超新星爆发的前身星模型研究

本利用Ｗｏｏｓｌｅｙ提供的４个不同的前身星模型数据作为计算的前超新星分布，并利用自己独立编制的程序和改进的状态方程进行数值模拟。对其结果进行分析比较，考察前身星对超新星的坍缩、激波传输和爆发等过程的影响。     

Ia型超新星多样性的观测研究

正通常认为Ia型超新星来自碳氧白矮星的热核爆炸,利用其光度可标准化的特性进行宇宙学距离测量,发现宇宙处于加速膨胀状态.然而Ia型超新星的研究仍存在一些基本问题没有解决.这些问题和Ia型超新星观测上的多样性密切相关.通过对处于爆发极早期的Ia型超新星进行观测,获得前身星系统的残留信息,是研究观测多样性起源、提高测距精度的关键环节.我们利用丽江2.4 m望远镜,从国     

超新星1994I的光球相光谱

本文给出用北京天文台２．１６ｍ光学望远镜观测的超新星１９９４Ｉ的光球相光谱。这些光谱表现出类似于Ｉｃ型超新星１９８７Ｍ的特征。我们用蒙特卡罗光谱合成模型对４月１０日的光谱做了拟合。采用Ｎｏｍｏｔｏ等人Ｃ＋Ｏ模型的元素丰度及修改过的Ｗ７密度结构，计算的光谱与观测的光谱符合得相当好。计算得到４月１０日，超新星的光球速度约为１０００ｋｍ／ｓ，其黑体温度约为８０００Ｋ。另外，我们的光谱拟合可以为Ｃ＋Ｏ星作为Ｉｃ型超新星的前身星提供证据。     

Ⅰa型超新星前身星模型及其相关天体研究

Ia型超新星具有可校准的光度,可当作标准烛光,用来测定宇宙学距离,从而探索宇宙的形状.然而,Ia型超新星的前身星仍不清楚,这将直接影响当前宇宙学结果的可靠性.本文在Ia型超新星前身星模型及其相关天体方面做了系统性的工作,下面是我们取得的一些主要的研究结果:(1)近年来人们观测发现,约有一半的Ia型超新星的延迟时标小于100 Myr(Ia型超新星的延迟时标是指从恒星形成后到发生超新星爆炸的时间间隔).这些超新星是怎么来的?为解决这一难题,我     

Ia型超新星前身星模型及其相关天体研究

Ia型超新星具有可校准的光度,可当作标准烛光,用来测定宇宙学距离,从而探索宇宙的形状.然而,Ia型超新星的前身星仍不清楚,这将直接影响当前宇宙学结果的可靠性.本文在Ia型超新星前身星模型及其相关天体方面做了系统性的工作,下面是我们取得的一些主要的研究结果:(1)近年来人们观测发现,约有一半的Ia型超新星的延迟时标小于100 Myr(Ia型超新星的延迟时标是指从恒星形成后到发生超新星爆炸的时间间隔).这些超新星是怎么来的?为解决这一难题,我     

当前超新星遗迹研究中的若干热点问题

对银河系内历史性超新星"回光"(light echoes)的观测是研究年轻超新星遗迹的重要手段。通过对"回光"进行观测,可以确认其前身星的物理特性,揭示恒星晚期演化过程和其星周介质的三维空间分布。历史性超新星直接"回光"极其暗弱,对其探测最近几年才因新技术的应用而得以实现。综述了河内超新星遗迹包括仅有的已探测到回光现象的两颗年轻超新星遗迹——第谷(SN1572)和仙后座A(CasA)的最新研究进展。研究结果有利于更好地理解Ⅰ型和Ⅱ型超新星的性质,区别两类超新星的爆发机制,加深对超新星的核合成、重元素合成、星系形成和演化、暗能量等的了解。讨论了利用回光观测可以进一步深入开展的研究课题。     

超新星在旋涡星系中的径向分布

本文研究了在1993年3月28日之前发现的899颗超新星（SNe）的样本．其中277颗SNe被用来研究超新星在其母星系中的径向分布．我们研究了四个星系样本中超新星在产生单个超新星（称为一般超新星）的星系及在产生多个超新星（称为多重超新星）的星系中的径向分布．这四个星系样本为：总旋涡星系样本，Sb～SbC星系样本，SC星系样本，Sc～Sd星系样本．研究的结果表明：一多重超新星比一般超新星在其母星系中具有更集中于星系核心（大多数恒星形成发生的地方）的倾向，说明星系中心的恒星形成活动会影响多重超新星事件的发生从而影响超新星的频率分布     

电荷屏蔽与超新星前身星阶段电子俘获

利用核的壳层模型，讨论了电荷屏蔽对超新星的前身星阶段一些较丰的核在一些重要的温度－密度点的电子俘获率的影响，结果表明由于电荷屏蔽的作用基电子丰度变化率下降了10－20％。     

北京天文台发现两颗超新星

北京天文台发现两颗超新星北京天文台兴隆观测站１９９８年３月２日发现两颗超新星。国际天文电报中心分别为其编号为ＳＮ１９９８Ｓ和ＳＮ１９９８Ｔ。ＳＮ１９９８Ｓ已确认是一颗特殊的Ⅱ型超新星,而ＳＮ１９９８Ｔ是一颗少见的Ｉｂ型超新星,它的前身是一颗已耗尽氢的...     

