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Diffusion of Cosmic Rays in a Multiphase Interstellar Medium Shocked by a Supernova Remnant Blast Wave

  • Roh, Soonyoung;Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro;Inoue, Tsuyoshi
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.38.1-38.1
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    • 2015
  • Supernova remnants (SNRs) are one of the most energetic astrophysical events and are thought to be the dominant source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). A recent report on observations of gamma rays from the vicinity of SNRs have shown strong evidence that Galactic CR protons are accelerated by the shock waves of the SNRs. The actual gamma-ray emission from pion decay should depend on the diffusion of CRs in the interstellar medium. In order to quantitatively analyze the diffusion of high-energy CRs from acceleration sites, we have performed test particle numerical simulations of CR protons using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation of an interstellar medium swept-up by a blast wave. We analyse the CRs diffusion at a length scale of order a few pc, and show the Richtmeyer-Meshkov instability can provide enough turbulence downstream of the shock to make the diffusion coefficient close to the Bohm level for energy larger than 30 TeV for a realistic interstellar medium.

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Conversion of Citron (Citrus junos) Peel Oil by Enterobacter agglomerans

  • PARK , YEON-JIN;KIM, IN-CHEOL;BAEK, HYUNG-HEE;BANG, OK-KYUN;CHANG, HAE-CHOON
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1275-1279
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    • 2004
  • Citron peel oil was extracted from citron (Citrus funas) fruit by steam distillation, and was used as starting material for microbial conversion to synthesize attractive flavor compounds by using Enterobacter agglomerans 6L. E. agglomerans was isolated from citron peel and was able to metabolize the citron peel oil and grew well ($A_{600}:\;3.0$) on the citron peel oil as the sole carbon source. Multiple terpene metabolites were produced by E. agglomerans 6L on M9 salt media with citron oil vapor. The identified bioconversion products from the citron peel oil included trans-2-decenal, octanol, $\delta$­valerolactone, $\gamma$-valerolactone, cryptone, hydroxycitronellol, cuminol, and $\gamma$-dodecalactone.

Characteristics of a-Si:H Films for Contact-type Linear Image Sensor (밀착형 선형 영상감지소자를 위한 a-Si:H막의 특성)

  • 오상광;박욱동;김기완
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.28A no.11
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    • pp.894-901
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    • 1991
  • Contact-type linear image sensors have been fabricated by means of RF glow discharge decomposition method of silane and hydrogen mixtures. The dependences of the electrical and optical properties of these sensor on thickness, RF power, substrate temperature and ambient gas pressure have been investigated. the ITO/i-a-Si:H/Al structure film shows photosensitivity of 0.85 and photocurrent to dark current ratio ($I_{ph}/I_{d}$) of 150 at 5V bias voltage under 200${\mu}W/cm^[2}$ red light intensity. Under 200${\mu}W/cm^[2}$ green light intensity, the ratio is 100. In order to investigate photocarrier transport mechanism and to obtain ${\mu}{\gamma}$ product we have measured the I-V characteristics of these sensors favricated with several different deposition parameters under various light sources. The linear inage sensor for document reading has been operated under reverse bias condition with green light source, resulting in ${\mu}{\gamma}$ product of about 1.5$[\times}10^{-9}cm^{2}$/V.

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Relative Efficiency Determination of HPGe Detector (HPGe 검출기의 상대효율 결정)

  • 강정구;김승곤;김종일;이정옥;이춘호;최재우
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 1993
  • A relative efficiency of a HPGe detector as a function of the incident gamma ray energy in the range 120 keV to 1500 keV was measured using 21 gamma rays emitted by a $\^$152/Eu source. A semiempirical expression was then determined which can reproduce the measured values reasonably well. The two results are compared to a Monte Carlo simulation calculation.

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Measurement of Branching Ratio for broad 27-keV Resonance of $^{19}F(n,g)^{20}F$ Reaction by using Time-of-flight Method with Anti-Compton NaI(Tl) Spectrometer

  • Lee, Sam-Yol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.31-34
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    • 2008
  • The neutron capture spectrum for the light nuclide was very useful to study the nuclear structure. In the present study, the capture gamma-ray from the 27-keV resonance of $^{19}F(n,g)^{20}F$ reaction were measured with an anti-Compton NaI(Tl) spectrometer and the 3-MV Pelletron accelerator of the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors at the Tokyo institute of technology. A neutron Time-of-Flight method was adopted with a 1.5 ns pulsed neutron source by the $^7Li(p,n)^7Be$ reaction. In the present experiment, a Teflon(($CF_2$)n) sample was used The sample was disk with a diameter of 90mm. The thickness of sample was determined so that reasonable counting rates could be obtained and the correction was not so large for the self-shielding and multiple scattering of neutrons in the sample, and was 5mm. The primary gamma-ray transitions were compared with previous measurement of Kenny.

