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Role of Radio Frequency and Microwaves in Magnetic Fusion Plasma Research

  • Park, Hyeon K.
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.169-177
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    • 2017
  • The role of electromagnetic (EM) waves in magnetic fusion plasma-ranging from radio frequency (RF) to microwaves-has been extremely important, and understanding of EM wave propagation and related technology in this field has significantly advanced magnetic fusion plasma research. Auxiliary heating and current drive systems, aided by various forms of high-power RF and microwave sources, have contributed to achieving the required steady-state operation of plasmas with high temperatures (i.e., up to approximately 10 keV; 1 eV=10000 K) that are suitable for future fusion reactors. Here, various resonance values and cut-off characteristics of wave propagation in plasmas with a nonuniform magnetic field are used to optimize the efficiency of heating and current drive systems. In diagnostic applications, passive emissions and active sources in this frequency range are used to measure plasma parameters and dynamics; in particular, measurements of electron cyclotron emissions (ECEs) provide profile information regarding electron temperature. Recent developments in state-of-the-art 2D microwave imaging systems that measure fluctuations in electron temperature and density are largely based on ECE. The scattering process, phase delays, reflection/diffraction, and the polarization of actively launched EM waves provide us with the physics of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and transport physics.

Nondestructive Evaluation of Residual Life of 1Cr-1Mo-0.25V Steel by Reversible Magnetic Permeability

  • K. S. Ryu;S. H. Nahm;Kim, Y. I.;K. M. Yu;Kim, Y. B.;Y. Cho;D. Son
    • Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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    • 2000.09a
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    • pp.522-529
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    • 2000
  • We present a new procedure to evaluate the residual life of 1Cr-1Mo-0.25V steel by reversible magnetic permeability. The method is based on the existence of the first harmonics in the differential magnetization around the coercive force. The apparatus is based on the detection of the voltage induced in a coil using a lock-in amplifier tuned to a frequency of the exciting one. Results obtained for the first harmonics and Vickers hardness on the aged samples show that the peak interval of reversible permeability and Vickers hardness decrease as ageing time increases. The correlation between Vickers hardness and the peak interval of the reversible permeability could well be used to evaluate the residual life of 1Cr-1Mo-0.25V steel, nondestructively.

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Creating and Transforming a Second-Rank Antisymmetric Field-Strength Tensor Fαβ in Minkowski Space using MATHEMATICA

  • Kim, Bogyeong;Yun, Hee-Joong
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.131-142
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    • 2020
  • As the laws of physics are expressed in a manner that makes their invariance under coordinate transformations manifest, they should be written in terms of tensors. Furthermore, tensors make manifest the characteristics and behaviors of electromagnetic fields through inhomogeneous, anisotropic, and compressible media. Electromagnetic fields are expressed completely in tensor form, Fαβ, which implies both electric field ${\overrightarrow{E}}$ and magnetic field ${\overrightarrow{B}}$ rather than separately in the vector fields. This study presents the Mathematica platform that generates and transforms a second-rank antisymmetric field-strength tensor Fαβ and whiskbroom pattern in Minkowski space. The platforms enhance the capabilities of students and researchers in tensor analysis and improves comprehension of the elegant features of complete structure in physics.

General Relativistic Effects on Pulsar Radiation

  • Kim, Dong-Hoon;Trippe, Sascha
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.37.1-37.1
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    • 2017
  • We consider a magnetic dipole model of a pulsar and investigate general relativistic effects on electromagnetic radiation from the pulsar. The general relativistic modifications should be found applicable to many well-known issues in pulsar astronomy. Among other things, the modifications of Goldreich-Julian model and subpulse drift would be of significant interest and challenging issues. The electromagnetic fields in the pulsar magnetosphere are computed by solving Maxwell's equations defined in the strongly curved spacetime around the pulsar, hence containing the properties of strong gravitational effects. On top of these effects, we also investigate the effects from rotation and obliqueness of the pulsar to work out the general relativistic versions of Goldreich-Julian model and subpulse drift.

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Harmonic plasma emission by electron beam - plasma interaction

  • Rhee, Tong-Nyeol;Ryu, Chang-Mo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.43.1-43.1
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    • 2009
  • Electromagnetic radiation at the plasma frequency and its second harmonic, the so-called plasma emission, is fundamental process responsible for solar type II and III radio bursts. There have also been occasional observations of higher-harmonic plasma emissions in the solar-terrestrial environment. We will present that the simulation effort on characterizing the electron beam-generated plasma emission process at POSTECH. We have developed fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation code with three dimensions. We simulated harmonic plasma emission with various beam condition. Qualitative comparison with the traditional plasma frequency and second harmonic radiation theory is in good agreement. Higher harmonic emissions agree with the theory of coalescence of Langmuir and harmonic EM wave.

