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Orbital Debris Radar Measurements from the Haystack Ultra-Wideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR): 2014-2017
For many years, the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office (ODPO) has partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL) to collect data on the orbital debris environment using the Haystack radar. These measurements are used to characterize the small debris environment in low Earth orbit (LEO), down to a noise-limited size of approximately 5 mmdepending on altitude. The Haystack radar operated by MIT Lincoln Lab underwent upgrades starting in May 2010, with operations resuming in 2014 as the Haystack Ultra-wideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR). Hence, the data collected beginning in 2014 represents the first dataset available from this upgraded sensor. HUSIR is the primary source of data used by the ODPO to statistically sample orbital debris in the 5-mm to 10-cm size regime in LEO and is a key source of data to build and validate the NASA Orbital Debris Engineering Model. In this paper, we will present recent results from measurements performed during the US Government fiscal years 2014 2017. Using the NASA Size Estimation Model, a method based on laboratory radar measurements of debris, we will compare the size distributions of selected orbital debris populations over this 4-year period and flux measurements of orbital debris greater than 1 cm
A longitudinal study of mental health in refugees from Burma: The impact of therapeutic interventions
Objective: The present study seeks to examine the impact of therapeutic interventions for people from refugee backgrounds within a naturalistic setting. Method: Sixty-two refugees from Burma were assessed soon after arriving in Australia. All participants received standard interventions provided by a resettlement organisation which included therapeutic interventions, assessment, social assistance, and referrals where appropriate. At the completion of service provision a follow-up assessment was conducted. Results: Over the course of the intervention, participants experienced a significant decrease in symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and somatisation. Pre-intervention symptoms predicted symptoms post-intervention for post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and somatisation. Post-migration living difficulties, the number of traumas experienced, and the number of contacts with the service agency were unrelated to all mental health outcomes. Conclusions: In the first Australian study of its kind, reductions in mental health symptoms post-intervention were significantly linked to pre-intervention symptomatology and the number of therapy sessions predicted post-intervention symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Future studies need to include larger samples and control groups to verify findings
Obscuration by Gas and Dust in Luminous Quasars
We explore the connection between absorption by neutral gas and extinction by
dust in mid-infrared (IR) selected luminous quasars. We use a sample of 33
quasars at redshifts 0.7 < z < 3 in the 9 deg^2 Bo\"otes multiwavelength survey
field that are selected using Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera
colors and are well-detected as luminous X-ray sources (with >150 counts) in
Chandra observations. We divide the quasars into dust-obscured and unobscured
samples based on their optical to mid-IR color, and measure the neutral
hydrogen column density N_H through fitting of the X-ray spectra. We find that
all subsets of quasars have consistent power law photon indices equal to 1.9
that are uncorrelated with N_H. We classify the quasars as gas-absorbed or
gas-unabsorbed if N_H > 10^22 cm^-2 or N_H < 10^22 cm^-2, respectively. Of 24
dust-unobscured quasars in the sample, only one shows clear evidence for
significant intrinsic N_H, while 22 have column densities consistent with N_H <
10^22 cm^-2. In contrast, of the nine dust-obscured quasars, six show evidence
for intrinsic gas absorption, and three are consistent with N_H < 10^22 cm^-2.
We conclude that dust extinction in IR-selected quasars is strongly correlated
with significant gas absorption as determined through X-ray spectral fitting.
These results suggest that obscuring gas and dust in quasars are generally
co-spatial, and confirm the reliability of simple mid-IR and optical
photometric techniques for separating quasars based on obscuration.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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