Silicates in evolved stars: the lrs-maser chronology revisited

Since the publication of our correlation (1990 Ap.J. 350, L45) suggesting a temporal relationship among: (a) shapes of 10 micron silicates seen in IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (LRS); (b) IRAS broad band colors; (c) light curve asymmetries, and (d) the types of masers associated with various Mira variable stars, the question has arisen whether the implied chronology refelcts the interval between thermal pulses, or the more lengthy ascent of the AGB. There is evidence in favor of the former interpretation. A strong implication of this idea is that variability among pre-silicate spectra should be significant. Several examples of this have been found in the extended LRS database, and are presented. Finally, plans are presented to continue monitoring of selected variables in the 10 micron region, to verify the variability suggested in the limited phase coverage provided in the LRS database. Monitoring will include use of our facilities at the Mt.Evans-Womble Observatory — highest in the world at 4313 meters altitude.     

The infrared colors of main sequence stars: how much circumstellar debris is normal?

We have been awarded NASA Key Project observing time on ISO, in order to establish the true frequency of far-infrared excesses in a volume-limited sample of main sequence and related stars, and address the relative success or failure of single stars in processes related to the forming of planetary systems. For a volume-limited subset of main sequence and related stars, PHT03 measurements at 3.6, 11.5, 20 and 60 micron will be obtained, using a 120 arsec aperture in all cases to eliminate possible companion confusion with differing apertures, to ascertain spectral energy distributions. For the M dwarfs, 100 micron observations will also be obtained. For some, brighter sources, more extensive wavelength coverage and improved spatial resolution will be attempted, using CAM and SWS. Spatially over-sampled PHOT observations will be made at 60 micron of the brightest and nearest Vega-like sources to measure the characteristic sizes of the emitting regions and obtain some information regarding their shapes and orientations. The goal is not a map, but scan profiles along 3 position angles which can be deconvolved to find the intrinsic size and shape of the half-maximum contour of the emitting region. Photometry of selected lines of sight through the zodiacal dust will also be carried out to look for outer solar system (Kuiper Belt) material. Observation at a range of wavelengths, ecliptic latitudes and at 2 epochs is designed to help untangle foreground Zodiacal from background Kuiper flux, not necessarily to look for individual macroscopic objects.     

手纲冲角近似值的计算方法

在假设手纲、空纲成直线状，浮纲、沉纲呈悬链线状的前提下，利用悬链线各因素与手纲冲角之间的相互制约关系，确立了计算单船底拖网作业手纲冲角近似值的逐步校正法。并推广应用于双船底拖网作业中的曳纲水平冲角、空纲的水平冲角、上袖端的内倾率、上片网衣在沉纲前上方的遮盖面积以及遮盖率等的近似值计算。     

广西隆林县隆或金矿的地质特征和成因分析

隆林县隆或金矿属微粒型金矿，具有多层位、层状矿体为主、矿石和矿物成分简单、沉积结构构造特征，属典型层控矿床。矿床成因与生物礁的消失、滑塌事件、深水火山碎屑硅泥质上超盆地的叠覆、以及有机质的热解和分异有关。火山作用提供金的来源，火山～碎屑～浊积岩相为矿源层和含矿层，并受沉积盆地的关闭和开启影响，形成成岩矿床、成岩～后生或后生矿床     

生物传感器综述

本文介绍当前国际、国内生物传感器的发展及应用概况,并对生物传感器的市场前景和生物传感器技术的未来发展作了简单地论述。     

Extreme gravitational lensing near rotating black holes

We describe a new approach to calculating photon trajectories and gravitational lensing effects in the strong gravitational field of the Kerr black hole. These techniques are applied to explore both the imaging and spectral properties of photons emitted from an accretion disc, which perform multiple orbits of the central mass before escaping to infinity. Viewed at large inclinations, these higher-order photons contribute ∼20 per cent of the total luminosity of the system for a Schwarzschild hole, while for an extreme Kerr black hole this fraction rises to ∼60 per cent. In more realistic models, these photons will be reabsorbed by the disc at large distances from the hole, but this returning radiation could provide a physical mechanism to resolve the discrepancy between the predicted and observed optical/ultraviolet colours in active galactic nuclei. Conversely, at low inclinations, higher-order images reintercept the disc plane close to the black hole, so need not be absorbed by the disc if this is within the plunging region. These photons form a bright ring carrying approximately 10 per cent of the total disc luminosity for a Schwarzschild black hole. The spatial separation between the inner edge of the disc and the ring is similar to the size of the event horizon. This is resolvable for supermassive black holes with proposed X-ray interferometery missions such as the Microarcsecond X-ray Imaging Mission (MAXIM), and so has the potential to provide an observational test of strong field gravity.     

