G45.07＋0.13羟基分子脉泽的VLBI观测

利用甚长基线干涉仪，在１６６５ＭＨｚ频率上，观测超致密氢ＩＩ区Ｇ４５．０７＋０．１３的左右圆偏振羟基（ＯＨ）分子脉泽辐射．利用多条纹率成图方法，获得了这个区域２０ｍａｓ相对位置精度的脉泽结构图．除两个弱子源以外，所有脉泽子源都位于彗状结构氢ＩＩ区“彗头”的前沿．脉泽团离致密氢ＩＩ区中心投影距离为０＂．４．在完全饱和辐射的假设下，估计脉泽活动区具有氢分子数密度约为４．５×１０８（Ｈ２）ｃｍ－３．在脉泽源中，发现一对Ｚｅｅｍａｎ对，从它们的ＬＳＲ速度差，导出脉泽区的磁场约为３ｍＧ，方向为远离地球方向．在致密氢ＩＩ区Ｇ４５．０７＋０．１３彗头附近的脉泽团的直径为６×１０１６ｃｍ．这与Ｇ３４．０３＋０．２的观测结果很类似．这给解释彗状结构的氢ＩＩ区的各种模型提供了一个可靠的观测约束条件．     

自动调谐器在氢脉泽上的应用结果

本文介绍上海天文台自行研制的氢脉泽调谐［１．２］在我台制造的氢脉泽Ｈ８、Ｈ９、Ｈ１０上的应用．结果表明：氢脉泽自动调谐器有效地改善了氢脉泽的长期稳定度．     

上海天文台氢脉泽研制工作的进展

自一九七二年我台对氢脉泽研究成功以来,已有四台氢脉泽用于原子时系统和VLBI实验。一九八一和一九八二年,中德合作的两次VLBI实验由我台的氢脉泽提供标准信号并取得良好的效果。 近几年来我们在使用和研制过程中,逐步研究、分析了影响氢脉泽性能和指标的因素,并作了某些改进。但由于机械结构的影响,性能的提高在一定     

新型氢脉泽磁屏蔽的设计

为使磁场在氢脉泽储存泡处的影响降到最小,对一种新型氢脉泽进行了磁屏蔽设计。给出了该新型氢脉泽磁屏蔽的相关理论计算、设计,包括对屏蔽体缝孔的设计考虑,通过仿真和实验验证了该磁屏蔽设计的可行性。     

星际甲醇分子脉泽的辐射抽运研究

本项研究给出了17个具有Ⅱ类星际甲醇分子脉泽源的致密氢11区的轫致辐射、尘埃红外辐射和中心年轻恒星Layman辐射的特征．以脉泽的光子发射率和辐射亮温度作为两个主要的辐射抽运约束条件，讨论了Ⅱ类星际甲醇分子脉泽的几种可能的激发机制．我们认为热辐射亮温度为100K与致密氢Ⅱ区成协的红外辐射体很可能是Ⅱ类甲醇脉泽的抽运源．     

上海天文台氢脉泽在澳大利亚帕凯期天文台试验

１９９３年１１月４日－１２月１５日，上海天文台氢脉泽安装在澳大利亚帕凯期天文台，本文给出在此期间这台氢脉泽的试验结果，这次试验的主要目的是测定这台氢脉泽作为ＶＬＢＩ频率标准的性能。     

氢脉泽磁屏蔽的改进与性能测定

氢脉泽量子振荡器中（F＝1，mF=0）→（F＝0，mF＝0）跃迁是与磁场方有关的，所以希望将外磁场在储存泡处的影响降低到最小。最可行的办法是采用磁屏蔽。实验证明紧凑、同轴柱形的磁屏蔽最有效。本文将给出氢脉泽磁屏蔽的设计考虑与性能测定要求。     

新氢脉泽频率标准的支持电子学系统

氢脉泽的支持电子学系统是氢脉泽频率标准中子学的一个重要组成部分，它包括脉泽的热控制、磁场控制、氢压以及调谐控制。本将介绍上海天台新近研制成功的新氢脉泽（H7）的支持电子学系统的各控制部分的设计思想及特点。     

氢原子钟蓝宝石谐振腔的设计和实验表现

为了设计主动型氢原子钟蓝宝石谐振腔的结构尺寸,对根据TE011模式下蓝宝石谐振腔的麦克斯韦尔方程组推出的超越方程进行了求解,利用电磁场有限元分析软件对蓝宝石腔进行了仿真分析。通过计算S参数,确认了所设计的氢原子钟蓝宝石谐振腔实现氢脉泽自激振荡的现实性。利用SOHM-4型氢钟机架作为实验床,在离子泵电流1.1 mA时,得到了强度为-102.93 dbm的脉泽振荡信号。此信号强度与标准的主动型氢原子钟在相同的离子泵电流下的信号强度相仿。     

氢脉泽频率稳定度测量系统

为了评定氢脉泽标准的性能，上海天台氢脉泽实验室研制了一套微机化的实时稳定度测量系统。这篇章描述了这个系统的特点和应用。     

A GLIMPSE-based search for 6.7-GHz methanol masers and the lifetime of their spectral features

