A new lunar absolute control point: established by images from the landing camera on Chang'e-3

The establishment of a lunar control network is one of the core tasks in selenodesy, in which defining an absolute control point on the Moon is the most important step. However, up to now, the number of absolute control points has been very sparse. These absolute control points have mainly been lunar laser ranging retroreflectors, whose geographical location can be observed by observations on Earth and also identified in high resolution lunar satellite images. The Chang'e-3(CE-3) probe successfully landed on the Moon, and its geographical location has been monitored by an observing station on Earth. Since its positional accuracy is expected to reach the meter level, the CE-3 landing site can become a new high precision absolute control point. We use a sequence of images taken from the landing camera, as well as satellite images taken by CE-1 and CE-2, to identify the location of the CE-3 lander. With its geographical location known, the CE-3 landing site can be established as a new absolute control point, which will effectively expand the current area of the lunar absolute control network by 22%, and can greatly facilitate future research in the field of lunar surveying and mapping, as well as selenodesy.     

Data processing and initial results from the CE-3 Extreme Ultraviolet Camera

The Extreme Ultraviolet Camera(EUVC) onboard the Chang'e-3(CE-3)lander is used to observe the structure and dynamics of Earth's plasmasphere from the Moon. By detecting the resonance line emission of helium ions(He+) at 30.4 nm, the EUVC images the entire plasmasphere with a time resolution of 10 min and a spatial resolution of about 0.1 Earth radius(RE) in a single frame. We first present details about the data processing from EUVC and the data acquisition in the commissioning phase, and then report some initial results, which reflect the basic features of the plasmasphere well. The photon count and emission intensity of EUVC are consistent with previous observations and models, which indicate that the EUVC works normally and can provide high quality data for future studies.     

Disappearance of a coronal hole induced by a filament activation

We present a rare observation of direct magnetic interaction between an activating filament and a coronal hole(CH). The filament was a quiescent one located at the northwest of the CH. It underwent a nonradial activation, during which filament material constantly fell and intruded into the CH. As a result, the CH was clearly destroyed by the intrusion. Brightenings appeared at the boundaries and in the interior of the CH, meanwhile, its west boundaries began to retreat and the area gradually shrank. It is noted that the CH went on shrinking after the end of the intrusion and finally disappeared entirely. Following the filament activation, three coronal dimmings(D1–D3) were formed, among which D1 and D2 persisted throughout the complete disappearance of the CH. The derived coronal magnetic configuration shows that the filament was located below an extended loop system, which obviously linked D1 to D2. By extrapolating this result, our observations imply that the interaction between the filament and the CH involved direct intrusion of the filament material to the CH and the disappearance of the CH might be due to interchange reconnection between the expanding loop system and the CH's open field.     

Improvement in the performance of solar adaptive optics

Adaptive optics （AO）, which provides diffraction limited imaging over a field-of-view （FOV）, is a powerful technique for solar observation. In the tomographic approach, each wavefront sensor （WFS） is looking at a single reference that acts as a guide star. This allows a 3D reconstruction of the distorted wavefront to be made. The correction is applied by one or more deformable mirrors （DMs）. This technique benefits from information about atmospheric turbulence at different layers, which can be used to reconstruct the wavefront extremely well. With the assistance of the MAOS software package, we consider the tomography errors and WFS aliasing errors, and focus on how the performance of a solar telescope （pointing toward zenith） is related to atmospheric anisoplanatism. We theoretically quantify the performance of the to- mographic solar AO system. The results indicate that the tomographic AO system can improve the average Strehl ratio of a solar telescope in a 10＂ - 80＂ diameter FOV by only employing one DM conjugated to the telescope pupil. Furthermore, we discuss the effects of DM conjugate altitude on the correction achievable by the AO system by selecting two atmospheric models that differ mainly in terms of atmospheric prop- erties at ground level, and present the optimum DM conjugate altitudes for different observation sites.     

