spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 20 September 1998, 2020 UT (RR) . Traveling Convection Vortex (TCV) is a name given to a specific type of daytime magnetic impulsive events observed by high-latitude ground-based magnetometer arrays. Since the most likely source for TCVs is the solar wind , they are considered to be important processes in transfering energy from the solar wind into the magnetosphere . ... For example, one AMPTE Lithium release in the solar wind caused a TCV event . ...

... By using the tools of sections (20) and (21), the mathematics of approximate solutions developed in (M-5), and assuming all orbits are circles, it is a relatively straightforward job to calculate the distance to the Lagrangian L1 point (or to L2). ... Let the gravitational constant be denoted by G , the mass of the Sun by M , that of Earth by m , the Earth's distance from the Sun by r and its velocity in its orbit by v . ... GMm / r 2 = mv 2 / r . and multiplying both sides by r / m . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Pulverizarea termic, ISIM, Timioara, Romania (2000) FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF THE BONDCOAT INFLUENCE ON RESIDUAL STRESS DURING THE PLASMA THERMAL SPRAYING OF PARTIALLY STABILISED ZIRCONIA P. Fogarassy(1,2), F. Rotaru(1), N. Markocsan(1), B.B. Straumal(3) (1) Institutul Naional de C&D Нn Sudare i нncercri de Materiale (ISIM) Timioara, ROMANIA, (2) Universitatea "Politehnica" Timioara, ROMANIA (3) I.V.T. Ltd. ... Figure 4.7 present a detail of the normal X stress distribution. ...

The Gemini South laser guide star тАЬconstellationтАЭ (upper left) is captured in this image. ... The yellow-orange beam is caused by scattering of the laser's light by Earth's lower atmosphere. The 30-second exposure was obtained January 21-22, 2011, using a 500mm f/5.6 Celestron telescope with a Canon Rebel XT camera at an ISO setting of 1600. Gemini Observatory/AURA ...

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OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Upgrading From Pm Wiki 1 . This page gives suggestions for upgrading an existing PmWiki 1.x installation to use PmWiki 2.0. In this page we assume that a site administrator already has a site running using PmWiki version 1.x or earlier in a somewhat standard configuration, and wants to upgrade to the 2.0 software. Important note: The normal PmWiki upgrade procedure (i.e., copy the new software over the existing one) won't work for moving from 1.x to 2.0. ...

Using Site testing data for Adaptive Optics simulations Kislovodsk, October 2010 1Glen Herriot, 1David Andersen, 1Jean-Pierre VИran, 2Brent Ellerbroek, 2Luc Gilles, 2Lianqi Wang 1National Research Council Canada ­ Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 2TMT Project Office, Pasadena TMT.AOS.PRE.10.074.REL01 1 Outline TMT / NFIRAOS Site Testing Parameters and their value for Adaptive Optics Simulations ... TMT.AOS.PRE.10.074.REL01 9 What is the interest of Adaptive Optics in r 0 Seeing ? ...

... 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. ...

... R-band images obtained at 0.8 arcsec seeing conditions have allowed us to separate foreground star from point-like extragalactic source and estimate their brightness separately. ... To study the nature and properties of the source, we observed it under high spatial resolution. ... CONCLUSION RTT150 optical observations with sub-arcsecond seeing and low resolution spectra confirm the hypothesis of superposition of a radio source onto a `normal' F/G galactic star proposed by [1]. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... The New Horizons science team€а is inviting everyone worldwide to vote for the names that will be given to the most prominent features on Pluto and Charon, Pluto?s largest moon. The pre-listed names are€а an eclectic mix from mythology and the literature and history of exploration. You can even nominate names to be added to the list. ... Yuggoth (H. P. LovecraftтАЩs name for Pluto) . ... Name * . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

. The C shell assumes that that the arguments are always placed at the end of the command alias. For example, you define an alias that gives members of your group access to a file or directory : alias ggive 'chmod g+' . Any argument that you give to the alias ggive is placed after the command it refers to. So the command alias ggive filename . is interpreted as: chmod g+ filename .

... August 10, 1997 . Nebulosity in Sagittarius . ... Explanation: What causes the colors in this beautiful nebulosity in Sagittarius ? Dubbed NGC 6589 and NGC 6590, the colors of this nebulosity, are caused by gas and dust . The blue color of the nebula nearest the bright stars is caused by reflection off interstellar dust . The dust emits little visible light of its own - in the absence of a nearby star the dust would appear dark , blocking light from background stars. ... About APOD > . ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

Watching the Detective Although a lot is happening during the seasons, the facts seem to fit together. ... From these facts, we should be able to figure out the cause of the seasons. ... Facts 4, 5, and 8 indicate that the seasons have something to do with the Sun. ... Although the angle varies by the same amount at every latitude (see figure 4 ), the effect of this variation on solar heating increases with latitude, a fact you can confirm with a little trigonometry (see Geometry of the Seasons ). ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

The monitoring of the optics quality of DIMM instrument V. Kornilov, B. Safonov May 24, 2010 1 Intro duction A quantitative theory of measurement of optical turbulence (OT) with Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) is based on certain priori assumptions [1]. ... Bottom: behavior of the instrumental Strehl's number for the left (triangle to the left) and right (triangle to the right) DIMM images during the period of measurement the maintenance of an additional correction factor seems superfluous. ...

... Е 1 The 2 P1=2 3 2 P3=2 laser t ransition i n a tomic i odine and t he problem o f s earch f or signals f rom e xtraterrestrial intelligence Yu.F. Kutaev, S.K. Mankevich, O.Yu. ... It is proposed to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) at a wavelength of 1.315 lm of the laser 2 P1=2 3 2 P3=2 transition in the atomic iodine, which can be used for this purpose as the natural frequency reference. ... However, no ETI signals have been reliably detected so far. ... Nosach O.Yu., ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...