천문학회보 (The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society) (The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society)
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To find the relationship between solar flares and halo CMEs using stereoscopic observations, we investigate 182 flare-associated halo CMEs among 306 front-side halo CMEs from 2009 to 2013. We have determined the 3D parameters (radial speed and angular width) of these CMEs by applying StereoCAT to multi-spacecraft data (SOHO and STEREO). For this work, we use flare parameters (peak flux and fluence) taken from GOES X-ray flare list and 2D CME parameters (projected speed, apparent angular width, and kinetic energy) taken from CDAW SOHO LASCO CME catalog. Major results from this study are as follows. First, the relationship between flare peak flux (or fluence) and CME speed is almost same for both 2D and 3D cases. Second, there is a possible correlation between flare fluence and CME width, which is more evident in 3D case than 2D one. Third, the flare fluence is well correlated with CME kinetic energy (CC=0.63). Fourth, there is an upper limit of CME kinetic energy for a given flare fluence (or peak flux). For example, a possible CME kinetic energy ranges from 1030.6 to 1033 erg for a given X1.0 class flare. Our results will be discussed in view of the physical mechanism of solar eruptions.
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중력파의 존재가 예측된 것은 100년전 일이지만 지난해 9월 14일에야 LIGO에 처음으로 직접 검출되었다. 줄력파는 질량을 가진 물질이 가속될 때 만들어져 빛의 속도로 전파되는 현상이다. LIGO는 레이저 간섭 현상을 이용해 서로 수직인 방향의 두 팔의 길이가 상대적으로 진동하는 것을 측정하는 기기로서 지난 2002년 첫 관측을 시작한 이래 지속적인 감도 향상을 통해 아주 미세한 진폭을 가지는 중력파를 직접 검출하는데 성공하였다. 이번에 관측된 중력파는 두개의 블랙홀로 이루어진 쌍성이 궤도 운동을 하면서 중력파를 방출함에 따라 궤도 반지름이 점차 줄어들어 궁극적으로 충돌하기 직전 0.1초 정도 사이에 방출한 것으로서 이론적인 파형과의 비교를 통해 기존의 어떤 방법보다도 정확하게 블랙홀들의 질량과 거리를 측정할 수 있게 해 주었다. LIGO의 감도가 앞으로도 더욱 향상될 것이며 이에 따라 더 많은 중력파 천체가 발견될 것이다. 중력파 관측을 통해 우리는 기존의 망원경으로 볼 수 없었던 새로운 천체 현상을 자구 관측하게 될 것이며 이에 따라 블랙홀이나 중성자별과 같은 밀집 천체를 더 자세하게 탐구할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 우주의 구조나 진화에 대한 새로운 연구가 가능해질 것이다.
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아인슈타인이 1916년 예측한 중력파의 이론에서 부터 이를 실험적으로 증명하기 위한 도전의 100년간의 길고 지루했던 역사에 대해 소개한다. 특히 1960년 이후 웨버에 의해 시작된 상온 공명 바검출기에서 레이저 간섭계로 이어지는 중력파 검출 실험의 주요 변천과정과 함께 중력파 검출의 성공을 이끌었던 어드밴스드 라이고의 현황에 대해 보고한다.
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Exploring a universe with gravitational waves (GWs) was only theoretical expectation for long time. In September 2015, the Laser Interferometer GW Observatory (LIGO) first detected GWs emitted from the collision of two stellar-mass black holes in cosmological distance (1.3 billion light years) on Earth. This confirms the existence of black-hole binary mergers, and further, opens a new field of GW astronomy. We begin our discussion with a list of important GW sources that can be detectable on Earth by large-scale laser interferometers such as LIGO. Focusing on compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes, we then discuss possible research in the context of GW astronomy. By coordinating with existing observatories, searching for electromagnetic waves or particles from astronomical objects, around the world, multi-messenger astronomy for the universe's most cataclysmic phenomena (e.g. gamma-ray bursts) will be available in the near future.
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Observing the solar atmosphere with ground-based telescopes in the near-infrared has a number of advantages when compared to classical measurements in visible wavelengths. One of them comes from the magnetic sensitivity of spectral lines, which varies as
${\lambda}_g$ , where g is the effective$Land{\acute{e}}$ factor of the transition. This wavelength dependence makes the near-infrared range adequate to study subtle spatial or temporal variations of the magnetic field. Spectral lines, such as the photospheric Fe I$1.5648{\mu}m$ spectral line, with a$Land{\acute{e}}$ factor g=3, have often been used in the past for this type of studies. To study the chromosphere, the Ca II IR triplet and the He I$1.0830{\mu}m$ triplet are the most often observed lines. The latter has the additional advantage that the photospheric Si I$1.0827{\mu}m$ is close enough so that photosphere and chromosphere can be simultaneously recorded with a single detector in a spectrograph. The instrument TIP (Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter) has been continuously operating since 1999 at the 70-cm German VTT of the Observatorio del Teide and has been recently moved to the 1.5-m German GREGOR. During all this time, results have been obtained concerning the nature of the weak photospheric magnetic field of the quiet sun, magneto-acoustic wave propagation, evolution with the cycle of sunspot magnetic fields, photospheric and chromospheric magnetic field in emerging regions, magnetic field in chromospheric structures such as filaments, prominences, flares, and spicules, etc. In this talk, I will review the main results obtained after all these observations and mention the main challenges for the future. With its novel polarization-free design and a complete suite of instruments aimed at simultaneous (imaging and spectroscopic) observations of the solar photosphere and chromosphere, the EST (European Solar Telescope) will represent a major world-wide infrastructure to understand the physical nature of all these phenomena. -
1996년, 보현산천문대는 1.8m 반사망원경과 1K CCD 카메라, 그리고 태양망원경을 갖추고 한국 천문학의 본격적인 광학관측시대를 열었다. 준공 직후인 1997년에는 측광관측기기를 2K CCD로 교체 하였으며, 1998년에는 망원경 제어시스템(TCS)을 국내 연구진이 자체 개발하였고 망원경의 전자부도 교체하였다. 1999년의 중분산분광기 제작 이후 2003년에는 고분산에셀분광기 BOES를 개발하여 세계적인 경쟁력을 갖춘 분광관측이 가능하게 되었다. BOES는 현재 보현산천문대의 주 관측기기로 활용 중이다. 2008년에는 적외선이미징카메라 KASINICS를 개발하여 관측 파장대를 적외선까지 넓혔으며, 2010년에는 가시광 측광관측기기를 4K CCD로 업그레이드 하였다. 2015년에는 망원경 구동시스템을 다시 한 번 개선하여 보다 안정적이고 정밀한 관측시스템을 갖추게 되었다. 또한, 2014년과 2015년에는 2년에 걸쳐 관측실과 숙소, 그리고 각종 연구시설의 전면 리모델링을 실시하여 관측자를 위한 환경도 개선하였다. 이러한 다양한 관측지원을 바탕으로 보현산천문대 연구장비를 활용한 논문은 매년 꾸준히 생산되고 있으며 관측과 연구결과들은 한국 광학천문학의 밑거름이 되고 있다. 2016년에는 1m 망원경 설치를 완료할 예정이며 장기관측 과제에 집중함으로써 연구의 새로운 지평을 열게 될 것이다. 연구장비의 안정적인 구동과 성능 향상을 위해 중장기발전계획 아래 노후화된 기기의 교체와 개발을 진행 중이다. 2016년 4월, 제2의 도약기를 준비 중인 보현산천문대의 준공 20주년을 맞이하여, 그 동안의 발자취를 돌아보고 앞으로 나아갈 길을 제시하고자 한다.
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The globular cluster (GC) systems in most elliptical galaxies show bimodal color distributions. This phenomenon has been generally regarded as a bimodal metallicity distribution, indicating the presence of two sub-populations in a GC system. However, since a new explanation on the bimodality was introduced where the nonlinear metallicity-to-color conversion can cause bimodal color distributions, the origin of this phenomenon has been under hot debate. In this presentation, we briefly review the ten-year debate on the origin of GC color bimodality, and present our recent pieces of evidence on the nonlinear nature of GC color-metallicity relations.
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The presence of multiple stellar populations is now well established in most globular clusters in the Milky Way. Here we show that two populations of RR Lyrae stars and the double red clump observed in the Milky Way bulge are another manifestations of the same multiple population phenomenon observed in halo globular clusters. We will discuss the implications of this result on the stellar populations and formation of early-type galaxies.
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Recent studies suggest that the difference between global and local properties of galaxies (the local-global environmental (LoG) bias) might be important in the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) host galaxy studies. Obtaining local spectroscopic properties of hosts at high redshift, however, is challenging. Here we will introduce a more efficient way to conduct this study by only using photometric data. We find that when we restrict a sample to the hosts whose stellar mass is less than
$10^{10}$ $M_{\odot}$ , a sample without LoG bias is efficiently selected. From the sample without LoG bias, we confirm that SNe Ia in locally star-forming environment are$0.103{\pm}0.010mag$ and$0.085{\pm}0.012mag$ fainter than those in locally passive region, for MLCS2k2 and SALT2, respectively. Because of ~6 times larger sample that covers much wider redshift range, our results are far more significant statistically,$10.3{\sigma}$ for MLCS2k2 and$7.1{\sigma}$ for SALT2, than previous results. -
Dwarf elliptical galaxies (dEs), the most abundant galaxy type in clusters, were recently shown to exhibit a wide variety in their properties. Particularly, the presence of blue cores in some dEs, what we call dE(bc), supports the scenario of late-type galaxy infall and subsequent transformation into red, quiescent dEs. While several transformation mechanisms for these dE(bc)s within cluster environment have been proposed, all these processes are able to explain only some of the observational properties of dEs. In this context, internal kinematic properties of dE(bc)s provide the most crucial evidence to discriminate different processes for the formation of these galaxies. We present Gemini Multi Object Spectrograph (GMOS) long-slit spectroscopy of two dE(bc)s in the Virgo cluster. We obtained radial profiles of velocity and velocity dispersion out to ~1.3 effective radius. We found that two dE(bc)s exhibit kinematically decoupled components as well as distinct peculiar features in velocity profiles, supporting the scenario of mergers. We also found that these galaxies are structurally compatible with low surface brightness component of blue compact dwarf galaxies. We suggest that a part of dE(bc)s in the Virgo Cluster were formed through galaxy merger in low density environment such as galaxy group or outskirt of the cluster, and then were quenched by subsequent effects within cluster environment.
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Kim, Myo Jin;Chung, Aeree;Lee, Jong Chul;Lim, Sungsoon;Kim, Minjin;Ko, Jongwan;Yang, Soung-Chul;Lee, Joon Hyeop;Hwang, Narea;Park, Byeong-Gon;Lee, Hye-Ran 33.2
Since the serendipitous discovery of a large-scale atomic hydrogen ($H_I$ ) ring discovered in the Leo I galaxy group, its origin has been under debate till today, whether it is the leftover after group formation or stripped gas structure during the galaxy-galaxy interaction. Intriguingly a number of$H_I$ clumps have been identified along the gas ring, some of which turn out to be associated with optically catalogued dwarf galaxies. The formation history based on detailed optical and$H_I$ gas properties of those dwarf galaxies will enable us to verify the origin of the Leo ring. In this work, we first probe the redshift and multi-color properties of those dwarf galaxies, using deep photometric and spectroscopic data from CFHT, Gemini and Magellan telescope. -
Sheen, Yun-Kyeong;Yi, Sukyoung K.;Ree, Chang H.;Jeffe, Yara;Demarco, Ricardo;Treister, Ezequiel 33.3
We explored the GALEX UV properties of optical red sequence galaxies in 4 rich Abell clusters at z ~ 0.1. In particular, we tried to find a hint of merger-induced recent star formation (RSF) in red sequence galaxies. Based on the NUV - r' colors of the galaxies, about 36% of the post-merger galaxies were classified as RSF galaxies with a conservative criterion (NUV -$r^{\prime}{\leq}5$ ), and that number was doubled (~ 72%) when using a generous criterion (NUV -$r^{\prime}{\leq}5.4$ ). Post-merger galaxies with strong UV emission showed more violent, asymmetric features on the deep optical images. Also it turned out that all massive RSF galaxies (Mr' < -22 and NUV -$r^{\prime}{\leq}5$ ) exhibited post-merger signatures. Our results suggested that only 30% of RSF red sequence galaxies show morphological hints of recent galaxy mergers. This implies that internal processes (e.g., stellar mass-loss or hot gas cooling) for the supply of cold gas to early-type galaxies may play a significant role in the residual star formation of early-type galaxies at a recent epoch. -
Galaxy clusters are the sites where the most massive galaxies are found, and so the most dramatic merger histories are embedded. Our deep (mu ~ 28 mag/arcsec^2) images of Abell 119 at z = 0.044 using the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO revealed post-merger signatures in ~35% of galaxies brighter than Mr < -19.5, suggesting that so many galaxies even in clusters have gone through galaxy mergers at recent epoch. We went further to understand the impact of mergers in cluster galaxies using stellar kinematics from the SAMI Integral Field Unit on the galaxies of Abell 119 in three aspects of kinematics : orientations, levels of rotation, and kinematic shapes. We found that 30% of the merger-featured galaxies show misalignment in the angle between the photometric major and the rotation axes, and most of them show complex kinematics. For comparison, only 5% of non-merger-featured galaxies show the misalignment. Moreover, our analysis using the Tully-Fisher relation shows that galaxy interactions can both enhance or reduce galaxy spin depending on the merger geometry. We present our preliminary result and discussion on the role of galaxy mergers in cluster environment from the perspective of kinematics.
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X-ray cavities are typically detected as surface brightness depression in X-ray diffuse emission from hot gas in high resolution X-ray images (i.e., Chandra and XMM-Newton). Showing the coincidence of location with radio jets, X-ray cavities imply that the radio jets interact with interstellar/intergalactic medium. It is important to understand them since they can be a clue of understanding AGN feedback to their host galaxies. To understand the physics of the AGN feedback, X-ray cavity has been actively studied while there are only a few statistical studies on X-ray cavity based on small or incomplete samples. Hence, a systematic study with a large sample is needed. With the condition of sufficient X-ray photons to detect surface brightness depression, we constructed a large sample of 133 galaxy clusters, galaxy groups, and individual galaxies to investigate X-ray cavities. We detected 201 cavities from 94 objects using two detection methods (i.e., beta-modeling and unsharp masking method), and confirmed the cavity size-distance relation over a large dynamical range. The size-distance relation does not vary for different environments (i.e., galaxy cluster, groups, and individual galaxies), suggesting that there is little environmental effect on the formation of X-ray cavity.
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A galaxy-cluster phase space diagram is a simple plot of clustocentric velocity versus clustocentric radius for each member of the cluster. Using state-of-the-art, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate where simulated galaxies fall in phase space. We find the galaxies with different cluster infall times often separate cleanly in phase space. We also investigate how a galaxy's location in phase space is correlated with its tidal mass loss, and ram pressure stripping. By comparing our simulated cluster galaxies to observed cluster galaxies, we show how phase space diagrams are essential tools for understanding environmental effects acting on cluster galaxies.
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Kim, Suk;Rey, Soo-Chang;Sung, Eon-Chang;Jerjen, Helmut;Lisker, Thorsten;Lee, Youngdae;Chung, Jiwon;Lee, Woong;Chung, Aeree;Yoon, Hyein 35.1
Nearby galaxy clusters and their surrounding regions represent the current endpoint of evolution galaxy cluster evolution. We present a new catalog of 1589 galaxies, what we call Extended Virgo Cluster Catalog (EVCC), in wider area of the Virgo cluster based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7. The EVCC covers an area 5.2 times larger than the footprint of the classical Virgo Cluster Catalog, and reaches out to 3.5 times the virial radius of the Virgo cluster. The EVCC contains fundamental information such as membership, morphology, and photometric parameters of galaxies. The EVCC defines a comprehensive galaxy sample covering a wider range in galaxy density that is significantly different from the inner region of the Virgo cluster. It will be the foundation for forthcoming galaxy evolution studies in the extended Virgo cluster region, complementing ongoing and planned Virgo cluster surveys at various wavelengths. We also present the large scale structures in the field around the Virgo cluster. We identified seven galaxy filaments and one possible sheet in three dimensions of super-galactic coordinates based on the HyperLEDA database. By examining spatial distribution and Hubble diagram of galaxies, we found that six filaments are directly associated with the main body of the Virgo cluster. On the other hand, one filament and one sheet are structures located at background of the main body of Virgo cluster. The EVCC and the filament structures will be the foundation for forthcoming studies of galaxy evolution in various environments as well as buildup of the galaxy cluster at z ~ 0, complementing ongoing and planned Virgo cluster surveys at various wavelengths. -
We present a census of AGN-driven gas outflows based on the kinematics of ionized gas and stars, using a large sample of ~11,000 emission line galaxies at z < 0.3, selected from SDSS. First, a broad correlation between gas and stellar velocity dispersions indicates that the bulge gravitational potential plays a main role in determining the ionized gas kinematics. However, the velocity dispersion of the [OIII] emission line is larger than stellar velocity dispersion by a factor of 1.3-1.4, suggesting that the non-gravitational (non-virial) component, i.e., outflows, is almost comparable to the gravitational component. Second, gas-to-stellar velocity dispersion ratio increases with both AGN luminosity and Eddington ratio, suggesting that non-gravitational kinematics are clearly linked to AGN accretion. The distribution in the [OIII] velocity - velocity dispersion diagram dramatically expands toward large values with increasing AGN luminosity, implying that the launching velocity of gas outflows increases with AGN luminosity. Third, the fraction of AGNs with a signature of the non-gravitational kinematics, steeply increases with AGN luminosity and Eddington ratio, while the majority of luminous AGNs presents the non-gravitational kinematics in the [OIII] profile. These results suggest that ionized gas outflows are prevalent among type 2 AGNs. On the other hand, we find no strong trend of the [OIII] kinematics with radio luminosity, once we remove the effect of the bulge gravitational potential, indicating that ionized gas outflows are not directly related to radio activity for the majority of type 2 AGNs. We will discuss the implication of these results for AGN feedback in the local universe.
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We explore the role of bars in AGN-galaxy co-evolution using a volume-limited face-on late-type galaxy sample with
$M_r$ < -19.5 and 0.02 < z < 0.055 selected from SDSS DR7. In this study, we investigate how$SFR_{fib}$ as a proxy of gas contents at galactic center (over 1~1.5 kpc bulge scale) and central stellar velocity dispersion,${\sigma}$ , of host galaxies are connected to the bar presence and AGN activity. We find that galaxies are distributed in three distinct regions over the$SFR_{fib}-{\sigma}$ space and the behaviors of their bar fraction ($f_{Bar}$ ) are clearly different for each region. Galaxies at the AGN dominant region tend to be gas-deficient as$f_{Bar}$ increases and bars are more frequently found in fully-quenched late-type galaxies at the quiescent region, suggesting that bars speed up of the consumption of gas by SF and lead a sudden decline in the central gas. Overall, the bar effects on the AGN activity are positive over the same space except for quiescent galaxies with${\sigma}$ >$170km\;s^{-1}$ . Most significant bar effect on the AGN activity occurs in the less massive galaxies having sufficient gas, whereas the effect on galaxies at the AGN dominant region with higher the AGN fraction is relatively small. We suggest that the bar affect both central SF and AGN activities, but differently for central gas amount and BH (or bulge) mass of galaxies. We also investigate the AGN-bar connection with only pure AGNs and then confirm that they give marginally the same results. -
The physical scenario describing the origin of quasar winds remains largely unsettled due to our failure to account for X-ray weak BAL quasars. We approach this problem by studying the relation between the inner part of the outflow which is likely to be shielding the X-ray emission and thereby helping to drive the UV winds characterised by broad absorption lines (BALs). In particular, we aim to probe the wind-shield connection in the highly X-ray variable BAL quasar PG 2112+059, which has exhibited periods of X-ray weakness and X-ray normality in the past. A set of two 20 ks Chandra observations and two contemporaneous HST observations, separated by at least eight months, combined with a nearly simultaneous archival Chandra-HST observation from 2002, afford us a unique opportunity to study the connection between the shield (which is thought to be responsible for the X-ray absorption) and the ionisation state of the wind (observed as UV BAL features; e.g., C IV and O VI lines) over various timescales.
