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Spectroscopic Study of the X-ray Dip at Pre-eclipse Phase of Hercules X-1

  • Choi, C.S.;Nagase, F.;Makino, F.;Dotani, T.;Min, K.W.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 1992.10a
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    • pp.21-21
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    • 1992
  • The X-ray binary pulsar Her X-1 was observed with Ginga on 1988 August 28 during the orbital phase of 0.76 to 0.85 at the main-on phase of the 35 day cycle. During the observations the X-ray intensity varied by a factor of five or more on a time scale as short as 30 sec, due mostly to the soft X-ray absorption in the pre-eclipse phase. From the studies of pulse profiles and energy spectra, we revealed that there exists in the dipphase an unpulsed component which is "3% of the intensity at the non-absorbed high-level. We suggest that scattering of the source continuum by the optically thin hot corona is responsible for the unpoised component. In the spectral analysis, we find that the high-state non-absorbed spectra can be fitted by a power-law without absorption, and the spectra observed in the different abgorption states by two components of a power-law with the same photon index. An iron-K emission line is required in to the cases of fitting. The estimated equivalent width of the iron line varies from 0.18 to 0.51 key according to the change in the absorption column density along the line of sight. We suggest that the fluorescent iron line arises in a cool and relatively small region, like the Alfvensur face, and may be partially intercepted by the optically thick gas cloud passing across the line of sight.1 Korea Astronomy Observatorya The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan3 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Broad Beam Gamma-Ray Spectrometric Studies with Environmental Materials

  • El-Kateb, Abdul-Hamid Hussein
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2018
  • Background: Gamma-ray spectrometry helps in radiation shielding problems and different applications of radioisotopes. Experimental arrangements including broad beam geometries are widely used. The aim is to investigate and evaluate the ${\gamma}-ray$ spectra via attenuation by environmental materials. Materials and Methods: The photo peak to nominated parts in the ${\gamma}-ray$ spectra and the attenuation coefficients ${\mu}_b/{\rho}$ from broad beam geometries are measured for the materials water, soil, sand and cement at the energies 0.662, 1.25, and 1.332 MeV with a $3{^{\prime}^{\prime}}{\times}3{^{\prime}^{\prime}}$ NaI(Tl) detector. Results and Discussion: The ${\gamma}-ray$ spectra vary according to changes in the effective atomic number $Z_{eff}$ of the attenuator, the photon energy and the solid angle. The peak to total ratios are the most sensitive parts to variations in the experimental conditions and overturn in the region 0.663 MeV to 1.332 MeV. This is indicated as inversion trend. The results are discussed in view of $Z_{eff}$ and the experimental conditions. The intensity build-up is larger at the lower energy and larger scattering angles in agreement with Klein-Nishina formula and other results. The build-up factor B is$${\sim_=}$$1 at high ${\gamma}-energies$ and small scattering angles. Conclusion: The sensitivity to material characteristics decrease gradually from peak: to total, to Compton valley, to Compton plateau ratios. Rigorous collimation is necessary at small energies. Cement, of the largest $Z_{eff}$, is characterized by the maximum broad beam mass attenuation coefficients ${\mu}_b/{\rho}$. The obtained results provide information to decide for the suitable experimental set-up based on aim of the work.

A Study on Photon Dose Calculation in 6 MV Linear Accelerator Based on Monte Carlo Method (몬테카를로 방법에 의한 6 MV 선형가속기의 광자 흡수선량 분포 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Sang-Koo;Ahn, Sung-Hwan;Kim, Chong-Yeal
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2011
  • In this study we modeled the varian 2100C/D linear accelerator head and multi-leaf collimator by simulation with the GEANT4 Monte Carlo toolkit. Then central axis percentage depth dose profiles and lateral dose profiles within homogeneous water phantom($50{\times}50{\times}50\;cm^3$) were evaluated with 6 MV photon beam. The simulations were performed in two stages. In the first stage, photon energy spectrum at the target were computed were computed. Then spectra data was directly irradiated in the water phantom using sampling techniques. The simulation data were compared with experimental data to evaluate the accuracy of the model. Results showed that two data were matched within 2% error boundary. The proposed method will be applied for simulation of dose calculation and dose distribution study.

The warm CO gas along the UV-heated outflow walls: a possible interpretation for the Herschel-PACS CO spectra of embedded YSO

  • Lee, Seokho;Lee, Jeong-Eun;Bergin, Edwin A.;Park, Yong-Sun
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.67.2-67.2
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    • 2013
  • Part of mid-J CO emission detected by the Herschel/PACS observations of embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) has been attributed to the UV-heated outflow walls. We have applied our newly developed self-consistent models of Photon Dominated Region (PDR) and Non-LTE line Radiative transfer In general Grid (RIG) to the Herschel FIR CO observations. If the black body radiation of T = 15,000 K is used, the observed mid-J CO line fluxes can be produced in inner dense regions (n ${\geq}$ 106 cm-3) with -4.5 ${\leq}$ log Gdust/n ${\leq}$ -2.5, where gas temperatures are larger than 300 K and CO abundances are ${\geq}$ 10-5, along the UV-heated outflow walls. The contribution of the UV heated outflow cavity wall in Class I seems to be larger than that in Class 0.

