‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’

‘We thought she was a witch’ uses my own ‘memory archive’ to give texture to the complex inheritance of gender, class and race that characterises the present. Drawing on interviews, archival data and fictionalisation, the article explores the role of gendered labour in securing dominant understandings of class progress. Starting from stories, my mother and I weave together of the history of 64 Chepstow Road, Newport (where her maternal family lived), I highlight the cost of historiography that does not pay attention to what is written out of family memory. The article draws on existing feminist memory work to flesh out an intersectional approach to the ‘memory archive’ we inherit and introduces the importance of an imaginative approach to the past.

ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ПАРАМЕТРІВ ФОТОЕЛЕКТРИЧНОЇ СИСТЕМИ З АКУМУЛЯТОРОМ ДЛЯ ПОТРЕБ ЛОКАЛЬНОГО ОБ’ЄКТУ

Purpose. Improving the methodology for determining the parameters of a photoelectric system with a battery for the needs of a local object using archival data of the generation of a photoelectric battery with planning the cost of energy consumption from the network for all seasons of the year.Methodology. Using an archive of data on the power generation of a photoelectric battery and analysis of energy processes in a photoelectric system with a battery using computer simulation.Findings. Calculated according to the archive data for five years, the average monthly values of photoelectric battery generation power for time intervals during the day determined according to tariff zones. Dependencies to determine the recommended average value load power of a local object at time intervals.Originality. It is proposed to determine the base schedule of the local facility and the parameters of the photoelectric system based on the average monthly values of photoelectric battery generation in the transition seasons – October, March and the expected cost of energy consumed from the grid during the year. The recalculation of the base value of power during the year is substantiated taking into account the duration of daylight. A method for determining the recommended load schedule of a local object with the formation of the battery charge according to the average monthly value of the photoelectric battery generation power at time intervals during the day, which are determined by archival data for the object location.Practical value. The obtained solutions are the basis for designing photoelectric systems with a battery to meet the needs of local objects.

Searching for Gravitationally Lensed Gamma-Ray Bursts with Their Afterglows

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at high redshifts are expected to be gravitationally lensed by objects of different mass scales. Other than a single recent claim, no lensed GRB has been detected so far by using gamma-ray data only. In this paper, we suggest that multiband afterglow data might be an efficient way to search for lensed GRB events. Using the standard afterglow model, we calculate the characteristics of the lensed afterglow lightcurves under the assumption of two popular analytic lens models: the point-mass and singular isothermal sphere models. In particular, when different lensed images cannot be resolved, their signals would be superimposed together with a given time delay. In this case, the X-ray afterglows are likely to contain several X-ray flares of similar width in linear scale and similar spectrum, and the optical afterglow lightcurve will show re-brightening signatures. Since the lightcurves from the image arriving later would be compressed and deformed in the logarithmic timescale, the larger time delay (i.e., the larger mass of the lens), the easier it is to identify the lensing effect. We analyzed the archival data of optical afterglows and found one potential candidate of the lensed GRB (130831A) with time delay ∼500 s; however, observations of this event in gamma-ray and X-ray bands seem not to support the lensing hypothesis. In the future, with the cooperation of the all-sky monitoring gamma-ray detectors and multiband sky survey projects, the method proposed in this paper would be more efficient in searching for strongly lensed GRBs.

Archives, linked data and the digital humanities: increasing access to digitised and born-digital archives via the semantic web

Mass digitisation and the exponential growth of born-digital archives over the past two decades have resulted in an enormous volume of archives and archival data being available digitally. This has produced a valuable but under-utilised source of large-scale digital data ripe for interrogation by scholars and practitioners in the Digital Humanities. However, current digitisation approaches fall short of the requirements of digital humanists for structured, integrated, interoperable, and interrogable data. Linked Data provides a viable means of producing such data, creating machine-readable archival data suited to analysis using digital humanities research methods. While a growing body of archival scholarship and praxis has explored Linked Data, its potential to open up digitised and born-digital archives to the Digital Humanities is under-examined. This article approaches Archival Linked Data from the perspective of the Digital Humanities, extrapolating from both archival and digital humanities Linked Data scholarship to identify the benefits to digital humanists of the production and provision of access to Archival Linked Data. It will consider some of the current barriers preventing digital humanists from being able to experience the benefits of Archival Linked Data evidenced, and to fully utilise archives which have been made available digitally. The article argues for increased collaboration between the two disciplines, challenges individuals and institutions to engage with Linked Data, and suggests the incorporation of AI and low-barrier tools such as Wikidata into the Linked Data production workflow in order to scale up the production of Archival Linked Data as a means of increasing access to and utilisation of digitised and born-digital archives.

