Regular Substructures in the Rich Open Galaxy Clusters

We present the results of study the 2D distribution of galaxies in 254 rich open galaxy clusters. The clusters have no concentration to the center, so all kinds of substructures are clearly seen. Regular linear substructures in galaxy clusters were described in Rood & Sastry scheme of morphological types according to positions of 10 brightest galaxies. Another types of regular substructures were missed. Our study fills the lacuna. We have found about 25% of clusters in our data set having four kinds of regular substructures, beyond founded before linear ones. New kinds of regular substructures are: crossing and divaricating filaments or X and Y-type peculiarities, as well as curved strips and short dense chains. We suppose the distribution of dark matter in founded galaxy clusters with substructures have corresponded regular peculiarities. Hot gas distribution in these clusters must be observed distorted X-ray halo. We suppose also the clusters will evolve in the different ways.     

Fluctuations of Nero Lake in the Holocene

Doklady Earth Sciences - The paleohydrological settings in the Rostov lowland (Yaroslavl oblast) have been the subject of long-standing of disputes. The concepts for the Holocene fluctuations in...     

On the Likelihood and Fluctuations of Gaussian Realizations

The likelihood of Gaussian realizations, as generated by the Cholesky simulation method, is analyzed in terms of Mahalanobis distances and fluctuations in the variogram reproduction. For random sampling, the probability to observe a Gaussian realization vector can be expressed as a function of its Mahalanobis distance, and the maximum likelihood depends only on the vector size. The Mahalanobis distances are themselves distributed as a Chi-square distribution and they can be used to describe the likelihood of Gaussian realizations. Their expected value and variance are only determined by the size of the vector of independent random normal scores used to generate the realizations. When the vector size is small, the distribution of Mahalanobis distances is highly skewed and most realizations are close to the vector mean in agreement with the multi-Gaussian density model. As the vector size increases, the realizations sample a region increasingly far out on the tail of the multi-Gaussian distribution, due to the large increase in the size of the uncertainty space largely compensating for the low probability density. For a large vector size, realizations close to the vector mean are not observed anymore. Instead, Gaussian vectors with Mahalanobis distance in the neighborhood of the expected Mahalanobis distance have the maximum probability to be observed. The distribution of Mahalanobis distances becomes Gaussian shaped and the bulk of realizations appear more equiprobable. However, the ratio of their probabilities indicates that they still remain far from being equiprobable. On the other hand, it is observed that equiprobable realizations still display important fluctuations in their variogram reproduction. The variance level that is expected in the variogram reproduction, as well as the variance of the variogram fluctuations, is dependent on the Mahalanobis distance. Realizations with smaller Mahalanobis distances are, on average, smoother than realizations with larger Mahalanobis distances. Poor ergodic conditions tend to generate higher proportions of flatter variograms relative to the variogram model. Only equiprobable realizations with a Mahalanobis distance equal to the expected Mahalanobis distance have an expected variogram matching the variogram model. For large vector sizes, Cholesky simulated Gaussian vectors cannot be used to explore uncertainty in the neighborhood of the vector mean. Instead uncertainty is explored around the n-dimensional elliptical envelop corresponding to the expected Mahalanobis distance.     

Migration of Depocenters and Accumulation Centers and its Indication of Subsidence Centers in the Mesozoic Ordos Basin

Based on the integrated study of structure attributions and characteristics of the original basin in combination with lithology and lithofacies, sedimentary provenance analysis and thickness distribution of the Mesozoic Ordos Basin, it is demonstrated that the depocenters migrated counterclockwise from southeast to the north and then to the southwest from the Middle-Late Triassic to the Early Cretaceous. There were no unified and larger-scale accumulation centers except several small isolated accumulation centers before the Early Cretaceous. The reasons why belts of relatively thick strata were well developed in the western basin in several stages are that this area is near the west boundary of the original Ordos Basin, there was abundant sediment supply and the hydrodynamic effect was strong. Therefore, they stand for local accumulation centers. Until the Early Cretaceous, depocenters, accumulation centers and subsidence centers were superposed as an entity in the southwest part of the Ordos Basin. Up to the end of the Middle Jurassic, there still appeared a paleogeographic and paleostructural higher-in-west and lower-in-east framework in the residual basin to the west of the Yellow River. The depocenters of the Ordos Basin from the Middle–Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic were superposed consistently. The relatively high thermal maturation of Mesozoic and Paleozoic strata in the depocenters and their neighborhood suggest active deep effects in these areas. Generally, superposition of depocenters in several periods and their consistency with high thermal evolution areas reveal the control of subsidence processes. Therefore, depocenters may represent the positions of the subsidence centers. The subsidence centers (or depocenters) are located in the south of the large-scale cratonic Ordos Basin. This is associated with flexural subsidence of the foreland, resulting from the strong convergence and orogenic activity contemporaneous with the Qinling orogeny.     

