脉冲星时间尺度的相关研究

在已有脉冲星时频率稳定度σZ算法基础上,提出了针对长时间跨度计时观测数据缺失（gap）的脉冲星时稳定度的处理方法,并以该类典型的脉冲星J1857＋0943于帕克斯天文台PARKES的实测数据为例,给出稳定度计算结果并讨论,简介了计时软件包Tempo2得到最小残差的拟合过程,并以Tempo2处理后的数据作为输入,由其时间尺度结果引发对Tempo2处理脉冲星时间尺度的相关分析与讨论,介绍了含gap的脉冲星观测数据在综合脉冲星时算法中的应用。     

脉冲星导航试验卫星观测数据处理与分析

脉冲星导航试验卫星(X-ray Pulsar-based Navigation-1,XPNAV-1)的第一批观测数据公开发布,利用国际天文协会(International Astronomical Union,IAU)的标准基本天文程序库和喷气推进实验室(Jet Propulsion Laboratory,JPL)星历对数据进行处理,得到了35个光子到达太阳系质心时间序列的文件。基于历元折叠和已知的星历参数得到了35个脉冲积分轮廓,使用核回归法对轮廓进行了降噪处理,并分析了历元折叠时bin数对计时残差的影响。结果表明,观测数据有效,能够得到较好的脉冲积分轮廓,实现了对Crab星的观测,核回归算法有效改善了bin数对计时残差的影响,拟合前计时残差均方根约40 us。     

脉冲星导航在高精度卫星轨道修正中的应用

X射线脉冲星导航系统(XNAV,X-ray Pulsar Based Navigation)能够为航天器提供自主的定位服务,但是XNAV存在精度较差,且受航天器钟差和脉冲星时间模型误差的影响而产生近似常值偏差的缺点.分析与仿真指出,在采用XNAV单独导航时需要2颗脉冲星可达到完全观测,而采用XNAV和星间观测的组合导航时仅需要1颗脉冲星即可达到完全观测,同时组合导航能够将轨道修正的精度提高10倍以上,并将由于常值偏差造成的估计误差抑制在0.2 m以内.在现实的噪声设定下,采用标准XNAV单独进行轨道修正,仅需要两颗脉冲星即可取得50 m以内的估计精度;而采用组合导航时,在单脉冲星的导航方案下,系统的估计精度为5 m以内.分析结果表明:基于单脉冲星导航的组合导航,是一种高精度、低需求,容易实现的卫星轨道估计方案.      

基于星联网的深空自主导航方案设计

为了降低地面测控系统的负担、提高深空探测器的导航效率,提出了基于星联网的航天器自主导航概念,对星联网的应用体系进行了设计。借助脉冲星、星间链路等手段实现星联网系统中基准航天器完全自主的高精度导航,用户航天器通过与基准航天器或其他用户航天器的交互通信与测量就可以实现自身状态估计。以地月转移任务为例,设计了星联网系统在地月空间的具体应用方案,分析了地月空间基准航天器的配置与自主导航方法,阐述了用户航天器的单层与多层导航策略。对基于脉冲星与星间链路观测的基准航天器自主导航进行了仿真,验证了观测基准航天器或者其他用户航天器时,地月转移段航天器自主导航的可行性。结果表明:基准航天器可以达到20 m的定位精度,用户航天器可以达到优于30 m的定位精度。基于星联网的航天器自主导航是可行的,发展星联网可以为我国构建天基自主基准导航系统提供有力支持。     

X射线脉冲星脉冲到达航天器时间测量

X射线脉冲星脉冲到达时间(TOA)的空间测量是航天器自主导航和用脉冲星钟作航天器时间标准的基础.在简要介绍地面射电观测TOA测量方法基础上,重点研究了X射线脉冲星脉冲到达时间的空间测量方法和算法.讨论了利用X射线脉冲星辐射光子到达时间观测,建立X射线脉冲轮廓的方法;给出了通过观测得到的X射线脉冲轮廓与标准脉冲轮廓比较,精确确定TOA的测量方法和实用算法.讨论了削弱多普勒效应对TOA测量影响的方法.      

