疏散星团M11的研究:3.团星分布的两点相关函数分析

本文首次利用两点相关函数，对著名中年疏散星团M11团星的空间分布进行了讨论．结果表明，无论对全部成员星还是不同星等的成员星，它们的自相关和交叉相关函数都能很好地以幂律形式描述．不同星等成员星的自相关和交叉相关计算表明，M11已经历了一定的动力学弛豫，出现了质量的空间分层效应．     

1988年4月15日磁环的时间与空间演化

亚秒级Ｕ 型爆首次由北京天文台２ ．６ － ３ ．８ＧＨｚ 高时间分辨（８ ｍｓ） 太阳射电频谱仪报道。本文对这些环状结构的时间和空间演化进行了研究,并和相关的光学、Ｘ 射线及其它射电波段的观测进行了比较     

盘星系的内禀扁度研究

盘星系的内禀扁度对计算星系的空间倾角非常重要．对从LEDA数据库中选取的14988个盘星系进行内禀扁度的统计分析．研究表明，盘星系的内禀扁度与星系的形态密切相关．整体上说，透镜星系和不规则星系的内禀扁度qo大于旋涡星系，早型旋涡星系的内禀扁度qo大于晚型旋涡星系，其中Scd星系的内禀扁度qo最小．利用所得的qo-T关系，还对16个已知倾角的亮星系进行了倾角计算，发现与其他方法估计的空间倾角符合得较好．     

新浮磁流触发暗条爆发的统计研究

观测研究表明有利于磁重联的新浮磁流与日冕物质抛射(CME)有密切关系．利用数值模拟的方法,新浮磁流触发CME的物理模型对观测结果进行了物理解释．基于这种模型,不考虑重力和热传导, 2．5维的数值模拟的理论结果显示:是否能够触发暗条爆发及CME,取决于新浮磁流磁通量的大小、浮现的位置以及其磁极走向,并给出了能够触发暗条爆发与不能触发爆发的参数空间．利用2002年和2003年的15个暗条爆发事例以及2002年的44个非爆发事例,对新浮磁流磁通量的大小、浮现的位置以及磁极走向进行了统计研究．结果表明并非所有的新浮磁流都能够使暗条失去平衡,形成CME．统计结果基本上支持了数值模拟的理论结果．这个结果可为空间天气预报研究提供有用的参考信息．     

用陕西天文台流星雷达监测人为空间碎片可能性的分析

本文分析了利用中国科学院陕西天文台的流星雷达进行人为空间碎片监测的可能性．详细计算了到达接收机的回波的信噪比Ｓ／Ｎ依赖于目标散射横截面。和高度距离Ｒ的关系。理论计算表明，利用陕西天文台的流星雷达完全有可能监测在２００ｋｍ至１２００ｋｍ的高度范围内，半径大于０．５ｍ的人为空间碎片．     

用斯托克斯轮廓推导太阳矢量磁场和热力学参量的三维结构

一种根据斯托克斯轮廓分析推导太阳矢量磁场和热力学参量的空间三维结构的新方法在本文中提出．在不考虑散射和原子偏振的假设下，该方法由三个具有不同功能的操作分别作用于太阳大气中一层或二层斯托克斯轮廓组成．这三个操作构成一个运行单元．将此单元运用到从表面到光球底层所划分的大气层格点，然后对扫描区所有的点应用同样的程序便可获得太阳上观察区的矢量磁场和热力学参量的空间三维结构．文中给出了相应的流程图和三个操作的详细描述，并用简化了的程序对理论轮廓进行了拟合．结果表明此方法能较满意地导出矢量磁场尤其是磁场强度的三维空间结构，而热力学参量结构的推导还需进一步改进．     

基于解析梯度的近地小天体探测机会搜索问题研究木

研究近地小天体的探测机会搜索问题．针对交会型探测任务,通过结合变分理论和状态转移矩阵推导了性能指标关于可调参数的解析偏导数,然后在搜索空间中随机生成初始点,并从这些初始点出发利用解析偏导数寻优,从而得到搜索空间内对应潜在发射机会的全部局部极小值点．此方法既在一定程度上保持了传统搜索方法全局搜索的特点,又克服了传统搜索方法的盲目性,因此计算速度获得很大提高．此外该方法可以对探测机会的搜索精度进行有效地控制．     

空间目标的圆轨道跟踪法

给出一种空间目标自动跟踪方法：圆轨道跟踪法．该方法在假设目标轨道为圆轨道的前提下计算目标轨道，而后在轨道平面中外推．和位置跟踪法比较表明：该方法不受空间目标视运动不均匀性的影响，有非常高的跟踪精度．即使采用低帧频CCD(1-2HZ)，使用本方法，也能实现对空间目标的高精度跟踪；并能给出目标的多点CCD坐标，实现对空间目标的多点分区采样，提高空间目标的定位精度．     

