Multiple wavelength observations of a solar active region

The Solar Maximum Mission Satellite, the Sacramento Peak Vacuum Tower Telescope, the Very Large Array and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope have been used to observe active region AR 2490 on two consecutive days at soft X-ray, ultraviolet, optical and radio wavelengths (2, 6, and 20 cm), with comparable angular resolution (2 to 15) and field of view (4 × 4). The radio emissions at = 6 cm and 20 cm show a double structure in which one component is associated with bright H plage, C iv and soft X-ray emission, and the other component is associated only with sunspots. No radiation at = 2 cm is detected in this latter component. Coronal temperature and emission measure derived from X-ray lines indicate that the dominant radiation mechanism of the plage-associated component is due to thermal bremsstrahlung while the gyroresonance absorption coefficient must be invoked to account for the high brightness temperature (T _b 2×10⁶K) observed in the sunspot associated component. The high magnetic field strength needed (600 G at a level where T2×10⁶K) is explained assuming a thin transition zone, in order to reach a high electron temperature close to the sunspot, where the magnetic fields are stronger. A higher temperature gradient above sunspots is also consistent with the absence of detectable C iv emission.Cooperative study of the SMY-FBS Project.On leave from the University of Napoli.On leave from the University of Torino.On sabbatical leave 1980–81 at the Arcetri Observatory.On leave from Toyokawa Observatory, Japan.     

Distribution of sunspots according to their magnetic fluxes

The occurrence frequency distribution of sunspots in different magnetic flux values has been examined. The number of sunspots decreases as ^-1.9 for sunspots with magnetic flux greater than 3 × 10²¹ Maxwell, where is the said flux of a sunspot.     

Метагалактические протоны сверхвысоких энергий

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Erratum: the 2.27 day period of WR-134 (HD 191765)

The original temporal analysis of a 12 night spectral timeseries of WR-134 has been found to be flawed and a re-analysis shows that the line profile variations are indeed periodic. When combined with a 4 night timeseries taken 45 days earlier, a period near 2.27 d is found in periodograms of the Heii 5412 line centroid,rms line width, and line skew variations. When the emission line residuals are ordered as a function of phase, a sinuous feature appears to snake about the line center with an amplitude of ± 500 km s^–1. This is 20 larger than the line centroid amplitude; the calculation of which is heavily weighted by static portions of the line profile. In addition to the snake, emission residuals appear that move away from line center on unbound trajectories and are thought to result from the interaction of a periodic driver with the unstable flow of the radiation driven wind. The nature of the periodic driver is a topic for discussion.     

К теории кривых Блеска сверхновых звезд

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Sources of the Slowly-Varying Component of Solar Microwave Emission and their Relationship with their Host Active Regions

Daily surveys of the solar disc made at 2.8 cm wavelength over the period 1–13 November 1981, complemented by magnetograms and H filtergrams, are used to examine the relationship between sources of the slowly varying component of solar radio emission and properties of their host regions. Two classes of source are noted: diffuse and compact. Sources are designated compact when smaller than 40. The diffuse sources may be explained in terms of free–free thermal emission from trapped plasma in loops overlying the active region. The great majority of compact sources can be accounted for in terms of gyroresonance from thermal electrons in the strong magnetic fields overlying sunspots. A small minority are less amenable to this explanation. They are associated with magnetic complexity and dynamism, lie close to magnetic polarity reversals, and could be non-thermal. Microwave sources are an evolutionary feature common to all but the smallest active regions.     

Making sense of sunspot decay – II. Deviations from the Mean Law and Plage Effects

In a statistical analysis of Debrecen Photoheliographic Results sunspot area data we find that the logarithmic deviation (logD) of the area decay rate D from the parabolic mean decay law (derived in the first paper in this series) follows a Gaussian probability distribution. As a consequence, the actual decay rate D and the time-averaged decay rate are also characterized by approximately lognormal distributions, as found in an earlier work. The correlation time of (logD) is about 3 days. We find a significant physical anticorrelation between (logD) and the amount of plage magnetic flux of the same polarity in an annulus around the spot on Kitt Peak magnetograms. The anticorrelation is interpreted in terms of a generalization of the turbulent erosion model of sunspot decay to the case when the flux tube is embedded in a preexisting homogeneous plage field. The decay rate is found to depend inversely on the value of this plage field, the relation being very close to logarithmic, i.e., the plage field acts as multiplicative noise in the decay process. A Gaussian probability distribution of the field strength in the surrounding plage will then naturally lead to a lognormal distribution of the decay rates, as observed. It is thus suggested that, beside other multiplicative noise sources, the environmental effect of surrounding plage fields is a major factor in the origin of lognormally distributed large random deviations from the mean law in the sunspot decay rates.     

