AGB星轴对称拱星包层的速度流场

通过对ＡＧＢ星轴对称旋转膨胀拱星包层的分析,建立了包层内气体和尘埃的运动方程,得到了拱星包层的速度流场的解析解,解的结果表明,物质外流速度随其与赤道面的交角增加而增大,沿极轴方向达到最大,而沿赤道面向外最小,物质外流量的情形则相反。     

Mira星包层中的OH脉泽模型

采用拱星包层物质轴对称分布的模型,计算了Ｍｉｒａ星拱星包层的物质分布和速度场分布,并通过解统计平衡方程得到了ＯＨ１８ｃｍ的四条谱线的反转区．模型假定辐射压来自中心星和尘埃本身的辐射．计算中考虑了中心星的辐射、ＯＨ分子与电子的碰撞、尘埃本身的辐射和微波背景辐射等抽运机制,计算结果基本上反映了观测到的ＯＨ脉泽的径向分布和角向分布等性质．     

IRAS 19227+1700:富碳星还是富氧星?

IRASl9227 1700作为富碳星列于新版碳星星表中．然而该星在IRAS红外双色图上处于典型的有较厚富氧拱星包层区域中，而不处于硅酸盐碳星通常所处的区域．而且有证据表明该星不但有主线和伴线羟基脉泽发射，还有靠近中心星的水脉泽发射．其IRASLRS谱在9—12μm范围有尘埃发射特征，近红外的观测又证实它确实存在热的拱星包层．因此IRAS19227 1700的拱星包层应该全是富氧性质的，它的中心星是富氧的可能性也极大．     

Mira变星的有轴对称转动膨胀的拱星包层速度流场

许多Mira变星具有轴对称转动的膨胀拱星包层。因此研究有轴对称转动的膨胀拱星包层的速度流场是十分必要的。我们研究了Mira变星的有轴对称转动的膨胀的拱星包层的速度流场,得到了它的严格形式解。所得到的结果与观测给出的事实是相一致的。最后,还讨论了恒星的质量损失率。     

Mira星包层中的OH脉泽模型

采用拱星包层物质轴对称分布的模型,计算了Ｍｉｒａ星拱星包层的物质分布和速度场分布,并通过解统计平衡方程得到了ＯＨ１８ｃｍ的四条谱线的反转区。模型假定辐射压来自中心星和尘埃本身的辐射。计算中考虑了中心星的辐射、ＯＨ分子与电子的碰撞、尘埃本身的辐射和射波背景辐射等抽运机制。计算结果基本上反映了观测到的ＯＨ脉泽的径向分布和角向分布等性质。     

拱星OH脉泽辐射频谱的双峰结构和多重分离的膨胀拱星壳

对一些OH／IR星的拱星OH脉泽的观测结果表明,在双峰结构谱线轮廓上常常可以发现一些小峰叠加在双峰上,即在谱线轮廓的双峰结构中的每个峰是由几个小峰叠加而成的．从脉泽的辐射转移方程和拱星包层的速度结构出发,研究拱星OH脉泽辐射频谱的轮廓特征,提出多重分离的膨胀拱星亮模型,很好地解释了双峰结构的奇特观测现象．     

Mira变星的拱星包层的速度流场

很多观测事实指出,在许多Mira变星的拱星包层中存在着气体和颗粒,存在着OH脉泽。关于Mira变星的拱星包层在膨胀过程中的速度流场问题,近来一直引起较大的注意。因为它直接关系到对Mira变星的质量损失率的估计,因此它对恒星演化过程以及星际物质的化学组成的研究有重要的价值。人们在估计晚型星质量损失率上存在的困难之一,是对拱星包层的膨胀过程的处理问题。以往的工作往往把晚型星的拱星包层的     

Mira变星拱星包层的温度结构

我们研究了Mira变星拱星包层的温度结构。假设Mira变星拱星包层由气体和尘埃颗粒两种成分组成,气体为理想气体,并有稳定的和球对称的径向向外流动;我们研究了拱星包层气体的加热机制和致冷原因,根据拱星包层气体的质量、动量和能量守恒方程及多方膨胀过程方程,通过计算得到了拱星包层气体温度所满足的温度方程。这个温度方程对于Mira变星拱星包层有普遍意义。对于典型的Mira变星我们进行了数值计算,得到了温度曲线。与观测得到的温度曲线比较表明,理论模型与观测事实相一致。     

具有碳化硅拱星壳层的OH／IR星

利用ＩＲＡＳ低分辨率光谱（ＬＲＳ）观测资料,从近２０００个具有１６１２ＭＨｚＯＨ发射的ＩＲＡＳ源中,发现９个具有碳化硅特征拱星壳层的ＯＨ／ＩＲ星的候选者．进一步的研究表明其中的６个确实或极有可能既是显示１１．３μｍ碳化硅发射特征的碳星,也是表现１６１２ＭＨｚＯＨ脉泽发射的ＯＨ／ＩＲ星     