太阳宁静区磁场的功率谱分析

利用１９９８年１０月３日北京天文台怀柔太阳观测站的高质量磁图,对给定的太阳宁静区两种不同极性的磁场进行了功率谱分析．结果表明,空间功率谱在超米粒和中米粒尺度具有明显的尖峰结构,这对应于空间周期性分布的网络和内网络磁结构．结果也显示出,超米粒边缘所包含的两种极性场中,其中的一种极性占优势．通过瞬态功率谱的分析,得出网络和内网络场寿命之间的比例关系,这一结果和其他学者得出的超米粒和中米粒对流寿命之间的关系相符．     

GAIA计划与微角秒天体测量学

欧洲空间局正在考虑的空间天体测量卫星计划（GAIA计划）将对目视星等V亮于15．5mag的5千万颗目标进行位置、自行和视差的测定,其精度为10μas,同时还对这些目标进行多色多历元光度测定．该计划可对星系距离尺度、恒星演化、银河系运动学和动力学以及参考架联结等方面进行深入研究．其开创的微角秒天体测量学亦将会对天体物理学、太阳系天体和参考架联结等方面的研究产生深远的影响．     

A thermodynamic model of high temperature lava vaporization on Io

We modified the MAGMA chemical equilibrium code developed by Fegley and Cameron (1987, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 82, 207-222) and used it to model vaporization of high temperature silicate lavas on Io. The MAGMA code computes chemical equilibria in a melt, between melt and its equilibrium vapor, and in the gas phase. The good agreement of MAGMA code results with experimental data and with other computer codes is demonstrated. The temperature-dependent pressure and composition of vapor in equilibrium with lava is calculated from 1700 to 2400 K for 109 different silicate lavas in the ONaKFeSiMgCaAlTi system. Results for five lavas (tholeiitic basalt, alkali basalt, Barberton komatiite, dunite, and a molten type B1 Ca, Al-rich inclusion) are discussed in detail. The effects of continuous fractional vaporization on chemistry of these lavas and their equilibrium vapor are presented. The predicted abundances (relative to Na) of K, Fe, Si, Al, Ca, and Ti in the vapor equilibrated with lavas at 1900 K are lower than published upper limits for Io's atmosphere (which do not include Mg). We predict evaporative loss of alkalis, Fe, and Si during volcanic eruptions. Sodium is more volatile than K, and the Na/K ratio in the gas is decreased by fractional vaporization. This process can match Io's atmospheric Na/K ratio of 10±3 reported by Brown (2001, Icarus 151, 190-195). Silicon monoxide is an abundant species in the vapor above lavas. Spectroscopic searches are recommended for SiO at IR and mm wavelengths. Reactions of metallic vapors with S- and Cl-bearing volcanic gases may form other unusual gases including MgCl₂, MgS, MgCl, FeCl₂, FeS, FeCl, and SiS.     

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Alkali and halogen chemistry in volcanic gases on Io

We use chemical equilibrium calculations to model the speciation of alkalis and halogens in volcanic gases emitted on Io. The calculations cover wide temperature (500-2000 K) and pressure (10⁻⁶ to 10⁺¹ bars) ranges, which overlap the nominal conditions at Pele (T=1760 K, P=0.01 bars). About 230 compounds of 11 elements (O, S, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, F, Cl, Br, I) are considered. The elemental abundances for O, S, Na, K, and Cl are based upon observations. CI chondritic elemental abundances relative to sulfur are used for the other alkalis and halogens (as yet unobserved on Io). We predict the major alkali species in Pele-like volcanic gases and the percentage distribution of each alkali are LiCl (73%), LiF (27%); NaCl (81%), Na (16%), NaF (3%); KCl (91%), K (5%), KF (4%); RbCl (93%), Rb (4%), RbF (3%); CsCl (92%), CsF (6%), Cs (2%). Likewise the major halogen species and the percentage distribution of each halogen are NaF (88%), KF (10%), LiF (2%); NaCl (89%), KCl (11%); NaBr (89%), KBr (10%), Br (1%); NaI (61%), I (30%), KI (9%). We predict the major halogen condensates and their condensation temperatures at P=0.01 bar are NaF (1115 K), LiF (970 K); NaCl (1050 K), KCl (950 K); KBr (750 K), RbBr (730 K), CsBr (645 K); and solid I₂ (200 K). We also model disequilibrium chemistry of the alkalis and halogens in the volcanic plume. Based on this work and our prior modeling for Na, K, and Cl in a volcanic plume, we predict the major loss processes for the alkali halide gases are photolysis and/or condensation onto grains. Their estimated photochemical lifetimes range from a few minutes for alkali iodides to a few hours for alkali fluorides. Condensation is apparently the only loss process for elemental iodine. On the basis of elemental abundances and photochemical lifetimes, we recommend searching for gaseous KCl, NaF, LiF, LiCl, RbF, RbCl, CsF, and CsCl around volcanic vents during eruptions. Based on abundance considerations and observations of brown dwarfs we also recommend a search of Io's extended atmosphere and the Io plasma torus for neutral and ionized Li, Cs, Rb, and F.     

