疏散星团金属丰度样本和银盘金属丰度梯度

整理汇集了同时具备距离、年龄与金属丰度数据的疏散星团样本，共计118个。利用这些资料，对银河系疏散星团的金属丰度分布性质进行了若干统计分析，进一步研究了银盘径向金属丰度梯度随时间和空间的演化情况，并对银盘年龄-金属丰度关系作了讨论。     

银盘的径向金融丰度梯度

详细综棕了银盘（包括HII区，早B型星，行星状星云和疏散星团）径向元素丰度梯度的观测结果，分析了丰度梯度的空间和时间变化的情况，指出根据目前的观测结果，还很难确定在银盘的演化历史中径向元素丰度梯度是逐渐变平缓还是逐渐变陡，比较了目前各种化学演化模型对径向丰度梯度演化的预测结果，初步探讨了丰度梯度可能的产生机制及影响其演化的各种重要物理过程。     

银河系恒星盘翘曲的秘密

Richard de Grijs     

老年疏散星团的金属丰度及银盘金属丰度梯度演化研究

疏散星团是探究银河系结构与演化的良好示踪体,一直以来颇受关注.之前关于疏散星团的研究中,仅有一小部分疏散星团有金属丰度参数,而且,金属丰度的测量,是基于不同质量的观测数据,采用了不同的方法.收集了一个年龄大于2 Gyr的老年疏散星团样本,通过整理这些星团成员星的金属丰度数据,一方面,以星团NGC 2682为例,对比了不同光谱巡天项目给出的星团成员星金属丰度的系统差异;另一方面,计算了星团成员星金属丰度的平均值和中位值,作为该疏散星团的金属丰度推荐值.此外,还利用该样本探究了银盘径向金属丰度梯度随时间的演化,结果表明,早期银盘有着更加陡峭的径向金属丰度梯度,随着演化时间的增加,银盘径向金属丰度梯度逐渐趋于平缓,为银盘化学演化模型提供了更加严格的观测约束.     

银道面上下的奇对称环向磁场

在分析河外射电源和脉冲星的法拉弟旋度（ＲｏｔａｔｉｏｎＭｅａｓｕｒｅ，ＲＭ）时，发现银道面上下有规则的奇对称环向磁场分量，这是任何银盘磁场模型所无法解释的，这种奇对称的环向磁场说明在银冕中运行着Ａ０模式的Ｄｙｎａｍｏ。     

Abundance Gradient from Open Clusters and Implications for the Galactic Disk Evolution

1 INTRODUCTIONRadial abundance gradient along the Galactic disk constitutes one of the most importantobservational constraillts fOr models of the evolution of the Galactic disk. The existence of sucha gradient is now well established, through radio and optical observations of HII regions, diskstars, pIanetary nebulae (see Henry and Worthey 1999 for a detailed review) and open clusters(Friel 1995, 1999). An average gradiellt of dlog(X/H)/dR ~ --0.06 dex kpc--' is observed inthe Milky …     

A Method of Obtaining the Pitch Angle of Spiral Arms and the Inclination of Galactic Discs

RESEARCH PAPERS 1 INTRODUCTIONA spiraI gaIaxy inherently consists of a halo, a bulge and a thin disc with spiral structurewhich emerges from the central region or the end of a bright bar. Optical images of spirals, whichare projections on the celestial sphere, are dominated by the light from the stars, as modifiedby the extinction and reddening of dust. AIthough Lord Rosse first discovered that M51 hastwo spiral arms in 1845, the form of the spiral structure had not been investigat…     

银盘恒星运动学和化学丰度与银河系结构

大样本的银盘恒星的运动学数据和元素丰度特征是研究银河系结构及演化，尤其是银盘形成和演化的2个重要探针。本文首先介绍了银河系的总体结构特征，然后较详细的综述了以上2个探针的重要性。对我国LAMOST项目在研究银河系结构方面，尤其是银盘的形成和演化方面的能力作了合理的分析。     

Programme of the Galactic meridian: Star counts and Galactic models 2. Distribution of absolute proper motions

A comparison of the observed distribution of absolute proper motions with a kinematical model of the Galaxy is presented. Proper motions with respect to galaxies were obtained for about 40 000 stars along the main Galactic meridian and in two fields near the North Galactic pole (programme MEGA). The Galaxy is considered as composed of the disk (main sequence and disk red giants), the thick disk and spheroid populations. For each subsystem, spatial velocity components and their dispersions were computed. The distribution of kinematical parameters were modelled for stars located in different directions of the Galaxy.     

