激光脉冲特性对漫反射激光测距系统精度的影响研究

测距精度是衡量漫反射激光测距系统性能的极其重要的技术指标之一。根据统计学理论以及盖革模式的雪崩光电二极管(PAD)的工作原理,数值模拟了高斯波形的脉冲宽度、回波强度及噪声强度对漫反射激光测距系统测距精度的影响。着重分析了回波信号强度为单、多光子量级及不同脉冲宽度时的测距精度,为提高漫反射激光测距系统的观测精度,提供了激光器选择及优化观测方法的参考依据。     

云南天文台激光测距中使用的光电探测器

阐述了云南天文台1.2m望远镜卫星激光测距中所使用的光电探测器,并对它们的性能和使用效果做了比较。结果表明,C SPAD是目前测距精度最高的单光子探测器。同时还论述了激光测距的工作原理和近几年来云南天文台激光测距的情况。从对GPS35、36卫星的观测结果表明,云南天文台已具备了一定的对远程卫星的测距能力,为今后远程测距、测月打下了良好的基础。     

云南天文台激光测距中使用的光电探测器

阐述了云南天文台1．2m望远镜卫星激光测距中所使用的光电探测器，并对它们的性能和使用效果做了比较。结果表明，C—SPAD是目前测距精度最高的单光子探测器。同时还论述了激光测距的工作原理和近几年来云南天文台激光测距的情况。从对GPS35、36卫星的观测结果表明，云南天文台已具备了一定的对远程卫星的测距能力，为今后远程测距、测月打下了良好的基础。     

小型锁模Nd：YAG激光振荡器卫星测距实验

介绍了一种仅用销模Nd:YAG振荡器进行的卫星激光测距实验。此类振荡器的倍频输出可达5－10mJ(532nm），脉宽50－100ps。整个振荡器仅采用一支氙灯和一支Nd：YAG棒，体积紧凑、小巧，重量仅32kg。接收望远镜口径为60cm，单光子雪崩二极管接收器。本系统对8000km远的Lageos-1,Lageos-2两颗卫星进行了成功的测距。     

高重复率卫星激光测距中一种回波实时识别方法

高重复率卫星激光测距(SLR)采用低能量激光,回波率较低且探测器暗噪声数明显增多,尤其在白天测距强背景噪声时,回波信号更是难于识别。该文提出了两次滤波的回波实时识别方法。为验证此方法的可行性,使用了Graz激光站2kHz实际测距数据,模拟了高重复率测距过程。结果表明,此方法在对高重复率激光测距回波识别中是有效的,为开展kHz激光测距打下了技术基础。     

激光测距中单光子雪崩二极管的动态范围问题及解决办法

叙述了云南天文台1．2m望远镜激光测距系统中应用多种手段，如：机械快门、发散角调整、距离门、光谱滤波、空间滤波，解决了可门控的雪崩二极管的动态范围问题，实现了远、近卫星的黑夜激光测距和部分近地卫星的白天激光测距。     

非合作目标激光测距预报的实时修正方法研究

非合作目标的激光测距预报一般是基于双行根数(TLE)外推出来的,往往有较大偏差,对激光测距的成功率有较大影响。结合空间目标的轨道理论和实测的数据分析,预报的偏差主要是预测模型外推的空间目标在运行轨道上的平近点角与实际平近点角存在偏差。根据非合作目标在望远镜跟踪视场中的脱靶量,利用相关算法可以找到一个最佳的时间根数偏差量修正空间目标的平近点角。经过修正,空间目标的视位置偏差得到改善,距离偏差能够从几百米减小到几十米,提升了预期回波到达时刻的准确度,可以给单光子探测器提供更高精度的距离门控,提高测距成功率。     

激光测距系统回波光子分布特性研究

激光测距系统回波光子特性分析对激光测距理论研究、系统设计以及性能评估具有重要意义。结合激光测距原理并综合考虑影响激光测距的多种因素,如大气湍流、大气和卷云传输特性、目标距离等,从理论上推导了测距方程以分析研究回波光子的分布特性。同时,利用Matlab软件开发平台编制了相应的激光测距系统回波光子分布特性研究软件,通过设置测距系统中激光器、发射望远镜、接收望远镜以及探测器等相关参数可估算回波光子数,并同时显示相应的函数关系曲线。     

1.2m激光测距系统及其噪声抑制技术

介绍了激光测距技术的过去和现状及其科学意义,系统地讨论了激光测距系统的构成及各组成部分的发展,分析了测距过程中各方面的误差来源及其相应的消除或减小误差的方法。对于目前正在调试的云南天文台１２ｍ激光测距系统作了详细的介绍,对该系统的噪声抑制技术也作了具体的讨论。     

我国月球激光测距研究与进展

月球激光测距是国内外所瞩目的宏伟目标,代表着单光子探测技术的高峰。文中概述了全球月球激光测距的现状以及21世纪初月球激光测距的发展趋势;分析了我国开展月球激光测距的意义。最后介绍了云南天文台1.2m望远镜进行月球激光测距的发展战略和科学目标。     

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正Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics publishes original research papers and reviews 011 all liranchcs of astronoiriy and astrophysics.Reviews arc by invitation only.Important new results that require rapid publication can be submitted as a Letter(Letters must be restricted in length     

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.     

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...