... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Figure 10. The circles show the thermal defocus corrections that were observed on August 15, 2000. These data were derived by combining the defocus measurements seen in Figure 6 with the thermal measurements of the truss seen in Figure 7. ... I then fit the thermal defocus data given by the circles above using only the thermal time constant and an arbitrary "zero-point" constant as fit parameters. ... M1 corresponds to a thermal time constant of 0.37 hours (22 minutes) for the rods. ...

Next: Scope of applications Up: Time Series Analysis Previous: Sampling patterns . In this section we describe the functioning of the MIDAS time series analysis (TSA) package. ... We precede the command description with the description of the scope of the applications and the structure of the TSA input and output files and of the keywords holding the relevant parameters. Scope of applications . ... Input data format . ... Time series analysis in the frequency domain . ... Auxiliary utilities . ...

... arfgen (arfgen-1.73.3) [?? Meta Index / Home Page / Description These modes are treated as a special case within arfgen . ... In Timing mode it is recommended to take the full range of RAW-Y when extracting an EPIC-pn spectrum (in MOS the RAW-Y information is not present). It can be useful to take a restricted RAW-Y range in Burst mode to exclude contamination from the on-axis source. ... Such a scaling is not applied for Timing mode data. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Solar dynamo wave with meridional circulation: a WKB approach (H. Popova, D. Sokoloff) . Moment equations for linear and nonlinear equations with random coefficients (D. Grachev, D. Sokoloff) . ... Weighted nearest neighbor search in numerical transport optimization (A. Andrievskii, A. Sobolevskii) . ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

... For new participaing countries and the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), presenting the short report is optional. ... According to the IAO-regulations the report to be presented 5 weeks before the application . ... According to the information above the regular deadline for receiving the short reports of Nationals Olympiads of the current year (with a set of all problems used on the National Olympiads) is defined as:...

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Supernovae 2010jl in UGC 5189A . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2010jl in UGC 5189A . ... Astronomy Magazine's Supernova SN 2010jl . ... Bad Astronomy's SN 2010 JL in weird UGC 5189 . SpaceBanter.com 2010jl post . Blogbaker's 2010jl post . Joseph Brimacombe widefield color image . ... 2010/11/04.50 . ... 2010/11/05.203 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . 2010/11/05.467 . ... mirror . ... JM Llapasset . ... 2011/01/15.160 . ... Back to Bright Supernovae - 2010 . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... Livermore, CA 94550, USA SuperMacho project and ESSENCE project collaborations . ... The database requirements of the SM+SN projects can be divided into three broad categories: support for the survey operation, storage and analysis of the data that comes from the image reduction and transient detection pipeline, and communication of the results to the project users and the astronomical community. ... The pipeline then proceeds through image subtraction and transient detection. ...

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... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

European Astronomical Society(EAS): NEWS Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed some information of interest. ... We would also like to remind you that the time is appropriate to renew your membership for 2006 (see our Web page for procedures). ... And do'nt forget that, in between messages, the latest news can always be found on our Web page: http://www.iap.fr/eas/index.html With kind regards, Michel Dennefeld ************************************************************ Content 1. ...

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... I Please find selected by IKI time intervals proposed for interagency joint bounary layer study: . at October 2000, with CLUSTER II . at July - September 2000 . at April - June 2000 . at Mach - April 2000 . II Visualisation of the time intervals selected by Nelson Maynard: . ... III The extended list of the time intervals seleced by IKI for bounary layer study at Januay - October 2000: . ... April . ... October, with CLUSTER II . ... vprokhor@iki.rssi.ru . ... ssavin@iki.rssi.ru . ...