Study on the Stressed Mirror Polishing with a Continuous Polishing Machine for Large Aperture Off-axis Aspheric Mirrors

A special stressed annular polishing technique is proposed to mill the off-axis aspheric sub-mirrors of a large segmented mirror with an annular polishing machine. Based on the basic principle of stressed annular polishing technique, a set of special stressing mechanisms are designed to convert milling the aspheric surfaces of sub-mirrors with different off-axis distances into milling the spherical surfaces with identical radii of curvature, so that they can be pol- ished simultaneously on a continuous polishing machine. It took about contin- uous 40 hours to polish a scaled-down mirror of the planning Chinese Future Giant Telescope (CFGT) using this technique. This mirror has the 330 mm di- ameter, 3.6 m off-axis distance, and the 21.6 m radius of curvature, and its max- imum asphericity is 16 micron. The experiment shows that this method has a high effciency, suits batch manufacturing, especially the batch manufacturing of aspheric sub-mirrors of the segmented primary mirror of an extremely large aperture telescope.     

The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental indicators of past climatic conditions in the Levant and the deserts to its south and east. We first critically evaluate, extract, and summarize paleoenvironmental and paleohydrologic records. Then, we propose a framework of eastern Mediterranean atmospheric circulation features interacting with the morphology and location of the southeast Mediterranean coast. Together they strongly control the spatial distribution of rainfall and wind pattern. This cyclone–physiography interaction enforces the observed rainfall patterns by hampering rainfall generation south and southeast of the latitude of the north Sinai coast, currently at 31°15′.The proposed framework explains the much-increased rains in Lebanon and northern Israel and Jordan as deduced from pollen, rise and maintenance of Lake Lisan, and speleothem formation in areas currently arid and semiarid. The proposed framework also accounts for the southward and eastward transition into semiarid, arid, and hyperarid deserts as expressed in thick loess accumulation at the deserts' margins, dune migration from west to east in the Sinai and the western Negev, and the formation of hyperarid (< 80 mm yr^− 1) gypsic–salic soils in the southern Negev and Sinai. Our climatic synthesis explains the hyperarid condition in the southern Negev, located only 200–250 km south of the much-increased rains in the north, probably reflecting a steeper rainfall gradient than the present-day gradient from the wetter Levant into its bordering southern and eastern deserts.At present, the rainiest winter seasons in Lebanon and northern and central Israel are associated with more frequent (+ 20%), deeper Cyprus Lows traversing the eastern Mediterranean at approximately the latitude of southern Turkey. Even these wettest years in northern Israel do not yield above average annual rainfall amounts in the hyperarid southern Negev. This region is mainly influenced by the Active Red Sea Troughs that produce only localized rains. The eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Lows also produce more dust storms and transport higher amounts of suspended dust to the loess area than any other atmospheric pattern. Concurrent rainfall and dust are essential to the late Pleistocene formation of the elongated thick loess zone along the desert northern margin. Even with existing dust storms, the lack of rain and very sparse vegetation account for the absence of late Pleistocene loess sequences from the southern Negev and the formation of hyperarid soils.When the north Sinai coast shifted 30–70 km northwest due to last glacial global sea level lowering, the newly exposed coastal areas supplied the sand and dust to these active eastern Mediterranean cyclones. This enforced the latitude of the northern boundary of the loess zone to be directly due east of the LGM shoreline. This shift of coast to the northwest inhibited rainfall in the southern Levant deserts and maintained their hyperaridity. Concurrently, frequent deep eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Lows were funneled along the northern Mediterranean increasing (probably doubling) the rains in central and northern Israel, Lebanon, southwestern Syria and northern Jordan. These storms and rains formed lakes, forests, and speleothems only a short distance north of the deserts in the southern Levant.     

Active hot star shells

Interferometry in the visible provides milliarcsecond spatial resolution and thus has been used for studying the circumstellar environment of active hot stars. In this paper I will illustrate how the visibility modulus and phase can be used to better constrain the physics of Be disks through results from the VLA, the MkII and the GI2T interferometers. I will insist on the importance and the potential of coupling high angular resolution with high spectral resolution to the study of Be shells. Finally I will present a possible study of the circumstellar disk of Be stars using the VLTI. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Fitting X-ray Afterglow Light curves of Gamma-ray Bursts by Using the Magnetar Energy Injection Model

The central compact object for some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be a strongly magnetized millisecond pulsar. It can inject energy to the outer shock of the GRB by through the magnetic dipole radiation, and therefore causes the shallow decay of the early afterglow. Recently, from a large number of GRB X-ray afterglows observed by Swift/XRT(X-ray telescope), it is revealed that many of them exhibit the shallow decay about 10²∼10⁴ s after the burst prompt emission. We have fitted the X-ray afterglow light curves of 11 GRBs by using the energy injection model of a magnetar with the rotation period in the millisecond order of magnitude. The obtained result shows the validity and universality of the magnetar energy injection model in explaining the shallow decay of afterglows, and simultaneously provides some constraints on the magnetic field strength and rotation period of the central magnetar.