黑洞吸积理论的新进展(II):含激波的吸积理论

着重评述了含激波吸积理论的发展历史和研究现状, 介绍了在伪牛顿势以及严格广义相对论框架下, 对等温和绝热两种不同的流体模型中可能发生的Ｒ－ Ｈ 激波、等温激波等各种不同激波的解析和数值模拟研究, 包括激波发生的参数空间、不同流体参数（ 比能量和比角动量） 下激波发生的位置、强度以及耗散的能量。这些研究结果表明, 在理想流体近似下, 黑洞吸积流中必定会产生激波。此外, 还介绍了含激波吸积理论在活动星系核方面的应用。对黑洞吸积理论简单讨论, 评述了含激波吸积理论与ＡＤＡＦ 吸积理论的关系, 着重评述了目前对于ＡＤＡＦ 中是否会发生激波这一存在很大争议的问题。     

限制性三体问题中摄动运动方程的坐标系选择

针对限制性三体问题,分别选取以中心天体和摄动体质心为坐标原点的惯性系,及以中心天体为坐标原点的非惯性系,讨论了不同坐标系下天体运动轨道描述的异同。利用运动天体轨道能量E的大小,可以确定受摄运动方程采用椭圆轨道根数还是采用双曲线轨道根数进行描述。为此,推导出一个关于轨道半长径和偏心率满足的临界关系判别式。结果表明,在摄动天体质量较大的情况下,非惯性系中存在大量轨道,这些轨道在原惯性坐标系中是稳定的椭圆轨道,转换到非惯性系中后却无法用椭圆轨道根数进行描述。只能引入双曲线轨道根数来描述轨道,由此将产生非惯性系下摄动运动方程轨道根数类型选择问题。最后,指出选择雅可比坐标系可以避免上述问题,并推导出适用于任意运动区域的具有统一形式的摄动函数展开式。     

LIGO的O1/O2引力波事件对Einstein-aether理论限制能力探讨

广义相对论是继牛顿万有引力理论后,在强引力场、强动态时空区域更精准的引力理论,大量的天文观测验证了广义相对论的正确性.但广义相对论与量子理论在逻辑体系上不相容,广义相对论还存在时空奇点的理论问题,宇宙学中还存在暗物质和暗能量的引力本质问题等.在使用Yunes等人提出的Einstein-aether理论修改引力波模板的基...     

X射线脉冲星自主导航的光传播时间方程

详细讨论了X射线脉冲星自主导航系统的广义相对论效应,采用DSX体系的后牛顿近似方法,计算出1PN度规下的光线弯曲轨迹和时间延缓以及2PN度规下的引力延缓,得到X射线脉冲自主导航的高精度测量方程.     

天文地球动力学中的相对论效应

天文地球动力学利用空间与地面观测手段 ,监测和研究地球整体与各圈层的物质运动以及它们间的相互作用 ,这都离不开广义相对论涉及的时间与空间。随着空间对地观测精度的提高 ,为了充分利用高精度观测提供的信息 ,在天文地球动力学的研究中必须考虑相对论效应。所涉及的相对论效应包括 :( 1 )相对论参考系的建立 ,( 2 )在恰当的参考系中对观测者和被观测对象的相对论运动方程 (平动和自转 )的描述 ,( 3 )观测者和被观测对象间的电磁信号传播 ,( 4 )依赖于坐标选择的结果与具有物理意义的可观测量间的转换 ,( 5)某些基本概念与定义在广义相对论框架下的重新确认。本文对天文地球动力学中的这些相对论效应作了简要的评述。     

磁单极子-带电粒子的Fokker-Planck方程

本文研究了在非相对论情况下磁单极子-带电粒子的Fokker-Planck方程,计算了此方程中的速度一阶二阶平均量。我们发现,和带电粒子间的相互作用很类似,磁单极-带电粒子的碰撞积分是对数式发散的,这表明远程碰撞仍然起主要作用,近距碰撞可略而不计。此外在热力学平衡分布下,给出了磁单极子-带电粒子作用的三个弛豫时间——慢化、偏转和能量交换时间——的解析表达式,并同早已熟知的荷电粒子间的弛豫时间作了比较,发现前者一般比后者大一因子:(光速/热速)~2。因此通常条件下磁单极和荷电粒子间的作用是微弱的。但在某些天体物理条件下磁单极对荷电粒子群的影响是不可忽略的,从而可期磁流体力学方程应作相应的修改,最后我们列出了含磁单极的等离子体中的封闭的MHD方程组。     

在各向同性坐标系下对VGM理论的进一步讨论

在各向同性坐标系下对“矢引力子场度规场引力理论”(VGM)作了进一步讨论,获得以下几点结果:(1)不存在半径为有限值的“无限红移面”;(2)对于行星近日点的进动,说明了VGM理论的结果为什么与广义相对论的结果不同;(3)修正了Kepler第三定律,此结果可看作VGM理论的一项预测。     

RXTE ASM的双SSC联合直接解调成像

利用直接解调成像方法对ＲＸＴＥ ＡＳＭ两个指向相同的扫描阴影照像机（ＳＳＣ）的观测,数据进行了联合成像分析,对Ｃｒａｂ天区的研究结果表明,联合成像对源的分辨能力比单ＳＳＣ成像有进上步提高,并且还对银心附近含多个源的一个天区进行了联合成像,分别计算了成像所得的３个Ｘ射线源的强度和位置坐标,并利用源与源之间的位置关系对ＲＸＴＥＡＳＭ定位定标中可能存在的系统误差作出估计,发现以直接解调成像法所得强源的定     

有核多层球密度分布的严格解

本文在文献[4]的基础上重新较详细地讨论了有核结构球对称体系中物质的分布,严格地求解了Euler方程,得到了广义相对论有核结构的多层球的解析解。结果表明,在广义相对论的有核多层球结构下,物质的密度分布将与半径的三次方成反比(n∝r~(-3)),而不是与r的二次方成反比(n∝r~(-2)),因此通过观测可以与等温聚集核(n～r~(-2))的情况相区别。     

黑洞周围一般轨道发光环的坐标系拖曳(FD)特征

根据Ｋｅｒｒ度规下粒子运动的一般方程,计算黑洞周围一般轨道单色发光环的谱线轮廓,获得了坐标系曳（ＦＤ）的特征。结果表明,原谱线发生分裂,呈现具有伴峰的双主峰轮廓,且随参数变化峰型差异明显;谱线全部发生谱移,计算参数下谱移量为负０．５到１．５;并且应用上述ＦＤ的证据,结合ＭＣＧ－６－３０－１５实际观测结果,讨论了利用发射谱线获得黑洞相关信息的可行性。     

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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.     

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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.     

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.     

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.     

我国新一代VLBI数字基带转换器研制进展

数字化是目前设备研制发展的趋势,介绍了中国科学院上海天文台利用超大规模集成电路结合软件无线电技术,自主研发的我国新一代VLBI数字基带转换器(Chinese Data Acquisition System,简称CDAS).文中描述了设备的工作原理及其组成,并以VLBI观测实验数据证明其可行性.与原有的模拟设备(Anal...