... 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. ...

EUV Emission from RS CVn binaries C.K. Mitrou, M. Mathioudakis, J.G. Doyle and E. Antonopoulou A&A, in press We performed a study of 104 RS CVn systems in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) using the all--sky survey data obtained by the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE). ... The dwarf systems exhibit a leveling­off for the faster rotators. ... For the RS CVn systems the losses in the EUV represent a smaller fraction of the coronal radiative losses, as compared to active late--type dwarfs. ...

... Energy . ... The free ions and electrons in a plasma behave the same way. Knowing the temperature of the high atmosphere of Earth, or that of the Sun, we can calculate energies expected of ions and electrons found there. However, ions and electrons actually observed in space are often much, much more energetic, and may move at a respectable fraction of the velocity of light (300,000 km/sec or 186,000 miles/sec). ... Typical energy of an electron in the polar aurora. 40,000 ev . ... 50,000 ev . ...

The silicates that produce the 10 and 18 micron features appear to be broadly similar to terrestrial minerals such as Forsterite and Enstatite. ... Where pre-solar silicate dust grains can be isolated from meteorite material, these also tend to be Mg-rich silicates rather than Fe-rich silicates. ... It has been suggested that the interstellar silicate grains have a different 10 micron feature profile than what is observed for the silicates around evolved stars. ...

... Initially SAI Supernova Catalogue was presented in the form of filebased system. ... The current version of SAI Supernova Catalogue presents data on supernovae together with data on their parent galaxies. ... The main source of data for the galaxies was LEDA database. ... In some cases our data were compared with the ones from the Asiago Supernova Catalogue and from List of Supernovae at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but the compilation of our Catalogue is carried out independently. ...

For today's in class we will be working with spatial and temporal data sets which are quite noisy. Particularly, you have monthly rainfall totals for the following six locations in Oregon from the period 1950 - 1999. Eugene . Salem . Portland . Astoria . North Bend . Newport . There are many facets of what you can do with this data. Please explore the following questions with some degree of sound statistical reasoning and data presentation: .

... The actual cross-correlations were done as follows: north of WGACAT was correlated with the GB6 catalog with a correlation radius of one arc minute. ... We therefore cross-correlated WGACAT with the GB6 and PMN radio catalogs with a 1.5 arcmin radius. ... As a result of this experiment, we then added to the WGACAT/PMN candidate list the 29 unclassified sources obtained from the 1.5 arcmin correlation and having PSPC offsets arcmin, ratio between X-ray/radio offset and positional error , and . ...

Next: Deep Depletion Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Energy resolution . Conventional CCDs are illuminated through a front-surface electrode structure which may be m thick. This severely limits the sub-keV detection efficiency. They also have a detection volume defined by the depletion layer depth of m. This should be compared with, for example, the 1/e attenuation length for 6keV photons which is m; hence CCD sensitivity falls rapidly with increasing energy. ... Deep Depletion . ...

... HI mass fractions Comparison samples HeViCS bright galaxy Catalogue(BGC) Davies+2012 Average scaling relations for HI-normal and extremely HI-deficient galaxies in H3 survey (Gavazzii+ 2013 ) Dwarf galaxy survey (DGS) Madden+ 2013 KINGFISH Kennicutt 2011 Specific star formation rates Schiminovich +2007 Comparison samples HeViCS bright galaxy Catalogue(BGC) Davies+2012 Dwarf galaxy survey (DGS) Madden+ 2013 KINGFISH Kennicutt 2011 Dust ...

... Energy . ... The free ions and electrons in a plasma behave the same way. Knowing the temperature of the high atmosphere of Earth, or that of the Sun, we can calculate energies expected of ions and electrons found there. However, ions and electrons actually observed in space are often much, much more energetic, and may move at a respectable fraction of the velocity of light (300,000 km/sec or 186,000 miles/sec). ... Typical energy of an electron in the polar aurora. 40,000 ev . ... 50,000 ev . ...

... Classes . Files . ... File List . File Members . casa . Utilities . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory 00023 //# 520 Edgemont Road 00024 //# Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA 00025 //# 00026 //# $Id: Compare.h 20551 2009-03-25 00:11:33Z Malte.Marquarding $ 00027 00028 #ifndef CASA _COMPARE_H 00029 #define CASA _COMPARE_H 00030 00031 //# Includes 00032 #include casa /aips.h 00033 #include casa / Utilities /DataType.h 00034 00035 namespace casa { //# NAMESPACE ...

... compare the system performance of 01aug06 and may06 (.ps) ( .pdf ) The 430 Mhz yagi antenna was moved closer to the line feed around 25jul06. ... This was the same source that was used on 29may06. 12 crosses were done with the yagi and 3 crosses with the linefeed. ... Each strip was rotated by the measured pointing error before averaging. ... The average yagi pointing errors are 3.56 Amin az and -.92 amin za. ... These pointing errors say the offsets should have been: az: .809, za: -.9453 deg. ...

. You can compare any two versions of a file that is under the control of SCCS with the sccsdiff command: /usr/sccs/sccsdiff -r version -r version s. filename . Using this command produces a line by line difference between the two versions of the file. Results are shown in the same format as that produced by the diff command. Examples .

... Take a particularly simple signal: a cosine wave. ... Now, we are going to stretch and shrink the wavelet along the time axis (we assume the data is in the time domain), and at each time compare the shape of the signal to that of the wavelet. ... Figure 3: The wavelet (dotted line) is translated rela tive to the signal (solid line). ... Figure 4: The dashed line plots the `match' between the wavelets (dotted line) and the signal (solid line) as a function of time. ...

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Next: Methods for Structuring and Searching Very Large Catalogs . ... We have explored two automated classification methods: supervised classification using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and unsupervised classification using Self Organized Maps (SOM). These methods are used to classify IUE low-dispersion spectra of normal stars with spectral types ranging from O3 to G5. This paper describes the application of automated methods to the problem of the classification of stellar spectra. ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

... This thread uses PINTofALE to generate a simulated Chandra spectrum. ... define a DEM . ... pset marx .par ExposureTime=50000 OutputDir='sim_ marx ' \ ; GratingType='NONE' DetectorType=' ACIS-I ' SourceFlux=-1 \ ; SpectrumType='FILE' SpectrumFile='spec_ marx .dat' \ ; SourceType='POINT' DitherModel='INTERNAL' ; marx TSTART=2006.46 ; marx2fits sim_ marx / spec_ marx .evt ; dmextract infile= spec_ marx .evt[EVENTS][(x,y)=circle(4018,4141,10)] ; [bin pi=1:1024:1] outfile= spec_ ...

... Venus" in Astronomy , Sep. 1982, p. 6. ... The Solar System Close-Up (130 of the best spacecraft views of the planets and satellites. with detailed nontechnical captions) ? ... Activity Corner: "Scaling Down The Solar System" . ... On this scale, the Earth would be represented by a pea, and the Moon by a grain of sand 13 cm. away. ... You could make the scale ten times smaller, so that the solar system would fit within the school yard, but then the Earth would shrink to the size of a grain of sand. ...

... Black Holes and Galactic Centers . ... Do all galaxies have black holes at their centers? ... Sunspots: Magnetic Depressions . ... Our Sun has spots! These spots appear dark in photographs like the one above, but in fact sunspots are quite bright - they are just dark compared to the rest of the Sun. Sunspots are about the size of the Earth and frequently occur in groups, as shown above. Mercury in Stereo: Craters Within Craters . ... Blue Sun Glaring . ... Too Close to a Black Hole . ...