XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response R. D. Saxton 11 November 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE Blocks changed XSCS ag EPN QUANTUMEF 0015.CCF 2000-01-01 FRACTION CHANNEL, FRACTION ENERGY QE TOTAL, EBINS FRACTION NO EPN REDIST 0009.CCF 2000-01-01 NOISE PARAMS, PARTEVENT PARAMS THRESH LOSS NO 2 Changes Recent calibration work has shown that the Epic-pn redistribution function is in practice narrower than that represented in the current matrices. ...

Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

... The HI - Star Formation Connection . ... Coffee . ... Dark Galaxies and Dark Matter . ... HI in Normal Galaxies . HI and Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time . ... How Galaxies Accrete Gas . ... The Billion Galaxy Survey . ... Searches for Dark Galaxies . ... Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies . HI in Galaxies: Overview . ... Open Questions in Normal Galaxies . ... Starburst galaxies and BCDs . ... HI Rich Galaxies . ... Open Questions in HI and Galaxy Evolution . HI and Galaxy Evolution . ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... Observations of the local Universe clearly demonstrate that very active star formation phases (starbursts) are often associated with interacting and merging galaxies and that in these systems much of the short wavelength emission is absorbed by dust and re-emitted in the IR. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Local Group . ... Why do sunspots appear in groups? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 On figure of a sublimating cometary nucleus Yu. D. Medvedev Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The problem of the change of the figure of a cometary nucleus when its matter is sublimating from the nucleus surface is considered. ... The evolution of the nucleus figure and rotational parameters is considered taking into account the dust component in the cometary matter. ... D. Evolution of form sublimating cometary nucleus. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 1 July 1998, 1200 UT (RR) . ... Relates the wave number k to the wave frequency. ... From the equation of motion , m d v /dt = q( v x B ) one can calculate that, in a presence of magnetic field B , a charged particle is accelerated in direction perpendicular to both v (perp) and B . ... The angle a between magnetic field B and velocity vector of a charged particle, v ., i.e., sin a = v(perp) / v(total), where v(perp) refers to the velocity component perpendicular to B . ...

... Baffled, you turn to the waiter. ... The waiter smiles. ... Some prefer small stars while others insist that the larger they are the better they are. ... Of course," he adds, sensing your concern, "you are the guest of Chez Stella. ... Immediately you hear the "tock... tock... tock" of the stopwatch, and you gaze deep into the distant star. ... You hadn't noticed before, but it is giving off vast symmetric clouds of what looks like smoke or dust hanging in the space around the beautiful star. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

Abstract -- The strengths of magnetic fields in interstellar gas clouds are obtained through observations of the circular polarization of spectral line radiation. ... To infer information about these irregularities from the observational data, we develop statistical relationships between the rms values of the irregular component of the magnetic field and spatial variations in the circular polarization of the spectral line radiation. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

Solar Large-Scale Chains: Some Events . ... The chains appear to light up separators or quasi-separatrix layers between different interacting large-scale magnetic flux systems in the global solar magnetosphere and, in particular, to outline large-scale coronal structures involved in the CME process. ... Some features of the chains and their relations to CMEs are illustrated for a number of halo CME-associated events. 23 events of 1997-2000 . ... Halo-CME-associated events of November 1997 . ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... part 1 | ... The Basic Stages in Earth's Pre-geological Development . ... After fragments of the Vortex sleeves separated, whirlwinds of second and third orders ("NC" - new micro-vortex) were generated- future planet cores and their satellites - all of them developing independently, governed by the common laws of development of cosmogenic vortexes. ... Our planet's core today is comprised of considerably deteriorated cosmogenic vortex; consequently, the Earth has a moderated magnetic field. ...

Next: stecf.cplucy - Enhanced Two-channel Up: The ``stecf" IRAF Layered Previous: The ``stecf" IRAF Layered . For many years the ST-ECF has developed IRAF tasks and packages for HST and related data analysis. ... To allow wider and more efficient distribution and to bring all components to a uniform level of quality and documentation we have decided to combine these components into a standard-format IRAF package to be called ``stecf''. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... The light and the dark: a HST image of galaxies with the distribution of dark matter superimposed (Image credit: NASA, ESA, P. Simon (University of Bonn) and T. Schrabback (Leiden Observatory)) . ... A combination of 575 images from the Hubble Space Telescope and data from ground-based telescopes, the image contains 446 000 galaxies. ...

Spiral galaxies Shapes of disk galaxies Spiral galaxies Shapes of disk galaxies Lambas et al. (1992): distributions of the apparent axial ratios of the APM galaxies (S0 and spirals). ... O'Neil & Bothun (2000) Spiral galaxies Central surface brightnesses of disk galaxies Spiral galaxies Central surface brightnesses of disk galaxies Nomenclature (McGaugh 1996): The luminosity density of disk galaxies in the local Universe is dominated by high surface brightness galaxies. ... 1) Mlum /L=const? ...