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... The data for ~ 5500 F-G stars are used to study their kinematics, metal abundance and HR diagram in terms of uvby photometry. The age - metallicity, velocity - metallicity, and age - velocity relations are derived. ... 4) At a given metallicity the kinematics of F dwarfs is close to that of G giants and the kinematics of G dwarfs is close to that of K giants. ... 1) При [Fe/H] < 0 звезды данной металличности обнаруживают отчетливую точку поворота главной последовательности (ГП). ...

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... The available observational data on masses and/or luminosities of binary components and the current models for different chemical compositions of Pop I stars were used to improve the mass-luminosity relation for stars of moderate masses. ... This technique was also applied to decompose the low-mass components of several stars suspected to be unresolved binaries. ... The method is based on the minimum determination technique applied to functions of several variables covering a limited range of values...

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... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

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Evolution of the double neutron star merging rate and the cosmological origin of Gamma-ray burst sources " , Astroph.J., 1995, v.454, 593-596 (Lipunov, V.M. Postnov, K.A. and Prokhorov M.E.) . Evolution of Supernova?Explosion Rates in the? Universe (Jorgensen H., Lipunov.M., Panchenko I.E., Postnov K.A., Prokhorov M.E.) ApJ, 1997, v.486,p.110 . ... Formation of a Gravitationally Bound Object after Binary Neutron Star Merging and GRB phenomena " (G.V.Lipunova, V.M.Lipunov). ...

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... AO-4 . The space VLBI Mission RadioAstron, led by the Astro Space Center (ASC) of Lebedev Physical Institute, provides a range of specific and unique capabilities for detecting and imaging sources of cosmic radio emission at the highest angular resolution. ... AO-4 observations will be performed between July 2016 and June 2017 inclusive. ... The RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4; . The RadioAstron User's Handbook ; . ... RadioAstron observations status summary . ...

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