Preparation of the Biochip experiment on the EXPOSE-R2 mission outside the International Space Station

Biochips might be suited for planetary exploration. Indeed, they present great potential for the search for biomarkers – molecules that are the sign of past or present life in space – thanks to their size (miniaturized devices) and sensitivity. Their detection principle is based on the recognition of a target molecule by affinity receptors fixed on a solid surface. Consequently, one of the main concerns when developing such a system is the behavior of the biological receptors in a space environment. In this paper, we describe the preparation of an experiment planned to be part of the EXPOSE-R2 mission, which will be conducted on the EXPOSE-R facility, outside the International Space Station (ISS), in order to study the resistance of biochip models to space constraints (especially cosmic radiation and thermal cycling). This experiment overcomes the limits of ground tests which do not reproduce exactly the space parameters. Indeed, contrary to ground experiments where constraints are applied individually and in a limited time, the biochip models on the ISS will be exposed to cumulated constraints during several months. Finally, this ISS experiment is a necessary step towards planetary exploration as it will help assessing whether a biochip can be used for future exploration missions.     

Prebiotic significance of extraterrestrial ice photochemistry: detection of hydantoin in organic residues

The delivery of extraterrestrial organic materials to primitive Earth from meteorites or micrometeorites has long been postulated to be one of the origins of the prebiotic molecules involved in the subsequent apparition of life. Here, we report on experiments in which vacuum UV photo-irradiation of interstellar/circumstellar ice analogues containing H(2)O, CH(3)OH, and NH(3) led to the production of several molecules of prebiotic interest. These were recovered at room temperature in the semi-refractory, water-soluble residues after evaporation of the ice. In particular, we detected small quantities of hydantoin (2,4-imidazolidinedione), a species suspected to play an important role in the formation of poly- and oligopeptides. In addition, hydantoin is known to form under extraterrestrial, abiotic conditions, since it has been detected, along with various other derivatives, in the soluble part of organic matter of primitive carbonaceous meteorites. This result, together with other related experiments reported recently, points to the potential importance of the photochemistry of interstellar "dirty" ices in the formation of organics in Solar System materials. Such molecules could then have been delivered to the surface of primitive Earth, as well as other telluric (exo-) planets, to help trigger first prebiotic reactions with the capacity to lead to some form of primitive biomolecular activity.     

第2009卡林顿周太阳活动的初步分析

介绍了第 2 0 0 9卡林顿周大黑子群AR484,AR486和AR488产生的太阳活动以及这些太阳活动对地球空间环境造成的影响。依据对太阳活动的统计研究 ,简要分析了三个大黑子群活动的差异。分析结果指出 ,关注某一时期太阳活动的活动经度带以及太阳活动在某一半球的主次是解决太阳活动短期预报非常重要的思路     

Substorms in the inner plasma sheet

Thin Current Sheets (TCS) are regularly formed prior to substorm breakup, even in the near-Earth plasma sheet, as close as the geostationary orbit. A self-consistent kinetic theory describing the response of the plasma sheet to an electromagnetic perturbation is given. This perturbation corresponds to an external forcing, for instance caused by the solar wind (not an internal instability). The equilibrium of the configuration of this TCS in the presence of a time varying perturbation is shown to produce a strong parallel thermal anisotropy (T T) of energetic electrons and ions (E>50keV) as well as an enhanced diamagnetic current carried by low energy ions (E<50keV). Both currents tend to enhance the confinement of this current sheet near the magnetic equator. These results are compared with data gathered by GEOS-2 at the geostationary orbit, where the magnetic signatures of TCS, and parallel anisotropics are regularly observed prior to breakup. By ensuring quasi-neutrality everywhere we find, when low frequency electromagnetic perturbations are applied, that although the magnetic field line remains an equipotential to the lowest order in T_e/T_i, a field-aligned potential drop exists to the next order in (T_e/T_i). Thus the development of a TCS implies the formation of a field-aligned potential drop ( few hundred volts) to ensure the quasi-neutrality everywhere. For an earthward directed pressure gradient, a field-aligned electric field, directed towards the ionosphere, is obtained, on the western edge of the perturbation (i.e. western edge of the current sheet). Thus field aligned beams of electrons are expected to flow towards the equatorial region on the western edge of the current sheet. We study the stability of these electron beams and show that they are unstable to “High Frequency” (HF) waves. These “HF” waves are regularly observed at frequencies of the order of the proton gyrofrequency (f_H+) just before, or at breakup. The amplitude of these HF waves is so large that they can produce a strong pitch-angle diffusion of energetic ions and a spatial diffusion that leads to a reduction of the diamagnetic current. The signature of a fast ion diffusion is indeed regularly observed during the early breakup; it coincides with the sudden development of large amplitude transient fluctuations, ballooning modes, observed at much lower frequencies (fH+). These results suggest that the HF waves, generated by field-aligned electron beams, provide the dissipation which is necessary to destabilize low frequency (ballooning) modes.     

