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J. R. Barcus 《Space Science Reviews》1972,13(2):295-312
Analysis of recent observations (from balloons, spacecraft, and surface observatories) demonstrate regional, shell, and nearpoint conjugacy at L ~ 7 during precipitative events which were characterized by local acceleration as well as release of gradient-drifted electrons injected during substorms. A number of new features of magnetospheric dynamics relating to substorm development and sudden-commencement effects, have been brought to light which, though poorly understood at present, may prove of considerable importance and are worthy of further investigation.
- During the initial period of instability in substorm evolution, preceding the slower magnetotail convective injection, precipitation of waves of electrons in rapid polewards motion exhibit L-shell conjugacy near midnight.
- Transient, large scale expansions of the magnetospheric electron population accompanied by temporally imbedded substorms display large scale regional conjugacy and are simultaneously observed as similarly transient intensity dropouts at balloon altitudes.
- Precipitation from gradient-drifting electrons in the dayside magnetosphere exhibits near point-conjugacy, at least down to the order of 50 km and quite probably less.
- Analysis of the approach to and attainment of spectral equilibrium in the precipitation observed from drifting electrons may provide information about either, or both, the source spectrum at injection and the process of local release.
- The specific precipitation effect sometimes observed at the time of an SC remains a rather puzzling feature, although it seems clear now that the acceleration and/or release process responsible is of a highly local nature and works selectively at small pitch angles well within the magnetospheric boundary. Coupling of the interplanetary shock with the magnetosphere must be an important aspect, but the details are not clear as yet.
- On at least one occasion, a large part (perhaps all) of the magnetospheric electron population varied in a nearly synchronous manner in response to solar wind induced distortions during the variable compressive phase of a sudden commencement geomagnetic storm.
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R. L. Moore 《Space Science Reviews》1981,28(4):387-421
The empirical properties of the various dynamic phenomena are reviewed and interrelated with emphasis on recent observational results. The topics covered are:
- Introduction
- Aperiodic Phenomena
- Externally Driven Phenomena
- Umbral Flares
- Inverse Evershed Flow
- Internally Driven Phenomena
- Penumbra
- Penumbral Grains
- Evershed Flow
- Umbra
- Umbral Dots
- Inhomogeneity of the Umbral Magnetic Field
- Umbral Turbulence
- Oscillations and Waves
- Chromosphere
- Umbra: Oscillations and Flashes
- Penumbra: Running Waves and Dark Puffs
- Photosphere
- Overview
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Harrison H. Schmitt 《Space Science Reviews》1975,18(3):259-279
The geology of the decade of Apollo and Luna probably will become one of the fundamental turning points in the history of all science. For the first time, the scientists of the Earth have been presented with the opportunity to interpret their home planet through the direct investigations of another. Mankind can be proud and take heart in this fact. The interpretive evolution of the Moon can be divided now into seven major stages beginning sometime near the end of the formation of the solar system. These stages and their approximate durations in time are as follows:
- The Beginning — 4.6 billion years ago.
- The Melted Shell — 4.6–4.4 billion years ago.
- The Cratered Highlands — 4.4–4.1 billion years ago.
- The Large Basins — 4.1–3.9 billion years ago.
- The Light-colored Plains — 3.9–3.8 billion years ago.
- The Basaltic Maria — 3.8–3.0 (?) billion years ago.
- The Quiet Crust — 3.0 (?) billion years ago to the present.