On the solution of the radiative transfer equations for polarized radiation

A general formalism is presented to obtain an analytical solution of the radiative transfer equations for polarized radiation when the absorption Mueller matrix for the Stokes parameters is constant along the ray-path. The formalism is then applied to find an analytical approximation of the Stokes parameters profiles for a typical chromospheric line having an optical-depth dependence of the source function of the form S() = ( + )^1/2(1 + )^1/2.     

Compact,variable sources on the Sun at 2 centimeter wavelength

Very Large Array (VLA) observations of compact transient sources on the Sun at 2 cm wavelength are presented. These sources have angular sizes of 5–25, brightness temperatures of T _B 1–3 × 10⁵ K, and lifetimes ranging between a few minutes to several hours. The emission originates in regions of diffuse plage and quiet Sun, where the photospheric magnetic fields are relatively weak (H 100 G). In some cases the 2 cm radiation may be explained as the thermal bremsstrahlung of a dense (N _e 10¹⁰ cm^-3) plasma in the transition region. For other sources, the relatively high circular polarization ( _c 40–50 %) suggests a nonthermal emission mechanism, such as the gyrosynchrotron radiation of mildly relativistic electron with a power-law spectrum.     

Distribution of polarization and intensity of radiation across the stellar disk and numberical values of atmospheric characteristics governing this distribution

Computations of polarization and intensity of radiation from a unit stellar surface area are presented, as well as a study of the numerical characteristics of atmospheres — single-scattering albedo and the initial source function(), which define the polarization behaviour of atmospheres. The radiatively stable models of stellar atmospheres presented by Kuruczet al. (1974) and Kurucz (1979) have been used for calculations. Since the versus optical depth dependence is rather weak, it has been assumed that (=cost. With a fixed effective temperatureT _eff maximum values of are characteristic of stars featuring the lowest surface gravity accelerationg. Among stars with radiatively stable atmospheres, maximum values of (=5000 Å) 0.4–0.6 are exhibited by supergiants withT _eff=8000–20 000 K. The plot of () is characterized by discontinuities at the boundaries of spectral series for hydrogen and, sometimes, for helium. Maximum are attained in the Lyman region of =912–1200 Å, where can reach the value 0.7–0.9 for supergiants, this value being 0.3 for Main-Sequence stars. For stars withT _eff 35 000 K, high values of also are attained for <912 Å. Within the infrared region, is always small because of bremsstrahlung absorption.A rapid growth of the source functionB with < typical for ultraviolet range (within the Wien part of spectrum), together with high values of results in the strong polarization of emission from a unit stellar surface element, sometimes exceeding the values for the case of a pure electron scattering. For longer wavelengths, where the limb-darkening coefficient is smaller, the plane of polarization abruptly turns 90° in the central parts of the visible stellar disk.     

Polyoxymethylene co-polymers on grains

Conditions prevalent in dense molecular clouds are shown to favour the polymerization of H₂CO molecules and the deposition of formaldehyde co-polymer mantles, with typical radii 10^–5 cm, on smaller refractory grains. If a significant fraction of such co-polymer coated grains are expelled with systematic gas flows into the general interstellar medium, these moderately refractory grains may be responsible for the bulk of interstellar extinction and polarization at optical wavelengths. Mie calculations for a mixture consisting of iron, graphite and POM particles are presented as an example where POM grains of radii 0.15 dominate the extinction at optical wavelengths, providing a satisfactory overall fit to a range of extinction data. A size distribution of POM needles with a mean radius 0.15 also provides good agreement with data on interstellar linear as well as circular polarization. Suitably end-capped and stabilized co-polymer-coated grains, with either silicate or graphite cores, may survive at temperatures 450 K under interstellar ambient conditions and be responsible for the 10 emission feature in many sources. Theoretically computed band profiles of the 10 -feature in POM coated grains, in general, provide better agreement with observations than most types of silicate grains considered so far. We also note that an unexplained dip at 10 in the 8–12 feature of the infrared source OH 231.8+4.2 may be a signature of POM grains; likewise, a persistent 3.3 emission feature in many different types of infrared source could be attributed to the CH stretching mode in formaldehyde co-polymer grains.     

