Observations over the last decade indicate black-holes likely resided at the heart of most if not all galaxies. The correlation between the masses of these compact nuclear sources and their host galaxy is poorly understood and likely plays an important role in the formation and evolution, of at least the most massive systems, due to AGN feedback. ... I will give a brief summary of the reverberation mapping technique and describe the important role SkyMapper photometry can play in this program. ...

... 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. ...

... A special program called the session manager notifies applications when they should save their state. The Gnome desktop environment comes with a session manager called gnome-session , but Gnome uses the X session management specification, which is several years old. ... client = gnome_master_client (); gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (client), "save_yourself", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (save_session), argv[0]); gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (client), "die", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (session_die), NULL); . ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

Binary pulsars can be used to test gravitation, and application for which they remain unsurpassed (check here for a good reviewe on this issue). ... Pulsar binaries give us the only tests of gravitational theories for strong gravitational fields. ... Long-term timing of PSR B1534+12, and careful monitoring of the polarization characteristics of its pulse profile has now allowed a measurement of the geodetic precession for this pulsar ( Stairs et al. ...

... The submission of a formal application to the Board of Graduate Studies for admission as a graduate student in the University of Cambridge in Physics. ... Your application must be completed and submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies as soon as possible; students who are applying for admission in October 2016 should make sure it arrives sufficiently early that we can assess it at the same time as we receive our internal Astrophysics Group application form (i.e. by March 2016, see below). ...

... Black Holes formation . ... The colloquium will be concentrated on the new lewel of theoretical and experimental understanding of the BH nature and related phenomenae. 10-15-minutes original presentations and short 5-minute presentations for the discussion are welcomed. ... In the case of numerouse proposals talks will be selected by the Organizers. ... Date of the colloquium 03 March 2000 г. We plan, that the final agenda will be announced on the ASA seminar in February. ... List of proposed talks ...

... Stellar Evolution . Nucleosynthesis in Stars . The Evolution of Star Clusters . JAVA Physics Lab . Alternative Energies Class . Steve Kevan's Physics 251 Class . ... Talk on Solid State Physics of CCD detectors . Talk on Cosmological Issues . ... Digital Spectra of Stars . NETexperts E-mail List . The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu ...

... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...

... My plan is to schedule four sessions at IUM on June 3, 5, 9, and 10, room 310. Each seminar will be dedicated to a separate topic; there are connections betweent topics 3 and 4 (see below), otherwise the seminars will be totally independent. Each seminar (including the last one) may be attended independently of the others. ... Tuesday June 3, 4PM . Selected topics in partial hyperbolicity . ... Thursday June 5, 4pm . ... Monday June 9, 4pm . ... 4.Tuesday June 10, 4pm . ...

... Research areas . ... Events III All-Russian Research and Application Conference 'Actual Issues of Research in Avionics: Theory, Service, Development' - 'AVIATOR' . ... e-mail: aviator.vrn@mail.ru . ... State and development trends of electrical equipment and electro-optical systems of aircraft. ... Current state and development trends of information and management complex for aircraft. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

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... I would several points which we faced during our everysolved for better quality of individual ACs' and EOP products · There are two main EOP products provided by two IERS Product Centers on Earth Orientation (Earth Orientation Center (EOC) and Rapid Service/ Prediction Center (RSPC)). ... However, the latter is not provided by the IERS. ... ITRF · Using ITRF in computation of EOP series produced by various ACs seems to be a necessary condition to provide the consistency between the IERS products. ...

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. ...

... STFC/JBO/MERLIN Fatal Beauty This composite image (about 180 000 light years across) shows the jet from the black hole at the centre of one galaxy striking another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found. ... The proximity of the two galaxies (around twenty thousand light years, about the same distance Earth is from the centre of the Milky Way) means that any planetary systems in the path of the deadly jet are likely to have been destroyed. ...

... Observations of precipitating (Jp) and trapped (Jt) energetic (> 30 keV) particle fluxes at the ionospheric altitudes within the auroral oval region has revealed the existence of a sharp boundary separating the poleward zone of isotropic precipitation (Jp = Jt) from the equatorward zone of weak loss cone filling (Jp << Jt) at all local times (Sergeev and Malkov, 1988). ... boundaries for higher energy particles are located at lower latitudes than boundaries for lower energy particles . ...

... 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. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... Monday 28.04.2014 is the last day when LOC can help you to arrange an official invitation letter for business visa if you concern about this type of visa to enter Russia. ... After this dead line it will only be possible to make a tourist visa. ... Passport number: 9. ... Most people travel to Russia on tourist visas. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...