• 제목/요약/키워드: Ambient gamma

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A Study of Kinetic Effect on Relativistic Shock using 3D PIC simulation

  • 최은진;민경욱;최청림
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제37권1호
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    • pp.67.1-67.1
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    • 2012
  • Shocks are evolved when the relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), black hole binaries, supernova remnants (SNR) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) interact with the surrounding medium. The high energy particles are believed to be accelerated by the diffusive shock acceleration and the strong magnetic field is generated by Weibel instability in the shock. When ultrarelativistic electrons with strong magnetic field cool by the synchrotron emission, the radiation is observed in gamma-ray burst and the near-equipartitioned magnetic field in the external shock delays the afterglow emission. In this paper, we performed the 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to understand the characteristics of these relativistic shock and particle acceleration. Forward and reverse shocks are shaped while the unmagnetized injecting jet interacts with the unmagnetized ambient medium. Both upstream and downstream become thermalized and the particle accelerations are shown in each transition region of the shock structures.

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Synthesis of Poly(N-methylol Methacrylamide/Vinyl Sulfonic Acid) Hydrogels for Heavy Metal Ion Removal

  • Yakar, Arzu
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제35권10호
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    • pp.3063-3070
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    • 2014
  • In this study, poly(N-methylol methacrylamide) (NMMAAm) and poly(N-methylol methacrylamide/vinyl sulphonic acid) (NMMAAm-VSA) hydrogels were synthesized by $^{60}Co-{\gamma}$ ray irradiation at an ambient temperature. The graphs belonging to the gelation percent- percent-dose and swelling curves were drawn by using data which were obtained from water and different pH solutions. Characterization of hydrogels was performed by FTIR and DSC-TGA analysis. Heavy metal ion ($Ni^{2+}$, $Co^{2+}$) removal capacities of hydrogels were investigated in aqueous solutions, which had different concentrations (100-1500 mg/L). In metal ion removal studies, pH value of aqueous medium was kept constant at 5.0. Maximum metal ion removal values were obtained for NMMAAm-VSA (1:3 mole ratio) hydrogels. Metal ion removal capacities of NMMAAm-VSA (1:3 mole ratio) hydrogels were found as 82 mg/g and 98 mg/g for $Ni^{2+}$ and $Co^{2+}$ ions, respectively.

Electron Beam 조사가 인삼분말의 색도 및 관능적 품질에 미치는 영향 (Effects of Electron-Beam Irradiation on Color and Organoleptic Qualities of Ginseng Powders)

  • 이미경;권중호;도재호
    • Journal of Ginseng Research
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.252-259
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    • 1998
  • Electron beam, electrically produced from an electron accelerator, was compared with gamma energy in terms of its influence on color and organoleptic qualities of ginseng powders when exposed to the energy used for their microbial decontamination. Hunter color L and b values were suitable for measuring color characteristics of ginseng powders, which were not significantly changed by the exposure to 5 to 7.5 kGy electron beam and gamma energy. Fifty percent ethanol extracts of irradiated ginseng powders at 10 key showed negligible differences from the non-irradiated control in the pattern of absorption spectra at 280∼800 am, but showed increased values in overall color difference (AE) as compared with powdered samples. Irradiation more than 10 kGy and storage at ambient temperature for 4 months caused browning of powdered samples. Irradiation at more than 10 kGy of electron beam was found a critical level to bring about appreciable changes (p<0.05) in or-ganoleptic qualities such as color and odor of sterilized samples, and red ginseng powder was more susceptible than white one to organoleptic changes by irradiation.

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THE QUEST FOR COSMIC RAY PROTONS IN GALAXY CLUSTERS

  • PFROMMER C.;ENSSLIN T. A.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제37권5호
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    • pp.455-460
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    • 2004
  • There have been many speculations about the presence of cosmic ray protons (CRps) in galaxy clusters over the past two decades. However, no direct evidence such as the characteristic $\gamma$-ray signature of decaying pions has been found so far. These pions would be a direct tracer of hadronic CRp interactions with the ambient thermal gas also yielding observable synchrotron and inverse Compton emission by additionally produced secondary electrons. The obvious question concerns the type of galaxy clusters most likely to yield a signal: Particularly suited sites should be cluster cooling cores due to their high gas and magnetic energy densities. We studied a nearby sample of clusters evincing cooling cores in order to place stringent limits on the cluster CRp population by using non-detections of EGRET. In this context, we examined the possibility of a hadronic origin of Coma-sized radio halos as well as radio mini-halos. Especially for mini-halos, strong clues are provided by the very plausible small amount of required CRp energy density and a matching radio profile. Introducing the hadronic minimum energy criterion, we show that the energetically favored CRp energy density is constrained to $2\%{\pm}1\%$ of the thermal energy density in Perseus. We also studied the CRp population within the cooling core region of Virgo using the TeV $\gamma$-ray detection of M 87 by HEGRA. Both the expected radial $\gamma$-ray profile and the required amount of CRp support this hadronic scenario.

