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ON THE HOMOGENEITY OF THE EXTINCTION LAW IN OUR GALAXY

  • Bondar, A.;Galazutdinov, G.;Patriarchi, P.;Krelowski, J.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2006
  • We analyze the extinction law towards several B1V stars-members of our Galaxy, searching for possible discrepancies from the galactic average extinction curve. Our photometric data allow to build extinction curves in a very broad range: from extreme UV till infrared. Two-colour diagrams, based on the collected photometric data from the ANS UV satellite, published UBV measurements and on the infrared 2MASS data of the selected stars, are constructed. Slopes of the fitted straight lines are used to build the average extinction curve and to search for discrepant objects. The selected stars have also been observed spectroscopically from the Terskol and ESO Observatories; these spectra allow to check their Sp/L's. The spectra of only about 30% of the initially selected objects resemble closely that of HD144470, considered as the standard of B1 V type. Other spectra either show some emission features or belong clearly to another spectral types. They are not used to build the extinction curve. Two-colour diagrams, constructed for the selected B1 V stars, showing no emission stellar features, prove that the interstellar extinction law is homogeneous in the Galaxy. Both the shape of the curve and the total-to-selective extinction ratio do not differ from the galactic average and the canonical value(3.1) respectively. The circumstellar emissions usually cause some discrepancies from the average interstellar extinction law; the discrepancies observed in the extraterrestrial ultraviolet, usually follow some misclassifications.

Analyzing the binary system using standard stellar models: HIP 20916 and HIP 101769

  • Beom, Minje;Kim, Yong Cheol
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.71.2-71.2
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    • 2013
  • The standard stellar models for HIP 20916 and HIP 101769 have been constructed to determine the properties of the binary system. Augmented with speckle data which is the magnitude difference between stars of the binary system, the previously determined parameters, such as [Fe/H], distance, total mass, and etc, are used to construct the standard stellar models. And the Green table is used to convert L and $T_{eff}$ into $M_v$ and color for comparison between models and observational data. We present the constructed stellar models of the system.

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Cosmological QUOKKAS: A new method for measuring distances using an extended KVN to Australia

  • Hodgson, Jeffrey;Lee, Sang-Sung;l'Hullier, Benjamin;Lioadkis, Yannis;Shafieloo, Arman
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.40.2-40.2
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    • 2019
  • Measuring distances at cosmological scales is one of the most important, yet most difficult to acquire astronomical quantities, allowing astronomers to determine the expansion rate of the universe. Typically, astronomers have sought to find "standard candles" that have a known intrinsic brightness in order to determine their distance. The most well known standard candles are Type 1a supernova and Cepheid variable stars making the so-called "distance ladder". Here we present a method for determining cosmological distances via light travel-time arguments, which can be extended from nearby sources to very high redshift sources.

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SOME NOTES ON PHOTOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS: PHOTOELECTRIC PHOTOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS (I)

  • Lee, See-Woo
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 1977
  • To reduce the instrumental and calibration errors in the photoelectric photometry as much as possible it is necessary to select the optimum photocell voltage and energy attenaution and to observe as many standard stars as possible over the wide range of color, spectral type and air mass.

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IGRINS Spectral Library

  • Park, Sunkyung;Lee, Jeong-Eun;Kang, Wonseok;Lee, Sang-Gak;Chun, Moo-Young;Kim, Kang-Min;Yuk, In-Soo;Lee, Jae-Joon;Mace, Gregory N.;Kim, Hwihyun;Kaplan, Kyle F.;Jaffe, Daniel T.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.43.3-43.3
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    • 2016
  • We present a library of high-resolution (R~45,000) and high signal-to-noise ratio ($S/N{\geq}200$) near-infrared spectra of 147 standard stars. High quality spectra were obtained with Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph (IGRINS) covering the full range of H ($1.496-1.795{\mu}m$) and K ($2.080-2.460{\mu}m$) bands. The targets are mainly selected as MK standard stars which have well-defined spectral types and luminosity classes, and cover a wide range of effective temperatures and surface gravities. The spectra were corrected for telluric absorption lines and absolute flux calibrated using Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) photometry. We find new spectral indices in H and K bands and provide their EWs. We describe empirical relations between the measured EWs and stellar atmosphere parameters such as effective temperature and surface gravity.

