用转换函数方法研究喜马拉雅地区速度结构

利用流动数字地震台网提供的三分量地震波形记录,应用转换函数及快速模拟退火算法对喜马拉雅山脉地区46个地震站下的地壳横波速度结构进行了反演,为进一步揭示青藏高原喜马拉雅山脉地区的动力学演化过程提供了可靠的地球物理证据.根据本文结果可清晰看到,喜马拉雅山脉地区作为当今地壳活动最活跃的地区,物质交换非常活跃,地下结构远远未达到平衡,地壳速度有很大差异,在板块边界处莫霍界面速度间断不是非常明显,自喜马拉雅南坡向高原腹地,地壳厚度大致从55 km增加到80 km;沿经度方向,莫霍面也有一定的起伏.通过研究得到另外一个证据是,在喜马拉雅的主中央逆冲断裂,由大陆碰撞产生的主要构造,其深度可能要大于80 km.     

邹衍的地理学说及与《五藏山经》之关系

邹衍是我国古代最早的地理学家之一。他不仅考察过燕、齐海滨及近海岛屿,而且曾游历诸国,掌握了大量地理资料。根据当时所知的海陆分布,提出了著名的"大九州"学说。邹衍活动时代与《五藏山经》成书时代一致,他一度作为祭酒的稷下学宫是战国时期的文化中心和图书资料中心,为《五藏山经》的编撰提供了来自不同地域的地理资料。《五藏山经》记述方法与邹衍的经验归纳法十分吻合,其主要内容、文字风格与邹衍佚文也颇有相似之处。综合各种因素,可认为《五藏山经》系邹衍学派汇编整理。     

Investigation of the hydro-mechanical behaviour of GMZ bentonite pellet mixtures

Bentonite pellet mixtures are considered as one of the candidate sealing materials for deep geological disposals of radioactive waste. One of the particularities of this material is the initial heterogeneous distribution of pellets and porosity within the mixture, leading to complex hydro-mechanical behaviour. In this paper, the hydro-mechanical properties of GMZ bentonite pellet mixtures were investigated in the laboratory by carrying out water retention tests on pellet mixtures under constant-volume condition and single pellets under free swelling condition, as well as a infiltration test on a column specimen of pellet mixture. In the infiltration test, the relative humidity and radial swelling pressure were monitored at five heights, the axial swelling pressure was also recorded. The instantaneous profile method was applied to determine the unsaturated hydraulic conductivities. Results show that, in high suction range (>?10 MPa) the water retention curve of pellet mixture under constant-volume condition was comparable to that of a single pellet under free swelling condition, while in low suction range (<?10 MPa) the latter exhibits a much higher water retention capacity. Due to clogging of large pores, the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity decreases as suction decreases to around 25 MPa. However, with further suction decrease, the hydraulic conductivity increases continuously until the value at saturated state, as in the case of most unsaturated soils. The radial swelling pressure at different heights develops with local sudden increase and decrease, which was attributed to local rearrangement of pellets upon wetting. By contrast, as the axial swelling pressure was measured on the global surface of the specimen, it develops in a more regular fashion.

     

Clustering analysis of line indices for LAMOST spectra with AstroStat

The application of data mining in astronomical surveys,such as the Large Sky Area MultiObject Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope(LAMOST)survey,provides an effective approach to automatically analyze a large amount of complex survey data.Unsupervised clustering could help astronomers find the associations and outliers in a big data set.In this paper,we employ the k-means method to perform clustering for the line index of LAMOST spectra with the powerful software Astro Stat.Implementing the line index approach for analyzing astronomical spectra is an effective way to extract spectral features for low resolution spectra,which can represent the main spectral characteristics of stars.A total of 144 340 line indices for A type stars is analyzed through calculating their intra and inter distances between pairs of stars.For intra distance,we use the definition of Mahalanobis distance to explore the degree of clustering for each class,while for outlier detection,we define a local outlier factor for each spectrum.Astro Stat furnishes a set of visualization tools for illustrating the analysis results.Checking the spectra detected as outliers,we find that most of them are problematic data and only a few correspond to rare astronomical objects.We show two examples of these outliers,a spectrum with abnormal continuum and a spectrum with emission lines.Our work demonstrates that line index clustering is a good method for examining data quality and identifying rare objects.     

A fiber bundle structure with uniform transmission characteristics for high-density astronomical optical cables

