... Archives . ... One realization of mine during the meeting was related to a cultural difference; therefore, there is no relation to any presentations during the 212th AAS in this post. ... I cannot cover all perspectives from both disciplines but I think there are two distinct fashions in practicing normalization. $$\frac{1}{N(\theta)}\int_{\Omega} f(x;\theta)dx=1$$ . ... This is my last posting on my first AAS . Tags: AAS , measure , measure theory , normalization , PDF , pmf . ... Chandra Blog . ...

Next: Code II: Unknown Up: Image Restorations of High Previous: Construction of Algorithms . ... The positions of the designated point sources ( ) must be given as well as initial amplitudes for and . ... The integrated flux of the point sources ( ) plus that of the distributed emission ( ) is constrained to equal that of the observed image ( ). ... This is investigated in Fig. 1 where all emission derives from point sources but only one - the brightest - is designated as such. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . epchain (epchain-8.63) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... SAS_VERBOSITY should be set to 4 or 5 for normal processing. SAS_MEMORY_MODEL should be set to `high' for normal processing. ... It is not yet fully embedded in SAS and thus does not support all SAS task options. epchain - -v (or -v) lists the version number of all chain tasks. epchain - -p (or -p) gives a list of all available parameters with its default values. XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-02 ...

... arXiv.org . ... Although great progress has been made in modelling the disk with radiative transfer models able to reproduce the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Herbig Ae stars, the constraints brought by images have not been yet fully exploited. Here, we are interested in checking if these new observational imaging constraints can be accounted for by predictions based on existing models of passive centrally irradiated hydrostatic disks made to fit the SEDs of the Herbig Ae stars. ...

Hide Zen home . ... sncat2sntab.pl - convert old catalog to table sn . ... CREATE TABLE cats ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); -- a list of properties of galaxy CREATE TABLE properties ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy _property ( gid integer REFERENCES galaxy (id), pid integer REFERENCES properties(id), value float, UNIQUE( gid ,pid) ); CREATE t=# select * from galaxy; id | ...

... Mars to Appear Normal this August . ... October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. On October 30, Mars will be nearly opposite to the Sun, rise at sunset, set at sunrise, and appear highest and brightest around midnight. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

... We consider stars with a constant (solar) initial chemical composition. Before the Roche lobe overflow, the components evolve as single stars (see for details LPP96). ... If the mass transfer onto a normal star occurs on a time-scale ten time shorter than the thermal Kelvin-Helmholz time for this star or a compact star is engulfed by a giant companion (e.g. as a result of the kick), the common envelope (CE) stage of the binary evolution is set in (Paczynski 1976). ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Spectacularly bright object in Andromeda caused by "normal" black hole . ... A spectacularly bright object recently spotted in one of the Milky Wayт??s neighboring galaxies is the result of a т??normalт?? stellar black hole, astronomers have found. ... Other scientists say ULXs are caused by material being dragged in by an intermediate-sized black hole formed from the merger of many stellar-mass black holes т?? about 1,000 times bigger than the...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...