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POLARIZATION AND POLARIMETRY: A REVIEW

  • Trippe, Sascha
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.15-39
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    • 2014
  • Polarization is a basic property of light and is fundamentally linked to the internal geometry of a source of radiation. Polarimetry complements photometric, spectroscopic, and imaging analyses of sources of radiation and has made possible multiple astrophysical discoveries. In this article I review (i) the physical basics of polarization: electromagnetic waves, photons, and parameterizations; (ii) astrophysical sources of polarization: scattering, synchrotron radiation, active media, and the Zeeman, Goldreich-Kylafis, and Hanle effects, as well as interactions between polarization and matter (like birefringence, Faraday rotation, or the Chandrasekhar-Fermi effect); (iii) observational methodology: on-sky geometry, influence of atmosphere and instrumental polarization, polarization statistics, and observational techniques for radio, optical, and $X/{\gamma}$ wavelengths; and (iv) science cases for astronomical polarimetry: solar and stellar physics, planetary system bodies, interstellar matter, astrobiology, astronomical masers, pulsars, galactic magnetic fields, gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, and cosmic microwave background radiation.

A Study of Optical Follow-up Pipeline for Gravitational-Wave transients using QUEST data

  • Kim, Yong Bum;Lee, Hyung Mok
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.69.2-69.2
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    • 2013
  • The direct detection of gravitational wave has a very important meaning as a basis for verification of the theory of relativity. Several laser interferometer detectors have attempted to detect GW directly (e.g. LIGO, VIRGO), but positional accuracy of GW detector is too wide (about 10~100sq deg) to find which objects emit GW. One of the main sources of GW is gamma-ray burst which can be detected even in electromagnetic wave. Then to verify Gamma-ray burst object as a GW source, we proceed EM follow-up observation with wide field of view. A first program initiating EM follow-ups to possible transients GW events has been developed and exercised by LIGO and VIRGO community in association with several partners. Using QUEST optical data, we tested the method of cross-convolution recommended by EM follow-up community. We will describe the results of that test.

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Exposure Measurements of Co-60 Gamma rays (Co-60 감마선의 조사선량 측정)

  • Hah, Suck-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Moon
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 1991
  • Measurement of Co-60 gamma rays has been made for establishment of exposure standard and analyze it's overall uncertainties. Exposure rate determined by the charge mode method using vibrating reed amplifier with cylinderical type cavity chamber. The values of a variety of physical constants and the correction factors are evaluated. The resulting exposure rate is 690.81 R/h at the distance of 1m from the source and the related uncertainties is ${\pm}0.8%$

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Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) for early photon measurements from Gamma Ray Bursts

  • Park, Il H.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.66-66
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    • 2012
  • We describe the space project of Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO), which will observe early optical photons from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a sub-second optical response, for the first time. The UFFO will probe the early optical rise of GRBs, opening a completely new frontier in GRB and transient studies, using a fast-response rotatable mirror system which redirects opitical path to telescope instead of slewing of telescopes or spacecraft. In our small UFFO-Pathfinder experiment, scheduled to launch aboard the Lomonosov satellite in June 2012, we use a motorized mirror in our Slewing Mirror Telescope instrument to achieve less than one second optical response after X-ray trigger. We describe the science and the mission of the UFFO project, including a serious version called UFFO-100 which will be launched in 2014. With our program of ultra-fast optical response GRB observatories, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of GRB mechanisms, and potentially open up the z>10 universe to study via GRB as point source emission probes.

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A fast gamma-ray dose rate assessment method for complex geometries based on stylized model reconstruction

  • Yang, Li-qun;Liu, Yong-kuo;Peng, Min-jun;Li, Meng-kun;Chao, Nan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.5
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    • pp.1436-1443
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    • 2019
  • A fast gamma-ray dose rate assessment method for complex geometries based on stylized model reconstruction and point-kernel method is proposed in this paper. The complex three-dimensional (3D) geometries are imported as a 3DS format file from 3dsMax software with material and radiometric attributes. Based on 3D stylized model reconstruction of solid mesh, the 3D-geometrical solids are automatically converted into stylized models. In point-kernel calculation, the stylized source models are divided into point kernels and the mean free paths (mfp) are calculated by the intersections between shield stylized models and tracing ray. Compared with MCNP, the proposed method can implement complex 3D geometries visually, and the dose rate calculation is accurate and fast.