The Tsinghua-NAOC （National Astronomical Observatories of China） Telescope （hereafter, TNT） is an 80-cm Cassegrain reflecting telescope located at the Xinglong Observatory of NAOC, with the main scientific goals o...The Tsinghua-NAOC （National Astronomical Observatories of China） Telescope （hereafter, TNT） is an 80-cm Cassegrain reflecting telescope located at the Xinglong Observatory of NAOC, with the main scientific goals of monitoring various transients in the universe such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, novae, variable stars, and active galactic nuclei. We present a systematic test and analysis of the photometric performance of this telescope. Based on the calibration observations taken on 12 pho- tometric nights, spanning the period from 2004 to 2012, we derived an accurate trans- formation equation between the instrumental ubvri magnitudes and standard Johnson UBV and Cousins RI magnitudes. In particular, the color terms and the extinction coefficients of different passbands are well determined. With these data, we also ob- tained the limiting magnitudes and the photometric precision of TNT. It is worthwhile to point out that the sky background at the Xinglong Observatory became gradually worse over the period from 2005 to 2012 （e.g., -21.4 mag vs. ,-20.1 mag in the V band）.展开更多
The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences （NAOC） Transient Survey is an automatic survey that conducts a systematic exploration of optical transients. This project util...The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences （NAOC） Transient Survey is an automatic survey that conducts a systematic exploration of optical transients. This project utilizes a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope at the Xinglong Station of NAOC. This survey repeatedly covers - 1000 square degrees of the northern sky with a cadence of 34 d. With an exposure of 60 s, the survey reaches a limiting unfiltered magnitude of about 19.5 mag, which enables us to discover supernovae in their relatively young stages. We describe the overall performance of our survey during the first year and present some preliminary results.展开更多
The amount of 56↑Ni produced in Type Ia supernova （SN Ia） explosion is probably the most important physical parameter underlying the observed correlation of SN Ia luminosities with their light curves. Based on an e...The amount of 56↑Ni produced in Type Ia supernova （SN Ia） explosion is probably the most important physical parameter underlying the observed correlation of SN Ia luminosities with their light curves. Based on an empirical relation between the 56↑Ni mass and the light curve parameter △m15, we obtained rough estimates of the 56↑Ni mass for a large sample of nearby SNe Ia with the aim of exploring the diversity in SN Ia. We found that the derived 56↑Ni masses for different SNe Ia could vary by a factor of ten （e.g., MNi = 0.1 - 1.3 M⊙）, which cannot be explained in terms of the standard Chandrasekhar-mass model （with a 56↑Ni mass production of 0.4 - 0.8 M⊙）. Different explosion and/or progenitor models are clearly required for various SNe Ia, in particular, for those extremely nickel-poor and nickel-rich producers. The nickel-rich （with MNi 〉 0.8 M⊙） SNe Ia are very luminous and may have massive progenitors exceeding the Chandrasekhar-mass limit since extra progenitor fuel is required to produce more 56↑Ni to power the light curve. This is also consistent with the finding that the intrinsically bright SNe Ia prefer to occur in stellar environments of young and massive stars. For example, 75% SNe Ia in spirals have △ml5 〈 1.2 while this ratio is only 18% in E/S0 galaxies. The nickel-poor SNe Ia （with MNi 〈 0.2 M⊙） may invoke the sub- Chandrasekhar model, as most of them were found in early-type E/S0 galaxies dominated by the older and low-mass stellar populations. This indicates that SNe Ia in spiral and E/S0 galaxies have progenitors of different properties.展开更多
The stellar mass-to-light ratio(M_*/L) of galaxies in a given wave band shows tight correlations with optical colors, which have been widely applied as cheap estimators of galaxy stellar masses. These estimators are u...The stellar mass-to-light ratio(M_*/L) of galaxies in a given wave band shows tight correlations with optical colors, which have been widely applied as cheap estimators of galaxy stellar masses. These estimators are usually calibrated using either broadband spectral energy distributions(SEDs) or spectroscopy at galactic centers. However, it is unclear whether the same estimators provide unbiased M_*/L for different regions within a galaxy. In this work we employ integral field spectroscopy from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory(Ma NGA) survey. We also examine the correlations of spatially resolved M_*/L obtained from full spectral fitting, with different color indices, as well as galaxy morphology types, distances to the galactic center, and stellar population parameters such as stellar age and metallicity.We find that the(g-r) color is better than any other color indices, and it provides almost unbiased M_*/L for all the SDSS five bands and for all types of galaxies or regions, with only slight biases depending on stellar age and metallicity. Our analysis indicates that combining multiple colors and/or including other properties to reduce the systematics and scatters of the estimator does not work better than a single color index defined by two bands. Therefore, we have obtained a best estimator with the(g-r) color and applied it to the Ma NGA galaxies. Both the two-dimensional map and radial profile of M_*/L are reproduced well in most cases. Our estimator may be applied to obtain surface mass density maps for large samples of galaxies from imaging surveys at both low and high redshifts.展开更多
