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A STUDY OF THE RADIAL VELOCITY OF BX ANDROMEDAE (BX ANDROMEDAE의 시선속도 연구)

  • Lee, Chung-Uk;Han, In-Woo;Kim, Kang-Min;Kim, Chun-Hwey
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.263-274
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    • 2004
  • High resolution spectroscopic observations of BX And using the BOBS (Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph) of Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory (BOAO) were performod during 26-27, Feb. 2003. From the observations, we obtained 38 line spectra of BX And which cover all phases except the phase interval between $0.^p1$ and $0.^p3$. Both methods of the CCF (Cross-Correlation Function) and BF (Broadening Function) were used to get the radial velocities of primary and secondary components. Both velocities of the primary and secondary stars were calculated with the BF method while only primary velocities were determined with the CCF. Using new radial velocity curves, the maximum radial velocities of the primary and secondary stars were obtained as $K_1=90.1km/s\;and\;K_2=196.6km/s$, respectively. New absolute dimension of BX And was deduced with the combination of our spectroscopic solution with the photometric one of Bell et al. (1990).

Development Status of the DOTIFS: a new multi-IFU optical spectrograph for the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope

  • Chung, Haeun;Ramaprakash, A.N.;Omar, Amitesh;Ravindranath, Swara;Chattopadhyay, Sabyasachi;Rajarshi, Chaitanya V.;Khodade, Pravin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.51.1-51.1
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    • 2014
  • DOTIFS is a new multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) being designed and fabricated by the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India, (IUCAA) for the Cassegrain side port of the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT). The telescope is constructed by the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital (ARIES). Its main scientific objectives are the physics and kinematics of the ionized gas, star formation and H II regions in nearby galaxies. It is a novel instrument in terms of multi-IFU, built in deployment system, and high throughput. It consists of one magnifier, 16 integral field units (IFUs), and 8 spectrographs. Each IFU is comprised of a microlens array and 144 optical fibers, and has $7.4^{\prime\prime}{\times}8.7^{\prime\prime}$ field of view with 144 spaxel elements with a sampling of 0.8" hexagonal aperture. The IFUs can be deployed on the telescope side port over an 8' diameter focal plane by x-y actuators. 8 Identical, all refractive, dedicated fiber spectrographs will produce 2,304 R~1800 spectra over 370-740nm wavelength range with single exposure. Currently, conceptual and baseline design review had been done, and is in the critical design phase with a review planned for later this year. Some of the components have already arrived. The instrument will see its first light in 2015.

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DETERMINATION OF ATMOSPHERIC EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT AT BOHYUNSAN OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY (보현산 천문대의 대기 소광계수)

  • Kim, Kang-Min;Son, Dong-Hoon;Hyung, Siek;Yoon, Tae-Seog
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.167-172
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    • 1997
  • Detailed low spectral resolution observations of the spectrum have been made for three early spectral type standard stars, HR718, HR1544, HR3454, respectively, for the wavelength region 4,300 A to 7,500 A, using the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) Middle- Dispersion Spectrograph. These standard stars were chosen from well-known bright northern standard stars. All of the observed long slit spectral data has been reduced and analyzed using the IRAF reduction procedure. The derived extinction coefficients are compared with the other observatory result. The derived value can be used in the determination of flux calibration of BOAO spectroscopic observation. However, until the high quality data are secured from a new series of observation in the blue region and are re-analyzed together, the extinction coefficients below the 4,000 A wavelength remains unknown.

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IGRINS First Light Instrumental Performance

  • Park, Chan;Yuk, In-Soo;Chun, Moo-Young;Pak, Soojong;Kim, Kang-Min;Pavel, Michael;Lee, Hanshin;Oh, Heeyoung;Jeong, Ueejeong;Sim, Chae Kyung;Lee, Hye-In;Le, Huynh Anh Nguyen;Strubhar, Joseph;Gully-Santiago, Michael;Oh, Jae Sok;Cha, Sang-Mok;Moon, Bongkon;Park, Kwijong;Brooks, Cynthia;Ko, Kyeongyeon;Han, Jeong-Yeol;Nah, Jakyuong;Hill, Peter C.;Lee, Sungho;Barnes, Stuart;Park, Byeong-Gon;T., Daniel
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.52.2-52.2
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    • 2014
  • The Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) is an unprecedentedly minimized infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph with a high-resolution and high-sensitivity optical performance. A silicon immersion grating features the instrument for the first time in this field. IGRINS will cover the entire portion of the wavelength range between 1.45 and $2.45{\mu}m$ accessible from the ground in a single exposure with spectral resolution of 40,000. Individual volume phase holographic (VPH) gratings serve as cross-dispersing elements for separate spectrograph arms covering the H and K bands. On the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory, the slit size is $1^{\prime\prime}{\times}15^{\prime\prime}$. IGRINS has a $0.27^{\prime\prime}$ pixel-1 plate scale on a $2048{\times}2048$ pixel Teledyne Scientific & Imaging HAWAII-2RG detector with SIDECAR ASIC cryogenic controller. The instrument includes four subsystems; a calibration unit, an input relay optics module, a slit-viewing camera, and nearly identical H and K spectrograph modules. The use of a silicon immersion grating and a compact white pupil design allows the spectrograph collimated beam size to be 25mm, which permits the entire cryogenic system to be contained in a moderately sized rectangular vacuum chamber. The fabrication and assembly of the optical and mechanical hardware components were completed in 2013. In this presentation, we describe the major design characteristics of the instrument and the early performance estimated from the first light commissioning at the McDonald Observatory.