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We study the long-term radio variability of 43 radio bright AGNs by exploiting the data base of the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory (UMRAO) monitoring program. The UMRAO database provides high quality lightcurves spanning 25 - 32 years in time at three observing frequencies, 4.8, 8, and 14.5 GHz. We model the periodograms (temporal power spectra) of the observed lightcurves as simple power-law noise (red noise, spectral power
$P(f){\propto}f^{-{\beta}}$ using Monte Carlo simulations, taking into account windowing effects (red-noise leak, aliasing). The power spectra of 39 (out of 43) sources are in good agreement with the models, yielding a range in power spectral index (${\beta}$ ) from${\approx}1$ to${\approx}3$ . We find a strong anti-correlation between${\beta}$ and the fractal dimension of the lightcurves, which provides an independent check of the quality of our modelling of power spectra. We fit a Gaussian function to each flare in a given lightcurve to obtain the flare duration. We discover a correlation between${\beta}$ and the median duration of the flares. We use the derivative of a lightcurve to obtain a characteristic variability timescale which does not depend on the assumed functional form of the flares, incomplete fitting, and so on. We find that, once the effects of relativistic Doppler boosting on the observed timescales are corrected, the variability timescales of our sources are proportional to the black hole mass to the power of${\alpha}=1.70{\pm}0.49$ . We see an indication for AGNs in different regimes of accretion rate, flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects, having different scaling relations with${\alpha}{\approx}1$ and${\approx}2$ , respectively. We find that modelling the periodograms of four of our sources requires the assumption of broken powerlaw spectra. From simulating lightcurves as superpositions of exponential flares we conclude that strong overlap of flares leads to featureless simple power-law periodograms of AGNs at radio wavelengths in most cases (The paper is about to be submitted to ApJ). -
Jets of compact radio sources are highly relativistic and Doppler boosted, making studies of their intrinsic properties difficult. Observed brightness temperatures can be used to study the intrinsic physical properties of the relativistic jets. The intrinsic properties of relativistic jets depend on inner jet models. We aimed to observationally test the inner jet models. The very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) cores of compact radio sources are optically thick at a given frequency. The distance of the core from the central engine is inversely proportional to the frequency. Under the equipartition condition between the magnetic field energy and particle energy densities, the absolute distance of the VLBI core can be predicted. We compiled the brightness temperatures of VLBI cores at various radio frequencies of 2, 8, 15, and 86~GHz. The brightness temperatures in the rest frame were investigated in the sub-parsec regions of the compact radio sources. From the vicinity of the central engine, the brightness temperatures increased slowly and then rose with steeper slope, indicating that the Lorentz factor increases along the jet. This implies that the jets are accelerated in the (sub-)parsec regions from the central engine.
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There exist scaling relations that link the mass of supermassive black holes with both the velocity dispersion and the mass of the central stellar cusp of their host galaxies. This implies that galaxies co-evolve with their central black holes, potentially through the feedback from actively accreting supermassive black holes (AGN). We use integral field spectroscopy data from the 8.2m Gemini-North telescope to investigate ionized gas outflows in luminous local (z<0.1) Type 2 AGN. Our sample of 6 galaxies was selected based on their [OIII] dust-corrected luminosity (>
$10^{42}erg/s$ ) and signatures of outflows in the [OIII] line profile of their SDSS spectra. These are arguably the best candidates to explore AGN feedback in action since they are < 1% of a large local type 2 AGN SDSS sample selected based on their [OIII] kinematics. Expanding on previously reported results concerning the kinematic decomposition and size determination of these outflows, here we report their photoionization properties and energetics. We find strong evidence that connect the extreme kinematics of the ionized gas with AGN photoionization. The kinematic component related to the AGN-driven outflow is clearly separated from other kinematic components, such as gravitation- or stellar-driven motions, on the velocity and velocity dispersion diagram. Our spatially resolved kinematic analysis reveals that up to 90% of the mass and kinetic energy of the outflow is contained within the central kiloparcec of the galaxy. The total mass and kinetic energy of the outflow correlate well with the AGN bolometric luminosity, resulting in energy conversion efficiencies between 0.01% and 1%. Intriguingly, we detect ubiquitous signs of ongoing circumnuclear star formation. Their small size, the centrally contained mass and energy, and the universally detected circumnuclear star formation cast doubts on the potency of these AGN-driven outflows as agents of negative feedback. -
Kim, Yongjung;Im, Myungshin;Jeon, Yiseul;Kim, Minjin;Choi, Changsu;Hong, Jueun;Hyun, Minhee;Jun, Hyunsung David;Karouzos, Marios;Kim, Dohyeong;Kim, Duho;Kim, Jae-Woo;Kim, Ji Hoon;Lee, Seong-Kook;Pak, Soojong;Park, Won-Kee;Taak, Yoon Chan;Yoon, Yongmin 37.3
Recent studies suggest that faint active galactic nuclei may be responsible for the reionization of the universe. Confirmation of this scenario requires spectroscopic identification of faint quasars ($M_{1450}$ > -24 mag) at z > 6, but only a very small number of such quasars have been spectroscopically identified so far. Here, we report the discovery of a faint quasar IMS J220417.92+011144.8 at z ~ 6 in a$12.5deg^2$ region of the SA22 field of the Infrared Medium-deep Survey (IMS). The spectrum of the quasar shows a sharp break at${\sim}8443{\AA}$ , with emission lines redshifted to$z=5.944{\pm}0.002$ and rest-frame ultraviolet continuum magnitude$M_{1450}=-23.59{\pm}0.10$ AB mag. The discovery of IMS J220417.92+011144.8 is consistent with the expected number of quasars at z ~6 estimated from quasar luminosity functions based on previous observations of spectroscopically identified low-luminosity quasars. This suggest that the number of$M_{1450}$ ~ -23 mag quasars at z ~ 6 may not be high enough to fully account for the reionization of the universe. In addition, our study demonstrates that faint quasars in the early universe can be identified effectively with a moderately wide and deep near-infrared survey such as the IMS. -
Gamma ray burst, the most brightest explosion phenomena in the current universe is well suited for study of high redshift universe. We report the afterglow multi-wavelength observation and GTC spectroscopy follow up of GRB 140304A which was exploded at z=5.283. The spectrum was shown damped Lyman alpha features and a series of absorption lines S, Si, SiII*, Oi, CII, CII*, SiIV are clearly detected at common redshift. Clear optical flares are detected when X-ray flare happened and a possible gamma-ray excess also. At this conference, we report on implications for the GRB host and environments using its absorption features which place the results in context to other well studied high redshift GRBs and studies about the ejecta using its observed flaring activities.
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The mapping of dark matter clustering from real to redshift spaces introduces the anisotropic property to the measured density power spectrum in redshift space, known as the Redshift Space Distortion (hereafter RSD) effect. The mapping formula is intrinsically non-linear, which is complicated by the higher order polynomials due to the indefinite cross correlations between the density and velocity fields, and the Finger-of-God (hereafter FoG) effect due to the randomness of the peculiar velocity field. Furthermore, the rigorous test of this mapping formula is contaminated by the unknown non-linearity of the density and velocity fields, including their auto- and cross-correlations, for calculating which our theoretical calculation breaks down beyond some scales. Whilst the full higher order polynomials remains unknown, the other systematics can be controlled consistently within the same order truncation in the expansion of the mapping formula, as shown in this paper. The systematic due to the unknown non-linear density and velocity fields is removed by separately measuring all terms in the expansion using simulations. The uncertainty caused by the velocity randomness is controlled by splitting the FoG term into two pieces, 1) the non-local FoG term being independent of the separation vector between two different points, and 2) the local FoG term appearing as an indefinite polynomials which is expanded in the same order as all other perturbative polynomials. Using 100 realizations of simulations, we find that the best fitted non-local FoG function is Gaussian, with only one scale-independent free parameter, and that our new mapping formulation accurately reproduces the observed power spectrum in redshift space at the smallest scales by far, up to k ~ 0.3 h/Mpc, considering the resolution of future experiments.
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The cosmic distance can be precisely determined using a 'standard ruler' imprinted by primordial baryon acoustic oscillation (hereafter BAO) in the early Universe. The BAO at the targeted epoch is observed by analyzing galaxy clustering in redshift space (hereafter RSD) of which theoretical formulation is not yet fully understood, and thus makes this methodology unsatisfactory. The BAO analysis through full RSD modeling is contaminated by the systematic uncertainty due to a non--linear smearing effect such as non-linear corrections and uncertainty caused by random viral velocity of galaxies. However, BAO can be probed independently of RSD contamination using the BAO peak positions located in the 2D anisotropic correlation function. A new methodology is presented to measure peak positions, to test whether it is also contaminated by the same systematics in RSD, and to provide the radial and transverse cosmic distances determined by the 2D BAO peak positions. We find that in our model independent anisotropic clustering analysis we can obtain about 2% and 5% constraints on
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The central regions of barred-spiral galaxies contain interesting gaseous structures such as dust lanes located at the leading side of the bar and nuclear rings that are sites of intense star formation. Our previous studies showed how gas structures form under the influence of a non-axisymmetric bar potential and temporal/spatial behavior of the star formation in nuclear rings. However, previous works were limited to 2-dimensional infinitesimally-thin, unmagnetized and isothermal disks. To study effects of cooling/heating, vertical motions of gas structures and magnetic field, we use Mesh-Free magneto-hydrodynamic simulation code GIZMO. We find that temporal variations of the star formation rates in the nuclear ring in the three-dimensional model are overall similar those in the previous two-dimensional results, although the former shows more violent small-scale fluctuations near the early primary peak. We will present our recent results about evolution of gaseous structures and star formation rate compare with results of previous studies.
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About one tenth of dwarf elliptical galaxies found in the Virgo cluster have a disk component, and some of them even possess substructures such as bars, lens, and spiral arms. We use N-body simulations to study the formation of these non-axisymmetric features in disky dwarf elliptical galaxies. By mimicking VCC 856, a bulgeless dwarf galaxy with embedded faint spiral arms, we construct 11 sets of initial conditions with slight dynamical variations based on observational data. Our standard model starts slowly to form a bar at ~3 Gyr and then undergoes buckling instability that temporarily weakens the bar although the bar strength continues to grow afterward. We find 9 of our models are unstable to bar formation and undergo buckling instability. This suggests that disky dwarf elliptical galaxies are intrinsically unstable to form bars, accounting for a population of barred dwarf galaxies in the outskirts of the Virgo cluster. To understand the origin of the faint grand-design spiral arms, we additionally construct 6 sets of models that undergo tidal interactions with their neighbors. We find that faint spiral arms consistent with observations develop when tidal forcing is relatively weak although strong encounter still results in bar formation. We discuss our results in light of the dynamical evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies including mergers.
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We aim to investigate formation of satellite sub-galactic structures around isolated dwarf galaxies using cosmological hydrodynamic zoom simulations. For this, we modify a cosmological hydrodynamic code, GADGET-3, in a way that includes gas cooling down to T~10K, gas heating by universal reionization when z < 8.9, UV shielding for high density regions of
$n_{shield}$ >$0.014cm^{-3}$ , star formation in the dense regions ($n_H$ >$100cm^{-3}$ ), and supernova feedback. To get good statistics, we perform three different simulations for different target galaxies of the same mass of${\sim}10^{10}M_{sun}$ . Each simulation starts in a cubic box of a side length of 1Mpc/h with 17 million particles from z = 49. The mass of dark matter (DM) and gas particle is$M_{DM}=4.1{\times}10^3M_{sun}$ and$M_{gas}=7.9{\times}10^2M_{sun}$ , respectively, thus each satellite sub-galactic structure can be resolved with more than hundreds or thousands particles. We analyze total 90 sub-galactic structures that have formed outside of the main halos but infall the main halos. We found that 1) mini halos that interact more with the other mini halos tend to accrete the more mass, 2) mini halos that interact more before the reionization tend to form more stars, 3) mini halos with the more interaction tend to approach closer to the galactic center and have the lower orbital circularity, 4) survivals even in the strong tidal fields evolve baryon dominated system, such as globular clusters. -
Recent integral-field spectrograph surveys have found that similar-looking early type galaxies have wide range of rotational properties (Emsellem et al. 2007). This finding initiated a new point of view to the galaxies; rotation of galaxy as the first parameter of galaxy classification (Emsellem et al. 2011, Cappellari et al. 2011, for example). Some theoretical studies tried to address the origin of galaxy rotation. Idealized galaxy merger simulations have shown that galaxy-galaxy interactions have significant effects on the rotation of galaxies. Cosmological simulations by Naab et al. 2014 also added some more insights to the rotation of galaxies. However, previous studies either lack cosmological background or have not enough number of samples. Running a set of cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations using the AMR code RAMSES(Teyssier 2002). we have constructed a sample of thousands of galaxies in 20 clusters. Here we present a kinematic analysis of a large sample of galaxies in the cosmological context. The overall distribution of rotation parameter of simulated galaxies suggests a single peak corresponding to fast rotating galaxies. But when divided by mass, we find a strong mass dependency of galaxy rotation, and massive galaxies are distinctively slow rotating. The cumulated effective of mergers seems to neutralize galaxy rotation as suggested by previous studies (Khochfar et al. 2011, Naab et al. 2014, and Moody et al. 2014). This is consistent with the fact that massive galaxies tend to rotate more slowly after numerous mergers. However, if seen individually, merger can either increase or decrease galaxy rotation depending on mass ratio, orbital parameter, and relative rotation axis of the two galaxies. This explains the existence of some non-slow rotating massive early type galaxies.
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To understand the observed kinematics in the narrow-line region (NLR) of type 2 AGNs, we construct a model of 3-D biconical outflow combined with a thin dust plane. The model consists of two identical cones whose apex is located at the nucleus, and the cones are axisymmetric with respect to the bicone axis. After we define the properties of the bicone and the dust plane, we calculate a spatially integrated velocity and velocity dispersion along the line-of-sight using various physical parameters. As we test the effect of model parameters, we find three key parameters determining the integrated kinematics: intrinsic outflow velocity, bicone inclination, and the amount of dust extinction. The velocity dispersion increases as the intrinsic outflow velocity or the bicone inclination increases, while the velocity shift increases as the amount of dust extinction increases. We confirm that the integrated velocity dispersion can be a good indicator of the intrinsic outflow velocity unless dust extinction is not very strong (>~80%), while the effect of dust extinction can be alleviated by combining the integrated velocity and the velocity dispersion. Based on the simulated velocity distributions using the 3-D models, the variety of the observed [O
$_{III}$ ] line profiles of type 2 AGNs can be well reproduced. In addition, we perform Monte Carlo simulations based on the different sets of model parameters. By comparing the model results with the observed [O$_{III}$ ] kinematics of ~39,000 SDSS type 2 AGNs (Woo et al. 2016), we find that the observed [O$_{III}$ ] velocity-velocity dispersion distribution is well reproduced by the biconical outflow model, enabling us to constrain the intrinsic physical parameters of outflows. -
We present the physical properties of KIC 6220497 exhibiting multiperiodic pulsations from the Kepler photometry. The light curve synthesis represents that the eclipsing system is a semi-detached Algol with a mass ratio of q=0.243, an orbital inclination of i=77.3 deg, and a temperature difference of
${\Delta}T=3,372K$ , in which the detached primary component fills its Roche lobe by ~87% and is about 1.6 times larger than the lobe-filling secondary. To detect reliable pulsation frequencies, we analyzed separately the Kepler light curve at the interval of an orbital period. Multiple frequency analyses of the eclipse-subtracted light residuals reveal 32 frequencies in the range of$0.75-20.22d^{-1}$ with semi-amplitudes between 0.27 and 4.55 mmag. Among these, four frequencies ($f_1$ ,$f_2$ ,$f_5$ ,$f_7$ ) may be attributed to pulsation modes, while the other frequencies can be harmonic and combination terms. The pulsation constants of 0.16-0.33 d and the period ratios of$P_{pul}/P_{orb}=0.042-0.089$ indicate that the primary component is a${\delta}$ Sct pulsating star in p modes and, thus, KIC 6220497 is an oscillating eclipsing Algol (oEA) star. The dominant pulsation period of about 0.1174 d is considerably longer than the values given by the empirical relations between the pulsational and orbital periods. The surface gravity of log$g_1=3.78$ is significantly smaller than those of the other oEA stars with similar orbital periods. The pulsation period and the surface gravity of the pulsating primary demonstrate that KIC 6220497 would be the more evolved EB, compared with normal oEA stars. -
The follow-up BVRI photometric observations of NSVS 1461538, which was discovered as an
$Algol/{\beta}$ Lyr eclipsing variable by Hoffman, Harrison & McNamara (2009), were performed for three years from 2011 to 2013 by using the 61-cm telescope and CCD cameras of Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy Observatory (SOAO). New light curves have deep depths both of the primary and secondary eclipses, rounded shapes outside eclipses and a strong O'Connell effect, indicating that NSVS 1461538 is a typical W UMa close binary system rather than an$Algol/{\beta}$ Lyr type binary star. A period study with all the timings shows that the orbital period may vary in a sinusoidal way with a period of about 5.6 yr and a small semi-amplitude of about 0.008 d. The cyclical period variation was interpreted as a light-time effect due to a tertiary body with a minimum mass of$0.66M{\odot}$ . The first photometric solution with the Wilson-Devinney binary model shows that the system is a W-subtype contact binary with the mass ratio ($q=m_c/m_h$ ) of 3.46, orbit inclination of 85.6 deg and fill-out factor of 30%. From the existing empirical relationship between parameters, the absolute dimension was estimated. The masses and radii of the component stars are$0.28M{\odot}$ and$0.71R{\odot}$ for the less massive but hotter primary star, respectively, and$0.96M{\odot}$ and$1.21R{\odot}$ for the more massive secondary, respectively. Possible evolution of the system is discussed in the mass-radius and the mass-luminosity planes. -
New CCD photometric observations of GX Aur have been made between 2004 and 2015. Our light curves are the first ever compiled and display the variable O'Connell effect. The light variations are satisfactorily modeled by including time-varying cool-spots on the component stars. Our light curve synthesis indicates that the eclipsing pair is an A-type contact binary with parameters of i = 81.1 deg,
${\Delta}T=36K$ , q = 0.950 and f = 46%. Including our 25 timing measurements, a total of 83 times of minimum light spanning about 66 yr were used for a period study. It was found that the orbital period of GX Aur has varied due to two periodic oscillations superposed on an upward-opening parabolic variation. The long-term period increase rate is deduced as$+9.636{\times}10^{-10}d\;yr^{-1}$ , which can be produced as a mass transfer from the secondary star to the primary at a rate of$3.136{\times}10^{-6}M_{\odot}\;yr^{-1}$ , among the largest rates for contact systems. The periods and semi-amplitudes of the two periodic variations are about$P_3=8.7yr$ and$P_4=21.2yr$ , and$K_3=0.011d$ and$K_4=0.017d$ , respectively. The most reasonable explanation for both cycles is a pair of light-travel-time effects driven by the possible existence of an unseen third and fourth components with projected masses of$M_3=0.91M_{\odot}$ and$M_4=1.09M_{\odot}$ in eccentric orbits of$e_3=0.13$ and$e_4=0.73$ . Because no third light was detected in the light curve synthesis, each circumbinary object could be a compact star or a binary itself. -
We examined thousands of light curves of stars brighter than 18.0 mag in I band and less than mean magnitude error of 0.1 mag in V band from the OGLE-III eclipsing binary catalogue, and found 90 new binary systems exhibiting apsidal motion. In this study, the samples of apsidal motion stars in the SMC were increased by 250 percent than previously known. In order to determine the period of the apsidal motion for the binaries, we analysed in detail both light curves and eclipse timings using the MACHO and OGLE photometric database obtained for about 20 yrs. For the eclipse timing diagrams of the systems, new times of minimum light were derived from the full light curve combined at intervals of one yr from the survey data. The binaries presented in this paper have apsidal motion periods in the range of 12-918 yrs. An additional short-term oscillation was detected in five systems (OGLE-SMC-ECL-1634, 1947, 3035, 4946, and 5382), which most likely arise from the existence of a third body orbiting each eclipsing binary. All of the selected systems can be used for the statistical study of the interior structure of the stars in the SMC through their apsidal motions due to the homogeneous data and consistent analysis methods.
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It is well known that theoretical models of Wolf-Rayet stars are not consistent with observational data in terms of temperature and stellar radius. Recent study in analytical and numerical simulations show the importance of density inhomogeneity in stellar envelope. Using 1-dimensional numerical simulations, we study how such clumpiness arisen over convective surface of Wolf-Rayet stars affect their evolutionary path. Starting from pure helium star models, we constructed 21 different initial conditions by varying stellar mass, metallicity, and the clumpiness of the sub-surface convection zone. We run the simulations until the oxygen-burning is reached and find that the influence of the clumpiness is sensitive to the initial metallicity. Our models with high metallicity including the effect of the density inhomogeneity can roughly explain the observed properties of Wolf-Rayet stars such as stellar radius and temperature. By contrast, despite a considerable amount of density inhomogeneity is given, low metallicity models could not fully explain observations. To understand the inconsistency in low metallicity models, detailed study with improved model is required, taking account of the error range of the observations.
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We present multiband photometric analyses of 10 core-collapse supernovae in the near-infrared and visible wavebands. Our infrared data is from observations of the supernovae using the Wide Field Infrared Camera at the Palomar 5-m telescope as part of the Caltech Core-Collapse Supernova Program, while we obtain the visible data from publicly available data base. By fitting the broadband spectral energy distribution with a black body and, when necessary, modified black body component, we estimate physical parameters of the supernovae more accurately and also conduct a systematic investigation of when the supernovae show any indication of dust formation.