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This paper reviews the first results of satellite experiments to measure magnetospheric convection electric fields using the double-probe technique.The earliest successful measurements were made with the low-altitude (680–2530 km) polar orbiting Injun-5 spacecraft (launched August, 1968). The Injun-5 data are discussed in detail. The Injun-5 results are compared with the initial findings of the electric field experiment on the polar orbiting OGO-6 satellite (400–1100 km, launched June, 1969).In addition to electric fields, the Injun-5 spacecraft also measures electric antenna impedance and thermal and energetic charged particle densities. Knowledge of these parameters makes possible a detailed investigation of the operation of the electric antenna system. We report on this investigation and discuss errors attributed to sunlight shadows on the probes, wake effects, and other factors. The Injun-5 experiment can generally determine electric fields to an accuracy of about ±30 mV m-1, and under favorable conditions, accuracies of ±10 mV m-1 can be obtained.Reversals in the electric field at auroral zone latitudes are the most significant convection electric field effect discovered in the Injun-5 data. Electric field magnitudes of typically 30 mV m-1, and sometimes 100 mV m-1, are associated with reversals. Electric field reversals occur on 36% of auroral zone traversals, at about 70° to 80° invariant latitude, at all local times, and in both hemispheres. The latitude of a reversal often changes markedly on time scales less than 2 h. Electric potentials of greater than 40 keV are associated with these high latitude electric fields. Reversals occur at the boundary of measurable intensities of >45 keV electrons and are coincident with inverted V type low energy electron precipitation events. In almost all cases the E×B/B
2 plasma convection velocities associated with reversals are directed east or west, with anti-sunward components at higher latitudes and sunward components at lower latitudes. Maximum convection velocities are typically 1.5 km s-1 and ordinarily occur at the auroral zone near the reversal.Two extreme (and many intermediate) configurations of anti-sunward plasma convection have been observed to occur on the high latitude side of electric field reversals: (1) Ordinarily, >0.75 kms-1 convection is limited to narrow (5° INV wide) zones adjacent to the reversal. (2) For 14% of reversals >0.75 km s-1 anti-sunward convection has been observed across the entire polar cap along the trajectory of the Injun-5 spacecraft. A summary pattern of >0.75 km s-1 polar thermal plasma convection is presented.Electric field measurements from the OGO-6 satellite have substantiated many of the initial Injun-5 observations with improved accuracy and sensitivity. The OGO-6 detector revealed the persistent occurrence of anti-sunward convection across the polar cap region at velocities (<0.75 km s-1) not generally detectable with the Injun-5 experiment. The OGO-6 observations also provided information indicating that the location of the electric field reversal shifts equatorward during periods of increased magnetic activity.The implications of the electric field measurements for magnetosphericand auroral structure are summarized, and a list of specific recommendations for improving future experiments is presented. 相似文献
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Hiroshi Matsui John C. Foster Donald L. Carpenter Iannis Dandouras Fabien Darrouzet Johan De Keyser Dennis L. Gallagher Jerry Goldstein Pamela A. Puhl-Quinn Claire Vallat 《Space Science Reviews》2009,145(1-2):107-135
The electric field and magnetic field are basic quantities in the plasmasphere measured since the 1960s. In this review, we first recall conventional wisdom and remaining problems from ground-based whistler measurements. Then we show scientific results from Cluster and Image, which are specifically made possible by newly introduced features on these spacecraft, as follows. 1. In situ electric field measurements using artificial electron beams are successfully used to identify electric fields originating from various sources. 2. Global electric fields are derived from sequences of plasmaspheric images, revealing how the inner magnetospheric electric field responds to the southward interplanetary magnetic fields and storms/substorms. 3. Understanding of sub-auroral polarization stream (SAPS) or sub-auroral ion drifts (SAID) are advanced through analysis of a combination of magnetospheric and ionospheric measurements from Cluster, Image, and DMSP. 4. Data from multiple spacecraft have been used to estimate magnetic gradients for the first time. 相似文献
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Certain aspects of the Sun and resulting geomagnetic disturbances can be studied better on the source surface, an imaginary spherical surface of 3.5 solar radii, than on the photospheric surface. This paper presents evidence that the Sun exhibits one of the most fundamental aspects of activities most clearly during the late-declining phase of the sunspot cycle. It is the period when 27-day average values of the solar wind speed and of geomagnetic disturbances tend to be highest during the sunspot cycle. Important findings of this study on the late-declining phase of the sunspot cycle are the following:
- By introducing a new coordinate system, modifying the Carrington coordinates, it is shown that various solar activity phenomena, solar flares, the brightest coronal regions, and also the lowest solar wind speed region, tend to concentrate in two quadrants, one around 90° in longitude in the northern hemisphere (NE) and the other around 270° in longitude in the southern hemisphere (SW). For this reason, the new coordinate system is referred to as the NESW coordinate system.
- It is shown that the above results are closely related to the fact that the neutral line exhibits a single wave (sinusoidal or rectangular) in both the Carrington coordinates and the NESW coordinate system during the late-declining phase. The shift of the neutral line configuration during successive solar rotations during the late-declining phase causes longitudinal scatter of the location of solar flares with respect to the neutral line in a statistical study. The NESW coordinate system is designed to suppress the shift, so that the single wave location is fixed and thus a ‘nest’ of solar flares emerges in the NE and SW quadrants.
