... Posts tagged ?GRB? May 11th, 2008| 10:42 pm | Posted by hlee . ... Category: arXiv , MCMC , Uncertainty | ... Category: arXiv | ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , Galaxies , gamma-ray , Objects , Uncertainty | ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... I have always loved supernovae, stars that explode. ... Late in the evening of February 23 rd /24 th * , 1987, an astronomer named Ian Shelton was taking images of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. ... Shortly thereafter, Ian Shelton developed the plates he had been taking of the LMC and immediately saw the new star. ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

http ://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/003900/CBET003962.txt Electronic Telegram No.3962 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University ; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau en eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat en iau.org) URL http ://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA ...

... Dr. Prestwich, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro Physics in Cambridge, and her team, recently discover a new type of black hole in the galaxy M82, using the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory Satellite Telescope. ... After reading about Dr. Prestwich's team discovering a new type of black hole in the Boston Globe, Charlie contact Dr. Prestwich and requested she give a lecture on black holes for the 25 member astronomy club. ... Charlie McDonald thinks so. ... Club Newsletters...

... Seminar archive . ... Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have an important role to measure a distance to an anonymous galaxy because they have a good correlation of the decline rates of the light curves with the absolute luminosity. ... First, super-Chandrasekhar SNe which have extremely high luminosity, slow decline rate of the light curves, slow expansion velocity and strong carbon features. ... As another example of diversity of SNe Ia, I would like also to introduce Type Iax SNe. ... All seminars: . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... 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; . ...

... S-6.The X-ray Sun . S-7.The Sun's Energy . S-7A. The Black Hole at . our Galactic Center . ... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. ... Far from being a voracious devourer of stars and of interstellar gas, "our own" black hole is rather benign. ... What holds galaxies together? ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

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... In the table given at a separate sheet enumerate in growing order (from 1 to 13) the size and the mass of each object: Milky Way Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, Neutron star, Electron, Mercury, The first satellite "Sputnik I", Venus, Pluto, Proton, Red dwarf, Black cat, White (Polar) bear, the Sun. ... Star setting. ... Comet Lovejoy. ... Radio- (operating wavelength is about 21 cm) and optical (operating in the light visible to the naked eye) telescopes have been used to study an astrophysical object. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Supernova Class Reference . ... Supernova (const QVariantMap &map) . ... Get a QVariantMap which describes the supernova. ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getAngularSize (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... 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. ...

Next: The Evolution of Stars Up: NICMOS Science Previous: A Coronagraphic Search for . ... The NICMOS Parallel program . ... The Stellar Population . ... NICMOS Camera 3 is being used in parallel mode to observe galactic fields at both high and low galactic latitudes. ... Most of the fields are at high galactic latitude; as Figure 1 shows, only 8 pointings are within |b| = 10 o , i.e. the galactic disk. Figure 1: NICMOS parallel fields distribution in galactic latitude. ... Figure 6 ). ...

. Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter . Gravitational lensing by objects having intermediate massises is discussed in: . Yu.Baryshev, Yu.Ezova, "Gravitational Mesolensing by King Objects and Quasar-Galaxy Associations" Astronomy Reports, Vol. 41, No 4, 1997, pp. 436 - 446. Catalog of associations of Quasars and Galaxies see QSO_Gal.txt and file with description QSO_Gal_readme.txt

THE OPTICAL COUNTERPART TO IGR J11435-6109 ґ ґ Jose M. Torrejon and I. Negueruela Departamento de Fґ isica, Ingenierґ de Sistemas y Teorґ de la Senal , Universidad de Alicante, E-03080 Alicante, Spain ia ia ~ jmt@dfists.ua.es ABSTRACT We present photometry and spectroscopy of the possible optical counterparts to the INTEGRAL source IGR J11435-6109. We show that the object within the ROSAT error circle is an M type star and is not related with the INTEGRAL source. ... Key words: X-ray binaries. ...