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Massimo Tarenghi 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2008,313(1-3):1-7
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international millimeter-wavelength radio telescope under construction
in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA will be situated on a high-altitude site at 5000 m elevation which provides
excellent atmospheric transmission over the instrument wavelength range of 0.3 to 3 mm. ALMA will be comprised of two key
observing components—a main array of up to sixty-four 12-m diameter antennas arranged in a multiple configurations ranging
in size from 0.15 to ∼18 km, and a set of four 12-m and twelve 7-m antennas operating in a compact array ∼50 m in diameter
(known as the Atacama Compact Array, or ACA), providing both interferometric and total-power astronomical information. High-sensitivity
dual-polarization 8 GHz-bandwidth spectral-line and continuum measurements between all antennas will be available from two
flexible digital correlators.
At the shortest planned wavelength and largest configuration, the angular resolution of ALMA will be 0.005″. The instrument
will use superconducting (SIS) mixers to provide the lowest possible receiver noise contribution, and special-purpose water
vapor radiometers to assist in calibration of atmospheric phase distortions. A complex optical fiber network will transmit
the digitized astronomical signals from the antennas to the correlators in the Array Operations Site Technical Building, and
post-correlation to the lower-altitude Operations Support Facility where the array will be controlled, and initial construction
and maintenance of the instrument will occur. ALMA Regional Centers in the US, Europe, Japan and Chile will provide the scientific
portals for the use of ALMA; early science observations are expected in 2010, with full operations in 2012. 相似文献
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R. Cesaroni 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2008,313(1-3):23-28
The advent of ALMA is bound to improve our knowledge of OB star formation dramatically. Here, we present an overview of this
topic outlining how high angular resolution and sensitivity may contribute to shed light on the structure of high-mass star
forming regions and hence on the process itself of massive star formation. The impact of this new generation instrument will
range from establishing the mass function of pre-stellar cores inside IR-dark clouds, to investigating the kinematics of the
gas from which OB stars are built up, to assessing or ruling out the existence of circumstellar accretion disks in these objects. 相似文献
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Gas to Dust Ratio (GDR) indicates the mass ratio of interstellar gas to dust. It is widely adopted that the GDR in our Galaxy is 100～150. We choose three typical star forming regions to study the GDR: the Orion molecular cloud — a massive star forming region, the Taurus molecular cloud — a low-mass star forming region, and the Polaris molecular cloud — a region with no or very few star formation activities. The mass of gas only takes account of the neutral gas, i.e. only the atomic and molecular hydrogen, because the amount of ionized gas is very small in a molecular cloud. The column density of atomic hydrogen is taken from the high-resolution and high-sensitivity all-sky survey EBHIS (Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey). The CO J = 1 →0 line is used to trace the molecular hydrogen, since the spectral lines of molecular hydrogen which can be detected are rare. The intensity of CO J = 1 →0 line is taken from the Planck all-sky survey. The mass of dust is traced by the interstellar extinction based on the 2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) photometric database in the direction of anti-Galactic center. Adopting a constant conversion coefficient from the integrated intensity of the CO line to the column density of molecular hydrogen, XCO = 2.0 × 1020 cm?2 · (K · km/s)?1, the gas to dust ratio N(H)/AV is calculated, which is 25, 38, and 55 (in units of 1020 cm?2 · mag?1) for the Orion, Taurus, and Polaris molecular clouds, respectively. These values are significantly higher than the previously obtained average value of the Galaxy. Adopting the WD01 interstellar dust model (when the V-band selective extinction ratio is RV = 3.1), the derived GDRs are 160, 243, and 354 for the Orion, Taurus, and Polaris molecular clouds, respectively, which are apparently higher than 100～150, the commonly accepted GDR of the diffuse interstellar medium. The high N(H)/AV values in the star forming regions may be explained by the growth of dust in the molecular clouds because of either the particle collision or accretion, which can lead to the reduction of extinction efficiency per unit mass in the V band, rather than the increase of the GDR itself. 相似文献
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《Experimental Astronomy》2009,23(1):221-244
Millimetron is a Russian-led 12 m diameter submillimeter and far-infrared space observatory which is included in the Space
Plan of the Russian Federation for launch around 2017. With its large collecting area and state-of-the-art receivers, it will
enable unique science and allow at least one order of magnitude improvement with respect to the Herschel Space Observatory.