- It is also shown that the single wave is the source of the double peak of the solar wind speed and two series of recurrent geomagnetic disturbances in each solar rotation, making the 27-day average solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances highest during the sunspot cycle. The double peak is a basic feature during the late-declining phase, but is obscured by several complexities which we identified in this paper; see item 8.
- The single wave of the neutral line configuration can be approximated by three dipole fields, one which can be represented by a central dipole (parallel or anti-parallel to the rotation axis) and two hypothetical dipoles on the photosphere. This configuration is referred to as the triple dipole model.
- The location of the two hypothetical photospheric dipoles coincide with the two active regions (solar flares, the brightest coronal region) and also the lowest solar wind speed region in the NESW coordinate system; the lowest solar wind regions are the cause of the valleys of the double peak of the solar wind speed.
- The two hypothetical dipole fields actually do exist at the location of the two active regions in a coarse magnetic map (5 × 5°). The two dipoles follow the Hale–Nicholson polarity law. Thus, they are real physical entities.
- The apparent meridional rotation of the dipolar field on the source surface during the sunspot cycle results from combined changes of both the central dipole field and of the two photospheric dipoles, although the central dipole remains axially parallel or anti-parallel. Thus, the Sun has a general field that can be represented by an axially aligned dipole located at the center of the Sun throughout the sunspot cycle, except for the sunspot maximum period when the polarization reversal occurs.
- The complexity of recurrent geomagnetic disturbances can also be understood by having the NESW coordinate system for various solar phenomena and the relative location of the earth with respect to the solar equatorial plane.
- As the intensity of the two dipoles decreases toward the end of the sunspot cycle, the amplitude of the single wave decreases, and the neutral line tends to align with the heliographic equator.
- The neutral line shows a double wave structure during certain epochs of the sunspot cycle. In such a situation, it can be considered that two NESW coordinate systems are present in one Carrington coordinate, resulting in four active regions.
- The so-called classical “sector boundary” arises when the peaks (top and bottom) of the single wave reached 90° in latitude in both hemispheres.
- In summary: A study of the late-declining period of the sunspot cycle is very important compared with the sunspot maximum period. In the late-declining period, the Sun shows its activities in the simplest form. It is suggested that some of the basic features of solar activities and recurrent geomagnetic disturbances that have been studied by many researchers in the past can be synthesized in a simplest way by introducing the NESW coordinate system and the triple dipole model. There is a possibility that the basic results we learned during the late phase of the sunspot cycle can be applicable to the rest of the sunspot cycle.
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The containment lifetime of the cosmic radiation is a crucial parameter in the investigation of the cosmic-ray origin and plays an important role in the dynamics of the Galaxy. The separation of the cosmic-ray Be isotopes achieved by two satellite experiments is considered in this paper, and from the measured isotopic ratio between the radioactive 10Be (half-life = 1.5 × 106 yr) and the stable 9Be, it is deduced that the cosmic rays propagate through matter with an average density of 0.24 ± 0.07 atoms cm-3, lower than the traditionally quoted average density in the galactic disk of 1 atom cm-3. This paper reviews the implications of this result for the cosmic-ray age mainly in the context of two models of confinement and propagation: the homogeneous model, normally identified with confinement to the galactic gaseous disk, and a diffusion model in which the cosmic rays extend into a galactic halo. The propagation calculations use:
- a newly deduced cosmic-ray pathlength distribution.
- a self-consistent model of solar modulation.
- an up-to-date set of fragmentation cross sections.
