Improving a Satellite Mission System by means of a Semantic Grid Architecture

The use of a semantic grid architecture can make easier the deployment of complex applications, in which several organizations are involved and diverse resources are shared. This paper presents the application of the architecture defined in the Ontogrid project (S-OGSA) into a scenario for the analysis of the quality of the products of satellite missions

Water and socioeconomic dependencies: a multiregional model

River basins often extend over several regions connected by both water flows and socioeconomic factors. Therefore, water policy and diverse hydrological scenarios can affect socioeconomic variables in other parts of a river basin. This paper proposes a tool combining hydro-economic and input–output models to analyze the socioeconomic impacts of different hydrologic scenarios from a multiregional standpoint. To this end, we have built a monthly-basis hydro-economic model to fit a multiregional input–output table to estimate direct and indirect impacts on value added and employment, bringing together data on water flow and regional demand, sector-based economic analysis and macroeconomic impacts. In a given hydrological scenario, the hydro-economic model determines the output of irrigated farmland in each region and the value added generated by each crop. These data are then processed using the multiregional input–output model to determine socio-economic impacts in each of the regions forming the river basin. This methodology allows evaluation of different water policies, providing a tool for policymakers to estimate socio-economic impacts. Finally, we apply this methodology in two scenarios reflecting the opportunity costs of diverse hydrological scenarios in terms of value added and employment terms to demonstrate its excellent analytic capacity. Graphic abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Evidence of ongoing radial migration in NGC 6754: Azimuthal variations of the gas properties

Understanding the nature of spiral structure in disk galaxies is one of the main, and still unsolved questions in galactic astronomy. However, theoretical works are proposing new testable predictions whose detection is becoming feasible with recent development in instrumentation. In particular, streaming motions along spiral arms are expected to induce azimuthal variations in the chemical composition of a galaxy at a given galactic radius. In this letter we analyse the gas content in NGC 6754 with VLT/MUSE data to characterise its 2D chemical composition and H$\alpha$ line-of-sight velocity distribution. We find that the trailing (leading) edge of the NGC 6754 spiral arms show signatures of tangentially-slower, radially-outward (tangentially-faster, radially-inward) streaming motions of metal-rich (poor) gas over a large range of radii. These results show direct evidence of gas radial migration for the first time. We compare our results with the gas behaviour in a $N$-body disk simulation showing spiral morphological features rotating with a similar speed as the gas at every radius, in good agreement with the observed trend. This indicates that the spiral arm features in NGC 6754 may be transient and rotate similarly as the gas does at a large range of radii.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL 2016 September 2

The complex structure of HH 110 as revealed from Integral Field Spectroscopy

HH 110 is a rather peculiar Herbig-Haro object in Orion that originates due to the deflection of another jet (HH 270) by a dense molecular clump, instead of being directly ejected from a young stellar object. Here we present new results on the kinematics and physical conditions of HH 110 based on Integral Field Spectroscopy. The 3D spectral data cover the whole outflow extent (~4.5 arcmin, ~0.6 pc at a distance of 460 pc) in the spectral range 6500-7000 \AA. We built emission-line intensity maps of H$\alpha$, [NII] and [SII] and of their radial velocity channels. Furthermore, we analysed the spatial distribution of the excitation and electron density from [NII]/H$\alpha$, [SII]/H$\alpha$, and [SII] 6716/6731 integrated line-ratio maps, as well as their behaviour as a function of velocity, from line-ratio channel maps. Our results fully reproduce the morphology and kinematics obtained from previous imaging and long-slit data. In addition, the IFS data revealed, for the first time, the complex spatial distribution of the physical conditions (excitation and density) in the whole jet, and their behaviour as a function of the kinematics. The results here derived give further support to the more recent model simulations that involve deflection of a pulsed jet propagating in an inhomogeneous ambient medium. The IFS data give richer information than that provided by current model simulations or laboratory jet experiments. Hence, they could provide valuable clues to constrain the space parameters in future theoretical works.Comment: 12 pages, 15 figures Accepted in MNRA

Integral Field Spectroscopy of HH 262: The Spectral Atlas

HH 262 is a group of emitting knots displaying an "hour-glass" morphology in the Halpha and [SII] lines, located 3.5' to the northeast of the young stellar object L1551-IRS5, in Taurus. We present new results of the kinematics and physical conditions of HH 262 based on Integral Field Spectroscopy covering a field of 1.5'x3', which includes all the bright knots in HH 262. These data show complex kinematics and significant variations in physical conditions over the mapped region of HH 262 on a spatial scale of <3". A new result derived from the IFS data is the weakness of the [NII] emission (below detection limit in most of the mapped region of HH 262), including the brightest central knots. Our data reinforce the association of HH 262 with the redshifted lobe of the evolved molecular outflow L1551-IRS5. The interaction of this outflow with a younger one, powered by L1551 NE, around the position of HH 262 could give rise to the complex morphology and kinematics of HH 262.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA

Estimación de CO2 acumulado por los manglares de la Bahía de Chame, mediante análisis de cenizas de Avicennia germinans y Rhizophora mangle.

Este estudio realizó para determinar el 002 acumulado por los manglares de la Bahía de Chame, estimado mediante un análisis de cenizas de Avicennia germinans y Rhizophora mangle el sitio exacto del estudio está ubicado en La Tembladera (Bahía Chame) corregimiento de Cermeño, comunidad de Monte Oscuro en el distrito de Capira, en la provincia de Panamá Oeste. Se seleccionó una zona de manglar rivereño que se dividió en tres zonas de marea: chica, media y grande. Por cada zona de marea, se tomaron dos especies de mangle. De cada especie se seleccionaron al azar tres árboles para tomar las muestras de hoja, tronco y raíz. El procesamiento se llevó acabo en el Laboratorio de suelo de la Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias de la Universidad de Panamá. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que Rhizophora mangle acumula mayor cantidad de 002 que Avicennia germinans. La zona de marea chica obtuvo mayor porcentaje de 002 acumulado y el tronco es la estructura vegetal que acumula mayor cantidad de CO2

G 112-29 (=NLTT 18149), a Very Wide Companion to GJ 282 AB with a Common Proper Motion, Common Parallax, Common Radial Velocity and Common Age

We have made a search for common proper motion (CPM) companions to the wide binaries in the solar vicinity. We found that the binary GJ 282AB has a very distant CPM companion (NLTT 18149) at a separation s=1.09 \arcdeg. Improved spectral types and radial velocities are obtained, and ages determined for the three components. The Hipparcos trigonometric parallaxes and the new radial velocities and ages turn out to be very similar for the three stars, and provide strong evidence that they form a physical system. At a projected separation of 55733AU from GJ 282AB, NLTT 18149 ranks among the widest physical companions known.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, submmited to Ap