• 천문학회지
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• 제29권spc1호
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• pp.409-410
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• 1996

Speckle Interferometer equipped with an ITT intensified CCD have been used on the NCUO ( National Central University Observatory, Taiwan) 24-inch telescope for studying the orbits of bright binary systems selected from the Yale's Bright Star Catalogue. The high resolution and high sensitivity ITT intensified solid state video camera ( F4577 ) has external gain and gate control functions which will simplify the design of the speckle camera and allow us to do precise speckle photometry. The goal of this project is trying to study the bright binary systems with separations between the average size of seeing disk and the diffraction limit of the 24-inch telescope. Recently some observing data have been reduced and compared with the other teams' results. We are now improving the data reduction technology and trying to use real time observing mode on the monthly routine observation.

• 천문학논총
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.31-49
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• 2010

Next to Paper I (Jeon 2009a), time-series BV CCD images of the open cluster M38 were taken for 4 nights on December, 2009. The observations have been carried out for total 27 nights. In addition to the 20 variable stars in the Paper I, the discovery of 44 new variable stars has been presented in this paper: $6{\delta}$ Scuti stars, $2{\gamma}$ Doradus stars, 18 eclipsing binaries and 18 semi-long periodic and/or slow irregular type variable stars. For the V photometry of the ${\delta}$ Scuti and ${\gamma}$ Doradus stars, multi-frequency analysis was performed using the Discrete Fourier Transform and linear least-square fitting. The period search for the eclipsing binaries and the semi-long periodic and/or slow irregular type variable stars was performed by phase fitting method. As a result, the periods for 23 variable stars among the 44 ones were defined.

• 천문학논총
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2004

Through time-series CCD photometry using a 155mm refractor, we found a new $\delta$ Scuti type variable star, HD 235428, near a known bright $\delta$ Scuti type star, DQ Cep. We performed follow-up observations using a 61cm telescope at Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy Observatory. Four frequencies have been derived by multiple-frequency analysis, which are 15.804, 5.498, 15.351 and 24.516cycle $day^{-1}$, respectively. V-amplitude of HD 235428 is ${\Delta} V$ = 0.026.

• 천문학논총
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.33-37
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• 2004

Through time-series CCD photometry using a 130mm refractor of Busan Science Academy, we found a new $\delta$ Scuti type variable star, esc 03665-00576. We performed following observations using a 1.8m telescope of Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory. Three frequencies have been derived by multiple-frequency analysis, which are 10.968, 7.156 and 15.182cycle $day^{-1}$, respectively. V-amplitude of esc 03665-00576 is ${\Delta}V$= 0.04.

• 천문학회보
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.60.3-60.3
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• 2016

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.

• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.757-759
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• 2015

I use a common educational spectrographic device (SV2100R) in order to obtain astronomical spectra after inventing a new adaptor for telescopes. Experimental classes and learning projects in schools and public outreach are well established regarding imaging and photometry observations. However, experiments using astronomical spectrographs are rather hard to find because the procedures of spectral extraction and wavelength calibration is less convenient. SV2100R is a 1D CCD array and thus has the advantage of not requiring spectral extraction. In addition, basic wavelength calibration is preformed by the the provided software. It was adapted to a 12-inch reflecting telescope in the Korea Science Academy of KAIST in Busan and a spectrum of the bright object, Arcturus, was successfully obtained. This means one can provide educational programs on the topic of astronomical spectra. A few suggested projects are presented.

• 천문학회보
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.42.1-42.1
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• 2018

Deep Ecliptic Patrol of the Southern Sky (DEEP-South) observation is being made during the off-season for exoplanet survey, using Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet). An optimal combination of its prime focus optics and the 0.3 billion pixel CCD provides a four square degrees field of view with 0.4 arcsec/pixel plate scale which is also best suited for small body studies. Normal operation of KMTNet started in October 2015, and a significant portion of the allocated telescope time for DEEP-South is dedicated to targeted observation, Opposition Census (OC), of near-Earth asteroids for physical and taxonomic characterization. This is effectively achieved through multiband, time series photometry using Johnson-Cousins BVRI filters. Uninterrupted monitoring of the southern sky with KMTNet is optimized for spin characterization of a broad spectrum of asteroids ranging from the near-Earth space to the main-belt, including binaries, asteroids with satellites, slow/fast- and non-principal axis-rotators, and thus is expected to facilitate the debiasing of previously reported lightcurve observations. Our software subsystem consists of an automated observation scheduler, a pipelined data processing system for differential photometry, and an easy-to-use lightcurve analysis toolkit. Lightcurves, spin periods and provisional determination of class of asteroids to which the lightcurve belongs will be presented, using the dataset from first year operation of KMTNet. Our new taxonomic classification scheme for asteroids will also be summarized.

