ePSF拟合法与Gaussian拟合法的比较

为了解决哈勃空间望远镜的图像欠采样问题,美国学者Anderson和King提出了精确测量星像位置和通量的有效点扩散函数(ePSF—effective point-spread function)拟合法。然而,他们却不加比较地将其应用于地面CCD图像中星像的位置高精度测量。因此,我们试图将ePSF拟合法与经典的高斯函数(Gaussian)拟合法作比较研究。调用CFITSIO库生成模拟的背景图像,并应用不同参数条件下的星像轮廓模型产生非欠采样的星像。最后,分别采用ePSF拟合法与Gaussian拟合法对这些星像进行拟合,并对它们的拟合精度进行比较。实验结果表明,在非欠采样的图像中这两种算法对星像位置的测量几乎是等精度的。     

CCD图像暗场拍摄与处理

重点讨论了天文ＣＣＤ器件暗场图像的拍摄与处理。从多幅暗场图的拍摄发现，除了某些象素的暗流值，有随积分时间成正比例的变化之外；另有一些象素，可能有随机性很大的偶发的高暗流值。其原因无论是器件内部的，还是外部的，都不应视作为“暗场”记录。拍摄多幅图，用“中值法”处理，可以得到我们需要的“暗场”     

Non-linear filtering of compression blocking effects in reconstructed images

The increasing use of data compression by space mission experiments poses the question of quality of the images obtained after the compression-decompression process. Indeed, working on an Image Compression Module (ICM), Using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), with 8*8 pixel-sized sub-images (each pixel being coded on eight bits), one can find blocking effects on their boundaries. Avril and Nguyen (1992, thereafter ANG 1992), have shown that One Neighbour Accounting Filters, used after image reconstruction without modifying the coding method , provide the best and fastest correction as far as linear filtering is concerned. We present here a non-linear method, also used after image reconstruction, but working on spatial frequencies. It allows us to segregate, in the Fourier space, the signal from the defect, and then to remove it through applying a filter adapted to the frequency spectrum of each spoiled image. Employing the reverse Fourier transform, we then retrieve the corrected image. The efficiency of this new method was tested by three different means:- when Fourier filtering is applied to a reference set of aerial photographs of the Earth, blocking effects are quite indistinguishable by human vision, even when zooming on the images, which was not the case with ONAF;- the improvement of the Root Mean Square (RMS) Error, calculated between the filtered and original images, is at least three times greater than the one obtained with ONAF;- the reconstruction of a three-dimensional view of a landscape, thanks to two stereoscopic images having undergone a compression-decompression process with an algorithm using DCT and a compression rate of about 10, is possible only after Fourier filtering has been applied.The quite good preliminary results of the application of Fourier filtering to the Clementine images of the Moon are also represented.     

基于全景真三维技术的新型智慧城市时空信息基础设施探索

我国新型智慧城市的建设对城市时空信息基础设施提出了更高的要求,迫切需要加强包括大数据、云计算等新技术的深入应用。本文重点探讨基于多传感器技术(包括机载激光扫描技术、多角度倾斜摄影技术在内的航空摄影)和高度自动化后处理新技术的全景真三维技术特点及优势,并以北京城市副中心为例,探索基于全景真三维技术的智慧城市时空信息基础设施建设及其应用。实践表明,全景真三维技术能够快速提供真实统一、高精度、多层次的城市模型数据,为城市规划、建设、治理和运营提供了事半功倍的信息化手段,是一种构建新型智慧城市时空信息基础设施的新思路。     

A combined spectrophotometric and morphometric study of the lunar mare dome fields near Cauchy, Arago, Hortensius, and Milichius

In this study we examine the spectral and morphometric properties of the four important lunar mare dome fields near Cauchy, Arago, Hortensius, and Milichius. We utilize Clementine UV-vis multispectral data to examine the soil composition of the mare domes while employing telescopic CCD imagery to compute digital elevation maps in order to determine their morphometric properties, especially flank slope, height, and edifice volume. After reviewing previous attempts to determine topographic data for lunar domes, we propose an image-based 3D reconstruction approach which is based on a combination of photoclinometry and shape from shading. Accordingly, we devise a classification scheme for lunar mare domes which is based on a principal component analysis of the determined spectral and morphometric features. For the effusive mare domes of the examined fields we establish four classes, two of which are further divided into two subclasses, respectively, where each class represents distinct combinations of spectral and morphometric dome properties. As a general trend, shallow and steep domes formed out of low-TiO₂ basalts are observed in the Hortensius and Milichius dome fields, while the domes near Cauchy and Arago that consist of high-TiO₂ basalts are all very shallow. The intrusive domes of our data set cover a wide continuous range of spectral and morphometric quantities, generally characterized by larger diameters and shallower flank slopes than effusive domes. A comparison to effusive and intrusive mare domes in other lunar regions, highland domes, and lunar cones has shown that the examined four mare dome fields display such a richness in spectral properties and 3D dome shape that the established representation remains valid in a more global context. Furthermore, we estimate the physical parameters of dome formation for the examined domes based on a rheologic model. Each class of effusive domes defined in terms of spectral and morphometric properties is characterized by its specific range of values for lava viscosity, effusion rate, and duration of the effusion process. For our data set we report lava viscosities between about 10² and , effusion rates between 25 and , and durations of the effusion process between three weeks and 18 years. Lava viscosity decreases with increasing R₄₁₅/R₇₅₀ spectral ratio and thus TiO₂ content; however, the correlation is not strong, implying an important influence of further parameters like effusion temperature on lava viscosity.     