The University of Tasmania Mt Pleasant 26-m and Ceduna 30-m radio telescopes have been used to search for 6.7-GHz class II methanol masers towards 200 GLIMPSE ( The Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire ) sources. The target regions were selected on the basis of their mid-infrared colours as being likely to be young high-mass star formation regions and are either bright at 8.0 μm, or have extreme [3.6]–[4.5] colour. Methanol masers were detected towards 38 sites, nine of these being new detections. The prediction was that approximately 20 new 6.7-GHz methanol masers would be detected within 3.5 arcmin of the target GLIMPSE sources, but this is the case for only six of the new detections. A number of possible reasons for the discrepancy between the predicted and actual number of new detections have been investigated. It was not possible to draw any firm conclusions as to the cause, but it may be because many of the target sources are at an evolutionary phase prior to that associated with 6.7-GHz methanol masers. Through comparison of the spectra collected as part of this search with those in the literature, the average lifetime of individual 6.7-GHz methanol maser spectral features is estimated to be around 150 yr, much longer than is observed for 22-GHz water masers.     

Accurate positions of H2O masers in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Positions with subarcsecond accuracy have been measured for seven 22-GHz H₂O masers associated with H  ii regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC); two of the masers are new detections. Initial position measurements were obtained with the 70-m antenna of the Canberra NASA Deep Space Network during a period of more than two years in which the antenna was used to monitor the maser emission. The positions were further improved using 22-GHz observations involving three antennas of the Australia Telescope Compact Array.
The positions have been compared with those of 1.6-GHz continuum emission and other LMC masers (of OH and CH₃OH). The H₂O maser positions range from within 1 arcsec (270 mpc) of the centre of a compact H  ii component to beyond the boundary of significant continuum emission. Three of the four masers located near continuum peaks are close to OH masers. In two cases the positional agreement is better than 0.2 arcsec (53 mpc); in the third case the agreement is worse (0.9 arcsec) but the positions of the individual H₂O features appear to be spread over more than 1 arcsec. The velocities of the OH masers are within the spread of the H₂O velocities. The three H₂O masers offset from continuum centres are located  3–7 arcsec  from optical or infrared phenomena probably associated with very early stages of star formation; no other molecular masers are known in these directions.     

OH masers, molecular outflows and magnetic fields in NGC 7538

The multi-element radio-linked interferometer network (MERLIN) measurements of 1665-, 1667- and 1720-MHz OH masers associated with NGC 7538 are presented. The masers are located at the centres of three bipolar molecular outflows associated with the infrared sources IRS 1, IRS 9 and IRS 11. The distribution of OH masers in IRS 1 is more extensive than previously reported and is displaced to the south of the methanol 6.7-GHz masers. The OH masers in IRS 9 have not previously been reported. Their distribution seems to be orthogonal to the direction of the outflow and to the distribution of H₂O masers. The maser distribution in IRS 11 is parallel to the dust ridge and orthogonal to the outflow. Full polarization measurements of the OH maser emission show systematic differences between the three sources. IRS 1 has moderate polarization, with linear polarization vectors partially aligned with the bipolar outflow; IRS 9 exhibits larger polarization, but little linear component; IRS 11 shows the strongest polarization and has linear polarization vectors aligned parallel to the outflow. There is also evidence for a toroidal component of the magnetic field around the IRS 11 outflow, orthogonal to the outflow direction. It is suggested that the differences in polarization trace a possible evolutionary sequence from oldest (IRS 1) to youngest (IRS 11).     

Class I methanol masers: masers with extended green objects

We have compared the results of a number of published class I methanol maser surveys with the catalogue of high-mass outflow candidates identified from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire survey (known as extended green objects or EGOs). We find class I methanol masers associated with approximately two-thirds of EGOs. Although the association between outflows and class I methanol masers has long been postulated on the basis of detailed studies of a small number of sources, this result demonstrates the relationship for the first time on a statistical basis. Despite the publication of a number of searches for class I methanol masers, a close physical association with another astrophysical object which could be targeted for the search is still lacking. The close association between class I methanol masers and EGOs therefore provides a large catalogue of candidate sources, most of which have not previously been searched for class I methanol masers. Interstellar masers and outflows have both been proposed to trace an evolutionary sequence for high-mass star formation, therefore a better understanding of the relationship between class I methanol masers and outflow offers the potential for comparison and amalgamation of these two evolutionary sequences.     

The relationship between class I and class II methanol masers

The Australia Telescope National Facility Mopra millimetre telescope has been used to search for 95.1-GHz class I methanol masers towards 62 6.6-GHz class II methanol masers. A total of 26 95.1-GHz masers were detected, 18 of these being new discoveries. Combining the results of this search with observations reported in the literature, a near complete sample of 66 6.6-GHz class II methanol masers has been searched in the 95.1-GHz transition, with detections towards 38 per cent (25 detections; not all of the sources studied in this paper qualify for the complete sample, and some of the sources in the sample were not observed in the present observations).
There is no evidence of an anticorrelation between either the velocity range, or peak flux density of the class I and II transitions, contrary to suggestions from previous studies. The majority of class I methanol maser sources have a velocity range that partly overlaps with the class II maser transitions. The presence of a class I methanol maser associated with a class II maser source is not correlated with the presence (or absence) of main-line OH or water masers. Investigations of the properties of the infrared emission associated with the maser sources shows no significant difference between those class II methanol masers with an associated class I maser and those without. This may be consistent with the hypothesis that the objects responsible for driving class I methanol masers are generally not those that produce main-line OH, water or class II methanol masers.     