After launching a jet,outflows of magnetar were used to account for the achromatic plateau of afterglow and the early X-ray flux plateau known as“internal plateau”.The lack of detecting magnetic dipole emission toge...After launching a jet,outflows of magnetar were used to account for the achromatic plateau of afterglow and the early X-ray flux plateau known as“internal plateau”.The lack of detecting magnetic dipole emission together with the energy injection feature in a single observation poses confusion until the long gamma-ray burst(GRB)210610B is detected.GRB 210610B is presented with an optical bump following an early X-ray plateau during the afterglow phase.The plateau followed by a steep decline flux overlays in the steadily decaying X-ray flux with indexα_(X,1)~2.06,indicating an internal origin and that can be fitted by the spin-down luminosity law with the initial plateau luminosity log_(10)L_(X)~48.29 erg s~(-1)and the characteristic spin-down timescale T~2818 s.A subsequent bump begins at~4000 s in the R band with a rising indexα_(R,1)~-0.30 and peaks at~14125 s,after which a decay indexα_(R,2)~0.87 and finally transiting to a steep decay withα_(R,3)~1.77 achieve the closure relation of the external shock for the normal decay phase as well as the magnetar spin-down energy injection phase,provided that the average value of the photon indexΓ_γ=1.80 derived from the spectral energy distributions(SEDs)between the X-ray and optical afterglow.The closure relation also works for the late X-ray flux.Akin to the traditional picture of GRB,the outflow powers the early X-ray plateau by dissipating energy internally and collides with the leading decelerating blast burst as time goes on,which could interpret the exotic feature of GRB 210610B.We carry out a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation and obtain a set of best parameters:■.The artificial light curve can fit the afterglow data well.After that,we estimated the average Lorentz factor and the X-ray radiation efficiency of the later ejecta are 35%and 0.13%,respectively.展开更多
We aim at deriving accurate atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of 19 barium（Ba） stars, including both strong and mild Ba stars, based on the high signal-to-noise ratio and high resolution Echelle spectra...We aim at deriving accurate atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of 19 barium（Ba） stars, including both strong and mild Ba stars, based on the high signal-to-noise ratio and high resolution Echelle spectra obtained from the 2.16 m telescope at Xinglong station of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The chemical abundances of the sample stars were obtained from an LTE, plane-parallel and line-blanketed atmospheric model by inputting the atmospheric parameters（effective temperatures Teff, surface gravities log g, metallicity [Fe/H] and microturbulence velocity ξt） and equivalent widths of stellar absorption lines. These samples of Ba stars are giants as indicated by atmospheric parameters, metallicities and kinematic analysis about UVW velocity. Chemical abundances of 17 elements were obtained for these Ba stars. Their Na, Al, α- and iron-peak elements（O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca,Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni） are similar to the solar abundances. Our samples of Ba stars show obvious overabundances of neutron-capture（n-capture） process elements relative to the Sun. Their median abundances of[Ba/Fe], [La/Fe] and [Eu/Fe] are 0.54, 0.65 and 0.40, respectively. The Y I and Zr I abundances are lower than Ba, La and Eu, but higher than the α- and iron-peak elements for the strong Ba stars and similar to the iron-peak elements for the mild stars. There exists a positive correlation between Ba intensity and [Ba/Fe].For the n-capture elements（Y, Zr, Ba, La）, there is an anti-correlation between their [X/Fe] and [Fe/H]. We identify nine of our sample stars as strong Ba stars with [Ba/Fe]〉0.6 where seven of them have Ba intensity Ba=2-5, one has Ba=1.5 and another one has Ba=1.0. The remaining ten stars are classified as mild Ba stars with 0.17〈[Ba/Fe]〈0.54.展开更多
We investigate the dependence of clustering on luminosity, stellar mass and color gradient for galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1, using a sample of;300 galaxies from the final data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalacti...We investigate the dependence of clustering on luminosity, stellar mass and color gradient for galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1, using a sample of;300 galaxies from the final data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey（VIPERS-PDR2）. We estimate both the auto-correlation function for galaxy samples selected by B-band absolute magnitude and stellar mass, and the cross-correlation function of galaxy samples selected by color gradient with respect to the full galaxy sample. The autocorrelation function amplitudes at fixed scale are found to positively correlate with both galaxy luminosity and stellar mass, and the effect holds for all the scales probed(0.2 h;Mpc < rp< 20 h;Mpc),in good agreement with previous measurements based on an earlier data release of VIPERS. When the stellar mass is limited to a narrow range, we find the clustering power to be essentially independent of galaxy color gradient, and this conclusion is true for all the masses and all the scales considered here. In a parallel paper, we find that the half-light radius is the only galaxy property other than stellar mass that is related to color gradient. Considering the previous finding that clustering depends weakly on galaxy structure at given mass, the non-dependence of clustering on color gradient found here reinforces our conclusion that the color gradient and structural parameters of a galaxy are intrinsically related to each other.展开更多
We investigate the color gradients of galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1.0, using a sample of ~35 000 galaxies with both spectroscopy from the final data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey(VIPERS), a...We investigate the color gradients of galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1.0, using a sample of ~35 000 galaxies with both spectroscopy from the final data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey(VIPERS), and photometry in ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared bands from the VIPERS-MultiLambda Survey(VIPERS-MLS) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey(CFHTLS).We estimate rest-frame colors, stellar mass, star formation rate from fitting the Spectral Energy Distribution(SED) for each galaxy, as well as a two-zone color ?(u-r), defined as the difference in rest-frame(u-r) color between the outer and inner region of the galaxy. We find that the two-zone color shows weak or no correlations with all galaxy properties considered except stellar mass. On average, ?(u-r) decreases with increasing stellar mass, indicating relatively red colors in galactic centers of more massive galaxies. We then compare the properties of "red-cored" and "blue-cored" galaxies,defined to have either a negative or a positive ?(u-r) respectively. Although the two types of galaxies show similar distributions in most properties, we find massive red-cored galaxies with M*> 1010.5M⊙to have larger sizes at given stellar mass(thus lower surface mass densities), and less massive red-cored galaxies with M*< 1010.5M⊙to have lower central galaxy fraction. These findings can be understood if one assumes that the star formation process happens from inside out, in the same way as recently emphasized in studies of low-z galaxies. The similarity between the galaxies at intermediate redshifts and those at low redshifts supports the idea that galaxy evolution since z~1 has been mainly driven by secular processes internal to galaxies rather than galaxy mergers or external environment.展开更多