Взаимооействие Излучения Рентгеновскооо Истооника с АтмосФерой Нормальной Звезды в Тесных Двойных Системах

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Imaging Fabry-Pérot observations of [OI] 6300 Å emission in the coma of Halley's comet 1982i

The observation of [OI] 6300 » emission in the coma of Halley's comet 1982i, using the imaging Fabry-Pérot spectrometer, was carried out from Gurushikhar (2439N, 7243E, 1700m altitude), Mt. Abu, India on March 15, 1986 (R = 0.90 AU, = 0.96 AU). The analysis of the interferogram show the absence of the differential velocity of neutral oxygen above 5 km s^–1.     

On the Facular Area Surrounding Decaying Sunspots

The change in facular area around decaying sunspots is investigated. The data are from full-disk photometric images from CFDT1 (5 arc sec pixels) obtained at the Ca ii K-line = 393.4 nm. The 31 active regions are from a list previously used to study the decay rate of sunspots. We find a weak, marginally significant relation between spot decay rate and growth of the surrounding facular region (r² = 0.1255). We conclude that, for this group of decaying sunspots, the growth or decay of the surrounding facular region was not clearly related to the decay rate of an active regions sunspots.     

The small-energy three-body systems

We study near-Lagrange collinear configurations in the three-dimensional three-body problem, with arbitrary gravitating masses. A general method, previously developed for Coulombian systems, which provides a unique formalism for treating few-body systems close to the breakup threshold, has been employed to study the motion of three bodies both for bounded and unbounded configurations. The dependence of the triple-escape function on the small total energy E has been evaluated, as well as rovibronic configurations for bounded motion. An approximate characteristic constant is found for symmetrical systems, /, where and are the vertical libration mode and rotational mode angular frequencies, respectively, and is the threshold exponent. For equal-mass systems this constant acquires the value 1.05288.     

Effect of perturbations on the stability of triangular points. In the restricted problem of three bodies with variable mass

The effect of small perturbations and in the coriolis and the centrifugal forces respectively on the stability of the triangular points in the restricted problem of three bodies with variable mass has been studied. It is found that the range of stability of triangular points increases or decreases depending upon whether the perturbation point (, ) lies in one or the other of the two parts in which the (, ) plane is divided by the line J₈–J₉=0 where J₈ and J₉ depend upon , the constant due to the variation in mass governed by Jeans' law.     

Some fundamental elements of universe mechanics

An essential part in the mechanics under study is taking into consideration the effect of motions of the Universe objects upon that of an individual one surrounded by them including those infinitely far from it. Only macro-objects of the Universe are meant here.

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Zusammenfassung Ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Mechanik unter unserer Betrachtung ist die Berechnung des Einflusses auf die Bewegung eines individuellen Objektes von Bewegungen der Universum Objekte die es umringen einschließlich jene Objekte, die unendlich entfernt sind. Nur Makroobjekte des Weltalles sind in der Absicht dabei.

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B,V surface photometry of the UV continuum galaxy NGC 838

Surface photometry of the UV continuum galaxy NGC 838 has been carried out in theB, V system using photographic plates obtained with the 74 Kottamia telescope, Egypt. Isophotes, luminosity profiles, integrated photographic magnitudes, effective diameters and other photometric parameters are derived.The photoelectrically calibrated total apparent magnitudes areB _T =13.57 with maximum diameters 1.57×1.34 (at threshold _m =27.7 mag.//) andV _T =12.91 with maximum diameters 1.54×1.32 (at threshold _m =27.7 mag./). The integrated colour index(B–V) _T =0.66 and the effective surface brightness _e (B=19.0 mag./) and _e (V=19.7 mag./. The major axis is at position angle =85°±1°.The nucleus of NGC 838 is quite blue (integrated colour(B–V)=0.41 forr ^*<0.1) compared to normal galaxies while the colour becomes redder from the nucleus outwards. The UV excess, H emission and radio continuum emission previously observed from this galaxy by other investigators may be attributed to a recent burst of star formation in the nucleus of the galaxy of duration slightly greater than 2×10⁷ yr.     

The crossover and magneto-optical effects in sunspot spectra

Two peculiarities of the magnetic splitting of lines in sunspot spectra have been investigated. The first one consists of the fact that in a rather small region of the penumbra, near the umbrapenumbra boundary, the -component is absent in the spectra of one circular polarization while both -components are present. In the spectra of the opposite circular polarization, the -components are absent but the -component is present. By analogy with the magnetic stars, in whose spectra such an effect was observed by Babcock, this phenomenon was called by us the crossover effect in the sunspot spectra. Some properties of this effect in the different spectral lines were investigated. The nature of this effect is discussed.The second peculiarity consists of the anomalous splitting of the -component of Zeeman triplets which are of the same and opposite signs in comparison with splitting of the -components. The different possibilities of explanation are discussed.     

Динамические равновесные плазменные конфигуации и физика магнитосферы

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