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LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS OF 12 OPEN CLUSTERS WITH WELL ESTABLISHED MEMBERSHIP

  • Ann, Hong-Bae;Yu, Kyung-Loh;Yun, Hong-Sik
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제15권1호
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 1982
  • The luminosity functions of 12 open clusters are derived for which their membership and the colors of their individual stars have been established by detailed proper motion study and high quality photometric work. The resulting luminosity functions of these clusters are presented and discussed.

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Evolution of galaxies through galaxy-galaxy interactions

  • 박창범
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제37권2호
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    • pp.233-233
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    • 2012
  • I review the dependence of galaxy properties on environmental parameters such as the local density, nearest neighbor distance and morphology. We find that a galaxy with an early- or late-type nearest companion within its virial radius tends to be an early or late type, respectively. The morphology of galaxies located in high density regions tends to be the same as that of the ones in low density regions if their luminosity and the nearest neighbor environment are the same. This strongly supports that galaxy morphology and luminosity evolution have been driven mainly by galaxy-galaxy interactions, and the background density affected morphology and luminosity only through the frequency of interactions.

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DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION IN THE OPEN CLUSTER NGC 6819

  • KANG YaNG-WOO;ANN HONG BAE
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2002
  • We have conducted VI CCD photometry of the open cluster NGC 6819 in order to understand the effects of dynamical evolution in old open clusters. Our photometry covers 18' $\times$ 18' on the sky, centered on the cluster, which seems to cover the whole cluster field. Our photometry reaches down to V $\approx$ 20.5, which allows us to analyze the luminosity function and spatial distribution of stars brighter than Mv $\approx$ 8.5. There is a clear evidence for mass segregation in NGC 6819, i.e., the giants and upper main-sequence stars are concentrated in the inner regions, whereas the lower main-sequence stars distribute almost uniformly throughout the cluster. The luminosity function of the main-sequence stars of NGC 6819 is almost flat. The flat luminosity function indicates that a large number of low mass stars has escaped from the cluster unless its initial mass function is much different from the Salpeter type (${\phi}(m){\propto} m^{-(1+x)},x = 1.35$).

The Relation between the Spectral Lag and the Collimation-Corrected Luminosity in Gamma-Ray Bursts

  • Jo, Yun-A;Chang, Heon-Young
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제40권2호
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    • pp.51.3-52
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    • 2015
  • Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRBs) are the most violent event in the universe, whose detection rate is a few in a day. The spectral lag, which is commonly observed in the observed light curves of GRBs, is a difference in arrival times of the high-energy and low-energy photons. The relation between the spectral lag and the luminosity of the observed GRBs is shown to be anti-correlated in previous studies. In reported relations to date, the isotropic luminosity has been assumed. On the other hand, GRBs are likely to emit its energy through a beamed jet. In this study, we attempt to obtain the relation between the spectral lag and the collimation-corrected luminosity. We have calculated collimation-corrected luminosities and opening angles using the observed light curves taken from a database of Swift/BAT, XRT. We expect to increase its significance level by expanding a sample size compared with those previously analyzed.

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Investigating the cosmic evolution of the black hole mass-bulge luminosity scaling relation

  • Park, Daeseong;Woo, Jong-Hak;Treu, Tommaso;Bennert, Vardha N.;Malkan, Matthew A.;Auger, Matthew W.
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제38권2호
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    • pp.42.2-42.2
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    • 2013
  • We investigate the cosmic evolution of the black hole mass-bulge luminosity relation with a sample of 52 moderate-luminosity AGNs at $z{\simeq}0.36$ and $z{\simeq}0.57$, corresponding to look-back times of 4 and 6 Gyrs. By employing robust multi-component spectral and structural decomposition methods to the obtained high-quality Keck spectra and high-resolution HST images, black hole masses ($M_{BH}$) are estimated from the Hbeta broad emission line with the 5100A nuclear luminosity, and bulge luminosities ($L_{bul}$) are derived from the surface photometry. Based on these consistent measurements, we constrain the redshift evolution of the $M_{BH}-L_{bul}$ relation by performing the Monte Carlo simulations designed to account for selection effects. We provide implications of our results in terms of the black hole-galaxy co-evolution and discuss possible bulge growth mechanisms.