A Survey and Statistics of Interstellar OH and H_2O Masers

We present a statistical analysis of a sky survey of interstellar H2O and OH masers. These masers can be classified into three categories: isolated H2O masers, isolated OH masers, and simple OH/H2O maser associations. The total number of sources in each category is of the same order of magnitude, and as an evolutionary phase they can maintain -105 yr. An improved radiative pumping mechanism is proposed. This model avoids some of the deficiencies of previous radiative models, such as shortage of exciting photons. The statistical results obtained from the survey can be interpreted by the new mechanism together with the evolutionary model in which the gravitational force of the central stellar objects is responsible for the HII region.     

Testing the circumstellar disc hypothesis: a search for H2 outflow signatures from massive young stellar objects with linearly distributed methanol masers

The results of a survey searching for outflows using near-infrared imaging are presented. Targets were chosen from a compiled list of massive young stellar objects associated with methanol masers in linear distributions. Presently, it is a widely held belief that these methanol masers are found in (and delineate) circumstellar accretion discs around massive stars. If this scenario is correct, one way to test the disc hypothesis is to search for outflows perpendicular to the methanol maser distributions. The main objective of the survey was to obtain wide-field near-infrared images of the sites of linearly distributed methanol masers using a narrow-band 2.12-μm filter. This filter is centred on the  H₂ v = 1–0 S(1)  line; a shock diagnostic that has been shown to successfully trace CO outflows from young stellar objects. 28 sources in total were imaged of which 18 sources display H₂ emission. Of these, only two sources showed emission found to be dominantly perpendicular to the methanol maser distribution. Surprisingly, the H₂ emission in these fields is not distributed randomly, but instead the majority of sources are found to have H₂ emission dominantly parallel to their distribution of methanol masers. These results seriously question the hypothesis that methanol masers exist in circumstellar discs. The possibility that linearly distributed methanol masers are instead directly associated with outflows is discussed.     

On the number and lifetime of 6.7-GHz methanol masers

A statistical estimate of the number of 6.7-GHz methanol masers in the Milky Way and their lifetime is presented. The estimate is based on the currently known number of masers, a realistic correction for sensitivity effects and generally accepted Galactic star formation rates and initial mass functions. The analysis suggests that the minimum number of masers in the Galaxy is of the order of 850 while a more realistic estimate of the total number of masers is of the order of 1200 ± 84. The lifetime is estimated to be between  2.5 × 10⁴  and  4.5 × 10⁴ yr  , with the variation being due to the use of different initial mass functions. The estimated lifetime agrees with that found from independent studies and agrees remarkably well with the time-scale for the chemical evolution of methanol in hot cores as well as with the dynamical time-scales of molecular outflows associated with high-mass star formation regions. It is shown that the hypothesis of the masers being associated with propagating planar shocks in cores or clumps results in lifetimes for the masers that are smaller by a factor of 2 or more compared with the lifetime of methanol masers as estimated here.     

A Radiation Mechanism for Interstellar Methanol 6.7GHz Masers

All interstellar methanol maser sources can be divided into two classes. Their spectra are distinctive. In particular, the prominent Class II maser transitions, 6.7GHz and 12.2GHz lines show enhanced absorption toward Class I sources. We notice that the 6.7 and 12.2GHz methanol masers toward Class II sources are associated with each other and coexist toward ultracompact HII regions. Therefore we suggest a new pumping mechanism – methanol masers without population inversion. It can be used to explain the formation of 6.7GHz methanol masers while the 12.2GHz methanol masers are regarded as driving coherent microwave field. In this paper, we demonstrate that the new mechanism is associated with astronomical conditions and does not contradict with other mechanisms. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

NTSC的双混频时差测量系统试运转结果分析

中国科学院国家授时中心(NTSC)新进口的由德国Timetech公司制造的双混频时差测量系统(dual mixer time difference system,DMTD)已经通过了试运行。介绍了DMTD的工作原理和设备结构。NTSC时频基准实验室的主钟(MC)信号作为DMTD的频率参考信号,5个氢钟和18个铯钟的频率信号作为被测信号与MC信号进行相位比对。用频率分配放大器输出的多路MC信号也作为被测信号用以监测DMTD本身的精度和稳定度。给出了DMTD和时间间隔计数器TIC实际测量结果的比较及误差分析。测量结果表明DMTD特别适用于频率短期稳定度非常高的氢原子钟这样的频标之间的频率和时间比对。该设备将用于NTSC的守时工作,不久的将来也将用于铯喷泉与氢钟的频率比对。