Millimetron will be operated in two basic observing modes: as a single-dish observatory, and as an element of a ground-space
very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) system. As single-dish, angular resolutions on the order of 3 to 12 arc sec will
be achieved and spectral resolutions of up to a million employing heterodyne techniques. As VLBI antenna, the chosen elliptical
orbit will provide extremely large VLBI baselines (beyond 300,000 km) resulting in micro-arc second angular resolution. 相似文献
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西藏定日潜在亚毫米波天文台址资源调查 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
由１９７０─１９８７年西藏定日无线电探空（气球）资料计算垂直大气水汽总含量，统计得到总含量小于１毫米的天数，海拔４３００米的定日县城为７７天／年，海拔５２８０米以上的美母山估计为１２０天／年以上，远好于世界上一流的亚毫米波、红外天文台址──夏威夷ＭａｕｎａＫｅａ的５８天／年。水汽含量小的冬春季，总云量也非常小，利于红外天文观测。美母山山顶平台面积达１平方千米，视野开阔，加上附近几个海拔５２００米以上的山头，是潜在的优良亚毫米天文观测台址。 相似文献
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E. Lellouch S. Vinatier M. Allen P. Hartogh A. Maestrini A. Coustenis 《Planetary and Space Science》2010,58(13):1724-1739
An investigation of the capabilities and science goals of a submillimeter-wave heterodyne sounder onboard a Titan orbiter is presented. Based on a model of Titan’s submillimeter spectrum, and including realistic instrumental performances, we show that passive limb observations of Titan’s submillimeter radiation would bring novel and unique information on the dynamical and chemical state of Titan’s atmosphere, particularly in the so far poorly probed 500-900 km region. The 300-360, 540-660 and 1080-1280 GHz spectral ranges appear especially promising, and could be explored with an instrument equipped with a tunable local oscillator system. Vertical temperature profiles can be determined up to ∼1200 km using rotational lines of CH4, CO, and HCN. Winds can be measured over the 200-1200 km altitude range with an accuracy of 3-5 m/s from Doppler shift measurements of any strong optically thin line. Numerous molecular species are accessible, including H2O, NH3, CH3C2H, CH2NH, and several nitriles (HC3N, HC5N, CH3CN, and C2H3CN). Many of them are expected to be detectable in a large fraction of the atmosphere and in some cases at all levels, providing an observational link between stratospheric and thermospheric chemistry. Isotopic variants of some of these species can also be measured, providing new measurements of H, C, N, and O isotopic ratios. Mapping of the thermal, wind, and composition fields, best achieved from a polar orbit and with an articulated antenna, would provide a new view of the couplings between chemistry and dynamics over an extended altitude range of Titan’s atmosphere. Additional science goals at Saturn and Enceladus are briefly discussed. 相似文献
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The submillimeter (submm) extragalactic background light (EBL) traces the integrated star formation history throughout the
cosmic time. Deep blank-field 850 μm and 1.4 GHz surveys and optical follow-up have been only able to determine the redshift
of ∼20% of the submm EBL. The majority (80%) of the submm EBL is still below the confusion and sensitivity limits of current
submm and radio instruments. We break through these limits with stacking analyses on our deep 850 μm image in the GOODS-N
and find that the submm EBL mostly comes from galaxies at redshifts around 1.0. This redshift is much lower than the redshift
of z=2–3 previously implied from radio identified submm sources. This result significantly decreases the number of high redshift
galaxies that may be seen by ALMA. 相似文献
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Kang Hao-ran Zuo Ying-xi Lou Zheng He Qian-ru 《Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics》2019,43(1):101-113
Pointing calibration and sub-reflector focusing are an important task of antenna measurement, which significantly contributes to the observational performance of a radio telescope. According to the requirements on the pointing accuracy and defocusing gain loss of the 5 m Dome A Terahertz Explorer (DATE5), this paper has derived the requirements of signal-to-noise ratio for the pointing and sub-reflector focusing calibration observations, and selected several astronomical radio sources suitable for the pointing and focusing calibrations at the terahertz waveband in Antarctica, which include planets and ultra-compact HII regions. The effects of the atmospheric absorption and the source angular diameter on the accuracy of calibration measurements are analyzed. Simulations show that when the telescope operates in Antarctica, these sources can provide sufficient flux densities for verifying the pre-established pointing model and focusing model. 相似文献
