A Dark Pulsar in CTA 1 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , S. Pineault ( DRAO ) Explanation: Where's the pulsar? Previously, the nebula CTA 1 showed an expanding supernova remnant , a jet , and a point source expected to be a pulsar -- a rotating neutron star producing pulses at radio energies. ... Now NASA's recently deployed Fermi Space Telescope has solved the mystery with some of its initial observations indicating that the point source is pulsing at gamma-ray energies . ...

... The firmware (built-in software) in the NexStar 8 GPS and 11 GPS scopes is designed to be updated by downloading a file from Celestron and uploading it from your PC to your scope.  ... To upload the firmware, you need a cable to connect from the serial port on your computer to the PC port on the base of the scope.  The PC port on the base of the scope is a standard RJ-45, so it is fairly easy to build a cable using a flat RJ-45 cable and a DB-9 (female) to RJ-45 adapter.  ...

... The dependence of velocity ellipsoid parameters for various types stars upon theirage was investigated. ... For metal-rich stars ([Fe/H] -0.1) the shape of velocity ellipsoid becomes more spherical with increasing age of the stellar group and it approaches the equilibrium shape. ... По данным uvby -фотометрии, изохронным возрастам и собственным движениям ~3500 F -звезд диска в окрестности 80 пс от Солнца исследованы зависимости параметров эллипсоидов скоростей различных звезд от возраста. ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 . ... Direct Measurement of the Contribution of Point Sources to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission in Record Deep Observations by the Chandra Observatory . ... These demonstrate that electrons generating hard X-ray intensity have been an initiator and main source of flare plasma heating, the particle acceleration and the plasma heating is a system with positive feed back. ...

... The Earth orientation parameters UT1 and polar motion (x pol ; y pol ) are relat­ ed with the values of UT0 and VOL obtained from the LLR analysis for a station with geocentric longitude and latitude (–; OE) by the following expression: 7 UT0 \Gamma UTC = UT1 \Gamma UTC + (x pol sin – + y pol cos –) tan OE 15 V OL = x pol cos – \Gamma y pol sin – At least four normal points for each station--reflector pair at one day were accepted for the diurnal UT0 estimations. ...

... SPARCompiler(TM) Fortran 90 1.0 . FORTRAN 77 3.0.1 . ... important of these. -ansi: Report non-ANSI extensions. -c: Suppress linking, produce .o files -e: Recognize extended (132 character) source lines -fast: Specify common set of performance options - fixed : Interpret all Fortran source files according to fixed form rules -flags: Print summary of compiler options -fnonstd: Non-standard initialization of floating-point hardware -fnonstop: Execute without trapping on invalid, overflow ...

... Program of the Course of Radio Astronomy . Moscow State University , Physics Department , Astronomy Division , 4 th year, 60 hours in total) . ... Molecular maser emission. ... The emission of the interstellar neutral hydrogen. ... Pacholczyk, A. G. Radio Astrophysics, W. H. Freeman & Co., ... Frontiers of Astrophysics, Avrett, E. H., ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ... Kaplan, S. A., Pikelner, S. B. The Interstellar Medium, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ...

Magnetic Flux of EUV Arcades and Dimmings as a Relevant Parameter . ... We study events of the 23th cycle, in which major non-recurrent geomagnetic storms (GMS) with Dst < - 100 nT are sufficiently reliably identified with their solar sources in the central part of the disk. ... Figure 3: FD magnitude vs. eruptive magnetic flux . Figure 4: Geomagnetic storm intensiry (Dst index) vs. eruptive magnetic flux . Figure 5: Geomagnetic storm onset and peak transit times vs. eruptive magnetic flux . ...

In calculating the NIFS sensitivity, we adopt a read noise of 5 e - , a dark current of 0.01 e - s -1 pix -1 , and a maximum exposure time of 3600 s. Grating . ... e/pix) . ... OH Cont. (e/pix) . ... NIFS should achieve signal-to-noise ratios of ~ 10 per spectral pixel in a 0.1" 0.1" aperture for single 1800 s exposures on uniform, extended, continuum sources with surface brightnesses of J = 15.4, J = 15.0, H = 14.8, and K = 13.5 mag arcsec -2 using the Z , J , H , and K gratings, respectively. ...

... The VSOP Survey Continuum Source List . The radio sample for the VSOP continuum survey was defined to include all extragalactic radio sources with: . a total flux density at 5 GHz, S>=1.0 Jy . ... The sample also included all sources in the sky with a 5 GHz flux density S>5 Jy, regardless of spectral index and galactic latitude. ... The source would then be included in the VSOP sample (three of the sources were found with a flux density above 1 Jy and added to the sample). ...

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The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Statistic . This statistic enables us to test whether observed frequencies are close to . those we would expect. ... Expected frequencies . ... For example, if we . have an honest die we would expect 1/6 of all cases to show any of . ... So, for example, if we roll a die 60 times we would expect : . ... If we actually roll a die 60 times we wouldn't expect each of the faces . ... times each face actually comes up is the observed frequency for that face. ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

... There is no question about the source of ionospheric plasma , since it is created from the ambient neutral atmosphere by ionization. However, the source of magnetospheric plasma is a much more complicated question: although it seems obvious that both solar wind and ionosphere feed it, the relative importance of these two sources is unclear. ... Protons (H + ) are the primary ions in solar wind and one of the major components in ionospheric outflows, and thus not good indicators of their source. ...

... The results of long-term monitoring of Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum sources were found the statistically significant differences (0.05 significance level) in the high-frequency spectral index distribution between subgroups of galaxies and quasars. ... This can mean that the electron energy distribution for GPS galaxies is steeper than for GPS quasars. ... The first area corresponds to GPS-quasars that have statistically larger value of redfhift, second area corresponds to GPS-galaxies. ...

... 2008 October 21 . A Dark Pulsar in CTA 1 . Credit: NASA , S. Pineault ( DRAO ) . Explanation: Where's the pulsar? Previously, the nebula CTA 1 showed an expanding supernova remnant , a jet , and a point source expected to be a pulsar -- a rotating neutron star producing pulses at radio energies. ... Now NASA's recently deployed Fermi Space Telescope has solved the mystery with some of its initial observations indicating that the point source is pulsing at gamma-ray energies . ...

Optical characteristics of non-spherical scatterers . ... A list of reviews (under preparation) and links to the databases of Hovenier's and Gustafson's groups on the visible/infrared and microwave light scattering experiments, respectively. ... Light scattering codes . ... Benchmarks in optical properties . Tables of different light scattering characteristics carefully calculated by different codes (methods). Dependence of optical properties on scatterer parameters . ...

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... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...