Shape, size and multiplicity of main-belt asteroids: I. Keck Adaptive Optics survey

This paper presents results from a high spatial resolution survey of 33 main-belt asteroids with diameters >40 km using the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) facility. Five of these (45 Eugenia, 87 Sylvia, 107 Camilla, 121 Hermione, 130 Elektra) were confirmed to have satellite. Assuming the same albedo as the primary, these moonlets are relatively small (∼5% of the primary size) suggesting that they are fragments captured after a disruptive collision of a parent body or captured ejecta due to an impact. For each asteroid, we have estimated the minimum size of a moonlet that can positively detected within the Hill sphere of the system by estimating and modeling a 2-σ detection profile: in average on the data set, a moonlet located at 2/100×RHill (1/4×RHill) with a diameter larger than 6 km (4 km) would have been unambiguously seen. The apparent size and shape of each asteroid was estimated after deconvolution using a new algorithm called AIDA. The mean diameter for the majority of asteroids is in good agreement with IRAS radiometric measurements, though for asteroids with a D<200 km, it is underestimated on average by 6-8%. Most asteroids had a size ratio that was very close to those determined by lightcurve measurements. One observation of 104 Klymene suggests it has a bifurcated shape. The bi-lobed shape of 121 Hermione described in Marchis et al. [Marchis, F., Hestroffer, D., Descamps, P., Berthier, J., Laver, C., de Pater, I., 2005c. Icarus 178, 450-464] was confirmed after deconvolution. The ratio of contact binaries in our survey, which is limited to asteroids larger than 40 km, is surprisingly high (∼6%), suggesting that a non-single configuration is common in the main-belt. Several asteroids have been analyzed with lightcurve inversions. We compared lightcurve inversion models for plane-of-sky predictions with the observed images (9 Metis, 52 Europa, 87 Sylvia, 130 Elektra, 192 Nausikaa, and 423 Diotima, 511 Davida). The AO images allowed us to determine a unique photometric mirror pole solution, which is normally ambiguous for asteroids moving close to the plane of the ecliptic (e.g., 192 Nausikaa and 52 Europa). The photometric inversion models agree well with the AO images, thus confirming the validity of both the lightcurve inversion method and the AO image reduction technique.     

像素相位误差的特性

对欠采样图像做天体测量时,往往受像素相位误差的影响.利用高斯函数作为点扩散函数模型进行仿真实验表明,像素相位误差有类似正弦函数的分布,其幅度与拟合模型的半高全宽相对于星像真实的半高全宽的差别有关,拟合模型的半高全宽与星像真实的半高全宽偏差越大,像素相位误差越大.此外还对高斯与ePSF两个函数模型拟合星像位置的精度情况进...     

H-alpha太阳全日面像数据管理系统的建立

云南天文台的H-alpha太阳色球望远镜每天的数据量约有2G bytes，大量数据带来了使用上的不便。因此，实现数据的查询和共享成为了一个相当重要的问题。为此，试图通过建立H-alpha数据的管理系统，实现对工作流程的改进，完成对数据的检索、在线浏览和远程下载。在WindwsXP操作系统和MysQL数据库管理系统的平台上，利用JAVA语言和JSP技术开发了一个基于浏览器／服务器模式的原型系统，可以完成对数据的压缩存储，实现数据的检索、实时浏览、删除(需要相应权限)和下载等功能。     

Depth profiles of venusian sinuous rilles and valley networks

More than 200 venusian channels and valleys have been mapped based on analyses of Magellan SAR images. Sinuous rilles are the most abundant channels among six types of venusian channels, and they are widely distributed on Venus. Morphological characteristics of venusian sinuous rilles include sinuous narrowing reaches, source depressions, and length of several 10s to a few 100s of km. This type of channels is known to exist on the Moon and possibly on Mars. Valley networks on Venus often occur in the vicinity of or in connection to sinuous rilles. Cross-sectional morphologies of sinuous rilles and valley networks are of special importance in discussing their formation processes both qualitatively and quantitatively. We reconstructed cross-sectional profiles of 6 sinuous rilles and 2 valley networks using a new radar clinometric method. Reconstructed cross-sections revealed that floors of the channels and valleys are clearly lower than the surrounding plains. This finding implies that the sinuous rilles and the valley networks have erosional origins. Longitudinal depth profiles of the sinuous rilles show distinct decreasing trends toward the termini. Such decreasing trends of depths are qualitatively in agreement with theoretical models and laboratory experiments of thermal erosion. In order to verify this assertion quantitatively, we conduct simple 1-dimensional model calculations under the assumption that both channel-forming lavas and ground substrate are tholeiitic basalt. For initial lava thicknesses in the range 2-6 m, the model calculations yield good matches to the depth profiles. Estimated duration of lava effusion ranges from several months to a few years. These numerical results support thermal erosion of the sinuous rilles but do not necessarily exclude contributions from mechanical erosion processes. Valley networks seem to have formed under a strong structural control in comparison to sinuous rilles. The valleys vary widely in characteristics of the depth profile and flow directions relative to surface slopes. Therefore valley networks appear to have originated from diverse formation mechanisms.     

图象复原的最佳准则

本文论述了统计复原的各种最佳准则,这些准则曾广泛地应用于线性或非线性图象复原方法中;指出了最大信息法(MI)更适合复原天文图象。在图象复原领域内,引入了三种新的图象复原准则—最大图象信息法(MII)、最小视觉约方差法(MPMSE)和最小检测概率均方差法(MDP—MSE),前者基于模糊集原理,后两者基于人眼视觉特性。着重讨论了基于检测概率的复原准则(MDP—MSE)、最大信息复原准则(MI)。