The Method of Expert Evaluation of Airports Aviation Security Using Perceptual Calculations

One of the effective ways to improve the quality of airport security (AS) is to improve the quality of management of the state of the system for countering acts of unlawful interference by intruders into the airports (SCAUI), which is a set of AS employees, technical systems and devices used for passenger screening, luggage, other operational procedures, as well as to protect the restricted areas of the airports. Proactive control of the SCAUI state includes ongoing conducting assessment of airport AS quality by experts, identification of SCAUI elements (functional state of AS employees, characteristics of technical systems and devices) that have a predominant influence on AS, and improvement of their performance. This article presents principles of the model and the method for conducting expert quality assessment of airport AS, whose application allows to increase the efficiency and quality of AS assessment by experts, and, consequently, the quality of SCAUI state control

Doppler confirmation of TESS planet candidate TOI1408.01: grazing transit and likely eccentric orbit

We report an independent Doppler confirmation of the TESS planet candidate orbiting an F-type main sequence star TOI-1408 located 140 pc away. We present a set of radial velocities obtained with a high-resolution fiber-optic spectrograph FFOREST mounted at the SAO RAS 6-m telescope (BTA-6). Our self-consistent analysis of these Doppler data and TESS photometry suggests a grazing transit such that the planet obscures its host star by only a portion of the visible disc. Because of this degeneracy, the radius of TOI-1408.01 appears ill-determined with lower limit about $\sim$1 R$_{\rm Jup}$, significantly larger than in the current TESS solution. We also derive the planet mass of $1.69\pm0.20$~$M_{\rm Jup}$ and the orbital period $\sim4.425$ days, thus making this object a typical hot Jupiter, but with a significant orbital eccentricity of $0.259\pm0.026$. Our solution may suggest the planet is likely to experience a high tidal eccentricity migration at the stage of intense orbital rounding, or may indicate possible presence of other unseen companions in the system, yet to be detected.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Eight exoplanet candidates in SAO survey

Here we present eight new candidates for exoplanets detected by the transit method at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Photometric observations were performed with a 50-cm robotic telescope during the second half of 2020. We detected transits with depths of $\Delta m = 0.056-0.173^m$ and periods $P = 18.8^h-8.3^d$ in the light curves of stars with magnitudes of $m = 14.3-18.8^m$. All considered stars are classified as dwarfs with radii of $R_* = 0.4-0.6 R_{sun}$ (with the uncertainty for one star up to $1.1 R_{sun}$). We estimated the candidate radii (all are greater than 1.4 times the Jovian radius), semi-major axes of their orbits ($0.012-0.035 AU$), and other orbital parameters by modelling. We report the light curves with transits for two stars obtained in 2022 based on individual observations.Comment: 16 pages, 14 figures, 3 table

Comparison of the mass distributions of short-period exoplanets detected by transit and RV methods

International audienceWe analyse the causes of a discrepancy between the earlier obtained samples of the mass distributions of exoplanets detected by the transit method and the radial velocity (RV) one and corrected for some observational selection effects. It is found that this discrepancy can be removed by introducing the following restrictions into the procedures forming the samples: (i) to consider, among transit exoplanets, only those which masses were determined by the RV method (i.e. excluding the TTV method); (ii) to take into account exoplanets with orbital periods P ∈ [1, 100] days and masses M ∈ [0.02, 13]MJ (Jupiter masses). In addition, we compare here the distributions by projective masses (which is Msin i, where i is the orbital inclination of an exoplanet). For this, the mass distribution of transit exoplanets is transformed into the projective mass distribution. Due to these three changes in the procedure, the obtained RV and transit distributions exhibit a similar behaviour in an interval of M ∈ [0.02, Mmid]MJ and coincide at M ∈ [Mmid, 13]MJ, where Mmid ≈ 0.17MJ

The Method of Expert Evaluation of Airports Aviation Security Using Perceptual Calculations

One of the effective ways to improve the quality of airport security (AS) is to improve the quality of management of the state of the system for countering acts of unlawful interference by intruders into the airports (SCAUI), which is a set of AS employees, technical systems and devices used for passenger screening, luggage, other operational procedures, as well as to protect the restricted areas of the airports. Proactive control of the SCAUI state includes ongoing conducting assessment of airport AS quality by experts, identification of SCAUI elements (functional state of AS employees, characteristics of technical systems and devices) that have a predominant influence on AS, and improvement of their performance. This article presents principles of the model and the method for conducting expert quality assessment of airport AS, whose application allows to increase the efficiency and quality of AS assessment by experts, and, consequently, the quality of SCAUI state control

Low Speckle Noise Coronagraph with UNI+PAC

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Low Speckle Noise Coronagraph with UNI+PAC

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