... We also present independent relationships between the visual surface brightness parameter FV and the colours (V \Gamma R), (V \Gamma I), (R \Gamma I) and (V \Gamma K). We find that (U \Gamma B) and (B \Gamma V ) are unsuitable as T eff indicators. The tightest relationship in each case is found for the (V \Gamma K) index. Our mean relationships agree reasonably well with similar relationships derived by other authors, where such are available. ...

ASTEROIDAL DAMAGE TO THE EARTH: IMPLICATIONS BY ASTEROIDS ґ RUBBLE PILES. ... 13, Moscow 119892, Russia, E-mail:san@sai.msu.ru In the cause of asteroids ґ rubble piles its effective cross-section of collision to the Earth is determined not by consolidated body, but by cluster of its fragments. Since the stage of rubble ґ piles may be ~108 years (see our communication at previous symposium), it may be significant for estimation the asteroidal damage to the Earth. ...

On' failures in the NIRSpec MEMS ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-02 The effects of `on' failures in a MEMS array for the NGST NIRSpec Santiago Arribas, Robert Fosbury Peter Jakobsen --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-02 The effects of `on' failures in a MEMS array for the NGST ... Assuming that the spectrum of a single facet uses 2000 detector pixels, only 0.01% of `on' failures is acceptable (i.e., 400 facets in a 2k в 2K MEMS array). ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... God and Science · SETI · Software · UFO · XEphem . ... SETI Assumes ET Doesnot Care About Can Being Detected What If . ... Post Message | ... My search on how to go undetected in space and SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

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Physica C 453 (2007) 12ґ14 www.elsevier.com/locate/physc Superconducting temperature of the x-phase in Ti, Zr and Hf metals at high pressures I.O. Bashkin *, V.G. Tissen, M.V. Nefedova, E.G. Ponyatovsky Institute ... Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia Received 27 November 2006; accepted 29 November 2006 Available online 24 January 2007 Abstract The superconducting transition temperature of the Ti metal is measured in dependence on pressure to 56.0 GPa ... Phys. 35 (1963) 732. ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

Elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Rough subdivision Ї Normal ellipticals. ... Dwarf ellipticals (dE's). ... E dE BCD dSph 1013 - 1014 108 - 1013 107 - 109 109 107 - 108 300-1000 1-200 1-10 3 0.1ґ0.5 100 10ґ100 1ґ10 0.1ґ10 5ґ100 Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

... 2002: . ... Age of the brightest of them, 1 Ori C, does not exceed several tens thousand years and its mass reaches 35 solar masses. ... Periodical increase in brightness of a white dwarf caused by gravitational amplification of radiation coming from binary systems of compact objects (white dwarfs, white dwarf and neutron star, white dwarf and black hole) can be detected in our Galaxy with a probability of 10 -3 - 10 -5 . ... Archive . ...

By using the tools of sections (20) and (21), the mathematics of approximate solutions developed in (M-5), and assuming all orbits are circles, it is a relatively straightforward job to calculate the distance to the Lagrangian L1 point (or to L2). ... Let the gravitational constant be denoted by G , the mass of the Sun by M , that of Earth by m , the Earth's distance from the Sun by r and its velocity in its orbit by v . ... GMm / r 2 = mv 2 / r . and multiplying both sides by r / m . ...

... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...

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... 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). ...

... Radio astronomical tests of the engineering model of the space radio telescope (SRT) were completed in Pushchino - see Results . ... Monitoring of the development of the upgrade on-board 1.35-cm receiver (R-SRT-1.35 cm): . ... EM Engineering Model . ... OHCFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne and Clock Frequency Synthesizer set . OHFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Hydrogen Frequency Standard . ORFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Rubidium Frequency Standard . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...