• 천문학회보
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.27.1-27.1
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• 2005

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.51.1-51.1
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• 2017

We present the dependence of halo properties on two different Galactic potentials: the $St{\ddot{a}}ckel$ potential and the Milky Way-like potential known as "Galpy". Making use of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12), we find that the shape of the metallicity distribution and rotation velocity distribution abruptly changes at 15 kpc of $Z_{max}$ (the maximum distance of stellar orbit above or below the Galactic plane) and 32 kpc of $r_{max}$ (the maximum distance of an orbit from the Galactic center) in the $St{\ddot{a}}ckel$, which indicates that the transition from the inner to outer halo occurs at those distances. When adopting the $St{\ddot{a}}ckel$ potential, stars with $Z_{max}$ > 15 kpc show a retrograde motion of $V_{\phi}=-60km\;s^{-1}$, while stars with $r_{max}$ > 32 kpc show $V_{\phi}=-150km\;s^{-1}$. If we impose $V_{\phi}$ < $-150km\;s^{-1}$ to the stars with $Z_{max}$> 15 kpc or $r_{max}$> 32, we obtain the peak of the metallicity distribution at [Fe/H] = -1.9 and -1.7 respectively. However, there is the transition of the metallicity distribution at $Z_{max}=25kpc$, whereas there is no noticeable retrograde motion in the Galpy. The reason for this is that stars with high retrograde motion in the $St{\ddot{a}}ckel$ potential are unbound and stars with low rotation velocity reach to larger region of $Z_{max}$ and $r_{max}$ due to shallower potential in the Galpy. These results prove that as the adopted Galactic potential can affect the interpretation of the halo properties, it is required to have a more realistic Galactic potential for the thorough understanding of the dichotomy of the Galactic halo.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2015

최근에 전자구조 계산으로 반쪽금속성을 가진다는 것이 확인된 4원 호이슬러 화합물인 CoFeCrGa와 CoFeCrGe의 (001)표면에서 반쪽금속성의 유지여부와 표면자성을 Full-potential Linearized Augmented Plane Wave 에너지띠 계산방법을 통해 연구하였다. 이를 위해 두 화합물 모두에서 각기 CoFe와 CrGa, 그리고 CrGe로 끝나는 (001)표면을 모두 고려하였다. 계산된 상태밀도로부터 두 화합물의 두가지 절단표면계 모두에서 반쪽금속성이 유지되지 못함을 알았다. 다만 CoFeCrGa에서 CrGa(001) 표면계는 그 상태밀도로부터 거의 반쪽금속성을 가짐을 알았다. 두 계에서 표면이나 표면 밑층의 Co나 Fe, 그리고 Cr 원자의 자기모멘트는 계에 따라 상당히 다른 값을 가졌다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.29.1-29.1
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• 2017

I present new near-infrared (NIR) photometry of globular cluster (GC) systems associated to a cD galaxy NGC 4874 in the core of the Coma cluster and 16 early-type galaxies in the Fornax and Virgo clusters of galaxies using the Infrared Channel of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3/IR) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Combining these high-resolution NIR data with new HST Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) optical photometry for NGC 4874 and existing ACS GC catalogs from the ACS Fornax and Virgo Cluster Surveys, I have examined for the first time the GC systems in a statistically significant optical/NIR sample of galaxies spanning a wide range of luminosities and colors. A primary goal of this study is to explore empirically whether the distributions of purely optical and hybrid optical - NIR color indices for extragalactic GCs have different forms and whether the relations between these color indices are nonlinear, indicating that they behave differently with underlying metallicity. I find that some GC systems of large galaxies in our sample show color bimodalities that differ between the optical and optical - NIR colors, in the sense that they have disparate ratios of "blue" and "red" peak GCs, as well as differing ratios in their color dispersions. Consistent with these results, I find empirically that the dependence of hybrid optical-NIR color on purely optical color is nonlinear, with an inflection at intermediate metallicities. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the nature of galaxy-to-galaxy variations in the GC color distributions and color-color relations, as well as the exact forms of the color-metallicity transformations, in interpreting the observational data on GC color bimodality. Our ACS data for NGC 4874 shows that its GC system exhibits a very strong blue tilt, implying a very steep mass-metallicity scaling, and the centroid of this GC system is offset by $4{\pm}1kpc$ from the luminosity center of NGC 4874, in the direction of NGC 4872. Finally, I discuss the asymmetrical GC distribution around a dwarf elliptical galaxy in Coma that has a very high relative velocity with respect to the cluster mean at small clustercentric radius.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.77.3-77.3
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• 2019

