利用TDRSS信息的单向多普勒测轨方法

介绍了利用跟踪中继卫星系统（TDRSS）信息的单向多普勒定轨技术。分析了单向多普勒测轨的基本原理和系统组成，采用扩展卡尔曼滤波（EKF）法，推导用于自主定轨算法的卫星轨道测量状态及观测方程。讨论了影响滤波精度的状态变量和动力学模型精度等多种误差源及其该方法能达到的测轨精度。     

Combining Locations from Working Memory and Long-Term Memory into a Common Spatial Image

Abstract

This research uses a novel integration paradigm to investigate whether target locations read in from long-term memory (LTM) differ from perceptually encoded inputs in spatial working-memory (SWM) with respect to systematic spatial error and/or noise, and whether SWM can simultaneously encompass both of these sources. Our results provide evidence for a composite representation of space in SWM derived from both perception and LTM, albeit with a loss in spatial precision of locations retrieved from LTM. More generally, the data support the concept of a spatial image in working memory and extend its potential sources to representations retrieved from LTM.     

飞轮振源特征参数提取方法及其分布特性

为了从飞轮微振动输出中提取飞轮转子的振源信息，提出利用鲁棒回归辨识飞轮在升速过程中各主要阶次的振幅对转速的二次幂系数，并将其作为飞轮的振源幅值特征参数；为探究参数的分布特性，利用Weibull分布拟合多个飞轮在同一阶次的特征参数，并计算出特定概率点的分位数。振源特征参数的分位数既系统地展示了飞轮振源分布情况，亦可作为振源分级判据。将该方法成功应用于50 Nms飞轮的振源特征参数分布研究中，为该型飞轮的超静性能筛选和设计改进提供了判定准则和参考依据。     

A search of the IRAS database for evidence of Dyson Spheres

One of the forms of astroengineering activity that a very advanced civilization could possibly carry on is the constructions of huge “buildings” in space around the central star. Historically such constructions are called Dyson Spheres. We would like to introduce a new name — Astroengineering Constructions (AC) — to mean a more general type of construction not necessarily related to any specific star. AC absorb energy from different types of activity and re-emit it as infrared radiation, i.e. radiation lying in the submillimeter and millimeter range. Further, AC are expect to have spectra similar to the black-body spectra because they re-emit all the energy that they absorb, although in the infrared range, as already mentioned. Thus, the effective temperature of these Planckian distributions is expected to lie between 3–300 K with the spectrum peaking between 10 μm and 10 mm. We have analyzed the IRAS database and extracted a catalog of sources whose spectra are similar to the black-body emission. The catalog of these sources and their preliminary parameters are discussed. The distribution of the color temperatures of IRAS sources and the sky distribution of sources are also considered. The possibility of the distinction of AC from thick circumstellar dust shells around red giant stars is discussed.     

Soviet launch failures reviewed

The USSR has always been reluctant to reveal details of failures in its space programme, and only a few failures have been annouced publically. Some official US sources list failures in the Soviet programme, although these official listings end in mid-1964. The aviation press often reports rumoured failures, and it is the job of an analyst to try and separate the wheat from the chaff.     

Astrophysical ionizing radiation and Earth: a brief review and census of intermittent intense sources

