In this paper, we present life and scientific work of Dr. Milog Radojcic （1903-1975）, the professor of the University of Belgrade and corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. In the backgroun...In this paper, we present life and scientific work of Dr. Milog Radojcic （1903-1975）, the professor of the University of Belgrade and corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. In the background of all of Radojcic＇s scientific works were the doctrine of anthroposophy and geometry as its essential part. It led him to, at the time, most contemporary problems in mathematics and mathematical physics. His interest in Medieval art reveals a personality capable to unify by itself artistic and scientific worldview. His published works were digitized in 2008 at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and exhibited as a part of the virtual library of the National Center for Digitization. Some of his papers, both published and unpublished ones, are extremly actual and their republishing could be very important not only for scientific but also for general public as well展开更多
Stars are born in dense cores of molecular clouds. The core mass function （CMF）, which is the mass distribution of dense cores, is important for understanding the stellar initial mass function （IMF）. We obtained ...Stars are born in dense cores of molecular clouds. The core mass function （CMF）, which is the mass distribution of dense cores, is important for understanding the stellar initial mass function （IMF）. We obtained 350μm dust continuum data using the SHARC-II camera at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory （CSO） telescope. A 350μm map covering 0.25 deg2 of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud was created by mosaicing 56 separate scans. The CSO telescope had an angular resolution of 9＂, corresponding to 1.2 ×103 AU at the distance of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud （131 pc）. The data was reduced using the Comprehensive Reduction Utility for SHARC-II （CRUSH）. The flux density map was analyzed using the GaussClumps algorithm, within which 75 cores has been identified. We used the Spitzer c2d catalogs to separate the cores into 63 starless cores and 12 protostellar cores. By locating Jeans instabilities, 55 prestellar cores （a subcategory of starless cores） were also identified. The excitation temperatures, which were derived from FCRAO 12CO data, help to improve the accuracy of the masses of the cores. We adopted a Monte Carlo approach to analyze the CMF with two types of functional forms; power law and log-normal. The whole and prestellar CMF are both well fitted by a log-normal distribution, with p = -1. 18 ±0.10, σ = 0.58 ± 0.05 and μ= 1.40 ＋ 0.10, σ= 0.50 ＋ 0.05 respectively. This finding suggests that turbulence influences the evolution of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.展开更多
文摘In this paper, we present life and scientific work of Dr. Milog Radojcic （1903-1975）, the professor of the University of Belgrade and corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. In the background of all of Radojcic＇s scientific works were the doctrine of anthroposophy and geometry as its essential part. It led him to, at the time, most contemporary problems in mathematics and mathematical physics. His interest in Medieval art reveals a personality capable to unify by itself artistic and scientific worldview. His published works were digitized in 2008 at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and exhibited as a part of the virtual library of the National Center for Digitization. Some of his papers, both published and unpublished ones, are extremly actual and their republishing could be very important not only for scientific but also for general public as well
基金by the California Institute of Technology under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (Grant No. AST0838261)supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB821800)+2 种基金National Aeronautics and Space Administration Undergraduate Student Research Program of USANational Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11373038 and 11163002)Graduate Innovative Fund of Gui Zhou University (Grant Nos. 2013024)
文摘Stars are born in dense cores of molecular clouds. The core mass function （CMF）, which is the mass distribution of dense cores, is important for understanding the stellar initial mass function （IMF）. We obtained 350μm dust continuum data using the SHARC-II camera at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory （CSO） telescope. A 350μm map covering 0.25 deg2 of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud was created by mosaicing 56 separate scans. The CSO telescope had an angular resolution of 9＂, corresponding to 1.2 ×103 AU at the distance of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud （131 pc）. The data was reduced using the Comprehensive Reduction Utility for SHARC-II （CRUSH）. The flux density map was analyzed using the GaussClumps algorithm, within which 75 cores has been identified. We used the Spitzer c2d catalogs to separate the cores into 63 starless cores and 12 protostellar cores. By locating Jeans instabilities, 55 prestellar cores （a subcategory of starless cores） were also identified. The excitation temperatures, which were derived from FCRAO 12CO data, help to improve the accuracy of the masses of the cores. We adopted a Monte Carlo approach to analyze the CMF with two types of functional forms; power law and log-normal. The whole and prestellar CMF are both well fitted by a log-normal distribution, with p = -1. 18 ±0.10, σ = 0.58 ± 0.05 and μ= 1.40 ＋ 0.10, σ= 0.50 ＋ 0.05 respectively. This finding suggests that turbulence influences the evolution of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.
