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  • Simulation of the Solar Energetic Particle Event on 2020 May 29 Observed by Parker Solar Probe

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: This paper presents a stochastic three-dimensional (3D) focused transport simulation of solar energetic particles (SEPs) produced by a data-driven coronal mass ejection (CME) shock propagating through a data-driven model of coronal and heliospheric magnetic fields. The injection of SEPs at the CME shock is treated using diffusive shock acceleration of post-shock superthermal solar wind ions. A time backward stochastic simulation is employed to solve the transport equation to obtain the SEP time-intensity profile at any location, energy, and pitch angle. The model is applied to a SEP event on 2020 May 29, observed by STEREO-A close to 1 au and by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) when it was about 0.33 au away from the Sun. The SEP event was associated with a very slow CME with a plane-of-sky speed of 337 km/s at a height below 6 $\rm R_S$ as reported in the SOHO/LASCO CME catalog. We compute the time profiles of particle flux at PSP and STEREO-A locations, and estimate both the spectral index of the proton energy spectrum for energies between 2 and 16 MeV and the equivalent path length of the magnetic field lines experienced by the first arriving SEPs. We found that the simulation results are well correlated with observations. The SEP event could be explained by the acceleration of particles by a weak CME shock in the low solar corona that is not magnetically connected to the observers.

  • A data-driven physics-based transport model of solar energetic particles accelerated by coronal mass ejection shocks propagating through the solar coronal and heliospheric magnetic fields

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: In an effort to develop computational tools for predicting radiation hazards from solar energetic particles (SEPs), we have created a data-driven physics-based particle transport model to calculate the injection, acceleration and propagation of SEPs from coronal mass ejection (CME) shocks traversing through the solar corona and interplanetary magnetic fields. The model runs on an input of corona and heliospheric plasma and magnetic field configuration from an MHD model driven by solar photospheric magnetic field measurements superposed with observed CME shocks determined from coronagraph images. Using several advanced computation techniques involving stochastic simulation and integration, it rigorously solves the time-dependent 5-dimensional focus transport equation in the phase space that includes pitch-angle scattering, diffusion across magnetic field line, and particle acceleration by CME shocks. We apply the model to the 2011 November 3 CME event. The calculation results reproduce multi-spacecraft SEP observations reasonably well without normalization of particle flux. This circumsolar SEP event seen by spacecraft at Earth, STEREO-A and STEREO-B at widely separated longitudes can be explained by diffusive shock acceleration by a single CME shock with a moderate speed.

  • HI intensity mapping with MeerKAT: forecast for delay power spectrum measurement using interferometer mode

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey is generally regarded as a promising tool to explore the expansion history of the universe. In this work, we investigate the capability of MeerKAT HI IM observation in interferometric mode to estimate the power spectrum and constrain cosmological parameters in typical dark energy models. Besides, a novel approach of delay spectrum is employed, which can achieve separating the weak HI signal from the foreground in the frequency space. We find that the different survey fields have a great influence on the fractional errors on power spectrum $\Delta P/P$ in a limited observational time of 10 h. With the integration time increasing from 10 h to 10000 h, $\Delta P/P$ becomes distinctly smaller until the cosmic variance begins to dominate. In the total 10000 h observation, the lower $\Delta P/P$ in low $k$ can be achieved when tracking 100 points for MeerKAT L-band and 10 points for MeerKAT UHF-band. Through simulating 10000 h HI IM survey, we obtain $\sigma(\Omega_{\rm m})=0.044$ and $\sigma(H_0)=2.8~{\rm kms^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}}$ with MeerKAT L-band, which are worse than the results of $\sigma(\Omega_{\rm m})=0.028$ and $\sigma(H_0)=2.0~{\rm km\ s^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}}$ with MeerKAT UHF-band in the $\Lambda$CDM model. However, in the $w$CDM and CPL models, MeerKAT shows a limited capability of constraining dark-energy equation of state, even though combined with Planck data. Our analysis is shown to be a useful guide for the near future MeerKAT observations in HI IM survey.