Cosmic radiation backgrounds are a constraint on life, and their distribution will affect the Galactic Habitable Zone. Life on Earth has developed in the context of these backgrounds, and characterizing event rates will elaborate the important influences. This in turn can be a base for comparison with other potential life-bearing planets. In this review, we estimate the intensities and rates of occurrence of many kinds of strong radiation bursts by astrophysical entities, ranging from gamma-ray bursts at cosmological distances to the Sun itself. Many of these present potential hazards to the biosphere; on timescales long compared with human history, the probability of an event intense enough to disrupt life on the land surface or in the oceans becomes large. Both photons (e.g., X-rays) and high-energy protons and other nuclei (often called "cosmic rays") constitute hazards. For either species, one of the mechanisms that comes into play even at moderate intensities is the ionization of Earth's atmosphere, which leads through chemical changes (specifically, depletion of stratospheric ozone) to increased ultraviolet B flux from the Sun reaching the surface. UVB is extremely hazardous to most life due to its strong absorption by the genetic material DNA and subsequent breaking of chemical bonds. This often leads to mutation or cell death. It is easily lethal to the microorganisms that lie at the base of the food chain in the ocean. We enumerate the known sources of radiation and characterize their intensities at Earth and rates or upper limits on these quantities. When possible, we estimate a "lethal interval," our best estimate of how often a major extinction-level event is probable given the current state of knowledge; we base these estimates on computed or expected depletion of stratospheric ozone. In general, moderate-level events are dominated by the Sun, but the far more severe infrequent events are probably dominated by gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. We note for the first time that so-called "short-hard" gamma-ray bursts are a substantial threat, comparable in magnitude to supernovae and greater than that of the higher-luminosity long bursts considered in most past work. Given their precursors, short bursts may come with little or no warning.     

预警机用两点源诱偏对抗反辐射导弹研究

从空间分辨条件和反辐射导弹(ARM)几何运动的分析出发, 推导出ARM以任意角攻击预警机时,用附加辐射源和预警机共同组成的两点源,在运动中能够安全诱偏ARM的数学模型,并计算分析了ARM分辨角、攻击角和ARM运动速度等因素对诱偏效果的影响,确定了假定条件下的最佳两点源距离,给出了两点源诱偏效果图,并就如何在实际中构建两点源提出了几点想法.     

SIGMA: Projet d'Observatoire spatial a haute resolution angulaire pour les sources de rayons gamma

(SIGMA: Project of a high resolution space observatory for gamma rays sources)—The SIGMA space observatory is designed to obtain images of the sky in the hard X-ray/low energy gamma-ray domain (30–2000 keV range), with an angular accuracy of a few are min, within a field of ～7° × 7°, and a sensitivity for point sources down to a level of a few 10^?6 photons cm^?2s^?1keV^?1 (exposure 24 hr). The instrument is designed using the principle of the coded aperture mask telescope with a position sensitive detector derived from the Anger gamma-camera which is used in nuclear medicine. The pseudo-images of the sky are accumulated on board and transmitted to the ground stations for decoding processing. The gross weight of the instrument is 750 kg and its overall dimensions are 3 m long and 1.2 m in diameter.     

直扩通信系统中码跟踪环的抗干扰性能

同步是通信的基础。文章分析了直扩通信系统码跟踪中常用的一种非相关延迟锁定环在连续波(CW)干扰、高斯白噪声和部分频带干扰下的跟踪误差方差,并通过仿真验证了理论推导结果,所得的结论对于延迟锁定环路的分析和设计有重要意义。     

Is space global disaster warning and monitoring now nearing reality?

It is now well established that the annual cost of natural disasters world-wide is in excess of $400 billion. Support of relief agencies and governments depends on the timely receipt of information on the scale and nature of these disasters, and much of this information comes from ground-based sources. It is also recognised, however, that significant input could be provided by space-based sensor systems, both for disaster warning as well as disaster monitoring. Recent major disasters have demonstrated that the scale of devastation cannot adequately be monitored from ground-based information sources alone. This paper addresses current developments in a study to provide a global space-based monitoring and information system, with the associated ability to provide advanced warning of many types of disaster. Also addressed are the latest developments in sensor technology (optical, IR, Radar) including a UK initiative in high resolution imaging from a microsatellite, the logistics and cost of such a system and the feasibility of using communications networks for providing the infrastructure for such a system.     