NASA探索者计划遴选出15项预研项目

<正>搜寻和发现射电脉冲星是FAST的核心科学目标。银河系中有大量脉冲星,但由于其信号暗弱,易被人造电磁干扰淹没,目前只观测到一小部分。中国科学院网站2017年10月10日报道,世界最大单口径射电望远镜——500 m口径球面射电望远镜(FAST)首次发现脉冲星。FAST研究团组利用位于贵州师范大学的FAST早期科学中心进行数据处理,发现数十个优质脉冲星候选体。经国际合作,利用澳大利亚64 m Parkes望远镜进行随后观测认证。目     

基于虚拟观测值的X射线单脉冲星星光组合导航

传统的X射线脉冲星导航系统需要同时观测3~4颗脉冲星,有效载荷的质量和功耗极大。因此,单探测器脉冲星导航技术是实现航天器利用X射线脉冲星导航的关键举措。针对单探测器脉冲星导航的可观测性弱和精度低等问题提出了基于虚拟观测值的X射线单脉冲星与星光集中式组合滤波的高精度导航方法,即在X射线脉冲星的长周期内增加与星光同时刻观测的虚拟观测值,以实现高精度的集中式组合滤波算法。同时提出了利用神经网络预测虚拟观测值方法,并与利用动力学递推的方法进行比较,精度可以达到10-7量级。仿真结果表明,该方法可大大提高单探测器的导航的可靠性,补偿由于探测器误差造成的导航误差,导航位置误差为259.79 m,同时有效地减小了导航系统的重量,为X射线脉冲星导航的工程实现提供了参考依据。      

基于扩展卡尔曼滤波的XPNAV-1卫星自主定轨算法研究

X射线脉冲星导航1号（XPNAV-1）是全球首颗脉冲星导航专用试验卫星。利用该卫星观测的单颗脉冲星数据，采用几何约束方法，能够有效抑制轨道误差增长，但存在长时间定轨发散问题。针对XPNAV-1卫星拓展试验任务及脉冲星导航后续发展需求，利用多颗脉冲星的观测数据，研究基于扩展卡尔曼滤波（EKF）的卫星自主定轨算法。首先，建立该卫星的轨道力学模型和观测方程；然后，详细论述EKF滤波算法和分段式定常系统（PWCS）的可观测性分析方法；最后，通过综合分析XPNAV-1卫星的观测数据、脉冲星对该卫星轨道的覆盖性以及系统状态的可观测性，进行自主定轨算法试验。试验结果表明，基于EKF的自主定轨算法滤波过程收敛，验证了该算法的合理性和有效性。     

X射线脉冲星导航标称数据库构建

脉冲星导航数据库是在地面定量验证X射线脉冲星导航关键技术和模拟导航过程必不可少的一部分。然而,目前并无文献针对脉冲星导航进行数据库的专门设计。为此,文章通过搜集现有国际公开的脉冲星数据,构建了脉冲星导航标称数据库。建立了基于品质因子的目标源优选准则,选择了26颗X射线脉冲星作为导航源;分析确立了数据库参数字段的具体组成,包括自转模型参数、延时模型参数、脉冲星到达时间〖BF〗（TOA）〖BFQ〗精度参数与脉冲轮廓参数;对这26颗脉冲星进行了编目;最后给出了标称数据库的接口与应用方式。标称数据库结构与未来星上数据库结构一致,当前服务于地面试验,待观测数据更新后可以升级为星上数据库。     

风云三号02星传回首张图像

<正>11月7日上午11时27分22秒,于11月5日成功发射的我国第二代极轨气象卫星的第二颗试验应用卫星风云三号02星经过卫星姿态稳定度等调整,在绕行地球33圈后,打开了星上第一个遥感仪器——可见光红外扫描辐射计的可见光通道,成功进行了对地观测和数据传输。     

Binary and millisecond radio pulsars

Recent pulsar surveys, especially those using the multibeam receiver on the Parkes radio telescope, have more than doubled the number of known pulsars, bringing the current total to about 1720. Of these, 171 have millisecond periods, 126 are members of binary systems and 99 are associated with globular clusters. Binary pulsars may be divided into several distinct groups depending on their observed properties such as pulsar period and age, binary period, eccentricity and companion mass. These groups all have different evolutionary histories. Correlations between the various properties are discussed using the increased samples now available. The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array is a project which has the goal of using timing observations of millisecond pulsars to make a direct detection of gravitational waves. The parameters and present status of the project are briefly discussed.     

Interplanetary spacecraft navigation using pulsars

We demonstrate how observations of pulsars can be used to help navigate a spacecraft travelling in the solar system. We make use of archival observations of millisecond pulsars from the Parkes radio telescope in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method and highlight issues, such as pulsar spin irregularities, which need to be accounted for. We show that observations of four millisecond pulsars every seven days using a realistic X-ray telescope on the spacecraft throughout a journey from Earth to Mars can lead to position determinations better than ∼20 km and velocity measurements with a precision of ∼0.1 ms⁻¹.     

