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Shunya Tatara,1,2 Fumiatsu Maeda,1,3 Yoshinosuke Tsukahara,4 Tomoya Handa,2,5 Kiyoshi Yaoeda3,6,7 1Department of Orthoptics and Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan; 2Department of Vision Science, Faculty of Sensory and Motor Control, Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan; 3Field of Orthoptics and Visual Sciences, Major in Medical and Rehabilitation Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare Graduate School, Niigata, Japan; 4Department of Ophthalmology, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan; 5Orthoptics and Visual Science, Department of Rehabilitation, School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan; 6Department of Ophthalmology, Yaoeda Eye Clinic, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan; 7Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, JapanCorrespondence: Shunya TataraDepartment of Orthoptics and Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, 1398 Shimami-cho, kita-ku, Niigata-shi, Niigata, 950-3198, JapanTel/Fax +81 25 257 4752Email tatara@nuhw.ac.jpPurpose: Intraocular pressure (IOP) measured using a noncontact tonometer is evaluated by performing multiple measurements because IOP is affected by the ocular pulse. We investigated the relationship between value fluctuations in multiple measurements during noncontact tonometer measurements and cardiac rate.Materials and Methods: Forty-two healthy subjects were included and IOP was measured using a noncontact tonometer. The measurement was performed three times each for the right eye and the left eye, for a total of six times. Blood pressure and cardiac rate were measured at the same time as the IOP measurement. Using repeated-measures analysis of variance, we examined whether the measured IOP and cardiac rate fluctuate throughout the day over the course of 4 days.Results: There was a fluctuation in the IOP in a sequence only on day 1 of the four measurement days (P < 0.001). The IOP on day 1 tended to be high for the first and second measurements (P = 0.0111– 0.0015). Systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure did not fluctuate over the 4 days (P = 0.6247 and 0.7132), but cardiac rate was high only on day 1 (P = 0.0276).Conclusion: The IOP on day 1 tended to be high in the first and second measurements. The IOP measured on days 2– 4 did not fluctuate during the sequence of measurements. The cardiac rate measured at the same time as the IOP was high only on the first day.Keywords: intraocular pressure, noncontact tonometer, blood pressure, cardiac rate, repeated measurement

Rotational transition lines of CO play a major role in molecular radio astronomy as a mass tracer and in particular in the study of star formation and Galactic structure. Although a wealth of data exists for the Galactic plane and some well-known molecular clouds, there is no available high sensitivity all-sky survey of CO emission to date. Such all-sky surveys can be constructed using the Planck HFI data because the three lowest CO rotational transition lines at 115, 230 and 345 GHz significantly contribute to the signal of the 100, 217 and 353 GHz HFI channels, respectively. Two different component separation methods are used to extract the CO maps from Planck HFI data. The maps obtained are then compared to one another and to existing external CO surveys. From these quality checks the best CO maps, in terms of signal to noise ratio and/or residual contamination by other emission, are selected. Three different sets of velocity-integrated CO emission maps are produced with different trade-offs between signal-to-noise, angular resolution, and reliability. Maps for the CO J = 1 → 0, J = 2 → 1, and J = 3 → 2 rotational transitions are presented and described in detail. They are shown to be fully compatible with previous surveys of parts of the Galactic plane as well as with undersampled surveys of the high latitude sky. The Planck HFI velocity-integrated CO maps for the J = 1 → 0, J = 2 → 1, and J = 3 →2 rotational transitions provide an unprecedented all-sky CO view of the Galaxy. These maps are also of great interest to monitor potential CO contamination of the Planck studies of the cosmological microwave background.

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We report on the results from a beam test of a binary silicon strip system proposed for ATLAS. The data were collected during the H8 beam test at CERN in 1995 and at a beam test at KEK in 1996. The binary modules tested had been assembled from silicon micro-strip detectors of different layout and from front-end electronics chips of different architecture. The efficiency, noise occupancy, and position resolution were determined as a function of the threshold setting for various bias voltages and angles of incidence. Interstrip effects were also evaluated using a high resolution telescope. The performance of a prototype detector module irradiated to a fluence of 1.2×1014p/cm2 is also characterized.

