Rastorguev А.S. "Astronomical Distances" (Lecture course for postgraduates, 2009-2016) . Part 1. ... Trigonometric parallaxes of stars. Moving clusters distances. ... Photometric distances: general approach. Normal stars as "standard candles". ... Main Sequence fitting or distance scale of star clusters. ... Moving photospheres technique. Cepheid distance scale and P-L relations. RR Lyrae distance scale. ... Globular clusters luminosity function. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

A comparative study of type I and type II supernovae . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R. (Received 26 November, 1985) . ... No significant difference between SNe I and SNe II has been found in their radial distribution and frequency of outbursts in spiral galaxies. ... The radial distribution of type Ia SNe in spiral galaxies is only slightly steeper than the one for SNe II, while SNe Ib/c are more concentrated towards the central regions. ...

. F IGURE . 5. Relation between metallicity and (a) cluster Galactocentric distance and (b) distance from the Galactic plane. The straight lines are the rms regression fits for the thick-disk, entire Galaxy, and halo from top to bottom, respectively. The slopes of the lines yield the corresponding metallicity gradients. discussion in the text | previous figure | next figure .

... Since IRS 7 at the Galactic center was identified as a luminous red supergiant (Lebofsky et al. 1982), a lasting debate has been initiated whether the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy had experienced a recent star formation episode. ... 1993). ... 1994). ... Tamblyn & Rieke (1993) and Schaerer (1994) proposed starburst models which would be able to account for a young stellar population at the Galactic center, although the origin of some peculiar hot stars still remains to be explained (Tamblyn et al...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

... Of course, the scope of chaos is vast, and we do not dare to cover it all. ... He will highly appreciate your help in compiling the list of URLs to such scientific groups and institutions. http://www.cplire.ru/win/InformChaosLab/ - InformChaos Lab (Moscow) . http://chaos.ssu.runnet.ru/ - Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics at Saratov State University (Saratov) . ... http://optics.npi.msu.su/sci/chaos.html - Chaos in laser systems . ... http://www.chaotic.com - Randle, Inc. ... Time: 2-6 July, 2001 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The rates of type Ia supernovae from double degenerate mergers channel in different star formation models (left panel), and the rate contribution function to the present-day ( t disc = 10Gyr) supernovae rates in the thin disc (right panel). ... We have compared the impact of different star-formation models on the rates and numbers of DDs and on the rates of type Ia (SNIa) and core-collapse supernovae (ccSN). ...

... Next: Unsupervised Catalog Classification Up: Object Detection and Previous: Classification of Objects . ... Multi-resolution allows for image analysis in terms of different scales. ... This approach is used for the detection (and subsequent analysis) of globular cluster systems around elliptical galaxies, and for image characterization and object trawling in large image databases. ... The applicability of this approach to object detection in large image collections has been investigated. ...

... Participants . ... Traditionally, the workshop takes place at three locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days), the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days) and the Higher School of Economics (1 day). ... Organizing Committee: Leonid Chekhov (Steklov and Poncelet), Sergei Lando (HSE), Igor Krichever (HSE and Columbia Univ.) ... This covers also the welcome party and the conference dinner. ... Go to the Laboratoire Poncelet home page. to the Steklov Mathematical Instutute home page. ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

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... The ESO Conference "Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets" (Germany, Hidelberg, 2003), V.P.Grinin, L.V.Tambovtseva,"Dusty disk winds in the young binary systems with the low-mass secondary components" . ... Barsunova, V.P. Grinin, S.G. Sergeev, "Unusual eclipsing system KH 15D: new photometric data", oral . ... Barsunova, V.P. Grinin, S.G. Sergeev, L.V. Tambovtseva, "Photometric activity of the peculiar young stars", oral . ... V.P. Grinin, N.Ya. ...

А . ... CHANDRA SAMPLE OF NEARBY RELAXED GALAXY CLUSTERS: MASS, GAS FRACTION, AND MASS-TEMPERATURE RELATION . A. Vikhlinin , A. Kravtsov , W. Forman, C. Jones, M. Markevitch , S. S. Murray, and L. Van Speybroeck The Astrophysical Journal, 640:691-709, 2006 April 1 . ... A NEW ROBUST LOW-SCATTER X-RAY MASS INDICATOR FOR CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES Andrey V. Kravtsov , Alexey Vikhlinin , Daisuke Nagai The Astrophysical Journal, submitted . ... The Astrophysical Journal, 640:710-715, 2006 April 1 . ...

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Abstract -- Abundances of heavy elements decreases with increasing galactocentric distance almost in all disk galaxies. ... To explain this gradient in young objects and in the interstellar gas one has to assume that a typical disk galaxy is an open system, i.e. it expels some synthesized heavy elements into the circumgalactic space and/or accretes intergalactic gas with zero metallicity, with rates of both processes depending on the galactocentric distance. ...

... The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters', Astronomy & Astrophysics, 550, A132 (2013) . ... V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect', Astronomy & Astrophysics, 550, A131 (2013) . ... Detection with Planck and confirmation by XMM-Newton of PLCK G266.6-27.3, an exceptionally X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster at z ~ 1', Astronomy & Astrophysics, 536, A26 (2011) . ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... The concepts of Fourier frequency and wavelet duration are obviously related. ... Among many sensible definitions, we chose to require that the peak of the wavelet mean spectrum should be matched with the singularity of the Fourier transform of the cosine wave. Then, it can be shown that the frequency of the cosine is related to the wavelet duration by the relation . ... The ambiguous definition of the duration of an event is common to the sizing of any object of irregular shape. ...