Low-dimensional chaos and fractal properties of long-term sunspot activity

Two primary solar-activity indicators sunspot numbers(SNs)and sunspot areas(SAs)in the time interval from November 1874 to December 2012 are used to determine the chaotic and fractal properties of solar activity.The results show that(1)the long-term solar activity is governed by a low-dimensional chaotic strange attractor,and its fractal motion shows a long-term persistence on large scales;(2)both the fractal dimension and maximal Lyapunov exponent of SAs are larger than those of SNs,implying that the dynamical system of SAs is more chaotic and complex than SNs;(3)the predictions of solar activity should only be done for short-to mid-term behaviors due to its intrinsic complexity;moreover,the predictability time of SAs is obviously smaller than that of SNs and previous results.     

Multi-wavelength study of triggered star formation around 25 H II regions

We investigate 25 H II regions that show bubble morphology in13CO(1–0)and infrared data,to search for quantitative evidence of triggered star formation by processes described by the collect and collapse(CC)and radiatively driven implosion(RDI)models.These H II regions display the morphology of a complete or partial bubble at 8μm,and are all associated with the molecular clouds that surround them.We found that the electron temperature ranges from 5627 K to 6839 K in these H II regions,and the average electron temperature is 6083 K.The age of these H II regions is from 3.0×105yr to 1.7×106yr,and the mean age is 7.7×105yr.Based on the morphology of the associated molecular clouds,we divide these H II regions into three groups,which may support CC and RDI models.We select 23 young IRAS sources which have an infrared luminosity of103L in 19 H II regions.In addition,we identify some young stellar objects(including Class I sources),which are only concentrated in H II regions G29.007+0.076,G44.339–0.827 and G47.028+0.232.The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions of the three H II regions all show a cometary globule.Comparing the age of each H II region with the characteristic timescales for star formation,we suggest that the three H II regions can trigger clustered star formation by an RDI process.In addition,we detect seven molecular outflows in the five H II regions for the first time.These outflow sources may be triggered by the corresponding H II regions.     

胶东文登岩体—二长花岗质岩石地球化学特征及在探讨

文登岩体的主体位于胶东半岛文登市境内，了露面积约４５０Ｋｍ＾２，该，岩体具有多阶段（期）侵位演化特征。早期细粒二长花岗岩、含斑中粗粒二长花岗岩构成；晚期由斑状中粗粒二长花岗岩、巨斑状中粒二长花岗岩构成。早期岩浆源于上地壳部分熔融；晚期岩浆是早期岩浆发生以斜长石、黑云母为主的矿物相分离结晶作用形成。     

研究太阳分离活动体光谱不对称轮廓的“多云模型”方法和应用

本文提出了处理分离的太阳活动体光谱不对称轮廓的一种方法──“多云模型”方法。在某些假设和一定的近似条件下利用本文提出的方法可同时得到太阳多个分离活动体的视向速度Ｖ，多普勒线宽△λ_Ｄ和线心光学深度τ_０，源函数Ｓ的近似值。文章给出了该方法的几个应用实例并进行了讨论。研究表明，计算所得的Ｖ和△λ_Ｄ的值是较为可靠的，二云模型是处理由两个分离活动体沿视线重叠而产生的不对称轮廓较为有效的方法。     

VLBI相位校正信号提取的软件实现方法

从VLBI相关处理结果中提取的延迟值包括了天线、终端等设备的时延,必须对其加以修正,最终结果才能达到精度要求。提取相位校正信号,可以消除这些设备引入的时延,从而校正同一波前信号到达基线两端的几何时延。该文介绍了提取相位校正信号的原理、算法及软件实现方法。软件采用多线程和SSE技术,具备4台站多通道全部相位校正信号提取能力。     

相关处理机多制式兼容性测试的初步结果

我国VLBI网包括上海佘山、乌鲁木齐和昆明 3个观测站 ,以及上海天文台研制的两台站相关处理机。上海佘山和乌鲁木齐站已升级成MK4制式和只使用薄磁带 ,而昆明站只能使用S2制式。因此 ,实现相关处理机对不同制式数据和薄磁带的兼容 ,是我国VLBI网顺利运行的关键。给出了多制式VLBI观测实验和相关处理的初步结果 ,总结了相关处理机升级后的处理能力 ,并对相关处理机的下一步发展作简单讨论