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... X-rays are made up of photons that are emitted from stars, or quasars, or supernovae, the sun, or simply: anything that is undergoing a change either in size or temperature or giving out heat. ... in an X-ray binary star system, in which one normal star's orbit is crossed by a neutron star, when the neutron star by means of gravitational pull takes matter from the normal star X-rays form. ... Artists conception of a normal star (HDE 226868) and a black hole taking matter from the normal star. ...

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... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 15 . ... Molonglo at 408 MHz (3') and Parkes 64-m at 5 GHz (4'). ADS . ... FIRST at 1415 MHz (50''). ... Wilson 1986, ApJ, 302, 718. ... Whiteoak & Green 1996, A&AS, 118, 329. ... Green et al. ... ATCA at 1.4 GHz (16".5?19".5: S=14.3?0.1 Jy) and 4.5 GHz (2".0?1".5: S=12.5?0.2 Jy). ... ATCA and Parkes 64-m at 1.4 GHz (1'.8?2'.0), plus H I . ... ATCA at 19 GHz (6".1?7".7), including polarisation. ... ATCA at 1.4 GHz (5".8?7".0: S=13.8?0.4 Jy), plus XMM observations. ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

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... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

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... The data from the X-ray spectrometer RESIK, gamma spectrometer HELICON, flare spectrometer IRIS, amplitude­temporal spectrometer AVS-F, and X-ray spectrometer RPS-1 have been used to analyze the X- and gamma-ray emission from solar flares and for diagnostics of the flaring plasma. The absolute and relative content of various elements (such as potassium, argon, and sulfur) of solar plasma in flares has been determined for the first time with the X-ray spectrometer RESIK. ... V.D. Kuznetsov et al. ...

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... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Earth penumbra effects on AES motion taking into account the refraction and the extinction of the light in the atmosphere A. M. Fominov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The perturbing acceleration F of the Artificial Earth Satellite (AES) due to the solar ... In step 1, the table of the shadow function values with the angle distances d between the solar disk and the earth disk edge may be calculated. ...

Next: Data reduction: moments Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: local . ... When this is done for the energy map, with the energy scale distributed logarithmically, the result is shown on Fig. ... It can be shown that the mean magnitude at each duration reproduces the mean power spectrum in log-log coordinates. Therefore, this particular presentation of the probability density function shows graphically the scale-dependent scatter around the mean energy spectrum. ...