Soko Matsumura  Ralph E. Pudritz 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,365(2):572-584

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Resurfacing history of Europa from pole-to-pole geological mapping     

Patricio H. Figueredo  Ronald Greeley 《Icarus》2004,167(2):287-312

We produced geologic maps from two regional mosaics of Galileo images across the leading and trailing hemispheres of Europa in order to investigate the temporal distribution of units in the visible geologic record. Five principal terrain types were identified (plains, bands, ridges, chaos, and crater materials), which are interpreted to result from (1) tectonic fracturing and lineament building, (2) cryovolcanic reworking of surface units, with possible emplacement of sub-surface materials, and (3) impact cratering. The geologic histories of both mapped areas are essentially similar and reflect some common trends: Tectonic resurfacing dominates the early geologic record with the formation of background plains by intricate superposition of lineaments, the opening of wide bands with infilling of inter-plate gaps, and the buildup of ridges and ridge complexes along prominent fractures in the ice. It also appears that lineaments are narrower and more widely spaced with time. The lack of impact craters overprinted by lineaments indicate that the degree of tectonic resurfacing decreased rapidly after ridged plains formation. In contrast, the degree of cryovolcanic resurfacing appears to increase with time, as chaos formation dominates the later parts of the geologic record. These trends, and the transition from tectonic- to cryovolcanic-dominated resurfacing could be attributed to the gradual thickening of Europa's cryosphere during the visible geologic history, that comprises the last 2% or 30-80 Myr of Europa's history: An originally thin, brittle ice shell could be pervasively fractured or melted through by tidal and endogenic processes; the degree of fracturing and plate displacements decreased with time in a thickening shell, and lineaments became narrower and more widely spaced; formation of chaos regions could have occurred where the thickness threshold for solid-state convection was exceeded, and can be aided by preferential tidal heating of more ductile ice. In a long-term context it is not clear at this point whether this inferred thickening trend would reflect a drastic change in the thermal evolution of the satellite, or cyclic or irregular episodes of tectonic and cryovolcanic activity.  相似文献   

The Phase-Angle and Longitude Dependence of Polarization for Callisto     

Vera K. Rosenbush 《Icarus》2002,159(1):145-155

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Constraints on the C ring parameters of Saturn at the Titan −1:0 resonance     

Sandip K. Chakrabarti  Abhijit Bhattacharyya 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(2):L23-L26

A one-armed spiral bending wave in Saturn's rings excited by Titan's −1:0 inner vertical resonance is one of the most prominent oscillatory features observed by Voyager 1 . We study detailed dynamics of the particles inside the ring, and show that one of the main causes of the complete dissipation of the bending wave within a distance of ∼85 km from the resonance site could be as a result of the presence of a strong shear caused by radial velocity variation along the vertical direction. Assuming this to be the only source, Voyager data would suggest that if the surface density of matter is around 0.45 g cm⁻² and the amplitude of the bending wave is around 1200 m, then the upper limit of total vertical thickness of the C ring near this resonance is around 40 m.  相似文献   

Properties of microlensing light curve anomalies induced by multiple planets     

Cheongho Han  Heon-Young Chang  Jin H. An  Kyongae Chang 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,328(3):986-992

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编队卫星InSAR系统的相位同步分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

汤晓涛  楼良盛  刘志铭 《地球信息科学学报》2008,10(6):798-801

编队卫星InSAR系统属多基雷达系统,依靠编队卫星构型形成干涉所需的基线。一发多收工作模式下的编队卫星InSAR高程测量系统,协同工作的雷达间必须建立时间同步、相位同步和空间同步,其同步精度将影响InSAR系统的功能与性能。三大同步中,相位同步误差直接影响SAR复影像的相位误差,从而影响系统的高程测量精度。本文根据编队卫星条件下SAR成像的要求,对相位同步的要求进行了分析,并给出了由于相位不同步所引起的相位误差对InSAR高程测量精度影响。分析结果表明,编队卫星InSAR系统对于相位同步的要求包含两个方面:一是为保证被动雷达能够对回波实现相参成像,在整个合成孔径时间内,主动和被动两个雷达在载波相位上必须保持确定和可知的关系,且其差值随系统距离向分辨率的不同必须限定在一定范围内;二是在整个干涉数据的录取时间里,主动和被动两个雷达载波相位同步误差不能超过高程测量的精度要求所允许的误差。  相似文献   

一种提高北斗系统中低纬度无源定位精度的改进方法     

王磊  翟国君  刘雁春  黄谟涛  孟婵媛 《测绘科学》2007,32(3):67-68,66

本文提出一种提高北斗系统中低纬度无源定位精度的方法,利用星际间单差及高程约束来提高定位精度。与传统方法相比,新方法具有更高的精度及较好的稳定性,仿真结果表明,在中低纬度地区定位精度可达50~200M。  相似文献   

高轨卫星轨道预报中神经网络模型优化设计   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

黄金  张宇喆  张正强  谷冰  李晓杰 《测绘科学技术学报》2015,(6):559-564

高轨卫星是我国卫星导航系统的重要组成部分。提升该类卫星的轨道预报精度有利于用户定位精度的提高。提出了一种改进高轨卫星轨道预报精度的新方法。该方法避开了精化动力学模型的困难,尝试从轨道预报误差的规律中寻找突破。利用神经网络作为建立预报模型的工具,将某历史时刻的轨道预报误差作为训练样本,利用训练好的神经网络模型补偿当前时刻的预报轨道以提高轨道预报精度。对影响神经网络模型补偿效果的各因素进行了详细分析,制定了适应于高轨卫星短期、中期和长期预报的神经网络最优模型。利用实测数据进行了试验分析,结果表明:预报8,15及30 d应选择的训练步长分别为10,20及25 min;轨道预报8~30 d时,训练噪声均选取0.01。神经网络模型有效地改进了高轨卫星的轨道预报精度,预报4~30 d,轨道精度提高幅度为34.67%~82.37%不等。  相似文献