Accretion induced collapse(AIC)may be responsible for the formation of some interesting neutron star binaries(e.g.,millisecond pulsars,intermediate-mass binary pulsars,etc).It has been suggested that oxygen-neon white...Accretion induced collapse(AIC)may be responsible for the formation of some interesting neutron star binaries(e.g.,millisecond pulsars,intermediate-mass binary pulsars,etc).It has been suggested that oxygen-neon white dwarfs(ONe WDs)can increase their mass to the Chandrasekhar limit by multiple He-shell flashes,leading to AIC events.However,the properties of He-shell flashes on the surface of ONe WDs are still not well understood.In this article,we aim to study He-shell flashes on the surface of ONe WDs in a systematic approach.We investigated the long-term evolution of ONe WDs accreting He-rich material with various constant mass-accretion rates by time-dependent calculations with the stellar evolution code Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics(MESA),in which the initial ONe WD masses range from 1.1 to 1.35 M_(⊙).We found that the mass-retention efficiency increases with the ONe WD mass and the mass-accretion rate,whereas both the nova cycle duration and the ignition mass decrease with the ONe WD mass and the mass-accretion rate.We also present the nuclear products in different accretion scenarios.The results presented in this article can be used in the future binary population synthesis studies of AIC events.展开更多
Abstract The optical observations of the type Ic supernova （SN lc） SN 2012ap in NGC 1729 are presented. A comparison with other SNe Ic indicates that SN 2012ap is highly reddened （with E（B - V）host-0.8 mag） and ...Abstract The optical observations of the type Ic supernova （SN lc） SN 2012ap in NGC 1729 are presented. A comparison with other SNe Ic indicates that SN 2012ap is highly reddened （with E（B - V）host-0.8 mag） and may represent one of the most luminous SNe Ic ever observed, with an absolute V-band peak magnitude of - 19.3±0.5 mag after extinction correction. The near-maximum-light spectrum shows wide spectral features that are typical of broad-lined SNe Ic. One interesting feature in the spectrum is the appearance of some narrow absorption features that can be at- tributed to the diffuse interstellar bands, consistent with the large reddening inferred from the photometric method. Based on the light curves and the spectral data, we esti- mate that SN 2012ap produced a 56Ni mass of - 0.3 -b 0.1M in the explosion, with an ejecta mass of 2.4^＋0.7 -0.7M and a kinetic energy of EK=1.1^＋0.4 -0.4×10^52 erg. The properties of its progenitor are also briefly discussed.展开更多
We investigate the cosmological evolution of a two-field model of dark energy, where one is a dilaton field with canonical kinetic energy and the other is a phantom field with a negative kinetic energy term. Phase-pla...We investigate the cosmological evolution of a two-field model of dark energy, where one is a dilaton field with canonical kinetic energy and the other is a phantom field with a negative kinetic energy term. Phase-plane analysis shows that the ＂phantom＂-dominated scaling solution is the stable late-time attractor of this type of model. We find that during the evolution of the universe, the equation of state w changes from w 〉 -1 to w 〈 -1, which is consistent with recent observations.展开更多
We present late-time photometry for two bright type II-P supernovae （SNe） 2004dj and 2004et, extending over 400 d after the explosion, which are measured with a set of intermediate-band filters that have the advanta...We present late-time photometry for two bright type II-P supernovae （SNe） 2004dj and 2004et, extending over 400 d after the explosion, which are measured with a set of intermediate-band filters that have the advantage of tracing the strength variations of some spectral features. Although these two SNe II-P exhibit similar photometric evolution at earlier times, they diverge during the nebular phase. SN 2004dj shows a slow late-time decline rate with - 0.7 ±0.1 mag （100d）^-1 during the period ranging from t ≈ 200 - 300 d after the explosion, while SN 2004et shows a much faster decline rate at a comparable phase, e.g., 1.3 ± 0.1 mag （100d）^-1. The steeper decay rate seen in SN 2004et is likely due to dust formation in the explosion ejecta. Based on intermediate-band photometry, we derived the evolution of the feature lines [e.g., Hα] of SNe 2004dj and 2004et which are similar in flux at comparable phases but perhaps with significantly different decay rates. The origin of the observed variations in the continuum and the feature lines is briefly discussed.展开更多
We present an analysis of the diffuse soft X-ray emission from the nuclear region of M51 combining both XMM-Newton RGS and Chandra data. Most of the RGS spectrum of M51 can be fitted with a thermal model with a temper...We present an analysis of the diffuse soft X-ray emission from the nuclear region of M51 combining both XMM-Newton RGS and Chandra data. Most of the RGS spectrum of M51 can be fitted with a thermal model with a temperature of 0.5 keV except for the O vii triplet, which is forbidden-line dominated. The Fe L-shell lines peak around the southern cloud, where the O viii and N vn Lya lines also peak. In contrast, the peak of the O vii forbidden line is about 10＂ offset from that of the other lines, indicating that it is from a spatially distinct component. The spatial distribution of the O vii triplet mapped by the Chandra data shows that most of the O vii triplet flux is located at faint regions near edges, instead of the southern cloud where other lines peak. This distribution of the O vii triplet is inconsistent with the photoionization model. Other mechanisms that could produce the anomalous O vii triplet, including a recombining plasma and charge exchange X-ray emission, are discussed.展开更多
