Post: Polar stratospheric telescope

The tropopause, typically at 16 to 18 km altitude at the lower latitudes, dips to 8 km in the polar regions. This makes the cold, dry and nonturbulent lower stratosphere accessible to tethered aerostats. Tethered aerostats can fly as high as 12 km and are extremely reliable, lasting for many years. In contrast to free-flying balloons, they can stay on station for weeks at a time, and payloads can be safely recovered for maintenance and adjustment and relaunched in a matter of hours. We propose to use such a platform, located first in the Arctic (near Fairbanks, Alaska) and, potentially, later in the Antarctic, to operate a new technology 6-meter, diluted aperture telescope with diffraction-limited performance in the near infrared. Thanks to the low ambient temperature (220 K), thermal emission from the optics is of the same order as that of the zodiacal light in the 2 to 3 micron band. Since this wavelength interval is the darkest part of the zodiacal light spectrum from optical wavelengths to 100 microns, the combination of high resolution images and a very dark sky make it the spectral region of choice for observing the redshifted light from galaxies and clusters of galaxies at moderate to high redshifts.Affiliated to the Astrophysics Division, Space Science Department, European Space Agency     

Infrared Sky Surveys

A retrospective is given on infrared sky surveys from Thomas Edison’s proposal in the late 1870s to IRAS, the first sensitive mid- to far-infrared all-sky survey, and the mid-1990s experiments that filled in the IRAS deficiencies. The emerging technology for space-based surveys is highlighted, as is the prominent role the US Defense Department, particularly the Air Force, played in developing and applying detector and cryogenic sensor advances to early mid-infrared probe-rocket and satellite-based surveys. This technology was transitioned to the infrared astronomical community in relatively short order and was essential to the success of IRAS, COBE and ISO. Mention is made of several of the little known early observational programs that were superseded by more successful efforts.     

1种低红外发射率涂层耐热性能研究

为有效降低飞行器高温部位表面的红外发射率,以改性有机硅为黏结剂体系、金属铝粉为主要填料,制备了在8~14μm波段具有较低红外发射率的涂层。在50~400℃温度范围内考察了涂层的耐热性能,并采用扫描电镜、TGA等手段对其进行表征,研究了涂层的红外发射率、光泽度和力学性能随温度的变化规律及影响机理。结果表明:制备的涂层在300℃以下具有良好的力学性能,可长期使用,在8~14μm波段的红外发射率与温度成反比,光泽度与温度成正比;当环境温度高于300℃,涂层开始发生热降解现象,光泽度降低,涂层的力学性能降低。     

多弧离子镀Cr/Cr2O3薄膜红外及可见光谱特性

采用多弧离子镀制备了具有不同色彩的Cr/Cr2O3薄膜,利用紫外-可见光分光光度计研究了薄膜在可见和红外波段的光谱特性,利用SEM进行薄膜表面结构和形貌的分析,利用四探针测阻仪测试了样品的方块电阻,利用红外发射率测量仪测试了样品的红外发射率。结果表明:Cr/Cr2O3薄膜具有丰富的色彩,在可见光区有明显的反射峰,可见光区光谱特性主要受膜厚的影响,方块电阻随膜厚增加而有变大,样品的红外发射率主要取决于金属层,平均红外发射率最小降至0.371。     

直升机发动机舱通风、遮挡和隔热对红外辐射特性的影响

为了降低直升机发动机舱蒙皮的温度,减弱直升机红外辐射能量,采用数值仿真的方法研究其处于悬停状态、考虑了旋翼下洗作用的发动机舱蒙皮温度场和直升机红外辐射特性.针对基准发动机舱结构提出了在舱内加设辐射遮挡套、增开通风百叶窗、排气管尾缘修型和蒙皮内侧敷设隔热层等改进方案,研究了上述改进方案对直升机发动机舱蒙皮温度场和红外辐射特性的影响,得到了如下结论:①在发动机舱内加设辐射遮挡套后,整机侧向探测方位角内3~5μm红外辐射强度出现了约25%的增幅,8~14μm波段红外辐射与原始结构相当.②在发动机舱顶部增开通风百叶窗,直升机3~5μm红外辐射低于原始结构约12%,8~14μm波段红外辐射与原始结构相当.③在发动机舱顶部增开通风百叶窗的基础上,对排气管尾缘采取延伸遮挡以及在发动机舱蒙皮内侧敷设隔热层,整机3~5μm波段红外辐射的最大值下降约70%,8~14μm波段红外辐射的最大值下降约10%.      