• 천문학회지
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.175-192
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• 2016

CCD photometric observations of the globular cluster (GC), M53 (NGC 5024), are performed using the 1.8 m telescope at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory in Korea on the same nights (2002 April and 2003 May) as the observations of the GC M92 (NGC 6341) reported by Cho and Lee using the same instrumental setup. The data for M53 is reduced using the same method as used for M92 by Cho and Lee, including preprocessing, point-spread function fitting photometry, and standardization etc. Therefore, M53 and M92 are on the same photometric system defined by Landolt, and the photometry of M53 and M92 is tied together as closely as possible. After complete photometric reduction, the V versus B − V , V versus V − I, and V versus B − I color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of M53 are produced to derive the relative ages of M53 and M92 and derive the various characteristics of its CMDs in future analysis. From the present analysis, the relative ages of M53 and M92 are derived using the Δ(B − V ) method reported by VandenBerg et al. The relative age of M53 is found to be 1.6 ± 0.85 Gyr younger than that of M92 if the absolute age of M92 is taken to be 14 Gyr. This relative age difference between M53 and M92 causes slight differences in the horizontal-branch morphology of these two GCs.

• 천문학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 1995

Deep V I CCD photometry of the Pegasus dwarf irregular galaxy shows that the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) is located at I = $21.15{\pm}0.10$ mag and (V - I) = $1.58{\pm}0.03$. Using the I magnitude of the tip of the RGB (TRGB), the distance modulus of the Pegasus galaxy is estimated to be $(m\;-\;M)_o\;=\;25.13{\pm}0.11$ mag (corresponding to a distance of d = $1060{\pm}50$ kpc). This result is in a good agreement with the recent distance estimate based on the TRGB method by Aparicio [1994, ApJ, 437, L27],$ (m\;-\;M)_o$ = 24.9 (d = 950 kpc). However, our distance estimate is much smaller than that based on the Cepheid variable candidates by Hoessel et al.[1990, AJ, 100, 1151], $(m\;-\;M)_o\;=\;26.22{\pm}0.20$ (d = $1750{\pm}160$ kpc) mag. The color-magnitude diagram illustrates that the Cepheid candidates used by Hoessel et al.are not located in the Cepheid instability strip, but in the upper part of the giant branch. This result shows that the Cepheid candidates studied by Hoessel et al.are probably not Cepheids, but other types of variable stars. Taking the average of our distance estimate and Aparicio's, the distance to the Pegasus galaxy is d= $1000{\pm}80$ kpc. Considering the distance and velocity of the Pegasus galaxy with respect to the center of the Local Group, we conclude that the Pegasus galaxy is probably a member of the Local Group.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.92-97
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• 2002

초측정 할 수 있는 nodal slide식 실시간 OTF 측정 장치를 제작하였다. 비축 물체를 측정하기 위하여 nodal slide와 T-bar를 사용하고, 실시간 측정을 위하여 화소 간격이 가로 9.9$\mu\textrm{m}$와 세로 9.6$\mu\textrm{m}$인 2차원 CCD(charge coupled device)를 사용하며, 초점 길이 300mm의 시준 렌즈를 사용하여 장치를 소형화하였다. 그리고 F/8, 초점 길이 50 mm인 SIRA사의 표준 렌즈를 이용하여 측정 장치의 정확도를 평가하고 보정하였다. 본 장치의 신뢰도를 위하여 시야각이 10.6$^{\circ}$이고, 초점 길이가 25.0mm인 CCTV & VIDEO 렌즈(JAPAN, AVENIR-SE 2514)의 MTF를 측정하여 카메라 벤취(bench)형 OTF측정 장치로부터 구한 MTF 값들과 상호 비교한 결과 대부분의 공간주파수에서 4% 이내로 일치하였다.