Purely kinetic k-essence models in which the Lagrangian contains only a kinetic factor and does not depend explicitly on the field itself are considered, and a theoretical constraint is obtained： Fx -= F0a^-3. Under ...Purely kinetic k-essence models in which the Lagrangian contains only a kinetic factor and does not depend explicitly on the field itself are considered, and a theoretical constraint is obtained： Fx -= F0a^-3. Under this theoretical constraint, we discuss a kind of purely κ-essence with form F（X） = -（1 ＋ 2X^n）^1/2n, which can be considered as the generalized tachyon field, and find that this kind of κ-essence is not likely a candidate of dark energy to describe the present accelerated expansion of the Universe. This is contrary to a previous suggestion that κ-essence with such a form may be used to describe phantom cosmologies.展开更多
The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope(CSST),which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm,is expected to start science operations in 2024.An ultra-deep field observation program covering approxi...The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope(CSST),which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm,is expected to start science operations in 2024.An ultra-deep field observation program covering approximately 10 deg2is proposed with supernovae(SNe) and other transients as one of its primary science drivers.This paper presents the simulated detection results of type Ⅰa supernovae(SNe Ⅰa) and explores the impact of new datasets on the determinations of cosmological parameters.The simulated observations are conducted with an exposure time of 150 s and cadences of 10,20,and 30 d.The survey mode covering a total of 80 observations but with a random cadence in the range of 4 to 14 d is also explored.Our simulation results indicate that the CSST can detect up to ~1800 SNe la at z <1.3.The simulated SNe la are then used to constrain the cosmological parameters.The constraint on can be improved by 37.5% using the 10-d cadence sample in comparison with the Pantheon sample.A deeper measurement simulation with a 300 s exposure time together with the Pantheon sample improves the current constraints on Ωmby 58.3% and ω by 47.7%.Taking future lager sets of nearby SN Ⅰa sample form ground-based surveys(i.e.,N~3400) into consideration,the constraints on ω can be improved by 59.1%.The CSST ultra-deep field observation program is expected to discover large amounts of SNe la over a broad redshift span and enhance our understanding of the nature of dark energy.展开更多
The LIGO detection of gravitational waves(GW) from merging black holes in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in observational astronomy. The detection of an electromagnetic signal from a GW source is the critical ...The LIGO detection of gravitational waves(GW) from merging black holes in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in observational astronomy. The detection of an electromagnetic signal from a GW source is the critical next step to explore in detail the physics involved. The Antarctic Survey Telescopes(AST3),located at Dome A, Antarctica, is uniquely situated for rapid response time-domain astronomy with its continuous night-time coverage during the austral winter. We report optical observations of the GW source(GW 170817) in the nearby galaxy NGC 4993 using AST3. The data show a rapidly fading transient at around 1 day after the GW trigger, with the i-band magnitude declining from 17:23 ± 0:13 magnitude to 17:72 ± 0:09 magnitude in ~1:8 h. The brightness and time evolution of the optical transient associated with GW 170817 are broadly consistent with the predictions of models involving merging binary neutron stars. We infer from our data that the merging process ejected about ~10^(-2) solar mass of radioactive material at a speed of up to 30% the speed of light.展开更多
Using the data taken from Tibet II High Density （HD） Array （1997 February-1999 September） and Tibet-III array （1999 November--2005 November）, our previous northern sky survey for TeV γ-ray point sources has now...Using the data taken from Tibet II High Density （HD） Array （1997 February-1999 September） and Tibet-III array （1999 November--2005 November）, our previous northern sky survey for TeV γ-ray point sources has now been updated by a factor of 2.8 improved statistics. From 0.0° to 60.0° in declination （Dec） range, no new TeV T-ray point sources with sufficiently high significance were identified while the well-known Crab Nebula and Mrk421 remain to be the brightest TeV γ-ray sources within the field of view of the Tibet air shower array. Based on the currently available data and at the 90% confidence level （C.L.）, the flux upper limits for different power law index assumption are re-derived, which are approximately improved by 1.7 times as compared with our previous reported limits.展开更多
In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry(eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around both stellar-mass and supermassive bl...In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry(eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around both stellar-mass and supermassive black-holes. eXTP has the unique capability of using advanced "spectral-timing-polarimetry" techniques to analyze the rapid variations with three orthogonal diagnostics of the flow and its geometry, yielding unprecedented insight into the inner accreting regions, the effects of strong field gravity on the material within them and the powerful outflows which are driven by the accretion process.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 11073013 and 11178003)the Foundation of Tsinghua University (Grant No. 2011Z02170)the Major State Basic Research Development Program (Grant No.2009CB824800)