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Kim, Dong-Jin;Cho, Se-Hyung;Yun, Young-Joo;Kim, JaeHeon;Choi, Yoon Kyung;Yoon, Dong-Whan;Yoon, Suk-Jin 43.1
With the Korean VLBI Network (KVN), both single dish and VLBI monitoring observations of H2O and SiO masers were performed toward the semi-regular variable star R Crateris. In the case of 11 VLBI monitoring observations from Jan. 5, 2014 to Jan. 7, 2016, successful superposed maps of H2O and SiO masers were obtained at 7 epochs by adopting the Source Frequency Phase Referencing (SFPR) method. These results enable us to investigate the development of outflow and asymmetric motions from SiO maser to H2O maser regions according to stellar pulsation which are closely related with a mass-loss process. Single dish monitoring observations of H2O and SiO masers were also carried out from 2009 June to 2016 Feb. Intensity variations between H2O and SiO masers were investigated according to stellar optical phases together with peak velocity variations with respect to the stellar velocity. We will compare the VLBI results among different maser transitions with those of single dish. -
We present results of a calibrator search near twenty evolved stars using the Korean VLBI Network (KVN). Our evolved star targets include candidate sources for a Key Science Project (KSP) of the KVN. The KSP plans to investigate the spatial structure and dynamical effects between SiO and H2O maser regions including mass-loss process and development of asymmetry in circumstellar envelopes of evolved stars. For these purposes, we need compact and strong extragalactic sources close to the evolved stars. We carried out 5 observations in order to detect radio continuum sources that can be used for source frequency phase-referencing (SFPR) -based analysis. We observed 153 sources, out of which we detected 29 at 22 GHz and 20 at 43 GHz at signal-to-noise ratios higher than 50 at all baselines. Therefore, we successfully found target and calibrator pairs for the KVN KSP.
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Most globular clusters are now known to have two or more stellar populations with different chemical properties. In order to understand the origin and evolution of multiple stellar populations in these globular clusters, it is necessary to study not only the chemical property, but also the dynamical property. In our previous works (Lim et al. 2015; Han et al. 2015), we have shown that Ca narrow-band photometry can be combined with low-resolution spectroscopy to effectively study the chemical properties of globular clusters. In this talk, we will show our observations are also useful to study the radial distribution of stars in globular clusters with multiple stellar populations, and report our preliminary results.
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We observed the high resolution spectra of a solar-neighborhood planetary hosting star HD 20794. The analysis of spectroscopic data was performed using URAN and SYNTHE programs. These spectra allow us to determine the effective temperatures, surface gravities, microturbulent velocities and, chemical abundances. Bond et al. (2008) found chemical abundance for 11 elements, but using the Spectrum synthesis method we have so far determine about 30 elements. We have derived iron metallicity
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Jo, Young-Soo;Seon, Kwang-Il;Min, Kyoung-Wook;Choi, Yeon-Ju;Lim, Tae-Ho;Lim, Yeo-Myeong;Edelstein, Jerry;Han, Wonyong 44.1
In this paper, we present a catalogue of the spectra of bright stars observed during the sky survey using the Far-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (FIMS), which was designed primarily to observe diffuse emissions. By carefully eliminating the contamination from the diffuse background, we obtain the spectra of 70 bright stars observed for the first time with a spectral resolution of$2-3{\AA}$ over the wavelength of$1370-1710{\AA}$ . The far-ultraviolet spectra of an additional 139 stars are also extracted with a better spectral resolution and/or higher reliability than those of the previous observations. The stellar spectral type of the stars presented in the catalogue spans from O9 to A3. The method of spectral extraction of the bright stars is validated by comparing the spectra of 323 stars with those of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observations. -
The solar wind electrons are made of three or four distinct components, which are core Maxwellian background, isotropic halo, and super-halo (and sometimes, highly field-aligned strahl component which can be considered as a fourth element). We put forth a steady-state model for the solar wind electrons by considering both the steady-state particle and wave kinetic equations. Since the steady-state solar wind electron VDFs and the steady-state wave fluctuation spectrum are related to each other, we also investigate the complete fluctuation spectra in the whistler and Langmuir frequency ranges by considering halo- and superhalo-like model electron VDFs. It is found that the energetic electrons make important contributions to the total emission spectrum. Based on this, we complete the steady-state model by considering both the whistler and Langmuir fluctuations. In particular, the Langmuir fluctuation plays an important role in the formation and maintenance of nonthermal electrons.
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In this study, we identify 307 the geosynchronous magnetopause crossing (GMC) using geosynchronous satellite observation data from 1996 to 2010 as well as make an observational test of magnetopause location models using the identified events. For this, we consider three models: Petrinec and Russell (1996), Shue et al. (1998), and Lin et al. (2010). To evaluate the models, we estimate a Probability of Detection (PoD) and a Critical Success Index (CSI) as a function of year. To examine the effect of solar cycle phase, we consider three different time periods: (1) ascending phase (1996-1999), (2) maximum phase (2000-2002), and (3) descending phase (2003-2008). Major results from this study are as follows. First, the PoD values of all models range from 0.6 to 1.0 for the most of years. Second, the PoD values of Lin et al. (2010) are noticeably higher than those of the other models. Third, the CSI values of all models range from 0.3 to 0.6 and those of Shue et al. (1998) are slightly higher than those of the other models. Fourth, the predicted magnetopause radius based on Lin et al.(2010) well match the observed one within one earth radius, while that on Shue et al. (1998) overestimate the observed one by about 2 earth radii. Fifth, the PoD and CSI values of all the models are better for the solar maximum phase than those for the other phases, implying that the models are more optimized for the phase.
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Spatially rotating magnetic fields have been observed in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetopause as well as in reversed field pinch (RFP) devices. Such field configurations have a similarity with extended current layers having a spatially varying plasma pressure instead of the spatially varying guide field. It is thus expected that magnetic reconnection may take place in a rotating magnetic field no less than in an extended current layer. We have investigated the spontaneous evolution of a collisionless plasma system embedding a rotating magnetic field with a two-and-a-half-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. In magnetohydrodynamics, magnetic flux can be decreased by diffusion in O-lines. In kinetic physics, however, an asymmetry of the velocity distribution function can generate new magnetic flux near O- and X-lines, hence a dynamo effect. We have found that a magnetic-flux-reducing diffusion phase and a magnetic-flux-increasing dynamo phase are alternating with a certain period. The temperature of the system also varies with the same period, showing a similarity to sawtooth oscillations in tokamaks. We have shown that a modified theory of sawtooth oscillations can explain the periodic behavior observed in the simulation. A strong guide field distorts the current layer as was observed in laboratory experiments. This distortion is smoothed out as magnetic islands fade away by the O-line diffusion, but is soon strengthened by the growth of magnetic islands. These processes are all repeating with a fixed period. Our results suggest that a rotating magnetic field configuration continuously undergoes deformation and relaxation in a short time-scale although it might look rather steady in a long-term view.
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In this study we investigate 195 spacecraft anomalies from 1998 to 2010 from Satellite News Digest (SND). We classify these data according to types of anomaly : Control, Power, Telemetry etc. We examine the association between these anomaly data and daily peak particle (electron and proton) flux data from GOES as well as their occurrence rates. To determine the association, we use two criteria that electron criterion is >10,000 pfu and proton criterion is >100 pfu. Main results from this study are as flows. First, the number of days satisfying the criteria for electron flux has a peak near a week before the anomaly day and decreases from the peak day to the anomaly day, while that for proton flux has a peak near the anomaly day. Second, we found a similar pattern for the mean daily peak particle (electron and proton) flux as a function of day before the anomaly day. Third, an examination of multiple spacecraft anomaly events, which are likely to occur by severe space weather effects, shows that anomalies mostly occur either when electron fluxes are in the declining stage, or when daily proton peak fluxes are strongly enhanced. This result is very consistent with the above statistical studies. Our results will be discussed in view of the origins of spacecraft anomaly.
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Solar activity shows a self-similarity as it has many periods of activity cycle in the time series of long-term observation, such as 13.5, 51, 150, 300 days, and 11, 88 years and so on. Since fractal dimension is a quantitative parameter for this kind of an irregular time series, we applied this method to long-term observations including sunspot number, total solar irradiance, and 3.75 GHz solar radio flux to predict the start and maximum times as well as expected maximum sunspot number for the next solar cycle. As a result, we found that the radio flux data tend to have lower fractal dimensions than the sunspot number data, which means that the radio emission from the sun is more regular than the solar activity expressed by sunspot number. Based on the relation between radio flux of 3.75 GHz and sunspot number, we could calculate the expected maximum sunspot number of solar cycle 24 as 156, while the observed value is 146. For the maximum time, estimated mean values from 7 different observations are January 2013 and this is quite different to observed value of February 2014. We speculate this is from extraordinary extended properties of solar cycle 24. As the cycle length of solar cycle 24, 10.1 to 12.8 years are expected, and the mean value is 11.0. This implies that the next solar cycle will be started at December 2019.
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The formation process of a current sheet is important for solar flare from a viewpoint of a space weather prediction. We therefore derive the temporal development of the spatial and statistical distribution of electric current density distributed in a flare-producing active region to describe the formation of a current sheet. We derive time sequence distribution of electric current density by applying a nonlinear force-free approximation reconstruction to Active Region 12158 that produces an X1.6-class flare. The time sequence maps of photospheric vector magnetic field used for reconstruction are captured by a Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) on 10th September, 2014. The spatial distribution of electric current density in NLFFF model well reproduce observed sigmoidal structure at the preflare phase, although a layer of high current density shrinks at the postflare phase. A double power-law profile of electric current density is found in statistical analysis. This may be expected to use an indicator of the occurrence of a solar flare.
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We explore the similarity and difference of the quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) observed during the solar and stellar X-ray flares. For this, we identified 59 solar QPPs in the X-ray observed by the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and 52 stellar QPPs from X-ray Multi Mirror Newton observatory (XMM-Newton). The Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method and least-square-fit with the damped sine function are applied to obtain the periods and damping times of the QPPs. We found that (1) the periods and damping times of the stellar QPPs are 7.80 and 13.80 min, which are comparable with those of the solar QPPs 0.55 and 0.97 min. (2) The ratio of the damping times to the periods observed in the stellar QPPs are found to be statistically identical to the solar QPPs, (3) The damping times are well describe by the power law. The power indices of the solar and stellar QPPs are
$0.891{\pm}0.172$ and$0.953{\pm}0.198$ , which are consistent with the previous results. Thus, we conclude that the underlying mechanism responsible for the stellar QPPs are the natural oscillations of the flaring or adjacent coronal loops as in the Sun. -
We construct a solar eruption model with a background solar wind by performing three-dimensional zero-beta magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The initial configuration of a magnetic field is given by nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) reconstruction applied to a flux emergence simulation. The background solar wind is driven by upflows imposed at the top boundary. We analyzed the temporal development of the Lorentz force at the flux tube axis. Based on the results, we demonstrate that a solar eruption is caused by the imbalance between magnetic pressure gradient force and magnetic tension force. We conclude that this imbalance is produced by a weak but continuously existing solar wind above an active region.
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The determination of three dimensional parameters (e.g., radial speed, angular width, source location) of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is very important for space weather forecast. To estimate these parameters, several cone models based on a flat cone or a shallow ice-cream cone with spherical front have been suggested. In this study, we investigate which cone model is proper for halo CME morphology using 26 CMEs which are identified as halo CMEs by one spacecraft (SOHO or STEREO-A or B) and as limb CMEs by the other ones. From geometrical parameters of these CMEs such as their front curvature, we find that near full ice-cream cone CMEs are dominant over shallow ice-cream cone CMEs. Thus we develop a new full ice-cream cone model by assuming that a full ice-cream cone consists of many flat cones with different heights and angular widths. This model is carried out by the following steps: (1) construct a cone for given height and angular width, (2) project the cone onto the sky plane, (3) select points comprising the outer boundary, (4) minimize the difference between the estimated projection speeds with the observed ones. We apply this model to 12 SOHO halo CMEs and compare the results with those from other stereoscopic methods (a geometrical triangulation method and a Graduated Cylindrical Shell model) based on multi-spacecraft data.
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The protons and helium ions in the solar wind are observed to possess anisotropic temperature profiles. The anisotropy appears to be limited by various marginal instability conditions. One of the efficient methods to investigate the global dynamics and distribution of various temperature anisotropies in the large-scale solar wind models may be that based upon the macroscopic quasi-linear approach. The present paper investigates the proton and helium ion anisotropy instabilities on the basis of comparison between the quasi-linear theory versus particle-in-cell simulation. It is found that the overall dynamical development of the particle temperatures is quite accurately reproduced by the macroscopic quasi-linear scheme. The wave energy development in time, however, shows somewhat less restrictive comparisons, indicating that while the quasi-linear method is acceptable for the particle dynamics, the wave analysis probably requires higher-order physics, such as wave-wave coupling or nonlinear wave-particle interaction. We carried out comparative studies of proton firehose instability, aperiodic ordinary mode instability, and helium ion anisotropy instability. It was found that the agreement between QL theory and PIC simulation is rather good. It means that the quasilinear approximation enjoys only a limited range of validity, especially for the wave dynamics and for the relatively high-beta regime.
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Pyo, Jeonghyun;Kim, Il-Joong;Jeong, Woong-Seob;Lee, Dae-Hee;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Youngsik;Park, Sung-Joon;Park, Won-Kee;Lee, Duk-Hang;Nam, Uk-Won;Han, Wonyong;Seon, Kwang-Il;Matsumoto, Toshio;Kim, Min Gyu;Lee, Hyung Mok 47.3
The zodiacal light (ZL), combination of the sunlight scattered by and the infrared light emitted by the interplanetary dust (IPD) particles, changes with time due to the asymmetric distribution of the particles with respect to the Earth's orbit. Especially, the variation of the ZL brightness toward the ecliptic poles are useful to probe the properties of the global distribution of the IPD because we can evade the effect of the small scale structures, such as the asteroidal dust bands. The ecliptic poles are frequently visited by the infrared (IR) space telescopes owing to their sun-synchronous orbits or for specific purposes. We collect and analyze the observations toward the ecliptic poles by COBE/DIRBE, AKARI, and MIRIS, covering the wavelengths from about 1 to$25{\mu}m$ . The observed seasonal variations of the ZL are modeled with a simple IPD cloud model to derive cloud parameters. The parameters are compared with those of the empirical cloud models by Kelsall et al. (1998) and Kondo et al. (2016), and the discrepancies are discussed. -
Kwon, Yuna Grace;Ishiguro, Masateru;Kuroda, Daisuke;Hanayama, Hidekazu;Kawabata, Koji S.;Akitaya, Hiroshi;Itoh, Ryosuke;Nakaoka, Tatsuya 48.1
Polarimetric study of light scattering from cometary dust particles can provide us opportunity to decipher their characteristics, such as sizes, structures, compositions of dust grains, etc. Herein, we present the results of our polarimetric study of long-period comet, C/2013 US10 (Catalina), in optical and near-infrared wavelengths which appeared at large phase angle (52.7 degrees) around the mid-December, 2015. We performed polarimetric and spectroscopic observations with HONIR, attached to the 1.5-m telescope at Higashi-Hiroshima Observatory, on UT 2015 December 17-18 and also obtained optical imaging data sets by the Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory (IAO) and Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) taken between 2014-2015. By measuring the intensities of gas emission lines with respect to dust continuum and considering transmittance of each filter, we estimated that the percentages of gas contamination are approximately 10 percents in$R_C$ -band and 3 percents in$I_C$ -band. With these results, we derive the degree of linear polarization scattered solely from dust components in the coma. At this presentation, we will compare the phase-angle dependence of the degree of linear polarization with those of previous archive data in a wide coverage of wavelengths from$R_C$ -band to$K_S$ -band. Finally, we are supposed to discuss the spatial variations in polarization within the coma. -
태양계의 행성간 공간에는 수많은 티끌들이 흩어져 있다. 이들의 존재는 유성, 우주 탐사선의 검출기, 황도광 관측 등으로 확인되고 있으나, 이 티끌들의 수명이 길어야 수백만년에 불과하기에 태양계에는 지속적으로 티끌을 공급하는 기원천체가 있어야 한다. 최근의 광학적 (Yang & Ishiguro, 2015), 역학적 연구는 ~90% 이상의 행성간 티끌들이 혜성에서 방출되었을 것이라 추정하기에 이르렀다. 이러한 상황에서, 본 연구에서는 행성간 티끌구름의 구체적 양상을 설명하려는 목적으로 혜성에서 방출된 티끌들이 태양계에서 겪게 되는 역학 진화를 수치 계산을 통하여 추적하였다. 우리는 다양한 혜성 궤도 분포를 골고루 대표할 수 있도록 실제 혜성 중에서 대표 혜성들을 선정하고, 관측에 기반한 티끌 방출 모형을 이용하여 다양한 크기의 가상적 티끌을 이들 혜성에서 방출시켰다. 태양의 복사에 의한 끌림힘, 8개의 행성에 의한 중력 섭동을 고려하며 이 티끌들의 궤도 진화가 추적되었다. 티끌들의 최종 종착지가 살펴졌고, 정상 상태를 가정하고 행성간 티끌구름을 구성하여 실제 관측되는 티끌구름과 비교하였다. 이번 발표에서는 혜성에 의한 티끌공급량과 내행성계의 티끌 유출입량, 내행성계 티끌구름의 크기도수분포, 티끌구름의 궤도 요소 분포, 황도광의 밝기 분포 등이 수치 계산 결과와 비교되어 설명될 것이다.
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Current high-resolution IR spectroscopy at ground-based observatories made it possible to observe
$3-{\mu}m\;CH_4$ emission lines from the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan through narrow atmospheric windows avoiding the counterparts of telluric$CH_4$ absorptions if proper Doppler shifts betwen Earth and these planetary objects are provided. We are also expecting low-resolution (R~300) infrared spectra of Jupiter from the upcoming observations by JUNO's infrared$2-5{\mu}m$ spectrograph during the encounter with Jupiter approximately starting from July 4, 2016. Although the spectral resolution is not enough to resolve the$3-{\mu}m$ P, Q, R branch lines of CH4, the gross envelopes of the P, Q, R branches should yield information on rotational temperatures. The rotational temperatures are useful because theycan be regarded as local temperatures, as discussed by Kim et al. (2014). Since the$3-{\mu}m\;CH_4$ emission is mostly formed at micro-bar pressure levels, the derived rotational temperatures represent the local temperatures near the hompause of Jupiter. We discuss possible sciences from the derived homopause temperatures in the auroral and non-auroral regions of Jupiter. -
Solar System has evolved with numerous collisions among asteroids. Ancient catastrophic collisions of large parent bodies led the formation of asteroid families and relevant dustband structures up to the present day, and it would be interesting to address a question - "what happens if an asteroid collides with another asteroid?" Recent discoveries of "active asteroids" in the main-belt have attracted interest for their potential to witness a catastrophic collision in the current Solar System. So far, however, there is no direct evidence for catastrophic collision on active asteroids while several objects have been confirmed for other mechanisms (e.g., 596 Scheila for impact cratering, P/2013 R3 and P/2013 P5 for rotational breakup). The most potential candidate for catastrophic collision could be a sub-km active asteroid P/2010 A2, which is still controversial on its driving mechanism, but if confirmed, would have made P/2010 A2 the unique example of catastrophic collision on the current main asteroid belt. In this presentation, we revisit all of archival data of P/2010 A2 in a combination with our own observation using Subaru/Suprime-Cam on 2011 June, where we have a great benefit of a large orbital coverage. We found a grain size dependence of dust ejection velocity from P/2010 A2 (a power-law size distribution with an index of k~ -1/10), which is favorable to a catastrophic disruption scenario in agreement with laboratory impact experiments. At this conference, we plan to provide our understanding of the morphology of P/2010 A2 through a perspective of catastrophic collision.
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Kim, Il-Joong;Pyo, Jeonghyun;Jeong, Woong-Seob;Park, Won-Kee;Kim, Min Gyu;Lee, Dukhang;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Sung-Joon;Park, Youngsik;Lee, Dae-Hee;Han, Wonyong 49.2
MIRIS Paschen-${\alpha}$ ($Pa{\alpha}$ ) Galactic Plane Survey (MIPAPS) presents the first whole Galactic plane (with the width of$-3^{\circ}$ < b <$+3^{\circ}$ ) map for the$Pa{\alpha}$ emission line. Many of$Pa{\alpha}$ features were detected more brightly than the previous observed$H{\alpha}$ features, and they coincide well with dense cloud regions. This means that newly detected$Pa{\alpha}$ blobs can indicate massive star forming regions (H II regions) screened by foreground clouds around Galactic plane. Anderson et al. (2014) presented the most complete Galactic H II region catalog based on WISE 12 and 22 um data. Of the cataloged sources, only ~20% have measured radio recombination line (RRL) or$H{\alpha}$ emission, and the rest are still candidate H II regions. At first, we compare the MIPAPS results with Anderson's H II region catalog for the Cepheus region (Galactic longitude from$+96^{\circ}$ to$116^{\circ}$ ). From this, we will investigate how much MIPAPS can supplement the catalog, and show MIPAPS scientific potential. After that, we plan to extend this work to the whole plane, and finally catalog MIRIS$Pa{\alpha}$ blob sources for the whole Galactic plane. -
Two major radiative transfer (RT) techniques have been developted to model late-type galaxies: approximate RT and Monte Carlo (MC) RT. In the approximate RT, first proposed by Kylafis & Bahcall, only two terms of unscattered (direct) and single-scattered intensities are computed and higher-order multiple scattering components are approximated, saving computing time and cost compared to MC RT. However, the approximate RT can yield errors in regions where multiple scattering effect is significant. In order to examine how significant the errors of the approximate RT are, we compare results of the approximate RT with those of SKIRT, a state-of-the-art MC RT code, which is basically free from the approximation errors by fully incorporating all the multiple scattered intensities. In this study, we present quantitative errors in the approximate RT for late type galaxy models with various optical depths and inclination angles. We report that the approximate RT is not reliable if the central face-on optical depth is intermediate or high (
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The incorporation of radiation from massive stars is essential for modeling the dynamics and chemistry of star-forming clouds, yet it is a computationally demanding task for three-dimensional problems. We describe the implementation and tests of radiative transfer module due to point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid in the Eulerian MHD code Athena. To solve the integral form of the radiation transfer equation, we adopt a widely-used long characteristics method with spatially adaptive ray tracing in which rays are split when sampling of cells becomes coarse. We use a completely asynchronous communication pattern between processors to accelerate transport of rays through a computational domain, a major source of performance bottleneck. The results of strong and weak scaling tests show that our code performs well with a large number of processors. We apply our radiation hydrodynamics code to some test problems involving dynamical expansion of HII regions.
