... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 June 29 . Abell 2744: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Merten ( ITA , AOB ), D. Coe ( STScI ) . ... Far from a smooth distribution, Abell 2744 not only has knots of galaxies, but the X-ray emitting hot gas (colored red) in the cluster appears distributed differently than the dark matter . ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 28 May 1995, 0800 UT . Advanced plasma theories are extremely important when one tries to explain, for example, the various waves and instabilities found in the plasma environment. ... In the kinetic theory it is necessary to know only the distribution function for the system of particles. ... The dependence of the distribution function on the independent variables r , v , and t is governed by an equation known as the Boltzmann equation . ... Hot plasma theory . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... A Ministerial Committee (hereinafter the Committee) chaired by a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay A. Anfimov has been set up by the state authorities of Russia to investigate the cause of the Dnepr LV mission failure. ... The conclusions made by the Committee were delivered to the State Committees of Russia and Kazakhstan established with the aim to investigate the Dnepr launch failure consequences. ... Mission profile . ...

The absorption of MHD waves due to the cusp (or the slow) resonance is studied numerically and the obtained results are discussed with respect to a possible application to conditions that are typical for the solar corona. The considered configuration is composed of two homogeneous regions separated by an inhomogeneous slab through which all physical parameters of the medium change continuously according to an initially prescribed distribution. ...

... October 6, 09:00 09:40 . Jorge Melnick (ESO) . ... We present a statistical and temporal analysis of the ground meteorological properties recorded at the five selected sites for hosting the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). ... Marc Sarazin (ESO) . The organization and development of the E-ELT site testing campaign by ESO are described. ... The E-ELT Site Testing activities in northern Chile and Argentina are reviewed, and pioneering explorative campaigns are illustrated. ...

Fast algorithm of reconstruction of absolute conductivity distribution in a cross-section of human body by measurements of electrodes' potentials on the skin surface is described. ... This paper describes fast algorithm for absolute conductivity reconstruction and results of its application. ... The main problem under the absolute image reconstruction is obtaining of reference data, corresponding to the object with uniform conductivity and the same electrode positions. ...

... 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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... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

Click here for a PDF version of Richard Berry's talk. Universe 2001: Results of Saturday Evening Imaging . ... Support data for calibrating the CCD consisted of eight bias frames and four 60-second dark frames. ... To rescue the images, we processed and registered the four 15-second integrations and the 60-second integration separately. ... The 60-second images were then registered to the composite of 15-second images to produce the image M11-COMBO.FTS. ...

... Figure 10: Mean power spectrum obtained by time-averagi ng the energy map at each duration. For non-periodic signals, the mean wavelet spectrum is similar to the Fourier spectrum. ... The compromise we reached in allowing for single bump localization (something Fourier cannot do) reduces the spectral accuracy. ... Denote by the Fourier transform of the signal, the Fourier transform of the Mexican hat wavelet. ... by which the wavelet transform is a band-pass filtered Fourier Transform. ...

Central Bodies Masses of Selected Globular Clusters N.A.Shakht, A.A.Kiselev, Yu.N.Gnedin and E.A.Grosheva. The Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory RAS 47 Tuc ­NGC 104 RA 00 24 .1 Dec -72° 04 .9 Size = 30.9 mvis + 4. 0 m D from = 12,1 kpc, h m Cen - NGC 5139 NGC 6397 (Ara) RA 17 h40.m7 Dec -53o 40'.4 Size = 31',0 mvis + 5,3m D from =2.3 kpc RA 13h 26m .8 Dec -47° 28 6 Size = 36.3 m vis +3. 7 m D from =15.8 ±1.1 kpc, 12109 years, Age: 10109 years, (13.4 ± 0.8)109 years. ...

... University of Washington . ... Results . ... To facilitate assembly, testing, record keeping and maintenance, the optical fibers are organized into fiber harnesses, each containing twenty individual fibers. ... Figure 4: Measured throughput of the fibers in 318 harnesses that satisfied testing by the University of Washington. ... The histogram of throughputs for the worst fibers in each harness (Figure 8) shows that only a few harnesses have fibers that are measured to have less than 90% throughput....

... Results 3. ... 2004), Escapa (2011): Hamiltonian approach, simplified elastic response. ... PАg. ... Let us recall that assuming a rheological model based in Smith (1974) , Wahr (1979) and IERS (2010) for the elastic/anelastic response of the Earth, the second order harmonic components of the redistribution potential admit a truncated development in complex spherical harmonics in the form Generalized Love Numbers, dependent on: Harmonic order, Excitation frequencies In magnitude, PАg. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

... We address a question if globular clusters (GC) in a protogalaxy could for some time evolve chemically as isolated systems, enriching themselves with heavy elements produced in first supernova events that follow initial star formation. We determine both the critical mass of a protoglobular cluster that is needed to retain the ejecta of the very first supernova, and the critical energy (i.e., number of supernovae) that is needed to expel the residual gas from a cluster of a given mass. ...

... 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; . ...