... Piotrovich Main Astronomical Observatory, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg, Russia Received May 24, 2006; in final form, July 7, 2006 Abstract--We have used two astrometric methods developed at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences--the method of apparent-motion parameters (AMP) and a direct geometrical method (DGM)--to derive the orbit of the star S2 around the Galactic center, and thereby the mass of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. ... Relative positions. ...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

Sternberg astronomical institute activities on site testing programs review Victor Kornilov comprehensive/characterization/of/astronomical/sites > kislovodsk/russia/2010/october/4-9 > Introduction This presentation responds on our activity in 5 last years only, inspite of that in SAI site testing researches have been started many years ago. ... More detailed discussion is devoted to MASS and DIMM measurements processing, some additional effects which were taken in account in last year. ...

... 000, 1­13 (2010) Printed 21 September 2011 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) A universal ultraviolet-optical colour­colour­magnitude relation of galaxies I1gor V. Chilingarian1,2, and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2011 Sep 15; in original form 2011 Feb 6 ABSTRACT The bimodal galaxy distribution in the optical colour­magnitude diagram (CMD) comprises a narrow "red sequence" populated mostly by early-type galaxies and a broad "blue cloud" dominated by star-forming systems. ...

The possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in umbrae by line width differences S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. This article studies the possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in the photospheric layers of sunspot umbra by the Difference of the Line profile Absolute Widths of neutral zirconium ? ... 2) Line profiles for cold models have extended wings. ...

... 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. ...