기기 중성자방사화분석을 이용한 대기 중 PM2.5 내 Arsenic 농도 분석의 측정 불확도 (Measurement Uncertainty of Arsenic Concentration in Ambient PM2.5 Determined by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis)

  • 임종명;이진홍;문종화;정용삼
    • 대한환경공학회지
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    • 제30권11호
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    • pp.1123-1131
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    • 2008
  • 본 연구는 대기 중 PM2.5의 미량금속 중 As을 중성자방사화분석법을 이용하여 분석할 때 발생되는 측정불확도를 ISO GUM 방법과 MCS 방법을 모두 적용하여 비교, 평가하였다. 불확도의 요인은 ISO GUM을 엄격하게 준용하여 파악하였으며 특정일에 채취된 PM2.5 내 As 농도에 대해 두 방법의 계산 결과가 4% 미만으로 크게 다르지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 연구기간 중 채취된 총 60개의 PM2.5 시료에 대해 As 농도의 확장불확도를 역시 MCS 방법을 이용하여 산출하였는데, 연구지역에서의 As의 개별 농도값에 대한 95% 신뢰구간의 확장불확도는 대부분 10%의 범위에서 존재하는 것으로 나타났다. 확장불확도에 대한 표준불확도 요인의 기여율은 계측통계오차(62.3%), 검출효율(18.5%), 시료 채취 시 유량(12.3%), flux 변동(2.3%), 특정감마선 방출률(1.8%) 등의 순으로 크게 나타났다.

Cu-35%Sn 합금의 일방향 열처리에서 출현하는 미세조직 (Microstructural Evolution in the Unidirectional Heat Treatment of Cu-35%Sn Alloys)

  • 최광진;지태구;박장식
    • 열처리공학회지
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    • 제16권6호
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    • pp.320-328
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    • 2003
  • A specimen of Cu-35%Sn alloy has been subjected to the unidirectional heat treatment in an attempt to examine the evolution of microstructures under varying thermal conditions. The specimen was cast in the form of a cylinder 10 mm in diameter and 200 mm in length, which was then installed in the temperature gradient field established inside a vertical tube furnace. The furnace temperature was adjusted to make the upper part at $750^{\circ}C$ and bottom end part at $300^{\circ}C$ of the specimen. The experiment was terminated by dropping it into water after the 30 minutes holding at given temperature. By the rapid cooling, the high temperature phases, ${\gamma}$ and ${\zeta}$, were retained at ambient temperature with some of ${\gamma}$ phase transformed to ${\varepsilon}$ phase, especially at the grain boundaries of ${\gamma}$ phase. The presence of ${\varepsilon}$ phase was found to determine the nature of phase transformations of the ${\zeta}$ phase undergoes upon cooling. In the close area of the ${\varepsilon}$ phase, ${\varepsilon}$ phase grew separately out of ${\zeta}$, and adds to the preexisting ${\varepsilon}$ whereas in areas away from ${\varepsilon}$, both ${\delta}$ and ${\varepsilon}$ grew simultaneously out of ${\zeta}$, and formed a lamella eutectoid structure. The transformation to ${\delta}$ was found to occur only in slow cooling. The hardness on each phase showed that the retained phases, ${\gamma}$ and ${\zeta}$, could be plastically deformed without brittle fracture while the phases, ${\varepsilon}$ and ${\delta}$, were too brittle to be deformed.

Physical Activity- and Alcohol-dependent Association Between Air Pollution Exposure and Elevated Liver Enzyme Levels: An Elderly Panel Study

  • Kim, Kyoung-Nam;Lee, Hyemi;Kim, Jin Hee;Jung, Kweon;Lim, Youn-Hee;Hong, Yun-Chul
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제48권3호
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    • pp.151-169
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: The deleterious effects of air pollution on various health outcomes have been demonstrated. However, few studies have examined the effects of air pollution on liver enzyme levels. Methods: Blood samples were drawn up to three times between 2008 and 2010 from 545 elderly individuals who regularly visited a community welfare center in Seoul, Korea. Data regarding ambient air pollutants (particulate matter ${\leq}2.5{\mu}m$ [$PM_{2.5}$], nitrogen dioxide [$NO_2$], ozone [$O_3$], carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide) from monitoring stations were used to estimate air pollution exposure. The effects of the air pollutants on the concentrations of three liver enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase [AST], alanine aminotransferase [ALT], and ${\gamma}$-glutamyltranspeptidase [${\gamma}$-GTP)]) were evaluated using generalized additive and linear mixed models. Results: Interquartile range increases in the concentrations of the pollutants showed significant associations of $PM_{2.5}$ with AST (3.0% increase, p=0.0052), ALT (3.2% increase, p=0.0313), and ${\gamma}$-GTP (5.0% increase, p=0.0051) levels; $NO_2$ with AST (3.5% increase, p=0.0060) and ALT (3.8% increase, p=0.0179) levels; and $O_3$ with ${\gamma}$-GTP (5.3% increase, p=0.0324) levels. Significant modification of these effects by exercise and alcohol consumption was found (p for interaction <0.05). The effects of air pollutants were greater in non-exercisers and heavy drinkers. Conclusions: Short-term exposure to air pollutants such as $PM_{2.5}$, $NO_2$, and $O_3$ is associated with increased liver enzyme levels in the elderly. These adverse effects can be reduced by exercising regularly and abstinence from alcohol.