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High Resolution Optical Spectra of HBC 722

  • Park, Sunkyung;Lee, Jeong-Eun;Kang, Wonseok;Sung, Hyun-Il;Lee, Sang-Gak;Green, Joel D.;Cochran, William D.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.80.2-80.2
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    • 2014
  • We present the results of high resolution (R>35,000) optical spectroscopic monitoring observations of a new FU Orionis-like young stellar object, HBC 722. We observed HBC 722 with the Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) and Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) since November 26, 2010. HBC 722 is the FU Orionis-like object best characterized for the pre-outburst phase, and it provides the first opportunity to profile the burst phase of accretion across all wavelengths. We detected a number of lines such as $H{\alpha}$, $H{\beta}$, Fe II ${\lambda}$ 5018, Mg I ${\lambda}$ 5183, Na I D doublets, and metallic photospheric lines. In this work, we focus on the time variations of those spectral lines to understand the accretion process of HBC 722.

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Optical Long-slit Spectroscopy of Parsec-scale Jets from DG Tau

  • Oh, Heeyoung;Pyo, Tae-Soo;Yuk, In-Soo;Park, Byeong-Gon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.75.1-75.1
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    • 2014
  • We present the result of a long-slit spectroscopic study of DG Tau, which is known to emanate parsec-scale outflows. To study the kinematics and physical properties of the jet, we obtained the optical emission lines of $H{\alpha}$, [OI], [NII], and [SII] from HH 158 and HH 702 using the long-slit spectrograph at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory. HH 158 shows the peak radial velocity in a range of ~ - 270 to - 30 km s-1. HH 702, located at 11' away from DG Tau shows the velocity of ~ - 80 km s-1. The proper motion velocities of detected knots are estimated through the comparisons with the locations of those knots in the previous studies. We also examine the variations of physical parameters depending on the velocity distribution and the distance from the source using line ratio maps derived from obtained forbidden emission lines.

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The photometric and spectroscopic study of the near-contact binary XZ CMi

  • Kim, Hye-Young;Kim, Chun-Hwey;Hong, Kyeongsoo;Lee, Jae Woo;Park, Jang-Ho;Lee, Chung-Uk;Song, Mi-Hwa
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.60-60
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    • 2018
  • It has been known that XZ CMi is a near-contact binary composed of a hotter and more massive main-sequence primary star close to its Roche-lobe and a Roche-lobe filling giant/subgiant secondary star. There still exist, however, many discordant matters among the previous investigators: diverse mass ratios and temperatures ranging from 0.38 to 0.83 and from 7,000 K to 8,876 K, respectively. In order to make a contribution to the two confusions we conducted spectroscopic and photometric observations. A total of 34 high-resolution spectra were obtained during 4 nights from 2010 and 2018 with the Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO). In parallel, BVRI multi-band photometric observations were carried out 5 nights in 2010 at Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy Observatory (SOAO). In this presentation, we present physical parameters of XZ CMi through the simultaneous analyses of new double-lined radial velocity curves and new light curves. We will also briefly discuss the evolutionary status of the system.

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Real Time Spectroelectrochemical Experiments with a Multichannel Detector

  • Sun-Il Mho;Sally N. Holer;Bum-Soo Kim;Su-Moon Park
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.739-743
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    • 1994
  • A spectroelectrochemical system assembled with a white light source, bifurcated optical fiber, Oriel Multispec spectrograph, and a charge-coupled device (CCD) detector is described. The system is shown to be capable of acquiring a whole spectrum in the spectral range of 290-800 nm in 25 ms or a longer period during electrochemical experiments at reflective working electrodes such as platinum or mercury. The utility of the system in studying electrochemical reactions during the potential scan, galvanostatic electrolysis, or after the potential step is demonstrated.

Current Status and Improvement of the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph of the 1.6m telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory

  • Park, Hyungmin;Chae, Jongchul;Song, Donguk;Yang, Heesu;Jang, Bi-Ho;Park, Young-Deuk;Nah, Jakyoung;Cho, Kyung-Suk;Ahn, Kwangsu
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.112.2-112.2
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    • 2012
  • For the study of fine-scale structure and dynamics in the solar chromosphere, the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) was installed in 1.6m New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory in 2010. The instrument, installed at a vertical table of the Coude lab, is properly working and producing data for science. From the analysis of the data, however, we noticed that a couple of problems exist that deteriorate image quality : lower light level and poorer resolution of the CaII band data. After several tests, we found that the relay optics at the right position is crucial role for the spatial resolution of raster-scan images. By using resolution target, we re-aligned relay optics and other components of the spectrograph. Here we present the result of optical test and new data taken by the FISS.

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