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NEW DIGITAL H$\alpha$ OBSERVATION BY SOLAR FLARE TELESCOPE AT BOAO

  • LEE C.-W.;MOON Y.-J.;PARK Y.D.;JANG B.-H.;KIM KAP-SUNG
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 2001
  • Recently, we have set up a new digital CCD camera system, MicroMax YHS-1300 manufactured by Roper Scientific for Ha observation by Solar Flare Telescope at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory. It has a 12 bit dynamic range, a pixel number of 1300$\times$1030, a thermoelectric cooler, and an electric shutter. Its readout speed is about 3 frames per second and the dark current is about 0.05 e-/p/s at $-10^{\circ}C$. We have made a system performance test by confirming the system linearity, system gain, and system noise that its specification requires. We have also developed a data acquisition software which connects a digital camera con-troller to a PC and acquires H$\alpha$ images via Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 under Windows 98. Comparisons of high quality H$\alpha$ images of AR 9169 and AR 9283 obtained from SOFT with the corresponding images from Learmonth Solar Observatory in Australia confirm that our H$\alpha$ digital observational system is performed properly. Finally, we present a set of H$\alpha$ images taken from a two ribbon flare occurred in AR 9283.

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SRAO Dual-Pole System Software Development

  • Kang, Hyun-Woo;Kim, Chang-Hee;Yang, Hee-Su;Park, Yong-Sun
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.44.2-44.2
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    • 2010
  • Recently, SRAO has upgraded from one-pole system software to dual-pole system software. We present the new dual-pole system software and how it works in detail. Dual-pole observation is enabled with just some commands. To do so, backend-system controls two different hardwares, proceeds two different data and make two files at one observation.

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Preliminary results of 86 GHz GMVA observations on AGN

  • Oh, Junghwan
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.44.1-44.1
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    • 2013
  • We present the preliminary results from 86 GHz GMVA observations on 2 AGN - 0954+658 and 0716+714. The observation was taken with the Global mm-VLBI Array in Oct. 2010, with dual polarization mode. The aim of the observation is to produce the polarization maps of the sources, with the Stokes parameters - I, Q, U and V. The final results will be used for estimating the strength of the intrinsic magnetic field and the geometries of AGN jets.

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Interpretation of the EDGES observation in light of Planck 2018 Legacy Data

  • Ahn, Kyungjin;Shapiro, Paul R.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.47.2-47.2
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    • 2020
  • The Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES) has probed the status of the early Universe through the global 21cm observation. The claimed (brightness temperature) of ~ 500 mK absorption dip at z~17 against the continuum background cannot be explained in the standard LambdaCDM framework. In the meantime, the Planck 2018 Legacy Data, especially the E-mode polarization power spectrum, puts rather strong constraints on the high-redshift reionization process. We show how these two observational contraints can be accomodated in a series of reionization scenarios, with a special focus on the strongly self-regulated reionization by first stars.

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A NEW REFERENCING METHOD FOR THE ARRAY ON-THE-FLY OBSERVATION

  • CHUNG EUN JUNG;KIM HYORYOUNG;RHEE MYUNG-HYUN
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.17-22
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we suggest a new referencing method for the array On-The-Fly(OTF) observations in radio astronomy. To reduce the baseline residual, we have proposed and evaluated a new referencing method which uses the source free regions in the observed frame as references. These new references have small ${\Delta}$t and ${\Delta}$x, the time and position differences between the source and the references, and the systematic problems w~re improved by using this new referencing method. The curved baseline residuals were straightened and the rms was reduced to 17 mK. This new referencing method is expected not only to make possible to take more stable data for the array OTF observation of external galaxies but also to save the observation and data reduction time.