전기선폭발법으로 제조된 철산화물의 뫼스바우어분광연구 (Study of Mössbauer Spectroscopy for Iron Oxides Synthesized by Pulsed Wire Evaporation (PEW))

  • 엄영랑
    • 한국자기학회지
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    • 제24권5호
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    • pp.135-139
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    • 2014
  • 물리적 기상합성법인 전기선폭발법을 이용하여 챔버내 산소분압을 바꾸면서 철산화물을 제조하였다. 제조된 철산화물은 산소 분압에 따라 $Fe_2O_3$$Fe_3O_4$상으로 제조되었다. 산소분압이 30 %인 경우 ${\gamma}-Fe_2O_3$${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$와 같이 $Fe^{3+}$의 형성이 용이함을 확인 하였다. 산소 분압을 15 %로 줄이면 $Fe_3O_4$가 형성되어 $Fe^{2+}$ 이온을 확인할 수 있었다. 뫼스바우어분광분석을 활용하여 ${\gamma}-Fe_2O_3$$Fe_3O_4$상 분석을 수행하였다. 13 K에서 295 K까지의 뫼스바우어 스펙트럼으로부터 자기정렬구조가 사라진 면적비로부터 약 12 % 정도의 ${\gamma}-Fe_2O_3$상이 초상자성 특성을 보임을 확인하였다.

분출물 밀도분포에 따른 Ia형 초신성 잔해의 동력학 : 분출물 우세단계에서 세도브-테일러 단계 (DYNAMICS OF TYPE Ia SNRs WITH DIFFERENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS : FROM EJECTA-DOMINANT TO SEDOV- TAYLOR STAGES)

  • 최승언;정현철
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.135-147
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    • 1998
  • We have simulated the interaction of supernova remnants with constant ambient medium to explore the dynamics of Type Ia supernova remnant. We assumed the supernova ejecta density distribution of the central constant and the outer power-law density distribution$({\rho}{\propto}{\gamma}^{-n})$. We have calculated four different cases with different n. By scaling the length and time scales from the initial parameters-ejecta mass, ejecta energy, the ambient density, we could compare effects of the different density distribution of the ejecta on the dynamics of the SNRs. The radius of the outer forward shock converges the Sedov-Talyor solution at t' = 2.3 when the swept-up mass is 8 times of the ejecta mass. On the other hand, the motion of the reverse shock are largely affected by n. The ejecta with smaller n takes comparably long time to thermalize the whole ejecta at $t'{\simeq}5.3,\;M_{sw}{\simeq}18M_{ej}$. We have applied our calculated results to obtain the ejecta density distributions of Tycho and SN1006 with $n{\simeq}6$.

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Bacterial Diversity of Culturable Isolates from Seawater and a Marine Coral, Plexauridae sp., near Mun-Sum, Cheju-Island

  • Lee, Jung-Hyun;Shin, Hyun-Hee;Lee, Deuk-Soo;Kwon, Kae-Kyung;Kim, Sang-Jin;Lee, Hong-Kum
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • 제37권4호
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 1999
  • Fifty-eight strains showing different colony morphological characteristics on various media were isolated from marine coral (Plexauridae sp.) and ambient seawater near Mun-Sum, Cheju-Island in 1998. Bacterial diversity was studies by phylogenetic analysis of the partial 16S rRNA gene sequences. All isolates representing the bacterial domain included affiliates of the high G+C (59%) and los G+C (3%) subdivision of Gram positive bacteria, and the alpha (33%) and gamma (5%) subdivision of the Proteobacteria. The 16S rDNA sequence similarity of the isolates was in the 88.3 to 100% range (average, 95.6%) to reported sequence data. In the comparison of the isolates from marine coarl and ambient seawater, more diverse groups belonging to ${\alpha}$-Proteobacteria were preferentially obtained from seawater.

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