A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud

by May, Brian Harold

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9780387777054
ISBN10:
0387777059
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2008-08-15
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Summary

This book documents the building of a pressure-scanned Fabry-Perot Spectrometer, equipped with a photomultiplier and pulse-counting electronics and its deployment to record high-resolution spectra of the Zodiacal Light.

Author Biography

Brian May CBE, PhD, ARCS, FRASIs a founding member of Queen, a world-renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer. Brian was forced to abandon his PhD studies at Imperial College London in 1974 when Queen's popularity first exploded. He always retained a keen interest in astronomy and has been a regular contributor to The Sky at Night, BBC TV's monthly astronomy programme hosted by Sir Patrick Moore. Returning to astrophysical research in 2006, he was awarded his PhD in 2007. He is Chancellor of John Moores University, and a patron to a number of charities, including the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the British Bone Marrow Donor Association. To contact Brian and enjoy updates on astronomy and his thoughts on various subjects from relativity to rock, visit his interactive website at www.brianmay.com.

List of Figures
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction	p. 1
The Zodiacal Light - the phenomenon	p. 1
Review of observations of the ZL prior to 1970	p. 2
Review of the period of my observations of the ZL, 1970-1974	p. 20
Review of recent developments in ZL research, 1974-2007	p. 21
Preparations and experimental details 1971-1974	p. 41
Choice of wavelength for the observations	p. 41
Choice of resolving power	p. 41
The site	p. 44
The ZL building	p. 45
Instrumental details	p. 47
New features of the instrument	p. 52
Optimisation of the system	p. 72
How the observations were made	p. 73
Reduction of the Data	p. 77
Intensity calibration	p. 77
Wavelength calibration	p. 81
Treatment of a single scan	p. 86
Daylight correction	p. 87
MgI emission	p. 87
Averaging	p. 95
Polynomial fits	p. 95
Gaussian Curve Fitting (Program GAUSSN)	p. 101
Interpretation of results in terms of physical models	p. 105
Gallery of spectra	p. 105
General comments on the data	p. 116
Information obtainable from the Gaussian fits	p. 116
Accuracy of the fits	p. 119
Evidence from line-widths and depths	p. 120
Analysis of the wavelength versus elongation data	p. 121
Forces experienced by particles in the Zodiacal Cloud	p. 122
Rotating dust cloud models	p. 123
Other considerations in rotating models	p. 124
Geocentric Dust Cloud (GDC) model	p. 127
A uniform dust flow model	p. 128
Estimation of the effect of a contribution to the Zodiacal Light from sources distant from the Solar System	p. 136
Further analysis of the data by comparison with new radial velocity data and model theory available in 2007	p. 140
Binning of the HMR data	p. 144
Variations with time	p. 146
Summary of implications of the 1970-4 work, and pointers for the future	p. 147
Current developments and future plans	p. 149
Current Zodiacal Light research	p. 149
Objectives of our proposed new work in Zodiacal Light	p. 151
Concluding remarks	p. 153
Program ZLPLT	p. 161
Programs LSQFIT, GAUSSN	p. 165
Programs POLYPT, FLEXPT, MINIPT, MINIPS, GAUSPT	p. 175
Programs STREAM, CONVL	p. 179
Hicks, May and Reay NATURE paper, 1972	p. 183
Hicks, May and Reay MNRAS paper, 1974	p. 189
The Airy Summation	p. 201
References	p. 205
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