TOFS:一种新的宽带源DOA估计算法

介绍了一种新的宽带源DOA估计方法:TOFS。与TOPS(投影子空间正交性测试)方法类似,该方法通过同时测试频域各频段噪声子空间与阵列搜索流型之间的正交性来进行DOA估计。作为对比,根据非相关MUSIC方法,提出了一种新的适用于宽带的非相关MUSIC方法,称为I-MUSIC方法。与宽带相关方法不同,TOFS方法不需要任何初始值的预估。与宽带非相关方法也不相同,TOFS方法同时测试各频段噪声子空间与阵列搜索流型之间的正交性。仿真了TOFS与I-MUSIC、CSSM、TOPS的性能比较。仿真结果表明,CSSM方法在低信噪比时有较好的性能,TOFS方法在中等信噪比以上时,有较好的性能。同时,TOFS方法避免了TOPS方法中常常出现的伪峰。     

观测站位置状态扰动下Taylor级数迭代定位方法及性能分析

针对具有一般普适意义的定位方程,给出观测站位置状态扰动下基于Taylor级数迭代的目标定位方法,并推导其理论性能。分别在“无校正源(情况a)”和“有校正源(情况b)”两种条件下进行算法推导和理论分析。针对情况(a),给出两种Taylor级数迭代公式,并证明两种方法的定位性能趋于一致,均能够达到相应克拉美罗界;针对情况(b),首先给出基于差分校正的Taylor级数迭代公式,针对其不足提出一种基于两步最优融合的Taylor级数迭代公式,并证明其理论性能可达到相应克拉美罗界。最后,设计两种无源定位实验场景用以验证算法设计与理论分析的有效性。     

硅基太赫兹频率源关键技术研究进展综述

随着太赫兹技术的发展,由于太赫兹THz(Terahertz)频段具有丰富的频谱资源和相对宽的带宽优势,因此太赫兹频率源表现出广泛的应用前景,如超高速短距无线/有线通信、雷达、医疗、成像和遥感传感器等.本文总结了硅基太赫兹频率源的最新研究成果和存在的问题,概述了近二十年来太赫兹倍频器、太赫兹振荡器、太赫兹天线、太赫兹辐射...     

Generalized restricted circular three-body problem as a model for dynamics of binary asteroids

Exploration of the Solar System has recently revealed the existence of a large number of asteroids with satellites, which has stimulated interest in studying the dynamics of such systems. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the relative motion of a binary asteroid. The conditions of existence of such a system (i.e., when its components do not run away) are derived in the Introduction. Then it is assumed that the satellite has no significant effect on the motion of the main asteroid, the latter being modeled as a dumbbell-like precessing solid body. The equations of motion of this system are a two-parameter generalization of the corresponding equations of the restricted circular three-body problem. It is demonstrated that in the system under consideration there exist steady-state motions in which the small asteroid is equidistant from attracting centers at the ends of the dumbbell (an analog to triangle libration points). The conditions of existence of such motions are derived, and the positions with respect to the dumbbell are analyzed in detail. Examination of the stability of the triangle libration points is reduced to investigation of a characteristic equation of the sixth degree. The stability conditions are derived in the case when the main asteroid executes near-planar motion.     

Museums, seti and community awareness

Commentators on the social implications of detecting an extraterrestrial civilisation have stressed the need for community education and awareness during the SETI search, and for public sources of accurate, authoritative information if and when a signal is detected. Museums have a role in community education and are recognised by the community as authoritative sources of expert information. They are, therefore, well placed to be important conduits through which information on the progress of SETI programs and any signal detection can be channelled to the public. Via both exhibitions and in-house educational activities, museums are able to provide long-term community education and awareness programs and can respond quickly with detailed and accurate information in the event of a detection. This paper will consider the role of museums in educating the public about SETI. It will present suggestions for ways in which SETI researchers can develop mutually profitable relationships with museums, and also consider some of the reasons why museums might choose not to become involved with SETI, because of the wildly sensationalised and often mis-informed controversy which has surrounded it.     

