Structure and dynamics of the Bok globule B335     

Margaret A. Frerking  William D. Langer  Robert W. Wilson 《Icarus》1985,61(1):22-26

CO maps of the Bok globule B335 are presented and used to derive its density profile, mass distribution, and rotational velocity structure. It is found that the cloud is in nearly hydrostatic equilibrium with a density profile that varies roughly as r^?1 in the core and r^?3 in the envelope. The observed rotation is unimportant in the force balance at the present stage of evolution.  相似文献   

Evolutionary status of the pre-protostellar core L1498     

Kuiper TB  Langer WD  Velusamy T 《The Astrophysical journal》1996,468(2):761-773

L1498 is a classic example of a dense cold pre-protostellar core. To study the evolutionary status, the structure, dynamics, and chemical properties of this core we have obtained high spatial and high spectral resolution observations of molecules tracing densities of 10(3)-10(5) cm-3. We observed CCS, NH3, C3H2, and HC7N with NASA's DSN 70 m antennas. We also present large-scale maps of C18O and 13CO observed with the AT&T 7 m antenna. For the high spatial resolution maps of selected regions within the core we used the VLA for CCS at 22 GHz, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) MMA for CCS at 94 GHz and CS (2-1). The 22 GHz CCS emission marks a high-density [n(H2) > 10(4) cm -3] core, which is elongated with a major axis along the SE-NW direction. NH3 and C3H2 emissions are located inside the boundary of the CCS emission. C18O emission traces a lower density gas extending beyond the CCS boundary. Along the major axis of the dense core, CCS, NH3 and C3H2 emission show evidence of limb brightening. The observations are consistent with a chemically differentiated onion-shell structure for the L1498 core, with NH3 in the inner and CCS in the outer parts of the core. The high angular resolution (9"-12") spectral line maps obtained by combining NASA Goldstone 70 m and VLA data resolve the CCS 22 GHz emission in the southeast and northwest boundaries into arclike enhancements, supporting the picture that CCS emission originates in a shell outside the NH3 emitting region. Interferometric maps of CCS at 94 GHz and CS at 98 GHz show that their emitting regions contain several small-scale dense condensations. We suggest that the differences between the CCS, CS, C3H2, and NH3 emission are caused by a time-dependent effect as the core evolves slowly. We interpret the chemical and physical properties of L1498 in terms of a quasi-static (or slowly contracting) dense core in which the outer envelope is still growing. The growth rate of the core is determined by the density increase in the CCS shell resulting from the accretion of the outer low-density gas traced by C18O. We conclude that L1498 could become unstable to rapid collapse to form a protostar in less than 5 x 10(6) yr.  相似文献   

Deriving characteristic parameters of the convective boundary layer from sodar measurements of the vertical velocity variance     

Petra Seibert  Matthias Langer 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1996,81(1):11-22

This paper deals with the derivation of the convective mixing height and the characteristic convective velocity w _* from profiles of _w measured by sodar. The parameters were obtained by fitting an analytical profile to the observed data. Results were compared with values obtained by the meteorological preprocessor of a dispersion model and from noon radiosoundings. In addition, a Monte Carlo method was applied to study the influence of measurement errors. It turned out that it is inherently difficult to determine the depth of deep mixed layers from sodar measurements with a limited range, although the determination of w _* should be possible. However, a significant underestimation of _w , and thus w _*, was found, which is probably due to disproportional sampling of updrafts and downdrafts.  相似文献   

地震综合效应场函数及其在地震预报中的应用──（一）地震综合效应场函数及其计算方法     

罗兰格 《华北地震科学》1994,(3)

