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DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS II. NGC 6934 (우리은하 구상성단들의 역학적 세부구조 II. NGC 6934)

  • Rhee, Jong-Whan;Sohn, Young-Jong;Shin, Min;Kang, Aram
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.249-262
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    • 2004
  • The variations of the dynamical substructures of NGC 6934 have been investigated by means of performing point spread function stellar photometry and the surface photometry on BV CCD images of NGC 6934. Our results show that overall variations of ellipticity and position angle range in $0.02{\sim}0.08\;and\;-90^{\circ}{\sim}+90^{\circ}$, respectively out to three times the half light radius. The inner ($r_{eff}) substructures of NGC 6934 inferred from the variations of ellipticity and position angle are mainly affected by the bright red giant populations, while the effects of the other giant populations are weaker than those of the bright red giant populations. Horizontal branch populations and faint red giant star populations affect the dynamical substructures of NGC 6934 in the region of $r_h.

A Hyper Suprime-Cam View of the Interacting Galaxies of the M81 Group - Structures and Stellar Populations

  • Arimoto, Nobuo;Okamoto, Sakurako
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.39.2-39.2
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    • 2017
  • Over the last decade, deep studies of nearby galaxies have led to the discovery of vast stellar envelopes that are often rich in substructure. These components are naturally predicted in models of hierarchical galaxy assembly, and their observed properties place important constraints on the amount, nature, and history of satellite accretion. One of the most effective ways of mapping the peripheral regions of galaxies is through resolved star studies. Using wide-field cameras equipped to 8 m class telescopes, it has recently become possible to extend these studies to systems beyond the Local Group. Located at a distance of 3.6 Mpc, M81 is a prime target for wide-field mapping of its resolved stellar content. In this talk, we present the detailed results from our deep wide-field imaging survey of the M81 group with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), on the Subaru Telescope. We report on the analysis of the structures, stellar populations, and metallicities of old dwarf galaxies such as NGC3077, IKN, KDG061, as well as young stellar systems such as Arp's Loop and Holmberg IX. Several candidates for yet-undiscovered faint dwarf galaxies and young stellar clumps in the M81 group will also be introduced. The peculiar galaxy NGC3077 has been classified as the irregular galaxy. Okamoto et al. (2015, ApJ 809, L1) discovered an extended halo structure with S-shape elongated tails, obvious feature of tidal interaction. With a help of numerical simulation by Penarrubia et al. (2009, ApJ 698, 222), we will demonstrate that this tidal feature was formed during the latest close encounters between M81, M82, and NGC 3077, which induced star formation in tidally stripped gas far from the main bodies of galaxies. It is not clear whether the latest tidal interaction was the first close encounters of three galaxies. If NGC3077 is still surrounded by the dark matter halo, it implies that NGC3077 has undergone the first tidal stripping by larger companions. Kinematic studies of inter galactic globular clusters and planetary nebulae would tell us the past history of tidal interaction in this group of galaxies.

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Formation and evolution of sub-galactic structures around dwarf galaxy-sized halos

  • Chun, Kyungwon;Shin, Jihye;Kim, Sungsoo S.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.39.4-40
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    • 2016
  • We aim to investigate formation of satellite sub-galactic structures around isolated dwarf galaxies using cosmological hydrodynamic zoom simulations. For this, we modify a cosmological hydrodynamic code, GADGET-3, in a way that includes gas cooling down to T~10K, gas heating by universal reionization when z < 8.9, UV shielding for high density regions of $n_{shield}$ > $0.014cm^{-3}$, star formation in the dense regions ($n_H$ > $100cm^{-3}$), and supernova feedback. To get good statistics, we perform three different simulations for different target galaxies of the same mass of ${\sim}10^{10}M_{sun}$. Each simulation starts in a cubic box of a side length of 1Mpc/h with 17 million particles from z = 49. The mass of dark matter (DM) and gas particle is $M_{DM}=4.1{\times}10^3M_{sun}$ and $M_{gas}=7.9{\times}10^2M_{sun}$, respectively, thus each satellite sub-galactic structure can be resolved with more than hundreds or thousands particles. We analyze total 90 sub-galactic structures that have formed outside of the main halos but infall the main halos. We found that 1) mini halos that interact more with the other mini halos tend to accrete the more mass, 2) mini halos that interact more before the reionization tend to form more stars, 3) mini halos with the more interaction tend to approach closer to the galactic center and have the lower orbital circularity, 4) survivals even in the strong tidal fields evolve baryon dominated system, such as globular clusters.

