圆锥扫描地球敏感器前置放大电路稳定性分析

圆锥扫描地球敏感器（CES）是航天器的关键测量部件,其前置放大电路具有高增益、低噪声等特点.通过仿真分析得出电缆和器件参数差异显著影响其稳定性,在此基础上介绍电路稳定问题实例,提出采用频率补偿方法解决电路稳定性问题,并针对该方法设计和实施通过了标定测试、热真空试验和EMC试验,证明该方法完全有效.     

用于EMI测量接收机脉冲响应校准的标准脉冲信号产生方法

EMI测量接收机作为电磁兼容测试中的关键仪器应用越来越广泛，但目前该类仪器的脉冲响应校准所用的标准源完全依赖于进口，国内尚无可替代的标准脉冲信号产生器。介绍一种用于EMI测量接收机脉冲响应校准的标准脉冲信号产生方法，首先建立标准脉冲信号的参数模型并对其进行数值分析和仿真，验证其符合CISPR 16-1-1标准的要求，之后搭建实验系统，利用标准脉冲信号生成软件控制任意脉冲信号发生器输出标准脉冲信号并对其进行补偿修正，获得符合CISPR 16-1-1标准要求的标准脉冲信号，该信号可用于EMI测量接收机脉冲响应的校准。     

Plasma production by secondary impacts: Implications for velocity measurements by in-situ dust detectors

A number of in-situ cosmic dust detectors derive the dust particle velocities from measurement of the risetimes of the impact plasma signal. Extensive calibration of these instruments has established a reliable empirical relationship but a quantitative explanation has not been available, with the result that confidence in flight data outside the range of the calibration data is hard to assess. Recent measurements taken at the dust accelerator facilities at the University of Kent (UK) and at MPI-K (Germany), supported by a theoretical analysis, have demonstrated that the relationship results from the time-spread of secondary impacts coupled with the mobility of ions in the impact plasma cloud, which is in turn determined by the magnitude and geometry of the applied electric field and on the ion species present. Results of the current investigations are presented, and the implications of measurements based on this principle at high particle velocities, at masses unobtainable in calibration studies, and for other instrument geometries, are considered.     

Monte Carlo calibration of the response of the University of Chicago’s Cosmic Ray Nuclei Experiment (CRNE) on IMP-8 to electrons above 0.5 MeV

Modern instrument-simulation techniques offer the possibility of increasing the scientific yield from archival space datasets. In this paper, we report on a simulation of the electron response of the University of Chicago’s Cosmic Ray Nuclei Experiment (CRNE) instrument on the IMP-8 satellite. IMP-8/CRNE returned data from 1973 to 2006. The CRNE particle telescope was designed to measure the isotopic composition of Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) nuclei and has also been used in many studies of protons and ions above 10 MeV/nucleon from solar energetic particle (SEP) events. But CRNE also functions as a highly-capable detector for solar electrons above 0.5 MeV, an energy range that has not been extensively studied. Utilization of the CRNE electron data has heretofore been limited by the fact that CRNE was never calibrated for electrons. We have therefore used the GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation package to model the CRNE response to electrons and (separately) protons for multiple energies and incident angles. The results were used to compute the energy- and angle-dependence of the effective area and the energy-dependence of the geometric factor. The response to protons, which was already well understood, was used to verify the mass model, the simulation settings, and the post-processing software. Our simulation of the IMP-8/CRNE electron response now allows analysis of hundreds of relativistic solar electron events observed by CRNE over the years, including studies of evolution of electron energy spectra with high time resolution. We show examples of these results and briefly discuss potential applications to future scientific investigations.     

中性原子成像探测的物理设计与仿真

研究了磁层-电离层-热层耦合星座(MIT)卫星计划中高能中性原子成像仪(NAIS-H)探测方案的原理设计和模拟仿真. 以双星中性原子成像仪设计思想为基础,依据MIT卫星计划的总体科学目标和磁层卫星的轨道环境及相应自旋姿态,给出中性原子成像仪的技术架构,并针对地磁偶极场的环电流模型进行了模拟仿真. 仿真结果表明,所研制的NAIS-H以其高时空分辨能力适用于监测和反演磁暴期间磁层等离子体的全球动力学过程.      