文摘The Tsinghua-NAOC （National Astronomical Observatories of China） Telescope （hereafter, TNT） is an 80-cm Cassegrain reflecting telescope located at the Xinglong Observatory of NAOC, with the main scientific goals of monitoring various transients in the universe such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, novae, variable stars, and active galactic nuclei. We present a systematic test and analysis of the photometric performance of this telescope. Based on the calibration observations taken on 12 pho- tometric nights, spanning the period from 2004 to 2012, we derived an accurate trans- formation equation between the instrumental ubvri magnitudes and standard Johnson UBV and Cousins RI magnitudes. In particular, the color terms and the extinction coefficients of different passbands are well determined. With these data, we also ob- tained the limiting magnitudes and the photometric precision of TNT. It is worthwhile to point out that the sky background at the Xinglong Observatory became gradually worse over the period from 2005 to 2012 （e.g., -21.4 mag vs. ,-20.1 mag in the V band）.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences （NAOC） Transient Survey is an automatic survey that conducts a systematic exploration of optical transients. This project utilizes a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope at the Xinglong Station of NAOC. This survey repeatedly covers - 1000 square degrees of the northern sky with a cadence of 34 d. With an exposure of 60 s, the survey reaches a limiting unfiltered magnitude of about 19.5 mag, which enables us to discover supernovae in their relatively young stages. We describe the overall performance of our survey during the first year and present some preliminary results.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘The amount of 56↑Ni produced in Type Ia supernova （SN Ia） explosion is probably the most important physical parameter underlying the observed correlation of SN Ia luminosities with their light curves. Based on an empirical relation between the 56↑Ni mass and the light curve parameter △m15, we obtained rough estimates of the 56↑Ni mass for a large sample of nearby SNe Ia with the aim of exploring the diversity in SN Ia. We found that the derived 56↑Ni masses for different SNe Ia could vary by a factor of ten （e.g., MNi = 0.1 - 1.3 M⊙）, which cannot be explained in terms of the standard Chandrasekhar-mass model （with a 56↑Ni mass production of 0.4 - 0.8 M⊙）. Different explosion and/or progenitor models are clearly required for various SNe Ia, in particular, for those extremely nickel-poor and nickel-rich producers. The nickel-rich （with MNi 〉 0.8 M⊙） SNe Ia are very luminous and may have massive progenitors exceeding the Chandrasekhar-mass limit since extra progenitor fuel is required to produce more 56↑Ni to power the light curve. This is also consistent with the finding that the intrinsically bright SNe Ia prefer to occur in stellar environments of young and massive stars. For example, 75% SNe Ia in spirals have △ml5 〈 1.2 while this ratio is only 18% in E/S0 galaxies. The nickel-poor SNe Ia （with MNi 〈 0.2 M⊙） may invoke the sub- Chandrasekhar model, as most of them were found in early-type E/S0 galaxies dominated by the older and low-mass stellar populations. This indicates that SNe Ia in spiral and E/S0 galaxies have progenitors of different properties.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFA0404502)the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB857004)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11761131004 and 11821303)
文摘The stellar mass-to-light ratio(M_*/L) of galaxies in a given wave band shows tight correlations with optical colors, which have been widely applied as cheap estimators of galaxy stellar masses. These estimators are usually calibrated using either broadband spectral energy distributions(SEDs) or spectroscopy at galactic centers. However, it is unclear whether the same estimators provide unbiased M_*/L for different regions within a galaxy. In this work we employ integral field spectroscopy from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory(Ma NGA) survey. We also examine the correlations of spatially resolved M_*/L obtained from full spectral fitting, with different color indices, as well as galaxy morphology types, distances to the galactic center, and stellar population parameters such as stellar age and metallicity.We find that the(g-r) color is better than any other color indices, and it provides almost unbiased M_*/L for all the SDSS five bands and for all types of galaxies or regions, with only slight biases depending on stellar age and metallicity. Our analysis indicates that combining multiple colors and/or including other properties to reduce the systematics and scatters of the estimator does not work better than a single color index defined by two bands. Therefore, we have obtained a best estimator with the(g-r) color and applied it to the Ma NGA galaxies. Both the two-dimensional map and radial profile of M_*/L are reproduced well in most cases. Our estimator may be applied to obtain surface mass density maps for large samples of galaxies from imaging surveys at both low and high redshifts.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12373042,U1938201,12273005 and 12133003)the Programme of Bagui Scholars Programme(WXG)support of the China Space Station Telescope(CSST)。
文摘After launching a jet,outflows of magnetar were used to account for the achromatic plateau of afterglow and the early X-ray flux plateau known as“internal plateau”.The lack of detecting magnetic dipole emission together with the energy injection feature in a single observation poses confusion until the long gamma-ray burst(GRB)210610B is detected.GRB 210610B is presented with an optical bump following an early X-ray plateau during the afterglow phase.The plateau followed by a steep decline flux overlays in the steadily decaying X-ray flux with indexα_(X,1)~2.06,indicating an internal origin and that can be fitted by the spin-down luminosity law with the initial plateau luminosity log_(10)L_(X)~48.29 erg s~(-1)and the characteristic spin-down timescale T~2818 s.A subsequent bump begins at~4000 s in the R band with a rising indexα_(R,1)~-0.30 and peaks at~14125 s,after which a decay indexα_(R,2)~0.87 and finally transiting to a steep decay withα_(R,3)~1.77 achieve the closure relation of the external shock for the normal decay phase as well as the magnetar spin-down energy injection phase,provided that the average value of the photon indexΓ_γ=1.80 derived from the spectral energy distributions(SEDs)between the X-ray and optical afterglow.The closure relation also works for the late X-ray flux.Akin to the traditional picture of GRB,the outflow powers the early X-ray plateau by dissipating energy internally and collides with the leading decelerating blast burst as time goes on,which could interpret the exotic feature of GRB 210610B.We carry out a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation and obtain a set of best parameters:■.The artificial light curve can fit the afterglow data well.After that,we estimated the average Lorentz factor and the X-ray radiation efficiency of the later ejecta are 35%and 0.13%,respectively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant Nos.11273011,U1231119,10973006,11003002,11273026,10933001 and 10973015the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,Grant Nos.2007CB815404,2007CB815403 and 2007CB815406)