在系统地分析了目前各种测震学地震预报方法科学思路的基础上,认为测震学地震预报方法基本上可以分为两大类。一类是以已经发生的一些地震作为未来可能发生的地震的“因”,即由于已经发生的地震对区域应力场的影响,导致未来发生较强地震。这一类包括的预报方法较多,如空区、条带、ｂ值、地震迁移、相关地震等等及其由此衍生出来的各种方法。另一类是把已经发生的一些地震作为区域应力场增强的“果”,即已经发生的地震是区域应力场增强过程中的一种反映,而未来地震不一定是已经发生的地震所导致的结果。这一类包括“地震窗口”、小震群活动等方法。针对第一类方法,各种预报方法都是力图从地震三要素中提取未来地震的信息,而具体作法又都是利用地震三要素这个多维空间的某个剖面。为了从地震活动诸要素的多维空间提取综合信息,我们对每个地震加入了破裂面方位,构成了地震第四要素,并依据地震４要素建立了地震综合效应场函数。地震综合效应场函数概括了多种测震学地震预报方法的科学思路和预报经验,从而可以形成测震学的综合预报方法。  相似文献   

Co2+ in trigonal fields of oxygen based structures: Electronic absorption spectra of buetschliite-type K2Co(SeO3)2, K2Co2(SeO3)3 and zemannite-type K2Co2(SeO3)3 · 2H2O     

M. Wildner  K. Langer 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1994,20(7):460-468

Polarized single crystal absorption spectra, in the spectral range 40 000–5 000 cm^-1, were obtained on Co²⁺ in trigonally distorted octahedral oxygen fields of buetschliite-type K₂Co(SeO₃)₂ (I), K₂Co₂(SeO₃)₃ (II) and zemannite-type K₂Co₂(SeO₃)₃ · 2H₂O (III). Site symmetries of Co²⁺ are m (D_3d) in I, 3m (C_3v) in II, and 3 (C₃) in III. The spectra can be interpreted on the basis of an electric dipole mechanism, wherein transitions of Co²⁺ in the centrosymmetric site in I gain intensity from dynamic removal of the inversion centre by vibronic coupling. In accordance with the elongation of the CoO₆ octahedra along the trigonal axis, the split component E_(g) of the ground state ⁴T_1g in octahedral fields is the ground state in all three compounds. Trigonal field parameters Dq_(trig), D, D and the Racah parameters B have been fitted to the energies of spin allowed transitions (293 K) as follows: I: 744, 94, -16, and 838 cm^-1, resp.; II: 647, 227, 42, and 798 cm^-1, resp.; III: 667, 181, 21, and 809 cm^-1, respectively. Racah parameters C were estimated from the energy of some observed spin-forbidden transitions to be 3770 (I), 3280 (II), and 3465 cm^-1 (III). Values of Dq and of the Racah parameters B and C indicate slight differences of Co²⁺-O bonding in I as compared to II and III, with somewhat higher covalency in compounds II and III which contain face-sharing CoO₆ octahedra with short Co-Co contacts. Also, in II and III the observed D values do not agree with theoretical D values, predicted from the magnitude of the mean octahedral distortions.  相似文献   

Optical absorption investigation of Cr3+ ion-bearing minerals in the temperature range 77–797 K     

M. N. Taran  K. Langer  A. N. Platonov  V. Indutny 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1994,21(6):360-372

The effect of raising temperature on spin-allowed dd-transitions of octahedral Cr³⁺ was studied for various point symmetries of the Cr³⁺-bearing structural sites, i.e. 3 m and 3 with inversion center in spinel and garnets, respectively, or 32, 3, 2 and 1, lacking the inversion centre, in beryl, corundum, diopside and topaz, respectively. For this purpose, crystals of Cr³⁺-bearing spinel, pyrope, andradite, grossular, uvarovite, emerald, ruby, diopside and topaz were analyzed by microprobe, oriented, and measured in polarized radiation (except for the cubic minerals) in the spectral range 30 000 to 11 100 cm^-1 and at temperatures between 77 and 797 K. The evaluation of the intensities, half widths, and energy positions of bands due to Cr³⁺-transitions derived from ⁴ A _2g ⁴ T _2g (F) and ⁴ T _1g (F) as well as of Dq- and B-values derived, had the following results:In all cases, red shift of the above bands and, hence, independent on the site symmetry of Cr³⁺, decreases in the Dq-values were obtained. The dependcies of Dq on T are nearly linear above room temperature and amount between -1.6% in topaz and -5.1% in pyrope in the temperature range studied. From this, values for the local thermal expansion of the Cr³⁺-centered octahedra, _loc, were derived on the basis of the R _M-0 ^-5 -proportionality of 10Dq. Such values are consistently higher than those obtained from X-ray refinements, a method averaging r_m-o for all the respective octahedral positions.  相似文献   

