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DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURE OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

  • Rhee Jongwhan;Sohn Young-Jong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.321-324
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    • 2004
  • We used BV CCD images to study the dynamical substructures of three globular clusters - M5, NGC6934, NGC7006 - analyzing the radial variations of ellipticity and position angle from the point spread function stellar photometry and the ellipse surface photometry. Several populations were classified by the brightness on color-magnitude diagrams of each globular cluster. Ellipse analyses to the images, removed stars of each population from the original images of the clusters, show radial variations in ellipticity and position angle, with the amount of $0.01\~0.25$ in ellipticity and $+90\~-90$ degrees in position angle up to roughly three times of half light radius $(r_h)$. It is also apparent that there are no significant discrepancies in the dynamical substructures beyond $r_h$ among the different populations. However, dynamical substructures on the central region (i.e., inner than $\~r_h$) reflect the contributions of populations of bright red giant stars and horizontal branch stars.

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DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS I. M5 (우리은하 구상성단들의 역학적 세부구조 I. M5)

  • Rhee, Jong-whan;Sohn, Young-Jong
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.181-190
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    • 2004
  • We use BV CCD images to study the dynamical substructure of the globular cluster M5. We investigate the radial variation of ellipticities and position angles using the stellar photometry and the IRAF ellipse task. We find that out to three times the half light radius $(r_h)$, the changes in ellipticities and position angles range in $0.05\~0.25$ and $75^{\circ}\~-75^{\circ}$, respectively. There are no significant discrepancy in the dynamical substructure beyond $r_h$ among the different giant populations. However, compared to the global dynamical substructure of M5, the inner $(<0.5r_h)$ substructure of the bright red giant and the horizontal branch populations show slightly different patterns. Especially, the discrepancy of the bright red giant population with respect to the global substructure, ranges up to 0.1 for the ellipticity and 1000 for the position angle.

DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS III. NGC 7006 (우리은하 구상성단들의 역학적 세부구조 III. NGC 7006)

  • Rhee, Jong-Hwan;Sohn, Young-Jong
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.363-376
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    • 2005
  • To study the effects of giant population on dynamical substructures of the central region of NGC 7006, we examine the radial variations of ellipticity and position angle on By stellar photometry using ellipse fitting technique. Total variations of ellipticity and position angle lie in the range $0.02\~0.06\;and\;-10^{\circ}+90^{\circ}$, respectively, from the center out to three times the half light radius. Our ellipse fitting results, after removing giant populations, show that the apparent central dynamical substructures of NGC 7006 are mainly affected by red giant, horizontal branch stars. On the contrary, the contribution of light from subgiant stars to the inner dynamical substructure seems to be insignificant.

Gas Dynamical Evolution of Central Regions of Barred Galaxies

  • Seo, U-Yeong;Kim, Ung-Tae
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.55.1-55.1
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    • 2011
  • We investigate dynamical evolution of gas in barred galaxies using a high-resolution, grid-based hydrodynamic simulations on two-dimensional cylindrical geometry. Non-axisymmetric gravitational potential of the bar is represented by the Ferrers ellipsoids independent of time. Previous studies on this subject used either particle approaches or treated the bar potential in an incorrect way. The gaseous medium is assumed to be infinitesimally-thin, isothermal, unmagnetized, and initially uniform. To study the effects of various environments on the gas evolution, we vary the gas sound speed as well as the mass of a SMBH located at the center of a galaxy. An introduction of the bar potential produces bar substructure including a pair of dust lane shocks, a nuclear ring, and nuclear spirals. The sound speed affects the position and strength of the bar substructure significantly. As the sound speed increases, the dust lane shocks tend to move closer to the bar major axis, resulting in a smaller-size nuclear ring at the galactocentric radius of about 1 kpc. Nuclear spirals that develop inside a nuclear ring can persist only when either sound speed is low or in the presence of a SMBH; they would otherwise be destroyed by the ring material with eccentric orbits. The mass inflow rates of gas toward the galactic center is also found to be proportional to the sound speed. We find that the sound speed should be 15 km/s or larger if the mass inflow rate is to explain nuclear activities in Seyfert galaxies.

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Substructure/fluid subdomain coupling method for large vibroacoustic problems

  • El Maani, Rabii;El Hami, Abdelkhalak;Radi, Bouchaib
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.65 no.4
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    • pp.359-368
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    • 2018
  • Dynamic analysis of complex and large structures may be costly from a numerical point of view. For coupled vibroacoustic finite element models, the importance of reducing the size becomes obvious because the fluid degrees of freedom must be added to the structural ones. In this paper, a component mode synthesis method is proposed for large vibroacoustic interaction problems. This method couples fluid subdomains and dynamical substructuring of Craig and Bampton type. The acoustic formulation is written in terms of the velocity potential, which implies several advantages: coupled algebraic systems remain symmetric, and a potential formulation allows a direct extension of Craig and Bampton's method to acoustics. Those properties make the proposed method easy to implement in an existing finite element code because the local numerical treatment of substructures and fluid subdomains is undifferentiated. Test cases are then presented for axisymmetric geometries. Numerical results tend to prove the validity and the efficiency of the proposed method.

