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INFRARED PHOTOMETRIC STUDY OF FIELD POPULATION II STARS

  • LEE SANG-GAK;BRUCE W. CARNEY;ROBERT PROBST
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1997
  • Near infrared JHK magnitudes are presented for two hundred two high proper motion stars. We have observed high proper motion stars in the near-infrared bands(JHK) using the COB detector on the Kitt Peak 1.3m, 2.1m and 4m telescopes. The observations and data reduction procedures are described. The infrared color magnitude diagram and color-color diagrams for the program stars are presented.

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Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Activities in Korea

  • Oh, Sang-Hoon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.78.2-78.2
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    • 2014
  • Many techniques for data analysis also based on gaussian noise assumption which is often valid in various situations. However, the sensitivity of gravitational wave searches are limited by their non-gaussian and non-stationary noise. We introduce various on-going efforts to overcome this limitation in Korean Gravitational Wave Group. First, artificial neural networks are applied to discriminate non-gaussian noise artefacts and gravitational-wave signals using auxiliary channels of a gravitational wave detector. Second, viability of applying Hilbert-Huang transform is investigated to deal with non-stationary data of gravitational wave detectors. We also report progress in acceleration of low-latency gravitational search using GPGPU.

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Search for Dark Photon in e+e- → A'A' Using Future Collider Experiments

  • Kihong Park;Kyungho Kim;Alexei Sytov;Kihyeon Cho
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 2023
  • The Standard Model (SM) does not provide an information for 26% of dark matter of the universe. In the dark sector, dark matter is supposed to be linked with the hypothetical particles called dark photons that have similar role to photons in electromagnetic interaction in the SM. Besides astronomical observation, there are studies to find dark matter candidates using accelerators. In this paper, we searched for dark photons using future electron-positron colliders, including Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC)/CEPC, Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee)/Innovative Detector for Electron-positron Accelerator (IDEA), and International Linear Collider (ILC)/International Large Detector (ILD). Using the parameterized response of the detector simulation of Delphes, we studied the sensitivity of a double dark photon mode at each accelerator/detector. The signal mode is double dark photon decay channel, e+e- → A'A', where A' (dark photon with spin 1) decaying into a muon pair. We used MadGraph5 to generate Monte Carlo (MC) events by means of a Simplified Model. We found the dark photon mass at which the cross-sections were the highest for each accelerator to obtain the maximum number of events. In this paper we show the expected number of dark photon signal events and the detector efficiency of each accelerator. The results of this study can facilitate in the dark photon search by future electron-positron accelerators.

Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter of the Solar Flare Telescope at NAOJ

  • Hagino, Masaoki;Sakurai, Takashi;Hanaoka, Yoichiro;Shinoda, Kazuya;Noguchi, Motokazu;Miyashita, Masakuni;Fukuda, Takeo;Suzuki, Isao;Arai, Takehiko;Takeyama, Norihide
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.85.2-85.2
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    • 2011
  • A new infrared spectro-polarimeter was installed in 2008 onto the Solar Flare Telescope of NAOJ in the Mitaka headquarters. The Solar Flare Telescope had been operated previously as a filter-based magnetograph and obtained vector magnetograms of active regions with the Fe I 630.3nm line during 1992 - 2005. The aim of this new instrument is to measure the distribution of magnetic helicity over the whole Sun and for an extended period with high magnetic sensitivity in the infrared wavelengths. This spectro-polarimter is able to obtain polarizations in both photospheric and chromospheric layers. In order to take full Stokes profiles, we observe Fe I 1564.8 nm and He I 1083.0 nm lines (with the neighboring photospheric Si line) for the photospheric and chromospheric magnetic field vectors, respectively. The infrared detector of this instrument is a $640{\times}512$-pixel InGaAs camera produced by a Belgian company Xenics. The frame rate of the camera is 90 frames/sec. The 640-pixel row of this camera is set along the spectrograph slit of the polarimeter. Since the slit only covers the solar hemisphere, a full disk map is obtained by raster scanning the solar disk twice. A magnetic map is made of about $1200{\times}1200$ pixels with a pixel size of 1.8 arcsec. It generally takes 1.5 hours to scan the whole Sun. Although some issues on the instrument calibration still remain, a few maps of the whole Sun at the two wavelengths are now taken daily. In this presentation, we will introduce the instrument and present some observational results.

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OKAYAMA ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY WIDE-FIELD CAMERA

  • YANAGISAWA KENSHI
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.109-112
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    • 2005
  • We present the design, expected performance, and current status of the wide field near-infrared camera (OAOWFC) now being developed at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, NAOJ, NINS. OAOWFC is a near-infrared survey telescope whose effective aperture is 91cm. It works at Y, J, H, and $K_s$ bands and is dedicated to the survey of long period variable stars in the Galactic plane. The field of view is $0.95 {\times} 0.95 deg^2$ which is covered by one HAWAII-2 RG detector of 2048 ${\times}$ 2048 pixels with the pixel size of $18.5 {\mu}m\;{\times}\;18.5{\mu}m$, that results in the sampling pitch of 1.6 arcsec/pixel. OAOWFC can sweep the area of $840 deg^2$ every 3 weeks, attaining a limiting magnitude of 13 in $K_s$ band. It allows us to observe long period variables embedded in the Galactic plane where interstellar extinction is severe in optical.

DEVELOPMEMT OF MID-RESOLUTION SOLAR SPECTROSCOPIC SYSTEM (태양 중분산 분광 망원경 개발)

  • Park, Y.D.;Cho, K.S.;Moon, Y.J.;Jang, B.H.;Kim, S.J.;Kim, Y.H.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2003
  • In 2002, a new solar spectroscopic system with the Coelostat type has been installed at Korea Astronomical Observatory. It was designed to observe solar spectra in the range from 3000 to 8000${\AA}$ with the spectral resolution of 1${\AA}$/mm. The system is composed of a 40cm diameter Coelostat with 9m focal length, spectroscopic system with 600groove/mm grating, and a IK ${\times}$ IK CCD detector. By developing observational softwares for this system, we have successfully observed solar Ha spectra. In this paper, we development of telescope control and observational softwares.