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TWO MOLECULAR CLOUDS WITH ANOMALOUS VELOCITIES IN THE GALACTIC ANTICENTER

  • Lee, Youngung;Kim, Young Sik;Kim, Hyung-Goo;Jung, Jae-Hoon;Yim, In-Sung;Kang, Hyunwoo;Lee, Changhoon;Kim, Bong-Gyu;Kim, Kwang-Tae
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.319-325
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    • 2014
  • We map two molecular clouds located in the exact anticenter region emitting in the (J = 1-0) transition of $^{12}CO$ and $^{13}CO$ using the 3-mm SIS mixer receiver on the 14-m radio telescope at Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory. The target clouds with anomalous velocities of $V_{LSR}{\sim}-20km\;s^{-1}$ are distinguished from other clouds in this direction. In addition, they are located in the interarm region between the Orion Arm and the Perseus Arm. Sizes of the clouds are estimated to be about 8.6 and 10.8 pc, respectively. The total mass is estimated to be about $4{\times}10^3$ $M_{\odot}$ using CO luminosity of the clouds. Several cores are detected, but no sign of star formation is found according to the IRAS point sources. Their larger linewidths, anomalous velocities, and their location at the interarm region make these clouds more distinguished, though their physical properties are similar to the dark clouds in the solar neighborhood in terms of mass and size.

Radiative Role of Clouds on the Earth Surface Energy Balance (지표 에너지 수지에 미치는 구름의 복사 역할)

  • Hong, Sung-Chul;Chung, Ii-Ung;Kim, Hyung-Jin;Lee, Jae-Bum;Oh, Sung-Nam
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.261-267
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    • 2007
  • In this study, the Slab Ocean Model (SOM) is coupled with an Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM) which developed in University of Kangnung based on the land surface model of Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS). The purposes of this study are to understand radiative role of clouds considering of the atmospheric feedback, and to compare the Clouds Radiative Forcing (CRF) come from the analyses using the clear-cloud sky method and CGCM. The new CGCM was integrated by using two sets of the clouds with radiative role (EXP-A) and without radiative role (EXP-B). Clouds in this two cases show the negative effect $-26.0\;Wm^{-2}$ of difference of radiation budget at top of atmosphere (TOA). The annual global means radiation budget of this simulation at TOA is larger than the estimations ($-17.0 Wm^{-2}$) came from Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). The work showed the surface negative effect with $-18.6 Wm^{-2}$ in the two different simulations of CRF. Otherwise, sensible heat flux in the simulation shows a great contribution with positive forcing of $+24.4 Wm^{-2}$. It is found that cooling effect to the surface temperature due to radiative role of clouds is about $7.5^{\circ}C$. From this study it could make an accurate of the different CRF estimation considering either feedback of EXP-B or not EXP-A under clear-sky and cloud-sky conditions respectively at TOA. This result clearly shows its difference of CRF $-11.1 Wm^{-2}$.

A Review of Clouds and Aerosols (구름과 에어로졸 고찰)

  • Yum, Seong Soo;Kim, Byung Gon;Kim, Sang Woo;Chang, Lim Seok;Kim, Seong Bum
    • Journal of Climate Change Research
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.253-267
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    • 2011
  • This study summarizes some important results from the studies on clouds and aerosols, and their effects on climate in the northeast Asia that were made mainly by Korean scientists and some other scientists from around the world. Clouds and aerosols are recognized as one of the most important factors that contributes to uncertainties in climate predictions and therefore become the subject of active research in the western developed countries in recent years. However, the researches on clouds and aerosols are very weakly done in Korea except ground based measurements of aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties. These measurements indicate that aerosol loadings in the northeast Asia are generally much higher than other parts of the world. On the other hand, researches on clouds are few in Korea. Satellite and ground remote sensing, numerical modeling and aircraft in-situ measurements of clouds are highly needed for better assessment of the role of clouds on climate in the northeast Asia.

BOTTOM-UP MODEL FOR THE FORMATION OF GMC'S

  • SONG GUO-XUAN
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.165-166
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    • 1996
  • A bottom-up model for the formation of GMCs is described, where the observed GMCs are the aggregates of less massive clouds. The aggregates are getting more and more massive in the process of consecutive collision between clouds.

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ECLIPSING BINARY STARS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

  • TOBIN WILLIAM
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.89-91
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    • 1996
  • Within the next few years eclipsing binaries should yield primary distance measurements for the Magellanic Clouds as well as provide tests of theoretical low-metallicity stellar models.