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Continuous accretion of metal-poor gas can explain the discrepancy between the number of observed G-dwarfs and the number predicted by the "simple model" of galactic evolution. The maximum accretion rate estimated based upon approaching high velocity clouds (HVCs) can be up to
${\sim}0.4M_{\odot}{ \cdot}yr^{-1}$ which is comparable with the accretion rate required by many chemical evolution models that is at least${\sim}0.45M_{\odot}{\cdot}yr^{-1}$ . However, it is not clear to what extent the exchange of gas between the disk and the cloud can occur when an HVC collides with the galactic disk. Therefore, we examined a series of HVC-Disk collision simulations using the FLASH 2.5 hydrodynamics simulation code. The outcomes of our simulations show that an HVC will more likely take away substances from the galactic disk rather than adding new material to the disk. We define this as an HVC having a "negative fuel rate". Further results in our study also indicate that the process and amount of fuel rate change can have various forms depending on the density, radius and velocity of an approaching HVC. The simulations in our study covers HVCs with a neutral hydrogen volume density from$1.0{\times}10^{-2}cm^{-3}$ to$41.0cm^{-3}$ , radius of 200 pc to 1000 pc and velocity in the range between$40km{\cdot}s^{-1}$ and$100km{\cdot}s^{-1}$ . -
산개 성단이 형성 되는 시기에 성단 내 별들이 가지는 공간 분포는 구대칭에서 상당히 멀 것으로 추정되며, 프랙털(fractal) 구조에 가까울 것으로 생각된다. 본 연구에서는 프랙털 구조를 가지고 태어나는 성단이 조석력장에 놓여 있을 때 어떤 진화를 겪는지 N-body 시뮬레이션을 통해 살펴보았다. 조석력장이 없을 때와 달리, 강한 조석력장이 적용되었을 때에는 성단 내 별들이 더 작은 무리(clump)를 이루면서 진화하는 것이 관측되었다. 이러한 결과는 Arches 성단처럼 은하의 조석력장이 강한 우리은하 중심부에서 발견되는 성단들의 형성에 제약조건을 줄 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.
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Turbulent motions produce density and magnetic field fluctuations. Correlation between density and magnetic field fluctuations are important for interpretation of observations, such as the rotation measure (RM) and dispersion measure (DM). We study the several factors that can affect the correlation between two. In particular, we numerically investigate how the correlation time of driving affects the correlation between density and magnetic field. We perform compressible MHD turbulence simulations at different sonic Mach number and consider two different driving schemes - continuously changing driving and delta-correlated driving. The continuously changing driving results in strong anti-correlation between density and magnetic field when sonic and Alfvenic Mach numbers are similar unity. The delta-correlated driving produces virtually no correlation between two fields.
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이 연구에서는 중수대명력(重修大明曆)에서 태양과 달의 운동 계산 방법에 대해 분석하였다. 중수대명력은 금(金)대의 양급(楊級)이 만든 대명력을 당대의 조지미(趙知微)가 중수한 역법으로 1281년 수시력(授時曆)이 도입되기 전까지 원(元)에서 사용되었다. 반면 조선에서는 "칠정산내편", "칠정산외편"과 더불어 일 월식 계산에 사용된 것으로 알려져 있다. 이를 위해 세종 26년(1444)에는 이순지(李純之) 등에 의해 "중수대명력"과 "중수대명력 정묘년 교식가령(丁卯年 交食假令)" 등이 편찬되었으며, "중수대명력"의 경우 "금사(金史)" 의 내용과 동일한 것으로 알려져 있다. 이 논문에서는 이들 문헌을 활용하여 중수대명력에서의 태양과 달의 운동, 특히 이들의 부등속운동 계산방법에 대해 분석하고, 이를 수시력에서의 방법과 비교 하였다.
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흠경각루(欽敬閣漏)는 1438년 장영실(蔣英實)이 제작한 수격식 천문시계이다. 흠경각루의 작동메커니즘은 물시계, 수차, 수차제어시스템, 기륜, 주전, 각종 기어 등이 유기적으로 작동하여 가산 위의 태양운행장치와 37명의 시보인형들을 움직이게 하는 것이다. 이 연구는 흠경각루의 작동 메커니즘에 따른 가산 내부의 공간구성에 관한 것이다. 특히, 흠경각루의 동력발생 장치 부분인 물시계와 수차의 위치, 시보대 위의 신호발생장치인 주전(籌箭)에 대하여 연구하였다. 주전은 시보인형들이 종, 북, 징을 타격하여 12시와 경점시간을 알리게 하는 신호를 주는 것이다. 이를 위해 흠경각루의 기륜을 움직이기 위해 필요한 물시계와 수차의 크기를 결정하였다. 또한 주전의 작동메커니즘에 대해 분석하고, 구체적인 주전의 형태를 3D 모델링으로 구현하였다.
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이 논문에서는 "원사" "천문지" <경부>조의 기록을 바탕으로 조선시대 영부에 대해 연구하였다. 조선에서는 1435년과 1440년에 처음으로 대규표와 소규표가 제작되었으며, 이들은 모두 횡량을 가진 진화된 형태의 규표로써 영부를 사용하여 그림자길이를 측정하였다. 영부는 바늘구멍 장치로 Needham et al.에 의해 처음으로 그 모델이 제시되었지만, 구조적 측면에서 "원사"의 원문 내용과 차이를 보이고 있다. 이 연구에서는 조선시대 영부를 "원사"의 경부와 동일했을 것으로 가정하였으며, 이를 토대로 새로운 모델을 제시하였다. 바늘구멍을 통과하는 빛의 경로에 대한 분석을 통해 새 모델의 재원 중 "원사"에 명시되지 않은 영부 밑받침의 높이를 추정하였다.
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We introduce the characteristics and performance of the 0.25m telescope at Mangpo high school Unmanned Robotic Observatory (MURO) which was established in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeongi-do, KOREA in 2015 January. MURO system included Astrohaven 2.1m non-rotation fiberglass clamshell dome, Paramount MEII mount, Takahashi CCA 0.25m wide field telescope, FLI PL 16803 4K CCD with 7-positions filter wheel system, all sky camera and point grey wide field camera, IR 4 chanel heat sensor camera for security, DAVIS realtime weather cast, and power controled by ARS system. All control softwares are from off-the-shelf products based on Windows 7 OS to be easily operated and maintained. We expect to perform variety of science programs ranging from supernovae follow-up observation to narrow band imaging survey as well as science class activities at Mangpo high school.
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해외의 대형 과학 연구 프로젝트에서는 연구 활동에 대한 대국민 홍보와 교육적 활용을 위한 다양한 형태의 콘텐츠를 제작하여 배포하고 있다. 그러나 국내에서는 연구 활동과 성과의 대국민 홍보 부족과 교육적 활용이 저조하여 과학 연구에 대한 대국민 인지도가 상대적으로 낮다. 따라서 국내에서도 천문학 연구에 대한 홍보와 일반인들의 이해 증진을 위하여 대형 천문학 연구에 대한 다양한 콘텐츠를 개발하고 보급하는 것이 절실히 필요하다. 본 발표에서는 2015년 구축이 완료된 KMTNet 연구 프로젝트의 교육 콘텐츠를 개발하기 위한 첫 번째 단계로 Apple iBooks Author를 활용한 e-book과 교육활동지 개발을 소개하고자 한다. 개발된 교육 콘텐츠를 배포하여 많은 국민들이 천문학 연구 및 성과에 대한 관심을 갖고 또한 천문학 연구 활동에 대한 올바른 인식 제고에 기여할 것으로 생각된다. 또한 다른 대형 천문학 프로젝트들의 다양한 교육매체 개발 및 활용에 대한 방향을 제시하고 천문학 대중화에 관심 있는 여러 사람들의 의견을 들어보고자 한다.
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비형식학습의 준비된 장소이며 대표적인 비형식 과학교육 기관인 천체투영관은 세계적으로 약 3000개 이상이 설치되었으며 국내에도 약 100여 곳이 운영되고 있다. 이제 국내에서도 천체투영관의 양적 증가가 아닌 질적 향상을 위한 노력과 함께 관련 연구가 시급하다. 또한 비형식학습을 통한 대국민의 천문학 인식 제고를 위하여 천체투영관의 교육적 활용에 대한 연구 또한 필요하다. 천체투영관의 교육적 활용을 위한 연구의 기초자료를 만들기 위하여 국내 80개 천체투영관 운영자들을 전화로 인터뷰하여 천체관의 현황을 조사하였다. 1)국내 천체투영관의 연방문객은 약 200만 명, 2)디지털방식의 투영장치를 갖춘 천체투영관이 조사된 천체투영관의 약 80%, 3) 돔스크린의 크기가 10m 미만인 곳은 조사된 천체투영관의 약56%를 차지하는 것으로 조사되었다. 이번 발표에서는 조사결과와 함께 천체투영관의 교육적 활용에 대한 연구 방향을 제시해 보고 관심 있는 관계자들의 의견을 듣고자 한다.
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Lee, Chung-Uk;Kim, Seung-Lee;Kim, Dong-Jin;Cha, Sang-Mok;Lee, Yongseok;Lim, Jin-Sun;Lee, Dong-Joo;Park, Byeong-Gon 52.4
한국천문연구원에서는 직경 1.6m 광시야 망원경과 3.4억 화소 CCD 카메라로 구성된 동일한 성능의 외계행성 탐색시스템 3대를 남반구 관측소에 설치 완료하였다. 2014년 9월 칠레에 1호기 설치를 시작으로 2014년 12월과 2015년 5월에 남아공 및 호주에 2호기와 3호기를 각각 설치하였다. 외계행성 탐색시스템이 설치된 3개 관측소는 경도상 위치가 적당히 3등분 되어있어 동일한 천체를 최대 24시간 연속하여 관측 가능하다. 우리는 이 시스템이 가진 장점을 최대한 살릴 수 있는 연구주제를 선정하여 2015년 10월부터 본격적으로 관측을 수행해오고 있다. 3월부터 10월에는 3개 관측소에서 우리은하 중심부를 24시간 연속 관측하여 미시중력렌즈 방법을 이용한 외계행성 탐색연구를 수행하고 은하 중심부를 관측할 수 없는 기간에는 초신성, 소행성 및 외부은하 등을 관측한다. 각 관측 프로그램의 시간배정 및 관측결과 요약 등의 정보를 홈페이지에 제공함으로써(http://kmtnet.kasi.re.kr/kmtnet-monitor/) 각 프로그램의 관측 상황을 효율적으로 모니터링 할 수 있도록 지원한다. 이 발표에서는 지난 2015년 우리은하 중심부를 관측하여 얻은 약 31.5TB의 관측 자료 분석 결과를 통해 구한 관측시스템의 성능을 리뷰하고 2016년 관측시스템 운영계획에 대하여 논의한다. -
With the official start of the operations of the three 1.6 m KMTNet telescope systems from 2015 October, we have initiated a program named KMTNet Supernova Program (KSP) from 2015 to 2019 aiming at searching for supernovae (SNe), other optical transients and related sources. Taking advantage of the 24-hour coverage, high cadence and multi-color monitoring observations, this is optimal for discovering early SNe and peculiar ones. From the start of the previous test observing runs of ~half a year, we have performed observations on several nearby galaxy groups and nearby galaxies with short separations on the sky. We have developed data reduction/variable object search pipelines, meanwhile we have discovered some interesting transient objects. We also stacked all the images for given fields, searched for new objects/galaxies, and discovered several new dwarf galaxies, e.g., in the NGC 2784 galaxy group field (H. S. Park et al.'s talk). We will report the current project status and the results obtained.
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We present surface photometry results of the dwarf galaxies in the nearby NGC 2784 galaxy group. We newly detected about 30 dwarf galaxy candidates at about 30 square degree area around the nearby NGC 2784 galaxy (D~10 Mpc and MV=-20.5) applying a visual inspection technique on the wide-field optical images taken by the KMTNet Supernova Program (KSP). Surface brightnesses of the objects estimated from the stacked-images with total exposure time of about 6 hours reach approximately
${\mu}V$ ~28.5 mag/arcsec2 around$3{\sigma}$ above sky background. The central surface brightness and the total absolute magnitude for the faintest candidate dwarf galaxy among about 40 galaxies including the previously known ones is${\mu}0$ , V~26.1 mag/arcsec2 and MV~-9.5 mag, respectively. The effective radii of the candidates are larger than ~200 pc. The radial number density of the dwarf galaxy candidates from the center of NGC 2784 is decreasing. The mean color (<(B-V)0>~0.7) and$S{\acute{e}}rsic$ structure parameters of the dwarfs, assuming them to be located in the NGC 2784 group, are well consistent with those of the dwarf galaxies in other groups (e.g. M83 group and the Local Group (LG)). The faint-end slope of the cumulative luminosity function (CLF) of the galaxies in NGC 2784 group is about${\alpha}=-1.2$ , which is steeper than that of the LG galaxies, but is much flatter than that of the CLF expected by a${\Lambda}CDM$ model. -
Lee, JaeHyung;Lee, Myung Gyoon;lim, Sungsoon;Sohn, Jubee;Jang, In Sung;Ryu, Jinhyuk;Lee, wang-Ho;Ko, Youkyung;Lee, Jung Hwan 53.3
We present a preliminary result of the Fornax cluster survey as a part of the KMTNet Intensive Nearby Southern Galaxy Group Survey (KINGS). We discovered about 200 new dwarf galaxy candidates from the survey of the$8^{\circ}{\times}6^{\circ}$ area around the Fornax cluster. They have magnitudes ranging from V=17.5 to 22 mag (Mv = -13.8 to -9.3), and they are almost complete to V = 20 mag. Surface brightness profiles of most of these galaxies are fit well by a Sersic law with n ~ 1.0. Structural parameters of these galaxies follow well the scaling relations of dwarf galaxies in the fundamental plane. The color-magnitude diagram of these galaxies shows that they are mostly located at the faint end of the red sequence, indicating that they are the probable member of the Fornax cluster. We also derive a luminosity function of the Fornax cluster by combining the new galaxies with the known galaxies in the previous catalogs. We will discuss the future of the KINGS-Fornax. -
Multi-wavelength variability is a staple of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Optical variability probes the nature of the central engine of AGN at smaller linear scales than conventional imaging and spectroscopic techniques. Previous studies have shown that optical variability is more prevalent at longer timescales and at shorter wavelengths. Intra-night variability can be explained through the damped random walk model but small samples and inhomogeneous data have made constraining this model hard. To understand the properties and physical mechanism of intra-night optical variability, we are performing the KMTNet Active Nuclei Variability Survey (KANVaS). Using KMTNet, we aim to study the intra-night variability of ~1000 AGN at a magnitude depth of ~19mag in R band over a total area of
${\sim}24deg^2$ on the sky. Test data in the COSMOS, XMM-LSS, and S82-2 fields was obtained over 4, 6, and 8 nights respectively during 2015, in B, V, R, and I bands. Each night was composed of 5-13 epoch with ~30 min cadence and 80-120 sec exposure times. As a pilot study, we analyzed data in the COSMOS field where we reach a magnitude depth of ~19.5 in R band (at S/N~100) with seeing varying between 1.5-2.0 arcsec. We used the Chandra-COSMOS catalog to identify 166 AGNs among 549 AGNs at B<23. We performed differential photometry between the selected AGN and nearby stars, achieving photometric uncertainty ~0.01mag. We employ various standard time-series analysis tools to identify variable AGN, including the chi-square test. Preliminarily results indicate that intra-night variability is found for ~17%, 17%, 8% and 7% of all X-ray selected AGN in the B, V, R, and I band, respectively. The majority of the identified variable AGN are classified as Type 1 AGN, with only a handful of Type 2 AGN showing evidence for variability. The work done so far confirms there are more variable AGN at shorter wavelengths and that intra-night variability most likely originates in the accretion disk of these objects. We will briefly discuss the quality of the data, challenges we encountered, solutions we employed for this work, and our updated future plans. -
Moon, Hong-Kyu;Kim, Myung-Jin;Roh, Dong-Goo;Park, Jintae;Yim, Hong-Suh;Choi, Young-Jun;Bae, Young-Ho;Lee, Hee-Jae;Oh, Young-Seok 54.2
Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) is the first optical survey system of its kind in a way that three KMTNet observatories are longitudinally well-separated, and thus have the benefit of 24-hour continuous monitoring of the southern sky. The wide-field and round-the-clock operation capabilities of this network facility are ideal for survey and the physical characterization of small Solar System bodies. We obtain their orbits, absolute magnitudes (H), three dimensional shape models, spin periods and spin states, activity levels based on the time-series broadband photometry. Their approximate surface mineralogy is also identified using colors and band slopes. The automated observation scheduler, the data pipeline, the dedicated computing facility, related research activity and the team members are collectively called 'DEEP-South' (DEep Ecliptic Patrol of Southern sky). DEEP-South observation is being made during the off-season for exoplanet search, yet part of the telescope time is shared in the period between when the Galactic bulge rises early in the morning and sets early in the evening. We present here the observation mode, strategy, software, test runs, early results, and the future plan of DEEP-South. -
Yim, Hong-Suh;Kim, Myung-Jin;Roh, Dong-Goo;Park, Jintae;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Choi, Young-Jun;Bae, Young-Ho;Lee, Hee-Jae;Oh, Young-Seok 54.3
DEEP-South Scheduling and Data reduction System (DS SDS) consists of two separate software subsystems: Headquarters (HQ) at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), and SDS Data Reduction (DR) at Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). HQ runs the DS Scheduling System (DSS), DS database (DB), and Control and Monitoring (C&M) designed to monitor and manage overall SDS actions. DR hosts the Moving Object Detection Program (MODP), Asteroid Spin Analysis Package (ASAP) and Data Reduction Control & Monitor (DRCM). MODP and ASAP conduct data analysis while DRCM checks if they are working properly. The functions of SDS is three-fold: (1) DSS plans schedules for three KMTNet stations, (2) DR performs data analysis, and (3) C&M checks whether DSS and DR function properly. DSS prepares a list of targets, aids users in deciding observation priority, calculates exposure time, schedules nightly runs, and archives data using Database Management System (DBMS). MODP is designed to discover moving objects on CCD images, while ASAP performs photometry and reconstructs their lightcurves. Based on ASAP lightcurve analysis and/or MODP astrometry, DSS schedules follow-up runs to be conducted with a part of, or three KMTNet telescopes. -
Kim, Myung-Jin;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Choi, Young-Jun;Yim, Hong-Suh;Park, Jintae;Roh, Dong-Goo;Lee, Hee-Jae;Oh, Young-Seok 55.1
Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) population has attracted keen attention not only from the scientific community but from the general public ever since their terrestrial impact risk achieved wide recognition. Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), the subset of NEAs, recently became the center of interest of planetary defense folks and mining industry due to their proximity to, and the potential effects on planet Earth. However, we have long been ignorant about either the physical properties or dynamical source regions of individual objects. For instance, their rotational periods are only known for five percent of the total population (The NEA Database of DLR, updated on Feb 2016). The primary scientific objective of DEEP-South (DEep Ecliptic Patrol of the Southern sky) is to physically characterize 70 percent of km-class PHAs until 2019. In order to achieve this goal, we implemented an observation mode so-called "OC (Opposition Census)" targeting objects around opposition. OC observations were conducted during the period between Feb 2015 and Mar 2016, at CTIO in early periods, and at three KMTNet stations (CTIO, SSO and SAAO) since late July 2015, excluding the "bulge season" when the telescope time is exclusively used for exoplanet search. We present the preliminary lightcurves of 66 PHAs and 59 NEAs that we obtained during the OC runs. -
Lee, Hee-Jae;Kim, Myung-Jin;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Park, Jintae;Kim, Chun-Hwey;Choi, Young-Jun;Yim, Hong-Suh;Roh, Dong-Goo;Oh, Young-Seok 55.2
The spin states of asteroids is regarded as an important clue to understand not only the physical property of an individual object but also the dynamical evolution of the of the population as a whole. Single asteroids can be broadly classified into two separate groups according to their rotational states; Principal Axis (PA) and Non-Principal Axis (NPA) rotators. To date, lightcurve observations have been carried out mostly for PA asteroids. However, discovery of NPA objects has recently been increased due to new observing techniques, and this is the reason why rotational properties of NPA rotators became an issue. As a DEEP-South pilot study for NPA, we selected two targets, 5247 Krolv (1982 UP6) and 14764 Kilauea (7072 P-L) considering their Principal Axis Rotation (PAR) code and visibility. Observations were made between Jan. and Feb. 2016 for 17 nights employing Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) 1.6 m telescopes installed at SSO and SAAO using DEEP-South TO (Target of Opportunity) mode. To obtain lightcurves, we conducted time-series photometry using Johnson-Cousins R-filter. Multi-band photometry was also made with BVRI filters at the same time, for taxonomy. Their preliminary lightcurves and approximate mineralogy will be presented. -
Roh, Dong-Goo;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Kim, Myung-Jin;Park, Jintae;Choi, Young-Jun;Yim, Hong-Suh;Lee, Hee-Jae;Oh, Young-Suk 56.1
Surface mineralogy of asteroids are inferred from photometric and spectroscopic observations with the wide range of wavelengths spanning from far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared. We classify mineralogy of those objects based on their spectral absorption features and spectral slopes. Based on overall spectral shapes, mineralogical classes are divided into three broad complexes; silicates (S), carbonaceous (C) and Vestoids (V), and the end-members that do not fit within the S, C and V broad-complexes. Each of them is subdivided into individual classes. Spectral classification of asteroidal objects has been simply represented by a combination of photometric colors. For a decade, photometric data of asteroids have been grouped and classified according to their SDSS colors converted from the spectral taxonomy. However, systematic studies for asteroid taxonomy based on Johnson-Cousins filters is few, and were conducted only with a small number of objects. In this paper, we present our preliminary results for taxonomic classification of Main Belt asteroids based on KMTNet Johnson-Cousins photometric color system. -
Chang, Seo-Won;Byun, Yong-Ik;Kim, Myung-Jin;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Yim, Hong-Suh;Shin, Min-Su;Kang, Young-Woon 56.2
We present a multi-aperture photometry pipeline for DEEP-South (Deep Ecliptic Patrol of the Southern Sky) time-series data, written in C. The pipeline is designed to do robust high-precision photometry and calibration of non-crowded fields with a varying point-spread function, allowing for the wholesale search and characterization of both temporal and spatial variabilities. Our time-series photometry method consists of three parts: (i) extracting all point sources with several pixel/blind parameters, (ii) determining the optimized aperture for each source where we consider whether the measured flux within the aperture is contaminated by unwanted artifacts, and (iii) correcting position-dependent variations in the PSF shape across the mosaic CCD. In order to provide faster access to the resultant catalogs, we also utilize an efficient indexing technique using compressed bitmap indices (FastBit). Lastly, we focus on the development and application of catalog-based searches that aid the identification of high-probable single events from the indexed database. This catalog-based approach is still useful to identify new point-sources or moving objects in non-crowded fields. The performance of the pipeline is being tested on various sets of time-series data available in several archives: DEEP-South asteroid survey and HAT-South/MMT exoplanet survey data sets. -
북한의 과학기술은 전반 수준이 낮은 것으로 평가 받고 있으나 국방 및 기초과학 영역에서는 높게 평가받는 부분도 있다. 북한 정권의 과학기술 중시 사상에 따라 과학기술자의 우대 정책은 현 김정은 시대에 더 강조되고 있다. 북한의 과학기술은 현장 중심으로 진행되는 게 큰 특징이다. 식량과 에너지 문제 해소를 위한 과학기술자의 현장동원 등과 함께, 이른바 강성국가 건설의 경제발전 핵심전략으로 '최신 과학기술에 기초한 현대화 실현'을 강조하고 있다. 북한의 과학원통보 등 학술지와 국제 학술논문 그리고 발명 특허, 북한의 언론매체 등을 통해 북한의 과학기술에 대한 전반적인 활동 상황과 최근의 흐름을 살펴본다.