电铸镍Wolter I型光学系统制造技术发展综述

摘要： 为满足未来脉冲星导航和空间天文观测任务对X射线望远镜的载荷需求，Wolter I光学系统的研制正逐渐成为新的研究热点，电铸镍方案是当前国内外X射线光学系统镜筒制造的主要技术方案.文章对电铸镍X射线光学系统制造工艺、国内外研制现状、未来应用需求进行了介绍和整理，梳理了电铸镍X射线光学系统研制遇到的关键技术和难点，提出了后续研究发展建议，以促进中国在 X射线脉冲星自主导航、空间探测领域的快速发展.     

The Crab pulsar seen with AquEYE at Asiago Cima Ekar observatory

We are developing fast photon-counter instruments to study the rapid variability of astrophysical sources by time tagging photon arrival times with unprecedented accuracy, making use of a Rubidium clock and GPS receiver. The first realization of such optical photon-counters, dubbed AquEYE (the Asiago Quantum Eye), was mounted in 2008 at the 182 cm Copernicus Observatory in Asiago. AquEYE observed the Crab pulsar several times and collected data of extraordinary quality that allowed us to perform accurate optical timing of the Crab pulsar and to study the pulse shape stability on a timescale from days to years with an excellent definition. Our results reinforce the evidence for decadal stability of the inclination angle between the spin and magnetic axis of the Crab pulsar. Future realizations of our instrument will make use of the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time signal.     

Optical, X-ray and γ-ray observations of compact objects in globular clusters

In the past three years, a new era of study of globular clusters has begun with multiwavelength observations from the current generation of astronomical telescopes in space. We review the recent results obtained from our studies of compact binaries and x-ray sources in globulars with ROSAT and HST as well as our balloon-borne hard x-ray telescope EXITE and ground-based observations (CTIO). With ROSAT, we have obtained the most sensitive high resolution soft x-ray images of clusters which show multiple low luminosity sources in cluster cores that are likely indicative of the long-sought population of cataclysmic variables (CVs). We have obtained deep H images of two clusters with HST and found CV candidates for 3 of the ROSAT sources in the core of NGC 6397. New CTIO imaging and spectroscopy of two ‘dim source’ fields in ω-Cen are also described. With EXITE we carried out the first hard x-ray imaging observations of the cluster 47 Tuc; such studies can ultimately limit the populations of millisecond pulsars and pulsar emission mechanisms. A long ROSAT exposure on 47 Tuc also shows probable cluster diffuse emission, possibly due to hot gas from ablating millisecond pulsars. Multiwavelength studies of globular clusters may provide new constraints on problems as diverse as the origin of CVs and LMXBs and the origin of hot gas in globulars.     

A search for radio emission from the young 16-ms X-ray pulsar PSR J0537−6910

PSR J0537−6910 is a young, energetic, rotation-powered X-ray pulsar with a spin period of 16 ms located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We have searched for previously undetected radio pulsations (both giant and standard) from this pulsar in a 12-h observation taken at 1400 MHz with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. The very large value of the magnetic field at the light cylinder radius suggests that this pulsar might be emitting giant radio pulses like those seen in other pulsars with similar field strengths. No radio emission of either kind was detected from the pulsar, and we have established an upper limit of ∼25 mJy kpc² for the average 1400-MHz radio luminosity of PSR J0537−6910. The 5σ single-pulse detection threshold was ∼750 mJy for a single 80-μs sample. These limits are likely to be the best obtainable until searches with greatly improved sensitivity can be made with next-generation radio instruments.     

Cramér-rao lower bound for pulsar rotation parameters estimation with X-ray pulsar observation data

In this paper, the Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for estimating the rotation parameters of pulsars using X-ray pulsar observation data is deduced, and the calculation equation is presented. In order to verify the correctness of the deduced equation, we use the X-ray pulsar observation data to estimate pulsar rotation parameters, and obtain the root mean square error (RMSE) of the estimated pulsar rotation parameters through conducting repeated experiments. The experimental results suggest that when the observation time increases, the RMSE gradually approaches the estimated CRLB, and that when the observation time is 2.4 × 10⁶ s, the error between the RMSE of pulsar frequency estimation and the CRLB stays at 10^?11 order of magnitude. This verifies that the CRLB expression deduced in this paper is the theoretical lower bound for estimating pulsar rotation parameters. The deduced CRLB in this paper helps determine the minimum variance estimator for pulsar rotation parameter estimation using X-ray pulsar data, providing a benchmark for the comparison between the minimum variance estimator and other estimators.