基于GPS的气球观测天体自动跟踪方法

本文详细介绍了一种新颖的用GPS卫星定位接收机的高空科学气球观测天体的自动跟踪方法,此方法成功解决了飞行中望远镜对观测天体的自动跟踪难题。实测方位、仰角的跟踪精度可达0.1°。     

高轨空间碎片的观测模拟

对高轨空间碎片进行了观测模拟。在观测模拟中，分别选取南京和云南两个观测站；采用2种跟踪方式：跟踪恒星和跟踪卫星；对于同一地理经度上的同步卫星进行了观测；提供了发现新目标的方法；并给出了新目标的初轨。这为我国空间碎片的数据库的建立作了有益的尝试，对于卫星和航天器的飞行安全具有特别重要的意义。     

二维射线跟踪技术中的掩星面坐标系

在大气球对称假设下,可以从弯曲角观测资料通过Abel积分变换反演得到折射率廓线。在低层大气中,折射率水平不均匀性可能导致Abel反演在近地面的误差达到10%。避免该误差的一种有效方法是不通过Abel反演而采用非对称模式下二维射线跟踪算子直接将弯曲角同化到数值天气预报模式中。文章介绍了非对称模式下二维射线跟踪技术的背景、原理和数学模型,讨论了掩星面坐标系与地心惯性坐标系之间的转换关系。     

快速扫描球载红外望远镜

本文描述一个观测银道面和银心区红外发射的快速球载扫描红外望远镜系统，该吊篮已于1987年和1988年两次在中日合作高空气球越洋飞行航线上飞行，1988年的飞行中已获得若干观测资料。     

高气压式正比管探测效率的模拟计算

用于硬X射线的天文观测的充氙气高气压式正比计数管,对进入管中不同能量X射线的响应比较复杂,但能量响应(或探测效率)是归算天体观测能谱不可缺少的基本数据。本文对为气球观测用的一个具体正比管结合其实验数据给出了探测效率的模拟计算结果。     

宇宙线通过正比管径迹长度的模拟计算

高能天体物理观测中,宇宙线带电粒子通过探测器丢失的能量常是产生探测器本底信号的重要来源。宇宙线产生的信号与它通过探测器的径迹长度和探测器大小、形状有关。因气球X射线天文观测和γ射线暴观测的需要,空间天文实验室研制了若干种正比计数器,为此我们进行了宇宙线通过正比管径迹长度的模拟计算,它是整个设计工作中的一部分。     

北京地区上空的γ射线背景

1982年9月,在我国高空气球上放置了一个小型NaI-CsI复合晶体探测器系统,观测了北京地区上空直至33公里的几个不同高度上的γ射线背景强度,获得了γ射线背景的积分强度谱。     

气球天文观测

对科学观测用气球技术和气球天文观测的国内外发展现状作了综述,并对当前紫台如何开展气球天文观测提出了建议。     

空间碎片跟踪图像序列的目标识别方法

自动化观测已成为目前空间碎片光学观测的发展趋势,相应的完全无人工干预的目标自动识别成为迫切需要研究的课题.开环跟踪依据历史根数引导望远镜进行碎片的跟踪观测,是一种实现简单并且很稳健的观测方法.针对开环跟踪获取的观测图像,开展了目标在像素空间内的点列特征分析,提出使用像点簇识别算法来进行目标的自动识别,并对3种不同的簇识别算法实现进行了比较.     

一种空间目标光电跟踪新方法

针对目前空间目标光电观测的自动跟踪过程中,容易受到恒星干扰等影响丢帧后失跟的问题,从概率观点分析了光电跟踪的两个环节:状态外推和实时采样.根据估计理论,建立了一种新的光电跟踪方法.方法利用卡尔曼滤波数据融合的本质提高外推的稳健性,通过均值漂移方法实现跟踪窗口的调整.仿真试验表明,新方法能够有效的降低跟踪中干扰的影响,提高跟踪的稳健性.     

云南天文台40米射电望远镜河外射电源观测

为了在云南天文台40 m天线上开展射电天文研究,使用它进行了河外射电源流量试观测。通过对河外致密源进行ON/OFF跟踪观测,得到射电源的流量变化曲线。但数据质量并不理想,说明系统存在一些问题。随后,根据对该望远镜系统的稳定性及其无线电环境干扰现状的考察,以及对现存问题的分析,提出了相应的解决方法。     

从ROSAT数据中寻找河内X射线暂现源

从ＲＯＳＡＴ巡天和定点观测结果的对比出发，发现了几个低银纬的巡天源表中的Ｘ射线源在定点观测中没有出现．本文计算了在这些位置的定点观测中出现点源的流强上限，发现比巡天源表中这些源的流强值低很多，这表明它们的流强变化很大，可能是Ｘ射线双星系统中的一类———Ｘ射线暂现源．     

“Falling Star”: Software for Processing of Double-Station TV Meteor Observations

Software named “Falling Star” has been developed for digital processing of double-station TV meteor observations. It was designed for measurement and calculation of both kinematic and photometric parameters of faint meteors observed with any video system. Data from video recordings are first digitized as standard AVI files, and then converted into the software’s TVS (TV sequence) format. Additional astronomical information like date, time of observations, geographic position of point of the observation and horizontal coordinates of TV camera optical axis orientation are added to the files. These parameters allow the right ascension and declination of the optical center of camera for the moment of meteor flight to be calculated. “Falling Star” includes a range of automated procedures for the identification of frame stars with star catalogues, search of movable meteor-like objects inside frame, calculation of equatorial coordinates and photometry. Finally, meteor trajectory parameters, orbital elements and brightness curves are calculated. Errors of calculations are determined using Monte-Carlo method.     