We present an analysis of the stellar population of compact elliptical galaxies (cEs) in various environments. Following conventional selection criteria of cEs, we created a list of cE candidates in the redshift range of z < 0.05 using SDSS DR12 catalog. We finally selected cEs with low-luminosity (Mg > 18.7 mag), small effective radius (Re < 600 pc), and high velocity dispersion (> 60 kms-1). We divide our cE sample into those inside and outside of the one virial radius of the bright (Mr < -21 mag) nearby host galaxy which is then defined as cEs with (cEw) and without (cEw/o) host galaxy, respectively. We investigated the stellar population properties of cEs based on the Hb, Mgb, Fe 5270, and Fe 5335 line strengths from the OSSY catalog. We found that cEw has a systematically higher metallicity than cEw/o. In the velocity dispersion-Mgb distribution, while cEw/o follows the relation of early-type galaxies, cEw are found to have a systematically higher metallicity than cEw/o at a given velocity dispersion. The different feature in the metallicity between cEw and cEw/o can suggest that two different scenarios can be provided in the formation of cEs. cEw would be the remnant cores of the massive progenitor galaxies that their outer parts have been tidally stripped by massive neighbor galaxies (i.e., nurture origin). On the other hand, cEw/o are likely to be faint-end of early-type galaxies maintaining in-situ evolution (i.e., nurture origin).

• 천문학회지
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• 제56권1호
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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.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.209-221
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• 2017

가까운 은하에서 폭발적 항성생성은하의 분광 관측을 수행하여 별생성률이 높은 은하에서 별생성이 일어나는 시간 규모에 따라 방출선의 방출 기작, 별생성률, 항성질량, 금속함량 등의 물리량 혹은 물리량 상호 간의 관계가 어떻게 다른지를 살펴보았다. 관측 대상은 별생성 나이가 매우 어린 울프-레이에 은하 21개와 상대적으로 긴 시간 규모의 별생성이 진행 중인 자외선 초과복사 은하 13개로 보현산 천문대의 1.8 m 망원경과 4K CCD, 긴 슬릿 분광기를 이용해 광학영역에서의 스펙트럼을 얻었다. BPT 분석도표를 그려 관측된 은하들에서 기체를 이온화시키는 원인을 살펴보면 전체적으로는 별생성(약 50%)이 비항성적 요소인 활동은하핵(약 15%)에 비해 훨씬 높았다. 별생성과 활동은하핵이 모두 기여하는 경우도 전체의 35%였는데, 이러한 경우에 속하는 은하는 대부분 상대적으로 나이가 많을 것으로 추정되는 자외선 초과복사 은하였다. 관측된 은하의 항성질량 범위는 대부분 $10^{9-11}M_{\odot}$이고 별생성률은 $0.01-100M_{\odot}yr^{-1}$로, SDSS에서 관측된 은하들로 구성된 별생성 주계열에 위치한다. 울프-레이에 은하와 자외선 초과복사 은하들의 항성질량, 별생성률에서 큰 차이는 없었다. 또한 폭발적 항성생성은하는 질량-금속함량 관계를 보이며, 비슷한 항성질량을 가진 SDSS 은하와 비교했을 때 금속함량이 낮게 나타났다. 이는 이 은하들에서 별생성으로 인한 강한 피드백이 일어나고 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.175-179
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• 2015

덩치상태에서 반쪽금속성을 나타내는 $(AlP)_1/(CrP)_1$ 초격자계에서 (001) 표면의 자성과 반쪽금속성에 대해 FLAPW (Full-potential Liniarized Augmented Plane Wave) 방법을 이용하여 연구하였다. (001) 표면이 나타나는 Al(S)-, Cr(S)-, P(S)Al(S-1)- 및 P(S)Cr(S-1)-term 계 등 모두 네 가지 표면계를 고려하였다. 계산결과 Cr(S)-term 계만 정수배의 보어마그네톤의 자기모멘트를 가져 표면에서 반쪽금속성이 유지됨을 알았다. 이 계에서 표면 Cr 원자의 자기모멘트는 띠좁힘과 스핀분리의 증가 등의 표면효과로 인해 덩치상태에 비해 증가한 $3.02{\mu}_B$였다. P(S)Al(S-1)-term 계에서 표면 P(S)층의 상태밀도는 $p_z$ 상태의 국소화로 인해 매우 예리한 표면상태의 봉우리를 보여 주었으며, P(S)Cr(S-1)-term의 경우 P(S)층과 Cr(S-1)층 사이에 큰 혼합이 존재하였고, 그 결과 P(S)층의 자기모멘트는 $-0.33{\mu}_B$이었다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.27.2-27.2
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• 2008

• 천문학회보
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.30.1-30.1
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• 2008