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남북한 천문분야 과학기술협력을 위한 천문분야 활성화 및 협력 방안 연구를 수행하고 있다. 천문학은 과학기술분야 중 남북한 상호 신뢰구축과 민족 동질성 회복에 기여할 수 있는 순수 기초학문으로, 이 과제를 통해 단절된 남북한 천문분야 활성화 및 협력을 기대하고 있다. 또한 통일 후 남북한 천문학 공동 연구를 위한 토대를 마련하고자 한다. 이를 위해 북한의 천문학 연구 인력, 관측기기, 연구 활동 등 인프라를 조사하고 북한 천문학자와의 교류를 위한 접근 방안, 남북한 교류 가능한 천문분야 발굴, 남북한 천문학자 교류를 위한 국제협력 루트를 개발하고자 한다. 분단 후 현재까지 남북 교류의 단절로 북한 천문학자와의 교류는 전무한 실정으로 많은 어려움이 예상되나 중국, 몽골, 스웨덴, 네덜란드 등 국제협력을 통한 네트워크를 마련하여 남북 천문분야 협력방안 및 활성화를 위한 기반을 구축하고자 한다.
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전통천문학은 우리 역사에 남아 있는 대표적 과학자산이며 현대 천문학적 자료로 활용이 가능한 문화유산이다. 우리나라에는 역사시대 이전부터 조선시대까지 고대 별자리 그림을 비롯해 천문관측기록과 천문대 등 다양한 천문자산이 전해지고 있다. 오랜 시간 여러 전란과 일제 강점시기를 거치며 많은 자료가 소실되었지만 한반도의 남과북에는 여전히 많이 천문유산이 남아 있다. 천문역사를 공유하고 있는 남북한 천문학자들이 전통천문학을 함께 연구해야 하는 이유이기도 하다. 현재 남북한의 전통천문학분야 협력 방안에 대한 기획연구를 진행 중이다. 북한 천문학자들은 지난 2012년 IAU GA를 기점으로 다시 국제 학술 활동을 이어가고 있으며 2015년 IAU GA에서는 전통천문 분야를 비롯해 두 편의 연구 결과를 발표하였다. 남북한 공동 연구를 위해서는 북한의 전통천문학 연구와 국제 학술교류 현황에 대한 이해가 선행되어야 한다. 본 발표에서는 지금까지 조사한 북한의 전통천문 연구 현황과 대외 학술교류 현황에 대해 보고하고 향후 남북한 공동연구를 위한 방법과 연구 주제에 대해서 발표하고자 한다.
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한국천문연구원에서는 남북 천문분야 과학기술협력 활성화를 위하여 전파천문학을 포함하여 몇 몇 천문학 분야에 대한 협력방안을 모색하고 있다. 전파천문학의 경우, 현재 운영중인 한국우주전파관측망(KVN)의 확장을 통한 남북협력 방안을 고려하고 있다. KVN 초기 계획에서는 북한의 평양과 나진-선봉 경제특구 인근에 2기의 전파망원경을 건설하는 것이 고려되었다. 현재 3기의 전파망원경 구성된 KVN에 북한 2기가 추가된다면, 3배 이상의 기선수 증가와 2배의 분해능 향상, 그리고 전체적인 VLBI 감도가 30% 이상 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 특히, KVN의 가장 큰 특징인 고파수 VLBI 관측은 현재 협력 가능한 전파망원경이 거의 전무하기 때문에, 이러한 확장을 통하여 독보적인 전파간섭계 시스템 구축과 함께, 이를 활용한 과학연구에 크게 기여할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다. 본 발표에서는 남북 전파천문학분야 협력의 현실과 미래를 전망해보고, 가능한 방안을 논의하고자 한다.
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We analyze an optical system of a telescope based on Fresnel type objective lens as suggested by Hyde (1999). The Fresnel objective lens can be thin, light-weight and foldable, and therefore it is possible to develop a space telescope with an aperture larger than that of traditional telescopes. Moreover a lens, whatever it is either Fresnel type or conventional, allows much larger fabrication tolerances. We design a medium-sized telescope adopting Fresnel lens as an objective lens for use in space and possibly on the ground. The well-known chromatic aberration of the Fresnel primary lens is corrected by a field lens and another Fresnel lens using Schupmann method. An additional lens is used for forming images. We analyze the chromatic and off-axis aberrations of the proposed system analytically and suggest methods for the minimization of off-axis aberrations and for the operation in wider spectral range. We also conduct ray tracing and optimize the whole optical system with commercial software. Finally we present the design parameters of a telescope with an aperture of 0.5 to 1 meters, enabling diffraction limited operation for a moderate field of view about 10 arc-minutes.
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Hwang, Narae;Kim, Minjin;Lee, Jae-Joon;Kim, Hwihyun;Lee, Ho-Gyu;Yang, Soung-Chul;Park, Byeong-Gon 58.1
K-GMT Science Program, operated by Center for Large Telescopes (CfLAT) in Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), aims to promote the scientific researches by providing the access to the observational facilities such as 4-8m class telescopes and specialized instruments. In 2016, we plan to make various instruments with MMT and Gemini Observatory as well as IGRINS with 2.7m HJS Telescope in McDonald Observatory available to Korean Astronomical Community. We will present the current status and future prospect as well as some early results made from the K-GMT Science Program in past years. -
Jeong, Woong-Seob;Park, Sung-Joon;Moon, Bongkon;Lee, Dae-Hee;Park, Won-Kee;Lee, Duk-Hang;Ko, Kyeongyeon;Pyo, Jeonghyun;Kim, Il-Joong;Park, Youngsik;Nam, Ukwon;Kim, Minjin;Ko, Jongwan;Im, Myungshin;Lee, Hyung Mok;Lee, Jeong-Eun;Shin, Goo-Hwan;Chae, Jangsoo;Matsumoto, Toshio 58.2
The NISS (Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Star formation history) onboard NEXTSat-1 is the near-infrared instrument optimized to the first small satellite of NEXTSat series. The capability of both imaging and low spectral resolution spectroscopy with the Field of View of$2{\times}2deg.$ in the near-infrared range from 0.9 to$3.8{\mu}m$ is a unique function of the NISS. The major scientific mission is to study the cosmic star formation history in local and distant universe. The Flight Model of the NISS is being developed and tested. After an integration into NEXTSat-1, it will be tested under the space environment. The NISS will be launched in 2017 and it will be operated during 2 years. As an extension of the NISS, SPEHREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) is the NASA SMEX (SMall EXploration) mission proposed together with KASI (PI Institute: Caltech). It will perform an all-sky near-infrared spectral survey to probe the origin of our Universe; explore the origin and evolution of galaxies, and explore whether planets around other stars could harbor life. The SPHEREx is designed to have wider FoV of$3.5{\times}7deg.$ as well as wider spectral range from 0.7 to$4.8{\mu}m$ . After passing the first selection process, SPHEREx is under the Phase-A study. The final selection will be made in the end of 2016. Here, we report the current status of the NISS and SPHEREx missions. -
동아시아 VLBI 관측망(the East-Asian VLBI Network; EAVN)은 한 중 일 각국의 전파망원경을 통합해서 구성되는 동아시아 지역의 새로운 VLBI 관측망이다. EAVN의 주된 관측주파수는 6.7, 8, 22, 43 GHz이고 최고 공간분해능은 약 0.6 mas이다. 우리는 EAVN의 성능검증을 목적으로 하는 국제연구팀을 구성하고 2013년부터 2015년까지 주로 8, 22 GHz로의 프린지검출 시험관측을 실행해왔다. 이들의 결과에 의거해서 작년말부터 앞으로의 EAVN 어레이 공개를 목표로 할 영상합성 시험관측을 시작하였다. 첫 번째 시험관측은 한 중 일 9개의 안테나를 이용해서 2015년12월13일에 8 GHz로 실시하였다, 관측 천체는 밝은 활동성 은하핵인 4C 39.25이고, 국제간 기선에서 성공적으로 프린지를 검출하였다. 우리는 올해부터 100 시간 이상을 이용해서 상기 네 주파수로의 영상합성 시험관측을 실시할 계획이고, 2017년 후반기부터 부분적인 공개관측을 시작할 예정이다. 이 발표에서는 주로 EAVN의 현황과 상기 영상합성 시험관측의 결과에 관해서 보고한다.
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2000년대에 들어오면서 우리나라에는 대전, 영월, 김해를 시작으로 많은 시민천문대가 생겨나면서 지방자치단체에서 건립한 시민천문대 외에도 다양한 형태로 시민들이 이용할 수 있는 천문대가 생겨났다. 현재 전국적으로 파악되는 공립, 사립 천문대의 수가 50개를 훨씬 넘으며, 이 가운데 약 절반은 지방자치단체에서 건립한 시민천문대이다. 그러나 이런 시대의 흐름에도 불구하고 인구 350만인 거대도시 부산에는 제대로 된 시민천문대가 아직 없는 실정이다. 수도권의 경우 서울시청을 기준으로 접근거리 150km이내의 시민천문대는 최소 15개가 넘으며, 사설 천문대 등을 합하면 이 수치의 2~3배에 달한다. 한국천문학회는 부산시민의 전폭적인 지원에 힘입어 2021년 제 31차 국제천문연맹총회(IAUGA 2021)를 부산으로 유치하는데 성공하였다. 부산시는 과학문화도시로서 시민의 과학대중화 사업, 특히 천문학 관련 교육과 홍보에 심혈을 기울여 왔으며, IAUGA2021의 부산 개최를 맞이하여 세계적인 과학도시로 성장할 계기를 마련하게 되었다. 21세계 우주시대를 살아가는 선진 시민으로서 350만 부산 시민의 우주에 대한 호기심을 충족시켜주며 청소년에게 현대적인 우주관을 교육할 수 있는 시민천문대의 건립을 제안한다. 구경 1m 급 주망원경을 갖춘 천문돔, 다수의 보조망원경을 갖춘 관측실, 천체투영관, 강의동 등으로 구성될 부산 시민천문대는 부산뿐만 아니라 과학문화가 상대적으로 낙후된 동남권 지역의 천문학 교육을 위한 중추적인 과학문화시설이 될 것으로 기대한다.
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Kim, Kang-Min;Park, Chan;Chun, Moo Young;Kim, Jihun;Oh, Jae Sok;Park, Sung-Joon;Jang, Jeong Gyun;Jang, Bi Ho;Lee, Sungho;Oh, Heeyoung;Yuk, In Soo 59.2
보현산천문대가 준공되면서, 1.8 m 망원경이 연구자들에게 공개된지 20년이 되었다. 당시 보현산 천문대의 연구자들은 1.8 m 망원경을 도약망원경이라 부르면서, 우리나라 천문학의 비약적인 발전의 토대가 되기를 희망하였다. 보현산천문대 10주년 기념 담양 워크샵에서 BOES의 성과를 발표한 이후 10년 동안, 천문연구원 광학천문기술 그룹에서는 BOES 편광분광기와 IGRINS를 개발 완료하였으며, GMTNIRS의 개념설계와 GCLEF의 기본설계가 진행되었다. 여기에서는 그동안 개발된 고분산 천체분광기 프로젝트의 성과를 정리하고, 앞으로의 계획을 논의한다. -
Lee, Byeong-Cheol;Han, Inwoo;Kim, Kang-Min;Park, Myeong-Gu;Jeong, Gwanghui;Mkrtichian, David;Omiya, Masashi;Hatzes, Artie 59.3
We report the results of search for exoplanets by a precise radial velocity (RV) survey by using the high-resolution spectroscopy of the fiber-fed Bohyunsan Observatory Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO). Since 2003, we have conducted a precise RV survey for ~500 stars, including 55 K giants, ~200 G giants, 10 M giants, 40 K dwarfs, and ~200 northern circumpolar stars. We present the detection of around 20 new exoplanets and brown dwarfs. -
One important aspect of the late stage stellar evolution is the mass loss processes, where a significant amount of stellar material will be returned to the interstellar space to be used for stars of the next generation. Raman scattered O VI and He II by atomic hydrogen in symbiotic stars and young planetary nebulae are found to be excellent tools to investigate the mass loss processes and estimate the mass loss rate. These features appear near hydrogen Balmer emission lines due to the huge cross section in the vicinity of Lyman resonance transitions. With the capability of high spectral resolution and broad spectral coverage, BOES is an ideal instrument to perform Raman spectroscopy of these objects. In this talk, a cursory overview of our research activities on Raman spectroscopy of symbiotics and PNe using the BOES is presented.
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Lee, Jeong-Eun;Park, Sunkyung;Yoon, Sung-Yong;Lee, Sang-Gak;Kang, Wonseok;Sung, Hyun-Il;Park, Won-Kee;Yoon, Tae Seog;Cho, Dong-Hwan;Park, Keun-Hong 60.1
태양과 같은 별의 형성기작은 질량이 큰 별의 형성기작에 비해 비교적 잘 연구되어 왔다고는 하지만, 이 또한 온전한 이해와는 거리가 먼 상황이며 여전히 논란의 대상이다. IRAS, Spitzer와 같은 적외선우주망원경으로 얻어진 원시성의 광도함수는 일반적으로 받아들여졌던 별탄생 이론으로 설명되지 못한다는 것이 밝혀졌고, 이에 새로운 별탄생 이론이 필요하게 되었다. 새롭게 받아들여지고 있는 별탄생 모델은 Episodic Accretion 모델로서, 원시행성계원반에서 원시성으로 질량 강착이 간헐적이면서 폭발적으로 일어난다는 것이다. 이러한 모델의 관측적 증거의 하나는 FU Orionis와 같은 천체로서, T-Tauri 단계에 있는 원시성이 본래의 밝기보다 약 100배, 즉 가시광에서 5등급 이상 폭발적으로 밝아진 천체이다. 질량강착의 과정은 행성형성의 초기조건을 결정하는 원시행성계원반의 물리적, 화학적 특성을 결정하므로, 그 이해가 중요하다. 따라서 본 연구팀은 Episodic Accretion이 원시행성계원반과 원시항성풍의 형성과 진화에 어떤 역할을 하는지 연구하기 위하여, 보현산 천문대의 고분산 분광기인 BOES를 이용하여, 최근에 폭발을 일으킨 원시성인 HBC 722와 2MASS J06593158-0405277을 모니터링 관측을 해왔으며, 이전에 알려진 6개의 FU Orionis 형 천체들도 관측하였다. 여기서는 그 결과를 발표하고자 한다. -
Oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binaries (oEA) are very interesting objects that have three observational features of eclipse, pulsation, and mass transfer. Direct measurement of their masses and radii from the double-lined radial velocity (RV) data and photometric light curves would be the most essential for understanding their evolutionary process and for performing the asteroseismological study. However, only handful oEA stars were studied in detail. To advance this subject, we have been obtaining high-resolution spectra for several oEA stars using Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph (BOES). In this presentation, we present our results such as the accurate absolute parameters and evolutionary states for each object, based on the simultaneous analyses of the light and RV curves.
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보현산천문대가 준공되던 1996년부터 2000년까지 약 5년간 1.8m 망원경과 CCD 카메라를 이용하여 10개 이상의 산개성단에 대한 시계열 측광관측을 수행하였다. 이로부터 변광 진폭이 비교적 큰 식쌍성뿐만 아니라, 여러 개의 주기가 중첩되어 광도변화가 불규칙하면서도 진폭이 작아서 이전에 관측하기 어려웠던 산개성단내 맥동변광성들을 많이 발견하는 성과를 거두었다. 또한 2001년부터 현재까지 맥동변광성의 국제공동관측에 참여하고 있다. Delta Scuti형 맥동변광성이나 맥동백색왜성의 경우는 다수의 맥동주기를 검출하여 별의 내부구조를 추정할 수 있는 성진연구가 활발한데, 이를 위해서는 경도가 다른 여러 천문대에서 공동으로 관측함으로써 24시간 연속 자료를 얻는 것이 매우 중요하다. 우리나라가 위치한 경도대에는 2m급의 천체망원경이 드물기 때문에, 보현산천문대에서 얻은 관측 자료가 맥동변광성의 국제공동연구에 크게 기여하였다. 이번 발표에서는 보현산천문대 1.8m 망원경으로 얻은 변광천체의 시계열 측광관측 연구에 대해 돌이켜 보고, 앞으로의 연구 계획을 제시하고자 한다.
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보현산천문대의 기후 환경을 고려할 때 표준화 관측에 의한 측광연구는 정밀한 표준계 변환에 어려움이 많다. 하지만 변광성 연구와 관련한 측광 관측 연구는 많은 실적을 이루었다. 변광성 관측 연구는 상대적인 밝기 변화만 고려하면 되기 때문에 대기변화 또는 시상 변화 등에 비교적 덜 민감하여 분광관측과 더불어 보현산천문대에서 연구결과를 얻을 수 있는 좋은 주제이다. 지난 20년간 보현산천문대의 망원경을 이용한 성단내 변광성 탐사에 대하여 측광관측 연구를 바탕으로 전체적인 내용을 정리하고, 앞으로의 연구 방향과 가능성에 대해 발표한다.