基于恒星的电离层成像仪在轨几何定标

三轴稳定的地球静止轨道卫星在轨运行期间温度会有周期性变化.其上装载的远紫外电离层成像仪与卫星之间的热应力变化造成机械传递,导致仪器指向与装星时的初始位置发生偏差.恒星在惯性坐标系中的位置保持不变,可以将其作为电离层成像仪在轨几何定标的定标源.本文建立了基于恒星的电离层成像仪在轨几何定标模型,通过拍摄所筛选恒星图像,得出仪器在轨指向相对于初始值的偏离程度,从而提高电离层成像仪的成像几何精度.通过模拟试验,验证了运用此技术进行在轨几何定标的可行性.研究结果可为电离层成像仪常态化自动在轨几何定标奠定基础.      

基于SIMION软件的空间等离子体探测器的数值仿真

空间等离子体探测器采用带偏转板的柱形静电分析器作为传感器,具有大于320°探测视场,可探测约10eV～30keV的热等离子体。利用SIMION软件采用均匀随机抽样建立粒子源的方法仿真探测器的基本特性参数:静电分析器因子、能量分辨率、偏转板因子和偏转角。仿真结果与实测结果吻合很好。静电分析器因子的仿真与实测结果偏差为3.2%,能量分辨率仿真与实测结果偏差为1.5%,偏转角-偏转板因子的关系式与实测结果的相关系数为0.999 4。仿真结果可以有效地应用于该类仪器的设计和定标过程中。     

温度计量技术在航空发动机试车台健康管理中的应用

分析了航空发动机试车台温度配置参数传统离线校准方法,针对其存在的反复拆装耗时长且易引发故障、缺少系统综合误差的判定方法等不足,开展发动机试车台静态状态下的整机在线校准方法研究。通过给被校准参数传感器提供标准热源的方式,开展温度传感器及温度通道（温度仪表）在线整机校准。通过对发动机试车台系统模拟仪表显示结果与标准器读数进行比较,确认在线校准的有效性,实现了试车台系统综合误差校准,为试车台健康管理提供支撑。     

Development and verification of an innovative photomultiplier calibration system with a 10-fold increase in photometer resolution

In this study, we construct a photomultiplier calibration system. This calibration system can help scientists measuring and establishing the characteristic curve of the photon count versus light intensity. The system uses an innovative 10-fold optical attenuator to enable an optical power meter to calibrate photomultiplier tubes which have the resolution being much greater than that of the optical power meter. A simulation is firstly conducted to validate the feasibility of the system, and then the system construction, including optical design, circuit design, and software algorithm, is realized. The simulation generally agrees with measurement data of the constructed system, which are further used to establish the characteristic curve of the photon count versus light intensity.     

静电电荷衰减试验仪校准装置建标研究

静电电荷衰减试验仪是测试静电耗散材料衰减时间的仪器,对该仪器校准标定时,主要针对半衰期这一指标进行比对验证。因此该校准装置系统需构建正、负极性可变,电压和时间可调的指数衰减曲线;研制测试用标准分压器和考核分压器;测试结果由数据采集卡和计算机完成;同时对整套系统的不确定度进行了评定。     

非接触式静电电压测量仪校准方法研究

根据非接触式静电电压测量仪的工作原理,建立了一套非接触式静电电压测量仪校准系统.重点介绍了校准系统的组成和工作过程,以及决定校准系统测量准确度关键因素的标准平板电极的设计原则,并通过实验数据分析了标准平板电极的直径和边缘效应对测量结果的影响.最后以常用的非接触式静电电压测量仪EST101为例,根据校准装置测量不确定度主...     