文摘We aim at deriving accurate atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of 19 barium（Ba） stars, including both strong and mild Ba stars, based on the high signal-to-noise ratio and high resolution Echelle spectra obtained from the 2.16 m telescope at Xinglong station of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The chemical abundances of the sample stars were obtained from an LTE, plane-parallel and line-blanketed atmospheric model by inputting the atmospheric parameters（effective temperatures Teff, surface gravities log g, metallicity [Fe/H] and microturbulence velocity ξt） and equivalent widths of stellar absorption lines. These samples of Ba stars are giants as indicated by atmospheric parameters, metallicities and kinematic analysis about UVW velocity. Chemical abundances of 17 elements were obtained for these Ba stars. Their Na, Al, α- and iron-peak elements（O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca,Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni） are similar to the solar abundances. Our samples of Ba stars show obvious overabundances of neutron-capture（n-capture） process elements relative to the Sun. Their median abundances of[Ba/Fe], [La/Fe] and [Eu/Fe] are 0.54, 0.65 and 0.40, respectively. The Y I and Zr I abundances are lower than Ba, La and Eu, but higher than the α- and iron-peak elements for the strong Ba stars and similar to the iron-peak elements for the mild stars. There exists a positive correlation between Ba intensity and [Ba/Fe].For the n-capture elements（Y, Zr, Ba, La）, there is an anti-correlation between their [X/Fe] and [Fe/H]. We identify nine of our sample stars as strong Ba stars with [Ba/Fe]〉0.6 where seven of them have Ba intensity Ba=2-5, one has Ba=1.5 and another one has Ba=1.0. The remaining ten stars are classified as mild Ba stars with 0.17〈[Ba/Fe]〈0.54.
基金supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(No.2015CB857004)the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFA0404502)NSFC(Grant Nos.11173045,11233005,11325314 and 11320101002)
文摘We investigate the dependence of clustering on luminosity, stellar mass and color gradient for galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1, using a sample of;300 galaxies from the final data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey（VIPERS-PDR2）. We estimate both the auto-correlation function for galaxy samples selected by B-band absolute magnitude and stellar mass, and the cross-correlation function of galaxy samples selected by color gradient with respect to the full galaxy sample. The autocorrelation function amplitudes at fixed scale are found to positively correlate with both galaxy luminosity and stellar mass, and the effect holds for all the scales probed(0.2 h;Mpc < rp< 20 h;Mpc),in good agreement with previous measurements based on an earlier data release of VIPERS. When the stellar mass is limited to a narrow range, we find the clustering power to be essentially independent of galaxy color gradient, and this conclusion is true for all the masses and all the scales considered here. In a parallel paper, we find that the half-light radius is the only galaxy property other than stellar mass that is related to color gradient. Considering the previous finding that clustering depends weakly on galaxy structure at given mass, the non-dependence of clustering on color gradient found here reinforces our conclusion that the color gradient and structural parameters of a galaxy are intrinsically related to each other.
基金supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(No.2015CB857004)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11173045,11233005,11325314 and 11320101002)
文摘We investigate the color gradients of galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1.0, using a sample of ~35 000 galaxies with both spectroscopy from the final data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey(VIPERS), and photometry in ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared bands from the VIPERS-MultiLambda Survey(VIPERS-MLS) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey(CFHTLS).We estimate rest-frame colors, stellar mass, star formation rate from fitting the Spectral Energy Distribution(SED) for each galaxy, as well as a two-zone color ?(u-r), defined as the difference in rest-frame(u-r) color between the outer and inner region of the galaxy. We find that the two-zone color shows weak or no correlations with all galaxy properties considered except stellar mass. On average, ?(u-r) decreases with increasing stellar mass, indicating relatively red colors in galactic centers of more massive galaxies. We then compare the properties of "red-cored" and "blue-cored" galaxies,defined to have either a negative or a positive ?(u-r) respectively. Although the two types of galaxies show similar distributions in most properties, we find massive red-cored galaxies with M*> 1010.5M⊙to have larger sizes at given stellar mass(thus lower surface mass densities), and less massive red-cored galaxies with M*< 1010.5M⊙to have lower central galaxy fraction. These findings can be understood if one assumes that the star formation process happens from inside out, in the same way as recently emphasized in studies of low-z galaxies. The similarity between the galaxies at intermediate redshifts and those at low redshifts supports the idea that galaxy evolution since z~1 has been mainly driven by secular processes internal to galaxies rather than galaxy mergers or external environment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11873085,11673059 and 11521303)the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.QYZDB-SSW-SYS001)+2 种基金the Yunnan Province(Nos.2018FB005 and 2019FJ001)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11903075)the Western Light Youth Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences。
