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RADIAL ABUNDANCE GRADIENT IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

  • Chun, M.S.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 1981
  • The observed radial UBV colour variations (both B-V and U-B) of some globular clusters are examined for correlations with radial variations in the integrated spectra. The results show that the presence of a radial colour gradient is correlated with the presence of a gradient of the CN (and possibly the G-band) line strength, in the sense that the CN (and possibly the G-band) is stronger in the centre (where the cluster is redder) and becomes weaker in the outer region of the cluster (where the cluster is bluer). This may suggest that a primordial abundance, possibly nitrogen and carbon gradient was set up in the early stage of cluster formation.

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NEW EVALUATION METHODS FOR RADIAL UNIFORMITY IN NEUTRON TRANSMUTATION DOPING

  • Kim, Hak-Sung;Lim, Jae-Yong;Pyeon, Cheol-Ho;Misawa, Tsuyoshi;Shiroya, Seiji;Park, Sang-Jun;Kim, Myong-Seop;Oh, Soo-Youl;Jun, Byung-Jin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.442-449
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the neutron irradiation for large diameter silicon (Si)-ingots of more than 8" diameter is requested to satisfy the demand for the neutron transmutation doping silicon (NTD-Si). By increasing the Si-ingot diameter, the radial non-uniformity becomes larger due to the neutron attenuation effect, which results in a limit of the feasible diameter of the Si-ingot. The current evaluation method has a certain limit to precisely evaluate the radial uniformity of Si-ingot because the current evaluation method does not consider the effect of the Si-ingot diameter on the radial uniformity. The objective of this study is to propose a new evaluation method of radial uniformity by improving the conventional evaluation approach. To precisely predict the radial uniformity of a Si-ingot with large diameter, numerical verification is conducted through comparison with the measured data and introducing the new evaluation method. A new concept of a gradient is introduced as an alternative approach of radial uniformity evaluation instead of the radial resistivity gradient (RRG) interpretation. Using the new concept of gradient, the normalized reaction rate gradient (NRG) and the surface normalized reaction rate gradient (SNRG) are described. By introducing NRG, the radial uniformity can be evaluated with one certain standard regardless of the ingot diameter and irradiation condition. Furthermore, by introducing SNRG, the uniformity on the Si-ingot surface, which is ignored by RRG and NRG, can be evaluated successfully. Finally, the radial uniformity flattening methods are installed by the stainless steel thermal neutron filter and additional Si-pipe to reduce SNRG.

RADIAL COLOR GRADIENT IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER 1. M68

  • Yi, Su-Kyoung;Chun, Mun-Suk
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.105-111
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    • 1990
  • Stars in M 68 from the observed-magnitude diagrams with CCD were integrated to find any radial gradient. The result shows that M 68 has a slightly bluer core. The main cause of these calculated radial color variations seems to come from the random distribution of ginants.

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CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY: RADIAL PROPERTIES

  • PARK BYEONG-GON;KANG YONG HEE;LEE SEE-WOO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 1996
  • The previous study of chemical evolution of the Galaxy is extended to the radial properties of the Galactic disk. The present model includes radial dependency of the time-dependent bimodal IMF, radial flow of material in the disk, and the change of type I supernova explosion rate with radial distance from the disk center as model parameters and observed gas and stellar density distributions and metallicity abundance gradient as observational constraints. The results of two models in this study explain the observed gas and stellar density distributions well, with the slope of the gas density gradient in the region of 4.5 kpc$Y_1$ and -0.123dex/kpc in model $Y_2$, respectively, which fit well the observed gradient of -0.l1dex/kpc. The abundance gradient reproduced in model $Y_1$ is getting flatter with decreasing radius, while that in model $Y_2$ is getting steeper, which fits better the observed abundance gradient. This result shows the necessity of exponentially increasing type I supernova explosion rate with decreasing radius in order to explain the observed abundance gradient in the disk. The fitness of observed density distribution and star formation rate distribution justifies the reliability of time-dependent bimodal IMF as a compound quantitative chemical evolution model of the Galaxy. The temporal variations of metallicity gradients for carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are also shown.

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COLOR GRADIENT IN THE KING TYPE GLOBULAR CLUSTER NGC 7089

  • Sohn, Young-Jong;Chun, Mun-Suk;Lee, Jae-Woo;Oh, Jung-Min
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.91-104
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    • 1999
  • We use BV CCD images to investigate the reality of the color gradient within a King type globular cluster NGC 7089. Surface photometry shows that there is a strong radial color gradient in the central region of the cluster in the sense of bluer center with the amplitude of ~0.39 $\pm$ 0.07 mag/$arcsec^2$ in (B - V). In the outer region of the cluster, however, the radial color gradient shows a reverse case, i.e., redder toward the center. (B - V) color profile which was derived from resolved stars in VGC 7089 field also shows a significant color gradient in the central region of the clusters, indicating that lights from the combination of red giant stars and blue horizontal branch stars cause the radial color gradient. Color gradient of the outer region of NGC 7089 may be due to the unresolved background of the cluster. Similar color gradients in the central area of clusters have been previously observed exserved exclusively in highly concentrated systems classified as post core collapse clusters. We caution, however, to confirm the reality of the color gradient from resolved stars, we need more accurate imaging data of the cluster with exceptional seeing condition because the effect of completeness correlates with local density of stars.