对OH／IR星演化的模型研究

渐近巨星分南恒星（ＡＧＢ星）是一种晚期演化恒星,它是恒星作为以核反应释能为发光能源的天体的最后演化阶段。ＡＧＢ星阶段的恒星具有许多有趣的性质,如很大的质量损失率（因此形成很厚的拱星尘埃气体包层）,光变,热脉动（或Ｈe闪耀）,强的红外超量发射,分子脉泽发射等,弄清ＡＧＢ星的演化规律是研究恒星演化理论的重要任务。目前人们所知道的ＡＧＢ星的演化图景是,恒星经过漫长的主序演化之后,将经过红巨星（ＲＧＢ）阶     

Peering over the Sun's pole: behavior of its rotational vortex

A new method for measuring spectroscopically the rotation at the Sun's poles is described. Using solar CO lines at 4.666 µm, infrared spectra are recorded at a fixed limb distance of 4.8 arc sec while progressing along an arc ±5.7 deg from the Sun's rotational pole. Since the poles dip twice a year to about 7 arc sec from the limb, our observations can range either side of and through the vortex axis. Advantages to this technique are: (1) a low disturbing signal from supergranules owing to their superposition at the limb, (2) no ‘limb shift’ error since limb distance is constant and the CO lines have no known limb shift, (3) emphasis is on the quiet Sun since the CO molecule is confined there, (4) negligible scattered light in the IR (<1%), and (5) the improved seeing afforded by the IR. Although any definitive determination of solar rotation requires observations over an extended time span, our preliminary results suggest two features peculiar to the extreme pole: (1) the occasional apparent cessation of rotation, (2) some sort of singularity, again occasional, producing a sharp velocity signal (a vortex?) within 1 deg of the pole.     

Dynamics of day and night aurora during substorms

The motion of auroral forms on the day- and nightside of the Earth has been studied during different substorm phases by means of all-sky camera films. A substorm is characterized by a shift of the luminescence region towards the equator at noon and mainly towards the pole at midnight. However, individual forms drift predominantly toward the pole on the dayside and towards the equator on the nightside. The velocity of the poleward motion at noon is largest during the expansive phase of a substorm and amounts on the average to 330 $\text{m}\text{sec}$ but even during relatively quiet magnetic conditions a poleward motion is observed.     

Relation between solar sidereal and synodic rotation axes

Kinematic picture concerning the solar synodic and sidereal rotation axes has been considered in some detail. Large changes in the synodic angular rotation velocity and the position of the synodic rotation pole have been found for some hypothetical cases of out-of-ecliptic intra-Mercurian orbits. The influence of solar differential rotation and variable planetary velocity along the orbit have been taken into account and a continuous set of co-existing synodic poles oscillating around a mean position has been found. The relevant numerical values for the Earth are given and the possibility of detecting the existence of the two rotation axes has been pointed out.     

A coronal hole and its identification as the source of a high velocity solar wind stream

X-ray images of the solar corona, taken on November 24, 1970, showed a magnetically open structure in the low corona which extended from N20W20 to the south pole. Analysis of the measured X-ray intensities shows the density scale height within the structure to be typically a factor of two less than that in the surrounding large scale magnetically closed regions. The structure is identified as a coronal hole.Since there have been several predictions that such a region should be the source of a high velocity stream in the solar wind, wind measurements for the appropriate period were traced back to the Sun by the method of instantaneous ideal spirals. A striking agreement was found between the Carrington longitude of the solar source of a recurrent high velocity solar wind stream and the position of the hole.Solar wind bulk velocity and photospheric magnetic field data from the period 1962–1970 indicate the possible extension of the result to the interpretation of long term variations in the wind pattern.     

脉冲星的非共转模型

本文讨论了脉冲星的磁层运动和能量状态。对于满足一定条件的脉冲星系统,证明了在极轴处的等离子体的角速度和电荷密度趋于零。提出了一个磁层与星体非共转的简单模型以及边界条件。利用变分原理,求得参数值,从而,得出了与参数相关的各个物理量,例如:等离子体的漂移速度v_D,等离子体与星体的相对滑动速度v_s,脉冲星的输出功率等。结果表明:功率值比较接近观测值,非共转的模型相对通常采用的共转模型而言是比较合理的。     

The solar dynamo and the convective rolls

The most sophisticated attempts to model the convection zone have yielded results in which the angular velocity increases outwards and the largest scales of convection take the form of banana cells aligned with the rotation axis. However, not only does the sign of the angular velocity gradient present problems for dynamo theory, but attempts to detect banana type cells have so far been unsuccessful. Although by no means conclusive, current tracer, spectropic, and radiative data all tend to support models of azimuthal rolls encircling the axis as the fundamental mode.It is shown here that convective upflows and downflows are preferentially generated along the rotation axis and thus initially the large-scale eddies may take the form of azimuthal rolls surrounding the poles. It is then shown that such a system may generate a progressive dynamo wave propagating from pole to equator. Since Parker has shown that an azimuthal magnetic toroid can generate a thermal shadow above it which suppresses its buoyancy, the corresponding temperature deficit so formed becomes the natural site for the downflow of the azimuthal rolls. Thus as the dynamo propagates towards the equator, so will the convective rolls. Finally the compatibility of the most recent helioseismology data with the azimuthal roll model is discussed.Solar Cycle Workshop Paper.     