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Twenty Years of CCD Photometric Studies on Globular Clusters with the BOAO 1.8 m Telescope (보현산천문대 1.8 미터 망원경을 이용한 구상성단에 대한 CCD 측광 연구 20년)

  • Cho, Dong-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Gak;Yoon, Tae Seog;Sung, Hyun-Il
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.61.2-61.2
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    • 2016
  • 우리는 1997년부터 현재까지 보현산천문대 1.8 미터 망원경과 이 망원경에 부착한 1K CCD, 2K CCD와 4K CCD를 이용하여 가까운 북반구 구상성단에 대하여 (U)BVI CCD 측광 관측을 수행해오고 있다. 2K CCD를 통한 관측 자료를 통해서 우리는 북반구 구상성단 M3, M13, M15, M53과 M92의 정밀한 색-등급도를 도출할 수 있었다. 이 색-등급도를 통해서 M3, M13, M15와 M92의 경우는 밝은 계열 별(특히 점근거성가지별)의 특성 및 종족비(R과 R2)와 적색거성가지별의 광도함수를 유도하였고, M53과 M92의 경우는 상대나이를 유도함으로써 구상성단의 제 2 계수 문제를 규명하고자 하였다. 우리는 추가로 북반구 구상성단 M5, M10과 M71의 정밀한 색-등급도를 도출하여 밝은 계열 별의 특성을 규명하고 적색거성가 지별의 광도함수를 유도함으로써 종족 II 항성의 진화 문제를 연구하고자 한다. 현재 운영 중인 4K CCD를 통해서 구상성단 M2, M3, M5, M13, M15, M53, M71과 M92를 관측하고 있으며 2K CCD 경우보다 어두운 주계열성까지의 측광 자료 도출에 주목적이 있다($V{\approx}23$ 등급까지). 도출한 측광 자료를 2K CCD 측광 자료와 결합하여 북반구 구상성단 구성별의 고유운동 자료를 도출하고자 하며 이의 활용 방안에 대하여 논의하고자 한다. 더불어 그 동안 보현산천문대에서의 관측 여건에 대해서도 논의하고자 한다.

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ESTIMATION OF NITROGEN-TO-IRON ABUNDANCE RATIOS FROM LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTRA

  • Kim, Changmin;Lee, Young Sun;Beers, Timothy C.;Masseron, Thomas
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.23-36
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    • 2022
  • We present a method to determine nitrogen abundance ratios with respect to iron ([N/Fe]) from molecular CN-band features observed in low-resolution (R ~ 2000) stellar spectra obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). Various tests are carried out to check the systematic and random errors of our technique, and the impact of signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios of stellar spectra on the determined [N/Fe]. We find that the uncertainty of our derived [N/Fe] is less than 0.3 dex for S/N ratios larger than 10 in the ranges Teff = [4000, 6000] K, log g = [0.0, 3.5], [Fe/H] = [-3.0, 0.0], [C/Fe] = [-1.0, +4.5], and [N/Fe] = [-1.0, +4.5], the parameter space that we are interested in to identify N-enhanced stars in the Galactic halo. A star-by-star comparison with a sample of stars with [N/Fe] estimates available from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) also suggests a similar level of uncertainty in our measured [N/Fe], after removing its systematic error. Based on these results, we conclude that our method is able to reproduce [N/Fe] from low-resolution spectroscopic data, with an uncertainty sufficiently small to discover N-rich stars that presumably originated from disrupted Galactic globular clusters.

Diverse Chemo-Dynamical Properties of Nitrogen-Rich Stars Identified from Low-Resolution Spectra

  • Changmin Kim;Young Sun Lee;Timothy C. Beers;Young Kwang Kim
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.56 no.1
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    • pp.59-73
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    • 2023
  • The second generation of stars in the globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way (MW) exhibit unusually high N, Na, or Al, compared to typical Galactic halo stars at similar metallicities. The halo field stars enhanced with such elements are believed to have originated in disrupted GCs or escaped from existing GCs. We identify such stars in the metallicity range -3.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.0 from a sample of ~36,800 giant stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope survey, and present their dynamical properties. The N-rich population (NRP) and N-normal population (NNP) among our giant sample do not exhibit similarities in either in their metallicity distribution function (MDF) or dynamical properties. We find that, even though the MDF of the NRP looks similar to that of the MW's GCs in the range of [Fe/H] < -1.0, our analysis of the dynamical properties does not indicate similarities between them in the same metallicity range, implying that the escaped members from existing GCs may account for a small fraction of our N-rich stars, or the orbits of the present GCs have been altered by the dynamical friction of the MW. We also find a significant increase in the fraction of N-rich stars in the halo field in the very metal-poor (VMP; [Fe/H] < -2.0) regime, comprising up to ~20% of the fraction of the N-rich stars below [Fe/H] = -2.5, hinting that partially or fully destroyed VMP GCs may have in some degree contributed to the Galactic halo. A more detailed dynamical analysis of the NRP reveals that our sample of N-rich stars do not share a single common origin. Although a substantial fraction of the N-rich stars seem to originate from the GCs formed in situ, more than 60% of them are not associated with those of typical Galactic populations, but probably have extragalactic origins associated with Gaia Sausage/Enceladus, Sequoia, and Sagittarius dwarf galaxies, as well as with presently unrecognized progenitors.