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As a new way to explore the universe, astronomers are now performing time-domain astronomy by surveying the universe looking for new transient phenomena and taking movies of the universe with telescopes. Large-area, time-series survey of astronomical objects are uncovering many interesting, fast-changing objects that have now been poorly understood before, such as GRBs, tidal disruption phenomena, and new types of supernova. In order to characterize these new, exciting events, it is very critical to perform follow-up observations, and 1-2m telescopes can effectively contribute to such efforts. Since 2007, our group has been performing follow-up observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and interesting transients using BOAO and other KASI facilities. Here, we present results from several key transient studies that were done by using BOAO: (1) tidal disruption event Swift J1644+57; (2) SN 2011fe that occurred in M101; and (3) several GRB events. These study demonstrates the usefulness of BOAO as a powerful transient follow-up facility. Finally, we will discuss how BOAO research activities can possibly be bolstered in this newly emerging field of astronomy.
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우리는 1997년부터 현재까지 보현산천문대 1.8 미터 망원경과 이 망원경에 부착한 1K CCD, 2K CCD와 4K CCD를 이용하여 가까운 북반구 구상성단에 대하여 (U)BVI CCD 측광 관측을 수행해오고 있다. 2K CCD를 통한 관측 자료를 통해서 우리는 북반구 구상성단 M3, M13, M15, M53과 M92의 정밀한 색-등급도를 도출할 수 있었다. 이 색-등급도를 통해서 M3, M13, M15와 M92의 경우는 밝은 계열 별(특히 점근거성가지별)의 특성 및 종족비(R과 R2)와 적색거성가지별의 광도함수를 유도하였고, M53과 M92의 경우는 상대나이를 유도함으로써 구상성단의 제 2 계수 문제를 규명하고자 하였다. 우리는 추가로 북반구 구상성단 M5, M10과 M71의 정밀한 색-등급도를 도출하여 밝은 계열 별의 특성을 규명하고 적색거성가 지별의 광도함수를 유도함으로써 종족 II 항성의 진화 문제를 연구하고자 한다. 현재 운영 중인 4K CCD를 통해서 구상성단 M2, M3, M5, M13, M15, M53, M71과 M92를 관측하고 있으며 2K CCD 경우보다 어두운 주계열성까지의 측광 자료 도출에 주목적이 있다(
$V{\approx}23$ 등급까지). 도출한 측광 자료를 2K CCD 측광 자료와 결합하여 북반구 구상성단 구성별의 고유운동 자료를 도출하고자 하며 이의 활용 방안에 대하여 논의하고자 한다. 더불어 그 동안 보현산천문대에서의 관측 여건에 대해서도 논의하고자 한다. -
An asteroid family is a group of asteroidal objects in the proper orbital element space (a, e, and i), considered to have been produced by a disruption of a large parent body through a catastrophic collision. Family members usually have similar surface properties such as spectral taxonomy types, colors, and visible geometric albedo with a same dynamical age. Therefore an asteroid family could be called as a natural Solar System laboratory and is also regarded as a powerful tool to investigate space weathering and non-gravitational phenomena such as the Yarkovsky/YORP effects. We carry out time series photometric observations for a number of asteroid families to obtain their physical properties, including sizes, shapes, rotational periods, spin axes, colors, and H-G parameters based on nearly round-the-clock observations, using several 0.5-2 meter class telescopes in the Northern hemisphere, including BOAO 1.8 m, LOAO 1.0 m, SOAO 0.6 m facilities in KASI, McDonald Observatory 2.1 m instrument, NARIT 2.4 m and TUG 1.0 m telescopes. This study is expected to find, for the first time, some important clues on the collisional history in our Solar System and the mechanisms where the family members are being transported from the resonance regions in the Main-belt to the near Earth space.
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일성정시의는 표준시보장치인 보루각루의 시각을 교정하는 천문시계로 알려져 있다. "세종실록"에 기록된 김돈(金墩,1385~1440)의 일성정시의(日星定時儀)의 서(序)와 명(銘)에는 기기의 상세한 구조와 치수, 그리고 사용법을 소개하고 있다. 우리는 실록의 기록을 분석하여 세 종류의 일성정시의로 구분하였다. 또한 Needham et al. (1986)의 연구와 비교하여 일구백각환, 성구백각환, 주천도분환, 계형 등의 사용법을 분석하였다. 우리는 이러한 분석을 통해 해시계와 별시계로써의 일성정시의의 시간 측정 정밀도를 제시하였다.
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1900년대 초에 발행된 천문학 서적 2권을 중심으로 사용된 천문학 용어를 현재와 비교분석하는 연구를 진행하였다. 우리는 두 서적에 사용된 용어에서 천문학용어, 화학원소 용어, 인물 및 지명 용어로 나누어서 현재의 과학용어사전과 비교하였다. 지금까지 사용되는 용어와 지금은 사용하지 않는 용어, 그리고 의미는 동일하지만 변화를 보인 용어로 나누어 분석하였다. 한 권의 천문학 서적에는 영어 색인이 포함되어 있어, 그 기준으로 현재와 비교하고, 나머지 천문학 서적은 본문에 나온 용어를 추려서 비교하였다. 용어를 통해서 두 권의 서적이 다른 경로로 수입 번역되었음을 알 수 있었고, 현재와 같이 용어의 통일이 없었다는 점에서 당시 천문학 교육의 한계점이 드러났다. 이 연구는 당시의 천문학 서적이나 관련 서적을 연구할 때, 한자 표기 없이 영어 어휘를 음차하여 표기된 용어를 동정하는데 도움을 줄 것으로 보인다.
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NYSC 1m telescope is completely assembled now, and equipped with FLI PL-16803 4k CCD and Shelyak eShel spectrograph (R~10,000) on optical system of f/8. From 12th Jan 2016, optical system alignment and test observations have been performed. We present the result of M35 photometric observation for the performance test of the 1m telescope. The photometric observation was carried out for the central part of M35 with the field of view,
${\sim}15^{\prime}.8{\times}15^{\prime}.8$ . Standard transformation to the UBVI system was done by the photometric data of M35 in Sung and Bessell(1999). -
이상현;이경훈;이은정;박주현;장규빈;이동호;조현규;이민욱;김가형;구민준;설진우;김동주;김강진;박규태;김도훈;김도윤;이수민;문성경;신라엘;최준영;안재형;최원석;김치영;박정현;조세현;신관훈 63.4
본 발표에서는 DSLR 카메라와 CCD를 이용하여 과학고등학교의 R&E교육과정에서 수행한 몇 가지 실험과 그 결과를 소개한다. DSLR 카메라와 SQM을 이용한 밤하늘 특성 분석, CCD를 이용한 고유운동 측정, DSLR을 이용한 산개성단의 측광, CCD를 이용한 산개성단의 측광과 이를 통한 산개성단의 질량분리와 역학적 진화에 대한 연구이다. 실험은 부산일과학고, 울산과학고, 부산과학고에서 수행되었으며, 모든 실험의 결과는 학생들이 직접 관측한 결과를 바탕으로 이루어졌다. 본 실험의 방법과 과정은 일선 학교에서 응용하여 활용될 수 있으며, 실험의 결과는 향후 유사한 실험 교육을 수행할 때 기초 자료로 활용되어 질 수 있다. -
YAM (Young Astronomers Meeting, 젊은 천문학자들의 모임)과 We Love Galaxies는 인적/학문적 네트워크가 중요시되는 시대의 흐름에 발맞춰 국내 천문학 전공 대학원생들을 위한 워크샵인 "2016 YAM & We Love Galaxies 공동 워크샵"을 강촌에서 개최하였습니다. 2016년 2월 24일부터 26일까지 2박 3일간 개최된 이번 워크샵에는 총 35명의 대학원생/학부생/박사후연구원이 참가하였고, 전원 포스터 발표를 통해 참여 학생 모두가 자신의 연구주제를 자유롭게 소개하고 교류할 수 있도록 하였습니다. 뿐만 아니라 대학원 생활 및 연구 활동에 관련된 9개의 주제를 가지고 조별 토론을 진행하였습니다. 본 발표에서는 "2016 YAM & We Love Galaxies 공동 워크샵" 의 성과와 학생들로부터 받은 피드백을 소개하고 대학원생 워크샵이 나아가야 할 방향에 대해 제시하고자 합니다.
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지난 2015년 4월, 젊은 천문학자 모임(Young Astronomers Meeting, YAM)은 봄 정기총회를 가졌고 2015-16 시즌을 위한 임원진으로 회장 현민희, 부회장 안성호, 총무 박진태가 선출되었다. 이 외에도 각 학교별 운영위원으로 경북대학교 신지혜, 경희대학교 윤형식, 서울대학교 정하은, 세종대학교 허정은, 연세대학교 홍승수, 충남대학교 유현주, 과학기술연합대학원대학교 이혜란 회원이 활동 중이다. 현 임원진은 이번 임기 내 목표로 지금까지의 YAM 역사를 정리하고, 이를 공유할 수 있는 홈페이지를 구축하고자 하였다. YAM 역사 정리 부분에서는, 1991년 서울대학교에서 개최된 한국천문학회에서의 YAM 창단 이후의 모든 활동과 역대 임원진에 대한 서류 자료를 정리하고 홈페이지에 게시하였다. YAM 홈페이지 구축 부분에서는 지난 2015년 8월, 한국천문학회에 YAM 홈페이지 구축을 위한 제안서를 제출, 2016년 초에 학회의 승인을 받아 한국천문학회 홈페이지 서버에 YAM 홈페이지를 개설하였다. 이와 더불어 2016년 2월에 개최된 "2016 YAM & We Love Galaxies 공동 워크샵"을 통해 국내 대학원생들을 위한 워크샵을 개최하고 추후 지속적으로 진행할 수 있도록 노력하였다. 이번 포스터 발표를 통해 2015-16 시즌 동안의 활동 결과 보고와 2016-17 시즌 활동 계획을 논의할 것이다.
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Gravitational lensed quasar systems are usually modelled by a source quasar lensed by an isothermal sphere galaxy. But most galaxies are elliptical and have a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center. We study lensing by an ellipsoid with a central SMBH to investigate the additional lensing effects of a SMBH on the number, position, and magnification of lensed images. We apply the analysis to the observed lens system Q0957+561, and explore the possibility of testing the existence of SMBH at the center of the lensing galaxy.
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Observations of the early photons from evolution of optical afterglows or internal shock provides the crucial clues on the nature of the bursts and environments. Hundreds of GRBs afterglow observations in multi-wavelength region have been made mainly thanks to the fast (~ 60 seconds after the trigger) localisation GRB by Swift and its fast alert to the ground telescope. It helps to improve our understandings tremendously, however many enigmas still remain, such as burst mechanism, transition prompt emission to the afterglow, early optical flash, rise phase of the early optical light curve and some missing afterglows. They could be addressed by fast slewing and multi colour and IR follow-up by future telescopes. The primary aim of UFFO/Lomonosov is to follow up optical fast ever, within a couple of seconds after trigger by onboard X-ray telescope. Its optical FOV is
$30{\times}30degrees$ . As a key instrument, the Slewing Mirror to redirect the optical beam from GRBs rapidly to the Ritchey-Chretien telescope. The status and launch schedule of the UFFO/Lomonosov and its test performance will be reported and prospects for the next missions will be discussed. -
We present results of long-term multi-wavelength polarization observations of the powerful blazar 3C 279 after its
${\gamma}$ -ray flare on 2013 December 20. We followed up this flare by means of single-dish polarization observations with two 21-m telescopes of the Korean VLBI Network, carried out weekly from 2013 December 25 to January 11, and at 22, 43, and 86 GHz, simultaneously. These observations were part of the Monitoring Of GAmma-ray Bright AGNs (MOGABA) program. We Measured 3C 279 total flux densities at 22, 43, and 86 GHz, showing a mild variability of a factor of${\leq}50%$ over the period of our observations. The spectral index ranged from -0.13 to -0.36 at between 22 and 86 GHz. The degree of linear polarization was in the range of 6 ~ 12 %, and slightly decreased with time at all frequencies. We found Faraday rotation measures (RM) of -300 to$-1200rad\;m^{-2}$ between 22 and 43 GHz, and -800 to$-5100rad\;m^{-2}$ between 43 and 86 GHz. The RM values follow a power law${\mid}RM{\mid}{\propto}{\nu}^{\alpha}$ , with a mean${\alpha}$ of 2.2, implying that the polarized emission at these frequencies travels through a Faraday screen in or near the jet. We conclude that the regions emitting polarized radio emission may be different from the region responsible for the 2013 December${\gamma}$ -ray flare, and that these regions are maintained by the dominant magnetic field perpendicular to the direction of the radio jet at milliarcsecond scales. -
We present a new database of our two-dimensional bulge-disk decompositions for 14,482 galaxies drawn from SDSS DR12 in order to examine the properties of bulges residing in the local universe (0.005 < z < 0.05). We performed decompositions in g and r bands by utilizing the GALFIT software. The bulge colors and bulge-to-total ratios are found to be sensitive to the details in the decomposition technique. The g-r colors of bulges derived are almost constantly red regardless of bulge size except for the bulges in the low bulge-to-total ratio galaxies (approximately
$B/T_r{\leq}0.3$ ). Bulges exhibit similar scaling relations to those followed by elliptical galaxies, but the bulges in galaxies with lower bulge-to-total ratios clearly show a gradually larger departure in slope from the elliptical galaxy sequence. The scatters around the scaling relations are also larger for the bulges in galaxies with lower bulge-to-total ratios. Both the departure in slopes and larger scatters are likely originated from the presence of young stars. While bulges seem largely similar in optical properties to elliptical galaxies, they do show clear and systematic departures as a function of bulge-to-total ratio. The stellar properties and perhaps associated formation processes of bulges seem much more diverse than those of elliptical galaxies. -
Kim, Dae-Won;Trippe, Sascha;Park, Jong-Ho;Oh, Jung-Hwan;Lee, Tae-Seok;Lee, Sang-Sung;Algaba, Juan-Carlos;Zhao, Guangyao;Kino, Motoki;Wajima, Kiyoaki;Kang, Sin-Cheol;Kim, Jae-Young 66.1
We present our observational results of BL Lacertae(2200+420) obtained at 22, 43, 86, and 129 GHz simultaneously during 27 months(2013.Jan ~ 2015.Mar) which includes their two gamma-ray outbursts(2013.Oct & 2015.Mar) to study a connection between the gamma-ray outbursts and the radio activity. We mainly use a Korean VLBI monitoring program, IMOGABA(Interferometric Monitoring Of Gamma-ray Bright AGNs) which is a monthly monitoring program with the KVN(Korean VLBI Network). Overall, our KVN image shows two components in the map, a stationary core at the center and one moving jet component to the south, but almost core only at 86, 129 GHz. The location of the moving jet component in the maps depend on the frequencies that 22, 43, 86, and 129 GHz. We have checked light curves, spectral index, kinematics, and radio structure to find differences before and after the gamma-ray outbursts, but there was no significant correlation. We also have derived a decay time scale of ~9 months for the major radio outburst by applying an exponential decay fitting. -
Red quasars have been suspected to be an intermediate population between merger-driven star-forming galaxies and normal quasars. In this scenario, red quasars are expected to have dusty red color coming from the dust extinction by dust and gas in their host galaxy. However, several studies have proposed different explanation of the red color of red quasars, which are i) a moderate viewing angle between type 1 and 2 quasars, ii) an unusual covering factor of dust torus, and iii) an anomalous synchrotron emission with a peak at NIR wavelength. In this study, we investigate the factor leading to the red color of red quasars by using the line luminosity ratios of the hydrogen Balmer to Paschen series of 11 red quasars. We find the Pb/Hb luminosity ratios of the red quasars are significantly higher than those of normal quasars. Moreover, we compare the Pb/Hb luminosity ratios of the red quasars to the theoretically expected line luminosity ratios computed from the CLOUDY code. We find the line luminosity ratios of the red quasars cannot be explained by the theoretical line luminosity ratios with any physical conditions. We conclude that red color of red quasars comes from dust extinction by their host galaxy. This result is consistent with the picture that red quasars are an intermediate population between the merger-driven star-forming galaxies and normal quasars.
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We report preliminary results from our analyses on the star-forming galaxies in the Herschel/SPIRE survey data over the AKARI/NEP-Wide Field. In this work, we utilize a combination of the SPIRE point source catalogue containing ~ 4,800 sources distributed over the wide (5.6 sq. deg) field and the spectroscopic redshift (zSPEC) data for 1790 selected targets obtained by MMT/Hectospec and WIYN/Hydra. Our analyses take advantages of multi-wavelengths photometric data (28 bands at most) covering from u* to
$500{\mu}m$ band as well as continuous MIR wavelengths sampling by AKARI and WISE (4 to$25{\mu}m$ ). Various physical properties such as total infrared luminosity (LTIR), star formation rate (SFR), and luminosity functions (LFs) will be presented. -
Our recent investigation (Lee et al. 2015) suggests that the presence of double red clump in the Milky Way bulge is another manifestation of multiple populations observed in halo globular clusters. The origin of Helium enhancement in the 2nd generation population (G2), however, is not yet fully understood. Here we investigate the origin of this super-Helium-rich population in the framework of self-enrichment scenario. We find that chemical enrichments and pollutions by asymptotic giant branch stars and winds of massive rotating stars can naturally reproduce the observed Helium enhancement. The Helium to metal enrichment ratio appears to be
${\Delta}Y/{\Delta}Z=6$ for G2, while the standard ratio,${\Delta}Y/{\Delta}Z=2$ , is appropriate for G1, which is probably enriched mostly by typeII supernovae. -
We observed two star forming regions, N159 and N160, in the Large Magellanic Cloud with SIRPOL, the polarimeter of the Infrared Survey Facility (IRSF) in South Africa. The photometric and polarimetric observations are done in three near-infrared bands, J, H, and Ks. We measured Stokes parameters of point sources and calculated their degrees of polarization and polarization angles. The polarization vector map shows complex features associated with dust and gas structures. Overall features of the magnetic field in N159 and N160 regions are different from each other and appear to be related to local environments, such as interior and boundary of shell structure, existence of star-forming HII regions, and boundaries between HII regions and dense dark clouds. We discuss the relation between the structure of magnetic field and the local properties of dust and gas in N159 and N160 regions by comparing our polarization vector map with images of
$H{\alpha}$ , mid-infrared, and$^{12}CO$ emissions, respectively by WFI of MPG/ESO telescope, Spitzer IRAC, and NANTEN. -
SPT-CL J2106-5844 is known to be one of the most massive galaxy clusters (
$M_{200}{\sim}1.27{\times}10^{15}M_{sun}$ ) ever found at z > 1. Given its redshift (z ~ 1.132), the mass of this cluster estimated by Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray observation is too large compared with the current${\Lambda}CDM$ cosmology prediction. Mass estimation from these methods can be biased because they require assumptions on hydrostatic equilibrium, which are not guaranteed to hold at such high redshift (about 40% of the current age of the Universe). Thus, we need to verify the mass of this interesting cluster using gravitational lensing, which does not require such assumptions. In this work, we present our preliminary result of dark matter mass and its spatial mass distribution of SPT-CL J2106-5844 using weak-lensing analysis based on HST optical/NIR deep imaging data. We compare mass estimates from different sources and discuss cosmological implications. -
Kim, Taehyun;Gadotti, Dimitri A.;Athanassoula, Lia;Bosma, Albert;Sheth, Kartik;Lee, Myung Gyoon 67.3
We present evidence of the bar driven secular evolution on disks from z~0.8 to z~0.01. Using$3.6{\mu}m$ images of nearby galaxies from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) and images from the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), we find that barred galaxies show a light deficit in the disk surrounding the bar within the bar radius. We quantify this light deficit and find that galaxies with a stronger bar (longer, higher Bar/T) show a more pronounced light deficit. We examine snapshots from N-body simulations and confirm that as a barred galaxy evolves, the bar becomes longer and the light deficit becomes more pronounced. Theoretical studies have predicted that bars evolve by capturing nearby disk stars and employing them to make the bar more elongated and stronger. Therefore the light deficit in the disk is likely produced by bars, and thus bars play a major role in shaping their host galaxies, redistributing not only the gaseous but also the stellar mass within galaxies, with important consequences to their subsequent evolution. -
Binary black hole mergers are one of the important candidate of gravitational wave (GW) emission. Recently a successful GW observation was done by LIGO team, but it is still uncertain how many GW signals will be observable. In this research, we perform simplified N-body simulations containing three mass components, ordinary stars with two kind of stellar mass black holes. Various BH compositions are tested to investigate the effect of BH mass function on binary formation rate. As a result, we find the binary formation rate is not much affected by BH mass function and always around 30 %, but the detectable merging binaries are largely depend on higher mass BH population.
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We present the variability and time lag measurements of PG 0934+013 based on the photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaign over two years. We obtained 46 epochs of data from the spectroscopic campaign, which was carried out using the South African Large Telescope with 1 week cadence over two sets of 4 month-long observing period, while we obtained 80 epochs of B band data from the campaign. Due to the six month gap between two campaigns, we separately measured the time lag of the
$H{\beta}$ emission line by comparing the emission line light curve with the B band continuum light curve using the cross-correlation function techniques. We determined the time lags and black hole mass. -
We analyze the dependence of environment of warped galaxies by using the local background density, Tidal Index and projected distance as measures of the environment. we use galaxies with redshift less than z=0.025 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7. We selected 345 edge-on galaxies using color images provided by the SDSS DR7 and checked it using isophotal maps. This sample contains 136 warped galaxies, 209 non-warped galaxies. Among warped galaxies, there are 18 strongly warped galaxies which have warp angles larger than 7.5o. We calculated the fractional distributions of galaxies as a function of environmental parameters. All of these parameters show little difference between warped galaxies and non-warped galaxies if we include weakly warped galaxies. However, there is a clear difference in the fractional distributions between the strongly warped galaxies and non-warped galaxies. The fraction of warped galaxies increases with decreasing distance to the nearest neighbor galaxy but It increases with increasing background density and Tidal Index. However, the relationships between warp angles and the three environmental parameters are not strong. The effect of Tidal Index is well distinguished in small, bright galaxies whereas the effects of the background density and the distance to the nearest neighbor galaxy are more pronounced in large, bright galaxies.
