• 천문학회보
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.33.2-33.2
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• 2013

We present 12CO ($J=1{\rightarrow}0$) observations of a set of local galaxies (0.04 < z < 0.08) with a large cool gas reservoir, dubbed "HI Monsters". The data were obtained using the Redshift Search Receiver (RSR) on the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO) 14 m telescope. The sample consists of 20 galaxies with $M_{HI}$ > $3{\times}10^{10}M_{\odot}$ identified by the ALFALFA survey and 8 additional objects with comparable HI mass from a separate LSB galaxy study ($M_{HI}$ > $1.5{\times}10^{10}M_{\odot}$). Our sample selection is purely based on the amount of neutral hydrogen in galaxies, thereby providing a chance to study how atomic and molecular gas relate to each other in these extremely HI-rich systems. We have detected CO in 15 out of 20 ALFALFA selected HI Monsters and 4 out of 8 LSB HI Monsters. We present the global molecular gas properties of the sample and discuss how their molecular gas properties correlate with their star formation activities.

• 천문학회보
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.49.2-49.2
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• 2013

We present a result of $^{13}CO$(1-0) survey toward the Outer Galactic Plane using the multi-beam receiver system recently installed on the 14 m telescope at Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory(TRAO). Our target region is from l=$120^{\circ}$ to $133^{\circ}$ and b=$-1^{\circ}$ to $+1^{\circ}$, and some extended regions are included where emission is still arising. All data are on 50" grid. Velocity resolution is 0.63 km/sec, and the total velocity range is from -150 km/sec to 100 km/sec. A total of 140,000 spectra were obtained. The rms noise is about 0.18 K per channel for unsmoothed raw data. We will present a few initial results of the survey database.

• 천문학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

We present the results of a highly sensitive (${\sim}10$ mK rms) survey toward the central parts of 22 barred spiral galaxies in $^{12}CO(1-0)$ line using the NRAO 12m telescope at Kitt Peak. Seven of the target galaxies were detected in CO; NGC 3686 has been detected with CO for the first time. We estimated central CO fluxes of $50{\sim}1000\;Jy\;km\;s^{-1}$ and molecular gas masses of $10^7{\sim}10^8\;M_{\odot}$ for those galaxies.

• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.513-515
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• 2015

We investigate $H\small{I}$ data for a pair of blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs), ESO 435-IG20 and ESO 435-IG16, obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The outer $H\small{I}$ disk is highly disturbed and asymmetric in both galaxies showing a gas tail and/or a broad/extended gas disk on only one side. Based on their low-density surroundings and small projected distance (<80 kpc) at a similar redshift, we conclude that tidal interaction between these two BCDs is responsible for the morphological and kinematical peculiarities in $H\small{I}$. We also investigate their star formation rates using $H{\alpha}$ and UV imaging data to probe their interaction history.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.61.2-61.2
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• 2021

SkyMapper is the largest-aperture optical wide-field telescope in Australia and can be used for transient detection in the Southern sky. Reference images from its Southern Survey cover the sky at δ <+10 deg to a depth of I ~ 20 mag. It has been used for surveys of extragalactic transients such as supernovae, optical counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) and fast radio bursts. We adopt an ensemble-based machine learning technique and further filtering scheme that provides high completeness ~98% and purity ~91% across a wide magnitude range. Here we present an important use-case of our robotic transient search, which is the follow-up of GW event triggers from LIGO/Virgo. We discuss the facility's performance in the case of the second binary neutron star merger GW190425. In time for the LIGO/Virgo O4 run, we will have deeper reference images for galaxies within out to ~200 Mpc distance, allowing rapid transient detection to i ~ 21 mag.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2006년도 한국우주과학회보 제15권2호
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• pp.177-180
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• 2006

우리은하 중심부의 Sgr A East에 인접한 별탄생 지역인 수소이온화영역 A주변에서 충격파가 별탄생에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 $2.1218{\mu}m$ 수소분자 방출선($H_2$ 1-0 S(1))을 관측하였다. 관측은 3.8m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope(UKIRT)에서 에셀 분광 모드의 Cooled Grating Spectrometer 4(CGS4)를 사용하여 각분해능 약 2arcsec, 파장 분해능 약 18km s^{-1}$으로 수행 되었다. 검출된 수소분자선을 공간적인 구조와 속도 분포의 측면에서 각각 전파 연속선 방출광 및 암모니아 방출광과 비교한 결과, 수소분자 방출광은 Sgr A East의 충격파와 무관하며 수소이온화영역 자체의 분자해리영역에서 방출된 것이라는 결론에 도달하였다. 이는 해당 지역에서의 별탄생이 Sgr A East의 충격파에 의해 촉발된 것이 아니라는 것을 의미한다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.37-45
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• 2021