Radiation from relativistic shocks in turbulent magnetic fields

Using our new 3-D relativistic particle-in-cell (PIC) code parallelized with MPI, we investigated long-term particle acceleration associated with a relativistic electron–positron jet propagating in an unmagnetized ambient electron–positron plasma. The simulations were performed using a much longer simulation system than our previous simulations in order to investigate the full nonlinear stage of the Weibel instability and its particle acceleration mechanism. Cold jet electrons are thermalized and ambient electrons are accelerated in the resulting shocks. Acceleration of ambient electrons leads to a maximum ambient electron density three times larger than the original value as predicted by hydrodynamic shock compression. In the jet (reverse) shock behind the bow (forward) shock the strongest electromagnetic fields are generated. These fields may lead to time dependent afterglow emission. In order to calculate radiation from first principles that goes beyond the standard synchrotron model used in astrophysical objects we have used PIC simulations. Initially we calculated radiation from electrons propagating in a uniform parallel magnetic field to verify the technique. We then used the technique to calculate emission from electrons in a small simulation system. From these simulations we obtained spectra which are consistent with those generated from electrons propagating in turbulent magnetic fields with red noise. This turbulent magnetic field is similar to the magnetic field generated at an early nonlinear stage of the Weibel instability. A fully developed shock within a larger simulation system may generate a jitter/synchrotron spectrum.     

First results of operational ionospheric dynamics prediction for the Brazilian Space Weather program

It is shown the development and preliminary results of operational ionosphere dynamics prediction system for the Brazilian Space Weather program. The system is based on the Sheffield University Plasmasphere–Ionosphere Model (SUPIM), a physics-based model computer code describing the distribution of ionization within the Earth mid to equatorial latitude ionosphere and plasmasphere, during geomagnetically quiet periods. The model outputs are given in a 2-dimensional plane aligned with Earth magnetic field lines, with fixed magnetic longitude coordinate. The code was adapted to provide the output in geographical coordinates. It was made referring to the Earth’s magnetic field as an eccentric dipole, using the approximation based on International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF-11). During the system operation, several simulation runs are performed at different longitudes. The original code would not be able to run all simulations serially in reasonable time. So, a parallel version for the code was developed for enhancing the performance. After preliminary tests, it was frequently observed code instability, when negative ion temperatures or concentrations prevented the code from continuing its processing. After a detailed analysis, it was verified that most of these problems occurred due to concentration estimation of simulation points located at high altitudes, typically over 4000 km of altitude. In order to force convergence, an artificial exponential decay for ion–neutral collisional frequency was used above mentioned altitudes. This approach shown no significant difference from original code output, but improved substantially the code stability. In order to make operational system even more stable, the initial altitude and initial ion concentration values used on exponential decay equation are changed when convergence is not achieved, within pre-defined values. When all code runs end, the longitude of every point is then compared with its original reference station longitude, and differences are compensated by changing the simulation point time slot, in a temporal adjustment optimization. Then, an approximate neighbor searching technique was developed to obtain the ion concentration values in a regularly spaced grid, using inverse distance weighting (IDW) interpolation. A 3D grid containing ion and electron concentrations is generated for every hour of simulated day. Its spatial resolution is 1° of latitude per 1° of longitude per 10 km of altitude. The vertical total electron content (VTEC) is calculated from the grid, and plotted in a geographic map. An important feature that was implemented in the system is the capacity of combining observational data and simulation outputs to obtain more appropriate initial conditions to the ionosphere prediction. Newtonian relaxation method was used for this data assimilation process, where ionosonde data from four different locations in South America was used to improve the system accuracy. The whole process runs every day and predicts the VTEC values for South America region with almost 24 h ahead.     