Rotation of the magnetic elements in polar regions on the Sun

Using the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) data from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the rotation rate of the unipolar magnetic regions in North high-latitude regions of the Sun is estimated by tracking individual magnetic elements. The analysis reveals a strong spin down near the pole, which is greater than the Doppler and magnetic rotation rates estimated by Snodgrass & Ulrich (1990), and rotation rate inferred from helioseismology (Birch & Kosovichev 1998), and is probably related to variation of velocity gradient in the subsurface shear layer. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Production of pulses and interpulses in pulsars

Pulsars accelerate the charged particles moving along their magnetic field lines due to their rapidly spinning motion. Particles gain maximum energy from pulsars within the light cylinder when they are moving along the field lines perpendicular to the rotation velocity. In pulsars with non-aligned rotation and magnetic axes, the production of two intense and sharp pulses (main pulse and interpulse) separated by 180° longitude occur at the two regions near the light cylinder where the rotation velocity is perpendicular to the magnetic field. Since the radiating particles move radially along the relativistically compressed magnetic field lines, the observer in the stationary frame receives beamed and transversely compressed radiation pulse. Near the light cylinder position angle varies smoothly during pulsar rotation in a way as Radhakrishnan and Cook (1969) expect its variation near the magnetic pole, as the field lines experience relativistic compression in the direction of rotation. The motion of two charge species along the field lines produce orthogonal modes at each pulse longitude.     

Saturn's latitudinal C2H2 and C2H6 abundance profiles from Cassini/CIRS and ground-based observations

Hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Saturn are known, from Voyager, ground-based, and early Cassini results, to vary in emission intensity with latitude. Of particular interest is the marked increase in hydrocarbon line intensity near the south pole during southern summer, as the increased line intensity cannot be simply explained by the increased temperatures observed in that region since the variations between C₂H₂ and C₂H₆ emission in the south pole region are different. In order to measure the latitudinal variations of hydrocarbons in Saturn's southern hemisphere we have used 3 cm⁻¹ resolution Cassini CIRS data from 2006 and combined this with measurements from the ground in October 2006 at NASA's IRTF using Celeste, an infrared high-resolution cryogenic grating spectrometer. These two data sets have been used to infer the molecular abundances of C₂H₂ and C₂H₆ across the southern hemisphere in the 1-10 mbar altitude region. We find that the latitudinal acetylene profile follows the yearly average mean daily insolation except at the southern pole where it peaks in abundance. Near the equator (5° S) the C₂H₂ abundance at the 1.2 mbar level is (1.6±0.19)×¹⁰−7 and it decreases by a factor of 2.7 from the equator toward the pole. However, at the pole (∼87° S) the C₂H₂ abundance jumps to (1.8±0.3)×¹⁰−7, approximately the equatorial value. The C₂H₆ abundance near the equator at the 2 mbar level is (0.7±0.1)×¹⁰−5 and stays approximately constant until mid-latitudes where it increases gradually toward the pole, attaining a value of (1.4±0.4)×¹⁰−5 there. The increase in ethane toward the pole with the corresponding decrease in acetylene is consistent with southern hemisphere meridional winds [Greathouse, T.K., Lacy, J.H., Bézard, B., Moses, J.I., Griffith, C.A., Richter, M.J., 2005. Icarus 177, 18-31]. The localized increase in acetylene at the pole provides evidence that there is dynamical transport of hydrocarbons from the equator to the southern pole.     

Inhomogeneous convection and the equatorial acceleration of the sun

The interaction of rotation and turbulent convection is assumed to give rise to an inhomogeneous, but isotropic, latitude dependent turbulent energy transport, which is described by a convective conduction coefficient _c which varies with latitude. Energy balance in the convective zone is then possible only with a slow meridian circulation in the outer convective zone of the sun. The angular momentum transported by this circulation is balanced in a steady state by turbulent viscous transport down an angular velocity gradient. A detailed model is constructed allowing for the transition from convective transport to radiative transport at the boundaries of the convective zone, by using a perturbation analysis in which the latitude variation of _c is small. The solution for a thin compressible shell gives equatorial acceleration and a hotter equator than pole, assuming that the convection is preferentially stabilised at the equator. For agreement with the sun's equatorial acceleration the model predicts an equatorial temperature excess of 70 K and a surface meridional velocity of 350 cm/sec from pole to equator.