冷涡对两类对流系统结构演变作用的个例模拟对比分析

2015年8月22日,在同一冷涡背景下,华北东北部形成了多单体风暴,而在黄淮地区出现飑线过程。本文根据观测资料给出冷涡对中尺度对流系统发生发展的动力和热力作用,并基于WRF中尺度数值模式的模拟结果,对比分析了两类对流系统的形态结构演变和运动过程的差异、差异产生的原因及冷涡的作用,主要结论如下:(1)两类对流系统均位于冷涡后部,但形态演变和运动过程差异显著,北部分散性对流受地面风辐合及地形抬升的共同影响发展形成多单体风暴,呈西北—东南排列,主要以前向传播的方式缓慢向东南偏南方向运动,带来短时强降水为主的天气;南部线状对流由山东西北部和河南北部形成的多个孤立单体合并后形成,随后在黄淮地区发展为飑线系统,在平流移动为主的作用下向东南方向快速运动,产生雷暴大风和冰雹天气。(2)北部多单体风暴在冷暖气团交界面形成,位于冷涡西南象限,低层水汽和能量充足;新对流单体在边界层被触发后,沿着低层切变线向高能区传播。(3)南部飑线系统在冷槽后的地面干暖区低压带中形成,中尺度对流系统产生的冷池和雷暴高压的出流与环境相互作用,低层水汽条件转好,使得单体不断传播和合并,发展为飑线系统。(4)中层后部入流的强度和环境水汽条件对两类对流系统组织化过程有不同影响,飑线中层后部入流的增强主要来自环境西风分量的增加,与冷涡发展演变使得环境风场增强有关;北部对流湿层深厚,所处的中层风场弱,不利于多单体风暴组织化发展;南部飑线系统位于更强的环境西风引导气流中,后部中层入流强、高层环境空气干,有利于强下沉气流形成,从而促进雷暴高压和冷池的发展,强下沉气流还使中低层的风速增加,垂直风切变增强,有利于对流单体组织化发展形成线状对流。     

一次华南强飑线过程的数值模拟及后方入流作用诊断

利用WRF中尺度模式对2014年3月30—31日发生在华南的一次强飑线过程进行数值模拟。本次飑线过程受高空槽和低涡切变线影响,水汽条件充足,低层垂直风切变较强。模拟结果表明:发展阶段,后方入流缺口开始出现,飑线逐渐呈弓形结构;成熟阶段,飑线后方入流逐渐下沉到地面并延伸至对流区前沿,冷池完全移入残留冷区并加强,配合九连山下坡过程,飑线得以加强。后方入流对本次飑线过程的发展和维持十分重要。后方入流受环境风及中层负压力扰动作用开始形成,随后受对流区后侧中低层涡旋对的影响迅速发展增强而进入发展阶段,反气旋式涡旋的北侧风场促进了后方入流的形成和发展;成熟阶段,气旋式涡旋的南侧风场使后方入流迅速增强。气旋式涡旋区域主要受涡管拉伸作用增长,反气旋式涡旋区主要受涡度倾斜增长作用。涡旋对垂直涡度主要是由低层水平涡度向上倾斜引起,而水平涡度则是由斜压作用产生。     