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The PLANCK mission, originally devised for cosmological studies, offers the opportunity to observe Solar System objects at millimetric and submillimetric wavelengths. In this paper we concentrate on the asteroids of the Main Belt, a large class of minor bodies in the Solar System. At present, more that 40 000 of these asteroids have been discovered and their detection rate is rapidly increasing. We intend to estimate the number of asteroids that can be detected during the mission and to evaluate the strength of their signal. We have rescaled the instrument sensitivities, calculated by the LFI and HFI teams for sources fixed in the sky, introducing some degradation factors to properly account for moving objects. In this way a detection threshold is derived for asteroidal detection that is related to the diameter of the asteroid and its geocentric distance. We have developed a numerical code that models the detection of asteroids in the LFI and HFI channels during the mission. This code performs a detailed integration of the orbits of the asteroids in the timespan of the mission and identifies those bodies that fall in the beams of PLANCK and their signal strength. According to our simulations, a total of 397 objects will be observed by PLANCK and an asteroidal body will be detected in some beam in 30% of the total sky scan-circles. A significant fraction (in the range from 50 to 100 objects) of the 397 asteroids will be observed with a high S/N ratio. Flux measurements of a large sample of asteroids in the submillimeter and millimeter range are relevant since they allow to analyze the thermal emission and its relation to the surface and regolith properties. Furthermore, it will be possible to check on a wider base, the two standard thermal models, based on a nonrotating or rapidly rotating sphere. Our method can also be used to separate Solar System sources from cosmological sources in the survey. This work is based on PLANCK LFI activities. 相似文献
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Spectroscopic remote sensing in the infrared and (sub)millimeter range is a powerful technique that is well suited for detecting minor species in planetary atmospheres (Planet Space Sci. 43(1995) 1485). Yet, only a handful of molecules in the Mars atmosphere (CO2, CO and H2O along with their isotopic species, O3, and more recently H2O2 and CH4) have been detected so far by this method. New high performance spectroscopic instruments will become available in the future in the infrared and (sub)millimeter range, for observations from the ground (infrared spectrometers on 8 m class telescopes, large millimeter and submillimeter interferometers) and from space, in particular the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) aboard Mars Express (MEx), and the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) aboard the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO). In this paper we will present results of a study that determines detectability of minor species in the atmosphere of Mars, taking into account the expected performance of the above spectroscopic instruments. In the near future, a new determination of the D/H value is expected with the PFS, especially during times of maximum H2O abundance in the martian atmosphere. PFS is also expected to place constraints on the abundance of several minor species (H2O2,CH4,CH2O, SO2, H2S, OCS, HCl) above any local outgassing sources, the hot spots. It will be possible to obtain complementary information on some minor species (O3,H2O2, CH4) from ground-based infrared spectrometers on large telescopes. In the more distant future, HIFI will be ideally suited for measuring the isotopic ratios with unprecedented accuracy. Moreover, it should be able to observe O2, which has not yet been detected spectroscopically in the IR/submm range, as well as H2O2. HIFI should also provide upper limits for several species that have not yet been detected (HCl, NH3, PH3) in the atmosphere of Mars. Some species (SO, SO2,H2S, OCS, CH2O) that may be observable from the ground could be searched for with present single-dish antennae and arrays, and in the future with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) submillimeter interferometer. 相似文献