由NVSS证认的射电类星体

通过对２０００年版Ｖｅｒｏｎ类星体星表和ＮＶＳＳ巡天数据进行交叉证认,得到了３０１颗新发现有射电辐射的类星体,计算了射电类星体的射电谱指数、射电光度、偏振度等物理量并进行了统计分析,讨论了射电类星体所理比例随红移和绝对星等的分布,以及夺度随红移的演化关系。结果发现,强射电类星体在所有类星体中所占的比例Ｆ（ＲＬＱ）随着ＭＢ的增加而增大,随红移的演化是ｚ＝０．０到ｚ＝０．８逐渐上升,在ｚ＝１．５附近开     

由NVSS证认的射电类星体

通过对２０００年版Ｖｅｒｏｎ类星体星表和ＮＶＳＳ巡天数据进行交叉证认,得到了３０１颗新发现有射电辐射的类星体．计算了射电类星体的射电话指数、射电光度、偏振度等物理量并进行了统计分析,讨论了射电类星体所占比例随红移和绝对星等的分布,以及偏振度随红移的演化关系．结果发现,强射电类星体在所有类星体中所占的比例Ｆ（ＲＬＱ）随着ＭＢ的增加而增大,随红移的演化是从。＝０．０到ｚ＝０．８逐渐上升,在ｚ＝１．５附近开始缓慢下降,到ｚ＝ ２．０附近降到谷底,然后又有上升趋势．射电偏振度大部分小于 ４．０％,偏振度越小,类星体数目越多．而射电偏振度与红移之间似乎没有相关性．     

类星体红移分布的高频周期

本文对Ｖｅｒｏｎ－Ｃｅｔｔｙ和Ｖｅｒｏｎ类星体表中３１９７颗红移精度为０．００１的类星体做了红移分布的周期性分析。结果表明：类星体红移值在几个方向上存在高频波动的周期性分布，且置信度水平较高。根据我们的分析，这种周期性不可能完全是由于选择效应引起的。因此，类星体在大尺度上的分布很可能具有大约５０Ｍｐｃ的周期涨落。     

类星体红移分布的高频叶期

本对Ｖｅｒｏｎ－Ｃｅｔｔｙ和Ｖｅｒｏｎ类星体表中３１９７颗红移精度为０．００１的类星体做了红移分布的周期性分布。结果表明：类星体红移植在几个方向上存在高频波动的周期性分布，且置信度水平较高。根据我们的分析，这种周期性不可能完全是由于选择效应引起的。因此，类星体在大尺度上的分布很可能具有大约５０Ｍｐｃ的周期涨落。     

关于类星体红移分布周期性的讨论

文［１］提出，类星体红移分布周期性可能由两点因素造成：首先是主要谱线固有波长呈周期性；其次是光学窗口对谱线红移范围的限制．本文赞同上述第二论点，同时论证了上述第一论点不能成立．此外，该文在处理方法上也有一些不当之处．本文屏弃上述第一论点，仅从第二论点出发，应用概率分析方法，得到类星体相对观测几率－红移分布．此分布与部分观测结果符合较好，大致可解释类星体红移周期分布现象．     

活动星系核红移分布中的准周期峰

本文作者在活动星系核红移分布（０＜ｚ≤０．２）中发现了准周期性的峰。这些峰分布于ｚ≈０．０３０，０．０６０，０．０９０，０．１２０处（其中ｚ＝０．０６０处的峰是１９６８年Ｂｕｒｂｉｄｇｅ发现的并于１９９０年证实）。红移数据的功率谱表明。这些峰值的准周期为△ｚ＝０．０２７±０．００２。两个相邻的峰所表征的空间距离为８１±６ｈ~（－１）Ｍｐｃ。这可能是宇宙大尺度结构中各个单元的特征尺度（Ｈ_０＝１００ｈ~（－１）Ｍｐｃ~（－１）ｍｓ~（－１）。     

具有哈勃流的相对论抛射运动学.(Ⅲ)求出超光速源反喷流可观测波长和寻找类星体的蓝移谱线(英文)

在求解类星体的喷流和反喷流的问题时,必须考虑哈勃流所起的作用．超光速反喷流的观测波长应是λｃｊ＝（δ／δ′）λｏｂ,这里δ和δ′分别是正喷流和反喷流的多普勒因子,λｏｂ是正喷流的观测波长．由于多普勒因子的作用,（δ／δ′）值是较大的,对于大多数超光速源可大到两个数量级,远远超出一般ＶＬＢＩ的观测波长范围．不过,也有些超光速的（δ／δ′）值小于１０,足以观测它们的反喷流．因为反喷流的波长值主要由哈勃流常数Ｈ０所决定,一旦测定反喷流观测波长,即可反过来估计Ｈ０的值．本文提出寻找类星体蓝移谱线的方法,这些类星体以高速向视线方向抛射物质而形成吸收线．我们在文献中找到１８条可能的蓝移谱线．     

类星体的光度演化函数Ⅰ：包括Z＞2．2大红移范围的统计演化函数

本文对前人的类星体光学演化函数进行改进，使其适用于更大的红移范围，可达Ｚ＝３以上。其物理考虑是：一方面包括核心黑洞质量和吸积率变化而引起光度演化；另一方面在高红移时类星体诞生所引起的密度演化，并且这种演化率与光度有关。这种型式更利于与类星体演化的动力学模型相衔接。新的演化函数通过三种检验来决定，即（１）类星体直到ｍ＝２２ｍ．０的星等计数，（２）以ΔＺ＝０．１为间隔的红移分布，（３）Ｚ＞２的类星体的星等计数。在适当的光学演化参数和诞生参数下，我们的演化函数与上述三项观测对比相当好，理论预言在观测误差之内。特别要强调的是改善了其它演化函数理论预言在Ｚ＞２普遍过剩的行为，因此这个演化函数可作为类星体演化动力学模型的依据之一。     

红移.距离.年龄

红移·距离·年龄“按照宇宙膨胀学说,ｚ＝４．７３的类星体ＰＣ１１５８＋４６３５大约是在宇宙半径为现在的１／６,宇宙年龄仅为现在的７％时诞生的。”这一例证说明,随着新技术的应用,现代望远镜已观测到了遥远深空的星系或类星体;从时间上说,因为光的传播速度是...     

类星体的光度演化函数I：包括Z〉2.2大红移范围的统计演化函数

本文对前人的类星体光学演化函数进行改进，使其适用于更大的红移范围，可达Ｚ＝３以上。其物理考虑是：一方面包括核心黑洞质量和吸积率变化而引起光度演化；另一方面在高红移时类星体诞生所引起的密度演化，并且这种演化率与光度有关。这种型式更利于与类星体演化的动力学模型相衔接。新的演化函数通过三种检验来决定，即（１）类星体直到ｍ＝２２＾ｍ．０的星等计数，（２）以ΔＺ＝０．１为间隔的红移分布，（３）Ｚ〉２的类星体     

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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.     

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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...