《天文学进展》投稿须知

《天文学进展》是中国天文学会所属学术期刊(季刊),发表反映国内外天文学各分支学科最新研究成果的学术性稿件,包括述评、前沿介绍、专题讲座、研究简讯、学术活动报道以及高质量的研究论文等。欢迎各位作者赐稿(中英文来稿皆可)。     

《天文学报》征稿简则

1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会主办、中国科学院紫金山天文台承办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

正1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会、中国科学院紫金山天文台主办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会、中国科学院紫金山天文台主办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会主办、中国科学院紫金山天文台承办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会主办、中国科学院紫金山天文台承办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会主办、中国科学院紫金山天文台承办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

正1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会、中国科学院紫金山天文台主办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

<正>1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会、中国科学院紫金山天文台主办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

《天文学报》征稿简则

<正>1.《天文学报》是中国天文学会、中国科学院紫金山天文台主办的学术期刊,发表现代天文学各分支学科具有创新性的、高学术水平的、有重要意义的科研成果.2.为及时反映我国天文学各领域具创新性的、高水平的最新科研成果,本刊设有《快讯》栏目.要求文字简洁,不超过4000字(不包括英文摘要).     

Productivity and impact of astronomical facilities: A recent sample

The papers published in 11 key astronomical journals in 2008, and a year of citations to those from the first half of the year, have been associated with the telescopes, satellites, and so forth where the data were gathered using a form of fractional counting. Some numbers are also given by journal, by subfield, and by wavelength band. The largest numbers of papers, and generally also quite highly cited ones, in their respective wavelength bands come from the Very Large Array, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X‐ray Telescope. Optical astronomy is still the largest sector; and papers about cosmology and exoplanets are cited more often than papers about binary stars and planetary nebulae. The authors conclude that it is of equal importance to recognize (a) that a very large number of papers also come from less famous facilities, (b) that a very large fraction of papers (and their authors) are concerned with the less highly‐cited topics, (c) that many facilities are quite slow in achieving their eventual level of influence, and (d) that one really needs at least three years of citation data, not just one or two, to provide a fair picture of what is going on (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Productivity and impact of astronomical facilities: A statistical study ofpublications and citations

In calendar years 2001 and 2002, 20 journals of astronomy and astrophysics published 7768 papers that reported or analyzed observations at wavelengths from meter radio to ultrahigh energy gamma rays. In the three calendar years after publication, these papers were cited more than 97 000 times, according to the Science Citation Index/Web of Science data base (the most complete, we believe, available), for an average rate of 4.19 citations per paper per year.We slice these data up several ways, by subject matter, wavelength band, and the telescopes (etc.) used. Most of the results will not surprise: There are hot topics (cosmology, exoplanets) and not so hot topics (binary stars, planetary nebulae). Papers reporting spacebased data are cited a bit more often and radio papers a bit less often than optical papers, but multi‐wavelength studies do the best. The total number of telescopes involved is surprisingly large, about 330 optical and infrared (mostly ground based but including HST), 109 radio (including COBE and VSOP satellites), and 90 space based (including satellites, interplanetary probes, things carried on rockets, balloons, the Shuttle, and so forth). The superstar telescopes are (mostly) the ones you would expect, though having the most papers does not always go with largest ratios of citations per paper. HST produces the largest number of optical papers, but SDSS the most highly‐cited ones, while the VLA is responsible for the largest number of radio papers and the most highly cited (apart from balloon‐borne CMB observatories), and among things that fly, the most recent tend to dominate both paper and citation numbers. If you have to choose, it is probably better to opt for a small telescope on a well‐supported site than a larger one with less support, and service to the community, in the form of catalogues and mission definitions, is rewarded, at least in citation counts, if not always in other ways. A few comparisons are made with other studies. The main difference is that we have included all the papers and all the telescopes for the years chosen, rather than focussing on one or a few observatories or skimming the cream of most‐cited papers or ones from the highest‐profile journals. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Telescopes in the mirror of scientometrics

Counting papers and citations is one way to estimate the significance of particular astronomical telescopes and other facilities in the long time gap between the verdict of history and the referee’s report on your most recent proposal. This has been done for 2,184 observational astronomy papers published between 1960 and 1964 (with 14,237 citations in 1965–1969) and the numbers looked at in various ways. The extreme dominance of California in optical astronomy and of the UK and Australia in radio astronomy provides the background against which ESO, NOAO, NRAO, and A&A were founded, with equality of access to facilities having increased enormously in the intervening 40 years, but inequality of results having increased slightly. A number of other factoids about astronomical publications, the community, and their environments surfaced during the counting process, and a subset reported here, including a few pertaining to the more distant past.     