Effect of Addition Levels of Sodium Chloride on Gel Properties of Surimi-like Pork (NaCl 첨가량에 따른 돈육 수리미의 젤 특성)

  • Kang Geun-Ho;Han Chul-Yong;Joo Seon-Tea;Kim Byoung-Chul;Park Gu-Boo
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.20-27
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    • 2006
  • Effects of addition level of sodium chloride (NaCl) on gel properties of surimi-like pork (SLP) were investigated. Porcine semimembranosus muscle was used to manufacture SIP contained 1, 2, 3 and 4% NaCl to measure moisture content, pH, color, gel strength, micro-structure and sensory evaluation. The pH and moisture content of SLP were decreased as increasing of NaCl level. However, the gel strength of SLP was increased with increasing of NaCl level. Values of yellowness and chroma were lower in SLP of 2% and 3% NaCl compared with those of 1% and 4% NaCl. Amorphus protein particles size in micro-structure of SLP was decreased and coagulated as increasing level of NaCl. SLP of 1% NaCl had a structure formed by aggregates of densely packed globular proteins and arranged in clusters, whereas a well-structured matrix with a highly interconnected network of strand was observed in SLP of 4% NaCl. Result suggested that the increasing gel strength with NaCl level might be due to lower moisture content and denser micro-structure of gel.

Vegetative Propagation and Morphological Characteristics of Amelanchier spp. with High Value as Fruit Tree for Landscaping (정원용 유실수로서 가치가 높은 채진목속(Amelanchier spp.)의 형태적 특성 및 영양번식방법)

  • Kang, Ho Chul;Hwang, Dae Yul;Ha, Yoo Mi
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.111-119
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    • 2018
  • This study was carried out to investigate the growth characteristics and propagation methods of the Korean native Amelanchier asiatica, A. arborea, and A. alnifolia as fruit trees for gardens. Due to the lack of recent research on Amelanchier spp., their superficial classification is still unclear and the names are being used interchangeably. The results are obtained as follows : A. arborea and A. alnifolia were globular type multi-stemmed shrubs. A 20-year-old tree of A. asiatica was 7.8m in height, with a 5.2m crown width, with one trunk. As for the morphological characteristics, leaves of A. asiatica were oblong, with an acuminate of, 6.1cm and 3.6cm width, but A. arborea and A. alnifolia had acute obovate leaves. The leaf size of A. alnifolia was the largest among the three species. The flower size of A. asiatica was bigger than that of A. arborea and A. alnifolia. In addition, its petals and flower clusters were also the largest among the three species. The flowering of A. asiatica initiated on April 21 and then bloomed for a duration of 24 days in Osan, while that of A. arborea and A. alnifolia initiated flowering on April 12 and then bloomed for a duration of 22 days in the same location. The fruit of A. arborea and A. alnifolia were green on May 10~12, it changed into purplish red on May 24~26, and its matured on June 1~3. The duration of fruit persistence of A. arborea and A. alnifolia were 48~50 days. On the other hand, A. asiatica showed greenish fruit on May 20, it became red on September 4, and had fallen by October 3. The fruit size was the largest at 1.03cm of height and 1.12cm of diameter in the A. arborea, followed by the big berry of A. alnifolia and the smallest fruit in the native, A. asiatica. It was difficult to root due to the hardwood cutting of A. arborea at a 40% rate of rooting. In the softwood cutting, the rooting rate of A. arborea was increased by the treatment with concentrated IBA, especially at 5,000 and 7,000ppm. The optimum date for cutting was on June 27, when the rooting rate was more than 80%. The most effective method for rooting of A. arborea was rootone or 7,000 ppm IBA treatment on June 27 softwood cuttings, which showed a rooting rate of over 80%.