高焓流动重要基础问题研究进展

本文报道了我们在爆轰驱动高焓激波风洞中开展的测试工作的进展.试验气流有两种典型的状态.分别对应流动速度5km/s与4km/s.这里主要说明在气动热、气动力、红外辐射、电离特性、化学组分等物理量测量方法上,我们所做的努力以及所得到部分典型的结果.     

Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys

We present the results obtained through the various ISO extragalactic deep surveys. Although IRAS revealed the existence of galaxies forming stars at a rate of a few tens (LIRGs) or even hundreds (ULIRGs) solar masses in the local universe, ISO not only discovered that these galaxies were already in place at redshift one, but also that they are not the extreme objects that we once believed them to be. Instead they appear to play a dominant role in shaping present-day galaxies as reflected by their role in the cosmic history of star formation and in producing the cosmic infrared background detected by the COBE satellite in the far infrared to sub-millimeter range. Based on observations with ISO, an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the PI countries: France, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom), and with the participation of ISAS and NASA.     

再入目标红外特性分析及红外特性材料研究

本文分析了再入目标的红外辐射特性及主要影响因素，认为：表征再入目标辐射强弱的物理量主要为再入目标的表面温度、表面积和发射率；表征再入目标材料红外辐射能力的物理量为辐射率（发射率）。进而探讨了高红外发射率材料，认为：几种化合物混合烧结后可在一段连续波段提高材料的红外发射率。     

Infrared detection,review of existing and future devices

I present the current status of arrays of detectors operating in the 1–200 micron range, restricted to mature devices, and two recent concepts of infrared detection which could lead to future developments.     

Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) Investigation

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) investigation will use a 2-megapixel color camera with a focusable macro lens aboard the rover, Curiosity, to investigate the stratigraphy and grain-scale texture, structure, mineralogy, and morphology of geologic materials in northwestern Gale crater. Of particular interest is the stratigraphic record of a ～5?km thick layered rock sequence exposed on the slopes of Aeolis Mons (also known as Mount Sharp). The instrument consists of three parts, a?camera head mounted on the turret at the end of a robotic arm, an electronics and data storage assembly located inside the rover body, and a calibration target mounted on the robotic arm shoulder azimuth actuator housing. MAHLI can acquire in-focus images at working distances from ～2.1?cm to infinity. At the minimum working distance, image pixel scale is ～14?μm per pixel and very coarse silt grains can be resolved. At the working distance of the Mars Exploration Rover Microscopic Imager cameras aboard Spirit and Opportunity, MAHLI’s resolution is comparable at ～30?μm per pixel. Onboard capabilities include autofocus, auto-exposure, sub-framing, video imaging, Bayer pattern color interpolation, lossy and lossless compression, focus merging of up to 8 focus stack images, white light and longwave ultraviolet (365 nm) illumination of nearby subjects, and 8 gigabytes of non-volatile memory data storage.     

Two color temporally correlated infrared background measurements

The use of high speed multicolor imaging sensors provides a valuable tool for characterizing both the infrared signatures of missiles as well as clutter. Over 14 flight hours worth of collections were made of difficult to characterize clutter. This additional data can be utilized to develop and improve missile warning algorithms for better false alarm rates. These analyses show that although a two color staring system could have multiple advantages over a single color system in false alarm rejection, the clutter rejection capabilities can be limited by the relatively low inter-band correlations between the red and blue bands     

DSMC量子动理学模型在火星再入流动中的应用

为解决化学反应模型高温数据缺乏的难题，探索DSMC方法量子动理学（QK）模型在实际中的应用，本文将该模型进一步应用于火星探测器稀薄气动特性的数值预测。通过计算探路者号在85 km、95 km和110 km高度的稀薄绕流，评估了QK模型的性能和稀薄气体效应的影响规律。结果表明，QK模型不依赖宏观的化学反应速率系数，适用于火星再入流动计算。化学反应及其模型对气动力的影响很小，但对气动热特性的影响不容忽略，考虑化学反应后的驻点热流可以下降约12%~14%。     

The Rosat mission

The primary scientific objective of the ROSAT mission is to perform the first all sky survey with an imaging X-ray telescope leading to an improvement in sensitivity by several orders of magnitude compared with previous surveys. Consequently a large number of new sources (> 10⁵) will be discovered and located with an accuracy of 1 arcmin. After completion of the survey which will take about half a year the instrument will be used for detailed observations of selected targets.The X-ray telescope consists of a fourfold nested Wolter type I mirror system with 80 cm aperture and 240 cm focal length, and three focal plane detectors. In the baseline version these will be imaging proportional counters (0.1 – 2 keV) providing a field of view of 2⁰ × 2⁰.     

