... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...

... Impedance . Electrical impedance, or simply impedance, describes a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating current (AC). Electrical impedance extends the concept of resistance to AC circuits, describing not only the relative amplitudes of the voltage and current, but also the relative phases. ... Resistance is the real part of impedance; a device with a purely resistive impedance exhibits no phase shift between the voltage and current. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... space flight . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... NASA describes Hubble fix . NASA confirms new Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission details. ... Hubble fix a "go" . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Publication Originality and Plagiarism The PASP and ASPCS publication agreements warrant that authored manuscripts are original and previously unpublished. ... Peer Review, Confidentiality, and Conflicts of Interest Reviews of all PASP manuscripts are strictly confidential and all reviewers are anonymous. ... Authors are expected to follow the recommendations of reviewers and editors to correct and augment their manuscript citations when requested to do so. ...

Next: GOCG Pre-Observation Products . Previous: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... Observation Summary File (OSF) . GRT (Ground Radio Telescope) Schedule Files . ... How: The long-term schedulers will produce two files: GSTS-file (General Space Telescope Schedule) to be used by GOCG and LTS-file for all mission elements. ... What: The RSOG will produce schedule files for all GRTs participating in a particular observation, in the format required by each GRT. ...

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... 237S (SIMBAD/NED BibCode) ================================================================================ Keywords: Sun: UV radiation - atmospheric effects - Sun: atmosphere - lines: identification Description: An ultraviolet atlas of the solar spectrum with a spectral resolution of 15mA in the region 1948-2000A is presented. ... The wavelength atlas with a list of about 550 lines has been synthesized from data at center of the Sun ({mu}=1) and at {mu}=0.89, smoothed out over an area of 30 arcsec. ...

. [Russian version] . M a i n p a g e . Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . " The INTEGRAL Mission " . Dr. Christoph Winkler (Astrophysics Mission Division Research & Scientific Support Department ESA, Netherlands) . Abstract: . It will provide an overview about the spacecraft, instruments and the ground segment. Then the scientific objectives and the observing programme will be described. The current status of the mission shortly before launch and the next milestones will be described.

... Russian KOI8 . ... Radio galaxies and cosmology [in Russian]) . ... The book is devoted to investigations of powerful radio galaxies in the different wavelength ranges. ... The history of study for radio galaxies is given and the outlook on radio galaxy exploring is considered. ... The cosmological tests to check the Universe evolution parameters constructed on the observational data of radio galaxies are considered in details. ... List of detected misprints (in Russian). ...

... There are a lot of computer codes simulating this scattering and freely available in the Internet (see e.g. links on our JPDOC page ). ... The code and input file are available in the directory . ... A slightly modified code of Barber Hill with a C-shell and input files is available in the directory . ... The code, input and test output files are available in the directory . ... See also readme file. file. ... The code, input file and their description (a TeX file) are available in the directory . ...

Pro ject Summary presented for Pierre Deligne's and "Dynasty" fund contests ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES OF ZETA FUNCTIONS ALEXEY ZYKIN The starting point of our research pro ject is the classical Brauer­Siegel theorem which is one the milestones of number theory of the past century. ... M. Tsfasman and S. Vl ё generalized this theorem to the case of families of almost normal adut global fields where the degree growths fast enough compared to the discriminant. ...

... Configuration The dictionary accepts one obligatory parameter - RULES, which has to be set to the file describing parsing rules and output recipes. ... Each non-empty line is either a comment (when started with '#' symbol), or a conversion rule, and in the latter case has to contain whitespace-separated pattern and output recipe. Currently, pattern has to match the _integer_ (one, two or more) number of input tokens; they will be replaced with a single one. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... The words are numbered according to the reference mentioned above. ... 59 WORD wSecond ; // 0 .. 59 satellite tracking start time (GMT) float fStep ; // reserved WORD wMass ; // reserved BYTE reserved [12] ; // reserved WORD wExtraBytes ; // reserved } TRAJECTORYHEADER ; NOTE: the satellite tracking start time is a hardware operating start time to follow satellite. typedef struct { // ephemeris at satellite tracking start time double time ; // Epoch time (yyddd.ddddddddd)...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

Is the ozone layer recovering ? ... Global Regulation Global Regulation · · · · 1985: Vienna Convention 1987: Montreal Protocol Several amendments and adjustments Quantity for (chemical) ozone depletion of ODS: EESC (Equivalent Effective qu ect Stratospheric Chlorine): Weighting over release and ozone depletion of individual ODS EESC for mid-latitudes http//:www.wmo.ch/web/arep/reports/ozone_2002/q&as.pdf, Seite Q.29 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100 3. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... Catalog: 206 clusters 32 clusters: known before 12 clusters: parameters from BVRI photometry @ SAO 1-m 0 clusters: parameters from UBVRI photometry @ Maidanak 1.5-m 26 clusters: parameters from 2MASS 168 clusters: new (2MASS) 142 clusters: parameters from 2MASS 26 clusters: embedded 0 clusters: parameters from BVRI photometry @ SAO 1-m 3 clusters: parameters from UBVI photometry @ ARIES 1.04-m 0 clusters: parameters from UBVRI photometry @ Maidanak 1.5-m . ...