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THE PROSPECT OF INTERSTELLAR OBJECT EXPLORATIONS FOR SEARCHING LIFE IN COSMOS (우주생명현상과 성간천체 탐사 전망)

  • Minsun Kim;Ryun Young Kwon;Thiem Hoang;Sungwook E. Hong
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.25-36
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    • 2023
  • Since interstellar objects like 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov originate from exoplanetary systems, even if we do not visit the exoplanetary systems, flyby, rendezvous, and sample return missions of interstellar objects can provide clues to solve the mysteries of cosmic life phenomena such as the origin of exoplanetary systems, galactic evolution, biosignatures (or even technosignatures), and panspermia. In this paper, we review space missions for interstellar object exploration in the stage of mission design or concept study such as Project Lyra, Bridge, Comet Interceptors, and LightcraftTM. We also review space missions, OSIRIS-REx and NEA Scout, designed for Near Earth Asteroids(NEA) explorations, to investigate the current state of basic technologies that can be extended to explore interstellar objects in a velocity of ~ 6AU/year. One of the technologies that needs to be developed for interstellar object exploration is a spacecraft propulsion method such as solar sail, which can catch up with the fast speed of interstellar objects. If this kind of propulsion becomes practical for space explorations, interstellar object explorations will mark a new era and serve as a driving force to provide evidences of cosmic life.

A Study of the Comparison of the Shear Wave Velocity Profiles Obtained by a Surface Wave Exploration Method with Borehole Measurements (표면파 탐사 방법을 이용하여 구한 S파 속도와 시추결과의 비교 연구)

  • Jung, Hee-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.549-557
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    • 2003
  • Surface wave exploration method has many advantages over other conventional exploration methods. Only limited accumulation of the study results has been made due to the recent development of the method. In this study the characteristics of the phase dispersion curves of four sites with different geo-technical properties have been identified. A generalized inversion method was used to obtain the shear wave velocity profiles of the study areas. The shear wave velocity profiles were compared with the columnar sections of the boreholes at the sites. This study shows that the rapid changes in the shear wave velocities are consistent with the changes in the sedimentary or lithologic faces found in the borehole measurements. This implicates that the surface wave exploration method could be used to identify changes in the physical properties of sediments or rocks.

Star-formation Properties of High-redshift (z~1) Galaxy Clusters Connected to the Large-scale Structure

  • Lee, Seong-Kook;Im, Myungshin;Hyun, Minhee;Park, Bomi;Kim, Jae-woo;Kim, Dohyung;Kim, Yongjung
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.40.2-40.2
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    • 2017
  • At local, majority of galaxies in the dense environment, such as galaxy cluster, are red and quiescent with little star-formation (SF) activity. However, a different picture emerges as we go to high redshift: (1) there exist non-negligible fraction of galaxies still forming stars actively even in dense environment, and (2) there is a significant cluster-by-cluster variation in the SF properties, such as quiescent galaxy fraction. In this presentation, we show the results of our study about the variation of quiescent galaxy fraction among high-redshift (z~1) galaxy clusters, based on the multi-object spectroscopic (MOS) observation with IMACS on the Magellan telescope. Our main result is that galaxy clusters which are connected with significant large-scale structure (LSS), well beyond the cluster scale, are more active in their SF activity, i.e., the quiescent galaxy fraction for these clusters is lower compared to the clusters which are detached from LSS.

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The Effect of Career Exploration Reading Program Based on the 4th Industrial Revolution on Career Consciousness of Elementary School Students (4차 산업혁명 기반 진로탐구 독서 프로그램이 초등학생의 진로의식에 미치는 효과)

  • Young-Sun Jung;Sung-Jong Cha
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.319-347
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    • 2023
  • This study aimed to construct a career exploration reading program based on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and measure its effects on students' career consciousness development. The study involved 12 participants in the experimental group and 12 participants in the control group, who underwent pre-test and post-test evaluations. After conducting 12 sessions of the career exploration reading program with the experimental group, a career development assessment was administered. The experimental group showed statistically significant effects in all nine sub-domains of career development compared to the control group. Additionally, the experimental group reported increased satisfaction, positive perception, and a sense of accomplishment in career exploration activities, leading to a positive impact on the formation of future career concepts.

COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS OF A MICRO-SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET ARRAY THRUSTER

  • Kazuyuki Kondo;Shuji Tanaka;Hiroto Habu;Tokudome, Shin-ichiro;Keiichi Hori;Hirobumi Saito;Akihito Itoh;Masashi Watanabe;Masayoshi Esashi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.593-596
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    • 2004
  • We are developing a micro-solid propellant rocket array thruster for simple attitude control of a 10 kg class micro-spacecraft. The prototype has ø 0.8 mm solid propellant micro-rockets arrayed at a pitch of 1.2 mm on a 22 x 22 mm substrate. In previous studies, an impulse thrust of 4.6 x 10$^{-4}$ Ns was obtained in vacuum, but we found the problems of unacceptably low ignition success rate and incomplete combustion. This paper describes experiments to improve the ignition rate. In order to achieve this goal, we tried to solidify paste-like ignition aid (RK) on the ignition heaters with strong adhesion. To make the paste-like RK, isoamyl acetate was added to RK powder. We tested 9 rockets, but only 2 rockets were ignited with huge ignition energy. This is because the heat con-duction between the ignition heater and the RK was too low to ignite the RK, since dried RK had a lot of pores. Also, a large cavity was sometimes found just above the ignition heater.