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We report preliminary results of KaVA observations of central galaxies in cool-core and non cool-core clusters. The main goal is to study how cooling environments of galaxy clusters affect the central AGN activities especially at its innermost region. For KaVA observations, 7 radio bright AGNs have been selected from the extended Highest Flux Galaxy Cluster Sample (eHIFLUGCS; the X-ray flux limited & all sky galaxy cluster catalog) with various cooling timescales. In our previous KVN study, we have found that most AGNs in the cool-core clusters show the hint of pc-scale jet-like features while the ones in the non cool-core clusters do not. Using the KaVA 22/43 GHz data of a much higher resolution than the KVN resolution, we have investigated detailed pc-scale jet properties such as physical size, morphology, and radiative age. Based on the KaVA data, we discuss the effect of cluster cooling environment on the evolution of AGNs in the cluster center.
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We investigate the pair fractions of dark matter halos and galaxies in cosmological simulations. The cosmological simulations are performed by a tree-particle-mesh code GOTPM (Grid-of-Oct-Tree-Particle-Mesh) and the dark matter halos are identified by a halo finding algorithm PSB (Physically Self-Bound). The 'galaxy' pair fractions are obtained from galaxy catalogues of L-Galaxies semi-analytical galaxy formation runs in the Millennium database. We present and compare the pair fractions of the dark matter halos and galaxies as functions of redshifts, halo masses and ambient environments.
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We study the environmental dependence of the mass-size relation for the most massive early type galaxies (M>
$10^{10.7}M_{\odot}$ ) in the redshift range 0.10~0.15. The sizes of galaxies are measured by non-parametric method. We find that galaxies more massive than$10^{11.1}M_{\odot}$ show the environmental dependence in the mass-size relation. The galaxies with M>$10^{11.1}M_{\odot}$ located in the densest, cluster like environment have larger sizes and extended surface brightness profiles than their counterparts located in a low dense environment. We also find that the environmental dependence of the mass-size relation is more significant for the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) than non-BCGs. We use the semi analytic galaxy formation simulation based on the Millennium 1 Simulation for interpretation. Our result can be explained with a hierarchical growth of the most massive galaxies through dissipation-less merger in dense environment. -
We study the orbital histories of Virgo galaxies undergoing different HI gas stripping stages using phase-space diagrams. Based on the HI properties of galaxies, we find that location of galaxies is in good agreement with ram-pressure stripping predicted by numerical simulations with different infall time. For example, galaxies experiencing active gas stripping are mostly found in the first infall region showing high velocity with respect to the cluster center. Meanwhile, most galaxies that are likely to have lost gas a while ago are found in the cluster outskirts with low orbital velocities. We also discuss the cases where observational properties of galaxies and their locations in the phase-space do not well agree. In addition, we probe the phase-space of filaments and subgroups around or within Virgo. Our results strongly suggest that substructures can play important roles in galaxy evolution while galaxies are falling to the cluster.
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NGC 4402 is a spiral galaxy located in the Virgo cluster. It is undergoing active HI gas stripping due to the strong ICM pressure, showing evidence for recent quenching of star formation. Its CO disk is also highly disturbed as HI, yet unlike HI disk, no sign of significant molecular gas stripping is found. Aiming to better understand how atomic gas stripping and disturbed molecular gas result in star formation quenching, we probe properties of molecular gas in the densest forms. As a pilot study, we observed HCN (1-0) and HCO+ (1-0) in the center of NGC 4402 using one of the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) antennas located at Yonsei site. In this work, we present the result from the KVN single-dish observations and discuss its implications.
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Star formation in galaxies is one of the key factors in galaxy evolution. It is believed that star formation is triggered and enhanced by mergers among galaxies or secular evolution. However, how much these two mechanisms contribute on star formation is not well known yet. Recently, many other studies show observational evidences of faint merger features(tidal tails, stellar streams) around nearby galaxies with deep optical imaging. This study aims to investigate the fraction of star forming galaxies exhibiting faint features to total galaxies. We are analyzing samples of 76 star forming galaxies (NUV < -18) to find merger features from stacked B, R band frames taken at Maidanak 1.5m, McDonald 2.1m telescope and g, r frames from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) MegaCam archival data. With the fraction, we can expect to know the contribution of mergers on star formation to galaxies.
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Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) typically show a non-thermal continuum locally represented by a power-law and many prominent emission lines in the UV and optical regions. AGNs are classified by two types, where Type I AGNs exhibit both broad and narrow lines and only narrow lines are observed in Type 2 AGNs. The unification models of AGNs invoke the existence of a molecular torus just outside of the broad line region. In the presence of a high column HI region associated with the molecular torus, we propose that significant fraction of broad line photons near Lyman series can be scattered by atomic hydrogen in the torus. In particular,
$Ly{\alpha}$ being the strongest emission line, strong linear polarization may develop around$Ly{\alpha}$ through Rayleigh scattering. We adopt a Monte Carlo technique to investigate the polarized transfer of$Ly{\alpha}$ in a thick HI region with the shape of a torus. We consider the range of HI column density N_HI = 1020-23 with fixed geometric parameters of the torus such as the inner and outer radii and the height. We present the polarized spectra and angular distribution of Rayleigh scattered radiation around$Ly{\alpha}$ . We find that the$Ly{\alpha}$ core part is polarized in the direction perpendicular to the symmetry axis whereas in the far wing part it is polarized in the parallel direction. It is concluded that the unification of AGNs implies that$Ly{\alpha}$ can be uniquely polarized through Rayleigh scattering. -
The links between super-massive black hole masses and their host galaxy properties are observed, indicating that black hole growth and host galaxy evolution are closely related. Reverberation mapping, which uses the time delay from the central black hole to broad line regions, is one of the best methods to estimate masses of black holes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, only masses of about 50 black holes have been determined in reverberation mapping studies so far, and most of them are limited to optical luminosities below 10^45 erg/s due to the challenges of long-term time domain observations in both photometry and spectroscopy. In this project, we expand reverberation mapping samples to higher luminosities of > 10^44.5 erg/s at 0.1 < z < 0.35, that have expected time lags of 40 - 250 light days. Photometric (using LOAO 1-m and MDM 1.3-m) and spectroscopic (using MDM 2.4-m and Lick 3-m) monitoring campaigns are being conducted for a 3 year duration and 20 day cadence. Precedent photometric observations in 2015B show some targets with variability and follow-up spectroscopic observations are on-going. In this presentation, we introduce our project, present reverberation mapping simulation results, and preliminary results on photometry. These reverberation mapping masses of relatively high luminous AGNs will provide a strong constraint on black hole mass calibration, e.g., the single-epoch mass estimation.
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Photometric reverberation mapping is an effective alternative to time consuming spectroscopy. It usually employs narrow bands to track the luminosity variations of broad emission lines, such as Balmer lines, and broadbands for the continuum variability. Here, we investigate the feasibility of substituting these for medium bands, with 50nm widths, that are currently being used on the SED Camera for QUasars in EArly uNiverse (SQUEAN) installed on the 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. Three targets with recent variability and/or short expected time lags were selected, and observed for 15 minutes each in the medium band containing
$H{\alpha}$ , and the two adjacent bands for continuum subtraction afterwards. Analysis shows that for one of the objects, SDSS J0350+0037, the pure$H{\alpha}$ emission line flux has a S/N ~ 12, so that variabilities up to ~ 8% are detectable. Thus, future observations using these medium bands on SQUEAN seem to be practical. -
Merging galaxy clusters, such as PLCKG287.0+32.9, provide a window into the formation process of the large scale structure of the universe. PLCKG287.0+32.9 is an enormous merging galaxy cluster with mass estimated to be ~10^15 Msun. It hosts a pair of mega-parsec sized radio relics with projected offsets from the X-ray center of approximately 350kpc and 2.7Mpc, suggesting a NW-SE merging scenario with relics originating from two separate passes (Bonafede et al. 2014). A detected radio halo coincides with the center of x-ray emission. We present the motivation for our weak lensing study of the merging galaxy cluster PLCKG287.0+32.9 using recent Subaru optical imaging. We discuss the basics of weak-lensing and the criteria for source selection. In addition, we describe our method of PSF modeling and mass reconstruction.
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운동학적으로 측정된 질량과 측광으로 측정된 질량이 불일치하는 질량 불일치 문제는 현대천문학의 중요한 문제이다. 현재 이러한 질량 불일치에 대한 두 가지 해결책이 제시 되었다. 하나는 현대 표준우주론인
${\Lambda}CDM$ 패러다임의 핵심 요소인 암흑물질, 다른 하나는 Milgrom에 의해 제시된 수정된 뉴턴역학(Modified Newtonian dynamics: MOND)이다. 두 방법에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되었는데, 최근 연구 결과에 의하면 나선형 은하의 회전속도 윤곽은 MOND와 잘 부합하나 타원은하에 대해서는 불명확하다. 여기서 우리는 ATLAS3D project 에서 얻어진 260개의 조기형 은하 중 거의 원형인 11개의 타원은하들을 선별하여 표준패러다임(뉴턴역학과 암흑물질)과 MOND 하에서 속도분산 윤곽에 대한 모델링을 수행하였다. 속도분산 anisotropy에 대한 parametric 모형을 가정하고 다음의 결과를 얻었다. (1) anisotropy가 속도분산 윤곽에 큰 영향을 준다는 것을 확인하였고, (2) 전체적으로 표준패러다임과 MOND 중 어느 패러다임이 관측된 속도분산 윤곽에 더 잘 부합하는지 결론을 도출하기가 어려웠고, (3) 은하 개별적으로는 표준패러다임 하에서 요구되는 암흑물질의 양이 달랐고, 선호되는 MOND 모형에서도 미세한 차이가 나타나는 것으로 보였다. 이 결과는 anisotropy에 대한 더 나은 이해를 바탕으로 개선될 수 있을 것이다. -
Current and planned large-volume surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS IV-eBOSS) or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) and Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) to map the cosmic web up to z~1.7, and will allow one to accurately constrain cosmological models and obtain crucial information on the nature of dark energy and the expansion history of the Universe in novel epochs - particularly by measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature with improved accuracy. To this end, we present here a study of the spatial distribution and clustering of a sample of LRGs and ELGs obtained from a sub-volume of the MultiDark simulation complemented by different semi-analytic prescriptions, and investigate how these two different populations trace the cosmic web at different redshift intervals - along with their synergy. This is the first step towards the interpretation of upcoming ELG and LRG data.
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The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (eBOSS) will provide new photometry and spectroscopy of an unprecedented number of quasars in a novel redshift range, along with some re-observations of SDSS DR12 objects. We present here an observational study of the geometry, spatial distribution, luminosity function, and clustering of a sample of low- and high-z quasars obtained from the first SDSS-IV data release (DR13). In particular, we characterize the amount of overlapping between different data releases, and then focus on the synergy among high- and low-z quasars as tracers of the cosmic web, particularly considering their cross-correlations and cosmological implications.
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A massive envelope and a strong bipolar outflow are the two most distinct structures of youngest protostellar systems. We present observational results from the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) toward the youngest (Class 0) protostellar system L1157. At an angular resolution of 5 arcseconds, we mapped its well-developed outflow in CO 2-1 over a span of approximately 5 arcminutes. Additionally, we imaged the central envelope with CO isotopes, CS, CN, and N2H+ with an angular resolution of about 2 arcseconds. We show that the bipolar outflow may be represented with a two jet model and constrain its physical properties such as precession/rotation directions, velocities, inclinations, and position angles via cube data fitting. In addition, we discuss the kinematic features of the envelope detected in CO isotopes and N2H+ and present the radius-dependent dust opacity spectral index.
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For the development of magneto rotational instability, which drives mass accretion in protoplanetary disks, sufficient ionization degree is needed. Cosmic rays are believed to be one of the dominant ionization sources for protoplanetary disk gas. In previous studies, ionization rates are computed by considering the effect of attenuation of the cosmic ray (CR) intensity as a function of column density in an unmagnetized cloud. However, in reality particles should sweep up larger column density to reach at the midplane of disk due to their gyromotion. In this study, we investigate the propagation of CR protons in a protoplanetary disk by solving transport and energy loss equations. We discuss the change in CR intensity due to magnetic field in a protoplanetary disk.
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We present preliminary results of the submillimeter continuum observations of 14 Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs), located in the
${\lambda}$ Orionis Complex. This region is the nearest large HII region, which is an ideal site for a study of the stellar feedback to its surroundings. We observed 14 PGCCs with JCMT/SCUBA-2 and used J=1-0 transitions of CO isotopologues from the PMO mapping observation. Several sub-clumps toward three PGCCs were detected at$850{\mu}m$ . In order to examine whether these clumps can be candidates for pre-stellar cores, we compared each clump mass calculated from the$850{\mu}m$ continuum map to its Virial mass and Jeans mass calculated from the$^{12}CO$ and$C^{18}O$ (1-0) spectra, respectively. All clumps have masses smaller than their Virial and Jeans masses, indicating that none of them are gravitational bound and thus in the pre-stellar core stage. Also, the CO depletion factor, which has been derived from the dust continuum and the$C^{18}O$ (1-0) line and can be an indicator of core evolution, toward the clumps is in the range of 1 to 5, suggesting that they are not very evolved dense pre-stellar cores. In addition, within individual PGCCs, we found clear gradients of velocity (${\sim}1km\;s^{-1}\;pc^{-1}$ ) and temperature (${\sim}10K\;pc^{-1}$ ) in the$^{13}CO$ (1-0) first moment map and the$^{12}CO$ (1-0) excitation temperature map, respectively. This can be attributed to the compression and external heating by the HII region, which may prevent clumps from forming gravitationally bound structures and eventually disperse clumps. These results could be a hint about the negative effect of stellar feedback on core formation. -
We present the results of KaVA SgrA* observation together with Takahagi(32m), Yamaguchi(32m) and Nobeyama(45m) telescopes at 22 and 43GHz, respectively. In early 2014, G2 cloud was expected to encounter with SgrA* and to make a significant flux variation, but it has not been measured yet. So it's worth to check our amplitude calibration method to confirm if we have a missing flux caused by uncertainty in measuring it. We have tested both a standard method using system noise temperature(Tsys) with antenna gain information, and a template method in order to calibrate antenna gain using nearby maser source. As a result, we found that the latter method is useful for antennas which have inaccurate gain information or poor Tsys measurements, and is especially effective for sources at low elevation like SgrA*. In addition, the comparison shows that the amplitude calibration by standard method can be improved up to 10% with a correction factor using a template method. This result implies we can get more accurate flux from a standard method when any maser source not exists around target.
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본 연구에서는 비구면 반사경의 형상오차를 3가지 방법으로 측정, 비교하였다. 실험에 사용한 포물면 반사경의 구경은 108 mm, 유효초점거리는 444.5 mm 이다. 첫 번째로 접촉식 형상측정방식인 FTS(Form TalySurf)를 이용하여 표면 거칠기와 반사경의 최적 곡률 반경(BestFitt Radius) 값을 측정하였다. 두 번째로는 비접촉식 형상측정방식인 UA3P(Ultrahigh Accurate 3-D Profilometer)를 이용하여 반사경의 형상 정밀도를 측정하였다. UA3P를 이용할 경우 반사경의 전체 형상을 측정할 수 있다. 세번째로 Shark-Hartmann 센서를 이용한 광학측정방법으로 반사경의 형상 정밀도를 측정하였다. 측정에 필요한 레이저 광학계는 레이저, 콜리메이터, 핀홀, 카메라 렌즈 및 비구면 광학계를 이용하여 설계하였다. 본 연구에서 도출한 각 측정 방법의 신뢰도를 바탕으로 간섭계 사용에 제약이 있는 자유형상곡면의 반사경 표면의 형상오차 측정에 적용할 계획이다.
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미국 텍사스 주 맥도날드 천문대에 위치한 2.1m 망원경에 부착된 SQUEAN (SED Camera for QUasars in EArly uNiverse)은 2010년부터 운용되고 있는 CQUEAN을 바탕으로 개발된 적외선 영역 광학기기이다. 20개의 필터 장착이 가능한 필터 휠 제어 시스템을 가지고 있는 SQUEAN 시스템은 SMOP (SQUEAN Main Observation software package), KFC82 (KHU Filter wheel Control software package for McDonald 82 inch Telescope), KAP82 (KHU Auto-guiding software Package for McDonald 82 inch Telescope) 등으로 구성되어 있다. 그러나 대형 필터 휠을 제어하는 모터의 토크부족과 감속기의 백래시(Backlash)의 영향으로 오프셋의 오차가 커서 초기위치의 재설정 없이 하룻밤 이상 관측을 지속하는데 어려움이 있었다. 토크가 크고 인코더가 장착된 모터 교체와 제어 프로그램 등을 변경하고, 백래시의 영향을 최소화할 수 있도록 소프트웨어로 보정하였다. 또한, SMOP로부터 네트워크 통신을 통해 초기화용 필터 마스크(Initial Filter Mask:IFM)를 제작하여 돔 플랫 이미지에서 정확한 필터의 위치를 측정하는 기능을 도입하였다. 이 발표에서는, 개선된 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어의 내용과 테스트한 결과에 대해 보여준다.
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It is important to know how well observation errors are removed in the calibration process prior to ensuing scientific research. In mm-VLBI observations, a radio wave suffers from an atmospheric propagation delay due to the rapid change of atmospheric refraction. It makes phases of VLBI correlation output fluctuate rapidly, which essentially decreases the coherence of phases and reduces the integration time. Consequently, it is challenging to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio and enhance the quality of scientific output. Among the causes of the atmospheric propagation delay, water vapor in the troposphere is the most decisive factor to affect phase errors in the high frequency range (> 10GHz). It is expected to have the non-dispersive characteristic that enables to introduce new calibration strategy, Frequency Phase Transfer (FPT). This new method utilizes low frequency phases to compensate phase errors in high frequency bands. In addition, Korean VLBI Network (KVN) which benefits from the simultaneous 4-channels (22/43/86/129 GHz) observations is ideal to probe FPT performance. In order to evaluate FPT performance of KVN, we present the results of FPT phase analysis and discuss its performance.
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Chung, HyunSoo;Moon, Jun-Cheol;YU, Dai-Hyuk;Je, Do-Heung;Jo, Jung-Hyun;Roh, Duk-Gyoo;Oh, Se-Jin;Sohn, Bong-Won;Lee, SangSung;Kim, Hyo-Ryung 74.3
국제전기통신연합 (ITU)에서 주관하여 2015년 11월 2일-27일 스위스 제네바에서 개최된 WRC-15(세계전파통신회의, World Radiocommunication Conference)회의에서는 28개 의제에 대한 각국 의견을 논의한 후 최종적으로 국제전파규칙(Radio Regulations)을 개정하였다. WRC회의는 전세계의 공통적인 주파수 사용을 위한 국제법이라고 할 수 있는 국제전기통신연합 (ITU)의 전파규칙(Radio Regulation) 제개정을 위해, 3-4년 간격으로 개최되는 전파통신 관련 권위를 가진 회의라고 할 수 있다. 본 회의에서는 전세계의 국가별 전파이익과 상업적 우선권을 둘러싼 정치적, 경제적 이권 다툼이 치열하게 진행되었으며, 2012년부터 추진되었던 국제전기통신연합 산하의 연구반 (ITU-R Study Group)의 의제별 연구결과를 토대로 관련 국제전파규약들을 최종적으로 개정하였다. 국내 전파천문의 입장에서는 상기 회의의 의제 가운데 현재 한국우주전파관측망의 원활한 운용과 사용주파수 대역의 보호를 위해, 전파규칙 내의 관련 주석(footnote, 5.562D) 개정을 위한 우리나라의 국가기고서를 발표하였다. 그 결과, 이전까지는 128GHz 대역의 위성운용대역에서 우리나라 전파천문업무가 우선 순위를 가지고 2015년까지 사용하도록 제한되어 있던 규정을 개정하고 사용기한에 대한 제약을 삭제하도록 개정하였다. 본 발표에서는 상기 결과 및 기타 주파수대역 (10GHz 대역)의 전파천문업무 보호를 위한 신규 주석, 그리고 철폐논란으로 찬반 논란이 거세었던 윤초 이슈의 논의 결과 등에 대해 소개하고자 한다. -
KAP82 (KHU Auto-guiding software Package for McDonald 82 inch telescope)는 천체망원경의 정밀한 추적을 가능하게 하는 가이드 프로그램으로, 미국 텍사스주에 위치한 McDonald 천문대의 82 inch 망원경에 장착된 광학 및 적외선 영역의 관측기기 SQUEAN (SED camera for Quasars in EArly uNiverse)과 함께 개발되었다. KAP82는 지난 한 해 동안 두 차례의 개정을 통해 프로그램 작동의 안정성을 확보하고, 동시에 가이드의 성능에도 많은 개선이 이루어졌다. 대상 별 중심을 찾는 알고리즘에 따라 KAP82 1.0에서는 가중 평균(weighted mean)을, KAP82 2.0에서는 산술평균을 활용해 자체 개발한 J-J 함수를 사용해 가이드를 구현한 것이 특징이다. 이번에 개발한 KAP82 3.0은 가이드 알고리즘으로 가우스 함수를 채택하고, 제조사가 다른 다수의 상용 CCD카메라 및 망원경과 연결이 가능한 ASCOM Platform에서 작동하므로, 다른 시스템에도 쉽게 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 본 포스터에서는 KAP82 3.0을 소개하면서 기존 KAP82버전들과 KAP82 3.0의 차이로 알아본 서로 다른 알고리즘에 따른 가이드의 정확성을 비교 분석한 결과를 제시한다.
