Key Questions for Low Metallicity Stars Rapporteur Summary of the Working Group on Low-Z Stars

An overview of the discussions of the working group on Low-Z stars is presented. Key questions addressed include how the abundances of lithium observed in these stars should be compared to that produced in the Big Bang. Evidence for and against a small star-to-star variation in Li abundances is reviewed, and whether such a variation, if real, necessarily indicates that stellar depletion has occurred, necessitating correction to the value compared to primordial nucleosynthesis calculations. A second key question concerns how and where the light elements are produced. Taken together, their abundance ratios strongly suggest that in low-Z stars the light elements other than 7Li are produced by cosmic ray spallation. The most recent evidence suggests that a minority of this spallation happens in the general interstellar medium, and that a larger fraction might happen in the immediate vicinity of Supernovae, possibly producing observable star-to-star variation. Finally, the question of the overall metallicity of the Galaxy is discussed. How homogeneous in space and time is its evolution? Can we identify subsystems or individual stars which indicate a pregalactic contribution to the galactic metallicity?

     

Numerical Simulation of Characteristics of CEX Ions in Ion Thruster Optical System

Charge exchange(CEX) ions could inflict severe damages on the ion thruster optical system. This article is aimed at investigating the characteristics of the CEX ions and their influences upon the optical system by means of particle-in- cell(PIC) ion simulation and Monte Carlo collision(MCC) methods. The results from numerical simulation indicate that despite the fact that CEX ions appear in the entire beamlet region near the ion optical system, the ones that present themselves downstream of the accelerator grid have good reason for attracting more attention. As their trajectories are significantly affected by the local electric field, a great number of CEX ions are accelerated toward grids resulting in sputtering erosion. When the influences of the CEX ions are considered in the numerical simulation, there could hardly be observed augments in the screen grid current, but the accelerator grid current increases from zero to 1. 4% of the beamlet current. It can be understood from the numerical simulation that the CEX ions formed in the region far downstream of the accelerator grid should be blamed for the erosion on the downstream surface of the accelerator grid.     

考夫曼离子推力器放电室数值模拟研究综述及展望

首先分析了影响考夫曼离子推力器放电性能的关键因素,然后按照仿真模型的维度对考夫曼离子推力器放电室数值模拟方法进行了分类综述和优缺点分析,并针对以流体方法为基础的各向异性界面问题进行了分析。在此基础上,概述了零维模型、二维模型和三维模型下针对放电室所取得的数值模拟研究结果。最后对考夫曼离子推力器放电室数值模拟研究进行了总结及展望。     

离子注入铜薄膜后的氧化行为

为克服铜易氧化造成薄膜电阻增加、机械性能下降的缺点,采用离子注入技术对铜薄膜表面进行改性研究。离子注入后进行了氧化试验,并结合Ｘ射线衍射和卢瑟福背散射进行了分析。结果表明,离子注入对原有薄膜的电阻影响是很小的; 随注入剂量的增大,抗氧化能力提高;离子注入不但改善了铜薄膜的抗氧化能力,而且氧化行为及氧化层的结构也发生了变化,未经注入的铜薄膜形成的氧化铜以Ｃｕ２Ｏ为主,注入后氧化铜则为Ｃｕ２Ｏ 和ＣｕＯ 的复合结构。离子注入提高了铜薄膜抗氧化性能。     

离子推力器极少数据可靠性评估方法

针对只有两台离子推力器进行寿命试验,试验结果为极少失效数据的情况,建立了一种离子推力器整机可靠性评估方法.通过引入区间统计量的概念,充分开发从最后一个失效数据继续试验到没有发生产品失效这一重要试验信息,由高斯-马尔科夫定理计算出寿命分布参数的最佳线性无偏估计,并给出离子推力器可靠度和寿命的单侧置信下限.最后,对美国NASA研制的型号为XIPS-13的离子推力器进行可靠性评估,得出了其寿命需求10000h的可靠度单侧置信下限为0.87及给定可靠度为0.9时的寿命单侧置信下限为9024.6h,该方法精度较高,便于工程应用.      

