• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.61.3-61.3
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• 2019

We report the status of KMTNet (Korea Microlensing Telescope Network) microlensing. From KMTNet event-finder, we are annually detecting over 2500 microlensing events. In 2018, we have carried out a real-time alert for only the Northern bulge fields. It was very helpful to select Spitzer targets. Thanks to the real-time alert, KMT-only events for which OGLE and MOA could not detect have been largely increased. The KMTNet event-finder and alert-finder algorithms are being upgraded every year. From these, we found 18 exoplanets and various interesting events, such as an exomoon-candidate, a free-floating candidate, and brown dwarfs, which are very difficult to be detected by other techniques including radial velocity and transit. In 2019, the KMTNet alert will be available in real-time for all bulge fields. As before, we will continue to collaborate with Spitzer team to measure the microlens parallaxes, which are required for estimating physical parameters of the lens. Thus, the KMTNet alert will be helpful to select Spitzer targets again. Also we plan to do follow-up observations for high-magnification events to study the planet multiplicity function. The KMTNet alert will play an important role to do follow-up observations for high-magnification events. Also, we will search for free-floating planets with short timescale (< 3 days) to study the planet frequency in our Galaxy.

• 식품과학과 산업
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.40-63
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• 2016

John Glenn, America's first man to eat anything in the near-weightless environment of Earth orbit, found the task of eating fairly easy. With improved packaging came improved food quality and menus. By the time of the Apollo Program, the quality and variety of food increased even further. Apollo astronauts were the first to have hot water, which made rehydrating foods easier and improved the food's taste. Thermostabilized pouches were also introduced on Apollo. The task of eating in space got a big boost in Skylab. It also had a food freezer and refrigerator a convenience offered by no other vehicle before or since. Two different food systems will be used for future long-duration missions to other planets, one for traveling to and from the distant body and one for use on the surface of the moon or Mars. The transit food system will be similar to the space station food system with the exception that products with three-to five-year shelf lives will be needed. Thus, this part of the trip will be similar to what occurs aboard space missions now. The surface food system, be it lunar or planetary, will be quite different. It will be similar to a vegetarian diet that someone could cook on Earth. Once crew members arrive on the surface and establish living quarters, they can start growing crops. Once the crops are processed into edible ingredients, cooking will be done in the spacecraft's galley to make the food items. Disposal of used food packaging will be an issue since there will be no Progress vehicles to send off and incinerate into the Earth's atmosphere. Packaging materials will be used that have less mass but sufficient barrier properties for oxygen and water to maintain shelf life as those now in use.

• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.241-255
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• 2021

우주관측 자료는 우주 임무를 통해 관측한 별, 은하, 태양, 우주 플라즈마(plasma), 달, 행성 등의 연구 자료로 관측 자료를 가공 및 활용한 것까지 포함한다. 국내외 천문우주 관측시스템이 대형화되고, 우주 임무의 확대 및 자료 용량 증가(빅 데이터)로 인해 우주관측 자료의 체계적이고 효율적인 관리에 대한 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 이에 우리나라도 우주관측 자료의 전략을 세우고, 이를 바탕으로 우주관측 자료 정책을 수립해야 한다. 이를 위한 준비 단계로 우주관측 자료에 대한 광범위한 이해와 다년간의 경험으로부터 발전된 미 항공우주국(National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA)의 자료 전략을 분석하였다. NASA의 자료 전략 분석 결과를 바탕으로 우리나라의 우주관측 자료 전략 방향과 앞으로 우주관측 자료 정책을 수립하는 데 기반이 될 우주관측 자료 전략 권고 사항 10가지를 제안한다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.62.1-62.1
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• 2021