LabVIEW在直流低电压测量中的应用

以对数字纳伏表的测试为例,详细介绍了一种运用LabVIEW编制直流低电压自动检定程序,采集测试数据并进行分析和处理的方法。重点强调了在测控系统中运用LabVIEW编程的便捷性和高效性。     

汞离子微波频标汞光谱灯设计

汞离子微波频标由于其体积小、指标高的优势,未来将在卫星导航、深空探测和守时中得到广泛应用。汞离子微波频标的优势在于利用汞灯进行抽运,可实现小型化。而汞灯的指标会限制汞离子微波频标的物理极限,因此汞灯的设计尤其重要,通过大量的实验完成了汞灯的设计。测试指标如下,功率稳定度大约2.5%,测试时间为3天;194nm与253nm谱线能量比约1/45,通过滤光泡可改善为1/3。     

自动测试系统校准方法研究

自动测试系统的校准是计量界面临的一个新问题,国内还没有相关的校准规范。以实际工程项目为基础,采用一种面向实际应用的自动测试系统校准方法。对于系统中的仪器,根据实际的测试需求及精度不同分别采用仪器检定和仪器校准方法,对于自动测试系统特有的测试通道采用回路标定、替代标定两种标定方法,满足了被测设备的测试准确度要求,实际测试也证明了该方法的可行性。     

谐波阻抗调配器校准技术研究

作为负载牵引测量系统中的重要器件,谐波阻抗调配器的应用越来越广泛,但是目前国内有关该类仪器的校准工作尚无报道。本文以谐波阻抗调配器的工作原理为基础,设计了校准方法,并重点分析了矢量重复性的三种定义,提出了最佳校准方法。通过与出厂测试数据对比,验证了校准方法的可行性。     

A realistic simulation framework to evaluate ionospheric tomography

Observation of the 3-dimensional (3-D) electron density of the ionosphere is useful to study large-scale physical processes in space weather events. Ionospheric data assimilation and ionospheric tomography are methods that can create an image of the 3-D electron density distribution. While multiple techniques have been developed over the past 30 years, there are relatively few studies that show the accuracy of the algorithms. This paper outlines a novel simulation approach to test the quality of an ionospheric tomographic inversion. The approach uses observations from incoherent scatter radar (ISR) scans and extrapolates them spatially to create a realistic ionospheric representation. A set of total electron content (TEC) measurements can then be simulated using real geometries from satellites and ground receivers. This data set, for which the ‘truth’ ionosphere is known, is used as input for a tomographic inversion algorithm to estimate the spatial distribution of electron density. The reconstructed ionospheric maps are compared with the truth ionosphere to calculate the difference between the images and the truth.To demonstrate the effectiveness of this simulation framework, an inversion algorithm called MIDAS (Multi-Instrument Data Analysis Software) is evaluated for three geographic regions with differing receiver networks. The results show the importance of the distribution and density of GPS receivers and the use of a realistic prior conditioning of the vertical electron density profile. This paper demonstrates that when these requirements are met, MIDAS can reliably estimate the ionospheric electron density. When the region under study is well covered by GPS receivers, as in mainland Europe or North America, the errors in vertical total electron content (vTEC) are smaller than 1 TECu (2–4%) . In regions with fewer and more sparsely distributed receivers, the errors can be as high as 20–40%. This is caused by poor data coverage and poor spatial resolution of the reconstruction, which has an important effect on the calibration process of the algorithm.     

Structure of the equatorial lower ionosphere from the Thumba Langmuir probe experiments

A Langmuir probe designed and developed at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad has been used on a variety of rockets since 1966 from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, TERLS (8°31'N, 76°52'E, dip.lat. 0°47'S) to study the structure of the equatorial lower ionosphere. Good quality data is available from a set of twenty five rocket flights conducted during the period 1966 to 1978. This data has been obtained using a single standardised instrument at a single location and using a uniform procedure for data reading and analysis, and adopting a calibration procedure to convert the measured probe currents into electron densities which involves a height dependent calibration factor. The data has been used to establish the gross features of the equatorial lower ionosphere under daytime, night time, morning twilight and evening twilight periods.