On the Inner Structure of Virialized Clusters

Astronomy Reports - In the present paper, we studied the correlations among different quantities in the clusters of galaxies observed by Newman et al. We found an anti-correlation among the slope...     

Migration of Depocenters and Accumulation Centers and its Indication of Subsidence Centers in the Mesozoic Ordos Basin

Based on the integrated study of structure attributions and characteristics of the original basin in combination with lithology and lithofacies,sedimentary provenance analysis and thickness distribution of the Mesozoic Ordos Basin,it is demonstrated that the depocenters migrated counterclockwise from southeast to the north and then to the southwest from the Middle-Late Triassic to the Early Cretaceous.There were no unified and larger-scale accumulation centers except several small isolated accumulation c...     

陕西省金堆城露天矿排土场高边坡稳定性评价

通过野外实地调研,在详细研究金堆城露天矿排土场高边坡地质条件和边坡变形破坏特征的基础上,分析了该边坡的变形破坏机制,将破坏方式归纳为两种类型:蠕滑-拉裂破坏,拉裂-滑移破坏。通过圆弧法和破坏概率法计算和分析了高边坡在天然、爆破振动和地震条件下5个不同剖面地段的稳定性状态,并利用FLAC数值模拟进行验证,最后,根据变形破坏方式提出了相应的处理措施。为高边坡的稳定性评价、预测和防治提供了有价值的参考。     

Fluctuations in the alpha-effect and grand solar minima

The parameters of a special type of α-effect known in dynamo theory as the Babcock-Leighton mechanism are estimated using the data of sunspot catalogs. The estimates support the presence of the Babcock-Leighton α-effect on the Sun. Fluctuations of the α-effect are also estimated. The fluctuation amplitude appreciably exceeds themean value, and the characteristic time for the fluctuations is comparable to the period of the solar rotation. Fluctuations with the parameters found are included in a numericalmodel for the solar dynamo. Computations show irregular changes in the amplitudes of the magnetic cycles on time scales of centuries and millennia. The calculated statistical characteristics of the grand solar minima and maxima agree with the data on solar activity over the Holocene.     

近百年来青藏高原冰川的进退变化

近百年来, 青藏高原的冰川虽然出现过两次退缩速率减缓或相对稳定甚至小的前进阶段, 但总的过程仍然呈明显的波动退缩趋势. 随着全球气候的波动变暖, 特别是进入20世纪80年代以来的快速增温, 使高原冰川末端在近几十年间出现了快速退缩. 以高原东部和南部边缘山地的冰川变化幅度最大, 而高原中北部山区和羌塘地区的冰川变化幅度较小, 相对比较稳定. 显示出青藏高原冰川对气候变化响应的敏感性在边缘山区较中腹地区更为敏感.     

Quantifying Metabolically Driven pH and Oxygen Fluctuations in US Nearshore Habitats at Diel to Interannual Time Scales

We compiled and examined 15 years (2002–2016) of high-frequency monitoring data from the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) to characterize diel to interannual variability of pH and dissolved oxygen (DO, % saturation) across 16 diverse, shallow-water habitats along the US Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts. We asked whether these systems exhibit a common pH/DO relationship, whether there were detectable interannual trends in temperature, pH, and DO within and across systems, and how pH/DO dynamics would relate to measured levels of nutrients and chlorophyll. Our analyses confirmed that large, metabolically driven, and thus concurrent fluctuations of pH and DO are a unifying feature of nearshore habitats. Moreover, we derived well-constrained relationships that predict (i) monthly mean pH or (ii) mean diel pH fluctuations across systems based on habitat mean salinity and (i) mean DO or (ii) mean diel DO fluctuations. This suggests that common metabolic principles drive diel to seasonal pH/DO variations within as well as across a diversity of estuarine environments. Yearly pH and DO anomalies did not show monotonous trends over the study period and differed considerably between sites and regions. However, weekly anomalies of means, diel minima, and diel ranges of pH and DO changed significantly over time and were strongly correlated to temperature anomalies. These general patterns lend strong empirical support to the notion that coastal acidification—in addition to being driven by eutrophication and atmospheric CO₂ increases—is exacerbated simply by warming, likely via increasing community respiration. Nutrient and chlorophyll dynamics were inversely related in these shallow, well-mixed systems, but higher nutrient levels were still associated with lower pH and lower DO levels in most, but not all, systems. Our analyses emphasize the particular dynamics of nearshore habitats and the critical importance of NERRS and its system-wide monitoring program.     