We have analyzed 42 research papers regarding on the solar astronomy written by North Korea scientists to investigate the current status of astronomical activities in North Korea. The papers are surveyed from the 'Bulletin of Astronomy', the 'Physics', the 'Bulletin of Academy of Science', and the 'Natural Science' in North Korea, and SCI journals. In addition, we refer to the presentation material announced in the 2015 IAU by director of Pyongyang Astronomical Observatory (PAO) and the 2013 OAD/IAU reports. We have analyzed the papers statistically according to three criteria such as research subject, research field, and research members. The main research subjects are the sunspot (28%), observation system (21%), and space environments (19%). The research fields are distributed with data analysis (50%), numerical method (29%), and instrument development (21%). There have been 25 and 9 researchers in the solar astronomy and space environment, respectively since 1995. North Korea's solar research activities were also investigated in three area: instrument, solar physics, and international research linkage. PAO has operated two of sunspot telescope and solar horizontal telescope for spectroscopy and polarimetry, but there is no specific information on solar radio telescopes. North Korea has cooperated in solar research with Europe and China. We expect that the results of this study will be used as useful resource in supporting astronomical cooperation between South and North Korea in the future.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.417-428
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• 2004

광시야 망원경 3호기의 광학계 특성을 조사하고 이를 바탕으로 광학계를 조정하였다. 보정렌즈를 쓰기 때문에 필터는 V, R, I로 제한된다. 광시야 망원경 3호기는 초점비가 작기 때문에 광학계의 정렬 상태에 매우 민감하다. 2도${\times}2$도의 시야각 내에서 성상의 RMS 반경을 $8{\mu}m$ 이내로 맞추려면 다음의 조건을 만족해야 한다: 1) 관측기기는 초점면에 대하여 0.05도 이상 기울어지면 안된다. 2) 주경과 보정렌즈의 축간 거리(decenter)를 1mm 이내로 맞추어야 한다. 3) 주경과 보정렌즈 사이를 최적 거리에서 2.3mm 이내로 맞추어야 한다. 광시야 망원경 3호기는 곡률감지법을 이용한 수차 측정법으로 광학계를 조정하고 있으며 마무리 단계에 있다. 현재 대덕전파천문대 옥상에 임시로 설치되어 시스템 정상화와 인공위성 관측을 수행하고 있다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2013

A fiber-optic reference signal transmission system, which transmits the 1.4 GHz reference signal from H-maser to receiver cabin in radio telescopes, was adopted for compensating the phase changes due to temperature variation and antenna movement. At the first experiment, the remote signal's phase changed more than 15 degrees at 1.4 GHz. We found unstable components in sub-system experiments and replaced them. The main cause of unstable phase stability was the unaligned polarization axis between Laser Diode and Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM). The improved system stability showed $1{\times}10^{-16}$ allan standard deviation at 1,000 sec integration time with the antenna fixed. When the antenna moves in the azimuth axis, the 1.4 GHz remote signal showed the phase change smaller than 0.2 degrees.

• 천문학회지
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.255-259
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• 2016

We estimate the fractal dimension of the ${\rho}$ Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud Complex, associated with star forming regions. We selected a cube (${\upsilon}$, l, b) database, obtained with J = 1-0 transition lines of $^{12}CO$ and $^{13}CO$ at a resolution of 22" using a multibeam receiver system on the 14-m telescope of the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory. Using a code developed within IRAF, we identified slice-clouds with two threshold temperatures to estimate the fractal dimension. With threshold temperatures of 2.25 K ($3{\sigma}$) and 3.75 K ($5{\sigma}$), the fractal dimension of the target cloud is estimated to be D = 1.52-1.54, where $P{\propto}A^{D/2}$, which is larger than previous results. We suggest that the sampling rate (spatial resolution) of observed data must be an important parameter when estimating the fractal dimension, and that narrower or wider dispersion around an arbitrary fit line and the intercepts at NP = 100 should be checked whether they relate to firms noise level or characteristic structure of the target cloud. This issue could be investigated by analysing several high resolution databases with different quality (low or moderate sensitivity).