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- Maksimovic, M., et al.
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First observations and performance of the RPW instrument on board the Solar Orbiter mission
- 2021
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 656
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission is designed to measure in situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from the continuum up to several hundred kHz. The RPW also observes solar and heliospheric radio emissions up to 16 MHz. It was switched on and its antennae were successfully deployed two days after the launch of Solar Orbiter on February 10, 2020. Since then, the instrument has acquired enough data to make it possible to assess its performance and the electromagnetic disturbances it experiences. In this article, we assess its scientific performance and present the first RPW observations. In particular, we focus on a statistical analysis of the first observations of interplanetary dust by the instrument's Thermal Noise Receiver. We also review the electro-magnetic disturbances that RPW suffers, especially those which potential users of the instrument data should be aware of before starting their research work.
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- Soucek, J., et al.
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EMC Aspects Of Turbulence Heating Observer (THOR) Spacecraft
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings Of 2016 Esa Workshop On Aerospace Emc (Aerospace Emc). - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 9789292213039
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Turbulence Heating ObserveR (THOR) is a spacecraft mission dedicated to the study of plasma turbulence in near-Earth space. The mission is currently under study for implementation as a part of ESA Cosmic Vision program. THOR will involve a single spinning spacecraft equipped with state of the art instruments capable of sensitive measurements of electromagnetic fields and plasma particles. The sensitive electric and magnetic field measurements require that the spacecraft-generated emissions are restricted and strictly controlled; therefore a comprehensive EMC program has been put in place already during the study phase. The THOR study team and a dedicated EMC working group are formulating the mission EMC requirements already in the earliest phase of the project to avoid later delays and cost increases related to EMC. This article introduces the THOR mission and reviews the current state of its EMC requirements.
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- Maksimovic, M., et al.
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The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument
- 2020
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP SCIENCES S A. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 642
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission is described in this paper. This instrument is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from the continuous to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW will also observe solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz. The RPW instrument is of primary importance to the Solar Orbiter mission and science requirements since it is essential to answer three of the four mission overarching science objectives. In addition RPW will exchange on-board data with the other in-situ instruments in order to process algorithms for interplanetary shocks and type III langmuir waves detections.
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- Zaslavsky, A., et al.
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First dust measurements with the Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Wave instrument
- 2021
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 656, s. A30-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context. Impacts of dust grains on spacecraft are known to produce typical impulsive signals in the voltage waveform recorded at the terminals of electric antennas. Such signals (as may be expected) are routinely detected by the Time Domain Sampler (TDS) system of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on board Solar Orbiter. Aims. We investigate the capabilities of RPW in terms of interplanetary dust studies and present the first analysis of dust impacts recorded by this instrument. Our purpose is to characterize the dust population observed in terms of size, flux, and velocity. Methods. We briefly discuss previously developed models of voltage pulse generation after a dust impact onto a spacecraft and present the relevant technical parameters for Solar Orbiter RPW as a dust detector. Then we present the statistical analysis of the dust impacts recorded by RPW /TDS from April 20, 2020 to February 27, 2021 between 0.5AU and 1AU. Results. The study of the dust impact rate along Solar Orbiter's orbit shows that the dust population studied presents a radial velocity component directed outward from the Sun. Its order of magnitude can be roughly estimated as nu(r,dust) similar or equal to 50 km s(-1), which is consistent with the flux of impactors being dominated by fi-meteoroids. We estimate the cumulative flux of these grains at 1AU to be roughly F-beta similar or equal to 8 x 10(-5) m(-2) s(-1) for particles of a radius r greater than or similar to 100 nm. The power law index ffi of the cumulative mass flux of the impactors is evaluated by two di fferents methods, namely: direct observations of voltage pulses and indirect e ffect on the impact rate dependency on the impact speed. Both methods give the following result: delta similar or equal to 0.3-0.4. Conclusions. Solar Orbiter RPW proves to be a suitable instrument for interplanetary dust studies, and the dust detection algorithm implemented in the TDS subsystem an e fficient tool for fluxes estimation. These first results are promising for the continuation of the mission, in particular, for the in situ study of the inner Solar System dust cloud outside of the ecliptic plane, which Solar Orbiter will be the first spacecraft to explore.
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- Meyer-Vernet, Nicole, et al.
