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Discovery of two new hypervelocity stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic surveys
We report the discovery of two new unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs) from
the LAMOST spectroscopic surveys. They are respectively a B2V type star of ~ 7
M with a Galactic rest-frame radial velocity of 502 km/s at a
Galactocentric radius of ~ 21 kpc and a B7V type star of ~ 4 M
with a Galactic rest-frame radial velocity of 408 km/s at a Galactocentric
radius of ~ 30 kpc. The origins of the two HVSs are not clear given their
currently poorly measured proper motions. However, the future data releases of
Gaia should provide proper motion measurements accurate enough to solve this
problem. The ongoing LAMOST spectroscopic surveys are expected to yield more
HVSs to form a statistical sample, providing vital constraint on understanding
the nature of HVSs and their ejection mechanisms.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ
Definition and Design of Zero Energy Buildings
The wide application of renewable energy system (RES) in buildings combined with numerous financial incentives on RES paves the way for future zero energy buildings (ZEB). Although the definition of ZEB still lacks a national building code and international standards, the number of ZEB projects is still increasing worldwide which seems to be the pioneer ZEB buildings. However, due to the intermittency of the renewable resources, various uncertain parameters, and dynamic electricity price from the grid, how to select the renewable energy system for buildings is one of the challenges and therefore becomes an extensive concern for both researchers and designers. In addition, questions like how to achieve the target of zero energy for different types of buildings, should the building be designed as an independent ZEB or a group of buildings to be a ZEB cluster, and how to make building owners actively involved in installing enough RES for the building are still on the air. This chapter will present a comprehensive view on several key issues related with ZEB, that is, definition, evaluation criteria, design method, and uncertainty analysis, and the penalty cost scheme is also proposed for consideration as one policy to assist the promotion of ZEB
Stellar Parameters of Main Sequence Turn-off Star Candidates Observed with the LAMOST and Kepler
Main sequence turn-off (MSTO) stars have advantages as indicators of Galactic
evolution since their ages could be robustly estimated from atmospheric
parameters. Hundreds of thousands of MSTO stars have been selected from the
LAMOST Galactic sur- vey to study the evolution of the Galaxy, and it is vital
to derive accurate stellar parameters. In this work, we select 150 MSTO star
candidates from the MSTO stars sample of Xiang that have asteroseismic
parameters and determine accurate stellar parameters for these stars combing
the asteroseismic parameters deduced from the Kepler photometry and atmospheric
parameters deduced from the LAMOST spectra.With this sample, we examine the age
deter- mination as well as the contamination rate of the MSTO stars sample. A
comparison of age between this work and Xiang shows a mean difference of 0.53
Gyr (7%) and a dispersion of 2.71 Gyr (28%). The results show that 79 of the
candidates are MSTO stars, while the others are contaminations from either main
sequence or sub-giant stars. The contamination rate for the oldest stars is
much higher than that for the younger stars. The main cause for the high
contamination rate is found to be the relatively large systematic bias in the
LAMOST surface gravity estimates.Comment: accepted by RA
Weak feedback assisted random fiber laser from 45°-tilted fiber Bragg grating
We have demonstrated the realization of a high-polarization random fiber laser (RFL) output based on the hybrid Raman and Erbium gain with the tailored effect provided by a 45°-tilted fiber Bragg grating (45°-TFBG), revealing an improvement in the polarization extinction ratio (PER) and achieving a PER of ~15.3 dB. The hybrid RFL system incorporating the 45°-TFBG has been systematically characterized. The random lasing wavelength can be fixed under the extremely weak feedback effect of the 45°-TFBG with reflectivity of 0.09%. In addition, numerical simulation has verified that the weak feedback can boost the random lasing emission with fixed wavelength using a power balance model, which is in good accordance with the experiment results
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