Prospects for a Multi-Wavelength Characterization of Cepheid Envelopes

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
P. Kervella ◽  
A. Mérand
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiaoyun Hu ◽  
Haofei Wang ◽  
Philippe Goloub ◽  
Zhengqiang Li ◽  
Igor Veselovskii ◽  
...  

Abstract. The Taklamakan desert is an important dust source for the global atmospheric dust budget and a cause of the dust weather in Eastern Asia. The characterization of the properties and vertical distributions of Taklamakan dust in the source region is still very limited. To fill this gap, the DAO (Dust Aerosol Observation) was conducted in Kashi, China in 2019. Kashi site is about 150 km to the west rim of the Taklamakan desert and is strongly impacted by desert dust aerosols, especially in spring time, i.e. April and May. Apart from dust, fine particles coming from local anthropogenic emissions or/and transported aerosols are also a non-negligible aerosol component. In this study, we provide the first profiling of the 2α + 3β + 3δ lidar profiles of Taklamakan dust based on a multi-wavelength Raman polarization lidar. Four cases, including two Taklamakan dust events (Case 1 and 2) and two polluted dust events (Case 3 and 4) are presented. The lidar ratio in the Taklamakan dust outbreak is found to be 51 ± 8–56 ± 8 sr at 355 nm and 45 ± 7 sr at 532 nm. The particle linear depolarization ratios are about 0.28 ± 0.04–0.32 ± 0.05 at 355 nm, 0.35 ± 0.05 at 532 nm and 0.31 ± 0.05 at 1064 nm. The observed polluted dust is commonly featured with reduced particle linear depolarization ratio and enhanced extinction and backscatter Angstrom exponent. In Case 3, the lidar ratio of polluted dust is about 42 ± 6 sr at 355 nm and 40 ± 6 sr at 532 nm. The particles linear depolarization ratios decrease to about 0.25, with a weak spectral dependence. In Case 4, the variability of lidar ratio and particle linear depolarization ratio is higher than in Case 3, which reflects the complexity of the nature of mixed pollutant and the mixing state. The results provide the first reference for the characteristics of Taklamakan dust measured by Raman lidar. The data could contribute to complementing the dust model and improving the accuracy of climate modeling.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Mona ◽  
Nikolaos Papagiannopoulus ◽  
Gelsomina Pappalardo ◽  
Ulla Wandinger ◽  
Giuseppe D'Amico ◽  
...  

<p>The Sentinel 5 Precursor products, call for an accurate validation. Europe can be nowadays regarded as a leader in ground-based vertical profiling observations. ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure Network) is an EC funded infrastructure integrating European ground-based stations equipped with advanced atmospheric equipment. Among these, EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar NETwork) and Cloudnet are well-established networks providing vertical profiles of aerosol and clouds with high vertical and temporal resolution. A network of ground-based stations has the ability to provide the spatio-temporal development of aerosol and cloud fields and offers a unique opportunity for the validation of observations from space. In this project, state-of-the-art instrumentations for observing aerosol and clouds will be used for validation purposes: multi-wavelength lidar (EARLINET) and Doppler cloud radar (Cloudnet).</p><p>Characterization of aerosol and cloud fields over the stations is provided by the use of EARLINET and Cloudnet data. Additional information is provided by AERONET data where available. Differences will be reported as a function of aerosol load, aerosol and cloud height, aerosol type, cloud type and underneath surface.</p><p>First results of validation efforts performed within ACTRIS in terms of a quantitative evaluation of the accuracy of S5P aerosol and cloud products will be reported. This activity is done under the EC-ACTS: Earlinet and Cloudnet - Aerosol and Clouds Teams for Sentinel-5P Validation unfunded project, which comprises 3 EARLINET/Cloudnet stations [Potenza (IT), Leipzig (DE) and Cabauw (NL)]; 3 EARLINET stations [Granada (ES), Athens (GR) and Bucharest (RO)] and 2 Cloudnet sites [Mace Head (IE) and Sodankylä (FI)].</p><p>In particular, the first results will be about the S5P Aerosol Layer Height (mandatory product) and Aerosol Optical Depth (optional product) and whenever available the AAI-based columnar Aerosol Type product.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Vartanian ◽  
Takeshi Ueda ◽  
Toshikazu Ishigaki ◽  
Kitaek Kang ◽  
Woo Sik Yoo

Author(s):  
Yusaku Mabuchi ◽  
Naohiro Manago ◽  
Gerry Bagtasa ◽  
Hayato Saitoh ◽  
Nobuo Takeuchi ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Hopp ◽  
G. Kecskeméti ◽  
T. Smausz ◽  
T. Ajtai ◽  
A. Filep ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 640 ◽  
pp. L8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideki Umehata ◽  
Ian Smail ◽  
A. M. Swinbank ◽  
Kotaro Kohno ◽  
Yoichi Tamura ◽  
...  

Deep surveys with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have uncovered a population of dusty star-forming galaxies which are faint or even undetected at optical to near-infrared wavelengths. Their faintness at short wavelengths makes the detailed characterization of the population challenging. Here we present a spectroscopic redshift identification and a characterization of one of these near-infrared-dark galaxies discovered by an ALMA deep survey. The detection of [C I](1–0) and CO(4–3) emission lines determines the precise redshift of the galaxy, ADF22.A2, to be z = 3.9913 ± 0.0008. On the basis of a multi-wavelength analysis, ADF22.A2 is found to be a massive, star-forming galaxy with a stellar mass of M∗ = 1.1−0.6+1.3 × 1011 M⊙ and SFR = 430−150+230 M⊙ yr−1. The molecular gas mass was derived to be M(H2)[CI] = (5.9 ± 1.5)×1010 M⊙, indicating a gas fraction of ≈35%, and the ratios of L[CI](1−0)/LIR and L[CI](1−0)/LCO(4−3) suggest that the nature of the interstellar medium in ADF22.A2 is in accordance with those of other bright submillimeter galaxies. The properties of ADF22.A2, including the redshift, star-formation rate, stellar mass, and depletion time scale (τdep ≈ 0.1−0.2 Gyr), also suggest that ADF22.A2 has the characteristics expected for the progenitors of quiescent galaxies at z ≳ 3. Our results demonstrate the power of ALMA contiguous mapping and line scan, which help us to obtain an unbiased view of galaxy formation in the early Universe.


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