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The Effect on Science-Related Attitudes of High School Students for Newspaper in Education(NIE) (NIE 수업이 고등학생들의 과학과 관련된 태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Joo, Min-Sun;Youn, Seok-Tai;Koh, Yeong-Koo;Kim, Jong-Hee;Oh, Kang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2016
  • Through the systematic analysis on articles about the environment in newspapers, the news reports were considered as effective materials, so after being reconstructed, they were used as learning materials in a lesson on environment contamination which is newly introduced in Earth Science I from the 2009 curriculum revision. To examine students' attitude toward science, before and after NIE application to the students, Test of Science Related Attitudes(TOSRA) as a test tool was carried out which was composed of 7 categories - four optional questionnaires for each category, 28 in total were used. The result was as follows: in a pretest, based upon the average scores by factors the factors ranked from the highest to the lowest as follows: the social meaning of science, the acceptance of the scientific attitude, the commonness of a scientist, the attitude to scientific exploration, the pleasure in science class, the vocational interest in science, the concern over science as a hobby, and in posttest, their ranking as follows: the acceptance of the scientific attitude, the pleasure in science class, the commonness of a scientist, the social meaning of science, the attitude to scientific exploration, the vocational interest in science, the concern over science as a hobby. Also they were all statistically significant at a significant level p<0.05. However, the test revealed that there were some negative effects on the social meaning of science and the attitude to scientific exploration and therefore it is judged that in order to overcome those influences, some bright articles about solving the environment contamination should be applied to the lessons and be complemented effectively by experiments and various media: NIE as well as science magazines, data from Internet search and treatises on science.

A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE ASTEROIDS IN THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM WITH AKARI

  • Usui, F.;Kuroda, D.;Muller, T.G.;Hasegawa, S.;Ishiguro, M.;Ootsubo, T.;Ueno, M.;AKARI SOSOS team, AKARI SOSOS team
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2012
  • We constructed an unbiased asteroid catalog from the mid-infrared part of the All-Sky Survey with the Infrared Camera (IRC) on board AKARI. About 20% of the point source events recorded in the IRC All-Sky Survey observations were not used for the IRC Point Source Catalog in its production process because of a lack of multiple detection by position. Asteroids, which are moving objects on the celestial sphere, are included in these "residual events" We identified asteroids out of the residual events by matching them with the positions of known asteroids. For the identified asteroids, we calculated the size and albedo based on the Standard Thermal Model. Finally we had a new brand of asteroid catalog, which contains 5,120 objects, about twice as many as the IRAS asteroid catalog.

THE AGN POPULATION IN THE AKARI NEP DEEP FIELD

  • Soto, Laia Barrufet de;White, Glenn J.;Pearson, Chris;Serjeant, Stephen;Lim, Tanya;Matsuhara, Hideo;Oi, Nagisa;Karouzos, Marios;AKARI-NEP Team
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.271-273
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    • 2017
  • The AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Deep Field is a natural location to accomplish deep extragalactic surveys. It is supported by comprehensive ancillary data extending from radio to X-ray wavelengths, which have been used to classify radio sources as radio-loud and radio-quiet objects and to create a catalogue of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). This has been achieved by using a radio-optical classification and colour-colour diagrams rather than the more usual way based on spectroscopy Furthermore, we explore whether this technique can be extended by using a far-Infrared (FIR) colour-colour diagram which has been used to identify 268 high redshift candidates.

Investigating the Effect of Both Team Diversity and Task Difficulty on Team Creativity : Multi-Agent Simulation Approach (팀 다양성과 과업난이도가 팀 창의성에 미치는 영향 : 다중 에이전트 시뮬레이션 접근방법을 중심으로)

  • Chae, Seong Wook;Seo, Young Wook;Lee, Kun Chang
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.111-124
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    • 2015
  • In the management literature, it has been widely accepted among both researchers and practitioners that the level of team creativity is significantly related to the organizational performance. Besides, researchers posited with confidence that team diversity and task difficulty would affect team creativity through team members' activities of exploration and exploitation. However, empirical approaches to proving this belief suffered from lack of real data and proper methods as well. To tackle the research void like this, we propose a multi-agent simulation (MAS) mechanism. By adopting a set of parameters which validity were proven in the related literature, we conducted a series of experiments in the environment of the MAS platform named NetLogo. There sults suggest that managers can differentiate team diversity strategies according to task difficulty. In the case of a difficult task, managers need to increase team diversity so that their teams can maximize team creativity through rigorous exploration and exploitation. It is desirable to maintain an average level of team diversity when performing an easy task.