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SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF OPTICAL CONSTANTS AND DEPTH-PROFILE OF SPUTTERED AMORPHOUS TiO$_2$ THIN FILMS

  • Rhee, Sung-Gyu;Lee, Soon-Il;Oh, Soo-Ghee
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.654-659
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    • 1996
  • Amorphous $TiO_2$ thin films were deposited on silicon substrates by the RF magnetron sputtering under various conditions, and studied by the spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). To determine the optical constants as a function of photon energy and also to depth-profile the as-deposited $TiO_2$ thin films, we analyzed the ellipsometric spectra using the effective medium approximation and the dispersion equations. Especially, we improved the modeling accuracy by selectively using either the Sellmeier or the Forouhi and Bloomer dispersion equation in different energy regions.

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Characterization and Modification of Low Molecular Water-Soluble Chitosan for Pharmaceutical Application

  • Jang, Mi-Kyeong;Nah, Jae-Woon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.1303-1307
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    • 2003
  • The low molecular water-soluble chitosan nanoparticles (LMWSC-NPs) were prepared, which was modified with hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties to evaluate the potential for pharmaceutics application. The synthesis of LMWSC-NPs was identified by FT-IR and $^1H$-NMR spectra. Also, we measured the photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM) to investigate the characteristics and morphology of the LMWSC-NPs. At the PCS measurement, the more increase the number of substitutive group, the more decrease the positive charge of LMWSC-NP surface. From the results of TEM and AFM, spherical morphologies were observed, and their sizes were 30-150 nm. Resultantly, LMWSC-NPs prepared in this experiment will be expected as a suitable device for the drug targeting system.

MAGNETO-OPTICAL INVESTIGATION OF LOW-DEMENSIONAL MAGNETIC STRUCTURES

  • Shalyguina, E.E.;Kim, Cheol-Gi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.13-16
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    • 2003
  • Magnetic and magneto-optical properties of Fe/Pt/Fe, Co/Pd/Co trilayers and also the sandwiches with wedge-shaped magnetic (Fe, Co) and nonmagnetic (Pt, Pd) layers were investigated. The oscillatory behavior of the saturation field $H_{s}$ of the studied trilayers with changing the thickness of the nonmagnetic layer (NML) $t_{NML}$ was revealed. That was explained by the exchange coupling between ferromagnetic layers (FML) through the nonmagnetic spacer. For the first time, oscillations of the transverse Kerr effect (TKE) with changing the Pt- and Pd-wedge thickness were discovered. Period of these oscillations was found to depend on the FML thickness and the photon energy of the incident light. TKE spectra of the examined samples were discovered to modify very strongly with increasing $t_{NML}$. The discovered peculiarities of magneto-optical properties of thin-film systems were explained by a concept of the spin-polarized quantum well states in the pt and Pd layers.

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Electrical Conductivity and Optical Properties of Elongated Conducting Polymer (연신도전성고분자의 전기전도와 광학적 특성)

  • 박대희;강성화;임기조
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1994.05a
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    • pp.59-62
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    • 1994
  • Tact Electrical conductivity. optical absorption spectra of poly(p-phenylene vinylene) and their dependence on stretching are discussed in detail. The conductivity in the parallel direction to the stretching is higher over one order in magnitude than that in the perpendicular direction to the stretching is higher over one order in magnitude than that in the perpendicular direction to the stretching. The photocurrent spectrum for the ligh polarized parallel to the chain direction is much enhanced in lower photon energy compared with that for the light polarized perpendicular to that direction. The result may be originated in the difference of energies which is needed to photogenerate carriers wi th the light polarized parallel and perpendicular to the chain stretched direction.

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Photodissociation of CINO at 236 nm

  • Kim Hong Lae;Mo Yuxiang;Matsumi Yutaka;Kawasaki Masahiro
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.162-165
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    • 1992
  • The fine structure branching ratio and Doppler profiles of photofragment Cl ($^{2}P_{j}$) atoms from photodissociation of CINO around 236 nm in the A band have been measured by the two photon resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization technique. The measured branching ratio, $Cl^{\ast} (^{2}P_{1/2})/Cl (^{2}P_{3/2})$ is $0.18{\pm}0.02$. The Doppler profile of Cl is well reproduced assuming that one of the two components in the photofragment translational spectra reported by Haas, Felder, and Huber [Chem. Phys. Lett., 180, 293 (1990)] should correspond to Cl and that an anisotropy parameter $\beta$ for the angular distribution is 0.45. The results suggest that CINO dissociation in the A band should consist of at least two non-crossing electronic states which correlate to the formation of $Cl^* and Cl, respectively.

Above bandgap optical properties of ZnS grown by hot-wall epitaxy

  • Lee, M.S.;Koo, M.S.;Kim, T.J.;Kim, Y.D.;Yoo, Y.M.;O, B.;Choi, Y.D.
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.112-115
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    • 1999
  • The real ($\varepsilon$1) and imaginary ($\varepsilon$2) parts of the dielectric function of ZnS have been measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) in the 3.7-6.0 eV photon-energy range at room temperature. The obtained dielectric function spectra reveal distinct structures at energies E0/(E0+$\Delta$0) and E1 critical points. The spectrum after chemical treatment to remove surface oxide overlayer showed that these data seem to be the best representation of the dielectric function of ZnS, having the largest $\varepsilon$2 value at E1 peak region reported so far by SE. Dielectric-related optical constants of ZnS, such as the complex refractive indices (n+n=ik), absorption coefficient, and reflectance, are also presented.

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