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Searching for Electromagnetic Counterpart of Gravitational Wave Source with KMTNet

  • Kim, Joonho;Im, Myungshin;Lee, Chung-Uk;Kim, Seung-Lee
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.62.3-62.3
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    • 2019
  • After first identification of electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational wave source (GW170817), era of multi-messenger astronomy has begun. For specifying coordinate, magnitude, and host galaxy information, optical follow-up observation of GW source becomes important. With following engineering run and O3 run of LIGO and VIRGO starting in March 2019, we present searching strategy for optical counterpart of GW source using KMTNet. 24 hours monitoring system and large field of view (4 square-degree) of KMTNet are advantage to discover a transient like GW event. By performing tiling observation of high probability area in GW localization map, we expect to observe early light-curve of GW optical counterpart. After identification, follow-up observation with various KMTNet bands and other telescopes like Gemini and UKIRT will also be performed. We will study collision mechanism, progenitor, and characteristics of host galaxy using observation data of GW source.

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Observing strategy for electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational wave source

  • Paek, Gregory SungHak;Im, Myungshin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.58.2-58.2
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    • 2019
  • Recent observation of the neutron star merger event, GW170817, through both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic wave (EM) observations opened a new way of exploring the universe, namely, multi-messenger astronomy (MMA). One of the keys to the success of MMA is a rapid identification of EM counterpart through optical/NIR observations. We will present the strategy for prioritization of GW source host galaxy candidates to be observed with narrow-field optical telescopes. Our method relies on recent simulation results regarding plausible properties of GW source host galaxies and the low latency localization map from LIGO/Virgo. We will show the test results for both NS merger and BH merger events using previous events and possible future events and describe observing strategy with our facilities for GW events during the ongoing LIGO/Virgo O3 run.

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Gravitational-wave Electromagnetic Counterpart Korean Observatory (GECKO): Network of Telescopes and Follow-up Observation of GW190425

  • Paek, Gregory S.H.;Im, Myungshin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.36.3-37
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    • 2020
  • Recent observation of the neutron star merger event, GW170817, through both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic wave (EM) observations opened a new way of exploring the universe, namely, multi-messenger astronomy (MMA). One of the keys to the success of MMA is a rapid identification of EM counterpart. We will introduce GW follow-up observation project in Korea for hunting GW EM counterpart rapidly and its strategy for prioritization of GW source host galaxy candidates. Our method relies on recent simulation results regarding plausible properties of GW source host galaxies and the low latency localization map from LIGO/Virgo. We will show a test result for both binary neutron star merger events using previous event and describe observing strategy with our facilities for GW events during the ongoing LIGO/Virgo O3 run. Finally, we report the results of optical/NIR follow-up observation of GW190425, the first neutron.

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Electromagnetic Vector Fields Simulation with Mathematica (전자기 벡터장 시각화를 위한 Mathematica 시뮬레이션)

  • Choi, Yong-Dae;Yun, Hee-Joong
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 2012
  • Visualization of the electromagnetic vector fields are presented and examined with Mathematica. Vector fields may be used to represent a great of many physical quantities in various area of physics, including electromagnetism with vector differential operators. Because they deal with abstract, three-dimensional fields that are some times very difficult to visualize, electromagnetism can be conceptually rather difficult. Visual representation of such an abstract vector fields is invaluable to student or researchers working in this field and also helps teaching electromagnetism to physics or engineering students. Mathematica provides a wider range of graphical tools including plot of vector fields and vector analysis, which can be applied to visualization of electromagnetic system. We have visualized the most fundamental concepts of the electromagnetic vector $\vec{E}=-\vec{\nabla}_{\varphi}$, $\vec{D}={\epsilon}\vec{E}$, $\vec{\nabla}{\times}\vec{A}$, $\vec{B}={\mu}\vec{H}$, $\vec{B}={\mu}_0(\vec{H}+\vec{M})$, which are confirmed with vector calculations and valid graphically with some presentations.

Detectable frequency and sensitivity of high temperature superconducting Josephson junctions (고온초전도 조셉슨 접합의 고주파 검지 특성 연구)

  • Cho, Won-Il;Shim, Woo-Seok;Yoo, Jang-Hoon;Kim, Do-Hyon;Park, Gwang-Seo;Song, In-Sang
    • 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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    • v.9
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    • pp.38-42
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    • 1999
  • We prepared hish T$_c$ Josephson junctions that have different I$_c\;'s$ and R$_n\;'s$ and studied their microwave properties. We measured the current-voltage characteristics of the junctions under the irradiation of 22 GHz electromagnetic wave at various temperatures. from the Shapiro steps, we calculated the maximum detectable frequency and the microwave received power of the junctions. Increasing critical current values increase both maximum detectable frequency and sensitivity. However, increasing temperature increase sensitivity but decrease maximum detectable frequency.

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