两个底片天区的依巴谷星自行

利用上海天文台佘山４０ 厘米折射望远镜拍摄的２ 个底片天区１５ 张照相底片上的３１ 次观测,以ＡＣＴ 星表作为初始参考星表,按中心重叠法进行归算处理,得到了１６ 颗依巴谷星和３８ 颗场星的高精度位置和自行结果,其中依巴谷星的赤经和赤纬标准误差的平均值分别为１０ ．５ ｍａｓ 和７ ．５ ｍａｓ,赤经自行和赤纬自行标准误差的平均值分别为０ ．７０ ｍａｓ／ｙｒ 和０ ．５９ ｍａｓ／ｙｒ     

用照相底片精确测定依巴谷星的自行

利用上海天文台佘山40cm折射望远镜拍摄的历元间隔约为27年的6张底片,共计有14次露光观测,以PPM星表作为初始参考星表,按中心重叠法进行归算,得到了南天区域内21颗恒星的高精度位置和自行,其中有6颗是依巴谷星,它们的赤经和赤纬精度的平均值分别为1.8ms和22mas ,赤经自行和赤纬自行精度的平均值分别灰0.068ms/a和0.97mas/a。     

观测射电星联系依巴谷星表和地面光学星表自行的精度估计

用蒙特卡罗方法对佘山40厘米望远镜射电星的观测模拟，由照相测定的自行来估计依巴谷星表和光学星表自行间联系的精度。结果表明由90颗星估计的联系精度为0″.16／百年。     

河外星系NGC7302周围依巴谷星的精确位置和自行

采用上海天台佘山40cm折射望远镜所拍摄的6张底片,以PPM星表作为初始参考星表,按中心重叠法进行了归算,得到河外星系NGC7302的位置与自行,以及周围天区11颗星的高精度位置和自行,它们的标准误差均好于30mas和0.7mas/a。其中有4颗是依巴谷星,它们的赤经和赤纬自行精度的平均值分别为0.024ms/a和0.21mas/s。     

测定天文大气折射和建立电磁波折射延迟实测模型(Ⅱ)-采用依巴谷星表作为工作星表

叙述了测定大气折射对工作星表的要求和星表系统误差的影响,并通过FK5星表相对于依巴谷星表的系统误差,来说明以往的各种基本星表都不适用的原因;文章说明了依巴谷星表所列星位置不含随天区而异的系统误差的特性,分析了该星表问世时的精度和十多年后的今天仍能达到的精度,说明它可以作为这种测定的工作星表,从而为直接测定天文大气折射值和折射率差提供了一个重要的条件;文章还介绍了依巴谷星表的星等分布,认为只需选用亮于6mag的依巴谷星,这一星等范围,为制定专用测量仪器终端的设计方案提供了依据。     

FK5星表和依巴谷星表的比较

由ＦＫ５星表和依巴谷星表在不同历元上的比较、检测和讨论了ＦＫ５星表的系统差．结果表明，ＦＫ５星表的自行系统差可能是影响ＦＫ５星表位置系统差的主要来源．在一些研究工作中，例如在依巴谷星表系统中研究地球自转的长期变化或以前的照相观测结果的重新归算，需要考虑依巴谷星表自行个别误差的影响     

利用佘山底片改进依巴谷星自行的精度估计

在对佘山40cm折射望远镜所拍摄底片进行充分调研的基础上，分析设计了几种改进依巴谷星自行的方案，并估算了在各方案中推算依巴谷星自行的精度。     

依巴谷天体测量卫星的阶段成果

本文综合介绍依巴谷天体测量卫星自１９８９年１１月开始观测以来，由头两年获得的观测资料取得的空间天体测量的阶段性成果，以及空间天体测量结果与地面观测结果相互之间的比较，成功地用于解算天体测量参数的星数已达１１２４４颗，由依巴谷天体测量卫星的头两年观测资料进行归算处理，得到恒星位置，视差和年自行的预期精度分别为３、４和２ｍａｓ。由此从整体上合面地检验了依巴谷科学计划，包括观测纲要，输入星表，卫星本身及     

FK5星表系统差讨论

比较了Ｊ２０００．９年的ＦＫ５和依巴谷结果的位置和自行,表明了ＦＫ５星表有较大的系统差。另外,我们亦将在ＦＫ５系统中的运动中和上海天文光电等高星表和依巴谷测作了比较,同样反出类似的ＦＴ５星表系统差。     

依巴谷星表和第谷星表的特征和意义

主要论述依巴谷星表和第谷星表的观测特征和天体测量特征,依巴谷卫星在短期内同时测定大量高精度的恒星位置,自行和视差等五个天体测量参数以及星等和色指数,依巴谷星表和第谷星表为建立高精度的光学参考系,为研究恒星的起源,演化,分布,质量,大小和光度等,为研究双星和聚星的分布和运动,为研究星系运动和星系动力学提供了大量的高精度资料,具有重要的科学意义。     

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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.     

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.     

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.     

Dynamical study of wide pairs of stars based on data from the WDS catalog

Using the method of apparent motion parameters, we have studied the relative motion of the components in 561 pairs of wide (ρ > 2″) and relatively nearby (Hipparcos parallaxes > 0.01″) visual double stars based on data from the WDS catalog. The minimum masses of the double stars have been calculated at given parallaxes. We have identified 358 optical pairs. For 11 stellar pairs, we have found the minimum mass to exceed the estimate corresponding to their spectral types and luminosities. This excess is 5–7 M _⊙ for two stars, ADS 7446 and 9701.     

Microscopic black hole detection in UHECR: the double bang signature

According to recent conjectures on the existence of large extra dimensions in our universe, black holes could be produced during the interaction of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with the atmosphere. However, and so far, the proposed signatures are based on statistical effects, not allowing identification on an event by event basis, and may lead to large uncertainties. In this note, events with a double bang topology, where the production and instantaneous decay of a microscopic black hole (first bang) is followed, at a measurable distance, by the decay of an energetic tau lepton (second bang) are proposed as an almost background free signature. The characteristics of these events and the capability of large cosmic ray experiments to detect them are discussed.     

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