home education > activities . ... Quick math activity that asks students to calculate scale models of a binary star system with a black hole in it. [h] . ... Students use a radiometer and a light bulb with a dimmer switch to make connections between the temperature, color, and radiation output of a star. ... This demonstration, similar to the above, from the Exploratorium Snack-book of science activities, lets students demonstrate how molecules scatter light and change the colors of the beam. [m,h] . ...

... 2.3 Establishing the Extragalactic Distance Scale . ... 2.3.2 The Second Rung: Distances to stellar clusters . ... 2.3.4 Distances to Local Group Galaxies . ... The Luminosity Function of Planetary Nebulae . ... 3.2.2 Clusters of Galaxies . ... 4.2 Evidence for Dark Matter as a Function of Scale Size . ... 4.3 Other Dark Matter Indicators for Galaxies . ... What is the nature of the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe as traced by the three-dimensional galaxy distribution? ...

... SSAU History . ... Scientists of the Department of Space Engineering in Samara State Aerospace University, together with Chinese colleagues from the Institute of Automation in Northwestern Polytechnical University will be engaged in researches in the field of space cable systems. A joint Russian-Chinese Laboratory led by Sergey Ishkov, Professor of SSAU and Wang Wei, Professor of NWPU, is created for that purpose. ... Professor Ishkov made a presentation on the cable systems during the visit. ...

HIGH MASS X-RAY BINARIES AND RECENT STAR FORMATION HISTORY P. Shtykovskiy 1 1,2 and M. Gilfanov 2,1 Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 2 Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching b. Munchen, Germany Ё Ё ABSTRACT Based on the XMM-Newton observations of Magellanic Clouds we consider the dependence of population of high mass X-ray binaries on the recent star formation history in the host galaxy. ... HMXBS AND RECENT STAR FORMATION IN MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 4.1. ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

Elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Rough subdivision · 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 0.1­0.5 100 10­100 1­10 0.1­10 5­100 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 ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The S un Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic ... Low mass stars live and die differently than high mass stars. ...

... Hierarchy and stability 3. Stability criteria for triple systems 4. ... The results for selected systems with weak hierarchy (physical properties of components) System HD 40887 AB+CD HD 76644 AB+CD HD 217675 AB+CD HD 222326 A?+BC HD 284419 A+BC Spectral types K5V, M0V, K4V, ?? ... More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 ( And) Quadruple system More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 Pair B1B 2 More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 (Zhuchkov et al. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON MARCH 2016 HAS MADE Wmarch = 32.9, 54.9 ( new ) THAT GIVES FOR 80 MONTHS (2015, SEPTEMBER) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*sep. = 39.6; 66.0 - (in new system ); W*aug. = 39.8; 66.3 - (in new system ); - On July 1, 2015 Centre in Brussels moved to a new system of cal- culation the relative ... Almost all the work using smooth W* have to lead to a new system, if it remains. ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... The Survey Areas Definition Tool is part of the VISTA Data Flow System Project (a separate project to the VISTA Project) and was delivered to ESO for use with VISTA and (later) VST. ... The SADT and can be found via the ESO SADT page and includes inter alia . ... The Y overlap value set in SADT controls how the Y edges of adjacent tiles overlap. ... Y overlap 0/60 efficiently uses the one time covered regions to make a 2x covered region . ...

... Theoretical department of ISSP RAS . ... Pis'ma v ZhETF, 69 , 543, 1999; V.E.Bisti , Pis'ma v ZhETF, 73 , 25, 2001 ). (ii) Collective intrasubband charge density excitations are investigated in double GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells in external parallel magnetic field. ... Goldstone mode relaxation in a quantum Hall ferromagnet . ... The considered system is a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet possessing "classical" spin S 0 ~N j /2 (N j being the number of magnetic flux quanta, S 0 || ... Spin biexciton. ...

... Maidanak Observatory by AZT-22 1.5m telescope observations Alexander S. Gusev and Boris P. Artamonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia gusev@sai.msu.ru INTRODUCTION Mount Maidanak Observatory at Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI) of Uzbek Academ y of Sciences located in the South Uzbekistan, on the slopes of the Baisun range, at an altitude of 2600 m. Brief history. ... Here we are presenting the study of the realistic seeing of CCD images obtained on the AZT-22 telescope. ......

Welcome to K -corrections calculator, simple service allowing one to determine K -corrections of a galaxy, given its redshift and one or more colours. ... K -correction in choose filter.. ... Redshift . Colour choose colour.. Colour value . Calculator . ... calculate spectral energy distributions , K-corrections calculator , GALEX FUV NUV , UKIDSS YJHK , K-corrections of galaxies , spectral based k-corrections , SDSS filter set K-corrections , K correction code IDL , kcorrect IDL C , . ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... 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 % . ...

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