Research career of an astronomer who has studied celestial mechanics

Celestial mechanics has been a classical field of astronomy. Only a few astronomers were in this field and not so many papers on this subject had been published during the first half of the 20 thcentury.However, as the beauty of classical dynamics and celestial mechanics attracted me very much, I decided to take celestial mechanics as my research subject and entered university, where a very famous professor of celestial mechanics was a member of the faculty. Then as artificial satellites were launched starting from October 1958, new topics were investigated in the field of celestial mechanics. Moreover, planetary rings,asteroids with moderate values of eccentricity, inclination and so on have become new fields of celestial mechanics. In fact I have tried to solve such problems in an analytical way. Finally, to understand what gravitation is I joined the TAMA300 gravitational wave detector group.     

Impact of astronomical research from different countries

The impact of astronomical research carried out by different countries has been compared by analysing the 1000 most‐cited astronomy papers published 1991‐8 (125 from each year). 61% of the citations are to papers with first authors at institutions in the USA, 11% in the UK, 5% in Germany, 4% in Canada, 3% in Italy and 3% in France. 17% are to papers with first authors in ESO countries. The number of citations is approximately proportional to the number of IAU members in a given country. The number of citations per IAU astronomer is highest in the USA, Switzerland and the UK. Within continental Europe, the number of citations per IAU astronomer varies little from country to country, but is slightly higher in the north than in the south. The sample of 1000 papers maps regional subject preferences. 62% of the extragalactic papers in the sample were published from the USA, 15% from the UK, 23% from other countries (mainly in continental Europe). 62% of the papers on stars were also published from the USA, but the fractions from the UK and from other countries are 2% and 36% respectively. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

地外生命搜索和太阳系外的行星的发现

阐述地外生命搜索的意义，手段和现状，地外生命搜索的SETI计划及其发展，并着重介绍太阳系外的行星系统的发现，它的目的，成果以及未来。太阳系外的行星系统的发展是当代天文学最时髦的，也将是未来21世纪成果最丰富的研究领域之一，从1992年第一个确认了脉冲星PSR 1257＋12的行星系统以来，1995年确认主序星51Peg有一颗行星，至2001年5月，已经发现了60个太阳系外的行星系统，太阳系外的行星系统的发现与地外生命搜索研究是密不可分的，新的发现也提出了很多新的谜，这项研究近10年来发展很快，它的研究也促进了航天学，宇宙化学，天文生物学乃至哲学等其他学科的发展。     

Exotic UV astronomy

After considering a number of historical but somewhat “forgotten” UV astronomy experiments, I discuss a number of ways of non-conventional astronomy in the ultraviolet that, on first considerations, could be viable alternatives and valuable complements to classical space observations. These are (a) UV astronomy from the Antarctic or the Arctic regions that take advantage of the “ozone hole”, (b) the use of high-altitude stratospheric balloon-borne telescopes, and (c) the operation of UV telescopes on the Moon. The advantages of these options are discussed and evaluated against the costs of each option and, one by one, are mostly rejected as not fully justifying the specific alternative. The possibility to achieve valuable (but limited) UV science, such as imaging at ～2000 Å, using long-duration stratospheric balloons is described. The option of lunar UV observatories is retained to be implemented for the case of a UV interferometer, where the stability of the lunar regolith is seen as a significant advantage in comparison to free-flying interferometers. A location beyond the main asteroid belt, where the background due zodiacal light may be negligible, is advocated as an ideal location for a UV observatory in the Solar System.     

History of infrared telescopes and astronomy

The first attempts to measure the infrared outputs of stars preceded by nearly a century the permanent establishment of infrared astronomy as an important aspect of the field. There were a number of false starts in that century, significant efforts that had little impact on the astronomical community at large. Why did these efforts fizzle out? What was different in the start that did not fizzle, in the 1960s? I suggest that the most important advances were the success of radio astronomy in demonstrating interesting phenomena outside of the optical regime, and the establishment virtually simultaneously in the United States of a number of research groups that could support each other and compete against one another in their approach to infrared astronomy.     

Modeling the Dust Shell of V4334 Sgr

The central star V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object) of the planetary nebula PN G010.4+04.4 underwent in 1995–1996 the rare event of a very late helium flash.It is only one of two such events during the era of modern astronomy (the other event was V605 Aql = Nova Aql 1919). All other prominentobjects of that type originate from events several thousands of years ago (e.g. A30, A78). Hence, only snapshots can be modeled for those objects.V4334 Sgr allows for the first time a dynamic consideration of the formation of the dust shell from the beginning.We present here a model which is able to describe the complete photometric behaviorof the object, including the fine structure dips of the optical light curve during the first two years of the mass loss and the dust formation.