Tidal Stripping Substructure on Spatial Distribution of Stars in Several Globular Clusters from UKIRT Observation

  • Sohn, Young-Jong;Chun, Sang-Hyun;Kang, Minhee
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.78.1-78.1
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    • 2013
  • The hierarchical model of galaxy formation predicts that galaxy halos contain merger relics in the form of long stellar stream. Thus, tidal substructure of stars around globular clusters, such as tidal tails, could be an essential evidence of the merging scenario in the formation of the Galaxy. From April 2010 to December 2012, we obtained $45^{\prime}{\times}45^{\prime}$ wide-field JHKs near-infrared photometric imaging data for about 20 globular clusters in the Milky Way, and examined the stellar density distribution around globular clusters. Here, we introduce the preliminary results of stellar spatial distributions and radial surface density profiles of four globular clusters. In order to minimize the field star contamination and identify the cluster's member candidates stars, we used a statistical filtering algorithm and gave weights on the CMDs of globular clusters. In two-dimensional stellar density maps, we could found tidal stripping structures for some globular clusters. The orientation of tidal substructure seems to associate with the effects of dynamical interactions with the Galaxy and cluster's orbit. Indeed, the radial surface density profile accurately describes this stripping structures as a break in the slope of profile. The observational results could give us further observational evidence of merging scenario of the formation of the Galaxy.

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The Early Assembly History of the Milky Way with Extremely Metal-Poor ([Fe/H] < -3.0) Stars

  • Jeong, Miji;Lee, Young Sun;Kim, Young Kwang
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.59.1-59.1
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    • 2020
  • Extremely metal-poor (EMP; [Fe/H] < -3.0) stars are thought to be genuine second-generation of stars because they were born from relatively pristine gas chemically enriched by one or two supernovae. So, the EMP stars presumably originated from outside the Milky Way (MW) are important tracers for the early chemical evolution and assembly history of the MW. In this study, we present the preliminary results on the early assembly history of the MW inferred by associating the dynamical properties of our EMP stars with those of known substructures in the MW. We also explore the star formation history of the progenitor galaxies of our EMP stars by investigating the elemental abundances of the EMP stars associated with the substructure.

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DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS II. NGC 6934 (우리은하 구상성단들의 역학적 세부구조 II. NGC 6934)

  • Rhee, Jong-Whan;Sohn, Young-Jong;Shin, Min;Kang, Aram
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.249-262
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    • 2004
  • The variations of the dynamical substructures of NGC 6934 have been investigated by means of performing point spread function stellar photometry and the surface photometry on BV CCD images of NGC 6934. Our results show that overall variations of ellipticity and position angle range in $0.02{\sim}0.08\;and\;-90^{\circ}{\sim}+90^{\circ}$, respectively out to three times the half light radius. The inner ($r_{eff}) substructures of NGC 6934 inferred from the variations of ellipticity and position angle are mainly affected by the bright red giant populations, while the effects of the other giant populations are weaker than those of the bright red giant populations. Horizontal branch populations and faint red giant star populations affect the dynamical substructures of NGC 6934 in the region of $r_h.

Dynamic Precipitation and Substructure Stablility of Cu Alloy during High Temperature Deformation

  • Han, Chang-Suk;Choi, Dong-Nyeok;Jin, Sung-Yooun
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.343-348
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    • 2019
  • Structural and mechanical effects of the dynamical precipitation in two copper-base alloys have been investigated over a wide range of deformation temperatures. Basing upon the information gained during the experiment, also some general conclusion may be formulated. A one concerns the nature of dynamic precipitation(DP). Under this term it is commonly understood decomposition of a supersaturated solid solution during plastic straining. The process may, however, proceed in two different ways. It may be a homogeneous one from the point of view of distribution and morphological aspect of particles or it may lead to substantial difference in shape, size and particles distribution. The effect is controlled by the mode of deformation. Hence it seems to be reasonable to distinguish DP during homogeneous deformation from that which takes place in heterogeneously deformed alloy. In the first case the process can be analyzed solely in terms of particle-dislocation-particle interrelation. Much more complex problem we are facing in heterogeneously deforming alloy. Deformation bands and specific arrangement of dislocations in form of pile-ups at grain boundaries generate additional driving force and additional nucleation sites for precipitation. Along with heterogeneous precipitation, there is a homogeneous precipitation in areas between bands of coarse slip which also deform but at much smaller rate. This form of decomposition is responsible for a specially high hardening rate during high temperature straining and for thermally stable product of the decomposition of alloy.

Abell 2261: a fossil galaxy cluster in a transition phase

  • Kim, Hyowon;Ko, Jongwan;Kim, Jae-woo;Smith, Rory;Song, Hyunmi;Hwang, Ho Seong
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.33.2-33.2
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    • 2018
  • Fossil galaxy cluster has a dominant central elliptical galaxy (${\Delta}M12$ >2 in 0.5Rvir) embedded in highly relaxed X-ray halo, which indicates dynamically stable and passively evolved system. These features are expected as a final stage of the cluster evolution in the hierarchical structure formation paradigm. It is known that Abell 2261(A2261 hereafter) is classified as a fossil cluster, but has unusual features such as a high central X-ray entropy (i.e., non-cool core system), which is not expected in normal fossil clusters. We perform a kinematic study with a spectroscopic data of 589 galaxies in the A2261 field. We define cluster member galaxies using the caustic method and discover a new second bright galaxy at ~1.5 Rvir (nearly the splash-back region). It implies the current fossil state of the cluster can break in the near future. In addition, with three independent substructure finding methods, we find that A2261 has many substructures within 3 Mpc from the center of the cluster. These findings support that A2261 is not in a dynamically stable state. We argue that A2261 is in a transitional phase of dynamical evolution of the galaxy cluster and maybe previously defined fossil cluster does not mean the final stage of the evolution of galaxy clusters.

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