文摘Accretion induced collapse(AIC)may be responsible for the formation of some interesting neutron star binaries(e.g.,millisecond pulsars,intermediate-mass binary pulsars,etc).It has been suggested that oxygen-neon white dwarfs(ONe WDs)can increase their mass to the Chandrasekhar limit by multiple He-shell flashes,leading to AIC events.However,the properties of He-shell flashes on the surface of ONe WDs are still not well understood.In this article,we aim to study He-shell flashes on the surface of ONe WDs in a systematic approach.We investigated the long-term evolution of ONe WDs accreting He-rich material with various constant mass-accretion rates by time-dependent calculations with the stellar evolution code Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics(MESA),in which the initial ONe WD masses range from 1.1 to 1.35 M_(⊙).We found that the mass-retention efficiency increases with the ONe WD mass and the mass-accretion rate,whereas both the nova cycle duration and the ignition mass decrease with the ONe WD mass and the mass-accretion rate.We also present the nuclear products in different accretion scenarios.The results presented in this article can be used in the future binary population synthesis studies of AIC events.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘Abstract The optical observations of the type Ic supernova （SN lc） SN 2012ap in NGC 1729 are presented. A comparison with other SNe Ic indicates that SN 2012ap is highly reddened （with E（B - V）host-0.8 mag） and may represent one of the most luminous SNe Ic ever observed, with an absolute V-band peak magnitude of - 19.3±0.5 mag after extinction correction. The near-maximum-light spectrum shows wide spectral features that are typical of broad-lined SNe Ic. One interesting feature in the spectrum is the appearance of some narrow absorption features that can be at- tributed to the diffuse interstellar bands, consistent with the large reddening inferred from the photometric method. Based on the light curves and the spectral data, we esti- mate that SN 2012ap produced a 56Ni mass of - 0.3 -b 0.1M in the explosion, with an ejecta mass of 2.4^＋0.7 -0.7M and a kinetic energy of EK=1.1^＋0.4 -0.4×10^52 erg. The properties of its progenitor are also briefly discussed.
基金Supported by the Ministry of Education of China, the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No KJCX2-YW-T03, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10521001, 10733010 and 10725313, and the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2009CB824800.
文摘We investigate the cosmological evolution of a two-field model of dark energy, where one is a dilaton field with canonical kinetic energy and the other is a phantom field with a negative kinetic energy term. Phase-plane analysis shows that the ＂phantom＂-dominated scaling solution is the stable late-time attractor of this type of model. We find that during the evolution of the universe, the equation of state w changes from w 〉 -1 to w 〈 -1, which is consistent with recent observations.
基金supported by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation through grants 10873016, 10803007, 10473012, 10573020, 10633020, 10603006 and 10673007the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) No. 2007CB815403+1 种基金the National Key Basic Research Science Foundation (NKBRSF TG199075402) Basic Research Funding at Tsinghua University (JCqn2005036)
文摘We present late-time photometry for two bright type II-P supernovae （SNe） 2004dj and 2004et, extending over 400 d after the explosion, which are measured with a set of intermediate-band filters that have the advantage of tracing the strength variations of some spectral features. Although these two SNe II-P exhibit similar photometric evolution at earlier times, they diverge during the nebular phase. SN 2004dj shows a slow late-time decline rate with - 0.7 ±0.1 mag （100d）^-1 during the period ranging from t ≈ 200 - 300 d after the explosion, while SN 2004et shows a much faster decline rate at a comparable phase, e.g., 1.3 ± 0.1 mag （100d）^-1. The steeper decay rate seen in SN 2004et is likely due to dust formation in the explosion ejecta. Based on intermediate-band photometry, we derived the evolution of the feature lines [e.g., Hα] of SNe 2004dj and 2004et which are similar in flux at comparable phases but perhaps with significantly different decay rates. The origin of the observed variations in the continuum and the feature lines is briefly discussed.
基金supported by a National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholar Grant (11203032)the Strategic Priority Research Program"The Emergence of Cosmological Structures" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Grant No.XDB09000000NSFC grant 11333003 (SM)
文摘We present an analysis of the diffuse soft X-ray emission from the nuclear region of M51 combining both XMM-Newton RGS and Chandra data. Most of the RGS spectrum of M51 can be fitted with a thermal model with a temperature of 0.5 keV except for the O vii triplet, which is forbidden-line dominated. The Fe L-shell lines peak around the southern cloud, where the O viii and N vn Lya lines also peak. In contrast, the peak of the O vii forbidden line is about 10＂ offset from that of the other lines, indicating that it is from a spatially distinct component. The spatial distribution of the O vii triplet mapped by the Chandra data shows that most of the O vii triplet flux is located at faint regions near edges, instead of the southern cloud where other lines peak. This distribution of the O vii triplet is inconsistent with the photoionization model. Other mechanisms that could produce the anomalous O vii triplet, including a recombining plasma and charge exchange X-ray emission, are discussed.
基金Supported in part by the Ministry of Education of China, the Directional Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No KJCX2-YW-T03, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10521001, 10733010 and 10725313. We thank Chang-Jun Gao, Pu-Xun Wu, Hao Wei, Yan Wu, Wei-Ke Xiao, Jian-Feng Zhou, Zhi-Xing Ling, and Bi-Zhu Jiang for discussions.
文摘Purely kinetic k-essence models in which the Lagrangian contains only a kinetic factor and does not depend explicitly on the field itself are considered, and a theoretical constraint is obtained： Fx -= F0a^-3. Under this theoretical constraint, we discuss a kind of purely κ-essence with form F（X） = -（1 ＋ 2X^n）^1/2n, which can be considered as the generalized tachyon field, and find that this kind of κ-essence is not likely a candidate of dark energy to describe the present accelerated expansion of the Universe. This is contrary to a previous suggestion that κ-essence with such a form may be used to describe phantom cosmologies.