The generation of a large-scale Galactic magnetic field by electric currents of energetic particles

We consider the generation of a magnetic field in the Galaxy by the electric currents excited by cosmic-ray particles in the disk and halo. We assume that the sources of relativistic particles are distributed continuously and uniformly in the Galactic disk, their total power is equal to the observed value, and the particles themselves undergo anisotropic diffusion in a homogeneous medium. We take into account the differential rotation of the Galactic disk but disregard the turbulence gyrotropy (the α effect). The strength of the generated magnetic field in our model is shown to strongly depend on the symmetry of the relativistic proton and thermal electron diffusion tensors, as well as on the relations between the tensor components. In particular, if the diffusion is isotropic, then no magnetic field is generated. For the independent tensor components estimated from observed parameters of the Galactic medium and with a simultaneous allowance made for the turbulent field dissipation processes, the mechanism under consideration can provide an observable magnetic-field strength of the order of several microgauss. This mechanism does not require any seed magnetic field, which leads us to suggest that relativistic particles can give an appreciable and, possibly, determining contribution to the formation of the global Galactic magnetic field. However, a final answer can be obtained only from a nonlinear self-consistent treatment, in which the symmetry and magnitude of the particle diffusion tensor components should be determined together with the calculation of the magnetic field.     

Disentangling the Galaxy at low Galactic latitudes

We have used the field stars from the open cluster survey BOCCE (Bologna Open Clusters Chemical Evolution), to study three low-latitude fields imaged with the Canada–France–Hawaii telescope (CFHT), with the aim of better understanding the Galactic structure in those directions. Because of the deep and accurate photometry in these fields, they provide a powerful discriminant among Galactic structure models. In the present paper we discuss if a canonical star count model, expressed in terms of thin and thick disc radial scales, thick disc normalization and reddening distribution, can explain the observed colour–magnitude diagrams (CMDs). Disc and thick disc are described with double exponentials, the spheroid is represented with a De Vaucouleurs density law. In order to assess the fitting quality of a particular set of parameters, the colour distribution and luminosity function of synthetic photometry is compared to that of target stars selected from the blue sequence of the observed CMDs. Through a Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, we find that the classical decomposition halo-thin/thick disc is sufficient to reproduce the observations – no additional population is strictly necessary. In terms of solutions common to all three fields, we have found a thick disc scalelength that is equal to (or slightly longer than) the thin disc scale.     

Three-dimensional evolution of worms and chimneys in the Galactic disc

Three-dimensional modelling of the flow of gas and plasma in a section of the Galaxy has been carried out to study the evolution and formation of Galactic chimneys and worms. It is found that clustered supernovae located on either side of the Galactic plane are sources for the formation of well-collimated chimneys, having widths of ∼     . The thick gas disc may have a role in the collimation of chimneys. Channel maps of disc gas, obtained from the simulations, show the presence of sheet-like structures running perpendicular to the Galactic plane and resembling worms. Worms are believed to result from the break-up of the shells and supershells. However, the simulations show that although some worms correlate well with the debris of broken shells/supershells, others do not. They are cold gas that has been accelerated in the disc and rise on to the thick gas disc.     

银道面上下的奇对称环向磁场

在分析河外射电源和脉冲星的法拉弟旋度（RotationMeasure，RM）时，发现银道面上下有规则的奇对称环向磁场分量，这是任何银盘磁场模型所无法解释的．这种奇对称的环向磁场说明在银冕中运行着AO模式的Dynamo。     

银心的观测与研究

银心是离我们最近的星系核，它属于活动低下的典型星系核，对它的研究不仅是银河系结构研究中不可缺少的一环，而且是研究黑洞和活动星系核的极好样本。简要回顾了近10年对银心观测和研究的主要结果，并对银心的基本构造和组成，特别是对射电源SgrA及其银心暗天体的性质和模型作了比较全面的概括和总结。     

Galactic structure from the Two Micron Galactic Survey

The Two Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) is the most sensitive large scale point source near infrared survey of the Galactic Plane yet attempted. The Galactic plane has been drift-scanned in several regions over the areas -5° <l < 30°, |b | 15° and 30° <l < 180°, |b | 5°. The survey is complete in the areas covered to magnitudem _k = +9.8. So far, a total area of 255 square degrees has been mapped and 500000 objects have been detected, the majority of these in the Galactic plane and with no visible counterparts. In this contribution we use data from the TMGS to probe the star distribution within the Galactic disk.