Study of Current Sheath Velocity and Its Distribution Using Tridimensional Magnetic Probe in Sahand Plasma Focus

The current sheath velocity in 0.25 Torr gas pressure of Filippov type plasma focus is studied experimentally. By using two tridimensional magnetic probes on top of the anode surface, the current sheath velocity is measured for argon, oxygen and nitrogen. Additionally, the effect of charging voltage on the current sheath velocity is studied in both axial and radial phases. We found that, the maximum current sheath velocities at both radial and axial phases are respectively 4.33 ± 0.28 （cm/μs） and 3.92 ± 0.75 （cm/μs） with argon as the working gas at 17 kV. Also, the minimum values of current sheath velocity are 1.48 ± 0.15 （cm/μs） at the radial phase and 1.14 ± 0.09 （cm/μs） at the axial phase with oxygen at 12 kV. The current sheath velocity at the radial phase is higher than that at the axial phase for all gases and voltages. In this study, variation of the full width half maximum （FWHM） of magnetic probe signals with voltage is investigated for different gases at radial and axial phases.

A Study on Non-coplanar Baseline Effects for Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph

As a dedicated solar radioheliograph,the MingantU SpEctral RadioHeliograph(MUSER)has a maximum baseline of more than 3000 m and a frequency range of 400 MHz–15 GHz.According to the classical radio interferometry theory,the non-coplanar baseline effect(i.e.,w-term effect)would be considered and calibrated for such a radio instrument.However,little previous literature made the qualitative or quantitative analyses on w-term effects of solar radioheliograph in-depth.This study proposes a complete quantitative analysis of w-term effects for the MUSER.After a brief introduction of the MUSER,we systematically investigate the baseline variations over a year and analyze the corresponding variations of w-term.We further studied the effects of the w-term in the imaging for the specified extended source,i.e.,the Sun.We discussed the possible effects of the w-term,such as image distortion and so on.The simulated results show that the w-term is an essential and unavoidable issue for solar radio imaging with high spatial resolution.

Interpretation of spectral paradox of cosmic X-ray background

The integrated spectrum of discrete X-ray sources (mainly the active galactic nuclei, AGN) is inconsistent with the observed spectrum of cosmic X-ray background (CXB), and it is so called CXB spectral paradox. The medium X-ray spectra of 68 AGNs are adopted, the evolution function of X-ray spectral indices is analyzed statistically, the fraction of CXB is calculated due to AGNs X-ray emission, which shows that almost 100% CXB comes from AGNs X-ray emission. Especially, the integrated spectrum in 2-10 keV is consistent with the observed spectrum of CXB. The spectral paradox of CXB can be interpreted by this result.

CLUSTERING IN A UNIVERSE WITH HOT DARK MATTER AND COSMIC STRINGS

Theories on the nucleosynthesis in the very early universe show that the baryonic matter is just a fraction of the cosmic matter. Moreover, the flatness of the space geometry of the universe shows that the cosmic density factor Ω= 1, this means that most of the cosmic matter exists in the form of dark matter. Confirmed by experiments up to the present, neutrino