叶片前缘对吸力面边界层3维流动影响分析

为了分析叶片前缘形状对吸力面边界层3维流动过程的影响,对1组具有不同前缘形状的叶栅进行试验与数值模拟。以2维结论为基础,利用数值计算建立了前缘对吸力面边界层的2维影响与3维影响之间的联系。结果表明：对于1个竖直叶栅,端壁附近的展向截面吸力面边界层早期的发展过程主要保持2维特性,且这一特性能对边界层的3维流动产生直接影响。展向截面边界层形状因子与边界层展向流动趋势直接相关,在分离泡区域内,形状因子较大,使得边界层展向流动的趋势急剧增加,低能流体沿展向大幅发展。通过试验考察不同前缘叶型的竖直叶栅出口总压损失和出口气流角的展向分布发现,在2维计算中优秀的前缘造型或特定的前缘形状均能改善吸力面边界层的3维流动,有效减小整体的总压损失。     

基于相控阵天线的大尺寸微波基板与连接器一体化精密装焊技术研究

相控阵天线集成化、小型化的发展趋势要求其收发组件具备更高系统的集成度、更小的成本及体积.收发组件中功率分配与合成网络的小型化需要微波基板电路与机壳大面积接地互联,并使用规格更小的SMP连接器,实现电气连接和信号传输.针对某型号相控阵天线收发组件,使用的尺寸为145 mm×160 mm的RO4350B微波基板和39个SM...     

高速圆柱滚子轴承工作温度研究

将滚子与套圈滚道摩擦生热视为移动热源,建立了高速圆柱滚子轴承温度场计算模型;使用ANSYS的APDL语言发展了轴承工作温度分析的参数化程序,输入热流密度等边界条件,程序能够自动建模精确的分析高速圆柱滚子轴承工作温度.以一个型号轴承为例,分析了不同工况参数对轴承工作温度的影响,结果显示轴承内圈转速、径向载荷和润滑油入口油温对轴承工作温度影响显著.      

Nonlinear Dynamics Behaviors of a Rotor Roller Bearing System with Radial Clearances and Waviness Considered

A rotor system supported by roller beatings displays very complicated nonlinear behaviors due to nonlinear Hertzian contact forces, radial clearances and bearing waviness. This paper presents nonlinear bearing forces of a roller bearing under four-dimensional loads and establishes 4-DOF dynamics equations of a rotor roller bearing system. The methods of Newmark-β and of Newton-Laphson are used to solve the nonlinear equations. The dynamics behaviors of a rigid rotor system are studied through the bifurcation, the Poincar è maps, the spectrum diagrams and the axis orbit of responses of the system. The results show that the system is liable to undergo instability caused by the quasi-periodic bifurcation, the periodic-doubling bifurcation and chaos routes as the rotational speed increases. Clearances, outer race waviness, inner race waviness, roller waviness, damping, radial forces and unbalanced forces-all these bring a significant influence to bear on the system stability. As the clearance increases, the dynamics behaviors become complicated with the number and the scale of instable regions becoming larger. The vibration frequencies induced by the roller bearing waviness and the orders of the waviness might cause severe vibrations. The system is able to eliminate non-periodic vibration by reasonable choice and optimization of the parameters.     

激波过弯道绕流流场(英文)

为了研究微波过弯道的传播，气动中心设计了微波过弯道的实验装置，它很容易拆卸并组成带10°发散的弯道、短形弯道和带各种角度的二元喷嘴。实验所得到的若干照片，对于研究激波反射、绕射与边界的相互作用和对数值模拟的验证是很有用的。     

一种多串口和以太网转换方法的研究

嵌入式系统中普遍应用RS232串口进行调试通信，但RS232串口在复杂的综合化航电处理平台中的应用却有诸多不便，而通过以太网却无相关问题。鉴于当前大多数成熟应用都需要通过RS232进行通信，设计了一种新型接口模块，实现了将多个RS232串口协议数据转换为以太网协议数据的方法。实践表明，方法能很好地应用在复杂的综合化航电处理环境中，简单方便，不影响用户调试习惯，值得推广应用。