Transmission efficiency(TE) and focal ratio degradation(FRD) are two important parameters for evaluating the quality of an optical fiber system used for astronomy. Compared to TE, the focal ratio is more easily influenced by external factors, such as bending or stress. Optical cables are widely implemented for multi-object telescopes and integral field units(IFUs). The design and fabrication process of traditional optical cables seldom considers the requirements of astronomical applications. In this paper, we describe a fiber bundle structure as the basic unit for miniaturized high-density FASOT-IFU optical cables,instead of the micro-tube structure in stranded cables. Seven fibers with hexagonal arrangement were accurately positioned by ultraviolet(UV)-curing acrylate to form the bundle. The coating diameter of a fiber is0.125 mm, and the outer diameter of the bundle is 0.58 mm. Compared with the 0.8 mm micro-tube structure of a traditional stranded cable, the outer diameter of the fiber bundle was reduced by 27.5%. Fiber paste was filled into the bundle to reduce stress between the fibers. We tested the output focal ratio(OFR) in95% of the encircled energy(EE95) of the fibers in the bundle under different conditions. With the incident focal ratio F/8, the maximum difference of OFR is 0.6. In particular, when the incident focal ratio is F/5,the maximum difference of OFR is only 0.1. The jacket formed by the UV-curing acrylate can withstand a certain stress of less than 1.38 N mm~(-1). The fiber bundle can maintain uniform emitting characteristics with a bending radius of 7.5 cm and with tension less than 6 N. The test results show that the structure of the fiber bundle can be used as a basic unit for miniaturized high-density astronomical optical cables.     

傅里叶有限差分法三维波动方程正演模拟

傅里叶有限差分(FFD)法兼有相位屏法和隐式有限差分法二者的优势,能够处理复杂地质构造中的波传播问题,但在三维情形下,算子的双向分裂会引起明显的方位各向异性误差.本文用Fourier变换计算双向分裂过程中的高阶交叉项,消除了方位各向异性误差.该方法充分利用了FFD法在双域实现的算法结构,明显减少了由于引入误差校正所带来的计算量.将该方法应用于修改后的三维French模型的地震正演问题,并将得到的叠后记录、单炮记录同全波有限差分法的模拟结果进行对比,结果证实了该方法对一次反射波具有较高的模拟精度,在内存需求和计算效率方面则具有更大的优势.     

Effect of salt concentration on desiccation cracking behavior of GMZ bentonite

Bentonite has been proposed for use as an engineering barrier and buffer in nuclear waste repositories and has been used frequently in municipal waste landfills. The cracking behavior and deformation properties of this material can be influenced by the chemistry of pore water. In the present work, the influence of salt concentration on the desiccation cracking behavior of GMZ bentonite was investigated with laboratory experiments. Image processing techniques and SEM tests were performed on the specimens which had undergone the desiccation testing in order to analyze the cracking mechanisms. Results show that the water evaporation process can be identified by a steady rate stage, a falling rate stage and a residual stage. The water evaporation rate is strongly affected by the salt concentration of the pore water; higher salt concentrations result in lower evaporation rates; the final water content is strongly impacted by a high initial salinity; otherwise the water contents are very similar for the residual stage. During desiccating, most of cracks appeared at the steady evaporation stage. The cracking morphology and patterns were greatly affected by the salt concentration of the pore water; and larger crack lengths and lower crack densities were obtained as the initial salinity was increased.     

A study of active galactic nuclei in low surface brightness galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) have received little attention in previous studies. We present a detailed spectral analysis of 194 LSBGs from the Impey et al. (1996) APM LSBG sample which has been observed spec-troscopically by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5). Our elaborate spectral analysis enables us to carry out, for the first time, reliable spectral classification of nuclear processes in LSBGs based on the standard emission line diagnostic diagrams in a rigorous way. Star-forming galaxies are common, as found in about 52% of LSBGs. We find that, contrary to some previous claims, the fraction of galaxies that contain AGNs is significantly lower than that found in nearby normal galaxies of high surface brightness. This is qualitatively in line with the finding of Impey et al. This result holds true even within each morphological type from Sa to Sc. LSBGs that have larger central stellar ve-locity dispersions or larger physical sizes tend to have a higher chance of harboring an AGN. For three AGNs with broad emission lines, the black hole masses estimated from the emission lines are broadly consistent with the well known M-σ* relation established for normal galaxies and AGNs.     

2003年2月24日新疆伽师Ms6.5级地震震源破裂过程研究

利用中国数字地震台网和IncorporatedResearchInstitutionsforSeismology (IRIS)提供的远场宽频带P波垂向记录,基于有限地震断层方法,反演了2 0 0 3年2月2 4日新疆伽师6 5级地震震源破裂过程.结果表明,本次地震为北倾低角度稍具左移分量的逆冲破裂事件,断层面走向30 0°,倾角2 8°,震源深度7 5km .其震源机制与1997～1998年伽师强震群有明显区别,而与1996年阿图什地震相似.推断该地震是由塔里木盆地向北挤压,在天山造山带引发逆冲断层活动造成的.     

利用相对静力学强度测定1998年5月11日印度核爆的当量

核爆当量是核试验的重要参数之一. 许多地震学家对1998年5月11日在印度Pokhran地区的核试验(POK2)进行研究,给出了(12～60)kt的当量估计,近5倍的估计偏差引起了较为广泛的关注. 基于全球数字地震台网宽频带体波资料,我们通过波形反演计算等效震源模型参数,包括静力学强度ψ∞、特征频率k、以及震源深度h和P波在自由表面的反射系数rpp,并利用相对的静力学强度估算了POK2事件的当量. 我们发现Lay［1］在美国Nevada试验场(NTS)获得的相对静力学强度与当量的经验公式更适合印度核试验当量估计,并据此计算了这次试验的当量约36kt. 这一结果支持1998年5月11日印度核试验的总当量低于60kt的观点.