... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

Data Flow System IR Camera Calibrating VISTA Data Astronomy Unit Queen Mary University of London Jim Emerson Simon Hodgkin, Peter Bunclark, Mike Irwin, Jim Lewis Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit , Institute of Astronomy , Cambridge The United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre on the site of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh VISTA Data Flow Transfer function (image in, DN out) of end-to-end system so that instrumental effects can be removed from the data. ... VISTA?? ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Mr. Vladimir Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras , held a meeting with His Excellency Mr. Omar Saif Ghobash, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Emirates to the Russian Federation on April 16, 2009. ... Both sides expressed mutual interest in the development of cooperation between ISC Kosmotras and UAE companies. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

... The OVERLAY element is used to overlay images on top of a base figure. ... UNITS . Specifies the choice of units for width and height: units=pixels (the default) specifies pixels, while units=en specifies en units (a typographical unit equal to half the point size). ... X increases to the right, and is given in pixels or en units (according to the value of the UNITS attribute). ... HEIGHT . Specifies the desired height in pixels or en units (according to the value of the UNITS attribute). ...

Three education activities and teachers' workshops will take place at the San Diego meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 7 - 11 June. ... Many astronomers (about 40% of AAS members according to the recent ASP/AAS survey) now have some involvement in K-12 education. ... Consequently, NIST's Metric Program offers an array of products designed to educate the public on the history and merits of the metric system. ... Visit the Metric Program on the web at http://www.nist.gov/metric . ...

absGlitch: An Absolute Threshold- based Glitch Monitor R. Rahkola, R. Schofield LSC Meeting, March 20- 23, 2002 LIGO - G020047 - 00- Z absGlitch Monitor Why "absGlitch"? ... LSC Meeting, March 20-23, 2002 LIGO - G020047 - 00- Z absGlitch Monitor 4 More Info Please.. Check out: http://www. ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~rrahkola/absGlitch/, or the documents associated with your local distribution of GDS (post-LSC mtg) LIGO - G020047 - 00- Z absGlitch Monitor LSC Meeting, March 20-23, 2002 5 ...

Perhaps the greatest theoretical achievement of physics in the 19th century was the discovery of electromagnetic waves. ... It is possible to use this to define a unit of electric charge, as the charge which repels a similar charge at a distance of, say, 1 meter, with a force of unit strength (actual formulas make this precise). ... But "field" originally only meant the force a magnet or an electric charge could expect at a point in space, if it were placed there. ...

... OF MARTIAN MISSION ELEMENTS . At present, RSC Energia has developed a conceptual configuration for the interplanetary orbiter where the crew will work during the entire interplanetary transit. ... Interplanetary expedition vehicle assembly plan has been developed. ... A program has been developed for building a series of small spacecraft based on the interplanetary vehicle concept with electrical propulsion main engines and solar arrays. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Institute of Applied Astronomy Russian Academy of Sciences Method of Determining the Orbits of the Small Bodies in the Solar System Based on an Exhaustive Search of Orbital Planes Dmitrii Vavilov, Yurii Medvedev Introduction to the problem: Let we have n 3 positional observations of a body: points in time ( = 1, ) , right ascensions , and declinations . ... Determination of the orbit using the Gauss method of determining orbital elements based on two heliocentric positions and points in time. ...

... The old source code form, which is based on the punched card, and now called fixed form and the new free form. These two forms may not be mixed independently but must be separated at the compilation; an old program, (one or several program units in the form of a main program, subroutines or functions), which is compiled in free form, has the possibility to give a different result compared with earlier when it was compiled with fixed form, compilation errors are possible. ... Comments. ...

... Equipment . ... At present our UHV equipment consists of two UHV STMs. The first one is a room-temperature STM GPI-300 (atomic resolution on metals) connected with a UHV technological chamber. The chamber is equipped with a sample heater, deposition equipment, tip-clean equipment and a low-temperature 4-probe conduction measurement unit. ... The temperature interval is 5-300 K, the vacuum in the STM chamber is usually better than 10 -10 Torr (typical value 3x10 -11 Torr). ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

spectrum1d - compute auto- [and cross- ] spectra from one [or two] timeseries. spectrum1d [ x [ y ] file ] -S segment _ size ] [ -C ] [ -D dt ] [ -N name _ stem ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] spectrum1d reads X [and Y] values from the first [and second] columns on standard input [or x [ y ] file ]. ... Units same as ypower. name _ stem .npower Power spectral density of the noise output. Units same as ypower. name _ stem .gain Gain spectrum, or modulus of the transfer function. ...

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... The catalog contains SAO number; the right ascension and declination with a B1950.0 equinox and epoch; annual proper motion and its standard deviation, photographic and visual magnitudes; spectral type; references to sources; the Durchmusterung (DM) identifier if the star is listed in the Bonner DM (BD), Cordoba DM (CD), or Cape Photographic DM (CP); component identification; The Henry Draper (Extension) (HD or HDE) number; and J2000 positions and proper motions. ...