Interstellar objects originate from other stellar systems. Thus, they contain information about the stellar systems that cannot be directly explored; the information includes the formation and evolution of the stellar systems and the possibility of life. The examples observed so far are 1l/Oumuamua in 2017 and 2l/Borisov in 2019. In this talk, we present the possibility of detecting interstellar objects using the Heliospheric Imagers designed for space weather research and forecasting by observing solar wind in interplanetary space between the Sun and Earth. Because interstellar objects are unpredictable events, the detection requires observations with wide coverage in spatial and long duration in temporal. The near-real time data availability is essential for follow-up observations to study their detailed properties and future rendezvous missions. Heliospheric Imagers provide day-side observations, inaccessible by traditional astronomical observations. This will dramatically increase the temporal and spatial coverage of observations and also the probability of detecting interstellar objects visiting our solar system, together with traditional astronomical observations. We demonstrate that this is the case. We have used data taken from Solar TErrestrial RElation Observatory (STEREO)/Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) HI-1. HI-1 is off-pointed from the Sun direction by 14 degrees with 20 degrees of the field of view. Using images observed from 2007 to 2019, we have found a total of 223 small objects other than stars, galaxies, or planets, indicative of the potential capability to detect interstellar objects. The same method can be applied to the currently operating missions such as the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter and also future L5 and L4 missions. Since the data can be analyzed in near-real time due to the space weather purposes, more detailed properties can be analyzed by follow-up observations in ground and space, and also future rendezvous missions. We discuss future possible rendezvous missions at the end of this talk.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.37.3-38
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• 2021

One of the key questions on star formation is how the organic molecules are synthesized and delivered to the planets and comets since they are the building blocks of prebiotic molecules such as amino acid, which is thought to contribute to bringing life on Earth. Recent astrochemical models and experiments have explained that complex organic molecules (COMs; molecules composed of six or more atoms) are produced on the dust grain mantles in cold and dense gas in prestellar cores. However, the chemical networks and the roles of physical conditions on chemistry are not still understood well. To address this question, hot (> 100 K) cores in high mass young stellar objects (M > 8 Msun) are great laboratories due to their strong emissions and larger samples than those of low-mass counterparts. In addition, CH₃OH masers, which have been mostly found in high mass star forming regions, can provide constraints due to their very unique emerging mechanisms. We investigate twelve high mass star forming regions in ALMA band 6 observation. They are associated with 44/95 GHz Class I and 6.7 GHz Class II CH3OH masers, implying that the active accretion processes are ongoing. For these previously unresolved regions, 66 continuum peaks are detected. Among them, we found 28 cores emitting COMs and specified 10 cores associated with 6.7 GHz Class II CH3OH masers. The chemical diversity of COMs is found in cores in terms of richness and complexity; we identified up to 19 COMs including oxygen- and nitrogen-bearing molecules and their isotopologues in a core. Oxygen-bearing molecules appear to be abundant and more complex than nitrogen-bearing species. On the other hand, the COMs detection rate steeply grows with the gas column density, which can be attributed to the effective COMs formation in dense cores.

• 천문학회보
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.59.2-59.2
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• 2020

Disks around protostars are the birthplace of planets. The first step toward planet formation is grain growth from ㎛-sized grains to mm/cm-sized grains in a disk, particularly in dense regions. In order to study whether grains grow and segregate at the protostellar stage, we investigate the ALMA Band 3 (3.1 mm) and 7 (0.87 mm) dust continuum observations of the protostellar disk WL 17 in ρ Ophiuchus L1688 cloud. As reported in a previous study, the Band 3 image shows substructures: a narrow ring and a large central hole. On the other hand, the Band 7 image shows different substructures: a non-axisymmetric ring and an off-center hole. The two-band observations provide a mean spectral index of 2.3, which suggests the presence of mm/cm-sized large grains. Its non-axisymmetric distribution may imply dust segregation between small and large grains. We perform radiative transfer modeling to examine the size and spatial distributions of dust grains in the WL 17 disk. The best-fit model suggests that large grains (>1 cm) exist in the disk, settling down toward the midplane, whereas small grains (~10 ㎛) well mixed with gas are distributed off-center and non-axisymmetrically in a thick layer. The low spectral index and the modeling results suggest that grains rapidly grow at the protostellar stage and that grains differently distribute depending on sizes, resulting in substructures varying with observed wavelengths. To understand the differential grain distributions and substructures, we discuss the effects of the protoplanet(s) expected inside the large hole and the possibility of gravitational instability.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

