• 제목/요약/키워드: Polarimeter

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Polarimetry of solar system small bodies using the Seoul National University 61cm telescope and TRIPOL

  • Jin, Sunho;Ishiguro, Masateru;Kwon, Yuna Grace;Geem, Jooyeon;Bach, Yoonsoo P.;Seo, Jinguk;Sasago, Hiroshi;Sato, Shuji
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제44권1호
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    • pp.64.2-64.2
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    • 2019
  • It is known that lights scattered by comets and asteroids are partially polarized. From polarimetric observations of those objects, we can investigate physical properties, such as albedos, sizes of cometary dust particles and regolith of asteroids. Since the polarization degrees of those objects highly depend on their phase angles (Sun-object-observer's angles), long-term monitoring observations are required. Moreover, comets show unforeseeable activations (i.e., outbursts) which need follow-up observations to understand the mechanism. In order to realize such monitoring and transient observations, we installed the Triple-Range Imager and POLarimeter (TRIPOL) on the 61cm telescope of Seoul National University (Hereafter, SNU) Gwanak campus. With this combination, we can obtain g', r', i' bands photopolarimetric images simultaneously with $8.0^{\prime}{\times}8.0^{\prime}$ field of view and pixel resolution of 0.94" pixel-1. Here, we make a presentation regarding the photometric and polarimetric performances of TRIPOL on the SNU 61cm telescope. In addition, we introduce initial polarimetric results of asteroid and comets with the instruments. First, we determine the limiting magnitudes (defined as magnitudes for S/N=5) of $15.17{\pm}0.06$ (g'-band), $15.68{\pm}0.01$ (r'-band), $16.24{\pm}0.03$ (I'-band), respectively, with total 240-seconds exposure (four 60-seconds exposure images, each was taken at different rotation angle for the half-wave plate). Second, we found that the instrumental polarization is negligibly small, ($-0.32{\pm}0.04%$ in the g', $-0.36{\pm}0.05%$ in the r' and $-0.21{\pm}0.04%$ in the i'-bands), while the polarization efficiencies are large enough to maximize the performance (i.e., $97.52{\pm}0.03%$ in the g', $98.83{\pm}0.02%$ in the r' and $99.15{\pm}0.02%$ in the i'-bands). With the instruments, we made observations of three Jupiter-family comets, 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, 38P/Stephan-Oterma, and 46P/Wirtanen and plan to observe one near-Earth asteroid, (433) Eros, on a trial basis. Especially for comets, we discriminate signals from dust and gas to eliminate gas contamination, which are known to change observed degree of linear polarization, using multi-band images. We confirm that the phase angle dependency of these comets are consistent with previous observations, probably because polarimetric property of Jupiter-family comets are broadly homogeneous unlike asteroids. We will also describe future observation plans using TRIPOL and SNU 61cm telescope.

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COMPARISON OF LOS DOPPLER VELOCITIES AND NON-THERMAL LINE WIDTHS IN THE OFF-LIMB SOLAR CORONA MEASURED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY COMP AND HINODE/EIS

  • Lee, Jae-Ok;Lee, Kyoung-Sun;Seough, Jungjoon;Cho, Kyung-Suk
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제54권2호
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    • pp.49-60
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    • 2021
  • Observations of line of sight (LOS) Doppler velocity and non-thermal line width in the off-limb solar corona are often used for investigating the Alfvén wave signatures in the corona. In this study, we compare LOS Doppler velocities and non-thermal line widths obtained simultaneously from two different instruments, Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP) and Hinode/EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), on various off-limb coronal regions: flaring and quiescent active regions, equatorial quiet region, and polar prominence and plume regions observed in 2012-2014. CoMP provides the polarization at the Fe xiii 10747 Å coronal forbidden lines which allows their spectral line intensity, LOS Doppler velocity, and line width to be measured with a low spectral resolution of 1.2 Å in 2-D off limb corona between 1.05 and 1.40 RSun, while Hinode/EIS gives us the EUV spectral information with a high spectral resolution (0.025 Å) in a limited field of view raster scan. In order to compare them, we make pseudo raster scan CoMP maps using information of each EIS scan slit time and position. We compare the CoMP and EIS spectroscopic maps by visual inspection, and examine their pixel to pixel correlations and percentages of pixel numbers satisfying the condition that the differences between CoMP and EIS spectroscopic quantities are within the EIS measurement accuracy: ±3 km s-1 for LOS Doppler velocity and ±9 km s-1 for non-thermal width. The main results are summarized as follows. By comparing CoMP and EIS Doppler velocity distributions, we find that they are consistent with each other overall in the active regions and equatorial quiet region (0.25 ≤ CC ≤ 0.7), while they are partially similar to each other in the overlying loops of prominences and near the bottom of the polar plume (0.02 ≤ CC ≤ 0.18). CoMP Doppler velocities are consistent with the EIS ones within the EIS measurement accuracy in most regions (≥ 87% of pixels) except for the polar region (45% of pixels). We find that CoMP and EIS non-thermal width distributions are similar overall in the active regions (0.06 ≤ CC ≤ 0.61), while they seem to be different in the others (-0.1 ≤ CC ≤ 0.00). CoMP non-thermal widths are similar to EIS ones within the EIS measurement accuracy in a quiescent active region (79% of pixels), while they do not match in the other regions (≤ 61% of pixels); the CoMP observations tend to underestimate the widths by about 20% to 40% compared to the EIS ones. Our results demonstrate that CoMP observations can provide reliable 2-D LOS Doppler velocity distributions on active regions and might provide their non-thermal width distributions.

