Excavation of artificial caverns inside asteroids by leveraging rotational self-energy

Future space ventures will likely require exploitation of near-Earth asteroid resources. Moreover, it can be envisaged that asteroids may host habitats in their interiors. In fact, a cavern inside an asteroid would be a natural radiation shield against cosmic radiation and may also serve as a confined environment for storage of mined material such as water ice or other processed volatiles such as propellants. To this end, this paper proposes to leverage the asteroid rotational self-energy to remove material from the asteroid interiors and create a spherical cavern, by means of the orbital siphon concept. The siphon is a chain of tether-connected payload masses (the asteroid material), which exploits the rotation of the asteroid for the delivery of mass from the asteroid to escape. Under certain conditions the siphon can be initiated to ensure self-sustained flow of mass from the asteroid to escape. A net orbital siphon effect is generated by connecting new payloads at the bottom of the chain while releasing the upper payloads. Key parameters are discussed, such as the required siphon dimension and the maximum size of the internal cavity that can be excavated, as a function of the asteroid rotational period. Moreover, assuming elastic material behaviour, a closed-form expression for the stress tensor is found and a failure criterion is used to identify regions in the asteroid interiors subjected to the larger stresses. It is shown that the conditions for failure are relaxed as the radius of the internal void increases.     

RPC-MAG The Fluxgate Magnetometer in the ROSETTA Plasma Consortium

The fluxgate magnetometer experiment onboard the ROSETTA spacecraft aims to measure the magnetic field in the interaction region of the solar wind plasma with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It consists of a system of two ultra light (about 28 g each ) triaxial fluxgate magnetometer sensors, mounted on the 1.5 m long spacecraft boom. The measurement range of each sensor is ±16384 nT with quantization steps of 31 pT. The magnetometer sensors are operated with a time resolution of up to 0.05 s, corresponding to a bandwidth of 0–10 Hz. This performance of the RPC-MAG sensors allows detailed analyses of magnetic field variations in the cometary environment. RPC-MAG furthermore is designed to study possible remnant magnetic fields of the nucleus, measurements which will be done in close cooperation with the ROSETTA lander magnetometer experiment ROMAP.     

ISO's Contribution to the Study of Clusters of Galaxies

Starting with nearby galaxy clusters like Virgo and Coma, and continuing out to the furthest galaxy clusters for which ISO results have yet been published (z = 0.56), we discuss the development of knowledge of the infrared and associated physical properties of galaxy clusters from early IRAS observations, through the “ISO-era” to the present, in order to explore the status of ISO's contribution to this field. Relevant IRAS and ISO programmes are reviewed, addressing both the cluster galaxies and the still-very-limited evidence for an infrared-emitting intra-cluster medium. ISO made important advances in knowledge of both nearby and distant galaxy clusters, such as the discovery of a major cold dust component in Virgo and Coma cluster galaxies, the elaboration of the correlation between dust emission and Hubble-type, and the detection of numerous Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs) in several distant clusters. These and consequent achievements are underlined and described. We recall that, due to observing time constraints, ISO's coverage of higher-redshift galaxy clusters to the depths required to detect and study statistically significant samples of cluster galaxies over a range of morphological types could not be comprehensive and systematic, and such systematic coverage of distant clusters will be an important achievement of the Spitzer Observatory. Based on observations with ISO, an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the PI countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) and with the participation of ISAS and NASA.     

一种适于动态环境的盲多用户检测算法

比较两种盲多用户检测算法在动态环境中的收敛性能,并通过计算机进行模拟仿真。其中一种是能随输入信号矢量变化而变化的变步长最小输出能量盲算法;另一种是既保持最小输出能量检测器的全局收敛性,又具有最小均方误差检测器高输出信干比优点的判决反馈变步长盲算法。利用前者在动态强干扰下收敛快及后者在稳态时输出信干比高的优势,将二者结合起来应用到动态环境中,提高系统性能,同时抑制多址干扰和窄带干扰。     

ILD智能交通流量测试仪

介绍一种交通流量测试仪，它具有高灵敏度、高信噪比、传输距离远，可以准确地测量机动车、自行车流量，且成本低。由于该仪器设置了驱动变送器，采用了一种新的传输结构，引入了微机技术，模式识别等技术，从而研制出性能稳定、操作方便、实用性强且具有国际先进水平的道路交通流量测试装置。     

对我国导游报酬体制创新的探讨

目前在我国旅游行业中,以收取回扣为主的导游报酬体制己成为制约导游服务质量提高的根本原因,体制创新成为潜在必需。文章在分析了当前导游报酬体制现状的基础上,运用经济学中的帕累托改进原理解释了实施导游报酬“小费制”的合理性,并在此基础上提出了具体的实现途径,体现出该体制的优越性。     

喷嘴控制脉冲调制器非线性特性分析

本文针对伪速率和脉冲调宽调频两种非线性脉冲调制器,利用频域理论讨论和分析非线性特性,描述函数采用数值解法和半解析法联合求取,较好地表述了这种非线性特性．     

有控飞行器非线性气动模型结构的确定（Ⅰ）

非线性气动模型结构确定是飞行器参数辨识中极其重要的问题。首先给出了非线性气动模型的数学描述,在此基础上,以导弹纵向及侧向运动方程为例,首次系统地分析了有控飞行器非线性气动模型结构确定中必然存在的共线性问题。频域分析过程清晰地表明在通常的试验情况下,m_z~α及m_z~(ω_z)是不可单独辨识的,从理论上解释了国内外一直不单独辨识它们的原因所在。指出原有的模型结构确定方法,如AIC准则,逐步回归等已不再适用于非线性气动模型结构的确定。同时对参数的可辨识性也作了一定的讨论。