Size-resolved measurements of the light absorption properties of soot aerosols from a gas turbine engine
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Abstract
Abstract The optical properties of soot are crucial in estimating its climate impact through direct radiative forcing. Soot light absorption is typically quantified by the mass absorption cross-section (MAC λ ) or the absorption function E( m λ ), which are wavelength dependent. Light absorbed by soot can be predicted from its MAC λ using mass-concentration measurements, or from its E( m λ ) using material density and an optical model accounting for soot-aggregate morphology. Recent work has shown that the soot MAC λ shows a size dependency, due to a size-dependent degree of graphitization. We therefore hypothesized here that a similar size dependency may be observed for E( m λ ), which we quantify here. To test this hypothesis, we present a novel approach to obtain size-resolved MAC λ and E( m λ ) of soot from a gas turbine engine by combining pulsed laser-induced incandescence signals with total mass-concentration measurements. E( m λ ) was found to vary with soot-particle size, with values ranging between 0.23 to 0.31 for the smallest (≈ 0.13 fg) and largest (≈ 3 fg) particles measured. To our knowledge, these measurements are the first to demonstrate that E( m λ ) not only varies between soot samples, but also within a population of soot particles, which impacts the interpretation of optical diagnostics and prediction of the radiative properties of soot.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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