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Bodo W. Reinisch Mark B. Moldwin Richard E. Denton Dennis L. Gallagher Hiroshi Matsui Viviane Pierrard Jiannan Tu 《Space Science Reviews》2009,145(1-2):231-261
Empirical models for the plasma densities in the inner magnetosphere, including plasmasphere and polar magnetosphere, have been in the past derived from in situ measurements. Such empirical models, however, are still in their initial phase compared to magnetospheric magnetic field models. Recent studies using data from CRRES, Polar, and Image have significantly improved empirical models for inner-magnetospheric plasma and mass densities. Comprehensive electric field models in the magnetosphere have been developed using radar and in situ observations at low altitude orbits. To use these models at high altitudes one needs to rely strongly on the assumption of equipotential magnetic field lines. Direct measurements of the electric field by the Cluster mission have been used to derive an equatorial electric field model in which reliance on the equipotential assumption is less. In this paper we review the recent progress in developing empirical models of plasma densities and electric fields in the inner magnetosphere with emphasis on the achievements from the Image and Cluster missions. Recent results from other satellites are also discussed when they are relevant. 相似文献
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V. I. Moroz 《Space Science Reviews》1981,29(1):3-127
The investigations of Venus take a special position in planetary researches. It was just the atmosphere of Venus where first measurements in situ were carried out by means of the equipment delivered by a space probe (Venera 4, 1967). Venus appeared to be the first neighbor planet whose surface had been seen by us in the direct nearness made possible by means of the phototelevision device (Venera 9 and Venera 10, 1975). The reasons for the high interest in this planet are very simple. This planet is like the Earth by its mass, size and amount of energy obtained from the Sun and at the same time it differs sharply by the character of its atmosphere and climate. We hope that the investigations of Venus will lead us to define more precisely the idea of complex physical and physical-chemical processes which rule the evolution of planetary atmospheres. We hope to learn to forecast this evolution and maybe, in the far future, to control it. The last expeditions to Venus carried out in 1978 — American (Pioneer-Venus) and Soviet (Venera 11 and 12) — brought much news and it is interesting to sum up the results just now. The contents of this review are:
- The planet Venus — basic astronomical data.
- Chemical composition.
- Temperature, pressure, density (from 0 to 100 km).
- Clouds.
- Thermal regime and greenhouse effect.
- Dynamics.
- Chemical processes.
- Upper atmosphere.
- Origin and evolution.
- Problems for future studies
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The Science Advisory Group 《Space Science Reviews》1973,14(3-4):347-362
The requirements of systematic exploration of the outer solar system have been intensively studied by a Science Advisory Group (SAG) of consulting scientists for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Comets and Asteroids were excluded from this study, as a separate group is planning missions to these bodies. This paper and accompanying articles on specific related scientific subjects written by members of the SAG, summarize the findings and recommendations of this group. These recommendations should not be interpreted as official NASA policy. Following some general introductory remarks, a brief sketch is given of the development and current status of scientific missions to the inner planets by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. With this perspective, the development of the U.S. program for investigation of the outer solar system is described. The scientific focus of outer solar system exploration has been studied in detail. The relationship of the outer planetary bodies to one another and to the inner planets, as parts in a unified solar system evolved from a primitive solar nebula, is emphasized. Deductions from outer solar system investigations regarding the conditions of the solar nebula at the time of planetary formation have been considered. Investigations have been proposed that are relevant to studies of the atmospheric structure and dynamics, internal structure of the planets, satellite composition and morphology, and planetary and interplanetary fields and energetic particles. The mission type and sequence required to conduct a systematic exploration of the outer solar system has been developed. Technological rationales for the suggested missions are discussed in general terms. The existing NASA program for outer solar system exploration is comprised of four missions:
- Pioneer 10 fly-by mission to Jupiter and beyond, currently underway, with launch on 3 March 1972;
- Pioneer G, intended for a similar mission with planned launch 2–22 April 1973; and
- Two Mariner Jupiter/Saturn fly-bys in 1977, with experiment selection scheduled for late 1972 and detailed engineering design during 1972–74.
- 1976 Pioneer Jupiter/Out-of-Ecliptic (One Mission)
- 1979 Mariner Jupiter/Uranus Fly-bys (Two Missions)
- 1979 Pioneer Entry Probe to Saturn 1980 Pioneer Entry Probe to Uranus via Saturn Fly-by (Three Missions)
- 1981/1982 Mariner Jupiter Orbiter (Two Missions).
