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... The absolute magnitude of the RCBs in the LMC and the small number of Galactic RCBs implies that they are very rare stars. Together with statistics for related stars, the total number of hydrogen-deficient stars in the Galaxy is estimated to be about 1000 ([ Warner 1967 ]). Whilst the luminosity of RCBs is similar to that of other low-mass stars as they evolve rapidly from the asymptotic giant branch to become white dwarfs, their frequency is much lower. ...

Random numbers ­ a note · How can a computer generate a "random" number? ... Maximal sequence length is m 30/10/2007 Computational Physics 2007 Distributions · Basic generator is uniform on [0,m]. ... 30/10/2007 Computational Physics 2007 Generators · Many random number generators: ­ f95 intrinsic functions · call random_number (harvest) . ... 30/10/2007 Computational Physics 2007 How "random"? ... 30/10/2007 Computational Physics 2007 About software How can it go wrong? ...

SiD Tracking using VXD Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Plan Motivation Track reconstruction algorithm Performance for single tracks Does it have any limits ? With backgrounds To do Motivation Tracking in SiD is a challenge, especially pattern recognition. ... Limitations caused by reconstruction speed consideration In the presence of high number of background hits, number of 3-point combinations used as track seed became enormous if we consider all combinations. ...

... Moscow, Russia E-mail: krivosheev@iki.rssi.ru Notes: · · The Monte Carlo method (s) is also called the statistical test method An innumerable number of processes can be listed the outcome of which is not determined and has probabilistic nature, but these processes obey statistical laws, so to obtain the result we have to make multiple similar tests, i.e. to use the MC method Because probabilistic processes are widely spread in nature, the MC ...

... They were determined as a result of orbit improving on the base of all kinds of optical observations available in the catalog of observations of the Minor Planet Center on March 16, 2014 (radar observations have not been used at this stage). ... As the MPC orbits do not all were improved simultaneously with EMP orbits, only 383866 sets of elements were used for data comparison (for selected sets of elements process of improvement had started with the use of the same observations). ...

hstpolsim -- Produce simulated polarization input data frames for HST instruments . ... inint = "" [name] . ... Name of the HST instrument for which simulated polarization images are to be produced. ... Name of the instrument specific polarizing filter for simulated images (ignored for SPECIAL instrument). filtname = "" [name] . Name of the instrument specific colour filter for simulated images. ... The header parameter FILTER provides the filter name and POLANG the polarizer angle. ...

When using a large number of Virtual Hosts, Apache may run out of available file descriptors (sometimes called file handles if each Virtual Host specifies different log files. ... Unix operating systems limit the number of file descriptors that may be used by a process; the limit is typically 64, and may usually be increased up to a large hard-limit. ... If you system falls into 1 or 2 (above), then increase the file descriptor limit before starting Apache, using a script like #!/bin/sh . ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . Another problem that was making it difficult to automatically merge GCVS and survey catalogs has been recently solved: 'old' variable stars also had only very rough coordinates. The GCVS has been identified, on a star-by-star basis, with positional catalogs. ... The total number of stars we were unable to identify, at least tentatively, is only 200, most of them from two or three sources of especially unreliable positional information. ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . Another problem that was making it difficult to automatically merge GCVS and survey catalogs has been recently solved: “old” variable stars also had only very rough coordinates. The GCVS has been identified, on a star-by-star basis, with positional catalogs. ... The total number of stars we were unable to identify, at least tentatively, is only 200, most of them from two or three sources of especially unreliable positional information. ...

... Комфортный ортопедический матрас UFOkids размером 75х195 см. ... Матрасы . ... Серьги . ... Working time: Steady bright: 20 hours, Strobe: 40 hours, Slow flash: 80 hours . ... Серьги с бриллиантами, сапфирами из красного золота - Магия золота - Магия золота . ...

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Here are some times for converting alldec.ref (2608 records) from refer to bibtex. ... Assuming alldec.ref is in the ref directory: time ../bin/tconv.pl -convert alldec.ref -to foo.bib -format=refer,bibtex (139 warnings, 802524 bytes) Dell Pentium Pro 150MHz 28.8 Pentium Pro 133MHz BETA 32.6 HyperSPARC/125 45.7 Pentium 180 MHz 46.0 Sun SparcStation 20/61 46.1 Pentium 133 MHz 47.3 Pentium 100 MHz 61.0 HP 9000/735 83.0 (?? ... The Pentium Pro machines do extremely well. ...

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I/146 Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser+ 1988) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions Roeser S., Bastian U. =1988A .. ... 449R ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Positional data; Proper motions Description: PPM North gives J2000 positions and proper motions of 181,731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. ... The mean epoch is near 1931. ...

Next: Case Study Two: The Up: Case Study 1: The Previous: Benefits of the Exercise . Preparation time. ... An intermediate deadline, with students required to show evidence that they've started serious work on this exercise, might solve this problem. ... This problem was resolved by allowing time in lectures and tutorials to discuss the assignment. 14% of students commented that they would have liked more observations, and two students felt that the exercise was too difficult and baffling. ...

... Minutes Group a (photocopy of the table with signatures and stamps) – one page. ... Theoretical round problems a – one page. ... Practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Grid-lines for the practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Picture to fill for problem 8 b – one page. ... Solutions of the practical round problems – not ready full (LOC jobs not done) – ?? pages. ... Observational round problems – one page. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

SOHO Comet 367: Sungrazer . ... Credit Copyright: SOHO - LASCO Consortium, ESA , NASA . ... Three frames taken hours apart on October 23rd, show bright SOHO comet number 367 plunging toward the fiery solar surface, its tail streaming away from the Sun located just beyond the left hand border. ... And like all SOHO sungrazers so far , comet number 367 was not seen to survive its close solar encounter. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...