分时移相调制的多路光纤陀螺仪

本文提出一上实现多路多轴光纤陀螺仪的新方法。Ｎ个Ｓａｇｎａｃ干涉仪通过一个２×Ｎ个耦合器共用一个光源。这些干涉仪都以通常的方法相位调制来进行调制然而，这些调制都在时间上有τ／Ｎ的延尺，τ是进入光纤环圈的平均传输时间。     

A status report on the characterization of the microgravity environment of the International Space Station

A primary objective of the International Space Station is to provide a long-term quiescent environment for the conduct of scientific research for a variety of microgravity science disciplines. Since continuous human presence on the space station began in November 2000 through the end of Increment-6, over 1260 hours of crew time have been allocated to research. However, far more research time has been accumulated by experiments controlled on the ground. By the end of the time period covered by this paper (end of Increment-6), the total experiment hours performed on the station are well over 100,000 hours (Expedition 6 Press Kit: Station Begins Third Year of Human Occupation, Boeing/USA/NASA, October 25, 2002). This paper presents the results of the on-going effort by the Principal Investigator Microgravity Services project, at NASA Glenn Research Center, in Cleveland, Ohio, to characterize the microgravity environment of the International Space Station in order to keep the microgravity scientific community apprised of the reduced gravity environment provided by the station for the performance of space experiments. This paper focuses on the station microgravity environment for Increments 5 and 6. During that period over 580 Gbytes of acceleration data were collected, out of which over 34,790 hours were analyzed. The results presented in this paper are divided into two sections: quasi-steady and vibratory. For the quasi-steady analysis, over 7794 hours of acceleration data were analyzed, while over 27,000 hours were analyzed for the vibratory analysis. The results of the data analysis are presented in this paper in the form of a grand summary for the period under consideration. For the quasi-steady acceleration response, results are presented in the form of a 95% confidence interval for the station during "normal microgravity mode operations" for the following three attitudes: local vertical local horizontal, X-axis perpendicular to the orbit plane and the Russian torque equilibrium attitude. The same analysis was performed for the station during "non-microgravity mode operations" to assess the station quasi-steady acceleration environment over a long period of time. The same type of analysis was performed for the vibratory, but a 95th percentile benchmark was used, which shows the overall acceleration magnitude during Increments 5 and 6. The results, for both quasi-steady and vibratory acceleration response, show that the station is not yet meeting the microgravity requirements during the microgravity mode operations. However, it should be stressed that the requirements apply only at assembly complete, whereas the results presented below apply up to the station's configuration at the end of Increment-6.     

A viable microbial community in a subglacial volcanic crater lake, Iceland

We describe a viable microbial community in a subglacial lake within the Grímsv?tn volcanic caldera, Iceland. We used a hot water drill to penetrate the 300-m ice shelf and retrieved lake water and volcanic tephra sediments. We also acquired samples of borehole water before and after penetration to the lake, overlying glacial ice and snow, and water from a nearby subaerial geothermal lake for comparative analyses. Lake water is at the freezing point and fresh (total dissolved solids = 260 mg L(-1)). Detectable numbers of cells were found in samples of the lake water column and tephra sediments: 2 x 10(4) ml(-1) and 4 x 10(7) g(-1), respectively. Plate counts document abundant cold-adapted cultivable organisms in the lake water, but not in the borehole (before penetration) or glacial ice. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of 16S rRNA gene fragments amplified from genomic DNA extracted from Grímsv?tn samples indicates that the lake community is distinct from the assemblages of organisms in borehole water (before penetration) and the overlying ice and snow. Sequencing of selected DGGE bands revealed that many sequences are highly similar to known psychrophilic organisms or cloned DNA from other cold environments. Significant uptake of 14C-labeled bicarbonate occurred in dark, low-temperature incubations of lake water samples, indicating the presence of autotrophs. Acetylene reduction assays under similar incubation conditions showed no significant nitrogen fixation potential by lake water samples. This may be a consequence of the inhibition of diazotrophy by nitrogen in the lake.     

A hydrothermal system associated with the Siljan impact structure, Sweden--implications for the search for fossil life on Mars

The Siljan ring structure (368 +/- 1.1 Ma) is the largest known impact structure in Europe. It isa 65-km-wide, eroded, complex impact structure, displaying several structural units, including a central uplifted region surrounded by a ring-shaped depression. Associated with the impact crater are traces of a post-impact hydrothermal system indicated by precipitated and altered hydrothermal mineral assemblages. Precipitated hydrothermal minerals include quartz veins and breccia fillings associated with granitic rocks at the outer margin of the central uplift, and calcite, fluorite, galena, and sphalerite veins associated with Paleozoic carbonate rocks located outside the central uplift. Two-phase water/gas and oil/gas inclusions in calcite and fluorite display homogenization temperatures between 75 degrees C and 137 degrees C. With an estimated erosional unloading of approximately 1 km, the formation temperatures were probably not more than 10-15 degrees C higher. Fluid inclusion ice-melting temperatures indicate a very low salt content, reducing the probability that the mineralization was precipitated during the Caledonian Orogeny. Our findings suggest that large impacts induce low-temperature hydrothermal systems that may be habitats for thermophilic organisms. Large impact structures on Mars may therefore be suitable targets in the search for fossil thermophilic organisms.     