TRANSALP—deep crustal Vibroseis and explosive seismic profiling in the Eastern Alps     

Ewald Lüschen  Daniela Borrini  Helmut Gebrande  Bernd Lammerer  Karl Millahn  Franz Neubauer  Rinaldo Nicolich  TRANSALP Working Group   《Tectonophysics》2006,414(1-4):9

The TRANSALP consortium, comprising institutions from Italy, Austria and Germany, carried out deep seismic reflection measurements in the Eastern Alps between Munich and Venice in 1998, 1999 and 2001. In order to complement each other in resolution and depth range, the Vibroseis technique was combined with simultaneous explosive source measurements. Additionally, passive cross-line recording provided three-dimensional control and alternative north–south sections. Profits were obtained by the combination of the three methods in sectors or depths where one method alone was less successful.The TRANSALP sections clearly image a thin-skinned wedge of tectonic nappes at the northern Alpine front zone, unexpected graben or half-graben structures within the European basement, and, thick-skinned back-thrusting in the southern frontal zone beneath the Dolomite Mountains. A bi-vergent structure at crustal scale is directed from the Alpine axis to the external parts. The Tauern Window obviously forms the hanging wall ramp anticline above a southward dipping, deep reaching reflection pattern interpreted as a tectonic ramp along which the Penninic units of the Tauern Window have been up-thrusted.The upper crystalline crust appears generally transparent. The lower crust in the European domain is characterized by a 6–7 km thick laminated structure. On the Adriatic side the lower crust displays a much thicker or twofold reflective pattern. The crustal root at about 55 km depth is shifted around 50 km to the south with respect to the main Alpine crest.  相似文献   

On the Importance of Geolithological Features for the Estimate of the Site Response: The Case of Catania Metropolitan Area (Italy)     

G. Lombardo  H. Langer  S. Gresta  R. Rigano  C. Monaco  G. De Guidi 《Natural Hazards》2006,38(3):339-354

The evaluation of seismic site response in the urban area of Catania was tackled by selecting test areas having peculiar lithological and structural features, potentially favourable to large local amplifications of ground motion. The two selected areas are located in the historical downtown and in the northern part of Catania where the presence of a fault is evident. Site response was evaluated using spectral ratio technique taking the horizontal- to-vertical component ratio of ambient noise. Inferences from microtremor measurements are compared with results from synthetic accelerograms and response spectra computed at all drillings available for this area. Such method is particularly suitable in urban areas where the nature of the outcropping geological units is masked by city growth and anthropic intervention on the surface geology. The microtremor H/V spectral ratios evaluated at soft sites located within the downtown profile tend to be smaller than that usually reported in the literature for such soils. A tendency for amplifications to peaks near 2 Hz is observed only in some sites located on recent alluvial deposits. Evidences for amplifications of site effects (frequency range 4–8 Hz) were observed in the sampling sites located on the fault, with a rapid decrease of spectral amplitude just a few tenths of metres away from the discontinuity. Numerical simulations evidenced the importance of geolithological features at depth levels even greater than 20–30 m. Besides this, the results strongly confirm the importance of the subsurface geological conditions, in the estimate of seismic hazard at urban scale.  相似文献   

Basin-related effects on ground motion for earthquake scenarios in the Lower Rhine Embayment   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Michael Ewald  Heiner Igel  Klaus-Günter Hinzen  Frank Scherbaum 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,166(1):197-212

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Seismic source study of the Racha-Dzhava (Georgia) earthquake from aftershocks and broad-band teleseismic body-wave records: an example of active nappe tectonics   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

H. Fuenzalida  L. Rivera  H. Haessler  D. Legrand  H. Philip  L. Dorbath    D. McCormack  S. Arefiev  C. Langer  A. Cisternas 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,130(1):29-46

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