• 천문학회지
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.93-107
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• 2016

Augmenting the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) microlensing campaigns with intensive observations from a ground-based network of wide-field survey telescopes would have several major advantages. First, it would enable full two-dimensional (2-D) vector microlens parallax measurements for a substantial fraction of low-mass lenses as well as planetary and binary events that show caustic crossing features. For a significant fraction of the free-floating planet (FFP) events and all caustic-crossing planetary/binary events, these 2-D parallax measurements directly lead to complete solutions (mass, distance, transverse velocity) of the lens object (or lens system). For even more events, the complementary ground-based observations will yield 1-D parallax measurements. Together with the 1-D parallaxes from WFIRST alone, they can probe the entire mass range M ≳ M_⊕. For luminous lenses, such 1-D parallax measurements can be promoted to complete solutions (mass, distance, transverse velocity) by high-resolution imaging. This would provide crucial information not only about the hosts of planets and other lenses, but also enable a much more precise Galactic model. Other benefits of such a survey include improved understanding of binaries (particularly with low mass primaries), and sensitivity to distant ice-giant and gas-giant companions of WFIRST lenses that cannot be detected by WFIRST itself due to its restricted observing windows. Existing ground-based microlensing surveys can be employed if WFIRST is pointed at lower-extinction fields than is currently envisaged. This would come at some cost to the event rate. Therefore the benefits of improved characterization of lenses must be weighed against these costs.

• 천문학논총
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2007

Many gravitational wave detectors are now being built or under operation throughout the world. In particular, LIGO has taken scientific data several times, although current sensitivity is not sufficient to detect the weak signals routinely. However, the sensitivities have been improving steadily over past years so that the real detection will take place in the near future. Data analysis is another important area in detecting the gravitational wave signal. We have carried out the basic research in order to implement data analysis software in Korea@home environment. We first studied the LIGO Science Collaboration Algorithm Library(LAL) software package, and extracted the module that can generate the virtual data of gravitational wave detector. Since burst sources such as merging binaries of neutron stars and black holes are likely to be detected first, we have concentrated on the simulation of such signals. This module can generate pure gravitational wave forms, noise suitable for LIGO, and combination of the signal and noise. In order to detect the gravitational signal embedded in the noisy data, we have written a simple program that employs 'matched filtering' method which is very effective in detecting the signal with known waveform. We found that this method works extremely well.

• 천문학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.105-112
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• 2015

The symbiotic star V1016 Cygni, a detached binary system consisting of a hot white dwarf and a mass-losing Mira variable, shows very broad emission features at around 6825 Å and 7082 Å, which are Raman scattered O vi λλ 1032, 1038 by atomic hydrogen. In the high resolution spectrum of V1016 Cyg obtained with the Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph these broad features exhibit double peak profiles with the red peak stronger than the blue counterpart. However, their profiles differ in such a way that the blue peak of the 7082 feature is relatively weaker than the 6825 counterpart when the two Raman features are normalized to exhibit an equal red peak strength in the Doppler factor space. Assuming that an accretion flow around the white dwarf is responsible for the double peak profiles, we attribute this disparity in the profiles to the local variation of the flux ratio of O vi λλ 1032, 1038 in the accretion flow. A Monte Carlo technique is adopted to provide emissivity maps showing the local emissivity of O vi λ1032 and O vi λ1038 in the vicinity of the white dwarf. We also present a map indicating the differing flux ratios of O vi λλ 1032 and 1038. Our result shows that the flux ratio reaches its maximum of 2 in the emission region responsible for the central trough of the Raman feature and that the flux ratio in the inner red emission region is almost 1. The blue emission region and the outer red emission region exhibit an intermediate ratio around 1.5. We conclude that the disparity in the profiles of the two Raman O vi features strongly implies accretion flow around the white dwarf, which is azimuthally asymmetric.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.101-112
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• 2008

청주 시내에 위치하고 있는 충북대학교 천문대의 교내 관측소에서 2002년부터 2007년까지 5년간 식쌍성들의 극심시각 결정을 위한 조직적인 CCD 관측이 수행되었다. 그 관측의 부산물로 우리는 2005년부터 2007년까지 CCD 영상 내에 있는 별들의 측광자료를 이용하여 백색광에 대한 1차 대기소광계수들을 결정하였고, 대기소광계수의 계절별, 년도별 변화 특성을 조사하였다. 대기소광계수를 결정하는데 사용한 관측일수는 2005년, 2006년, 그리고 2007년에 각각 57일, 51일, 그리 63일이다. 분석 결과, 2005년, 2006년, 그리고 2007년의 년도별 평균 대기소광계수와 그 표준편차는 대기질량(airmass) 당 각각 $0.^m34{\pm}0.^m18,\;0.^m38{\pm}0^m19$, 그리고 $0.^m45{\pm}0.^m20$으로, 도심에 위치하지 않은 정상적인 천문대에 비해 대기소광계수는 약 2배정도 크며, 표준편차는 약 4배정도 큰 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 대기미세 먼지농도와 대기소광계수를 비교해 본 결과, 대기미세 먼지농도와 대기소광계수가 비슷한 양상으로 변화하고 있어 두 양 사이는 강한 상관관계가 있는 것으로 보인다. 또한, 충북대학교 교내 관측소의 동쪽하늘의 소광계수가 서쪽하늘에 비하여 더 큰 것으로 나타났는데 이는 동쪽 지역이 서쪽 지역보다 더 개발되어 대기소광 공해 물질이 동쪽 하늘에 더 잔존하여 있기 때문으로 설명할 수 있다. 결론적으로 청주 지역 도심 하늘의 대기소광은 매년 $0.^m$06/airmass 정도 증가하는 추세에 있다. 이는 현재의 청주 밤하늘이 2배로 밝아지는데에 약 13년 밖에 걸리지 않는다는 것을 의미한다. 이 연구는 대기소광계수의 변화가 한 지역의 공해의 정도를 가르키는 지수로 중요하게 사용될 수 있음을 보여주고 있다.