南京大学65cm反射式望远镜CCD相机的性能研究

2021年6月,使用南京大学本科实验教学的65 cm反射式望远镜系统,对其后端的电荷耦合器件(Charge-Coupled Device, CCD)的性能采用圆顶平场法进行了实际测定,得到了CCD相机的快门函数;同时用平场序列曝光,检测了CCD相机的线性。CCD相机的读出值从0到61 900模数转换单位(Analog-Digital Unit, ADU)非线性小于1%,同时CCD相机的増益为1.02e^-/adu,读出噪音为13e^-。但对于恒星这样的点光源的观测,当像元的数值高于38 000 adu时产生溢出。因此,在使用本CCD相机做点光源观测研究时,需要选择恰当的曝光时间,避免星像溢出。实际天文观测中,利用此研究得到的快门函数可以对观测图像进行校准,有效提高测光精度。     

关于云南天文台Tek 1024CCD的线性及其他

云南天文台新安装的Tek 1 0 2 4× 1 0 2 4CCD系统是一个很好的系统。天文上应用CCD的主要目的是测量暗弱天体 ,该系统满足这个要求。但在亮端 ,测量显示 ,当读数大于 2万多adu时 ,CCD响应对线性的偏离已经开始大于 1 % ,当读数接近 6 0 0 0 0adu时 ,响应不但是非线性的 ,而且显得不稳定。另外 ,顺便给出用 1 0 0KHz读出的bias图并作了讨论     

1.56m望远镜新CCD相机MPP模式开与关的对比(英文)

1 .5 6m望远镜新CCD系统是在里克天文台用其控制电路组装而成的。该系统能在MPP模式与非MPP模式之间自由快速转换。我们比较了两种模式的性能差异 ,得到 :(1)增益和读出噪音不变。 (2 )在 - 10 0℃温度 ,MPP模式的暗流对短的或中等长度的露光可以忽略 ,并且暗流对CCD芯片的温度变化不太敏感 ;非MPP模式的暗流有确定的图案 ,对CCD的温度变化比MPP敏感。因此稳定的低温是必须的 ,并且使用时须减暗流。 (3)使用MPP的代价是 ,相对于非MPP模式 ,动态范围至少减小约 90 0 0adu(增益 4 .6e- /adu)。用户使用时应按照科学目的选择模式。     

NAOC 1m反射望远镜CCD相机的性能研究

研究了国家天文台兴隆观测基地1m反射望远镜新安装的VersArray1340×1300BCCD照相机的性能。它有几乎没有图案的良好本底（bias），极低的读出噪声和暗流。用平场序列露光来检测其线性时，能得到线性良好的转移曲线（transfercurve）。但是，不论在平场露光（面光源）还是在恒星（点光源）的观测中，当像元值约高于55000adu时（增益3．7e^-／adu），都会产生溢出。此时CCD并未满井。因此，使用它做点扩散函数分析研究时，要避免使用太亮的星像。不过，由于电荷守恒原理，对产生溢出的孤立亮星像，仍然可以做孔径测光。此外，该相机的快门函数也已测定。     

GPS掩星折射率剖面一维变分同化

近年来,GPS／LEO(全球定位系统／低地球轨道)卫星无线电掩星技术给出了地球大气探测的新途径．从LEO卫星观测到的掩星数据可以反演的地球大气的气压、水汽、温度等剖面;它们对气象和大气科学研究,是具有潜在价值的数据资源．掩星数据资料的同化技术可以有效地改进这些气象参数的剖面,从而改进目前的数值天气预报模式．在当前采用的一维变分同化反演技术中,可以用掩星观测资料的大气折射率或弯曲角剖面进行同化,来反演大气水汽和温度剖面以及海平面压强．作为独立自主开发的GPD／LEO掩星技术系统的一部分,以欧洲中尺度天气预报分析(ECMWF)资料为背景场,CHAMP 掩星观测得到的折射率剖面为观测值,采用Levenberg—Marquardt方法实行GPS掩星资料一维变分同化．在讨论中,用掩星观测点附近相应的探空气球资料来检验CHAMP掩星资料变分同化的结果．     

视宁度测量中的一个常数

大气视宁度严重影响了地面望远镜观测的成像分辨率。对于直径ｒＬ的单孔镜，Ｆｒｉｅｄ给出恒星光波波前到达角的均方差为＜α２＞＝０．３５８（λｒＬ）１／３（λｒ０）５／３这一公式被很多文献所采用，并推广应用于双瞳视宁度仪测量，等等。事实上，Ｙｕｒａ和Ｔａｖｉｓ（１９８５）指出，恒星光波波前的瞬间倾角与星像重心在焦平面的角位置并不完全相关，波前倾角的方差与焦平面重心的方差也是不一致的。实际测量中，我们常使用的是焦平面像重心的测量。因此，使用的公式应当有所修正。本文从Ｔａｔａｒｓｋｉ的理论公式出发，更简捷地得到了同样的结果。即，所使用的公式应修改为＜α２＞＝０．３３９（λｒＬ）１／３（λｒ０）５／３与此有关的视宁度测量公式中的其他常数也需修改     

大气角动量资料源的变化对研究日长变化激发的贡献

本文采用1979—1995年间由空间大地测量技术观测和归算的日长变化（△LOD）序列,以及由美国国家气象中心（NMC）和美国国家环境预测中心与美国国家大气研究中心（NCEP／NCAR）利用全球气象资料各自归算的大气角动量（AAM）序列,重新分析、研究和估计了大气对△LOD的激发作用,比较了上述各个大气角动量序列对△LOD激发贡献,得到的主要结果如下：1．NCEP／NCAR用同化后的全球气象资料重新归算的AAM序列比原来NMC的序列具有系统均匀化、噪声小和分辨率高的特点,以及和日长变化的符合度更好．2．采用NCEP／NCAR重新归算的AAM来研究大气在从亚季节性到年际时间尺度上对非潮汐△LOD的激发贡献,得到进一步改善的结果,尤其是在准两年时间尺度上．但是大气仍不能解释全部△LOD化,可能存在其它激发源．3．大气对△LOD高频潮汐项的估计值影响较小,并从△LOD中解算出周年和半年潮汐参数估计的初步结果．     

水平子午环气象资料自动采集系统

大气折射是天体测量最基本的问题之一，它影响着天体位置测定的精度。气象资料自动采集系统是自动计算大气折射必不可少的仪器，为观测结果和气象的相关分析提供了可能．本文介绍的气象资料自动采集系统，可实时采集并可用于其它天文观测仪器．     

Be星的星周盘模型与Be/X射线双星系统(英)

介绍了Be星的基本特性．评述了近年来对Be星星周物质结构研究的成果．重点介绍了最新的关于Be星星周盘产生和变化的动力学模型．另外，对Be／X射线双星系统的研究也做了简要评述，重点论述了致密星与Be星延伸大气的相互作用．     

大气492 GHz亚毫米波不透明度的测量

使用移动式亚毫米波望远镜(POST)在位于青藏高原海拔3200米的紫金山天文台德令哈射电天文观测站址测量地球大气492GHz频率处天顶方向的不透明度(τ0)的结果．在1999—2000年冬季和2000—2001年冬季的两个观测季节内累计共进行了约870个小时的测量，取得了25842组τ0的有效数据．对数据的统计表明，观测季节内τ0值主要分布在1．5—3．0之间．观测时段内大气不透明度τ0≤1．0的时间比例约占3％．在给出实测资料的基础上，将所测量的亚毫米波不透明度与国际现有亚毫米波台址的不透明度进行了初步比较．     

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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...