Effects of repeated long duration +2Gz load on man's cardiovascular function

Usefulness of a short-arm human centrifuge is expected when it is used in space as a countermeasure against cardiovascular deconditioning, problem of bone-calcium metabolism, etc. However, nothing is solidly established regarding the most desirable program for artificial G application. Accordingly, this study was designed to analytically evaluate the effects of repeated long duration +Gz load on human cardiovascular function. Recently heart rate spectral analysis has been recognized as a powerful tool for quantitatively evaluating parasympathetic and sympathetic activity separately in human. It is reported that power of the high frequency component (HF-p) is mediated selectively by parasympathetic activity and the power ratio of low to high frequency components(LF/HF) is indicative of cardiac sympathetic activity or cardiac sympathovagal balance. Sequence method is developed to examine spontaneous baroreceptor reflex sensitivity (BRS). We studied cardiovascular control function by using these methods in 9 healthy men before and after 7 days of daily repeated 1hour +2Gz load. When compared with the data of pre-G load period, post-G load period, decrease of HR, increases of HF-p and BRS were statistically significant. SBP, DBP and LF/HF tended to decrease, however, these changes were not statistically significant. This results indicate that repeated +2Gz load increases parasympathetic activity and arterial baroreceptor-cardiac reflex sensitivity. In recent years, many investigators suggest that space flight and head-down bedrest leads to impaired baroreceptor-cardiac reflex responses and decrease of parasympathetic activity, which may contribute to orthostatic intolerance. So our results suggest that daily repeated 1hour +2Gz load would be useful in preventing post-flight orthostatic intolerance.     

Arm end-point trajectories under normal and micro-gravity environments

The purpose of the present experiment was to study the way in which the CNS represents gravitational force during vertical arm pointing movements. Movements in upward and downward directions were executed by two cosmonauts in normal-gravity and weightlessness. Analyses focused upon finger kinematics in the sagittal plane. In normal-gravity, downward direction movements showed smaller curvatures and greater relative times to peak velocity (AT/MT) when compared with upward direction movements. Data from the weightlessness experiments showed that whilst downward movements decreased their curvature during space flight, curvatures of upward movements changed slightly. Furthermore, AT/MT was modified during the first days in micro-gravity for both directions, recovering, however, to pre-flight values after 18 days in space. Results from the present study, provide evidence that gravitational force is centrally treated constituting an important component of the motor plan for vertical arm movements.     

随机子阵阵列的旁瓣电平和宽带特征

本文扩展了随机天线阵列的概念。介绍了三种新型的阵列几何图形，它们既具有随机阵列的宽带宽性能，几何图形也更简单，因而更适宜于低成本应用。对随机子阵的周期阵列、周期旋转随机子阵阵列和随机旋转随机子阵阵列的性能都进行了统计性的表征。结果表明子阵旋转能够降低天线阵排列因子的旁瓣电平。文中给出了一个设计过程的例子来说明天线阵排列因子的计算。     

东靶场安全显示系统的改造

东航天导弹中心(ESMC)正准备用彩色图形系统取代原靶场安全系统中的单色CRT系统。靶场安全的任务是使导弹飞行对生命、健康和财产的危害减至最小。在完成这一任务中,靶场安全显示系统起着十分重要的作用,因为作出继续飞行还是停止飞行的判决主要依赖于该系统显示的信息。发射工作日趋复杂,靶场安全军官必须实时查看的信息量和复杂性也大为增加。因此,准备用新的显示系统取代现用的单色CRT显示系统。该新系统包括多台功能更强的主计算机,若干高分辨率和中等分辨率的彩色图形显示器。新系统有下列改进:用彩色、线条形、闪光改进显示;软件更易维护;扩大用户对显示的控制;承担目前由中心计算机系统完成的许多功能。     

减少数字遥测数据中噪声的数值滤波技术

本文介绍了几种事后数值滤波技术。在数字遥测数据用于自动化计算机数据分析以前,利用这些技术减少或/和消除数字遥测数据中的噪声。这种遥测数据噪声来源于遥测载波信号过小或完全丢失,引起接收的脉码调制(PCM)数据出错。剔除错误的采样数据是事后分析中一项特别重要的工作,因为被污染数据可能给自动化计算机事后数据分析过程造成错误或偏差。当这些错误在最终换算后的数据中常接近测量值的上限或下限(数据跳点),很容易从采样数据中滤除。数据噪声偶尔表现为比较小的、不明显的波动,则分析员只有从图形(而不是数表)才能看出有噪声。因此,这类噪声更难于数字滤波。通常,采用手工噪声剔除或平滑,其结果变化较大。其主要缺点是:对现今的高采样率数字系统,采样数据量很大,因而耗时过大。另外,任何一种手工滤波总是对操作员依赖性很大。对错误采样数据的检测和识别显然是数据滤波中最困难的一步。我们已研究出几种识别方法,并在消除和平滑技术以前先加以详细介绍。研究了这些方法的技术局限性,对此也作了介绍。最后,对每种方法用图形绘出滤波处理前后的几组数据例子。     

同步卫星跟踪系统的光学校准

为了减少跟踪系统的系统误差,研究了一种精确校准距离和角度观测值的方法,这样就提高了同步卫星的测轨准确度。该校准方法基于这样一种测轨原理,即采用单点光学角度观测值加上无线电跟踪观测的测轨。利用这种测轨方法,我们在确定轨道根数的同时,估计出观测偏倚参数,其中包括地球模型不准确而带来的影响。我们在鹿岛地面站进行过这种实际的校准实验,实验证明,测轨准确度极高,经过一天的测轨之后,卫星距离的预报误差在四天之内不会超过几米。