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Charles H. Aldrich 《Space Science Reviews》1985,42(1-2):131-144
As problems we are interested in become more complex, we often find our simulations stretching the limits of available computer resources. For example, an interesting problem is simulation of dissipation processes in sub-critical collisionless shocks. To simulate this system our simulation box must contain the shock and its upstream and downstream regions over the entire length of a run. If the shock moves with any appreciable speed the box must then be considerably larger than the shock thickness making it hard to resolve the shock front itself with a reasonable number of grid points. A solution to this problem is to run the simulation in the frame of reference of the shock. Particles are injected upstream of the shock and leave the simulation box downstream. With the shock stationary in the simulation box, we only need to contain enough of the up and downstream regions for the fields, etc., to settle down and separate the shock from the box boundaries. In this tutorial we consider some basic algorithms used in a practical particle injection code, such as the two dimensional WAVE code used at Los Alamos. We will try to present these ideas in a simple format general enough to be easily included in any particle code. Topics covered are:
- Smoothly Injecting Particles.
- Generating the Distribution Functions.
- Time Dependent Injection Density.
- Boundary Conditions on Fields and Particles.
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T. K. Breus 《Space Science Reviews》1982,32(3):361-376
The planned missions to Comet Halley, which will arrive at the nearest space of the Sun in 1986, have recently revived interest in studying solar wind interaction with comets. Several unsolved problems exist and the most urgent of them are as follows:
- The character of the solar wind interaction with comets: bow shocks and contact surface formation near comets; similarities and differences of solar- wind interaction with comets and with Venus. The differences are probably associated with a great extension of neutral atmospheres of comets (due to a practical lack of cometary gravitation) and the ‘loading’ of the solar wind flux by cometary ions during the interaction.
- The anomalous ionization in cometary heads.
- The problem of the anamalously high accelerations of ions in the plasma tails of comets.
- The variability of plasma structures observed in cometary tails.
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D. Lal 《Space Science Reviews》1972,14(1):3-102
Recent examinations of extraterrestrial materials exposed to cosmic rays for different intervals of time during the geological history of the solar system have generated a wealth of new information on the history of cosmic radiation. This information relates to the temporal variations in
- the flux and energy spectrum of low energy (solar) protons of ? 10 MeV kinetic energy;
- the flux and energy spectrum of (solar) heavy nuclei of Z > 20 of kinetic energy, 0.5–10 MeV/n;
- the integrated flux of protons and heavier nuclei of ? 0.5 GeV kinetic energy, and
- the flux and energy spectrum of nuclei of Z > 20 of medium energy — 100–2000 MeV/n kinetic energy.
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We investigated the effect of mass accretion on the secondary components in close binomy systems (M total ≤ 2.5 M ⊙ M 2,0 ≤ 0.75 M ⊙) exchanging mass in the case A. The evolution of the low-mass close binary systems (M total ≤ 2.5 M ⊙) exchanging the mass in the case A depends on the three main factors: -the initial mass ratio (q 0 = M 2,0/M 1,0), which determines the rate of mass transfer between components; -the inital mass of the secondary component (M 2,0) and -the effectiveness of the heating of the photosphere of the secondary component, by infalling matter. The second factor allows to divide all systems into two essentially different groups:
- systems in which the secondary component is a star with a radiative envelope, or with a thin convection zone in the uppermost layers;
- and systems in which secondary component has a thick convective envelope or is fully convective.
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Roger E. Summons Pierre Albrecht Gene McDonald J. Michael Moldowan 《Space Science Reviews》2008,135(1-4):133-159
Life, as we know it, is based on carbon chemistry operating in an aqueous environment. Living organisms process chemicals, make copies of themselves, are autonomous and evolve in concert with the environment. All these characteristics are driven by, and operate through, carbon chemistry. The carbon chemistry of living systems is an exact branch of science and we have detailed knowledge of the basic metabolic and reproductive machinery of living organisms. We can recognise the residual biochemicals long after life has expired and otherwise lost most life-defining features. Carbon chemistry provides a tool for identifying extant and extinct life on Earth and, potentially, throughout the Universe. In recognizing that certain distinctive compounds isolable from living systems had related fossil derivatives, organic geochemists coined the term biological marker compound or biomarker (e.g. Eglinton et al. in Science 145:263–264, 1964) to describe them. In this terminology, biomarkers are metabolites or biochemicals by which we can identify particular kinds of living organisms as well as the molecular fossil derivatives by which we identify defunct counterparts. The terms biomarker and molecular biosignature are synonymous. A defining characteristic of terrestrial life is its metabolic versatility and adaptability and it is reasonable to expect that this is universal. Different physiologies operate for carbon acquisition, the garnering of energy and the storage and processing of information. As well as having a range of metabolisms, organisms build biomass suited to specific physical environments, habitats and their ecological imperatives. This overall ‘metabolic diversity’ manifests itself in an enormous variety of accompanying product molecules (i.e. natural products). The whole field of organic chemistry grew from their study and now provides tools to link metabolism (i.e. physiology) to the occurrence of biomarkers specific to, and diagnostic for, particular kinds of metabolism. Another characteristic of living things, also likely to be pervasive, is that an enormous diversity of large molecules are built from a relatively small subset of universal precursors. These include the four bases of DNA, 20 amino acids of proteins and two kinds of lipid building blocks. Third, life exploits the specificity inherent in the spatial, that is, the three-dimensional qualities of organic chemicals (stereochemistry). These characteristics then lead to some readily identifiable and measurable generic attributes that would be diagnostic as biosignatures. Measurable attributes of molecular biosignatures include:
- Enantiomeric excess
- Diastereoisomeric preference
- Structural isomer preference
- Repeating constitutional sub-units or atomic ratios
- Systematic isotopic ordering at molecular and intramolecular levels
- Uneven distribution patterns or clusters (e.g. C-number, concentration, δ 13C) of structurally related compounds.
