相接双星大熊座AW的基本参量

根据作者提出的确定食双星基本参量的一个新方法,由光变极小时刻求出了相接双星大熊座AW的基本参量。证实了Rensing等人为了矫正相接双星邻近效应引起的谱线轮廓畸变所提出的模型对该双星的适用性;同时也证实了Mochnaski提出的计算相接双星质量的理论模型对该双星的适用性。另外还确认了大熊座AW是一个已演化的零龄相接双星。     

磁对流湍流对太阳P模振动的影响(英文)

为了进一步探索太阳对流区的物理性质 ,我们利用高精度N的日震观测数据来研究太阳内部扰动磁场对低阶太阳P模振动的影响。对于一个时间相关的MHD湍流源 ,我们给出了导致频率变化的各种可能性。如果只考虑磁扰动的贡献 ,不同值的振动模的频率变化仅只是涨落磁场能谱的函数。我们发现频率的变化随着太阳内部磁场强度增加而变大 ,并且和太阳活动周期密切相关。我们的计算表明太阳磁活动导致的频率变化可达 0 .3μΗz。     

A Complete Microjansky Radio Survey

The Phoenix Deep Survey is an ongoing multi-wavelength survey of a 2^° diameter field aimed at studying the properties of the sub-mJy and μJy radio population. Here, we present the latest 1.4 GHz observations of this field. The new data, reaching a 5 σ flux level of 45 μJy at the centre of a 50′ diameter field, comprise more than 700 sources with flux densities less than 1 mJy (187 of which have S_1.4 < 100 μJy). This provides one of the deepest radio (1.4 GHz) surveys currently available. The 1.4 GHz source counts are presented and show a flattening down to the 50 μJy level. At flux densities around 300 μJy there are indications that the sources detected may exhibit higher clustering than those observed at higher flux levels. This suggests that deep radio surveys could be useful for studies of large-scale structure but it also presents a warning for the representativity of sources in deep pencil-beam radio surveys. The study of the optical counterparts of the μJy population seems to indicate that the median R magnitude starts to decrease below 100 μJy. Spectroscopic classification of a sample of sources in this survey confirms the trend for an increasing fraction of star-forming galaxies over other systems down to ～ 100 μJy.     

Remote sensing observations of biological material by LANDSAT along a tidal thermal front and their relevancy to the available field data

Two images recorded on two successive summer days by LANDSAT satellite over the western approaches to the English Channel show bright pattern of complex shape the origin of which is puzzling. Among the wavelength bands available on LANDSAT's multispectral scanner, these patterns are apparent only in the green region of the spectrum, and they are located towards the stratified side of a well marked tidal thermal front. Spectral signature analysis and available knowledge on hydrography and plankton in the area are used to derive a proposed interpretation. Phytoplankton would accordingly be the best candidate for being responsible for the observed patterns.     

Array Signal Processing for Radio Astronomy

Radio astronomy forms an interesting application area for array signal processing techniques. Current synthesis imaging telescopes consist of a small number of identical dishes, which track a fixed patch in the sky and produce estimates of the time-varying spatial covariance matrix. The observations sometimes are distorted by interference, e.g., from radio, TV, radar or satellite transmissions. We describe some of the tools that array signal processing offers to filter out the interference, based on eigenvalue decompositions and factor analysis, which is a more general technique applicable to partially calibrated arrays. We consider detection of interference, spatial filtering techniques using projections, and discuss how a reference antenna pointed at the interferer can improve the performance. We also consider image formation and its relation to beamforming.     

A new method for the analysis of apsidal motions in eclipsing binaries

In this paper, a new method for the determination of apsidal motion parameters in eccentric eclipsing binaries is presented. A sequential procedure has been followed throughout allowing an automatized on-line computation of the elements and their accuracies as well as a more realistic fit to the observed times of minima. A determination of individual mean errors for the parameters of fit give us the possibility to compare the results with available theoretical models of stellar structure. In the procedure, we have introduced a determination of preliminary elements by means of Fourier transform and extended the practical equations to terms up to the fifth power of the eccentricity. An application to the well-known case of the eclipsing binary GL Car has been made. Our analysis shows an apsidal motion period of 25.3 years with a value of 0.152 for the orbital eccentricity.     

Elimination of the nodes in problems ofn bodies

In application of the Reduction Theorem to the general problem ofn (>-3) bodies, a Mathieu canonical transformation is proposed whereby the new variables separate naturally into (i) a coordinate system on any reduced manifold of constant angular momentum, and (ii) a quadruple made of a pair of ignorable longitudes together with their conjugate momenta. The reduction is built from a binary tree of kinetic frames Explicit transformation formulas are obtained by induction from the top of the tree down to its root at the invariable frame; they are based on the unit quaternions which represent the finite rotations mapping one vector base onto another in the chain of kinetic frames. The development scheme lends itself to automatic processing by computer in a functional language.     

On the detectability of H2S in Jupiter

The influence of hydrogen sulfide, a still-undetected key molecule for the Jovian atmospheric chemistry in the infrared spectrum, was investigated. Synthetic spectra including various vertical distribution profiles of H₂S have been computed and compared with observational data for Jupiter in the 2- to 15-cm^?1 and 1160- to 1200-cm^?1 spectral ranges. No firm conclusion about the presence of H₂S can be drawn from the latter spectral region because of large uncertainties in gaseous opacities. In the microwave range, H₂S is found to be a possible candidate to explain the measurements. Constraints to its vertical distribution which would imply a significant supersaturation in the troposphere are derived. Physical and chemical processes involving H₂S in the atmosphere are discussed in the light of this hypothesis.