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In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that . no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... Its orbit is intermediate between the Kuiper Belt and what was previously thought to be the inner part of the Oort Cloud. ...

Next: - for Supernova Explosions Up: Evolution of Supernova Explosion Previous: The Supernovae Rates . ... For a homogeneous space distribution of sources, - is a linear law with slope 3/2 (in other words, because and , where R is a distance to sample source). ... Then, for the homogeneous space distribution of sources, the - dependence would be , where C is some constant. However, for distant objects - depends not only on the space distribution of the sources, but also on some other factors. ...

Next: Merging data from a collection of Catalogues . ... Previous: Korean Astronomical Data Center Prototype Release . ... Zhelenkova, O. P. & Vitkovskij, V. V. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The volume of information for each source grew from the 100 bytes for each RC-catalogue row up to 10MB including radio and optical observations, information from catalogues and surveys, data processing results and files for Internet publication. ... The initial information is observational data. ...

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... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

... One striking feature is a small source of almost pure H 2 line emission, which is located near one of the compact sources in Orion reported by O'Dell and collaborators (HST-18 = 203-504). ... H-H objects, Proplyds, Orion Bar, H 2 . ... We obtained a series of images across the bright rim of the Orion Bar near the peaks of mm-wave molecular line emission with NICMOS cameras 1-3 (NIC1, NIC2, NIC3) in several filters on 1998 February 18. ... The suggestion of an H-H object does not seem compelling. ...

. Comment on J0834+5534 . A compact symmetric object (CSO) with ~160 mas separation between components, as shown by 1.6 GHz VLBI observations (Polatidis et al. 1995). The weaker component is not detected in our survey (see also Pearson & Readhead 1988). VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

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... The hard gamma radiation from AGN is produced most probably in the relativistic jets observed in the considerable part of these objects. In the center of AGN (and may be of all other galaxies) there is a supermassive black hole surrounded by the accretion disk, which is the source of the energy in these objects. ... The problem of particle acceleration in the AGN jets is very important: the time of the electron energy losses in the jets is usually much less than their life time. ... next page . ...

On the problem of using of the ICRF radio coordinates reference system Lipovka A.A. (1), Lipovka N.M. (1) Center of research for physics, Sonora State University e-mail: nila_lip@mail.ru Bibliography 1. ... Columns 8, 9 are corrections to right ascension and declination, which should be added to coordinates of ICRF2 radio sources, to obtain coordinates of optical objects, with which these radio sources are identified. ... Lipovka .. ... Fig 3 Fig 3 ...

... 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; . ...

... supernova images . Supernova Search and . ... How to report a supernova discovery . ... General Supernova information When you are looking for information on the latest Supernovae, the first place to look (Besides the Bright Supernovae page ) is the Recent IAU Circulars page, Recent CBET Circulars and IAU 's List of Recent Supernovae and List of All Supernovae , as well as the Headlines page web page. ... Arcturus Observatory SN images . ... Joseph Brimacombe's supernova images New 2009/12/17 . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Swift: 10 years of discovery, conference reminder . ... Кому: Ця електронна адреса захищена в?д спам-бот?в. вам потр?бно ув?мкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити ?? ... Отправленные: Понедельник, 19 Май 2014 г 12:30:38 . Тема: > > : Swift: 10 years of discovery, conference reminder . В?д: SWIFT 10 Years Meeting [ Ця електронна адреса захищена в?д спам-бот?в. вам потр?бно ув?мкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити ?? ... Swift: 10 years of discovery? ...

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... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...