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LABORATORY TEST OF CCD #1 IN BOAO (보현산 천문대 1번 CCD카메라의 실험실 테스트)

  • Park, Byeong-Gon;Cheon, Mu-Yeong;Kim, Seung-Ri
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 1995
  • An introduction to the first CCD camera system in Bohyunsan Optica1 Astronomy Observatory(CCD#l) is presented. The CCD camera adopts modular dewar design of IfA(Institute for Astronomy at Hawaii University) and SDSU(San Diego State University) general purpose CCD controller. The user interface is based on IfA design of easy-to-use QUI program running on the NeXT workstation. The characteristics of the CCD#l including Gain, Charge Transfer Efficiency, rms Read-Out Noise, Linearity and Dynamic range is tested and discussed. The CCD#l shows 6.4 electrons RON and gain of 3.49 electrons per ADU, and the optimization resulted in about 27 seconds readout time guaranteeing charge transfer efficiency of 0.99999 for both direction. Linearity test shows that non-linear coefficient is $6{\times}10^{-7}$ in the range of 0 to 30,000 ADU.

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QUASI HEMI-SLANT SUBMANIFOLDS OF KENMOTSU MANIFOLDS

  • PRASAD, RAJENDRA;HASEEB, ABDUL;GUPTA, POOJA
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.40 no.3_4
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    • pp.475-490
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    • 2022
  • The main purpose of the present paper is to introduce a brief analysis on some properties of quasi hemi-slant submanifolds of Kenmotsu manifolds. After discussing the introduction and some preliminaries about the Kenmotsu manifold, we worked out some important results in the direction of integrability of the distributions of quasi hemi-slant submanifolds of Kenmotsu manifolds. Afterward, we investigate the conditions for quasi hemi-slant submanifolds of a Kenmotsu manifold to be totally geodesic and later we provide some non-trivial examples to validate the existence of such submanifolds.

Pulsar observation with KVN

  • Kim, Chunglee;Dodson, Richard;Jung, Taehyun;Sohn, Bong Won
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.52.1-52.1
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    • 2014
  • Radio pulsars are highly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit synchrotron radiation along the magnetic axes at their spin frequencies. Traditionally, pulsar observations have been done at low frequencies (MHz up to a few GHz), since radio pulsar spectrum is known to a power-law with a steep negative spectral index. More recently, high-frequency pulsar observations (several GHz and above) have been made as a broadband spectrometer and fast computers became available. High-frequency pulsar observations will provide information on radio emission mechanism of pulsars in the vicinity of the neutron star surface. There is also huge interest from gravitational-wave and astrophysics community to find a pulsar in the center of our Galaxy. The Korean VLBI Network has three 21-m single dishes in the Korean peninsula. Using KVN's lowest observational frequency of 22-GHz, we performed test observations with the KVN targeting a few selected known, bright pulsars. In addition, we have been developing pulsar pipelines that can be utilized with a VLBI facility using Mark-V. We present a brief introduction of radio pulsars and show data obtained with the KVN.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS OF ACCRETION DISK

  • Wheeler, J. Craig
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.163-168
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    • 1993
  • At intermediate mass transfer rates, accretion disks in binary star systems undergo a thermally-driven limit cycle instability. This instability leads to outburst episodes when the disk is bright and the flow through the disk is rapid separated by long intervals when the disk is dim and the flow through it is low. This intrinsic outburst mechanism can help to understand a wide range of astrophysical phenomena from dwarf novae to soft X -ray transients involving white dwarf, neutron star, and black holes. and to a deeper understanding of the mechanism of angular transport and viscosity in the accretion disk.

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Introduction to Neutron Scattering for Magnetic Materials Research (자성소재 연구를 위한 중성자산란 입문)

  • Jeong, Jae-Hong;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Park, Je-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2012
  • Having a de Broglie wavelength of a few ${\AA}$ with its corresponding energies in the range of a few to a few hundreds meV, neutrons are ideally suited for the studies of structure and dynamics in condensed matter research. Neutron scattering has been developed over the past 60 years or so and become a very mature and established experimental technique in the very broad range of material sciences. In this short introductory article, we have explained its working principles and provided few selected examples of application.

Relational Detabase Management System as Expert System Building Tool in Geographic Information Systems

  • Lee, Kyoo-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 1987
  • After the introduction of the topologically structured geographic information system(GIS) with relational DBMS, the attribute data can be handled without considering locational data. By utilzing of the characteristic of the relational DBMS, it can be used as an expert system building tool in GIS. The relational DBMS of the GIS furnishes the data needed to perform deductive functions of the expert system, and the rule based approach provides the decision rules. Therefore, rule based approach with the expert judgement can be easily combined with relational DBMS.

