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On the Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes Preceding Narrow Bipolar Events 期刊论文 OAI收割
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 卷号: 48, 页码: e92160
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low frequency magnetic sferics narrow bipolar events (NBEs) relativistic feedback mechanism Terrestrial Gamma ray Flashes (TGFs) Abstract: Narrow bipolar events (NBEs) are occasionally reported to occur within a few ms after Terrestrial Gamma ray Flashes (TGFs), while the formation mechanism remains mysterious partially due to the lack of sufficient observations. Here, nine more TGFs of this scenario are reported with concurrent LF sferics and lightning location data. The gamma ray production in these TGFs preceded the occurrence of NBEs by a minimum of 60 µs up to 13.5 ms, and no other fast leader discharge was found within 20 ms before the TGF. The TGF preceded positive NBEs occurred at altitudes of 8.6-11 km in thunderstorms, likely in the high electric field (E field) region of lightning initiation. The analyses show that the NBE preceding TGFs bear harder energy spectrum with larger proportion of high energy photons than EIP related TGFs produced in association with lightning leader. Our findings support the relativistic feedback mechanism of gamma ray generation in the large scale thunderstorm E field.

Detection of Flare Multiperiodic Pulsations in Mid-ultraviolet Balmer Continuum, Lyl Hard X-Ray, and Radio Emissions Simultaneously 期刊论文 OAI收割
The Astrophysical Journal, 2021, 卷号: 921, 页码: 179
作者: HXMT

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Solar flares Solar oscillations Solar ultraviolet emission Solar x-ray emission Solar radio emission 1496 1515 1533 1536 1522 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Abstract: Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs), which usually appear as temporal pulsations of the total flux, are frequently detected in the light curves of solar/stellar flares. In this study, we present the investigation of nonstationary QPPs with multiple periods during the impulsive phase of a powerful flare on 2017 September 6, which were simultaneously measured by the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT), as well as the ground-based BLENSW. The multiple periods, detected by applying a wavelet transform and Lomb-Scargle periodogram to the detrended light curves, are found to be ~20-55 s in the Ly`and mid-ultraviolet Balmer continuum emissions during the flare impulsive phase. Similar QPPs with multiple periods are also found in the hard X-ray emission and low-frequency radio emission. Our observations suggest that the flare QPPs could be related to nonthermal electrons accelerated by the repeated energy release process, i.e., triggering of repetitive magnetic reconnection, while the multiple periods might be modulated by the sausage oscillation of hot plasma loops. For the multiperiodic pulsations, other generation mechanisms could not be completely ruled out.

The braking index of PSR B0540-69 and the associated pulsar wind nebula emission after spin-down rate transition 期刊论文 OAI收割
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 卷号: 494, 页码: 1865-1870
作者: HXMT

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stars: magnetic field stars: neutron pulsars: general Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Abstract: In 2011 December, PSR B054-69 experienced a spin-down rate transition (SRT), after which the spin-down power of the pulsar increased by $\sim 36{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$. About 1000 d after the SRT, the X-ray luminosity of the associated pulsar wind nebula (PWN) was found to brighten by $32\pm 8{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$. After the SRT, the braking index n of PSR B0540-69 changes from n = 2.12 to 0.03 and then keeps this value for about five years before rising to n = 0.9 in the following years. We find that most of the current models have difficulties in explaining the measured braking index. One exceptive model of the braking index evolution is the increasing dipole magnetic field of PSR B0540-69. We suggest that the field increase may result from some instabilities within the pulsar core that enhance the poloidal component at the price of toroidal component of the magnetic field. The increasing dipole magnetic field will result in the X-ray brightening of the PWN. We fit the PWN X-ray light curve by two models: one assumes a constant magnetic field within the PWN during the brightening and the other assumes an enhanced magnetic field proportional to the energy density of the PWN. It appears that the two models fit the data well, though the later model seems to fit the data a bit better. This provides marginal observational evidence that magnetic field in the PWN is generated by the termination shock. Future high-quality and high-cadence data are required to draw a solid conclusion.

Insight-HXMT observations of Swift J0243.6+6124: the evolution of RMS pulse fractions at super-Eddington luminosity 期刊论文 OAI收割
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 卷号: 497, 页码: 5498-5506
作者: HXMT

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stars: neutron pulsars: individual: Swift J0243.6+6124 X-rays: binaries Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Abstract: Based on Insight-HXMT data, we report on the pulse fraction evolution during the 2017-2018 outburst of the newly discovered first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) source Swift J0243.6+6124. The pulse fractions of 19 observation pairs selected in the rising and fading phases with similar luminosity are investigated. The results show a general trend of the pulse fraction increasing with luminosity and energy at supercritical luminosity. However, the relative strength of the pulsation between each pair evolves strongly with luminosity. The pulse fraction in the rising phase is larger at luminosity below 7.71 × 10³⁸ erg s^-1, but smaller at above. A transition luminosity is found to be energy independent. Such a phenomenon is first confirmed by Insight-HXMT observations and we speculate that it may have relation with the radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disc.

