... Certain classical problems of one-dimensional dynamics, of dynamics on surfaces, of billiards in polygons, of surface foliations, can be solved using the recent knowledge about the moduli spaces. ... The conference is intended to put into contact experts in different aspects of the area (dynamics in moduli spaces, surface dynamics, surface foliations, horocyclic flow, symbolic dynamics, billiards in polygons), which, hopefully, would enrich everybody. ... Download conference poster (PDF, 549k) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The Heart and Soul Nebulas . ... Possibly not, but that is where two bright emission nebulas nicknamed Heart and Soul can be found. ... Tracking major weather patterns on the Solar System's outermost gas giant can help in the understanding of global weather patterns here on Earth. ... Known to some as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, parts of gas and dust clouds of this star formation region may appear to take on foreboding forms, some nearly human. ...

... A comparison of the computed and experimental relations F max ( H), as well as comparison of drift scans of point sources across different horizontal cross-sections of the BP with the corresponding computed cross-sections were made. ... The drift scans of the point source 3С84 (H=87 o ) at the wavelength 7.6 cm across the horizontal cross-sections of the BP (black lines) and the computed horizontal cross-sections of the BP corresponding to them (red lines). ...

... Virtual Observatory related tools use a new standard for data transfer called the VOTable format. ... We describe a streaming interface that can bridge the VOTable format, through a user friendly graphical interface, with the FITS and ASCII formats, which are commonly used by astronomers. ... This is a tool for converting ASCII or FITS files to VOTable format. ... A number of useful data processing, browsing and visualization tools are available to deal with data in the VOTable format. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... The defining location and structure of airglow needs tomographic processing of data of photometric measurements. ... Both observed function of column brightness and volume emission rate function of airglow may be expanded in a Fourier series. ... There are developed software and made numerical simulation for tomographic data processing. ... In this case airglow has gaussian profiles on both coordinates altitude and latitude. ... Total number of simulated observations is 320. Fig. ...

... As is known, the observed distribution of massive stars in the direction of the Galactic center looks very peculiar: the vast majority of all massive stars are concentrated towards the central 1 pc or so (Genzel et al. ... In order to compare the observed distribution of X-ray sources in the Galactic center with what would be expected from the population synthesis computations, we have considered two hypothetical scenarios for the location of the starburst. ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The ionogram catalogue is divided into the data file and the key file. ... The station codes database consists of the data file and two key files. ... This database consists of the data file and the key file. ... The antenna DB consists of two interrelated databases. ... The data file contains the following information: antenna type, antenna name, antenna parameters names, measurement units, and ranges of parameters. ...

... 3 2014 Композиты и наноструктуры COMPOSITES and NANOSTRUCTURES CONTENS S.T.Mileiko, N.I.Novokhatskaya, A.M.Stolin, P.M.Bazhin PRODUCING SILICIDE/MOLYBDENUM COMPOSITES BY USING INTERNAL CRYSTALLIZATION METHOD .. 185 There is shown a possibility to use the internal crystallysation method, which was developed earlier as a base for crystallisat ion of oxide fibres in a molybdenum matrix, to produce silicide/molybdenum composites. ...

AMPLITUDE AND PHASE VARIATIONS OF THE CHANDLER WOBBLE FROM 164-YR POLAR MOTION SERIES Z.M. MALKIN, N.O.MILLER Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of RAS Pulkovskoe Ch. ... The CW amplitude and phase variations were examined by means of several methods which yield very similar results. ... To extract the CW amplitude and phase variations from the filtered PM series two different techniques were used. ... The CW amplitude variations are shown in Fig. 1 for two methods used. ...

... We have made series of computer runs of the orbital evolution of asteroids for the 3/1 and 5/2 resonances with Jupiter using both the symplectic integrator RMVS3 [1] and the Bulirsh­Stoer method [2] (BULSTO). ... Besides the values of r hc presented in the Table at N = 144, for the 3/1 resonance at N = 24 we obtained r hc equal to 4.0, 1.7, 0.33, 0.4, and 0.7 at '' = 10 \Gamma8 , 10 \Gamma9 , d s = 3, 10, and 30 days, respectively. So in some cases a symplectic method can give large errors. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS015, 2001 TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE "SOUTH POLE - AITKEN " BASIN. ... Head [2] and Spudis [1] suggested in their reviews that the existense of the structure identified later as the South Pole - Aitken baasin was first predicted on the basis of a relief analysis of the mountain ridges observed in the libration zone be Hartman and Kuiper [7], i.e. after the first images of the lunar far-side had been obtained. ... SOUTH POLE-AIKEN BASIN: V.I.Chikmachev et al. ...

... October 6, 15:00 15:40 . ... PDF [2.3б MB] October 6, 15:40 16:30 . Warren Skidmore (TMT), Reed Riddle (TMT), Angel Otarola (TMT), Sebastian Els (TMT), Tony Travouillon (TMT), Matthias Schoeck (TMT), R. Dahl (ISIS), D. Naylor (ISIS), R. Querel (ISIS) . The results of the characterization of precipitable water vapor (PWV) in the atmospheric column carried out in the context of identifying potential sites for the deployment of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) are presented. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... 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. ...

Main results of project RNF 14-17-00555 in 2014 The aim o f the project is to develop methods to retrieve parameters of sea surface pollut ion, invest igate the effect of dynamic and circulat ion processes on the spread of po llutants, and determine ecological state of Russian seas based on comprehensive analysis o f satellite data. ... It was proven for test regions of the Black and Balt ic Seas. ... Subsatellite fieldwork was conducted in the southeastern Balt ic Sea and the northeastern Black Sea. ...

A very unusual weather pattern occurred in the Pacific Northwest Sept 26,27 and 28 but almost no one noticed (including most of the TV weather guys). ... As a result, although it was clear and sunny, day times highes in the region were around 65 and it was close to freezing in many locations (Frost in September in the Willamette Valley is unusual). This culminated with Eugene setting the all time record low for the month of September on Sept 28. ...

... Basic Research results General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of data Possibilities of observing the structure and dynamics of microwave activity SSRT - Research results . ...

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