• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.59.3-59.3
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• 2018

공생별 AG Dra와 UV Aur에 대해 지난 10여년간 보현산천문대 1.8m망원경과 고분산 에셀 분광기 BOES(BOao Echelle Spectrograph)로 분광관측을 수행해 왔다. 최근 2017년 11월 - 2018년 6월 관측에서, AG Dra의 Fe II 방출선과 UV Aur $H{\alpha}$ 방출선이 예년과 다른 변화 모습을 보이고 있음을 찾아내었다. 이에 대한 변화 원인을 공전주기, 밝기 변화 또는 다른 이유와 연관지어 설명하고자 한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.70.2-70.2
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• 2020

공생별의 밝기 변화와 분광선 변화에 대한 지속적인 관측과 분석은 공생별 구성원의 구조, 거성으로부터의 질량 이동, 백색왜성 근처에서의 부착원반 형성과 이들의 진화에 대한 중요한 정보를 제공한다. 본 연구에서는 보현산 천문대 1.8-m 망원경과 고분산 에셀분광기 BOES를 이용하여 타 연구자에 의해 하룻밤 새 분광선 변화가 있다고 보고된 공생별 CH Cyg를 중심으로 AG Dra와 EG And의 방출선들에 대한 하룻밤 새 변화 모니터링 관측을 수행하였고, 이 세 공생별의 짧은 시간 내 분광적 변화 양상과 특성을 파악하고자 한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.65.2-65.2
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• 2004

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.67.1-67.1
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• 2008

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.13-31
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• 2022

We observed the symbiotic star AG Dra for a total of 61 nights between April 2004 and December 2021 using the 1.8-m telescope and the high-resolution Echelle spectrograph BOES at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory and obtained 355 frames of spectroscopic data to investigate the variations in its spectral lines. Overnight short-term and long-term changes in prominent emission lines are examined. No short-term changes are found in the line profiles. However, the peak intensity of the Hα emission line exhibits very small variation. In the long-term period, many emission lines including He I λ5875, λ6678, λ7065 and Fe II λ5018 are found to vary reflecting the symbiotic outburst activities. It is noted that He II λ4686 and Raman-scattered O VI λ6830, λ7088 are exceptions, where no significant variations are discernible. One of the noticeable lines is the λ5018 line. Its appearance and disappearance pattern are different from other emission lines, and the line is found to appear in outburst states. The Hα and Hβ lines remain very similar in our spectroscopic monitoring campaign.

• BMB Reports
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.250-256
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• 2010

Natural phosphodiester bond CpG-DNA that contains immunomodulatory CpG motifs (PO-DNA) upregulates the expression of proinflammatory cytokines and induces an Ag-driven Th1 response in a CG sequence-dependent manner in mice. In humans, only phosphorothioate backbone-modified CpG-DNA (PS-DNA) and not PO-DNA has immunomodulatory activity. In this study, we found that liposome-encapsulated PO-DNA upregulated the expression of human $\beta$-defensin-2 (hBD-2) and major histocompatibility class II molecules (HLA-DRA) in a CG sequence-dependent and liposome- dependent manner in human B cells. Of the three different liposomes, DOTAP has the unique ability to enhance the immunomodulatory activity of PO-DNA. In contrast, HLA-DRA and hBD-2 promoter activation can be induced by liposome-encapsulated PS-DNA in a CG sequence-independent manner, depending on the CpG-DNA species. Our observations demonstrate that, when encapsulated with a proper liposome in the immune system, natural PO-DNA has the potential to be a useful therapy for the regulation of the innate immune response.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.57.3-58
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• 2016

A symbiotic star is a wide binary system consisting of a hot white dwarf and a mass losing giant, where the giant loses its material in the form of a slow stellar wind resulting in accretion onto the white dwarf through gravitational capture. Symbiotic stars are known to exhibit unique spectral features at 6825 and 7082, which are formed from O VI 1032 and 1038 through Raman scattering with atomic hydrogen. In this Monte Carlo study we investigate the flux ratio of 6825 and 7082 in a neutral region with a geometric shape of a slab, cylinder and sphere. By varying the amount of neutral hydrogen parametrized by the column density along a specified direction, we compute and compare the flux ratio of Raman scattered O VI 6825 and 7082. In the column density around 1020 cm-2, flux ratio changes in a complicated way, rapidly decreasing from the optically thin limit to unity the optically thick limit as the column density increases. It is also notable that when the neutral region is of a slab shape with the O VI source outside the slab, the optically thick limit is less than unity, implying a significant fraction of O VI photons escape through Rayleigh scattering near the boundary. We compare our high resolution CFHT data of HM Sge and AG Dra with the data simulated with finite cylinder models confirming that 'S' type symbiotic tend to be characterized by thicker HI region that 'D' type counterparts. It is expected that this study will be useful in interpretation of the clear disparity of Raman O VI 6825 and 7082 profiles, which will shed much light on the kinematics and the asymmetric distribution of O VI material around the hot white dwarf.