... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...
VISTA Telescope Mount Factory testing prior to optics integration Paul Jeffers*a, Brian Stobiea, Stan Hermannb, Brad McCreightb a UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK b VertexRSI General Dynamics C4 Systems, 1217 Digital Drive, Richardson, TX 75081, USA ABSTRACT VISTA1 is a survey telescope which will deliver 0.5 arc second images over a 2 degree diameter unvignetted field of view. ... Thermal affects during the period of the test. ...
University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... The Role of Sounding Rocket Experiments in Space Science and Technology Education at Boston University . ... Sounding rocket programs at Boston University provide unique opportunities to train future space scientists and engineers. ... These sounding rocket experiments and satellite missions have spawned a culture of interdisciplinary space experimentation at Boston University. ...
... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...
... Я попытался выделить самые интересные сюжеты, в основном связанные с наблюдательной астрономией и появившиеся в Архиве препринтов в 2006 г. Большинство из этих работ описывались в моих обзорах и было включено в число "лучших из лучших" . ... Непопадание в список каких-то важных работ связано в основном с тем, что "на лету" трудно определить важность статьи вне своей области интересов, кроме того этот год выдался для меня непростым.. ... Authors: Jason W.T. Hessels et al. Статья в Обзорах . ...
... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2011 3 June . ... Tristram K. D. A torus of molecular gas and dust is one of the key components of unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN): it provides the material for accretion onto the supermassive black hole and is held responsible for the orientation-dependent obscuration of the central engine. I will present the results and current status of infrared interferometry of these dust distributions in AGN in the infrared. ... All seminars: . ...
... 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; . ...
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New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...
... 53, Moscow, 119991 Russia 2 MoscowPhysicotechnical Institute, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700 Russia Received June 15, 2004 ° Abstract--We present a catalog of 100 lines in the wavelength range 280330 A detected by the RES-C spectroheliograph in solar active regions and flares during the SPIRIT experiment aboard the CORONAS-F orbital station. ... The line intensities recorded during the X3.4 (GOES) solar flare of December 28, 2001, are given. ... The Ca XVIII 302.19 A line is observed. ...
... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...
... 337, 275292 (2002) The correlation of line strength with luminosity and redshift from composite quasi-stellar object spectra S. M. Croom,1 K. Rhook,1 E. A. Corbett,1 B. J. Boyle,1 H. Netzer,2 N. S. Loaring,3 L ... We measure highly significant Baldwin effects for most broad emission lines (C IV 1549, C III] 1909, Mg II 2798, H ,H ) and show that they are predominantly caused by correlations with luminosity, not redshift. ... The correlations of log W with log(1 + z ) for each line. ...
... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . SMIS PUBLICATIONS . ... M. Andrrev, V. Efremov, M. Gostev, G. Dmitriev, Yu.S. Krasheninnikova , E. Loupian , A. Mazurov , R. Nazirov , A. Proshin , E. Flitman A System for Operational Remote Access to Archives of Data from Russian Earth-Observation Satellite Systems . The paper is devoted to general information system architecture, developed at IKI RAN for building information systems for access to satellite data and derived products. ... Preprint IKI RAS. ...
... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...
... X-ray data of GX 3+1 (4U 1744-26) obtained in broad energy ranges using BeppoSAX (0.1200 keV) and Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) (3200 keV) offer a unique The Astrophysical Journal, 747:99 (15pp), 2012 March 10 Seifina & Titarchuk possibility to further investigate, in detail, the evolution of X-ray spectral properties during transition events. ... In Figure 2, we illustrate our spectral model as a basic model for fitting the BeppoSAX and RXTE spectral data for GX 3+1. ... Figure 4. ...
... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0705.0605 TYC 1031 012262 1: Первая галактическая затменная двойная с цефе . ... arxiv:0705.0605 TYC 1031 012262 1: Первая галактическая затменная двойная с цефеидой типа II (TYC 1031 01262 1: The First Known Galactic Eclipsing Binary with a Type II Cepheid Component) . ... Переменность звезды TYC 1031 01262 1 обнаружили несколько лет назад независимо в обзоре ASAS-3 и по архивных данным в ГАИШ. ... http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/157.html#arxiv/0705.0605 . ...
The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...
Truebloodb,g, K. Zelayab Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221 USA; bNational Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Street, Tucson AZ 85719 USA; cCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena ... USA ABSTRACT We describe the design, construction and measured performance of the Kitt Peak Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph ( KOSMOS ) for the 4-m Mayall ... Optical layout for KOSMOS and COSMOS. ...
... 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. ...