Infrared Imaging Surveyor: IRIS

Based on the experience of the IRTS, a new infrared satellite mission, Infrared Imaging Surveyor:IRIS is now being proposed to ISAS. The IRIS will be thrown into the sun synchronous orbit at 900km altitude by the MV rocket which is now under development in ISAS. With use of new cryogenic technologies, considerably light weight with large aperture telescope is designed. Owing to the large format states-of-art array detectors, the IRIS has an enormous capability for the survey observation, and will provide new discoveries on the formation and evolution of galaxies, brown dwarfs, protoplanetary disk, interstellar matter and so on.     

Infrared astronomy on the midcourse space experiment

The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) is a multiple objective experiment scheduled to fly by the end of 1994. Infrared photometry and interferometry will be obtained by a solid hydrogen cooled, off-axis telescope of 35 cm unobscured primary aperture. The sensitivities of the line scanned arrays are comparable to IRAS bands 1 and 2 but the spatial resolution is some 30 times better. Nine broadly defined astronomy experiments are planned for the 18 month cryogen phase of the mission. Four of these experiments survey regions not adequately covered by previous infrared missions: the zodiacal cloud near the sun and the anti-solar direction, the Galactic Plane where IRAS sensitivities were limited by confusion and the gaps left by the IRAS survey. The higher sensitivity obtained from raster scans will probe Galactic structure and create intermediate spatial resolution maps of extended sources such as HII regions, the Magellanic Clouds and nearby galaxies. Measurements are also planned on a number of solar system objects such as planets, asteroids, the dust bands, comets and cometary debris trails. Moderate resolution spectra of a number of bright, discrete, extended sources will be obtained as well as low resolution spectral mapping along the Galactic Plane and Zodiacal dust cloud.     

空间目标的空基红外测量技术

地基红外测量系统由于受大气衰减和天空背景的影响,对空间目标的探测能力有限。针对此问题,提出了采用空基红外测量系统实现空间目标红外特性测量的设想,通过从决定红外测量系统探测能力的信噪比和调制对比度2个方面出发,推导出了红外测量系统作用距离公式。并利用大气传输软件计算了长波红外在不同高度下的大气透过率、天空背景,理论分析给出了不同高度的空基红外测量系统对不同辐射面积空间目标的探测距离。仿真结果表明,当空基平台高度大于10km时,长波红外不仅可以观测到光照区内的低轨空间目标,而且还可以观测到阴影区内辐射面积不小于40m~2的低轨空间目标。     

Plans for submillimetre and infrared satellites in Japan

I describe plans for submillimetre and infrared satellites which are now under discussion among Japanese infrared and millimetre astronomers. We propose a submillimetre and/or infrared mission to be launched around 2000 with a main reflector 1–2 m in diameter and cooled down to 50–150 K. This mission, although a small one, will be able to contribute significantly to the advance in submillimetre and infrared astronomy if its role is specified for suitable purposes like surveys.     

离散光谱分辨率对喷流红外特性FVM计算的影响

建立了辐射传递方程(RTE)的有限元体积法(FVM)计算模型,研究了离散光谱分辨率对FVM计算精度的影响,提出了离散光谱分辨率无关解的概念,并编制了相应的FORTRAN源程序,结合大气飞行发动机标准算例进行了一系列计算和比较.结果表明;在给定的红外光谱域中,随着离散光谱的分辨率的提高,计算出的方向光谱辐射强度渐渐趋向于同一个值.在航空发动机喷流2～5μm红外光谱区间中,当划分150个以上等间隔光谱微元后,FVM可以保证达到离散光谱分辨率无关解.      

涡扇发动机引射喷管的红外辐射特性数值研究

红外隐身技术对提高未来战机战场生存力具有重要意义,发动机排气系统是飞机后半球的主要红外辐射源。为了研究涡扇发动机引射喷管的红外辐射特性,结合引射喷管的CFD计算,采用离散传递法计算红外辐射强度,研究了普通引射喷管以及带5°下倾角的引射喷管后半球3～5μm以及8～14μm波段的红外辐射强度空间分布规律,并与相似尺寸的涡扇/涡喷发动机收缩喷管进行比较。结果表明：在探测角度较大时,涡扇发动机引射喷管的红外辐射强度较收缩喷管小20%左右;引射喷管结构上的非对称性导致红外辐射强度角向分布也呈现非对称性特征;8～14μm波段与3～5μm波段的红外辐射空间分布规律基本相同,但辐射能量小40%左右。