... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... On April 8, 2005, an optical afterglow of the GRB 050408 was discovered with the SAO's telescopes (the 1-meter telescope Zeiss and 6-meter telescope BTA) within the framework of a joint BTA request (SAO RAS + IAA CSIC, Granada, Spain) on optical identification of gamma-ray bursts. We first detected a variable object only by our own data in the localization error-box reported by the space observatory HETE and then it was confirmed by our observations in SAO. ...

Next: Non-emission-line objects Up: Results of follow-up spectroscopy Previous: Emission-line galaxies . In the course of our follow-up spectroscopy, four QSOs were discovered with a strong emission line in the wavelength region between 5000 ? ... This strong line produces an easily visible emission peak in the digitized prism spectra even for very faint objects (B ) which is hard to distinguish from the low-redshifted [O III ] features. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Achievements . ... The theory of radiative transfer in inhomogeneous atmospheres was developed ( Yanovytskij E.G. ) . ... Calculations shown that the vertical movement of gas and aerosol in the atmosphere of giant planets with velocity w = (0.1-0.5) m/s determines the capacity of visible clouds and therefore affects their brightness characteristics (A. P. Vidmachenko). ...

Chain of Impact Craters Suggested by Spaceborne Radar Images . ... A team of scientists believes they have discovered a chain of impact craters in the central African country of Chad that suggests ancient Earth may have been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar project is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth, Washington, DC. ...

Estimating the NEO Population and Impact Risk: Past, Present and Future . ... Since most of the risk resides in the largest impactors, finding that fraction of the largest bodies, and that none of them has a significant chance of impacting in the next century or so, "retires" more than 90 % of the impact risk, including most of the risk of a globally catastrophic impact event. ... In the mid-size range, from ~150 m to ~1 km, the main risk is from tsunami generated by an ocean impact. ...

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Time delay and H0 results from JVAS/CLASS Gravitational Lens Systems A.D. Biggs et al. Jodrell Bank Observatory, U.K. The JVAS and CLASS radio surveys have been very successful in identifying new lens systems; to date 17 lens systems have been discovered. ... Monitoring of JVAS/CLASS lenses is an ongoing project, both to improve existing time delay mea- surements and to determine time delays or test for variability in newly identi ed lens systems. ...

... Accurate identification of physical binary star systems has become of increasing interest in recent years. ... Identification of physical binary star systems, with an estimated reliability of such identifications based on the theory of probability, is also important for current and future efforts to find binary star systems that are candidates for observations with the aim of determining their orbits and component masses. ... probability of the proximity of proper motions and ; . ...

... Schools . ... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... Applied Chemistry Department . ... Theoretical and Applied Systems Engineering Department . ... Economic Cybernetics and Applied Economics Department . ... School of History . ... Ancient and Medieval History Department . ... Ukrainian History Department . ... University History Museum . ... School of Physics . ... The Department of the Ultra High Frequencies was founded in 1952 at the same time with Radiophysical School in Kharkov State University. ...

... Several attempts to discover the FICN signal in VLBI nutation series made during last years failed. ... We investigated several VLBI CPO series by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. It has been shown that there are several periodic signals with close amplitude around the expected FICN period without any prevailing one that can be reliably associated with the FICN. ... DATA ANALYSIS We analyzed several CPO series obtained in IVS analysis centers by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. ...