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Propagation of the ionizing radiations leaked out of bright H II regions into the diffuse interstellar medium

  • Seon, Kwang-Il
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.33.2-33.2
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    • 2009
  • Diffuse ionized gas (DIG or warm ionized medium, WIM) outside traditional regions is a major component of the interstellar medium (ISM) not only in our Galaxy, but also in other galaxies. It is generally believed that major fraction of the Halpha emission in the DIG is provided by OB stars. In the "standard" photoionization models, the Lyman continuum photons escaping from bright H II regions is the dominant source responsible for ionizing the DIG. Then, a complex density structure must provide the low-density paths that allow the photons to traverse kiloparsec scales and ionize the gas far from the OB stars not only at large heights above the midplane, but also within a galactic plane. Here, I present Monte-Carlo models to examine the propagation of the ionizing radiation leaked out of traditional H II regions into the diffuse ISM applied to two face-on spirals M 51 and NGC 7424. We find that the "standard" scenario requires absorption too unrealistically small to be believed, but the obtained scale-height of the galactic disk is consistent with those of edge-on galaxies. We also report that the probability density functions of the Halpha intensities of the DIG and H II regions in the galaxies are log-normal, indicating the turbulence property of the ISM.

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BVR Standardization of the CCD Photometric System of Chungbuk National University Observatory (충북대학교 천문대 CCD 측광계웨 BVR 표준화)

  • Jeong, Jang-Hae;Lee, Yong-Sam;Kim, Chun-Hwey;Yoon, Yo-Na
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.157-170
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    • 2009
  • BVR observations for 52 standard stars were performed using the 1-m reflecter with 2K CCD System of Chungbuk National University Observatory (CBNUO) in 2008. We obtained 1,322 CCD images to establish a correlation between our bvr system and the standard Johnson-Cousins BVR system. We derived the tentative equations of transformation between then as follows; V = v-0.0303(B - V) + 0.0466 B - V = 1.3475(b - v) - 0.0251 V - R = 1.0641(v - r) - 0.0125 Using these equations the magnitudes in V, B-V, and V-R for 197 stars were obtained.

The isochrones for the various abundance of C, N, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, and Fe

  • Beom, Minje;Lee, Young-Wook;Ferguson, Jason W.;Kim, Yong-Cheol
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.89.2-89.2
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    • 2015
  • This research is to study the effects of individual metal elements(C, N, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, and Fe) on the standard stellar models. The mixtures of the stellar models have been constructed to analyze the stars, extremely changed in the abundance of these elements. Therefore the mixture are based on the recent observation of stars in globular clusters. And the mass and metallicity grids have been decided in range $0.7{\sim}1.0M_{\odot}$ and 0.0002 ~ 0.007, respectively. The evolutionary tracks and isochrones, as well as the physical changes at each evolutionary phase, have been analyzed. Consequently, we present the mechanisms of the physical changes at each phase, and the quantified effects of the individual elements.

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POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODELS FOR NORMAL GALAXIES WITH DUSTY DISKS

  • Suh, Kyung-Won;Kim, Mi-Ryang
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.175-184
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    • 2003
  • To investigate the SEDs of galaxies considering the dust extinction processes in the galactic disks, we present the population synthesis models for normal galaxies with dusty disks. We use PEGASE (Fioc & Rocca-Volmerange 1997) to model them with standard input parameters for stars and new dust parameters. We find that the model results are strongly dependent on the dust parameters as well as other parameters (e.g. star formation history). We compare the model results with the observations and discuss about the possible explanations. We find that the dust opacity functions derived from studies of asymptotic giant branch stars are useful for modeling a galaxy with a dusty disk.