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RIGIDITY OF GRADIENT SHRINKING AND EXPANDING RICCI SOLITONS

  • Yang, Fei;Zhang, Liangdi
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.817-824
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we prove that a gradient shrinking Ricci soliton is rigid if the radial curvature vanishes and the second order divergence of Bach tensor is non-positive. Moreover, we show that a complete non-compact gradient expanding Ricci soliton is rigid if the radial curvature vanishes, the Ricci curvature is nonnegative and the second order divergence of Bach tensor is nonnegative.

A CHARACTERIZATION OF CONCENTRIC HYPERSPHERES IN ℝn

  • Kim, Dong-Soo;Kim, Young Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.531-538
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    • 2014
  • Concentric hyperspheres in the n-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$ are the level hypersurfaces of a radial function f : $\mathbb{R}^n{\rightarrow}\mathbb{R}$. The magnitude $||{\nabla}f||$ of the gradient of such a radial function f : $\mathbb{R}^n{\rightarrow}\mathbb{R}$ is a function of the function f. We are interested in the converse problem. As a result, we show that if the magnitude of the gradient of a function f : $\mathbb{R}^n{\rightarrow}\mathbb{R}$ with isolated critical points is a function of f itself, then f is either a radial function or a function of a linear function. That is, the level hypersurfaces are either concentric hyperspheres or parallel hyperplanes. As a corollary, we see that if the magnitude of a conservative vector field with isolated singularities on $\mathbb{R}^n$ is a function of its scalar potential, then either it is a central vector field or it has constant direction.

Numerical simulation of slit wall effect on the Taylor vortex flow with radial temperature gradient

  • Liu, Dong;Chao, Chang-qing;Zhu, Fang-neng;Han, Xi-qiang;Tang, Cheng
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.304-310
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    • 2015
  • Numerical simulation was applied to investigate the Taylor vortex flow inside the concentric cylinders with a constant radial temperature gradient. The reliability of numerical simulation method was verified by the experimental results of PIV. The radial velocity and temperature distribution in plain and 12-slit model at different axial locations were compared, and the heat flux distributions along the inner cylinder wall at different work conditions were obtained. In the plain model, the average surface heat flux of inner cylinder increased with the inner cylinder rotation speed. In slit model, the slit wall significantly changed the distribution of flow field and temperature in the annulus gap, and the radial flow was strengthen obviously, which promoted the heat transfer process at the same working condition.

Learning Behaviors of Stochastic Gradient Radial Basis Function Network Algorithms for Odor Sensing Systems

  • Kim, Nam-Yong;Byun, Hyung-Gi;Kwon, Ki-Hyeon
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2006
  • Learning behaviors of a radial basis function network (RBFN) using a singular value decomposition (SVD) and stochastic gradient (SG) algorithm, together named RBF-SVD-SG, for odor sensing systems are analyzed, and a fast training method is proposed. RBF input data is from a conducting polymer sensor array. It is revealed in this paper that the SG algorithm for the fine-tuning of centers and widths still shows ill-behaving learning results when a sufficiently small convergence coefficient is not used. Since the tuning of centers in RBFN plays a dominant role in the performance of RBFN odor sensing systems, our analysis is focused on the center-gradient variance of the RBFN-SVD-SG algorithm. We found analytically that the steadystate weight fluctuation and large values of a convergence coefficient can lead to an increase in variance of the center-gradient estimate. Based on this analysis, we propose to use the least mean square algorithm instead of SVD in adjusting the weight for stable steady-state weight behavior. Experimental results of the proposed algorithm have shown faster learning speed and better classification performance.

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High-Order Surface Gradient Coil Design Using Target Field Approach

  • Lee, J.K.;Yang, Y.J.;Jeong, S.T.;Choi, H.J.;Cho, Z.H.;Oh, C.H.
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this paper is to design high-order (or radial) surface gradient coil (SGC), which can provide multi-dimensional spatial selection. Although the spatial Selection with High-Order gradienT (SHOT) can provide a 2-D selection with only one selective RF pulse, the high-order gradient pro- duced by conventional cylindrical-shape coils has not been clinically useful due to the large selection size caused by the limited radial gradient intensity. However, by using the proposed high-order SGCs located near the imaging region, the size of volume selection can be reduced to a clinically useflll size of 1-2 cm in diameter by applying stronger radial gradient field with much less gradient driving power. So far radial SGCs have been designed by using the field component method and may cause distortion in the selection shapes. In this paper, by using the target field approach for the coil design, selected volumes became almost circular. A 40 cm-by-40 cm $z^2$_surface gradient coil has been designed and implemented by using the target field approach. Phantom and volunteer studies have been performed Experimental results using spatially localized MRI show good agreement to the theoretically predicted behavior.

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