Cacao bean으로부터 분리된 polyphenol 성분의 화학구조분석과 ACE 저해효과 (The chemical structure of polyphenols isolated from cacao bean and their inhibitory effect on ACE)

  • 장영렬;임무현;이만종
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • 제41권1호
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    • pp.110-117
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    • 1998
  • Ghana산 cacao bean으로부터 acetone으로 추출하고 Sephadex LH-20, MCI-gel CHP-20, Bondapak $C_{18}$ 및 Fuji gel ODS $G_3$, chromatography 등을 이용하여 7종의 polyphenol 화합물(compound 1 - compound 7)을 분리 정제하였고, 이들 화합물의 화학구조를 $^1H-NMR$, $^{13}C-NMR$, IR 및 MS를 사용하여 검색하였고 아울러 angiotensin converting enzyme(ACE) 저해효과를 조사 검토하였다. 분리정제한 7종의 polyphenol 화합물의 구조를 분석한 결과, compound 1: [(+)-catechin], compound 2: [(-)-epicatechin], compound 3: [procyanidin B-1, (-)-epicatechin-$(4{\beta}{\rightarrow}8)$-(+)-catechin], compound 4 : [procyanidin B-2, (-)-epicatechin-$(4{\beta}{\rightarrow}8)$-(-)-epicatechin], compound 5: [procyanidin B-7, (-)-epicatechin-$(4{\beta}{\rightarrow}6)$-(+)-catechin], compound 6 : (procyanidin B-2,3,3'-O-digallate) 및 compound 7: [cinnamtannin A-2, (-)-epicatechin-$(4{\beta}{\rightarrow}8)$-(-)-epicatechin-$(4{\beta}{\rightarrow}8)$-(-)-epicatechin-$(4{\beta}{\rightarrow}8)$-(-)-epicatechin]임을 동정하였다. ACE의 저해효과는 procyanidin B-2,3,3'-O-digallate (compound 6)가 $100\;{\um}M$에서 94.6%로 매우 우수하였으며, (+)-catechin (compound 1), (-)-epicate -chin (compound 2), procyanidin B류 (compound 3, 4, 5) 및 cinnamtannin A-2 (compound 7)도 각각 67.9%, 61.9%, 88.6%, 82.5%, 72.2% 및 82.3%의 비교적 우수한 저해효과가 있었다. 아울러 결합방식에서는 $4{\beta}{\rightarrow}6$보다 $4{\beta}{\rightarrow}8$의 결합방식이, 그리고 procyanidin 류에서는 gallate를 갖는 물질이 이를 함유하지 많은 물질보다 더욱 높은 ACE의 저해효과를 나타내었으며, 또한 hydroxyl 기가 많을수록 효소 저해효과도 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 결과는 chocolate의 주원료인 cacao bean의 polyphenol 성분 또한 녹차 등에서 볼 수 있는 생리활성효과에 손색없는 것으로 판단되고, 이러한 기능성에 기초하여 chocolate, 음료 등의 식품이나 의약품의 기능성 소재로서의 산업적 응용 가능성이 높은 것으로 사료된다.

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