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Reconstruction of polygonal prisms from point-clouds of engineering facilities

  • Chida, Akisato;Masuda, Hiroshi
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.322-329
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    • 2016
  • The advent of high-performance terrestrial laser scanners has made it possible to capture dense point-clouds of engineering facilities. 3D shape acquisition from engineering facilities is useful for supporting maintenance and repair tasks. In this paper, we discuss methods to reconstruct box shapes and polygonal prisms from large-scale point-clouds. Since many faces may be partly occluded by other objects in engineering plants, we estimate possible box shapes and polygonal prisms and verify their compatibility with measured point-clouds. We evaluate our method using actual point-clouds of engineering plants.

Lidar Measurement of Optical Properties of Cirrus Clouds at Kwangju, Korea

  • Noh, Y.M.;Choi, S.C.;Kim, Y.J.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.959-961
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    • 2003
  • Cirrus clouds observation was conducted using a lidar system in order to measure their height, thickness and optical depth at Kwangju (35$^{\circ}$10'N, 126$^{\circ}$53'), Korea in winter, December 2002, and spring March and April 2003. Cirrus clouds at high altitude can be distinguished from atmospheric aerosols location by high depolarization ratio and high altitude. Cirrus clouds were observed at 5${\sim}$12km altitudes with a high depolarization ratio from 0.2 to 0.5. Optical depth of cirrus clouds had varied from 0.28 to 1.81. Radiative effect of observed cirrus cloud on climate system was estimated to be negative net flux from ?0.24 to ?31.04 W/m$^{2}$.

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[ $^{13}CO$ ] OBSERVATIONS OF CMa OB1/RA REGION

  • KIM BONG GYU;KAWAMURA AKINO;FUKUI YASUO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.193-194
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    • 1996
  • A large scale $^{13}CO$(J=1-0) survey was made for CMa OB1/R1 region in $220^{\circ}{\le}{\iota}{\le}230^{\circ}$ and $-10^{\circ}{\le}b{\le}10^{\circ}$ with a 8' spacing by using the 4 m radio telescope of Nagoya University. 34 isolated clouds were identified in this survey. Among them, two clouds were firstly identified by us. The observed LSR velocity indicate that almost of the all clouds are located in the Local arm, except two extreme velocity. The mass spectrum of the clouds in the Local arm is best fitted by a power-law index of 1.6.

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Reference Architecture and Operation Model for PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) Cloud

  • Lee, Youngkon;Lee, Ukhyun
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.284-296
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    • 2021
  • The cloud has already become the core infrastructure of information systems, and government institutions are rapidly migrating information systems to the cloud. Government institutions in several countries use private clouds in their closed networks. However, because of the advantages of public clouds over private clouds, the demand for public clouds is increasing, and government institutions are expected to gradually switch to public clouds. When all data from government institutions are managed in the public cloud, the biggest concern for government institutions is the leakage of confidential data. The public-private-partnership (PPP) cloud provides a solution to this problem. PPP cloud is a form participation in a public cloud infrastructure and the building of a closed network data center. The PPP cloud prevents confidential data leakage and leverages the benefits of the public cloud to build a cloud quickly and easily maintain the cloud. In this paper, based on the case of the PPP cloud applied to the Korean government, the concept, architecture, operation model, and contract method of the PPP cloud are presented.

Dispersal of Molecular Clouds by UV Radiation Feedback from Massive Stars

  • Kim, Jeong-Gyu;Kim, Woong-Tae;Ostriker, Eve
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.38.1-38.1
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    • 2017
  • We report the results of three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations of star cluster formation in turbulent molecular clouds, with primary attention to how stellar radiation feedback controls the lifetime and net star formation efficiency (SFE) of their natal clouds. We examine the combined effects of photoionization and radiation pressure for a wide range of cloud masses (10^4 - 10^6 Msun) and radii (2 - 80 pc). In all simulations, stars form in densest regions of filaments until feedback becomes strong enough to clear the remaining gas out of the system. We find that the SFE is primarily a function of the initial cloud surface density, Sigma, (SFE increasing from ~7% to ~50% as Sigma increases from ~30 Msun/pc^2 to ~10^3 Msun/pc^2), with weak dependence on the initial cloud mass. Control runs with the same initial conditions but without either radiation pressure or photoionization show that photoionization is the dominant feedback mechanism for clouds typical in normal disk galaxies, while they are equally important for more dense, compact clouds. For low-Sigma clouds, more than 80% of the initial cloud mass is lost by photoevaporation flows off the surface of dense clumps. The cloud becomes unbound within ~0.5-2.5 initial free-fall times after the first star-formation event, implying that cloud dispersal is rapid once massive star formation takes place. We briefly discuss implications and limitations of our work in relation to observations.

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