基金supported by the China Manned Spaced Project (Grant Nos. CMS-CSST-2021-A12, CMS-CSST-2021-B01, and CMS-CSST-2021B04)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12288102, and 12033003)+5 种基金Scholar Program of Beijing Academy of Science and Technology (Grant No. DZ:BS202002)Tencent Xplorer Prizesupported by the Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundationsupported by the Informatization Plan of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. CAS-WX2021PY-0101)supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12233008)supported by the project “Transient Astrophysical Objects” GINOP 2.3.2-15-2016-00033 of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), Hungary, funded by the European Union。
文摘The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope(CSST),which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm,is expected to start science operations in 2024.An ultra-deep field observation program covering approximately 10 deg2is proposed with supernovae(SNe) and other transients as one of its primary science drivers.This paper presents the simulated detection results of type Ⅰa supernovae(SNe Ⅰa) and explores the impact of new datasets on the determinations of cosmological parameters.The simulated observations are conducted with an exposure time of 150 s and cadences of 10,20,and 30 d.The survey mode covering a total of 80 observations but with a random cadence in the range of 4 to 14 d is also explored.Our simulation results indicate that the CSST can detect up to ~1800 SNe la at z <1.3.The simulated SNe la are then used to constrain the cosmological parameters.The constraint on can be improved by 37.5% using the 10-d cadence sample in comparison with the Pantheon sample.A deeper measurement simulation with a 300 s exposure time together with the Pantheon sample improves the current constraints on Ωmby 58.3% and ω by 47.7%.Taking future lager sets of nearby SN Ⅰa sample form ground-based surveys(i.e.,N~3400) into consideration,the constraints on ω can be improved by 59.1%.The CSST ultra-deep field observation program is expected to discover large amounts of SNe la over a broad redshift span and enhance our understanding of the nature of dark energy.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China(2013CB834900)the Chinese Polar Environment Comprehensive Investigation&Assessment Program(CHINARE2016-02-03)+21 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11573014,11673068,11325313,11633002,11433009,11725314)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences(QYZDY-SSW-SLH010,QYZDB-SSW-SYS005)the Strategic Priority Research Program"multi-waveband gravitational wave Universe”(XDB23040000)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association(2011231)of Chinese Academy of Sciencesfunds from Tsinghua UniversityNanjing UniversityBeijing Normal UniversityUniversity of New South WalesTexas A&M Universitythe Australian Antarctic Divisionthe National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy(NCRIS)of Australiafunding from the Chinese Academy of Sciences through the Center for Astronomical Mega-Science and National Astronomical Observatory of China(NAOC)made possible through the use of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey(APASS)funded by the Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fundfunded by the Australian Research Council(ARC)Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery(OzGrav),CE170100004the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics(CAASTRO),CE110001020the Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics in 3-Dimensions(ASTRO-3D),CE170100013provided by the Australian Astronomical Observatory(AAO)the ARC Future Fellowship grant,FT130101219supported by the National Basic Research Program(Project 973)of China(2014CB845800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11633001 and 11373014)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB23000000)
文摘The LIGO detection of gravitational waves(GW) from merging black holes in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in observational astronomy. The detection of an electromagnetic signal from a GW source is the critical next step to explore in detail the physics involved. The Antarctic Survey Telescopes(AST3),located at Dome A, Antarctica, is uniquely situated for rapid response time-domain astronomy with its continuous night-time coverage during the austral winter. We report optical observations of the GW source(GW 170817) in the nearby galaxy NGC 4993 using AST3. The data show a rapidly fading transient at around 1 day after the GW trigger, with the i-band magnitude declining from 17:23 ± 0:13 magnitude to 17:72 ± 0:09 magnitude in ~1:8 h. The brightness and time evolution of the optical transient associated with GW 170817 are broadly consistent with the predictions of models involving merging binary neutron stars. We infer from our data that the merging process ejected about ~10^(-2) solar mass of radioactive material at a speed of up to 30% the speed of light.
基金Supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (712) (MEXT)Japan Society for Promotion of Science(JSPS)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (10675134,10533020)Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘Using the data taken from Tibet II High Density （HD） Array （1997 February-1999 September） and Tibet-III array （1999 November--2005 November）, our previous northern sky survey for TeV γ-ray point sources has now been updated by a factor of 2.8 improved statistics. From 0.0° to 60.0° in declination （Dec） range, no new TeV T-ray point sources with sufficiently high significance were identified while the well-known Crab Nebula and Mrk421 remain to be the brightest TeV γ-ray sources within the field of view of the Tibet air shower array. Based on the currently available data and at the 90% confidence level （C.L.）, the flux upper limits for different power law index assumption are re-derived, which are approximately improved by 1.7 times as compared with our previous reported limits.
基金financial contribution from the agreement ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.Osupport of the Chinese Academy of Sciences through the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA15020100)the Polish National Science Centre(Grant No.2013/10/M/ST9/00729)
文摘In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry(eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around both stellar-mass and supermassive black-holes. eXTP has the unique capability of using advanced "spectral-timing-polarimetry" techniques to analyze the rapid variations with three orthogonal diagnostics of the flow and its geometry, yielding unprecedented insight into the inner accreting regions, the effects of strong field gravity on the material within them and the powerful outflows which are driven by the accretion process.
