The Effect of Collisional Line Broadening on the Spectrum and Fluxes of Thermal Radiation in the Lower Atmosphere of Venus

The absorption spectrum and thermal radiation fluxes are calculated for the lower atmosphere of Venus in the far-wing approximation based on the theory of the collisional broadening of spectral lines. The results are in good agreement with the available experimental data. An outgoing thermal radiation flux is about 2.6 W/m² near the planetary surface. This indicates that free convection significantly contributes to the thermal balance of the lower troposphere. The fluxes obtained in this study were compared to those calculated on the basis of empirical models of the spectral line profile. It was shown that the far wings of the CO₂ lines considerably affect the radiative transfer in the transparency windows. This effect becomes weaker when the contribution of the absorption of minor constituents, primarily water vapor, increases. The profiles of absorption lines of minor constituents do not influence the thermal radiation fluxes.__________Translated from Astronomicheskii Vestnik, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2005, pp. 214–226.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Afanasenko, Rodin.     

Run-up of surface waves on a sea wall built on a convex bottom profile

Wave run-up on a sea wall built on a convex bottom profile is studied in the framework of linear shallow water theory. When the wall is located in “deeper water,” a wave is reflected from the wall without changing its shape and phase, which is fully consistent with classical considerations. If the wall is shifted towards the shore, the shape of the wave changes in a complex way. Note that the wave phase changes to the opposite in the limiting case when the wall is located right on the shore. The role of nonlinear effects is studied by means of numerical simulations using nonlinear shallow water theory. It is shown that the contribution of nonlinear effects and breaking is high on a convex-shaped beach, which makes the structure of the wave field rather complicated.     

Comparative Analysis of the Observational Properties of Fast Radio Bursts at the Frequencies of 111 and 1400 MHz

Astronomy Reports - A comparative analysis of the observational characteristics of fast radio bursts at the frequencies 111 and 1400 MHz is carried out. The distributions of radio bursts...     

Detection of sources of periodic radio emission with the Large Phased Array of the Lebedev Physical Institute

A method for searching for new periodic radio sources is described. The method is based on the spectral analysis of data from daily monitoring of the sky on the Large Phased Antenna (LPA) of the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory at 111 MHz in a 2.5-MHz band. The 96-beam directivity pattern of the LPA is used. The signal is received in six 0.42-MHz frequency channels with a sampling rate of 0.1 s. The duration of the processed survey is four months. The particulars of detecting periodic sources with the LPA are considered. In total, 16 such radio sources have been detected, for which equatorial and Galactic coordinates, periods, and dispersion measures are given.     

Influence of Nonlinear Interaction on the Evolution of Waves in a Shallow Basin

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - The influence of nonlinear interaction of oppositely directed nonlinear waves in a shallow basin is studied theoretically and numerically within the...     

A Pulsar Time Scale

Astronomy Reports - A pulsar time scale is considered, including possibilities for its realization and possible applications to fundamental problems in astronomy and physics.     

Principles of Pulsar Space Navigation

Astronomy Reports - The paper considers the principles of space navigation using pulsars observed in the radio range. The requirements for receiving equipment are outlined, a recommended pulsar...     

Modeling the Atmospheres of Tidally Locked Super-Earths Orbiting Low-Mass Host Stars Using a Nonhydrostatic General Circulation Model

Astronomy Letters - We present the results of our numerical simulations of the general circulation in the atmosphere of a hypothetical super-Earth within a model based on the solution of the...     

New in the physics of planetary atmosphere

We present here an overview of the results of Russian investigations of planetary atmospheres in 2003–2006 prepared by the Commission on Planetary Atmospheres of the National Geophysical Committee for the National Report on Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences to the 24th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (Perugia, June 2–13, 2007).     

Optimal filtration and a pulsar time scale

An algorithm is proposed for constructing a group (ensemble) pulsar time based on the application of optimal Wiener filters. This algorithm makes it possible to separate the contributions of variations of the atomic time scale and of the pulsar rotation to barycentric residual deviations of the pulse arrival times. The method is applied to observations of the pulsars PSR B1855+09 and PSR B1937+21, and is used to obtain corrections to UTC relative to the group pulsar time PT_ens. Direct comparison of the terrestial time TT(BIPM06) and the group pulsar time PT_ens shows that they disagree by no more than 0.4 ± 0.17 μs. Based on the fractional instability of the time difference TT(BIPM06)-PT_ens, σ _z = (0.5 ± 2) × 10⁻¹⁵, a new limit for the energy density of the gravitational-wave background is established at the level Ω _g h ² ∼ 10⁻⁹.