14C DATES OF CALCAREOUS SAMPLES,HERON ISLAND,GREAT BARRIER REEF1

Two samples of plant-rich limy sand collected from the 9- and 11-ft.-level of the Heron Island cay were subjected to ¹⁴C dating. Uncertainties related to secondary changes and contaminations, and the unknown transportation history of the woody material prior to accumulation at Heron Island, in combination with the relatively young age of the carbon, did not result in ¹⁴C values useful for correlation and absolute dating purposes.     

基于PostGIS的遥感数据服务系统检索研究

在遥感数据服务系统中,为了快速高效地检索出用户需要的遥感数据信息,常使用PostgreSQL开源数据库的空间数据扩展PostGIS,模拟遥感数据服务系统的使用场景.从建立数据库索引、构建查询语句等方面入手,分析并设计了更高效、更适合遥感数据服务系统的数据库索引建立策略,证明了在遥感数据服务系统中,同时建立GIST空间索引和非空间属性索引更有效.     

The early-type galaxies NGC 1407 and NGC 1400 – I. Spatially resolved radial kinematics and surface photometry

This is the first paper of a series focused on investigating the star formation and evolutionary history of the two early-type galaxies NGC 1407 and NGC 1400. They are the two brightest galaxies of the NGC 1407 (or Eridanus-A) group, one of the 60 groups studied as part of the Group Evolution Multi-wavelength Study.
Here, we present new high signal-to-noise ratio long-slit spectroscopic data obtained at the ESO 3.6-m telescope and high-resolution multiband imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope /Advanced Camera for Surveys and wide-field imaging from Subaru Suprime-Cam. We spatially resolved integrated spectra out to ∼0.6 (NGC 1407) and ∼1.3 (NGC 1400) effective radii. The radial profiles of the kinematic parameters v _rot, σ, h ₃ and h ₄ are measured. The surface brightness profiles are fitted to different galaxy light models and the colour distributions analysed. The multiband images are modelled to derive isophotal shape parameters and residual galaxy images. The parameters from the surface brightness profile fitting are used to estimate the mass of the possible central supermassive black hole in NGC 1407. The galaxies are found to be rotationally supported and to have a flat core in the surface brightness profiles. Elliptical isophotes are observed at all radii and no fine structures are detected in the residual galaxy images. From our results, we can also discard a possible interaction between NGC 1400, NGC 1407 and the group intergalactic medium. We estimate a mass of  ∼1.03 × 10⁹ M_⊙  for the supermassive black hole in NGC 1407 galaxy.     

基于CesiumJS的Android端三维地球研究与开发

CesiumJS作为一个能在二维和三维两个维度展示和管理动态地理数据的开源JavaScript库,为遥感领域的开发人员针对GIS应用的开发提供了一个成本更低且更易共享的解决方案.本文基于CesiumJS和Kotlin语言,在Android平台上将Android Native与Web页面相结合,研究并开发了一种集多种遥感...     

The Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

In this contribution we review the properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and discuss the impact that X-ray cluster selection is having on their use as cosmological probes. BCGs form a unique galaxy population. They are located near the gravitational centre of galaxy clusters and are the most massive galaxies in the universe, being some 10 times more luminous than L* systems. Historically, BCGs have been credited with small intrinsic dispersion in their absolute magnitudes (Δ≃0.2–0.3 mag) and used as standard candles to constrain the cosmological parameters. Although indirect signs of mass accretion out to z≃1 have been observed, uncovering their full evolutionary picture has remained an elusive goal. Studies of BCGs based on serendipitiously discovered X-ray cluster samples, particularly from ROSAT, provide large numbers of unbiased clusters at z≤1. Furthermore X-ray emission guarantees the presence of a large gravitationally bound potential well and the X-ray information can be used to locate the centroids of clusters, aiding the identification of the BCG. We show that this has important consequences for studies of distance determination and large-scale streaming flows based on the optical properties of BCGs. Recent results based on X-ray selected clusters show large differences in near-IR BCG properties with their cluster environment; such that those in clusters with L _x≥1.9×10⁴⁴erg s^-1 are brighter and more uniform than those in their low-L _x counterparts. The BCGs in highL _x systems show no evidence of having undergone mass growth, whereas those in low L _x systems show a widerrange of evolution, with evidence that some have grown by a factor of 4 ormore since z≃1. These results are a direct indication of howa single homogeneous population of galaxies evolves and are a challenge to simple semi-analytical hierarchical models. If future observations at high redshift are to seriously challenge theory then better predictions of the evolutionary process are required. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.