SN 1996W:中国天文学家首次发现的河外超新星

1996年4月10日，使用北京天文台兴隆观测站60cm望远镜及其主焦上的TI215CCD照相机[1]，在NGC4027天区发现了一颗超新星．这是今年开始的超新星巡天计划的第一个结果．这颗超新星已被McDonald天文台的王力帆证实，并被分类为Ⅱ型超新星．国际天文学会中央电报局已将它列为SN1996W[2]．     

Sediment transport by liquid surficial flow: Application to Titan

Sediment transport by surficial flow likely occurs on Titan. Titan is thought to have a volatile cycle, such as on Earth and likely in the past on Mars, which would entail surficial liquid flow. And surficial flow is implied in interpretations of Cassini-Hyugens data as showing fluvial channels, which would require sediment transport by surficial flow to form the observable features. We present calculations from basic hydraulic formulae of sediment entrainment and transport by surficial flow. First, we describe the conditions for (non-cohesive) sediment entrainment by grain size through use of the Shields' threshold curve. We then calculate settling velocities by grain size to describe the type of sediment transport—washload, suspended load, or bedload—that would follow entrainment. These calculations allow derivation of required flow depths for sediment transport by grain size over a given slope. A technique to estimate required flow velocities and unit discharges is also presented. We show the results of these calculations for organic and water ice sediment movement by liquid methane flow under Titan gravity. For comparative purposes, plots for movement of quartz sediment by water on Earth and basalt sediment by water on Mars are also included. These results indicate that (non-cohesive) material would move more easily on Titan than on Earth or Mars. Terrestrial field observations suggest that coarse grain transport is enhanced by hyperconcentration of fine-grained sediment; and the apparent availability of organic (fine grained) sediment on Titan, in conjunction with the possibility of convection-driven rainstorms, may lead to hyperconcentrated flows. Thus, significant sediment transport may occur on Titan during individual overland flow events.     

Discussion session on star formation,molecular clouds and the interstellar medium

In this panel discussion contributions were made by K. Strom, L. Nordh and H. Zinnecker on the contributions of surveys to the study of star formation regions, by B. Burton on a survey of galactic H I and by E. Dwek on the detection of galactic supernovae by infrared surveys. The contributions of K. Strom, L. Nordh and E. Dwek are summarized here.     

Source rates and ion recycling rates for Na and K in Mercury's atmosphere

The supply rates of Na and K to the atmosphere of Mercury by processes acting on the extreme surface—thermal vaporization, photon-stimulated desorption (PSD), and ion-sputtering—are limited by the rates at which atoms can be supplied to the extreme surface by diffusion from inside the regolith grains. Supply rates to the atmosphere are further regulated by ion retention and by gardening rates that supply new grains to the surface. We consider the limits on supply of sodium and potassium atoms to the atmosphere, and rates of photoion recycling to the surface. Thermal vaporization rates are severely limited by the ability of atoms to diffuse to the surface of the grain. Therefore, the diffusion-limited thermal vaporization rates on Mercury's surface are comparable to or less than the PSD rates. Ion sputtering is primarily due to highly ionized heavy ions, even though they represent a small fraction of the solar wind. We have shown that up to 60% of the Na photoions are deposited on the surface of Mercury. Ion recycling to the surface can have a long-term effect on the regolith abundance if an average recycling pattern persists such that more ions return to a particular area than are launched there. It is unknown whether the formation of latitude bands of >100% ion retention persist on average despite a rapidly changing magnetosphere. The total exospheric column of sodium observed at Mercury between 1997 to 2003 varied by a factor of 2-3 from perihelion to aphelion.     

Meteoroids, Meteors, and the Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard

In considering the modern-day hazard from infalling near-Earth asteroids and comets, the focus has shifted toward the smallest, most frequent impacts that can do damage on the ground, like the 1908 Tunguska aerial burst. There is considerable uncertainty about the potential for damage by objects in the range 20 to 100 m diameter. Since smaller, less dangerous, meter-sized meteoroids are part of a continuum of small interplanetary bodies, derived by a collisional cascade and Yarkovsky spin-up, research on such phenomena by meteor scientists can shed light on a vital question that will soon have great practical relevance as new telescopic searches for near-Earth asteroids come on line: what is the threshold size between harmless high-altitude airbursts and impacts that can cause lethal damage on the ground?     