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The physics and detection of nanodust in the solar system
- 2015
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Ingår i: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. - : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 0741-3335 .- 1361-6587. ; 57:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The mass distribution of small bodies in the solar system extends over more than 35 orders of magnitude, from asteroids to nanodust, which bridge the gap between molecules and macroscopic submicron grains. The small size of nanograins compared to the relevant basic scales gives them peculiar properties. Some of these properties affect their electric charging and their large charge-to-mass ratio drives their acceleration to very high speeds in moving magnetised plasmas, as the solar wind and rotating planetary magnetospheres. The electric charge and/or high speed of nanograins have enabled them to be detected serendipitously in various parts of the solar system by several instruments designed to study larger dust, plasma particles, or waves, on a number of spacecraft. These discoveries have opened an emerging field of research, in which many open questions remain, in particular concerning the lower size limit of the particles.
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- Vecchio, A., et al.
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Solar Orbiter/RPW antenna calibration in the radio domain and its application to type III burst observations
- 2021
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 656, s. A33-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context. In order to allow for a comparison with the measurements from other antenna systems, the voltage power spectral density measured by the Radio and Plasma waves receiver (RPW) on board Solar Orbiter needs to be converted into physical quantities that depend on the intrinsic properties of the radiation itself (e.g., the brightness of the source). Aims. The main goal of this study is to perform a calibration of the RPW dipole antenna system that allows for the conversion of the voltage power spectral density measured at the receiver's input into the incoming flux density. Methods. We used space observations from the Thermal Noise Receiver (TNR) and the High Frequency Receiver (HFR) to perform the calibration of the RPW dipole antenna system. Observations of type III bursts by the Wind spacecraft are used to obtain a reference radio flux density for cross-calibrating the RPW dipole antennas. The analysis of a large sample of HFR observations (over about ten months), carried out jointly with an analysis of TNR-HFR data and prior to the antennas' deployment, allowed us to estimate the reference system noise of the TNR-HFR receivers. Results. We obtained the effective length, l(eff), of the RPW dipoles and the reference system noise of TNR-HFR in space, where the antennas and pre-amplifiers are embedded in the solar wind plasma. The obtained l(eff) values are in agreement with the simulation and measurements performed on the ground. By investigating the radio flux intensities of 35 type III bursts simultaneously observed by Wind and Solar Orbiter, we found that while the scaling of the decay time as a function of the frequency is the same for the Waves and RPW instruments, their median values are higher for the former. This provides the first observational evidence that Type III radio waves still undergo density scattering, even when they propagate from the source, in a medium with a plasma frequency that is well below their own emission frequency.
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- Bond, Andy, et al.
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A framework for ad hoc federated information systems
- 2001
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on Complex and Dynamic Systems Architectures. - : Distributed Systems Technology Centre, The University of Queensland. - 1864995823
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Finkel, Raphael A., et al.
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Signature extraction for overlap detection in documents
- 2002
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Ingår i: Australian Computer Science Communications. - 0157-3055. ; 24:1, s. 59-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Easy access to the Web has led to increased potential for students cheating on assignments by plagiarising others' work. By the same token, Web-based tools offer the potential for instructors to check submitted assignments for signs of plagiarism. Overlap-detection tools are easy to use and accurate in plagiarism detection, so they can be an excellent deterrent to plagiarism. Documents can overlap for other reasons, too: Old documents are superseded, and authors summarize previous work identically in several papers. Overlap-detection tools can pinpoint interconnections in a corpus of documents and could be used in search engines.We describe a web-accessible text registry based on signature extraction. We extract a small but diagnostic signature from each registered text for permanent storage and comparison against other stored signatures. This comparison allows us to estimate the amount of overlap between pairs of documents, although the total time required is linear in the total size of the documents. We compare our algorithm with several alternatives and present both efficiency and accuracy results.
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- Indulska, J., et al.
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An open architecture for pervasive systems
- 2001
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Ingår i: New developments in distributed applications and interoperable systems. - Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 0792374819
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- Loke, S.W., et al.
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An enterprise viewpoint of wireless virtual communities and the associated uses of software agents
- 2001
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Ingår i: Internet commerce and software agents. - Hershey : Idea Group Publishing. - 1930708017 ; , s. 265-288
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We envision the integration of the concepts of virtual communities, electronic markets, and ubiquitous wireless services into agent-enhanced mobile virtual communities which we call AMV-communities, a set of which form the AMV-community-space. We present concepts for an AMV-community modelled with RM-ODP Enterprise Viewpoint concepts, and outline an architecture of AMV-communities using software agents attached to roles. We also illustrate how we cope with disconnected computing by using agents and meta-policy rules.