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A STUDY ON THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION OF HALO STARS

  • LEE SANG-GAK
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제26권2호
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    • pp.141-152
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    • 1993
  • The sample of sub dwarfs are selected from LHS catalogue on the bases of the reduced proper motion diagram utilizing Chui criteria, and confirmed with the available photometric and/or kinematic data. Among them, 20 sub dwarfs have trigonometric parallaxes with accuracy better than $20\%$. The color­absolute magnitude relation is derived with them. By adopting this color-magnitude relation and $V/V_m$ method, we have derived the sub dwarf luminosity function over the absolute magnitude range of $M_v$= 4.5 and 9.5. This halo luminosity function is consistent with that of Eggen(1987). By adopting the available mass-luminosity relations for halo stars, we have found that the halo IMF is steeper than disk IMFs of Scalo(1986) and Salpter(1955) in this small mass region.

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AGN BROAD LINE REGIONS SCALE WITH BOLOMETRIC LUMINOSITY

  • TRIPPE, SASCHA
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제48권3호
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    • pp.203-206
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    • 2015
  • The masses of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be derived spectroscopically via virial mass estimators based on selected broad optical/ultraviolet emission lines. These estimates commonly use the line width as a proxy for the gas speed and the monochromatic continuum luminosity, λLλ, as a proxy for the radius of the broad line region. However, if the size of the broad line region scales with the bolometric AGN luminosity rather than λLλ, mass estimates based on different emission lines will show a systematic discrepancy which is a function of the color of the AGN continuum. This has actually been observed in mass estimates based on Hα/Hβ and CIV lines, indicating that AGN broad line regions indeed scale with bolometric luminosity. Given that this effect seems to have been overlooked as yet, currently used single-epoch mass estimates are likely to be biased.

STELLAR MAGNETIC ACTIVITY AND LONG TERM LUMINOSITY VARIATIONS OF LATE TYPE STARS.: II. STELLAR ACTIVITY PERIODS BASED ON PARKER'S DYNAMO THEORY

  • Park, Chang-Bum;Yun, Hong-Sik
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.91-107
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    • 1986
  • Making use of our extended version of $\ddot{O}pik's$ convection theory, we have calculated magnetic cycle periods of the sun and late type stars by using Parker's dynamo theory, where we have included the non-linear effect. We presented a relationship between the computed cycle period and spectral type to analyze observed magnetic activities of the late type stars and long-term luminosity variations. It is found that (1) the stellar magentic-cycle period increases towards the later spectral type, (2) the rapid rotation facilitates the activity-related luminosity variation of stars later than about K5, (3) differential rotation plays a critical role in determining the magnetic activity-cycle period, and (4) the non-local effect should be taken into account in order to understand the observed long-term luminosity variations.

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MASS TO LUMINOSITY RATIONS OF SOME CLUSTERS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

  • Sohn, Young-Jong;Chun, Mun-Suk
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.125-139
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    • 1990
  • Luminosity profiles and dynamical parameters of 12 globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud(SB(s)m) are obtained from the concentric aperture photoelectric photometry of 3 different aged clusters and the collected photometric data of 9 clusters. The total masses of the globular clusters are calculated using the equation $M_\bigoplus$= ${Mr_t}^j(4\Omega^2-k^2)$, which is derived from the theroetical rotation curve for the exponential disk(Chun 1978). These masses lie between $0.3\times10^4$ and $15.8\times10^4M_\bigoplus$. From the determined total mass and luminosity, the mass-to-luminosity ratios are also derived. The M/L ratio of a cluster increases with the cluster age ; about 0.03 for the youngest clusters(SWB I) and about 0.24 for the oldest clusters (SWB VII). There is a difference in M/L by a factor of 10 between the galactic globular clusters and the old globular clusters in the LMC.

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Host Galaxies of Nearby Type I AGNs

  • 김민진;;;;임명신
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제36권2호
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    • pp.68.2-68.2
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    • 2011
  • We present the detailed image decomposition of Hubble Space Telescope archival images for 235 nearby (z < 0.35) unobscured type 1 AGNs. It allows us to perform robust measurements of host galaxy properties and AGN luminosity contribution. We examine how the host properties correlate with AGN properties. Broad line type 1 and radio-loud AGNs are hosted preferentially by early type galaxies. Narrow line type 1 AGNs show a low fraction of tidal interaction, that might suggest the secular evolution may play an important role for triggering AGN activity, while the fraction of merging hosts is rather higher in luminous AGNs. We compare the nucleus luminosity and bulge luminosity and find that either our sample might have a smaller zero point in the M(BH)-L(bulge) relation (i.e. less massive black hole at a given bulge luminosity) relation compared to the normal galaxies or Eddington ratio of our sample could be systematically overestimated.

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