... The distribution of galactic RCB stars is controversial. Several authors have argued that they belong to a thick galactic disk, and are thus old Population I stars. ... However, their distribution and space velocities suggest they may alternatively belong to the even older galactic bulge (Population II, [ Drilling 1986 ]). ... These are the only RCB stars for which a distance is known and hence for which an absolute magnitude can be deduced. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... We find that the RR Lyraes in Stripe 82 are predominantly associated with one of three substructures which we identify as the Hercules-Aquila Cloud, the Sagittarius Stream and the previously-unknown Pisces Overdensity. We also find evidence for a break in the RR Lyrae distribution at ~25 kpc. ... The presence of an edge to the RR Lyrae distribution in the stellar halo at r~50 kpc has been proposed before by Ivezi et al. 2000, using a sample of 148 RR Lyraes in SDSS commissioning data. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Figure 23: Binary pulsar fractions among the total number of pulsars   as a function of the mean kick velocity for a maxwellian distribution   (left-hand panel) and that fitting Lyne and Lorimer's data (right-hand panel). ... Therefore, the observed diversity and number of binary pulsars, while requiring a small kick velocity ( 100-150 km s ) to be present, are, at the same time, in strong contradiction with the presently derived high mean transverse velocities of pulsars. ...

Next: The derived luminosity and Up: The galactic population of Previous: The galactic population of . Figure 16: The observed distribution of pulsar dispersion measures. Dotted curve is the total known population, solid curve is the Parkes survey. Figure 17: The observed distribution of pulsar distances above the galactic plane. ... Figure 18: The observed distribution of pulsar flux densities. ...

... This class is designed to be an up to date summary of the last 10-20 years of observations relevant to Cosmology. ... Theory today is bombarded by a vast array of observational data but there remains no clear and preferred model for the origin and evolution of structure in the Universe. ... The inflationary paradigm and the nature of the Dark Matter - Inflation solves a lot of problems that are inherent in the standard Big Bang Model. ... Kinds of Dark Matter and Observational Constraints . ...

AGES observations of Abell1367 and its outskirts Cortese L.1, Minchin R.F.2, Auld R.R.1, Davies J.I.1, Catinella B.2, Momjian E.2, Rosenberg J.L.3, Taylor R.1, Gavazzi G.4, O'Neil K.5 & The AGES Team 1. ... AGES-A1367 Observations Area covered: 5x1 sq. deg. ... Properties of the AGES-A1367 Sample More massive galaxies appear to be redder, have higher surface brightness and lower gas content than dwarf systems, as found in optically selected samples. ...

... l - the mean galactic longitude; . ... mul - the median proper motion along galactic longitude of the stars of the OB-association, in units of 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . dml - the estimation of mul dispersion in the OB-association, in 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . mub - the median proper motion along galactic latitude of the stars of the OB-association, in units of 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . dmb - the estimation of mub dispersion in the OB-association, in 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... The obtained results lead to the following conclusions: a) the heavy element enrichment had taken place in the Galaxy in a few bursts of its activity rether than in a continuons manner; b) these bursts occured during the callapse of the early Galaxy; c) the star formation had been inhibited in the time of the bursts; d) the metal enrichment did not proceed in the periods of star formation, between these bursts of activity. ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

... To see how this is done, it helps to visualise the colours as points inside a cube with edges 1 unit in length. ... The task of allocating these colours is equivalent to constructing 256 boxes inside the cube, each box to contain a subset of the thousands of colour points. ... At present the boxes are allocated so that they all tend to be of equal size, but it may make more sense to allocate them so that they all tend to contain equal numbers of points. ...

... Because binary X-ray sources are strong emitters over a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with each part of the spectrum contributing distinct and often time-variable information, attempts to understand these systems by concentrating on information from a limited wavelength range may lead to contradictory and misleading conclusions. ...

I will present theresults from a deep, extended, planetary nebulae survey in a 0.5 sqdeg region centered on the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 4486 (M87) in the Virgo cluster core, carried out with SuprimeCam@Subaru and FLAMES-GIRAFFE@VLT. ... A substructure detected in the projected phase-space of the line-of-sight velocity vs. major axis distance for the M87 halo planetary nebulae provides evidence for the recent accretion event of a satellite galaxy with luminosity twice that of M33. ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

... The analysis shows, that asteroid ­ rubble pile loses its fast fragments in no time but the retaining fragments forms a compact structure immersed in dust ­ gas atmosphere, created by interaction of interplanetary medium with dispersed product of collisional evolution of asteroid. By interaction of an asteroid ­ rubble pile with interplanetary medium structures asteroid can increase its brightness on account of blowed up dust simulating phenomenon of distant comet's brightening. ...

... Why Lyman Limit Systems (a.k.a LLSs)? ... 2014; MF et al. 2015 in prep Method #2: LLS autocorrelation The basic idea behind the experiment is to probe the correlation length of LLSs , which should correspond to the size of halos Dark matter halos NH N H Projected Separation NHI UVB Redshift Method #2: LLS autocorrelation The basic idea behind the experiment is to probe the correlation length of LLSs , which should correspond to the size of ...

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... Example of an Association Table . ... CCD commands . ... ROMAFOT Command List . ... Commands of the context LONG . ... Command parameters (1) . ... Checklist of necessary table files . ... Observation Summary Table with file classifications appended in column :EXPTYPE and :OPATH as defined and applied in Table . ... Columns for star-catalog table files . ... Passband columns of the instrument table file . ... Detector columns of the instrument table file . ... Columns of the gain-table file . ...