The Smallest Interstellar Grains: Optical/Near-IR Emission from Nanoparticles

最小的星际颗粒：纳米颗粒的光学/近红外发射

• 批准号: 0307307
• 负责人: Adolf Witt
• 金额: $ 25.32万
• 依托单位: University of Toledo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0307307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Smallest; Interstellar; Grains; Optical; Near

AST 0307638HarringtonThis project will develop a linked series of 3D hydrodynamic and chemical models for the impact, plume blowout, and plume flight/splash phases of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) events. These models will advect tracer particles, whose temperature (T) and pressure (p) histories will drive chemical and grain models. Chemical and grain results will be re-inserted into the splash model to calculate realistic light curves and impact-site images. Several investigations will be carried out with the models, which will run on a small cluster supercomputer. The model is required for full interpretation of the puzzling SL9 data, and will yield basic information about Jupiter's atmosphere and comet composition. The models will test theories for the expanding rings seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. This work has a very broad impact. It is the first observationally-constrained 3D radiative-hydrodynamic chemical model of all phases of a cometary impact. The models and model grids will be archived with the Planetary Data System so that they will be quickly available for use in planning observations of the next impact, be it 10 or 500 years from now. The models will makepredictions for the Cassini mission. Public interest in impacts is high, so results will appear in both the scientific literature and in popular science magazines.***

AST 0307638HARRINGTONTHIS项目将开发一系列的3D流体动力和化学模型，用于造影，羽状井喷以及鞋匠 - 莱维9（SL9）事件的羽流/飞机飞行/飞溅阶段。这些模型将加入示踪剂颗粒，其温度（T）和压力（P）历史将驱动化学和晶粒模型。化学和谷物结果将重新插入飞溅模型中，以计算逼真的光曲线和冲击点图像。这些模型将在小型群集超级计算机上进行几项调查。该模型是对令人困惑的SL9数据完全解释所必需的，并将产生有关木星大气和彗星组成的基本信息。这些模型将测试哈勃太空望远镜看到的扩展环的理论。这项工作具有很大的影响。这是第一个观察约束的3D辐射流动力学化学模型，这些化学模型的所有阶段都具有彗星撞击的所有阶段。模型和模型网格将与行星数据系统一起存档，以便它们可以快速用于计划下一个影响的观察，无论是从现在起的10或500年。 这些模型将为卡西尼任务做出预测。公众对影响的兴趣很高，因此结果将出现在科学文献和流行科学杂志中。***