Absolute Proper Motions and the Kinematics of Globular Clusters

Astronomy Reports - Position data for stars in the vicinities of 119 Galactic globular clusters from the USNOB1, 2MASS, URAT1, and ALLWISE catalogs have been reduced in the system of the UCAC5...     

Substructures in the Galaxy Clusters in Rich Regions

Astronomy Reports - We present the results of study of the 2D distribution of galaxies in galaxy clusters with redshifts $$z < 0.15$$ in rich regions. Our data consists of two sets extracted...     

Fluctuations of the South Patagonian Ice-field during the last glaciation and the Holocene

Mapping along a transect from the southeastern margin of the South Patagonian Ice-field in Torres del Paine National Park (Chile) to the limits of fresh moraines of the last glacial cycle indentified eight glacier advances. The four younger ones have been dated by dendrochronology, tephrochronology and radiocarbon dating. Although the bases of 10 m deep bogs were sampled, close limiting radiocarbon dates were not obtained because bog formation in this rain-shadow area appears not to have commenced until ca.12000 yr ago. The outermost Little Ice Age moraine formed during the seventeenth century and three inner ones were deposited around ad 1805, 1845 and after 1890. Densely vegetated older moraines contiguous with Little Ice Age deposits are possibly of late Holocene age. Tephra from the eruption of Reclus volcano at ca. 11 880 yr BP was incorporated by a readvance that deposited large multiple moraines 10–16 km from the modern ice-front; the oldest basal peat found inside the moraine has been dated to ca. 9200 yr BP. These bracketing dates indicate that some eastern outlet glaciers of the ice-field advanced at a time when some western tidewater outlet glaciers terminated inside their modern limits. This questions the view of J. H. Mercer and other that Patagonian glaciers did not readvance during the late-glacial interval. A stadial event also occurred when the glaciers were some 18–20 km from their modern positions and is closely dated to ca. 11880 yr BP because Reclus pumice flushed down-glacier forms thick upper beds in outwash deltas deposited in proglacial lakes. The four older moraines pre-date the late-glacial eruption of Reclus but are not dated closely. Comparison of their spatial extent with well-dated moraines in the Chilean Lakes Region suggests that they may mark advances culminating at ca. 14000 yr BP, ca. 20000 yr BP and earlier.     

Footwall Rock Slope Stability Evaluations at Nchanga Open Pit Mine,Zambia

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - Footwall instability is still problematic in many base metal surface mines around the world. The current slope stability analyses by numerical simulation...     

Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in the Spheroidal Dwarf Galaxy IKN

Astronomy Reports - Moderate resolution spectra of four globular clusters in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy IKN obtained with the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory have been used...     

Method to Reduce Bump at Bridge Approach of Open Expressway Using Horizontal Drilling Replacement

The physical and mechanical properties of bubble mixed light-weight soil (BMLS) were studied through laboratory penetration test, soak test and unconfined compressive strength test, and a method to treat vehicle bump at bridge approach of open expressway was put forward based on the condition, in which the BMLS was used to replace parts of road embankment by horizontally drilling holes on both sides of the embankment. Analyses show that the water absorption of BMLS can reach 25% maximally and its initial unit-weight cannot be restored after drying; after using BMLS horizontal drilling replacement, the surface subsidence and sedimentation rate gradually approach zero; and finally, satisfactory treatment performance for vehicle bump at bridge approach of open expressway has been obtained.     

Rapid Ice Margin Fluctuations during the Younger Dryas in the Tropical Andes

Radiocarbon dated lacustrine sequences in Perú show that the chronology of glaciation during the late glacial in the tropical Andes was significantly out-of-phase with the record of climate change in the North Atlantic region. Fluvial incision of glacial-lake deposits in the Cordillera Blanca, central Perú, has exposed a glacial outwash gravel; radiocarbon dates from peat stratigraphically bounding the gravel imply that a glacier advance culminated between 11,280 and 10,990 ¹⁴C yr B.P.; rapid ice recession followed. Similarly, in southern Perú, ice readvanced between 11,500 and 10,900 ¹⁴C yr B.P. as shown by a basal radiocarbon date of 10,870 ¹⁴C yr B.P. from a lake within 1 km of the Quelccaya Ice Cap. By 10,900 ¹⁴C yr B.P. the ice front had retreated to nearly within its modern limits. Thus, glaciers in central and southern Perú advanced and retreated in near lockstep with one another. The Younger Dryas in the Peruvian Andes was apparently marked by retreating ice fronts in spite of the cool conditions that are inferred from the ∂¹⁸O record of Sajama ice. This retreat was apparently driven by reduced precipitation, which is consistent with interpretations of other paleoclimatic indicators from the region and which may have been a nonlinear response to steadily decreasing summer insolation.