Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... We apply Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA, or extended EOF) technique to filter GRACE data and separate the principal components (PCs) of different periods. We performed data averaging over the large river basins of Russia. ... In every point ij on the map we have time series Aij(tk) of length N. The trajectory matrix for every XAij should be build and incorporated into large block matrix X as follows: X Aij Aij (t0 ) Aij (t1 ) .. ... Sum of PCs 1-10 for particular rivers basins. ...

... 11, Moscow, 103907 Russia e-mail: gena@hitech.cplire.ru 2Chalmers Institute of Technology, S-41296 GЖteborg, Sweden Received July 25, 2000; in final form, October 6, 2000 Abstract--Current transport in micron-sized normal-metal­high-temperature superconductor heterojunctions (Au/YBa2Cu3O6 + x) was studied for two crystallographic orientations of YBCO films. ... Epitaxial YBCO films 150 nm thick were grown by laser ablation at temperatures of 780­ 800°C and at an oxygen pressure of 0.8 mbar. ...

grdgradient - Compute directional derivative or gradient from 2-D grd file representing z(x,y) grdgradient in _ grdfile -G out _ grdfile [ -A azim [/ azim2 ] ] [ -D [ c ][ o ][ n ] ] [ -L flag ] [ -M ] [ -N [ e ][ t ][ amp ][/ sigma [/ offset ]] ] [ -S slopefile ] [ -V ] grdgradient may be used to compute the directional derivative in a given direction ( -A ), or the direction ( -S ) [and the magnitude ( -D )] of the vector gradient of the data. ... If amp is not given, default amp = 1. ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

Next: Mark III Observations Up: Tape Management Previous: POSTPASSES Contents . Automatic tape allocation is provided on the VLBA. In fact, its use is required for most observations. ... Automatic tape allocation is not available for all stations, including all that use VEX files. ... If a station that is using automatic tape allocation is scheduled in a scan on a source that is below the antenna hardware limits (not just the horizon), that antenna will be removed from the scan by SCHED. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... Additional functionality allows webmasters to configure the response of Apache to some error or problem. ... If a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response, then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by a redirection to another URL (local or external). ... Custom Error Responses and Redirects . ... In addition to these new variables, Apache will define REDIRECT_URL and REDIRECT_STATUS to help the script trace its origin...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Using high-resolution three-dimensional realisations of turbulent fields, we investigate the limits on achievable performance of atmospheric phase correction using water-vapour radiometers arising from following effects: the incoherent measurement of power from water by the radiometers (in contrast to coherent detection of the astronomical signal); the different tapers of the response patterns of the astronomical and radiometer receivers; and, the ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... BASIC PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION . STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . ... OF MEASURING CHANNELS . ... unit of measurement . ... Nitric oxide (NO) concentration, . ... power measured by ASEC . ... In particular, RSC Energia finalizes its work on measurement systems designed to measure dust, volumetric activity of radioactive gases and aerosols and other environmental parameters. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... 2000 October 19 . The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured . ... What is known is that satellites across our Solar System reported on 2000 January 31 a tremendous explosion of gamma rays had occurred towards some previously uninteresting direction. ... The VLT not only recorded an optical counterpart , shown above , but also was able to estimate that the cosmologically-induced redshift was an astonishing 4.5 -- placing GRB000131 farther across the universe than any explosion so measured. ...

... 19.10.2000 . ... What is known is that satellites across our Solar System reported on 2000 January 31 a tremendous explosion of gamma rays had occurred towards some previously uninteresting direction. Soon one of the largest optical telescopes on Earth, a VLT in Chile, began to peer in the direction of the gamma ray burst . ... Publications with keywords: gamma-ray burst - cosmology - explosion - afterglow . Publications with words: gamma-ray burst - cosmology - explosion - afterglow . ...

... Judged by their instrumental profiles, spectrometers fall into two basic classes---Lorentzian and Gaussian---with many other line profile functions (sinc functions, Voigt functions, Airy functions, etc.) falling into one of these two categories in some limit. We demonstrate that the Rayleigh, Sparrow, and Houston resolution criteria are of limited use compared to the ``equivalent width'' of the line profile. ... Rayleigh criterion. ... All of these functions have continuous higher derivatives. ...

Solar Phys (2012) 276:97­112 DOI 10.1007/s11207-011-9883-6 Investigation of Hot X-Ray Points ( HXPs ) Using Spectroheliograph Mg XII Experiment Data from CORONAS-F/SPIRIT A. Reva · S. Shestov · S. Bogachev · S. Kuzin Received: 10 May 2011 / Accepted: 18 October 2011 / Published online: 24 November 2011 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract Observations in the Mg XII 8.42 е line onboard the CORONAS-F satellite have revealed compact high ... Figure 7 Intensity variation of HXPs. ...

ST-ECF Technical Instrument Report WFC3-2009-04 The cross dispersion profiles of the WFC3 grisms H. Kuntschner, H. Bushouse, M. KЭmmel, J. R. Walsh April 30, 2009 ABS TRACT This document summarizes the analysis of the cross-dispersion profile width for the three grisms of the WFC3. For the IR grisms, the cross dispersion profile width derived from white light images and monochromator steps obtained in TV3 provide consistent results also in agreement with estimates derived from direct images. ...

... As a result of BTA observations of 23 chemically peculiar stars with strong magnetic fields, it was found that in 22 of them the longitudinal magnetic field, measured from the hydrogen line cores are considerably lower (by about 1/3) than the value measured from metal lines in the same spectra. ... New approaches need to be developed in order to interpret the data. ... The Zeeman spectrum of a star with a strong magnetic field, 53 Cam. ...

... A Comparative Analysis of the Properties of the Magnetic Fields in Leading and Trailing Sunspots Yu. ... The shape of the field lines reflects to some extent the shape of the magnetic tube connecting the leading and trailing spots. ... The magnetic 160 ZAGAINOVA et al. ... We found that, for 81% of the spot pairs considered, the minimum angle between the magnetic-field lines and the radial direction in the umbra was smaller in the leading spot than in the trailing spot (al- min < af- min ). ...

. Experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference . By studying subtle differences in the behavior of particle and antiparticles, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are seeking to cast light on the dominance of matter over antimatter. Learn more . Anna Pantelia/CERN

Establishment and Observation of Space Debris Laser Ranging Zhang Zhongping, Zhang Haifeng, Wu Zhibo, Li Pu, Meng Wendong, Chen Juping, Chen WanZhen Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Contents: Introduction Establishment of laser ranging to space debris system Observation results Summary Introduction Large amount of space debris around the earth currently. ... Laser ranging (LR) is a kind of real-time measuring technology with meter or sub-meter precision for space-debris observation. ...

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. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...