Preliminary analysis of the MER magnetic properties experiment using a computational fluid dynamics model

Motivated by questions raised by the magnetic properties experiments on the NASA Mars Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions, we have studied in detail the capture of airborne magnetic dust by permanent magnets using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model supported by laboratory simulations. The magnets studied are identical to the capture magnet and filter magnet on MER, though results are more generally applicable.The dust capture process is found to be dependent upon wind speed, dust magnetization, dust grain size and dust grain mass density. Here we develop an understanding of how these parameters affect dust capture rates and patterns on the magnets and set bounds for these parameters based on MER data and results from the numerical model. This results in a consistent picture of the dust as containing varying amounts of at least two separate components with different physical properties.     

Atmospheric control of the cooling rate of impact melts and cryolavas on Titan’s surface

As on Earth, Titan’s atmosphere plays a major role in the cooling of heated surfaces. We have assessed the mechanisms by which Titan’s atmosphere, dominantly N₂ at a surface pressure of 1.5 × 10⁵ Pa, cools a warm or heated surface. These heated areas can be caused by impacts generating melt sheets and (possibly) by endogenic processes emplacing cryolavas (a low-temperature liquid that freezes on the surface). We find that for a cooling cryolava flow, lava lake, or impact melt body, heat loss is mainly driven by atmospheric convection. Radiative heat loss, a dominant heat loss mechanism with terrestrial silicate lava flows, plays only a minor role on Titan. Long-term cooling and solidification are dependent on melt sheet or flow thickness, and also local climate, because persistent winds will speed cooling. Relatively rapid cooling caused by winds reduces the detectability of these thermal events by instruments measuring surface thermal emission. Because surface temperature drops by ≈50% within ≈1 day of emplacement, fresh flows or impact melt may be difficult to detect via thermal emission unless an active eruption is directly observed. Cooling of flow or impact melt surfaces are orders of magnitude faster on Titan than on airless moons (e.g., Enceladus or Europa).Although upper surfaces cool fast, the internal cooling and solidification process is relatively slow. Cryolava flow lengths are, therefore, more likely to be volume (effusion) limited, rather than cooling-limited. More detailed modeling awaits constraints on the thermophysical properties of the likely cryomagmas and surface materials.     

激光时间传递技术的进展

激光时间传递技术是通过激光脉冲在空间的传播来实现地面与卫星时钟或地球上远距离两地时钟的同步，它具有很高的准确度和稳定度。一些国家已经成功进行了激光时间传递的试验，结果证明利用激光进行时钟之间的同步是有效可行的。介绍国内外已有的激光时间传递试验的情况和结果，重点介绍美国地面与机载原子钟之间的激光时间比对，以及法国的LASSO(LAser Synchronization from Stationary Orbit)和T2L2(Time Transfer by Laser Link)计划。     

Research on the Application of Fast-steering Mirror in Stellar Interferometers

In stellar interferometers, the fast-steering mirror (FSM) is widely utilized to correct the wavefront tilt caused by the atmospheric turbulence and internal instrumental vibration, because of its high resolution and fast response frequency. In this study, the non-coplanar error between the FSM and the actuator deflection axis introduced by the manufacturing, assembly, and adjustment is analyzed systematically. Via a numerical method, the additional optical path difference (OPD) caused by the above factors is studied, and its effect on the fringe tracking accuracy of a stellar interferometer is also discussed. On the other hand, the starlight parallelism between the beams of two arms is one of the main factors for the loss of fringe visibility. By analyzing the influence of wavefront tilt caused by the atmospheric turbulence on fringe visibility, a simple and efficient real-time correction scheme of starlight parallelism is proposed based on a single array detector. The feasibility of this scheme is demonstrated by a laboratory experiment. The results show that after the correction of fast-steering mirror, the starlight parallelism meets preliminarily the requirement of a stellar interferometer on the wavefront tilt.     

Modelling the turbulent magnetized ISM

Briefly stated, the interstellar matter (hereafter ISM) is a highlyturbulent flow, the turbulence mainly being driven by the violentstirring by supernova explosions, penetrated by dynamicallysignificant magnetic fields both on small and largescales. Sophisticated numerical models of such a turbulent flow cangive important information on some of the complicated processesoccurring in the ISM, e.g. on the regulation of the observedmultiphase structure, properties of interstellar turbulence and thegeneration and maintenance of magnetic fields by the flow itself; inthis paper such models and their most important results are reviewed.     

On the interaction of jet plasma with dark matter subhaloes in active galaxies

The interaction of fragmented plasma of active galactic nuclei jets with galactic haloes via gravitational scattering and lensing by dark matter subhaloes is studied using analytical calculations and numerical Monte-Carlo method. The lensing of jet radiation by halo masses is found to be negligible and unobservable. Moving through a galactic halo jet plasma fragments are sequentially deflected on hyperbolic orbits by gravitational field of subhaloes and deviates at some angles when leaving halo, causing widening of the jet. Based on this model jet opening angles are calculated numerically for various values of jet and halo characteristics. Though these angles are very small, gravitational scattering by halo masses results in specific radial profile of jet radiation intensity, that does not depend on halo mass distribution and jet properties. The intensity of jet radiation, obeying the derived profile, decreases by reasonable observable factors giving possibility to probe the presence of dark matter subhaloes.