Regolith effects in planetary X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy: Laboratory studies at 1.7–6.4 keV

Laboratory measurements are presented to study the effects of the physical properties of regolith on planetary soft X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Two laboratory setups are used to independently measure these regolith effects using lunar regolith analog samples with three different particle-size ranges. Discussion is given on the data analysis. Some of the data may be valid only for qualitative conclusions. Analytical modelling is used to separate the effects expected for a plane-parallel and homogeneous medium from those of measured regolith analogs. The surface roughness and porosity of the regolith are observed to induce an enhancement of the higher-energy part of the spectrum as a function of the incidence angle. The enhancement is larger for rougher surfaces. A brief discussion is given on the relevance of this study for future planetary missions carrying soft X-ray spectrometers.     

太阳X射线暴在地球大气中传输的Monte Carlo模拟

应用MonteCarlo方法对太阳X射线暴(1-8?及0.5-4?)与地球大气相互作用过程进行跟踪模拟,得到了X射线暴在电离层D层产生的电子产生率,并计算了由此产生的宇宙噪声吸收值。结果与作者在南极观测得到的X射线暴期间宇宙噪声吸收值符合较好.      

孔挤压强化残余应力场的三维有限元模拟和实验研究

运用有限元软件ANSYS建立了孔挤压强化残余应力场的三维有限元模型,模拟计算了不同厚度7050-T7451铝合金构件孔挤压强化的三维残余应力场分布.模拟结果表明,孔边残余应力沿厚度方向呈梯度分布,人口残余压应力最小,是易于产生裂纹的部位;入口残余压应力随构件厚度增加而增大,达到最大值后,随厚度增加而减小并逐渐趋于稳定值...     

煤炭中硫分的快速测量系统

针对能量色散X荧光(Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence,EDXRF)分析技术应用于煤炭中硫分快速测量过程中存在的基体效应和边缘效应干扰问题,采用蒙特卡罗计算程序Electron-Gamma Shower(EGS)模拟了在不同管电压、不同样品直径、厚度以及不同硫元素浓度条件下的X荧光强度。结果表明,合适的X光管的管电压为15　kV,样 品的临界直径和厚度分别大于1.04　cm和0.05　cm。根据模拟结果,通过实验得到X荧光强度与硫元素浓度的关系曲线,实验结果经过探测效率修正后与EGS模拟结果符合良好,为后续的煤炭中硫分在线快速分析系统的设计和实施提供了有力的技术支撑。     

物质对X射线的吸收系数和散射系数的计算

介绍了物质对X射线的光电吸收系数和康普顿散射系数的计算方法。作为算例，在约1keV～1MeV的X射线能量范围内，计算了聚四氟乙烯、某双基推进剂和人体鲜骨对X射线的光电吸收系数和康普顿散射系数。     

Hard X-ray continuum from lunar surface: Results from High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX) onboard Chandrayaan-1

The High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX) on Chandrayaan-1 was designed to study the photon emission in the range of 30–270 keV from naturally occurring radioactive decay of ²³⁸U and ²³²Th series nuclides from the lunar surface. The primary objective of HEX was to study the transport of volatiles on the lunar surface using radon as a tracer and mapping the 46.5 keV line from ²¹⁰Pb, a decay product of ²²²Rn. HEX was tested for two days during the commissioning phase of Chandrayaan-1 and performance of all sub systems was found to be as expected. HEX started collecting science data during the first non-prime imaging season (February–April, 2009) of Chandrayaan-1. Certain anomalies persisted in this data set and the early curtailment of Chandrayaan-1 mission in August, 2009, did not allow any further operation of HEX. Despite these issues, HEX provided the first data set for 30–270 keV continuum emission, averaged over a significant portion of the lunar surface, including the polar region.     

Probing broad absorption line quasar outflows: X-ray insights

Energetic outflows appear to occur in conjunction with active mass accretion onto supermassive black holes. These outflows are most readily observed in the 10% of quasars with broad absorption lines, where the observer’s line of sight passes through the wind. Until fairly recently, the paucity of X-ray data from these objects was notable, but now sensitive hard-band missions such as Chandra and XMM-Newton are routinely detecting broad absorption line quasars. The X-ray regime offers qualitatively new information for the understanding of these objects, and these new results must be taken into account in theoretical modeling of quasar winds.     

基于UKF和信息融合的航天器自主导航方法

X射线脉冲星导航利用X射线辐射脉冲到达时间 (Time of Arrival, TOA)作为信息输入,星敏感器导航利用星光角距等作为信息输入,是两种不同机理的天文导航方法。提出一种将脉冲星TOA和星敏感器星光角距测量结合的信息融合天文自主导航方法,设计了一种利用激光光量子模拟脉冲星X射线辐射光子的半物理仿真系统用于算法验证,并基于无迹卡尔曼滤波(Unscented Kalman Filter, UKF)使用真轨道参数做了仿真试验。结果表明,基于UKF的信息融合方法比基于EKF（Extended Kalman Filter）的信息融合方法性能更好,与仅使用脉冲星或星敏感器的导航方法相比,能将位置估计精度分别提高52.7%和43.6%,速度估计精度分别提高82.2%和70.5%。     

利用X射线源实现航天器相对定位

利用X 射线源实现航天器相对定位, 突破了X 射线脉冲星绝对定位中需要选取具有稳定周期脉冲星的限制, 通过周期脉冲信号及非周期时变信号互相关时差测量仿真试算, 得出信号变化幅度是影响时延测量精度的重要因素. 在分析测距和星历误差对相对定位精度影响的基础上, 利用脉冲星数据库中提供的脉冲星参数, 对同时观测3~6 颗脉冲星的相对定位精度进行了试算.