GRB 200415A: A Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Magnetar Giant Flare? 期刊论文 OAI收割
The Astrophysical Journal, 2020, 卷号: 899, 页码: 106
作者: HXMT

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Gamma-ray bursts Soft gamma-ray repeaters Magnetars Gamma-ray transient sources 629 1441 992 1853 Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Abstract: The giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) have long been proposed to contribute to at least a subsample of the observed short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper, we perform a comprehensive analysis of the high-energy data of the recent bright short GRB 200415A, which was located close to the Sculptor galaxy. Our results suggest that a magnetar giant flare provides the most natural explanation for most observational properties of GRB 200415A, including its location, temporal and spectral features, energy, statistical correlations, and high-energy emissions. On the other hand, the compact star merger GRB model is found to have difficulty reproducing such an event in a nearby distance. Future detections and follow-up observations of similar events are essential to firmly establish the connection between SGR giant flares and a subsample of nearby short GRBs.

食用蔬菜能吸收和积累微塑料 期刊论文 OAI收割
科学通报, 2019, 卷号: 64, 期号: 9, 页码: 928-934
作者: 李连祯; 周倩; 尹娜; 涂晨; 骆永明

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微塑料生菜聚苯乙烯微球吸收积累健康风险 microplastics lettuce polystyrene microbeads uptake accumulation human health risk Microplastic (MP, 100 nm-5 mm) may present an attributable risk to ecosystem and human health, and its pollution has become a global environmental concern. Despite a wealth of information on the accumulation of MPs in aquatic species, there is no information on the uptake and accumulation of MPs by higher plants. Terrestrial edible plants are directly exposed to MPs when agricultural soil was applied with organic manure, sewage sludge as fertilizer or plastic mulching. In this paper, the uptake of two sizes of polystyrene (PS) microbeads (0.2 and 1.0 mum) and then their distribution and migration in an edible plant lettuce were firstly investigated based on laboratory experiments. We used fluorescent markers to track PS microbeads in plant tissues and found fluorescence to be a sensitive and reliable detection method. Sections from untreated control lettuce showed no autofluorescence. When roots were treated with fluorescently labeled PS microbeads, the microbeads could be identified by its fluorescence. Our main study investigated the uptake of 0.2 mum beads, as few luminescence signals were observed in lettuce roots for 1.0 mum beads in our experiment. We observed that 0.2 mum fluorescent microbeads were extracellularly trapped in the root cap mucilage (which is a highly hydrated polysaccharide) and a dark green tip (which was typical of lettuce roots exposed to label PS beads) was usually visible to the naked eye. Confocal images revealed that the PS luminescence signals were mainly located in the vascular system and on the cell walls of the cortex tissue of the roots, indicated that the beads passed through the intercellular space via the apoplastic transport system. Once inside the central cylinder, the 0.2 mum PS beads were transferred from the roots to the stems and leaves via the vascular system following the transpiration stream. We also observed that the PS beads adhered to one another and self-assembled systematically into grape-like and (chain) string-like clusters in the intercellular space of the root and stem vascular tissue of lettuce plant. In contrast to the root and stem, PS beads were dispersed in the leaf tissue. Here, for the first time we provide evidence of the adherence, uptake, accumulation, and translocation of submicrometer MPs within an edible plant. Our findings highlight the previously underappreciated human exposure pathway to MPs through the consumption of contaminated crops and emphasize the need for new management strategies to control the release of MPs waste products into the terrestrial environment. Ultimately, the potential impacts of low range sized MPs on food safety of crop plants and human health need to be urgently considered.

Mid-late Pleistocene glacial evolution in the Grove Mountains, East Antarctica, constraints from cosmogenic Be-10 surface exposure dating of glacial erratic cobbles 期刊论文 OAI收割
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 2016, 卷号: 145, 期号: 0, 页码: 71-81
作者: Dong, GC (Dong, Guocheng); Huang, FX (Huang, Feixin); Caffee, MW (Caffee, Marc W.); Huang, FX; Yi, CL (Yi, Chaolu)

