• 제목/요약/키워드: survey astronomy

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Low Resolution Near-Infrared Stellar Spectra Observed by CIBER

  • Kim, MinGyu;Lee, Hyung Mok
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제41권1호
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    • pp.76.2-76.2
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    • 2016
  • We present near-infrared (0.8 - 1.8 microns) spectra of 63 bright (J_mag < 10) stars observed with Low Resolution Spectrometer (LRS) onboard the rocket-borne Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER). Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) photometry information is used to find cross-matched stars after reduction and extraction of the spectra. We identify the spectral types of observed stars by comparing with spectral templates from the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) library. All the observed spectra are consistent with late F to M stellar spectral types, and we identify various infrared absorption lines. As our observations are performed above the Earth's atmosphere, our spectra are free from telluric contamination. Including HST/NICMOS and Cassini/VIMS, the spectral coverage has rarely been achieved in space, and the methods developed here can inform statistical studies with future low-resolution spectral measurements such as GAIA photometric and radial velocity spectrometer.

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Herschel/SPIRE Galaxies in the NEP-Wide Field - Preliminary Results

  • Kim, Seong Jin;Jeong, Woong-Seob;Lee, Hyung Mok
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제41권1호
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    • pp.66.3-66.3
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    • 2016
  • We report preliminary results from our analyses on the star-forming galaxies in the Herschel/SPIRE survey data over the AKARI/NEP-Wide Field. In this work, we utilize a combination of the SPIRE point source catalogue containing ~ 4,800 sources distributed over the wide (5.6 sq. deg) field and the spectroscopic redshift (zSPEC) data for 1790 selected targets obtained by MMT/Hectospec and WIYN/Hydra. Our analyses take advantages of multi-wavelengths photometric data (28 bands at most) covering from u* to $500{\mu}m$ band as well as continuous MIR wavelengths sampling by AKARI and WISE (4 to $25{\mu}m$). Various physical properties such as total infrared luminosity (LTIR), star formation rate (SFR), and luminosity functions (LFs) will be presented.

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STUDYING THE MORPHOLOGY AND STAR FORMATION OF GALAXIES AS A PROBE OF GALAXY EVOLUTION

  • CHEN, HSUAN-JU;HWANG, CHORNG-YUAN
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.511-512
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    • 2015
  • Star formation activities dominate the evolution of galaxies. Elliptical galaxies are believed to be old galaxies in the Hubble sequence, and elliptical galaxies at different evolution epochs might have different star formation activities and/or morphologies. We investigate the connection between star formation rates and the morphology of elliptical galaxies. With the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Galaxy Zoo, we select a sample of elliptical galaxies by morphology and consider their infrared emission as an index of star formation rate to study the relation between the star formation rates and their morphological properties, such as ellipticities. In addition, we select some nearby spiral galaxies with very low MIR emission to probe the mechanisms of these red spiral galaxies. We display our preliminary results and discuss their implication on the evolution of galaxies in this poster.

FINDING THE ACCELERATION PARAMETER IN MODIFIED NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS WITH ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES

  • TIAN, YONG;KO, CHUNG-MING
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.381-383
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    • 2015
  • MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an alternative to the dark matter paradigm. MOND asserts that when the magnitude of acceleration is smaller than the acceleration parameter $a_0$, the response of the system to gravity is stronger (larger acceleration) than the one given by Newtonian dynamics. The current value of $a_0$ is obtained mostly by observations of spiral galaxies (rotation curves and the Tully-Fisher relation). We attempt to estimate $a_0$ from the dynamics of elliptical galaxies. We seek elliptical galaxies that act as the lens of gravitational lensing systems and have velocity dispersion data available. We analysed 65 Einstein rings from the Sloan Len ACS survey (SLACS). The mass estimates from gravitation lensing and velocity dispersion agree well with each other, and are consistent with the estimates from population synthesis with a Salpeter IMF. The value of $a_0$ obtained from this analysis agrees with the current value.

Seperation of foreground stars using proper motion data in the Large Magellanic Cloud

  • 김재영;박수종;최민호
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제36권1호
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    • pp.31.1-31.1
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    • 2011
  • We present wide-field near-IR imaging polarimetry of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using the InfraRed Survey Facility (IRSF). We obtained polarimetry data in J, H, and Ks bands using the JHKs-simultaneous imaging polarimeter SIRPOL. Since many Galactic field stars along the line-of-sight to the Large Magellanic Cloud are contaminated in our data, we developed methods to identify the foreground sources using the proper motion data. We investigated polarimetric properties between the Galactic foreground stars and the stars in the LMC.

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Early Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way Revealed by Ultra Metal-Poor ([Fe/H] < -4.0) Stars

  • Jeong, MiJi;Lee, Young Sun
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제44권1호
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    • pp.68.2-68.2
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    • 2019
  • Chemical abundance ratios of ultra metal-poor (UMP; [Fe/H] < -4.0) stars can provide important constraints on the early chemical enrichment of the Milky Way (MW), associated with the nucleosynthesis processes that occurred during the evolution of their progenitors, which are presumably the first generation of stars. Despite their importance, only about thirty UMP stars have been discovered thus far. In an effort to identify such stars additionally, we selected UMP candidates from low-resolution (R ~ 2000) spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), and obtained with Gemini/GRACES high-resolution (R ~ 40,000) spectra of 15 UMP candidates. In this study, we present the results of the chemical abundance analysis of the UMP candidates. Furthermore, we compare the abundance patterns of our UMP stars with those of various metal-poor stars from literature to understand the early chemical evolution of the MW.

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Extra-tidal stars around globular clusters NGC 5024 and NGC 5053 and their chemical abundances

  • Chun, Sang-Hyun;Lee, Jae-Joon
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제43권2호
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    • pp.40.2-40.2
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    • 2018
  • NGC 5024 and NGC 5053 are among the most metal-poor globular clusters in the Milky Way. Both globular clusters are considered to be accreted from dwarf galaxies (like Sagittarius dwarf galaxy or Magellanic clouds), and common stellar envelope and tidal tails between globular clusters are also detected. We present a search for extra-tidal cluster member candidates around these globular clusters from APOGEE survey data. Using 20 chemical elements (e.g., Fe, C, Mg, Al) and radial velocities, t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding (t-SNE), which identifies an optimal mapping of a high-dimensional space into fewer dimensions, was explored, and we find that globular cluster stars are well separated from the field stars in 2-dimensional map from t-SNE. We also find that some stars selected in t-SNE map are placed outside of the tidal radius of the clusters. The proper motion of stars outside tidal radius is also comparable to that of globular clusters, which suggest that these stars are tidally decoupled from the globular clusters. We manually measure chemical abundances for the clusters and extra-tidal stars, and discuss the association of extra-tidal stars with the clusters.

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Overview of the Korean Neutrino Observatory

  • Kim, Soo-Bong
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제43권2호
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    • pp.29.2-29.2
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    • 2018
  • Korean Neutrino Observatory (KNO) aims to make important discoveries in particle physics and astronomy by building a gigantic neutrino telescope consisting of 260 kiloton water and 40,000 20 inch photomultiplier tubes. Using J-PARC neutrino beam, leptonic CP violation (CPV) could be discovered if the CP is maximally violated, and neutrino mass ordering is guaranteed to be determined with more than 6 sigma for any CPV value. As a neutrino telescope, solar and Supernova burst/relic neutrinos could be studied very precisely. Indirect dark matter search sensitivity is improved by 3 to 4 times than that of Super Kamiokande. There are several candidate sites in Korea and especially Mt. Bisul and Mt. Bohyun are very promising according to our site survey. In this talk, an overview of the KNO is presented.

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