  • Prospects for Constraining Interacting Dark Energy Models with 21 cm Intensity Mapping Experiments

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters in the interacting dark energy models using the mock data generated for neutral hydrogen intensity mapping (IM) experiments. In this work, we only consider the interacting dark energy models with energy transfer rate $Q=\beta H\rho_{\rm c}$, and take BINGO, FAST, SKA1-MID, and Tianlai as typical examples of the 21 cm IM experiments. We find that the Tianlai cylinder array will play an important role in constraining the interacting dark energy model. Assuming perfect foreground removal and calibration, and using the Tianlai-alone data, we obtain $\sigma(H_0)=0.19$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, $\sigma(\Omega_{\rm m})=0.0033$ and $\sigma(\sigma_8)=0.0033$ in the I$\Lambda$CDM model, which are much better than the results of Planck+optical BAO (i.e. optical galaxy surveys). However, the Tianlai-alone data cannot provide a very tight constraint on the coupling parameter $\beta$ compared with Planck+optical BAO, while the Planck+Tianlai data can give a rather tight constraint of $\sigma(\beta)=0.00023$ due to the parameter degeneracies being well broken by the data combination. In the I$w$CDM model, we obtain $\sigma(\beta)=0.00079$ and $\sigma(w)=0.013$ from Planck+Tianlai. In addition, we also make a detailed comparison among BINGO, FAST, SKA1-MID, and Tianlai in constraining the interacting dark energy models. We show that future 21 cm IM experiments will provide a useful tool for exploring the nature of dark energy and play a significant role in measuring the coupling between dark energy and dark matter.

  • HI intensity mapping with MeerKAT: forecast for delay power spectrum measurement using interferometer mode

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey is generally regarded as a promising tool to explore the expansion history of the universe. In this work, we investigate the capability of MeerKAT HI IM observation in interferometric mode to estimate the power spectrum and constrain cosmological parameters in typical dark energy models. Besides, a novel approach of delay spectrum is employed, which can achieve separating the weak HI signal from the foreground in the frequency space. We find that the different survey fields have a great influence on the fractional errors on power spectrum $\Delta P/P$ in a limited observational time of 10 h. With the integration time increasing from 10 h to 10000 h, $\Delta P/P$ becomes distinctly smaller until the cosmic variance begins to dominate. In the total 10000 h observation, the lower $\Delta P/P$ in low $k$ can be achieved when tracking 100 points for MeerKAT L-band and 10 points for MeerKAT UHF-band. Through simulating 10000 h HI IM survey, we obtain $\sigma(\Omega_{\rm m})=0.044$ and $\sigma(H_0)=2.8~{\rm kms^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}}$ with MeerKAT L-band, which are worse than the results of $\sigma(\Omega_{\rm m})=0.028$ and $\sigma(H_0)=2.0~{\rm km\ s^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}}$ with MeerKAT UHF-band in the $\Lambda$CDM model. However, in the $w$CDM and CPL models, MeerKAT shows a limited capability of constraining dark-energy equation of state, even though combined with Planck data. Our analysis is shown to be a useful guide for the near future MeerKAT observations in HI IM survey.

  • New-generation silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime

    分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: The singlemode condition is one of the most important design rules for optical waveguides in guided-wave optics. The reason following the singlemode condition is that higher-order modes might be excited and thus introduce some undesired mode-mismatching loss as well as inter-mode crosstalk when light propagates along an optical waveguide beyond the singlemode regime. As a result, multimode photonic waveguides are usually not allowed. In this paper, we propose the concept of silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime, developed with low-loss and low-crosstalk light propagation in multimode photonic waveguides with broadened silicon cores. In particular, silicon photonic waveguides with a broadened core region have shown an ultra-low-loss of ~0.1 dB/cm for the fundamental mode even without any special fabrication process. A micro-racetrack resonator fabricated with standard 220-nm-SOI MPW-foundry processes shows a record intrinsic Q-factor as high as 1.02*107 for the first time, corresponding to ultra-low waveguide propagation loss of only 0.065 dB/cm. A high-performance microwave photonic filter on silicon is then realized with an ultra-narrow 3-dB bandwidth of 20.6 MHz as well as a tuning range of ~20 GHz for the first time. An on-chip 100-cm-long delayline is also demonstrated by using the present broadened SOI photonic waveguides with compact Euler-curve bends, the measured propagation loss is ~0.14 dB/cm. The proposed concept of silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime helps solve the issue of high propagation loss and also significantly reduces the random phase errors of light due to the random variations of waveguide dimensions. In particularity it enables silicon photonic devices with enhanced performances, which paves the way for new-generation silicon photonics realizing the large-scale photonic integration.

