岁差章动模型更新等因素对坐标转换的影响

GCRS(Geocentric Celestial Reference System,地心天球参考系)与ITRS(International Terrestrial Reference System,国际地球参考系)之间的坐标转换方法与岁差章动模型密切相关,IERS(International Earth Rotation and reference systems Service,国际地球自转与参考系服务)规范先后推荐了3组不同的岁差章动模型。论文分析了基于春分点的坐标转换过程,在比较3组岁差章动模型间差异的基础上,以太阳系10个天体为例,计算了岁差章动模型更新、极移、世界时与地球时差值等因素对坐标转换影响的具体数值。结果表明,IAU 2006岁差-IAU 2000AR06章动与IAU 2000岁差-IAU 2000A章动间的差异,对坐标转换的影响在0.5mas以内;而IAU1976岁差-IERS 1996章动与前2组岁差章动间的差异,对坐标转换影响的最大值达到37mas;极移对坐标转换影响的最大值达到0.6″,远高于岁差章动模型更新所带来的影响;当忽略世界时与地球时的差异时,结果完全错误。通过此分析,明确了极移、世界时与地球时的差异对坐标转换影响的具体数值,可为工程计算中岁差章动模型的选取提供参考依据。     

天体测量与空间科学中的时间尺度及其转换

针对时间尺度及其转换方法进行了综述、归纳和分类。从建立的基础出发,将时间尺度划分为原子时尺度和世界时尺度2个大类,其中,原子时尺度的彼此转换基于广义相对论框架,世界时尺度的彼此转换基于地球自转和岁差章动模型,而协调世界时是连接这2类时间尺度的桥梁。根据各类时间尺度间的转换公式,计算了原子时彼此间的差值序列,以及世界时在IERS(International Earth Rotation and reference systems Service,国际地球自转与参考系服务)1996、2003、2010这3个规范间的差值序列,并分析了这些差值序列的特征。结果表明:地心坐标时与质心坐标时、质心坐标时与质心力学时、地球时与地心坐标时之间的差值序列均随时间呈线性变化关系,且后者差值的增幅远小于前2个差值的增幅;协调世界时与国际原子时之间的差值是不连续的,且增幅逐渐减小;地球时与质心力学时之间的差值序列是以年为周期进行变化的,差值大小在±1.7 ms以内;格林尼治(平)恒星时、赤经章动及其补充项在IERS 2003、2010规范间的差异较小,而在IERS 1996与另外2个规范间的差异较大。这些结论可为相关研究及工程计算中的时间尺度选取提供参考依据。     

DE历表的结构、计算与比较

在详细介绍美国JPL(Jet Propulsion Laboratory,喷气推进实验室)发布的DE (Development Ephemerides,行星/月球展开历表)系列历表的基本情况、头文件和数据文件的结构、历表计算原理等内容的基础上,以DE405、DE421、DE431为例,分别计算了1900-2200年间月球、太阳、行星等天体在地心天球参考系中的坐标及速度,并由此得到3个历表间的差异,结果表明DE431与DE421之间的差异,整体而言要小于二者同DE405之间的差异.最后以引潮力的计算为例,表明历袁更新对于引潮力的影响基本可忽略不计,验证了IERS(International Earth Rotation and reference systems Service,国际地球自转与参考系服务)规范中关于历表更新对相关地球科学影响十分有限的结论.     

The Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets: Fundamental Requirements for Life

The current approach to the study of the origin of life and to the search for life elsewhere is based on two assumptions. First, life is a purely physical phenomenon closely linked to specific environmental conditions. From this, we hypothesise that when these environmental conditions are met, life will arise and evolve. If these assumptions are valid, the search for life elsewhere should be a matter of mapping what we know about the range of environments in which life can exist, and then simply trying to find these environments elsewhere. Second, life can be clearly distinguished from the non-living world. While a single feature of a living organism left in the rock record is not always sufficient to determine unequivocally whether life was present, life often leaves multiple structural, mineralogical and chemical biomarkers that, in sum, support a conclusion that life was present. Our understanding of the habitats that can sustain or have sustained life has grown tremendously with the characterisation of extremophiles. In this chapter, we highlight the range of environments that are known to harbour life on Earth, describe the environments that existed during the period of time when life originated on Earth, and compare these habitats to the suitable environments that are found elsewhere in our solar system, where life could have arisen and evolved.     

Emergence of a Habitable Planet

We address the first several hundred million years of Earth’s history. The Moon-forming impact left Earth enveloped in a hot silicate atmosphere that cooled and condensed over ∼1,000 yrs. As it cooled the Earth degassed its volatiles into the atmosphere. It took another ∼2 Myrs for the magma ocean to freeze at the surface. The cooling rate was determined by atmospheric thermal blanketing. Tidal heating by the new Moon was a major energy source to the magma ocean. After the mantle solidified geothermal heat became climatologically insignificant, which allowed the steam atmosphere to condense, and left behind a ∼100 bar, ∼500 K CO₂ atmosphere. Thereafter cooling was governed by how quickly CO₂ was removed from the atmosphere. If subduction were efficient this could have taken as little as 10 million years. In this case the faint young Sun suggests that a lifeless Earth should have been cold and its oceans white with ice. But if carbonate subduction were inefficient the CO₂ would have mostly stayed in the atmosphere, which would have kept the surface near ∼500 K for many tens of millions of years. Hydrous minerals are harder to subduct than carbonates and there is a good chance that the Hadean mantle was dry. Hadean heat flow was locally high enough to ensure that any ice cover would have been thin (<5 m) in places. Moreover hundreds or thousands of asteroid impacts would have been big enough to melt the ice triggering brief impact summers. We suggest that plate tectonics as it works now was inadequate to handle typical Hadean heat flows of 0.2–0.5 W/m². In its place we hypothesize a convecting mantle capped by a ∼100 km deep basaltic mush that was relatively permeable to heat flow. Recycling and distillation of hydrous basalts produced granitic rocks very early, which is consistent with preserved >4 Ga detrital zircons. If carbonates in oceanic crust subducted as quickly as they formed, Earth could have been habitable as early as 10–20 Myrs after the Moon-forming impact.     

