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A SEARCH FOR MOLECULAR CLOUDS AT HIGH GALACTIC LATITUDE

  • Chi Seung-Youp;Park Yong-Sun
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2006
  • We carried out CO survey toward IR-excess clouds using SRAO 6-m telescope in search of molecular $H_2$. These clouds, which show far-infrared excess over what is expected from HI column density, are considered to be candidates of molecular clouds. In order to find new high Galactic latitude clouds, we made mapping observations for 14 IR-excess clouds selected from Reach et al.(1998) in $^{12}CO$ J = 1 - 0 line, supplementing the similar survey in southern hemisphere (Onishi et al. 2001). $^{12}CO$ emission is detected from three IR-excess clouds among 14 objects. Three newly detected clouds exhibit somewhat clumpy morphology and column densities amount to ${\sim}10^{21}\;cm^{-2}$. One of three clouds, DIR120-28, show discrepancy between IR-excess center and CO emission center. It seems that IR-excess may not be an effective tracer of molecular gas. Instead, optical depth$(\tau)$ excess, i.e., IR-excess corrected for temperature dependence, may be more effective tracer of molecular clouds, since, by combining statistics from both hemispheres, we found that the detection rate is higher for IR-excess clouds with lower dust temperature.

A Point Clouds Fast Thinning Algorithm Based on Sample Point Spatial Neighborhood

  • Wei, Jiaxing;Xu, Maolin;Xiu, Hongling
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.688-698
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    • 2020
  • Point clouds have ability to express the spatial entities, however, the point clouds redundancy always involves some uncertainties in computer recognition and model construction. Therefore, point clouds thinning is an indispensable step in point clouds model reconstruction and other applications. To overcome the shortcomings of complex classification index and long time consuming in existing point clouds thinning algorithms, this paper proposes a point clouds fast thinning algorithm. Specifically, the two-dimensional index is established in plane linear array (x, y) for the scanned point clouds, and the thresholds of adjacent point distance difference and height difference are employed to further delete or retain the selected sample point. Sequentially, the index of sample point is traversed forwardly and backwardly until the process of point clouds thinning is completed. The results suggest that the proposed new algorithm can be applied to different targets when the thresholds are built in advance. Besides, the new method also performs superiority in time consuming, modelling accuracy and feature retention by comparing with octree thinning algorithm.

Research on Geo-Referencing Methodology of Point Clouds Data in Urban Area (포인트 클라우드 자료의 도심지 Geo-Referencing 방안 연구)

  • Cho, Hyung-Sig;Sohn, Hong-Gyoo;Han, Soo-Hee;Hwang, Sae-Mi-Na
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.285-287
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    • 2010
  • It is recently enlarged to necessity of 3D spatial information model in urban areas. and in order to that, It is increased to use the terrestrial LiDAR. The Point clouds which are received by terrestrial LiDAR take a relateive coordinate. For transform into absolute coordinate, it carry out GPS surveying. However, it is difficult to geo-referencing of point clouds using the GPS due to high buildings and facilities in urban area. This study suggests a methodology, that is geo-referencing of point clouds which is received from terresstrial LiDAR in urban area and then verified accuracy of geo-referencing of point clouds. In order to geo-Referencing of point clouds which are received in Engineering building of Yonsei Univ., it was be setout through GPS surveying, and then obtained absolute coordinate of real building. Using this coordinate, It was operated geo-referencing of point clouds, verified accuracy between check point and geo-referenced point clouds. As a result, RMSE of check point shows that GPS surveying is 6.9~8.0cm.

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IDENTIFICATION CODE OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS WITHIN IRAF

  • Lee, Young-Ung;Jung, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.185-196
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    • 1997
  • We present a code which identifies individual clouds in crowded region using IMFORT interface within Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). We define a cloud as an object composed of all pixels in longitude, latitude, and velocity that are simply connected and that lie above some threshold temperature. The code searches the whole pixels of the data cube in efficient way to isolate individual clouds. Along with identification of clouds it is designed to estimate their mean values of longitudes, latitudes, and velocities. In addition, a function of generating individual images (or cube data) of identified clouds is added up. We also present identified individual clouds using a $^{12}CO$ survey data cube of Galactic Anticenter Region (Lee et al. 1997) as a test example. We used a threshold temperature of $5\sigma$ rms noise level of the data With a higher threshold temperature, we isolated subclouds of a huge cloud identified originally. As the most important parameter to identify clouds is the threshold value, its effect to the size and velocity dispersion is discussed rigorously.

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CENSUS AND ANALYSIS OF GALACTIC MOLECULAR CLOUDS

  • HOJAEV, A.S.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.107-108
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    • 2015
  • In this project, all available databases of molecular and gas-dust clouds in the Galaxy were cross-identified by taking into account available properties, including position, angular dimensions, velocity, density, temperature and mass. An initial list of about 7000 entries was condensed into a cross-identified all-sky catalogue containing molecular and gas-dust clouds. Some relationships were studied between the main physical features of clouds. Finally, we prepared a complex observing program and address future work for filling in the gaps.