Research on Receiver Anti-RFI of Delingha 13.7 m Telescope

In astronomical observations, the radio frequency interference (RFI) will cause pseudo spectra and reduce the reliability and validity of observational data. The RFI mitigation, which includes many technical innovations of devices and the method studies of data processing, aims at reducing the influence of RFI on the radio astronomical observation. Various efforts were made to improve the anti-RFI capability of the multi-beam receiver (Superconducting Spectroscopic Array Receiver, SSAR) of the Delingha 13.7 m telescope. The interference transmission path was analyzed. The concepts of the device RFI direct coupling coefficient and the device RFI system coupling coefficient were proposed. The proportions of interference introduced in the receiver system by the different devices were quantified, and the interference-susceptible devices in the system were located. After the anti-RFI treatment of the interference-susceptible devices, the anti-RFI capability of the receiver system is improved by 30 dB in average, and the astronomical observation efficiency of the telescope is increased by more than 10%.     

Study on the pointing model of a slant-axis terahertz antenna

This paper describes the establishment and verification of an accurate pointing model for a1.2 m aperture slant-axis terahertz antenna. A new analytical pointing model for the slant-axis antenna is presented based on an analogy to that of the alt-azimuth antennas. Furthermore, extra error terms are added to the pointing model based on the structure and mechanical analysis of the slant-axis antenna. To verify the pointing model experimentally, a pointing error measurement method based on photogrammetric techniques is proposed. Using this method, pointing behaviors of the antenna are accurately measured without the aid of astronomical observations, and major sources of the pointing errors are measured individually by photogrammetry and their respective coefficients are compared with those in the analytical pointing model.The results show that an extended pointing model consisting 21 error terms can significantly reduce the residual systematic errors compared with the traditional model, more details are given in the following sections.     

德令哈13.7m望远镜接收机抗射频干扰研究

在天文观测中,射频干扰会造成假谱,降低数据的可靠性和有效性.射频干扰消减旨在减少干扰信号对射电天文观测的影响,包含器件方面的技术革新和数据处理领域的方法研究.针对德令哈13.7 m望远镜接收机中频部分引入的射频干扰,通过优化中频器件的抗射频干扰能力,提高了接收机的整体抗射频干扰能力,以主动消除方法来减少射频干扰耦合到接收机内部.分析了接收机干扰的传输路径,提出了器件射频干扰的直接耦合系数和器件射频干扰的系统耦合系数的概念,为定位干扰敏感器件并量化干扰引入比重提供了基础.经过抗射频干扰优化后,接收机抗干扰能力改善30 dB左右,望远镜的天文观测效率提高10%以上.     

地平式望远镜轴系误差对指向精度和跟踪精度的影响

采用球面几何的方法推导轴系位置误差对地平式望远镜指向、跟踪精度影响的计算模型.介绍2米级地平式望远镜轴系误差检测及数据处理方法.通过对目标星体指向、跟踪仿真,得到轴系位置误差对指向、跟踪精度影响规律,为轴系精度及轴系位置要求提供理论依据,并为后续控制修正提供参考模型.     

An improved astrometric calibration technique for space debris observation

An optical survey is the main technique for detecting space debris. Due to the specific characteristics of observation, the pointing errors and tracking errors of the telescope as well as image degradation may be significant, which make it difficult for astrometric calibration. Here we present an improved method that corrects the pointing and tracking errors, and measures the image position precisely. The pipeline is tested on a number of CCD images obtained from a 1-m telescope administered by Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory while observing a GPS satellite. The results show that the position measurement error of the background stars is around 0.1 pixel, while the time cost for a single frame is about 7.5 s; hence the reliability and accuracy of our method are demonstrated. In addition, our method shows a versatile and feasible way to perform space debris observation utilizing non-dedicated telescopes, which means more sensors could be involved and the ability to perform surveys could be improved.     

Constraining the neutron star equation of state using XMM‐Newton

We have identified three possible ways in which future XMM‐Newton observations can provide significant constraints on the equation of state of neutron stars. First, using a long observation of the neutron star X‐ray transient Cen X‐4 in quiescence one can use the RGS spectrum to constrain the interstellar extinction to the source. This removes this parameter from the X‐ray spectral fitting of the pn and MOS spectra and allows us to investigate whether the variability observed in the quiescent X‐ray spectrum of this source is due to variations in the soft thermal spectral component or variations in the power law spectral component coupled with variations in N_H. This will test whether the soft thermal spectral component can indeed be due to the hot thermal glow of the neutron star. Potentially such an observation could also reveal redshifted spectral lines from the neutron star surface. Second, XMM‐Newton observations of radius expansion type I Xray bursts might reveal redshifted absorption lines from the surface of the neutron star. Third, XMM‐Newton observations of eclipsing quiescent low‐mass X‐ray binaries provide the eclipse duration. With this the system inclination can be determined accurately. The inclination determined from the X‐ray eclipse duration in quiescence, the rotational velocity of the companion star and the semi‐amplitude of the radial velocity curve determined through optical spectroscopy, yield the neutron star mass. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)