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Hans Goedbloed 《Space Science Reviews》2006,122(1-4):239-246
Transonically rotating toroidal plasmas occur at all scales in the plasma universe and, recently, also in laboratory tokamak plasmas. This offers great opportunities for new insights of the effects of transonic transitions on the background equilibrium flows, and on the waves and instabilities excited. Transfer of knowledge and computational methods on MHD and two-fluid waves and instabilities in magnetically confined laboratory fusion plasmas to space and astrophysical plasmas is seriously hampered though by two related difficulties:
- in contrast to laboratory plasmas, astrophysical plasmas always have sizeable plasma flows so that they can never be described as a static equilibrium;
- these flows are usually ‘transonic’, i.e., surpass one of the critical speeds related to the different flow regimes with quite different physical characteristics.
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The application of chaos theory has become popular to understand the nature of various features of solar activity because most of them are far from regular. The usual approach, however, that is based on finding low-dimensional structures of the underlying processes seems to be successful only in a few exceptional cases, such as in rather coherent phenomena as coronal pulsations. It is important to note that most phenomena in solar radio emission are more complex. We present two kinds of techniques from nonlinear dynamics which can be useful to analyse such phenomena:
- Fragmentation processes observed in solar spike events are studied by means of symbolic dynamics methods. Different measures of complexity calculated from such observations reveal that there is some order in this fragmentation.
- Bursts are a typical transient phenomenon. To study energization processes causing impulsive microwave bursts, the wavelet analysis is applied. It exhibits structural differences of the pre- and post-impulsive phase in cases where the power spectra of both are not distinct.
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First magnetospheric measurements of the three-dimensional velocity distributions for positive ions and electrons within the energy range 1 eV E/Q 45keV are reported. These velocity distributions are gained with quadrispherical Lepedeas on board the spacecraft ISEE-1 and -2. Three-dimensional bulk flows of protons in the vicinity of the magnetopause and within the dayside magnetosphere and dawn sector of the magnetotail are presented. Proton drift velocities within the magnetosphere and magnetotail can be directly determined and employed to calculate the corresponding quasi-static perpendicular electric fields and to provide quantitative analyses of kinematical models for plasma motions. Nonmonotonic features in the electron velocity distributions are found simultaneously with the presence of electron cyclotron harmonic electrostatic waves in the dayside magnetosphere. The relationship of the observed electron velocity distributions to expectations for resonant pitch-angle and energy diffusion is discussed, as well as the possibility of the existence of proton cyclotron harmonic instabilities. Examples of the signature of field-aligned acceleration of protons into the magnetosphere and the presence of low-energy ionospheric ions in the near-earth magnetotail are also presented. Perpendicular electrostatic fields can be calculated from the observed three-dimensional velocity distributions and are found to have typical magnitudes of 1 mV m-1. 相似文献
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J. V. Feitzinger 《Space Science Reviews》1980,27(1):35-105
In the first part of this paper the morphological structure of Magellanic type galaxies (Irr I) is investigated. The galaxies of Magellanic type present a basic pattern consisting of a disk, a bar, stellar arms, rudimentary or well developed, spiral filaments and condensations in the disk. With the help of this pattern a well-defined classification scheme is set up. The subgroup of Irr II-systems consists of normal galaxies which are more or less tidally disturbed. Bursts of star formation have a great influence on structure and colour of irregular galaxies. Using the ESO-B Atlas, 580 galaxies of Magellanic type (out of a sample of 3187 galaxies) were classified; 57 are new SB(s)m systems (prototype Large Magellanic Cloud). The sample shows dominant bar structures at the classification stages d-, dm-, and m. A striking