... 4. (a) Distribution of distance from the Galactic plane, (b) kinematic diagram, and (c) relation between metallicity and distance from the Galactic plane for RR Lyrae stars with [Fe /H ] > -0.95 . ... The solid line in the middle panel is a regression line, whose slope is determined by the subsystem’s rotation rate; the open circles and dashed line correspond to stars with [Fe/H] > -0.4, and the filled circles and dashed line to stars with -0.95 < [Fe/H] < -0.4. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

. Next: Optical identifications Up: Distances Previous: Timing parallax . љ . Distance determined for > 50 pulsars . Main method of calibrating DM distances . Requires a model of the Galactic rotation . Compare structure in absorption and emission . Gating on the pulsar helps to extract the weak absorption signal . љ љ . Figure 15: Hydrogen 21cm line spectra. From Lyne & Graham-Smith 1990 [ 23 ] . Jon Bell . Thu Dec 19 15:15:11 GMT 1996

We present an extinction analysis of sight lines selected from all public FUSE observations of Galactic O and B stars. Over 90% of Milky Way extinction curves sampled from IR through UV wavelengths (UV coverage provided by IUE) conform to the CCM family of curves based on R(V), a single parameter linked to grain size (Cardelli, Clayton, Mathis 1989, ApJ, 345, 245; Valencic, Clayton, Gordon 2004, ApJ, 616, 912). ... ADS ] . ADS Citation Query . ...

... SQL | ... Tutorial: determine H0 using SQL queries to LEDA . ... We select in the database all galaxies with known velocity and magnitude and similar to a given template for which we know the distance, the magnitude and the radial velocity. ... We simply have to choose a property which does not depend on the distance, as for example the rotation velocity ( log(vrot) ) and select the galaxies having log(vrot) in a very narrow range around the value for the template galaxy. ... leda@univ-lyon1.fr ...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Radio Images Page . ... Exposure uf . ... Exposure uf Exposure time of unfiltered event file . Exposure f Exposure time of filtered event file . ... Event 2 FITS File . ... AUX file . ... Region . ... see fit detail page for more about the fit. see chandra spectrum page for region used. Images in Several Energy Bands . ... Spectra of Several Regions . ... 1.0" . ... in central region . ... in central region, double? ...

... This document and the attached postscript figure document an analysis that I did to determine the optimum midpoint and required ranges for both the rotator and azimuth for the 2.5 M telescope. ... I simulate a series of drift scans on the sky for tracks that cover the northern survey area. These tracks cover the range in survey latitude of -60 to +60 degrees, spaced by 10 degrees. ... Along each track the azimuth, elevation, and position angle of the CCD is computed at 1 minute intervals. ...

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The azimuth encoder rack gear is mounted on the inside of the azimuth ring girder. The azimuth encoder turns on this gear as the azimuth moves 0 to 720 degrees. ... The software assumes that this arc length along the encoder rack gear is correct (at a constant radius of 127/2 feet). The error in the radius of the rack gear becomes an azimuth error. To measure the error in the azimuth encoder rack gear, jon hagen built a proximity sensor. ... To compute the az encoder runout error: . ...

... Keywords: Proper Motions, Schmidt Plates, Astrometry, Guide Star Catalog, Palomar Sky Survey . In this paper we describe a program of determining proper motions from digitized scans of 1950's-era Palomar Sky Survey (POSS) Schmidt Plates and 1980's-era Palomar Oschin Schmidt `Quick V' plates that were taken for the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) Guide Star Catalogue. ... Arrows indicate the magnitude and direction of the proper motion for the stars. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The light curves of our blue candidate stellar pulsators identified in our survey and which had an amplitude less than 0.2 mag. ... Assuming they are pulsating in either the fundamental or first over-tone radial mode the ma- jority are located at a distance greater than 3kpc, with several being more than 20 kpc distant. Most stars are at least 1 kpc from the Galactic plane, with three being more than 10 kpc. ...