Goals for space exploration based on stakeholder value network considerations

We present a methodology that provides traceable analysis from stakeholders’ needs to prioritized goals for human space exploration. We first construct a network to represent the stakeholder environment of NASA’s human exploration efforts, then assess the intensity of these stakeholder needs, and build a numerical model to represent the flow of value in the network. The underlying principle is that as a rational actor, NASA should invest its resources in creating outputs that provide the greatest return of support to it. We showcase this methodology, seeded with test data, the results of which suggests that the most important outputs of the exploration endeavor are human and robotic exploration firsts and science data, but also include funding to the science community, providing interesting NASA mission event content directly to the public and to the media, and commercial contracts. We propose that goals should be structured to ensure these value outputs, and be written in such as way as to convey the subsequent creation of value in the network. The goals derived in this manner suggest that the majority of the value created by human space exploration derives from campaign level design, rather than from operation of transportation elements. There would be higher assurance that these value outputs would be delivered if a responsible official or entity within the exploration function was specifically tasked with ensuring stakeholder value creation.     

Relation algebras over containers and surfaces: An ontological study of a room space

Recent research in geographic information systems hasbeen concerned with the construction of algebras tomake inferences about spatial relations by embeddingspatial relations within a space in which decisionsabout compositions are derived geometrically. Wepursue an alternative approach by studying spatialrelations and their inferences in a concrete spatialscenario, a room space that contains such manipulableobjects as a box, a ball, a table, a sheet of paper,and a pen. We derive from the observed spatialproperties an algebra related to the fundamentalspatial concepts of containers and surfaces and showthat this container-surface algebra holds allproperties of Tarski's relation algebra, except forthe associativity. The crispness of the compositionscan be refined by considering the relative size of theobjects) and their roles (i.e., whether it isexplicitly known that the objects are containers orsurfaces).     

Amino acid distribution in meteorites: diagenesis, extraction methods, and standard metrics in the search for extraterrestrial biosignatures

The relative abundance of the protein amino acids has been previously investigated as a potential marker for biogenicity in meteoritic samples. However, these investigations were executed without a quantitative metric to evaluate distribution variations, and they did not account for the possibility of interdisciplinary systematic error arising from inter-laboratory differences in extraction and detection techniques. Principal component analysis (PCA), hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), and stochastic probabilistic artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used to compare the distributions for nine protein amino acids previously reported for the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite, Mars meteorites (ALH84001, Nakhla, and EETA79001), prebiotic synthesis experiments, and terrestrial biota and sediments. These techniques allowed us (1) to identify a shift in terrestrial amino acid distributions secondary to diagenesis; (2) to detect differences in terrestrial distributions that may be systematic differences between extraction and analysis techniques in biological and geological laboratories; and (3) to determine that distributions in meteoritic samples appear more similar to prebiotic chemistry samples than they do to the terrestrial unaltered or diagenetic samples. Both diagenesis and putative interdisciplinary differences in analysis complicate interpretation of meteoritic amino acid distributions. We propose that the analysis of future samples from such diverse sources as meteoritic influx, sample return missions, and in situ exploration of Mars would be less ambiguous with adoption of standardized assay techniques, systematic inclusion of assay standards, and the use of a quantitative, probabilistic metric. We present here one such metric determined by sequential feature extraction and normalization (PCA), information-driven automated exploration of classification possibilities (HCA), and prediction of classification accuracy (ANNs).     

面向航空航天应用的太赫兹真空电子学源

太赫兹（THz）科学与技术是近年来国际学术研究的前沿和热点,而THz辐射源则是制约THz科学与技术发展的关键因素之一。基于真空电子学的THz源具有功率大和效率高等优势,特别是扩展互作用器件（EIO／EIA）、返波振荡器（BWO）、行波管（TWT）等都可发展为紧凑型的THz源,适合机载和星载平台应用;而回旋电子器件和自由电子激光等则具有高功率的优势,在陆基或海基平台上具有重要的应用潜力。文章在介绍THz波在航空航天领域相关应用的基础上,着重介绍了各种THz真空电子学源的发展水平。