feature is the asymmetric position of bar and disk. This asymmetry is a general characteristic of galaxies of types SBd-SBm IB. The asymmetry can be discribed by a relative displacement parameter \(\tilde \Lambda \) = 0.78 ±0.15, defined as the quotient of small and great distance of the bar center to the optical edge of the disk. The displacement cannot be explained by tidal interaction with neighbouring galaxies. In the second part of the paper the kinematics and dynamics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) as the nearest and best-known example of a galaxy of Magellanic type is investigated. The main structural features of the LMC are disk, bar, rudimentary and well developed stellar arms as well as spiral filaments (not necessarily connected with density waves); the γ-structure is a broken up ring structure. Embedded into these features are young, asymmetrically located spiral arm filaments. As an explanation for these structures stochastic start formation in an ordered chain reaction is proposed. The pattern of the spiral arm filaments is determined by the rotation curve. The morphological peculiarities of the LMC can also be detected in other galaxies of that type. The mean absolute displacement of the centers of bar and disk, determined from 18 galaxies, is Λ = 800 pc. The displacement between the bar center and the symmetry center of the rotation curve is of the same order. The presently known radial velocities of planetary nebulae, star clusters, Hi and Hii regions and stars belonging to the LMC have been collected in a catalogue as the basis of a discussion of the kinematics and dynamics of the LMC. Contrary to earlier work, we have used, for the first time, the radial velocities of objects of all subgroups together by a proper weighting scheme. Thus the basic kinematics and dynamics of the LMC has been deduced. The radial velocity field shows no central symmetry; it is characterized by large scale (2–3 kpc) disturbances. By comparison with the velocity field of other galaxies three main disturbances are identified: an oval distortion of the velocity field in the bar region, a radial velocity field around 30 Doradus, and disturbances connected with a warp or material above the disk in the southern quadrants. The results of a detailed numerical analysis of these three facts can be summed up as follows:
- The rotation curve is determined over 10° diameter; it shows differential rotation, an asymmetric behavior in the south and a double structure in its Hi component. The rotation center is displaced by 0°.7 from the bar center. The orientation of the kinematic line of nodes and the systemic velocity vary as functions of the distance from the center. Therefore, it is possible to show definitely that large scale disturbances (warping, z-structure and streaming motions) are existent.
- By variation of the kinematical parameters (systemic velocity, inclination, orientation of the line of nodes, rotation center) the dispersion of the measured radial velocities was minimized and the basic rotation curve determined. The rotation curves for the north and south side of the LMC are significantly different. The south side is either warped or there is material above the main plane. There seems to be a connection between this structure, the Panmagellanic Gas and the Magellanic Stream. The north side appears to be free of distorsion.
- The residual velocity field (observed minus model) deduced from a basic rotation curve shows that the displacement between the rotation center and the bar center is not caused by local streaming motions. The rotation center must be the mass center. The bar shows a radial velocity field; in the 30 Doradus region inward and outward motions are found.
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A number of previously unclassified multiplets of Fexiv, xiii, xii, and xi produced by transitions of the type 3s 23p n -3s3p n+1 are identified in the XUV spectrum of the Sun. The iron lines account for most of the previously unidentified strong lines between 330 and 370 Å. Solar observations of especial value for the investigation of the 300–400 Å region were the slitless spectroheliograms of September 22, 1968 (Purcell and Tousey, 1969) and November 4, 1969 (Tousey, 1971) — on which the image of a flare was recorded. Other solar identifications in the same spectral region include the resonance lines of Nixvii and Nixviii, and one 3p-3d multiplet of Fexiii. The solar blend at 417 Å involving the Fexv inter-combination line and Sxiv is resolved. 相似文献