华北一次暖区暴雨雷暴触发及传播机制研究

2016年7月24日午后河北中东部至天津南部出现了一次短历时暴雨过程,暴雨中心位于天津南部,模式客观预报和预报员主观预报均存在偏差。利用常规地面高空观测资料、卫星云图、多普勒雷达探测资料和同化了雷达和地面加密资料的VDRAS资料等,对导致此次强降水过程形成原因进行分析,特别是对本次暴雨最为关键的问题——雷暴触发和传播机制进行了深入细致的分析,结果表明:(1)本次暴雨过程发生在副热带高压加强北上过程中,从传统流型识别的角度看不利于副热带高压西北侧的高空槽东移影响华北东南部,这是一次发生在副热带高压588 dagpm线控制下的暖区暴雨,是非典型流型下的短历时暴雨,预报难度大;(2)邢台探空较北京探空距离暴雨区更远,但对于副热带高压西北侧西南气流影响下的暖区暴雨,位于暴雨区西南的邢台探空更具参考价值,邢台站24日11时的订正探空显示:大气层结极不稳定、低层水汽异常充沛且湿层深厚,CAPE值达3874 J·kg~(-1),对流抑制仅为22 J·kg~(-1),8 g·kg~(-1)比湿达600 hPa,地面露点出现接近30℃的极端高值;(3)850 hPa暖式切变线附近,两条地面辐合线合并和中尺度锋生是触发中尺度对流系统的重要因素,卫星云图上亦可见两条云带合并,其合并使得边界层辐合加强,因而积云在辐合区发展,暖切变线附近上午有小积云发展,随着辐合加强形成东西向排列中尺度对流系统;(4)雷暴触发后,其移动和传播是预报的难点,因其决定了对流降水持续时间,本例中受辐合线和风暴阵风出流共同作用,切变线西段有新的雷暴触发,加之切变线南侧南北向的云街与切变线相遇,使得雷暴在向西传播的同时向南发展,即传播方向为西偏南,在环境西南气流的作用下,对流单体向东偏北方向移动,即平流方向东偏北,平流与传播方向相反,因而形成"列车效应",另外,南北向云街表明切变线南侧逆温层之下有偏南暖湿气流补充,加之对流风暴阵风的出流再次触发雷暴使得对流风暴持续。     

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS AND THERMO- DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT MECHANISMS OF TWO TYPES OF WARM-SECTOR HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG THE SOUTH CHINA COAST

Warm-sector heavy rainfalls along the south China coast from April to June during 2009–2014 can be divided into two main types based on their low-level circulations. Type I is the southerly pattern with meridional convergence line at the west of the Pearl River estuary, which is formed by the convergence of southeasterly, southerly, and southwesterly flows. Type II is the southwesterly pattern with a latitudinal convergence line at the east of the Pearl River estuary, which is formed by the convergence of westerly and southwesterly flows. Statistics on 6-hourly heavy rainfall events indicates that, during the afore-mentioned 6 years, there were on average 73.2 occurrences of the southerly pattern and 50.3 occurrences of the southwesterly pattern per year. After the onset of summer monsoon in the South China Sea, the occurrence frequencies of both patterns increase remarkably. The synthetic diagnosis of pattern circulation shows that, at 500 hPa, for the southerly pattern, there is a broad warm high ridge, and a temperature ridge is behind the high ridge, which causes an obvious warm advection at the high ridge area. There is no frontal region. For the southwesterly pattern, the circulation is a weak trough with a temperature trough behind it. The position of the frontal region is near Yangzi River, and the south China coast is in the warm-sector of the frontal region. At the vertical cross-section of each of the two categories of heavy rainfall, there is a strong vertical motion center stretching to 400 hPa, where the convergence layer in the rainfall region is deep and with several vertical convergence centers overlapping one another. Both types of heavy rainfalls are with abundant water vapor, accompanied with deep convective instability energy layers, and with strong release of latent heat caused by condensation of water vapor. The release of latent heat leads to the warming-up and stretching of the air column, thus strengthens deep convergence and vertical velocity upward. There is a stronger latent heat-release in the southwesterly pattern than in the southerly pattern, while in the southerly pattern, the warm advection at middle and upper levels is stronger than the latent head release. To study the thermo-dynamic development mechanisms, weather research and forecasting model (WRF) numerical simulations are made and the results show that, in the two rainstorm regions, latent heat release warms up the air column, hence significantly increase the depth and strength of the vertical velocity. Moreover, the release of latent heat strengthens convergent circulation at lower levels and weakens divergent circulation at middle levels, whose influence can be as strong as 30%–50% of the wind circulation strength of the two types of the warm-sector heavy rainfall over the south China coast, and further enhances deep convection, promoting warm-sector storm development.