Statistical analysis of the ionospheric ion density recorded by DEMETER in the epicenter areas of earthquakes as well as in their magnetically conjugate point areas

Results of a statistical variation of total ion density observed in the vicinity of epicenters as well as around magnetically conjugated points of earthquakes are presented in this paper. Two data sets are used: the ion density measured by DEMETER during about 6.5?years and the list of strong earthquakes (M_W?≥?4.8) occurring globally during this period (14,764 earthquakes in total). First of all, ionospheric perturbations with 23–120?s observation time corresponding to spatial scales of 160–840?km are automatically detected by a software (64,287 anomalies in total). Second, it is checked if a perturbation could be associated either with the epicenter of an earthquake or with its magnetically conjugated point (distance?<?1500?km and time?<?15?days before the earthquake). The index Kp?<?3 is also considered in order to reduce the effect of the geomagnetic activity on the ionosphere during this period. The results show that it is possible to detect variations of the ionospheric parameters above the epicenter areas as well as above their conjugated points. About one third of the earthquakes are detected with ionospheric influence on both sides of the Earth. There is a trend showing that the perturbation length increases as the magnitude of the detected EQs but it is more obvious for large magnitude. The probability that a perturbation appears is higher on the day of the earthquake and then gradually decreases when the time before the earthquake increases. The spatial distribution of perturbations shows that the probability of perturbations appearing southeast of the epicenter before an earthquake is a little bit higher and that there is an obvious trend because perturbations appear west of the conjugated point of an earthquake.     

GEO卫星氢镍蓄电池在轨温度波动机理分析

在某地球静止轨道通信卫星平台布局的基础上,通过合理地简化和假设建立了南蓄电池舱作为热分析计算模型,对影响蓄电池在轨温度波动的机理进行分析。分析结果表明：在冬至,西板、对地+Y板和背地+Y板受照外热流的日变化会引起其内表面温度大幅度波动,通过舱内热辐射又会引起服务舱南板等结构板内表面温度波动,而服务舱南板通过导热将引起安装其上的蓄电池温度波动,这是导致蓄电池温度波动的根本原因。     

基于改进相关向量机的锂电池寿命预测方法

锂电池具有轻便安全、循环寿命长和安全性能好等优点,作为一个被广泛应用的储能电源,锂电池健康管理和寿命预测是国内外研究的热点。建立锂电池寿命预测方法和模型,基于实验历史数据,建立电池衰减模型从而对整个电池的工作状态进行评估,及时对设备进行维护和替换,以确保电池工作的稳定。对相关向量机（RVM）的核函数进行了组合改进,优化了RVM的性能,减小了锂电池寿命预测的偏差度,提高了预测精度。      

Satellite lithium-ion battery remaining useful life estimation with an iterative updated RVM fused with the KF algorithm

Lithium-ion batteries have become the third-generation space batteries and are widely utilized in a series of spacecraft. Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation is essential to a spacecraft as the battery is a critical part and determines the lifetime and reliability. The Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) is a data-driven algorithm used to estimate a battery’s RUL due to its sparse feature and uncertainty management capability. Especially, some of the regressive cases indicate that the RVM can obtain a better short-term prediction performance rather than long-term prediction. As a nonlinear kernel learning algorithm, the coefficient matrix and relevance vectors are fixed once the RVM training is conducted. Moreover, the RVM can be simply influenced by the noise with the training data. Thus, this work proposes an iterative updated approach to improve the long-term prediction performance for a battery’s RUL prediction. Firstly, when a new estimator is output by the RVM, the Kalman filter is applied to optimize this estimator with a physical degradation model. Then, this optimized estimator is added into the training set as an on-line sample, the RVM model is re-trained, and the coefficient matrix and relevance vectors can be dynamically adjusted to make next iterative prediction. Experimental results with a commercial battery test data set and a satellite battery data set both indicate that the proposed method can achieve a better performance for RUL estimation.     

电子回旋共振离子推力器放电室低信号调试

微波输入技术是电子回旋共振离子推力器的关键技术之一,输入微波在推力器放电室内产生谐振的时候,微波功率才能高效地被吸收,从而电离气体,提高电子的能量,增加等离子体的电离度。电子回旋共振离子推力器放电室是一个不规则的微波谐振腔,很难从理论上确定其谐振状态下的结构。本文利用网络分析仪,采用微波无源器件回波损耗的测试方法对放电室进行精确调谐,分析微波谐振频率及带宽,目的在于详细研究放电室的结构尺寸、微波耦合探针形状和尺寸在谐振状态下的匹配性。调试结果表明放电室增加14 mm圆柱段,选择圆柱段长度22 mm和球形直径9 mm的组合探针,可以得到较好的谐振状态,此时腔体的回波损耗为-23 dB,谐振频率4.195 GHz,谐振带宽为0.025 0 GHz,品质因素为167.848。