某型涡轮过渡流道稳定工作范围优化设计

为保证高、低压涡轮间流场参数匹配,要求在高压涡轮出口旋流角增大时,涡轮过渡流道仍处于近最佳工作状态。利用全三维数值模拟方法对涡扇发动机涡轮过渡流道进行了初次优化设计。优化后的过渡流道压力系数提高了20.6%,总压损失系数降低了 5.0%,并且其无流动分离工作范围得到扩大。为进一步扩大非设计稳定工作范围,对初次优化设计结果进行了二次优化。虽然二次优化后涡轮过渡流道设计点性能略有下降,但其无流动分离工作范围进一步扩大,且非设计工况点流道出口流场分布更加均匀,改善了下游低压涡轮的进气条件。      

Analytical long-term evolution and perturbation compensation models for BeiDou MEO satellites

The current paper establishes the analytical models of the long-term evolution and perturbation compensation strategy for Medium Earth Orbits(MEO)shallow-resonant navigation constellation,with application to the Chinese Bei Dou Navigation Satellite System(BDS).The long-term perturbation model for the relative motion is developed based on the Hamiltonian model,and the long-term evolution law is analyzed.The relationship between the control boundary of the constellation and the offset of the orbital elements is analyzed,and a general analytical method for calculating the offset of the orbit elements is proposed.The analytical model is further improved when the luni-solar perturbations are included.The long-term evolutions of the BDS MEO constellation within 10 years are illustrated,and the effectiveness of the proposed analytical perturbation compensation calculation approach is compared with the traditional numerical results.We found the fundamental reason for the nonlinear variations of the relative longitude of ascending node and the mean argument of latitude is the long-periodic variations of the orbital inclination due to the luni-solar perturbations.The proposed analytical approach can avoid the numerical iterations,and reveal the essential relationship between the orbital element offsets and the secular drifts of the constellation configuration.Moreover,there is no need for maintaining the BDS MEO constellation within 10 years while using the perturbation compensation method.     

低轨星座传感器资源实时调度方法

针对低轨星座传感器资源调度问题,提出了一种基于几何精度衰减因子（GDOP）和目标位置估计误差椭球的调度方法,该方法综合考虑了目标的静态、动态定位因素,优先选择卫星目标视线垂直于误差椭球长轴的传感器资源对目标进行跟踪。仿真结果表明,与已有的仅考虑GDOP的调度方法相比,该方法既节省了传感器资源,又提高了目标的跟踪精度。     

HOI延迟对LEO卫星简化动力学POD的影响

通常使用无电离层(IF)线性组合(LC)消除低地球轨道(LEO)卫星简化动力学精密定轨(POD)一阶电离层延迟误差,忽略了高阶电离层(HOI)延迟误差。随着LEO卫星POD技术的发展,计算不同轨道高度的HOI延迟并探索其变化已成为进一步提高POD精度的重要手段。首先,使用国际参考电离层-2016(IRI-2016)和国际地磁参考场第13代(IGRF-13)模型,计算电离层穿刺点(IPP)位置和地磁场强度。其次,使用平滑星载GNSS数据计算电离层斜路径总电子含量(STEC)。然后,分别计算GOCE、GRACE-A和SWARM-A/B卫星的二阶和三阶电离层延迟。最后,评估了HOI延迟对LEO卫星重叠轨道分析、卫星激光测距(SLR)检核和精密科学轨道(PSO)比较结果的影响。实验结果表明：HOI延迟对LEO卫星简化动力学POD的影响大约在毫米至厘米的数量级上;HOI延迟对LEO卫星简化动力学POD外符合精度的影响分别达到0.92,0.22,0.21和0.18 mm;随着LEO卫星轨道高度的增加,HOI延迟对LEO卫星简化动力学POD的影响减小。     

An atmosphere-breathing propulsion system using inductively coupled plasma source

CubeSats have attracted more research interest recently due to their lower cost and shorter production time. A promising technology for CubeSat application is atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, which can capture the atmospheric particles as propulsion propellant to maintain long-term mission at very low Earth orbit. This paper designs an atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion system for a 3 U CubeSat, which consists of an intake device and an electric thruster based on the inductively coupled plasma. The capture performance of intake device is optimized considering both particles capture efficiency and compression ratio. The plasma source is also analyzed by experiment and simulation. Then, the thrust performance is also estimated when taking into account the intake performance. The results show that it is feasible to use atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion technology for CubeSats to compensate for aerodynamic drag at lower Earth orbit.     

无先验信息的低轨空间目标航迹起始方法

针对光学观测中缺乏预报信息的低轨道空间目标自动识别捕获问题,提出一种基于修正Hough变换的空间目标航迹起始方法,从而实现空间目标的自动识别。首先利用背景恒星运动规律对观测数据进行预处理,剔除大部分背景恒星。再利用观测数据的时序信息、定向参数进行Hough变换。本方法并没有采用传统的Hough变换对所有参数空间中的数据点进行投票,而是仅对参数空间中部分点投票,可以大幅减少运算量和存储量。试验表明:该方法能够有效地抑制背景恒星产生的虚假航迹,并快速准确地完成无先验信息的低轨道空间目标的航迹起始;可以在光学观测中实现空间目标的自动识别捕获,以及实时发现新目标,这为低轨道空间目标光学观测的无人值守和联网观测奠定了技术基础。