DISTANCE DETERMINATION TO THE MOLECULAR CLOUDS IN THE GALACTIC ANTI-CENTER REGION

  • KIM HYUN-GOO;LEE YOUNGUNG;PARK BYEONG-GON;KIM BONG-GYU
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2000
  • We conducted a deep CCD observations in V band to obtain stellar density distribution and to determine the distances toward two molecular clouds with anomalous velocity in the Galactic anti-center region. Star count method based on the linear programming technique was applied to the CCD photometric data. We found two prominent peaks at distances of around 1.4 and 2.7 kpc. It is found that the first peak coincides well with stellar density enhancement of B8-A0 stars and the second one with the outer Perseus arm. The effect of the choice of the luminosity function is discussed. The stellar number density distribution is used to derive the distances to the molecular clouds and the visual extinctions caused by the clouds. We found that two molecular clouds are located almost at the same distance of about 1.1 $\pm$ 0.1 kpc, and the peak extinctions caused by the clouds are about 2.2 $\pm$ 0.3 mag in V band.

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THE DYNAMICAL STRUCTURES OF DENSE MOLECULAR CLOUDS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER REGION & THEIR IMPLICATIONS

  • LEE C. W.;LEE H. M.;ANN H. B.;KWON K. H.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.161-163
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    • 1996
  • We have studied the response of molecular clouds in the Galactic disk to a rotating bar by conducting Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations for the Galaxy in order to understand the dynamical structures of the Galactic Center (GC) molecular clouds, and their implications. In our study it was found that the structures of GC molecular clouds could be induced by the combined effects of rotating bar potential, the hydrodynamic collisions and gravitational miss collisions between the clouds.

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A study on the acceleration of the HI gas clouds around the star clusters Pleaides and h and x Persei (Pleiades와 h and x Persei 성단(星團) 둘레의 HI gas clouds의 가원(加速)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Yu, Kyung-Loh
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.37-50
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    • 1968
  • By comparison and analysis of the optical data of the two galactic clusters of Pleiades and h and x Persei and the radio data of the HI gas clouds which are related with those two clusters, the relative motions of those gas clouds with retpect to the two clusters were obtained. The three theories on the acceleration of HI gas cloud surrounding a star cluster by Blaauw. Oort and Spitzer, and Kahn were examined with the above obtained kinetic data of the Pleiades and the h and x Penei clouds. And it was shown that Blaauw's theory is applicable to the h and x Persoi clouds but not to the Pleiades, that Dart and Spitzer's theory can explain the motions of both clouds, and that Kahn's theory needs more improvement to be a complete one.

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DISTRIBUTION AND KINEMATICS OF FORMALDEHYDE IN DARK CLOUDS IN M17 AND NGC 2024

  • MINN Y. K.;LEE Y. B.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 1994
  • The 4.8GHz formaldehyde absorption line in the dark clouds in M17 and NGC 2024 regions has been mapped. In both nebulae, we detected two $H_2CO$ line components. In M17, the 24km $S^{-1}$ cloud is closely associated with the HII region located in front of the radio continuum source, and the 19km $S^{-1}$ cloud is associated with the visual dark clouds with a larger extent which are closer to us. The 19km $S^{-1}$ cloud has a mass motion approaching to the HII region. In both clouds, a velocity gradient from the north-east to the south-west directions is observed. The linewidth has no variation indicating no collapsing motion. In NGC 2024, the 9km $S^{-1}$ feature is extended along the dark bar in front of the bright nebula and a weak second component at 13km $S^{-1}$ is confined to the immediate vicinity of the radio source. Indications are that the 9km $S^{-1}$ cloud is physically associated with the dark bar and the 13km $S^{-1}$ cloud is located behind the radio source. The angular extent, the column density, and the total mass of the clouds are derived. The radial velocities of other molecular lines observed in these clouds are compared.

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Escape of LyC and Lyα Photons from Simulated Turbulent Clouds

  • Kimm, Taysun;Blaizot, Jeremy;Garel, Thibault;Michel-Dansac, Leo;Katz, Harley;Rosdahl, Joakim;Verhamme, Anne;Haehnelt, Martin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.73.2-73.2
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    • 2019
  • Understanding how ionizing radiation propagates from molecular clouds to the intergalactic space is the key to the study of reionization and the emergence of $Ly{\alpha}$ emission from galaxies. In this contribution, I will present our new efforts to better understand the escape of UV photons from turbulent clouds with different masses, star formation efficiencies, and spectral energy distributions using radiation-hydrodynamic simulations. I will also show predicted Lya profiles from turbulent clouds and discuss a few interesting differences identified when compared with the properties of the local green pea galaxies.

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