Special Features of Chorus Excitation by Means of the Beam-Pulse-Amplifier Mechanism in Ducts of Enhanced and Depleted Cold-Plasma Density with Refraction Reflection

Cosmic Research - Features of the implementation of a beam-pulse amplifier (BPA) of whistler waves in magnetospheriс enhanced and depleted ducts with refraction reflection are considered....     

Thermal Analysis of Trajectories of Return from the Moon Using Several Entries into the Atmosphere for Ballistic Capsule and Gliding Descent Vehicles

Cosmic Research - In this paper, we study the scheme of a descent vehicle’s return from the Moon using several intermediate passages of the Earth’s atmosphere before landing. The...     

An EXOSAT observation of the peculiar X-ray binary 2S 0921-630 during optical eclipse

An x-ray observation of 2S 0921-630 has been made coincident with the time of optical eclipse of this 9-day binary. No significant reduction in X-ray flux is measured. This can be explained if the binary orbit is viewed almost exactly edge-on, so that the central X-ray emitting star is obscured by the accretion disk from direct view. The X-rays that are seen are scattered into the line of sight by material above and below the disk and the apparent size of the X-ray emission region is thus large compared to the size of the occulting star.     

First Results from the THEMIS Mission

THEMIS was launched on February 17, 2007 to determine the trigger and large-scale evolution of substorms. During the first seven months of the mission the five satellites coasted near their injection orbit to avoid differential precession in anticipation of orbit placement, which started in September 2007 and led to a commencement of the baseline mission in December 2007. During the coast phase the probes were put into a string-of-pearls configuration at 100 s of km to 2 R_E along-track separations, which provided a unique view of the magnetosphere and enabled an unprecedented dataset in anticipation of the first tail season. In this paper we describe the first THEMIS substorm observations, captured during instrument commissioning on March 23, 2007. THEMIS measured the rapid expansion of the plasma sheet at a speed that is commensurate with the simultaneous expansion of the auroras on the ground. These are the first unequivocal observations of the rapid westward expansion process in space and on the ground. Aided by the remote sensing technique at energetic particle boundaries and combined with ancillary measurements and MHD simulations, they allow determination and mapping of space currents. These measurements show the power of the THEMIS instrumentation in the tail and the radiation belts. We also present THEMIS Flux Transfer Events (FTE) observations at the magnetopause, which demonstrate the importance of multi-point observations there and the quality of the THEMIS instrumentation in that region of space.     

Ionospheric disturbances in the north-east region of Russia according to ionosonde data in the periods of equinoxes

Ionospheric disturbances in the equinox periods of 2005–2006 are considered on the basis of the ionosondes of vertical and oblique sounding located in the north-east region of Russia. It is found that the X-ray flares observed in the first half of September 2005 caused an additional increase in the ionization of the lower ionosphere in the daytime, this fact leading to a development of absorption and an increase in the lowest observable frequencies at the Magadan-Irkutsk and Noril’sk-Irkutsk radio paths. Wave-like changes in the maximum observable frequencies and critical frequencies with periods of about 2–2.5 h were detected during the magnetic disturbances. Oscillations of the planetary wave type with periods of 4–5 days were also revealed.     

空间温室灯组件的自适应控制

到目前为止,基于发光二极管(Light Emitting Diodes-based,LED)的照明器被广泛用于除自然光之外的温室植物照明,以及没有自然光的植物工厂.优化人工光照参数,如日光照积分和不同光谱成分的比值,可以显著降低生物生命支持系统(Biological Life Support Systems,BLSS)...     

Geological interpretation of a segment of Venus from radar images of the U.S.S.R. spacecrafts Venera -15 and -16

A first geological interpretation of a part of the Maxwell Mountains area is given using radar images of the Soviet spacecrafts Venera 15 and 16. The region is characterized by following features: plateaus, ridges and depressions, ring structures, volcanoes, and lineations of different types and, very probably, also of different age. The dominant surface modeling mechanism should be gliding processes connected to faults producing many complicated superpositions of features. To obtain more objective and reproducible, results a method was used for quantitative texture analysis to decipher some of the geological indications.     

Fine structure of interplanetary shock fronts from the data of the BMSW instrument of the PLASMA-F experiment

The paper is concerned with studying the thickness of fronts of 38 interplanetary shocks detected by the BMSW instrument, which is a part of the scientific payload of the SPEKTR-R spacecraft, which was launched into a highly elliptical orbit in 2011. The main parameters of the interplanetary shocks have been calculated as follows: the ratio of thermal pressure to magnetic pressure before the front β, the angle between the shock front normal and the undisturbed magnetic field θ_Bn, the ratio of the shock propagation velocity to the magnetosonic velocity in the undisturbed region M_ms, and the shock front velocity relative to the Earth. It has been shown that the front thickness determined from the plasma parameters approximately matches the front thickness obtained from the magnetic field measurements and lies between 0.5 and 5 proton inertial lengths. In some events, the oscillations have been observed (upstream and downstream of the shock) in plasma parameters and in the magnetic field data. The length has been found to be between 0.5 and 6 proton inertial lengths for the preceding oscillations and between 0.5 and 10 proton inertial lengths for the following oscillations. The average value of the proton inertial length is 62 km.     

Fast-Adapting Matrix Filtering

Implementation and convergence of adaptive processors are of continuing interest. To this end, a fast-adapting, linear, general recursive matrix-filtering algorithm is described. Two complex xoefficients are optimized at each recursion. A signal and interference estimation procedure is included. Results for some low-resolution, frequency domain beamformer trials with two targets, and using a single sample set, are presented. Considerable adaptive improvement occurs, along with target resolution, compared with a correlation beamformer. The algorithm shows rapid and direct convergence.