  • Topological photonic crystal fibers based on second-order corner modes

    分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Photonic crystal fibers represent one of the most active research fields in modern fiber optics. The recent advancements of topological photonics have inspired new fiber concepts and designs. Here, we demonstrate a new type of topological photonic crystal fibers based on second order photonic corner modes from the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Different from previous works where the in-plane properties at $k_z=0$ have been mainly studied, we find that in the fiber configuration of $k_z>0$, a topological bandgap only exists when the propagation constant $k_z$ along the fiber axis is larger than a certain threshold and the emergent topological bandgap at large $k_z$ hosts two sets of corner fiber modes. We further investigate the propagation diagrams, propose a convenient way to tune the frequencies of the corner fiber modes within the topological bandgap and envisage multi-frequency and multi-channel transmission capabilities of this new type of fibers. Our work will not only have practical importance, but could also open a new area for fiber exploration where many existing higher-order topological photonic modes could bring exciting new opportunities for fiber designs and applications.

  • Silicon photonic devices for scalable quantum information applications

    分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: With high integration density and excellent optical properties, silicon photonics is becoming a promising platform for complete integration and large-scale optical quantum information processing. Scalable quantum information applications need photon generation and detection to be integrated on the same chip, and we have seen that various devices on the silicon photonic chip have been developed for this goal. This paper reviews the relevant research results and state-of-the-art technologies on the silicon photonic chip for scalable quantum applications. Despite the shortcomings, properties of some components have already met the requirements for further expansion. Furthermore, we point out the challenges ahead and further research directions for on-chip scalable quantum information applications.

  • Transverse mode-encoded quantum gate on a silicon photonic chip

    分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: As an important degree of freedom (DoF) in integrated photonic circuits, the orthogonal transverse mode provides a promising and flexible way to increasing communication capability, for both classical and quantum information processing. To construct large-scale on-chip multimode multi-DoF quantum systems, a transverse mode-encoded controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate is necessary. Here, through design and integrate transverse mode-dependent directional coupler and attenuators on a silicon photonic chip, we demonstrate the first multimode implementation of a two-qubit quantum gate. With the aid of state preparation and analysis parts, we show the ability of the gate to entangle two separated transverse mode qubits with an average fidelity of $0.89\pm0.02$ and the achievement of 10 standard deviations of violations in the quantum nonlocality verification. In addition, a fidelity of $0.82\pm0.01$ was obtained from quantum process tomography used to completely characterize the CNOT gate. Our work paves the way for universal transverse mode-encoded quantum operations and large-scale multimode multi-DoF quantum systems.

  • Reliability of sleep deprivation-associated spontaneous brain activity and behavior

    分类: 心理学 >> 应用心理学 提交时间: 2017-11-06

    摘要: Recent studies have indicated that sleep deprivation (SD) alters intrinsic low-frequency connectivity in the resting brain, mainly focusing on the default mode network (DMN) and its anticorrelated network (ACN). These networks hold key functions in segregating internally and externally directed awareness. However, far less attention has been paid to investigation of the altered amplitude of these low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) at the whole-brain level and more importantly by what extent the sleep-deprived resting brain pattern can be reproducible and predict individual behavioral performance. The aim of this study was to characterize more clearly the influence of sleep on the whole brain level of ALFF changes and its relation with the performance of a lexical decision task in the sleep deprivation. Sixteen healthy participants underwent fMRI three times: once after a normal night of sleep in the rested wakefulness (RW) state and two following approximately 24 h of total SD separated by an interval of two weeks (SD1 and SD2). Our behavioral results showed that sleep stabilizes performance whereas two sleep deprivation even at an interval of two weeks consistently deteriorates it. Sleep deprivation attenuated the ALFF mainly in the bilateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and right inferior parietal lobule (IPL). By contrast, the enhanced ALFF emerged in the left sensorimotor cortex (SMA), visual cortex and left fusiform gyrus. Conjunction analysis of SD1 and SD2 versus the control maps and voxel-wise ICC analysis revealed that these SD induced ALFF changes showed a significantly high reliability (ICC>0.5). Particularly, the attenuation of the right IPL presents a significant negative relation with the behavior performance and can be reproducible for two SD at an interval of two weeks. Our results suggest that ALFF is a stable measure in study of SD, and the right IPL may represent a stable biomarker that responds to sleep loss.