A preliminary analysis of the Shangri-La Bolide on 2017 Oct 4

At 12:07 UT(8:07 pm China Standard Time)on 2017 Oct 4,a bright bolide was widely observed in the Shangri-La region of the Province of Yunnan,China(Figure 1).The event was well observed by the general public as it took place on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival,which is associated with moon gazing.Sonic booms and ground shaking were reported in an area of about a thousand square kilometers northwest of Shangri-La City.Data from U.S.government sensors suggests that the impact energy of the event was approximately 0.54 kt TNT equivalent,with the terminus of the bolide positioned at 28.1°N,99.4°E.This is the largest observed bolide event over land since the bolide event that took place in Mauritania on 2016 Jun 27(1.2 kt).

Evolutionary stages and disk properties of young stellar objects in the Perseus cloud

We investigated the evolutionary stages and disk properties of 211 young stellar objects（YSOs） across the Perseus cloud by modeling their broadband optical to mid-infrared（IR） spectral energy distribution（SED）. Our optical gri photometry data were obtained from the recently finished Purple Mountain Observatory Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center（XSTPS-GAC）.About 81% of our sample fall into the Stage II phase which is characterized by having optically thick disks, while 14% into the Stage I phase characterized by having significant infalling envelopes, and the remaining 5% into the Stage Ⅲ phase characterized by having optically thin disks. The median stellar age and mass of the Perseus YSOs are 3.1 Myr and 0.3 M⊙ respectively. By exploring the relationships among the turnoff wave bands λturnoff（longward of which significant IR excesses above the stellar photosphere are observed）, the excess spectral index αexcess as determined for λ 〉 λturnoff, and the disk inner radius Rin（determined from SED modeling） for YSOs at different evolutionary stages, we found that the median and standard deviation of αexcess for YSOs with optically thick disks tend to increase withλturnoff, especially at λturnoff ≥5.8 μm, whereas the median fractional dust luminosities Ldust/L★ tend to decrease with increasing λturnoff. This points to an inside-out process of disk clearing for small dust grains. Moreover, a positive correlation between αexcess and Rin was found at α〉excess ～ 0 and R〉in～ 10 × the dust sublimation radius Rsub, irrespective of λturnoff, Ldust/L★ and disk flaring. This suggests that the outer disk flaring either does not evolve synchronously with the inside-out disk clearing of small dust grains or has little appreciable influence on the spectral slopes at λ〈～ 24 μm. About 23% of our YSO disks are classified as transitional disks, which haveλturnoff ≥ 5.8 μm and Ldust/L★ 〉 10-3. The transitional disks and full disks occupy distinctly different regions on the Ldust/L★ vs. αexcess diagram. Taking Ldust/L★ as an approximate discriminator of disks with（〉0.1） and without（〈0.1） considerable accretion activity, we found that 65% and 35% of the transitional disks may be consistent with being dominantly cleared by photoevaporation and dynamical interaction with giant planets respectively. None of our transitional disks have αexcess（〈0.0） or Ldust/L★（〉0.1） values that would otherwise be suggestive of disk clearing dominanted by grain growth.

星系对选择的新方法讨论

了解星系对的空间分布和随时间的演化是研究星系的形成和演化的重要手段之一,而其中完备星系对样本的选择是研究的关键.比起光学波段,在红外波段选择和观测星系对有很多优势.介绍了利用红外望远镜Spitzer卫星的SWIRE(the Spitzer Wide-area Infra Red Extragalactic survey)数据选择完备星系对样本的新方法,比较分析了星系对选源标准,得到了初步星系对样本.