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Glacial HisTories From The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (Eais) Provide Keys To UnderstAndIng Correlations Between The Eats And Global Climate. They Are Especially Helpful In The Assessment Of Global Sea Level Change And As a Means Of Quantifying The Magnitude Of pAst Glacial Activity And The RAte At Which Ice Responded To climAte Change. Given The Significance Of Eais Glacial hisTories It Is Imperative That More Glacial Chronologic Data For thIs Region Be Obtained Especially For The Mid-to-lAte Pleistocene. We Report Cosmogenic Be-10 Surface Exposure DAtIng Results From Glacially Transported Cobbles Embedded In Blue-ice moraIne MAterial At Mount hardIng The Grove Mountains Eais. Forty Exotic Cobbles Sampled AlOng Two PrOfiles (a And b) On This Blue-ice MoraIne Present Apparent Exposure-ages RangIng From 7.2 To 542.2 Ka. We Explore This Scattered Dataset By UsIng PrIncipal compOnent Analysis (Pca) To Identify Statistically Significant Trends In The Data. We Identify a correlatiOn betWeen Exposure-age And Distance Of The Cobbles From Mount hardIng. In prOfile a Cobbles Further From Mount HardIng Yield Older Exposure-ages Than Those That Are Relatively Close. In Profile b Cobbles Closer To Mount HardIng Are Found To Have Relatively Older Exposure-ages. In Term Of Glacial hisTory We Suggest That The Direction Of Ice Flow Changed durIng The Period From Similar To 60 To 200 Ka And That Multiple Glacial Fluctuations Occurred In The Mid-late Pleistocene. (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Molecular Weight Dependency of Crystallization and Melting Behavior of beta-Nucleated Isotactic Polypropylene 期刊论文 OAI收割
journal of polymer science part b-polymer physics, 2014, 卷号: 52, 期号: 19, 页码: 1301-1308
Lu, Ying; Wang, Qiao; Men, Yongfeng

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Compounds of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) and beta-nucleating agent were used to investigate the relationship between the development of beta phase and molecular weight in iPP under quiescent crystallization conditions by using wide angle X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry techniques. In all cases the dependency of the formation of beta phase in iPP on molecular weight of iPP at a defined crystallization temperature range was found. The iPP with high molecular weight possessed a wide range of crystallization temperature in inducing rich beta phase. However poor or even no beta phase was obtained for the samples with low molecular weight in the same range. In addition an upper critical crystallization temperature of producing dominant beta phase was found at 125 degrees C. Beyond this temperature a phenomenon of prevailing alpha phase became obvious. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals Inc.

Gradient Structure-Induced Temperature Responsiveness in Styrene/Methyl Methacrylate Gradient Copolymers Micelles 期刊论文 OAI收割
macromolecular rapid communications, 2014, 卷号: 35, 期号: 3, 页码: 309-316
Zheng,Chao; Huang,Haiying; He,Tianbai

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In this work micelles are formed by gradient copolymer of styrene and methyl methacrylate in acetone-water mixture and their temperature responsiveness is investigated in a narrow range near room temperature. Three different kinds of structural transitions could be induced by temperature: unimers to micelle transition shrinkage/stretching of micelles and morphological transition from spherical micelles to vesicles. In addition a model analysis on the interface of gradient copolymer micelle is made to better understand these phenomena. It is found that both position and composition of the interface could alter in response to the change in temperature. According to the experiments and model analysis it is proposed that temperature responsiveness might be an intrinsic and universal property of gradient copolymer micelles which only originates from the gradient structure.

Apoptosis induction and G2/M arrest of 2-methyl-1,3,6-trihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone from Rubia yunnanensis in human cervical cancer HeLa cells 期刊论文 OAI收割
PHARMAZIE, 2013, 卷号: 68, 期号: 4, 页码: 293-299
作者: Zeng, Guang-Zhi; Fan, Jun-Ting; Xu, Jun-Ju; Li, Yan; Tan, Ning-Hua

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2-Methyl-1,3,6-trihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone (MTA) one of the major components isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine Rubia yunnanensis exhibited inhibitory activity on the proliferation of several human cancer cell lines. The results from an annexin V-FITC (fluoresein-5-isothiocyanate) apoptosis assay and DNA content analysis showed that MTA exerted cytotoxicity via apoptosis induction and G2/M cell cycle arrest in human cervical carcinoma HeLa cells. Further MTA was found to induce apoptosis of HeLa cells through the mitochondria-mediated pathway. It caused the translocation of Bax to the mitochondria and release of cytochrome c into the cytosol which caused the cleavage of caspase and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and finally triggered the apoptosis. Furthermore the p53/p21/Cdc2-cyclin B1 signaling was found related to the G2/M arrest caused by MTA. The over-expression of p21 and down-expression of cyclin B1 caused by MTA inactivated the Cdc2-cyclin B1 complex of G2/M checkpoint and finally caused the G2/M arrest in HeLa cells. This study demonstrated that MTA is a potential anti-cancer component of R. yunnanensis a folk anti-cancer herb used in Yunnan China.