题 目:“贝塞尔” VLBI 脉泽天体测量计划:银河系棒和旋臂结构探测
报告人:郑兴武 教授(南京大学天文系)
摘 要: 银河系棒和旋臂结构是天体物理前沿的研究课题。经过近二十年来用现代光学、射电、红外和X射线全波段探测,确认银河系是一个棒状旋涡星系。但银河系有几个臂、臂的形状如何、中心棒有多长、位置角有多大等一些基本问题还不清楚。由中国天文学家主要参加的国际团队最近提出《银河系棒和旋臂结构探测》的贝塞尔计划,该计划将耗时5-7年,用世界最大的射电干涉阵(VLBA)观测银河系棒和旋臂上约500多个星际水和甲醇分子脉泽源,用直接的三角视差测量方法,精确测量它们的距离和3维运动速度,深入全面地研究银河系棒和旋臂结构,该计划的完成将使人类对银河系的认识有突破性进展,对星系的形成和演化、星系的结构乃至人类对宇宙的认识都将有十分重要的影响。
Abstract
One of the frontier objects in all of astrophysics is what pattern the Galactic bar and spiral structure look like. With the evidence found at optical, radio,infrared and x-ray wavelengths our Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy by general consensus. However, some essentials, such as the actual number and the shape of the spiral arm, the size and the inclination of the bar, are still under open. A international team with Chinese astronomers proposed the BeSSeL project to survey the Galactic bar and spiral structure. The project will take about 5-7 year to observe more then 500 maser sources associated the massive star forming region in the bar and the spiral of the Milky Way and mesure their trigonomatric parallax using the VLBA, the largest radio interferomer arry in the world. Accurate measurements of distances and 3-dimention velocities of these maser sources in the bar and spiral ams will comprehensively investigate the bar and spiral structore of the Milky Way. The BeSSeL project may make a breakthrough in understanding of the Milky Way and a impact of the knowledge about the galactic structure, formation, evolution as well as the universe.
时 间:2010年5月20日下午3:30
地 点:(北京西路2号)紫台大楼327教室
紫金山天文台学术委员会学术交流工作委员会
2010年5月19日