A Pilot Radio Search for Magnetic Activity in Directly Imaged Exoplanets

We present the first systematic search for GHz frequency radio emission from directly imaged exoplanets using Very Large Array observations of sufficient angular resolution to separate the planets from their host stars. We obtained results for five systems and eight exoplanets located at ≲50 pc through new observations (Ross 458, GU Psc, and 51 Eri) and archival data (GJ 504 and HR 8799). We do not detect radio emission from any of the exoplanets, with 3σ luminosity upper limits of (0.9–23) × 1021 erg s−1. These limits are comparable to the level of radio emission detected in several ultracool dwarfs, including T dwarfs, whose masses are only a factor of two times higher than those of the directly imaged exoplanets. Despite the lack of detections in this pilot study, we highlight the need for continued GHz frequency radio observations of nearby exoplanets at μJy-level sensitivity.

History of the kazan psychophysiological laboratory headed by V.M. Bekhterev (1885–1893)

Based on archival data and literary sources, the article presents the history of the Kazan psychophysiological laboratory of V.M. Bekhterev during the years of his work in Kazan (18851893). The circumstances of the creation of the psychophysiological laboratory, its locations (during the years of Bekhterevs work, it changed two rooms) and equipment are described. The main scientific directions of V.M. Bekhterev and his students during the Kazan period of activity, the history of their appointment to the positions of residents and assistants of the Department of Psychiatry are analysed. The reasons and history of creation of a psychophysiological laboratory at the clinical base of the University in the Kazan District Hospital are described.

Archival Data Thinking and Practices for Social Media Collections

In the Web 2.0 Era, most social media archives are born digital and large-scale. With an increasing need for processing them at a fast speed, researchers and archivists have started applying data science methods in managing social media data collections. However, many of the current computational or data-driven archival processing methods are missing the critical background understandings like “why we need to use computational methods,” and “how to evaluate and improve data-driven applications.” As a result, many computational archival science (CAS) attempts, with comparatively narrow scopes and low efficiencies, are not sufficiently holistic. In this talk, we first introduce the proposed concept of “Archival Data Thinking” that highlights the desirable comprehensiveness in mapping data science mindsets to archival practices. Next, we examine several examples of implementing “Archival Data Thinking” in processing two social media collections: (i) the COVID-19 Hate Speech Twitter Archive (CHSTA) and (ii) the Counter-anti-Asian Hate Twitter Archive (CAAHTA), both of which are with millions of records and their metadata, and needs for rapid processing. Finally, as a future research direction, we briefly discuss the standards and infrastructures that can better support the implementation of “Archival Data Thinking”.

Mysterious Dust-emitting Object Orbiting TIC 400799224

We report the discovery of a unique object of uncertain nature—but quite possibly a disintegrating asteroid or minor planet—orbiting one star of the widely separated binary TIC 400799224. We initially identified the system in data from TESS Sector 10 via an abnormally shaped fading event in the light curve (hereafter “dips”). Follow-up speckle imaging determined that TIC 400799224 is actually two stars of similar brightness at 0.″62 separation, forming a likely bound binary with projected separation of ∼300 au. We cannot yet determine which star in the binary is host to the dips in flux. ASAS-SN and Evryscope archival data show that there is a strong periodicity of the dips at ∼19.77 days, leading us to believe that an occulting object is orbiting the host star, though the duration, depth, and shape of the dips vary substantially. Statistical analysis of the ASAS-SN data shows that the dips only occur sporadically at a detectable threshold in approximately one out of every three to five transits, lending credence to the possibility that the occulter is a sporadically emitted dust cloud. The cloud is also fairly optically thick, blocking up to 37% or 75% of the light from the host star, depending on the true host. Further observations may allow for greater detail to be gleaned as to the origin and composition of the occulter, as well as to a determination of which of the two stars comprising TIC 400799224 is the true host star of the dips.