We report results from beam tests on silicon microstrip detectors using a binary readout system for ATLAS. The data were collected during the H8 beam test at CERN in August/September 1995 and the KEK test in February 1996. The binary modules tested had been assembled from silicon microstrip detectors of different layout and from front-end electronics chips of different architecture. The efficiency, noise occupancy and position resolution were determined as a function of the threshold setting for various bias voltages and angles of incidence for both irradiated and non-irradiated detectors. In particular, the high spatial resolution of the beam telescope allowed the evaluation of the performance as a function of the track location in between detector strips.

The depletion of CO molecules is observed in infrared dark clouds. However, only few exsamples are found in pc-scale. An NH3 emission is one of good counter parts of C18O because of similar effective critical density. Our NH3 observations of a molecular filament associated with CMa OB1 or KAG 71, which is a target of Kagoshima Galactic Object survey with Nobeyama 45-m telescope by Mapping in Ammonia lines (KAGONMA) project. Although NH3 data shows similarity in morphology with infrared data suggesting no depletion, C18O in the clumps 4 and 6 are weaker than expected based on NH3 data. After examining the dissipation of the high-density gas, photodissociation, and depletion, we concluded that CO is depleted at least in the clump 4. It is a new example of depletion in pc-scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on four of the sources observed in the KAGONMA (KAgoshima Galactic Object survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope by Mapping in Ammonia lines) project for which mapping observations have been completed (KAG35, KAG45, KAG64, and KAG71). In this study, we compiled the analysis results of four sources for which mapping observations were completed in the KAGONMA project and statistically investigated the range to which star formation activity affects the molecular gas. In order to investigate the affected range, we analyzed the heating range by focusing on the temperature distribution of the molecular cloud and found that it is within about 3 pc. This suggests that direct star formation feedback in molecular clouds is very spatially limited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a pair-production high-energy (>20 MeV) gamma-ray telescope being built by an international partnership of astrophysicists and particle physicists for a satellite launch in 2006, designed to study a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical phenomena. As part of the development effort, the collaboration has built a balloon flight engineering model (BFEM) for flight on a high-altitude scientific balloon. The BFEM is approximately the size of one of the 16 GLAST-LAT towers and contains all the components of the full instrument: plastic scintillator anticoincidence system (ACD), high-Z foil/Si strip pair-conversion tracker (TKR), CsI hodoscopic calorimeter (CAL), triggering and data acquisition electronics (DAQ), commanding system, power distribution, telemetry, real-time data display, and ground data processing system. The principal goal of the balloon flight was to demonstrate the performance of this instrument configuration under conditions similar to those expected in orbit. Results from a balloon flight from Palestine, TX, on August 4, 2001, show that the BFEM successfully obtained gamma-ray data in this high-background environment. Index Terms--Gamma rays, instrumentation, telescopes.

We report on the performance of silicon strip sensors for GLAST, produced by Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan. The size of the sensors is 89.5 x 89.5 [mm.sup.2]. They were processed on 6-in-high resistivity wafers. By now, more than 1000 of ultimately 11500 sensors have been produced, and 622 have been investigated in detail. The average leakage current density is only 3.4 nA/[cm.sup.2] at 25[degrees]C. Such a low leakage current density enables us to screen out a sensor having few strips with high leakage current by looking at the total sensor leakage current instead of measuring individual strip currents. High breakdown voltage is also achieved. Of ten sensors investigated for high-voltage breakdown, all hold bias voltage up to 500 V without significant increase in the leakage current. The faulty strip rate is about 0.01% of 240 000 strips tested. Index Terms--GLAST, radiation damage, silicon strip detector.