우주 탐사는 인류의 과학적 노력 중 가장 선두에 있으며, 행성 탐사 로버는 행성 지표면을 연구하는 핵심 장비이다. 행성 로버의 성능은 가파른 경사와 다양한 행성 지형을 탐지하고 통과하는 데 큰 영향을 미치며 특히 달과 같은 행성에서는 급격한 경사와 연약한 지면을 안전하게 등반하고 이동할 수 있는 능력이 필수적으로 요구된다. 이 논문에서는 우주 행성 탐사 로버가 직면하는 가파른 지형과 연약한 지면을 모사하는 등반 시험장의 설계와 검증 방법을 종합적으로 소개한다. 먼저 달의 크레이터 지역의 지형 특성과 탐사의 중요성을 간략히 설명하고, 기존 등반 시험장의 개발 사례를 살펴보며, 현재 한국건설기술연구원에서 운영 중인 지반열진공챔버 내에 설치 예정인 등반 시험장의 설계 과정을 설명한다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 등반 시험장이 개발되면 실제 달의 환경과 유사한 고진공, 극한 온도 조건에서 로버의 이동과 탐사 능력을 정밀하게 평가할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.373-387
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• 2023

우주 여행이 시작된 이래로 우주 행성에 대한 과학적 탐사는 인간의 상상력을 높이고 있다. 화성에 대한 임무는 지구에서 생명체가 언제, 어디서, 어떻게 시작되었는지에 대한 중요한 질문에 답을 제공할 수 있으며, 이 임무는 현지 우주 자원 활용(ISRU) 개념을 통해서만 실행 가능하다. 이 논문에서는 현재 우주 강국들을 중심으로 진행 중인 화성 탐사를 다루며, 인공 화성토양 조사와 탐사 로버의 이동성 연구를 중점으로 다루고 있다. 화성의 실제 지상 환경을 모사하기 위해서는 수십 톤의 토양이 필요하므로 원료 확보와 처리 과정도 고려되어야 한다. 이를 위해 화성 표면 토양과 유사한 특성을 가진 인공 토양을 선별하고, 인공 화성토양 개발을 위한 필요 사항을 제시한다. 이 연구를 통해 화성 탐사 임무에서 로버의 이동성을 평가하는 데 필요한 적절한 화성 토양을 개발하는 데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 광물과 암석
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.337-343
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• 2023

감람석은 철감람석과 마그네슘감람석의 완전고용체로서 암석형 행성, 운석, 소행성, 행성간 먼지 등에 풍부하게 함유되어 있다. 감람석은 조성범위가 매우 넓기 때문에 감람석 함유 시료의 광물정량분석을 위해서는 다양한 조성의 감람석 표준물질을 구비해야 한다. 감람석 표준물질을 전기로와 스테인리스강관을 이용하여 1000~1100 ℃ 범위의 온도에서 합성하였다. 엑스선회절분석에 의하면 시료에 따라 합성불순물과 미반응물이 있으나 전반적으로 전조성 범위를 포함하는 감람석이 합성되었다. 합성 감람석들은 출발물질의 철감람석 몰비에 비례하여 단위포 치수가 선형으로 증가하는 경향을 보였으며, 회절강도도 자연산 감람석과 부합하였다. 그러나 철 함량이 높은 합성 감람석에서 불순물 함량이 증가하는 경향이 있어 아직 모든 합성 감람석을 표준물질로 사용할 수 없으며, 출발물질의 고순도화, 반응시간 및 온도 조절 등의 합성과정 개선이 필요하다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.293-299
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• 2023

The Wide-Angle Polarimetric Camera (PolCam) is installed on the Korea's lunar orbiter, Danuri, which launched on August 5, 2022. The mission objectives of PolCam are to construct photometric maps at a wavelength of 336 nm and polarization maps at 461 and 748 nm, with a phase angle range of 0°-135° and a spatial resolution of less than 100 m. PolCam is an imager using the push-broom method and has two cameras, Cam 1 and Cam 2, with a viewing angle of 45° to the right and left of the spacecraft's direction of orbit. We conducted performance tests in a laboratory setting before installing PolCam's flight model on the spacecraft. We analyzed the CCD's dark current, flat-field frame, spot size, and light flux. The dark current was obtained during thermal / vacuum test with various temperatures and the flat-field frame data was also obtained with an integrating sphere and tungsten light bulb. We describe the calibration method and results in this study.