Multi-frequency VLBI view of the vicinity of the nearest supermassive black hole

  • Zhao, Guang-Yao
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.60.1-60.1
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    • 2019
  • In this talk, I will briefly review the discovery and early-time interferometric observations of the Galactic Center radio source and then go through recent major updates including the improvement in the array capabilities, developments of the scattering and intrinsic structure modeling, and high-frequency astrometric observations of this source. Introduction of the 1.3 mm VLBI observations in 2017 and 2018 (e.g. array configuration and signal-to-noise ratios), as well as the related multi-wavelength campaign (including GMVA and EAVN observations), will be also presented.

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Introduction to AMUSES : AKARI survey with a window of opportunity

  • Kim, Ji-Hoon;Im, Myung-Shin;Lee, Hyung-Mok;Lee, Myung-Gyoon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.76.1-76.1
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    • 2010
  • With advancement of infrared space telescopes during the past decade, infrared wavelength regime has been a focal point to study various properties of galaxies, such as stellar mass, dust contents and dust-hidden star formation with respect to evolution of galaxies. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) have emerged as one of the most important features since these features dominate mid-infrared spectra of galaxies. These PAH features provide a great handle to calibrate star formation rates and diagnose ionized states of grains. However, PAH $3.3{\mu}m$ feature has not been studied as much as other PAH features since it is weaker than others and resides outside of Spitzer's capability. Still its calibration and characterization are important since it will be the only PAH feature accessible by JWST for high-z galaxies. AKARI mJy Unbiased Survey of Extragalactic Sources in 5MUSES (AMUSES) intends to take advantage of AKARI's capability of spectroscopy on 2 to 5 ${\mu}m$ to provide an unbiased library of 44 sample galaxies selected from a parent sample of 5MUSES, one of Spitzer legacy projects. For these 3.3mm flux limited sample galaxies whose redshifts range between 0 < z <1, AMUSES will calibrate PAH $3.3{\mu}m$ as a SFR while measuring ratios between PAH features and investigating Bra's potential as a SFR indicator. We present preliminary results of AMUSES.

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Camera for Quasars in Early Universe

  • Park, Won-Kee;Pak, Soojong;Im, Myungshin;Choi, Changsu;Jeon, Yiseul;Chang, Seunghyuk;Jeong, Hyeonju;Lim, Juhee;Kim, Eunbin;Choi, Nahyun;Lee, Hye-In;Kim, Sanghyuk;Jeong, Byeongjoon;Ji, Taegeun
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.68.2-68.2
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    • 2013
  • Camera for QUasars in EArly uNiverse (CQUEAN) is an optical CCD camera system made by Center for Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU). CQUEAN is developed for follow-up observation of red sources such as high-redshift quasar candidates ($z{\geq}5$), gamma-ray bursts (GRB), brown dwarfs and young stellar objects. The CQUEAN is composed of a science camera with deep-depletion CCD chip which is sensitive at around $1{\mu}m$, a set of custom-made wide-band filters for detection of quasar candidates at z~5, and a guide camera. A focal reducer was developed to secure $4.8^{\prime}{\times}4.8^{\prime}$ field of view, and an in-house user software for efficient data acquisition. CQUEAN was attached to 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope in McDonald Observatory, USA, in August 2010. About 1000 quasar candidates including 3 confirmed with follow-up spectroscopy, have been observed so far, and many high-z galaxy cluster candidates, GRBs and supernovae were also observed. And monitoring of HBC 722, a young stellar object, is under way since 2011. Further enhancement of CQUEAN including the introduction of narrow-band filters is planned.

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Space Service Volume Augmented with Korean Positioning System at Geosynchronous Orbit

  • Kim, Gimin;Park, Chandeok;Lim, Deok Won
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.327-336
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    • 2020
  • This study presents signal availability of inter-operable global navigation satellite system (multi-GNSS) combined with future Korean Positioning System (KPS), specifically at geosynchronous orbit (GSO). The orbit of KPS, which is currently under conceptual feasibility study, is first introduced, and the grid points for evaluating space service volume (SSV) at GSO are generated. The signal observabilities are evaluated geometrically between those grid points and KPS/GNSS satellites. Then, analyzed are the visibility averaged over time/space and outage time to not access one or four signals. The reduction of maximum outage time induced by KPS are presented with different maximum off-boresight angles depending on L1/E1/B1 and L5/L3/E5a/B2 frequencies. Our numerical analysis shows that the SSV of multi-GNSS combined with KPS provides up to 7 additional signals and could provide continuous observation time (zero outage time) of more than four GNSS or KPS signals for 3.20-14.83% of SSV grid points at GSO. Especially at GSO above North/South America and Atlantic region, the introduction of KPS reduces the outage duration by up to 63 minutes with L1/E1/B1 frequency.