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- Padovitz, A., et al.
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Awareness and agility for autonomic distributed systems : platform-independent and publish-subscribe event-based communication for mobile agents
- 2003
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Ingår i: Proceedings. - Los Alamitos, Calif : IEEE Communications Society. - 0769519938 ; , s. 669-673
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose using the publish-subscribe model to complement proprietary or standard agent communication languages, useful particularly in the case of exchanging and disseminating short communications about events and consequently, reducing complexity of multi-agent messaging. We describe how we implemented the event notification mechanism for mobile agents, and analyse experiments that demonstrate the Elvin-based event notification mechanism for communication between Grasshopper agents and aglets. We also discuss message loss due to agent migration and offer solutions to reliable communication between mobile agents using events.
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- Padovitz, A., et al.
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Multiple-agent perspectives in reasoning about situations for context-aware pervasive computing systems
- 2008
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Ingår i: IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part A. Systems and humans. - 1083-4427 .- 1558-2426. ; 38:4, s. 729-742
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In open heterogeneous context-aware pervasive computing systems, suitable context models and reasoning approaches are necessary to enable collaboration and distributed reasoning among agents. This paper proposes, develops, and demonstrates the following: 1) a novel context model and reasoning approach developed with concepts from the state-space model, which describes context and situations as geometrical structures in a multidimensional space; and 2) a context algebra based on the model, which enables distributed reasoning by merging and partitioning context models that represent different perspectives of computing entities over the object of reasoning. We show how merging and reconciling different points of view over context enhances the outcomes of reasoning about the context. We develop and evaluate our proposed algebraic operators and reasoning approaches with cases using real sensors and with simulations. We embed agents and mobile agents with these modeling and reasoning capabilities, thus facilitating context-aware and adaptive mobile agents operating in open pervasive environments.
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- Rakotonirainy, A., et al.
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Towards a mobile enterprise framework
- 2000
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Ingår i: Proceedings. - Los Alamitos, Calif : IEEE Communications Society. - 0769506283 ; , s. 233-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The RM-ODP Enterprise Language comprises concepts, rules and structures for the specification of a community, where a community comprises objects (human, software, or combinations thereof) formed to meet an objective. The Enterprise Language focuses on the purpose, scope and policies of the community, where an enterprise policy is a set of rules with a particular objective related to the community's purpose described as obligations, prohibitions, and permissions. In order to enable adaptations of the enterprise's objectives, structure, policies and roles, we are designing a conceptual architecture with a process-oriented view of roles and policy adaptation mechanisms. Mobile enterprise objects interact with the rest of the community via processes called role-proxies
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- Rasheed, A., et al.
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Twin-transactions : delayed transaction synchronisation model
- 1998
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Ingår i: Object oriented technology. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag. - 9783540654605 ; , s. 63-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a mobile computing environment, mobile hosts are not available all the time. Due to this reason, mobile computers are usually considered as clients who can connect to different servers and ask for certain services (client-server). To reduce the contention on the narrow bandwidth of the wireless channel, it is suggested to cache part of a database on mobile computers [1]. When a mobile computer also hosts data (or a portion of a data), the data on such hosts will not be available all the time. Replication of such data will make the data available, but will create certain concurrency and consistency problems. The twin-transaction model (TTM) proposes to replicate transaction-processing flow along with data items stored on mobile hosts.
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- Tan, J., et al.
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Meta object approach to database schema integration
- 2000
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Ingår i: Proceedings. - Los Alamitos, Calif : IEEE Communications Society. - 0769508197 ; , s. 145-154
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Database schema integration is significant not only in building multidatabase systems but also in data warehousing. Meta data, which define schemas, are normally involved in the surrounding issues. And while many of these issues have been addressed in the past, unresolved issues remain. The authors present an approach that not only uses metadata but also uses meta-meta information to make schema integration more possible. Our solution requires a meta object facility that serves not only as a repository but also as a more feasible means of managing meta data. We also advocate the use of such a facility as part of an object oriented middleware environment that provides an open interface standard and several useful services in distributed object management
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- Zaslavsky, Arkady, et al.
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Preface
- 2005
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Ingår i: Proceedings. - New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 1595930418 ; , s. ix-x
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- Zaslavsky, A, et al.
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Regional control of tumor growth
- 2010
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Ingår i: Molecular cancer research : MCR. - 1557-3125. ; 8:9, s. 1198-1206
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