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We introduce Korean involvement in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project and activities organized by a group of Korean astronomers as LSST Korea. The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute plans to sign a memorandum of agreement with Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation this year. Although the project will start its commissioning observation around 2020, Korean preparation for the LSST era should be initiated now because of an unprecedented amount of data produced in the LSST. We explain current status of our efforts for the LSST Korea.
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Kim, Minjin;Ho, Luis C.;Sheen, Yun-Kyeong;Park, Byeong-Gon;Lee, Joon Hyeop;KIM, Sang Chul;Jeong, Hyunjin;Seon, Kwangil 75.3
We present a new survey of nearby galaxies to obtain deep wide-field images of 200 nearby bright galaxies in the southern hemisphere using Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet). We are taking very deep and wide-field images, spending 4.5 hours for the B and R filters for each object. Using this dataset, we will look for diffuse, low-surface brightness structures including outer disks, truncated disks, tidal features and stellar streams, and faint companions. The multicolor data will enable us to estimate the incidence and star formation history of those features. We present an outline of the data reduction pipeline, and preliminary results from the commissioning data. -
Oh, Young-Seok;Bae, Yeong-Ho;Kim, Myung-Jin;Roh, Dong-Goo;Jin, Ho;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Park, Jintae;Lee, Hee-Jae;Yim, Hong-Suh;Choi, Young-Jun 75.4
DEEP-South (Deep Ecliptic patrol of the Southern sky) is one of the secondary science projects of KMTNet (Korea Microlensing Telescope Network). The objective of this project is twofold, the physical characterization and the discovery of small Solar System bodies, focused on NEOs (Near Earth objects). In order to achieve the goals, we are implementing a software package to detect and report moving objects in the$18k{\times}18k$ mosaic CCD images of KMTNet. In this paper, we present preliminary results of the moving object detection experiments using the prototype MODP (Moving Object Detection Program). We utilize multiple images that are being taken at three KMTNet sites, towards the same target fields (TFs) obtained at different epochs. This prototype package employs existing softwares such as SExtractor (Source-Extracto) and SCAMP (Software for Calibrating Astrometry and Photometry); SExtractor generates catalogs, while SCAMP conducts precision astrometric calibration, then MODP determines if a point source is moving. We evaluated the astrometric accuracy and efficiency of the current version of MODP. The plan for upgrading MODP will also be mentioned. -
During the last decade, high-resolution spectra of many very metal-poor (VMP) stars have been observed and their surface compositions have been measured. The abundance patterns of the VMP stars strongly constrain the nucleosynthesis of Pop III stars because they born from material enriched by supernovae or wind ejecta of Pop III stars. The observations show overabundances of light elements like C, N, O, Na, Mg and Al and very low
$C^{12}/C^{13}$ ratios. These results indicate that mixing between the H-burning and He-burning region occurred in Pop III stars. To explain these observational results, we performed 1D stellar evolution simulations for non-rotating Pop III stars with ZAMS masses ranging from$20M_{\Box}$ to$50M_{\Box}$ and various overshooting parameters. In our grid calculation, convective mixing between helium burning layers and the hydrogen burning shell generally occurred in models with masses less than$40M_{\Box}$ without rotation and these models show an excess of light element abundances. From this result, it is expected that we could explain the observed abundance patterns with convective mixing in non-rotating massive Pop III stars and we do not necessarily have to invoke rotational mixing. -
We present near-infrared (0.8 - 1.8 microns) spectra of 63 bright (J_mag < 10) stars observed with Low Resolution Spectrometer (LRS) onboard the rocket-borne Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER). Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) photometry information is used to find cross-matched stars after reduction and extraction of the spectra. We identify the spectral types of observed stars by comparing with spectral templates from the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) library. All the observed spectra are consistent with late F to M stellar spectral types, and we identify various infrared absorption lines. As our observations are performed above the Earth's atmosphere, our spectra are free from telluric contamination. Including HST/NICMOS and Cassini/VIMS, the spectral coverage has rarely been achieved in space, and the methods developed here can inform statistical studies with future low-resolution spectral measurements such as GAIA photometric and radial velocity spectrometer.
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In the course of the homogeneous spectroscopic study of globular clusters in our Galaxy, we revisit the strategy of measuring equivalent widths (EWs) for the large set of data in a consistent manner. In our presentation, we show comparisons of the EW measurements from various approaches and environments for over two thousand lines in Arcturus and discuss the implication in our future study.
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We investigate the properties and detection conditions for the planetary caustic perturbation of close-separation planets. To find the properties of the planetary caustic perturbation, we construct deviation maps by subtracting the single-lensing magnification of the lens star from the planetary lensing magnification for various lensing parameters. We find that each deviation area of the positive and negative perturbations disappears at the same normalized source radius according to a given deviation threshold regardless of mass ratio but disappears at a different normalized source radius according to the separation. We also estimate the upper limit of the normalized source radius to detect the planetary caustic perturbation. We find simple relations between the upper limit of the normalized source radius and the lensing parameters. From the relations, we obtain an analytic condition for the detection limit of the planet, and which show that we can sufficiently discover a planet with the mass of sub-Earth for typical microlensing events. Therefore, we expect to add the number of low-mass planets in the next-generation microlensing experiments and conclude that our detection condition of the planet can be used as a important criteria for maximal planet detections considering the source type and the photometric accuracy.
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We present preliminary results of the analysis of chemical abundances for seven hypervelocity star (HVS) candidates. These objects are G and K dwarfs in the Galactic disk selected from the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration. Unlike other HVSs discovered thus far, their stellar orbits and kinematics suggest that they do not originate in the Galactic center or in an accretion event. These factors imply yet-unknown mechanisms that give rise to these kinematically-extreme disk stars. In order to study in detail their progenitors and possible formation mechanisms, we obtained spectra of these stars at a resolving power of R~6000, with the Dual Imaging Spectrograph at the Apache Point Observatory. We derive the abundances of chemical elements, C, Mg, Ca, Ti, Cr, Fe, and Ba from the observed spectra, using MOOG. We compare them with the ones of typical Galactic disk stars and discuss discrepancies between them to search for clues to their origin.
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In our previous study, we showed that the peculiar globular cluster M22 contains two distinct stellar populations with different physical properties, having different chemical compositions, spatial distributions and kinematics. We proposed that M22 is most likely formed via a merger of two GCs with heterogeneous metallicities in a dwarf galaxy environment and accreted later to our Galaxy. In their recent study, Mucciarelli et al. claimed that M22 is a normal mono-metallic globular cluster without any perceptible metallicity spread among the two groups of stars, which challenges our results and those of others. We devise new strategies for the local thermodynamic equilibrium abundance analysis of red giant branch stars in globuar clusters and show there exists a spread in the iron abundance distribution in M22.
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Binary interactions may have significant impact on Pop III stellar evolution. Pop III single star evolution indicates that for primary masses less than
$20M_{\odot}$ , no significant binary mass transfer would occur before core helium exhaustion. We perform binary system evolution for various primary masses ($20M_{\odot}$ <$M_1$ <$60M_{\odot}$ ) and initial periods under same mass ratio$M_2/M_1=0.9$ , and follow the evolution and mass transfer of the primary star. If binary mass transfer occurs during post main sequence, the primary star does not evolve into naked helium star and still contain significant hydrogen in the envelope. During the post mass transfer phase, the primary star evolves redward, and does not become sufficiently hot to enhance the number of ionizing photons, compared to the case of single star evolution for a given initial mass. This result implies that primary stars of massive Pop III binary systems would have little contribution to the reionization in the early universe. Given the large hydrogen content ($0.326-1.793M_{\odot}$ ), the primary stars that underwent stable mass transfers would explode as a Type IIb supernova, and it would be difficult for Pop III binary stars to produce Type Ib/c supernovae that look similar to those found in the local universe. -
상호작용 하는 쌍성계의 진화과정 중 질량이동에 의한 궤도 변화에는 아직 풀리지 않은 수수께끼가 남아있다. 예를 들면 바륨별 (Ba Star)의 경우, 관측된 궤도 이심률은 평균 0.2, 1000일 단위의 주기를 보여주고 있다. Population Synthesis시뮬레이션으로 이를 재현할 경우 관측된 궤도 성질을 맞추지 못하거나, 바륨별의 형성 개수를 맞추지 못하는 문제점이 있다. 비슷한 문제가 청색낙오성 (Blue Straggler Star)의 시뮬레이션 결과에서도 나타나고 있는데, 이 문제의 핵심은 Roche Lobe Over Flow (RLOF)를 통한 질량 이동이 결과적으로 Common Envelope (CE)으로 이어지기 때문에 각운동량을 크게 잃게 되어 궤도가 원형화 되기 때문인 것으로 판명이 되었다. 따라서 이번 연구에서는 RLOF를 통한 질량이동 중 CE 과정을 효과적으로 피해갈 수 있는 질량이동 과정을 제안하고, 이를 시뮬레이션에 적용하여 관측자료를 설명할 것이다. 최종적으로는, 위의 질량이동 과정을 오픈 소스 항성진화 프로그램인 MESA에 포함시켜, 쌍성계 궤도와 그 별들의 표면 원소 분포 사이의 상관관계를 정량적으로 설명하려고 한다.
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There are many telluric absorption lines which are laid on the science spectrum in ground based spectroscopic observations. In especial, the IR region spectra are considerably contaminated by telluric lines. Therefore, many scientists have a difficulty in removing the telluric effect. We thus tried removing telluric lines with IGRINS data by two methods. One is using the standard stellar spectrum as telluric lines. The other adopt calculated synthetic telluric spectrum. Here we present the results of test for precise removing telluric lines on IGRINS spectra.
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The Kepler mission of NASA has enabled to discover a lot of new W UMa-type binaries with continuous light curves measured with unprecedented accuracy. Interestingly, their eclipsing time variation (hereafter ETV) diagrams show anti-correlation between primary and secondary minima, presumably occurred by continuous spot variation (Tran et al. 2013; Balaji et al. 2014). Two active Kepler binaries (KIC06118779 & KIC08682849), reported as showing the anti-correlation in ETV diagram, were investigated to see that the anti-correlations are correlated with time-variable O'connell effects appeared in their light curves. As a result, it was found that the O'connell effects for two binary stars have varied in quasi-sinusoidal ways similar to the patterns of their anti-correlation variations. In addition, our light curve syntheses of two binary stars with the latest version of the Wilson-Devinney code (Wilson & devinney 1971) show that they are very deep-contact binary system with extremely low mass ratios.
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This study aims to overview research articles on extrasolar planets using Kepler mission data during the period of 2009-2015 in order to discover research trends in them. Kepler space observatory is a NASA space observatory for extrasolar planet expedition launched in March 2009, contributed to the discovery and tracking of extrasolar planets and its candidates. In order to achieve the goal of this study, we classified research subjects from studies on Kepler mission data year by year and found the most frequent research topics each year. We also conducted a comparative analysis on the research subjects based on time series and examined any changes with respect to the goal of Kepler mission. Statistical meta-analysis is employed as the analysis method for the key words presented in the research articles. This study is a part of on-going research to find the correlation between the physical parameters of the host star and extrasolar planets. The results of this study could offer new directions in researches utilizing Kepler mission data as those meta-analyses in social sciences often suggest new opportunities. We have high expectations that more extrasolar planet studies will follow as we make further progresses in various analyses.
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We investigated the dynamical properties of the K2-3 multi-planet system. Recently three transiting planets are discovered using the extended Kepler2 (K2) mission (Crossfield et al. 2015). We extended their preliminary stability study by considering a substantial longer integration time. Since planet mass is not known from photometry we calculated exoplanets masses using empirical mass-radius relations (Weiss & Marcy 2014). Forward numerical integration was done using the MERCURY integration package (Chambers 1999). Our results demonstrate that this system is stable over a time scale of
$10^8years$ . Furthermore, we investigated the dynamical effects of a hypothetical planet in the semi-major axis vs eccentricity space. For stable orbits of the hypothetical planet we calculated transit-timing variation (TTV) and radial velocity signals. We find that for a hypothetical perturber with mass 1-13 Mjup, semi-major axis 0.2 - 0.8 AU and eccentricity 0.00-0.47 the following timing signals for the planet K2-3 b is ~ 5 sec, K2-3 c is ~ 130 sec and for K2-3 d is ~ 190 sec. The radial velocity signal of the hypothetical planet is ~ 4 m/s. Using typical transit-timing errors from the K2 mission, we find that the above hypothetical planet would not be detectable. Its radial velocity signal, however, would be detectable using the APF 2.4m telescope or HARPS at the ESO/La Silla Observatory in Chile. -
The presence of multiple stellar populations is now well established in most globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way. The origin of this, however, is yet to be understood. In this respect, the study of NGC 2808, a GC which hosts five sub-populations differing only in light-element abundances, would help to understand the origin of this multiple stellar populations. In order to investigate CN, CH, and Ca abundances among different populations in NGC 2808, we have performed low-resolution spectroscopy for the red giant branch (RGB) stars in this GC. Here we report preliminary results from this spectroscopic analysis.
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We have investigated the correlation analysis between global temperature anomaly and two main factors: geomagnetic activity (aa index) of Earth external factor and CO2 of Earth internal factor. For this, we used NOAA Global Surface Temperature anomaly (Ta) data from 1868 to 2015. The aa index indicates the geomagnetic activity measured at two anti-podal subauroral stations (Canberra Australia and Hartland England) and the CO2 data come from historical ice core records and NOAA/ESRL data. From the comparison between (Ta) and aa index, we found several interesting things, First, the linear correlation coefficient between two parameters increases until 1985 and then decreases rapidly. Second, the scattered plot between two parameters shows a boundary of the correlation tendency (positive and negative correlation) near 1985. A partial correlation of (Ta) and two main factors (aa index, CO2) also shows that the geomagnetic effect (aa index) is dominant until about 1985 and the CO2 effect becomes much more important after then. These results indicate that the CO2 effect become very an important factor since at least 1985. For a further analysis, we simply assume that Ta = Ta(aa)+Ta(CO2) and made a linear regression between (Ta) and aa index from 1868 to 2015. A linear model is then made from the linear regression between energy consumption (a proxy of CO2 effect) and Ta-Ta(aa) since 1985. Our results will be discussed in view of the prediction of global warming.
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There are probabilistic forecast models for solar flare occurrence, which can be evaluated by various skill scores (e.g. accuracy, critical success index, heidek skill score, and true skill score). Since these skill scores assume that two types of forecast errors (i.e. false alarm and miss) are equal or constant, which does not take into account different situations of users, they may be unrealistic. In this study, we make an evaluation of a probabilistic flare forecast model [Lee et al., 2012] which use sunspot groups and its area changes as a proxy of flux emergence. We calculate daily solar flare probabilities from 2011 to 2014 using this model. The skill scores are computed through contingency tables as a function of forecast probability, which corresponds to the maximum skill score depending on flare class and type of a skill score. We use a value score with cost/loss ratio, relative importance between the two types of forecast errors. The forecast probability (y) is linearly changed with the cost/loss ratio (x) in the form of y=ax+b: a=0.88; b=0 (C), a=1.2; b=-0.05(M), a=1.29; b=-0.02(X). We find that the forecast model has an effective range of cost/loss ratio for each class flare: 0.536-0.853(C), 0.147-0.334(M), and 0.023-0.072(X). We expect that this study would provide a guideline to determine the probability threshold and the cost/loss ratio for space weather forecast.
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We investigate the dependence of solar proton events (SPEs) on solar and interplanetary type II bursts associated with solar flares and/or CME-driven shocks. For this we consider NOAA solar proton events from 1997 to 2012 and their associated flare, CME, and type II radio burst data with the following subgroups: metric, decameter-hectometric (DH), and meter-to-kilometric (m-to-km) type II bursts. The primary findings of this study are as follows. First, about half (52%) of the m-to-km type II bursts are associated with SPEs and its occurrence rate is higher than those of DH type II bursts (45%) and metric type II bursts (19%). Second, the SPE occurrence rate strongly depends on flare strength and source longitude, especially for X-class flare associated ones; it is the highest in the central region for metric (46%), DH (54%), and m-to-km (75%) subgroups. Third, the SPE occurrence rate is also dependent on CME linear speed and angular width. The highest rates are found in the m-to-km subgroup associated with CME speed 1500 kms-1: partial halo CME (67%) and halo CME (55%). Fourth, in the relationships between SPE peak fluxes and solar eruption parameters (CME linear speed, flare flux, and longitude), SPE peak flux is mostly dependent on SPE peak flux for all three type II bursts (metric, DH, m-to-km). It is noted that the dependence of SPE peak flux on flare peak flux decreases from metric to m-to-km type II burst.
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Bong, Su-Chan;Choi, Seonghwan;Jang, Bi-Ho;Park, Jongyeob;Jeon, Young-Beom;Cho, Kyuhyoun;Chae, Jongchul 81.1
A total solar eclipse occurs on March 9 along the path through Indonesia and the Pacific. KASI organized an expedition team for total solar eclipse observation. The main purpose of this observation is to test the coronal temperature and outflow velocity diagnostics based on filter observation, which is proposed for the next generation coronagraph. In addition, various white light observations including automatic programmed observation, manual observation, linear polarization, and time-lapse movie will be tried. We report the preliminary result of the expedition. -
Many signals in the nature have power-law behaviors, namely they are "scale-free". The method of detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), as one of the popular methods (e.g., Rescaled range analysis and Spectral analysis) for determining scale-free nature of time series, has a very important advantage that the DFA can be applied to both stationary and non-stationary signals. The analysis of time series using the DFA has been broadly used in physiology, finance, hydrology, meteorology, geology, and so on. We performed the DFA of 16 Spaceweather HMI Active Region Patch (SHARP) parameters for 38 HMI Active Region Patches (HARPs) obtained by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from May 2010 to June 2014. The main results from this study are as follows. (1) The most of the time series data are non-stationary. (2) The DFA scaling exponents of "mean vertical current density" for 38 HARPs have a negative correlation coefficient (-0.41) with flare index. (3) The DFA scaling exponents of parameters such as "Sum of the absolute value of net currents per polarity", "Absolute value of the net current helicity", and "Mean photospheric excess magnetic energy density" for the most active HARPs having more than 10 major flares, have positive correlation coefficients (0.64, 0.59, and 0.53, respectively) with the ratio of "the number of CMEs associated with major flares" to "the number of major flares". Physical interpretations on our results will be discussed.
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We examine whether the observational stand-off distance ratios of CMEs and their associated ICMEs could be explained by theoretical model or not. For this, we select 16 CME-ICME pairs from September 2009 to October 2012 with the following conditions: (1) limb CMEs by SOHO and their associated ICMEs by twin STEREO spacecraft and vice versa when both spacecraft were roughly in quadrature; (2) the faint structure ahead of a limb CME is well identified; and (3) its associated ICME clearly has a sheath structure. We determine the observational stand-off distance ratios of the CMEs by using brightness profiles from LASCO-C2 (or SECCHI-COR2) observations and those of the ICMEs by solar wind data from STEREO-IMPACT/PLASTIC (or OMNI database) observations. We also determine the theoretical stand-off distance ratios of the CME-ICME pairs using semi-empirical relationship based on the bow shock theory. We find the following results. (1) Observational CME stand-off distance ratio decreases with increasing Mach number at the Mach numbers between 2 and 6. This tendency is consistent with the results from the semi-empirical relationship. (2) The observational stand-off distance ratios of several ICMEs can be explained by the relationship.
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Recent analysis on asteroidal thermophysical property revealed that there is a tendency that their thermal inertia decrease with their sizes at least for main belt asteroids. However, little is known about the thermal properties of comet-like bodies. In this work we utilized a simple thermophysical model to calculate the thermal inertia of a bare nucleus of comet P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring) and an asteroid in comet-like orbit 4015 Wilson-Harrington from AKARI observation data. It is also shown that the determination of their thermal inertia is very sensitive to their spin vector, while the diameter is rather easy to be constrained to a certain range by combining multi-wavelength observational data. Thus, we set diameter and hence the geometric albedo as fixed parameters, and inferred the spin vector and thermal inertia of the targets. Further detailed analyses on these cometary bodies will shed light on our understanding of the detailed surfacial characteristics of them.