... Binary orbits in the acceleration/period plane . Circular Orbits . ... We first present the equations for the period and acceleration of a pulsar in an eccentric binary system as a function of its position in the orbit. ... In Freire, Kramer & Lyne (2001) (from where most of this text and following equations are taken), we describe in more detail how circular binary orbits can be determined from the observed periods and accelerations of the pulsar. ... where is the orbital period of the binary. ...

... Purpose: The purpose of this test is to determine the optimal threshold settings for the GHRS detector diodes. Description: This internal test performs a pulse height analysis to determine individual diode response as a function of threshold for GHRS detectors 1 and 2. ... This test will execute twice during Cycle 6, near the beginning and end of the Cycle. Fraction of GO Programs Supported: This test supports 100% of GHRS observations. ...

In order to measure the density of the Universe, it is necessary to sample a region that is larger than the scale on which the Universe becomes approximately homogeneous. ... When applied to clusters of galaxies we find a mass to luminosity ratio that implies a density of the Universe that is about 0.3 times the critical density. ... Thus the mass-to-muinosity ratio appears to vary with the size of the region measured, from 3 in the solar neighborhood to 30 in galaxies to 300 in clusters of galaxies. ...

... Format of the orbital elements | Estimation of the extrapolation errors | Version 1" of the orbital elements collection, determined by KIAM during flight and used for operations planning . Version 2" of the of the orbital elements collection, modified by IKI during flight and recommended for the orbital calculations during scientific data processing . ... Three kinds of the INTERBALL Auroral probe (IB_AUR) orbital elements' collections are presented here. ... IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Software for Astrophysics . CosmoNet . ... CosmoNet Downloads . ... It uses multilayer perceptron neural networks to accurately determine CMB power spectra (temperature and polarisation), the matter transfer function and experimental likelihoods from the WMAP 3-year data. ... Download the original letter astro-ph/0608174 . Download the latest paper astro-ph/0703445 which includes our latest release capable of computing both flat and non-flat cosmologies. ...

Bridge World Standard Bridge World Standard (BWS) is a system based on the majority preferences of approximately 125 leading experts and thousands of Bridge World readers. ... Jacoby transfers (splinter rebids; game raise is slam try; two diamonds plus two spades forcing only one round); two spades shows minors; three hearts invitational, major two-suiter; Texas transfers; Stayman (two-spade rebid invitational; two-heart rebid weak; minor rebid forcing); Smolen; three of a minor invitational; Gerber. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 An approximate projection of confidence ellipsoids of space objects positions onto the celestial sphere A. P. Baturin Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Tomsk, Russia The approximate method of calculation of a visible border of probable motion regions (PMR) for space objects (SO) has been considered. ... As a result, the simple analytical expressions for border points of PMR projection onto the celestial sphere have been obtained. ...

Next: Copying Calibration Tables - Up: Calibration, the ATCA, and Previous: Determining Gains and Bandpass . ... This parameter can be used as an alternative way of specifying the XY phase of the antennas. ... Unless you explicitly turn off solving for XY phase in gpcal , then the only important XY phase value is that for the reference antenna. ... means that gpcal will solve for the XY phase of the reference antenna. ... By default it solves for all XY phases, except for the reference antenna. ...

... 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. ...

... Based on the measurements of the Stokes parameters in the continuum and in the broad 0.6563 nm hydrogen emission line obtained with the 6-m telescope for the Seyfert galaxy Mkn 6, secular variability of the hydrogen line profile polarization was discovered; a time lag of less than 2 days between the continuum flux and the polarized continuum emission was determined which corresponds to the size of the region where the polarization of the continuum occurs, less than 0.001 pc. ...

... 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 . ...

... The most precisely determined characteristic for accreting neutron stars (NS's) is their period. ... Period changes show fluctuations. ... Some applications of stochastic processes in astrophysics especially in accreting systems were discussed in Lipunov (1987),Hoshino Takeshima (1993) and Lipunov (1992).In Hoshino Takeshima (1993) the authors, using simple models of MHD turbulence, try to explain aperiodic changes in X-ray luminosity of X-ray pulsars. ... Here, -constant angular momentum. ...

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. ...

. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet. The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel. Readings from spectrometers on the rover determined that composition. Opportunity used its panoramic camera to take the images used in this approximately true-color composite on the rover's 339th martian day, or sol (Jan. 6, 2005). NASA/JPL/Cornell

Next: *imcnts* - Radial Profile Up: Radial Profiles and Projections Previous: *tabplot* - Displaying a . ... Input a spatially blocked and energy filtered image from above and use with the background determined from the broad-band background map. cl xray xr xspatial xs imcnts addbkg=no # Do not add the background error Source image file : xdata$snr.qp Source region descripter: c 503 513 50 p 503 513 0 360 n=10 # circular region centered on point ...

We model the spectral chanages of late oxygen-rich Miras observed in different pulsation phases. From a combination of variable near-IR spectra and UKIRT spectrophotometry of the 9.7 \mu m silicate dust emission feature in different phases we study the influence of the changing atmospherical circumstances on the conditions in the circumstellar dust shell. ... A comparision with the modelling results for another long period Mira U Ori is also provided. ...

This layer is defined with a <LAYER> tag. You see that the background image is applied to the rectangular region occupied by the layer. The height of the filled-in area is determined by the height value. ... The style definition sets the background-image property. The height of the filled-in area is determined by the actual content. ... The style definition also includes a value for border-width and border color. ... The style definition includes a value for layer-background-image. ...

TYPES Trees are represented by two types: entree (enumerated tree) and bitree (bit tree). ... Also, it's possible to match patterns: tree <* treequery treequery >* tree The last two operations return TRUE if the node matches the treequery pattern. ... Example of how to add a node: select entree_next(tid) from dmoz where tid <* '1.2.3.*.0' order by tid desc limit 1; INDICES Type tree supports two types of indices: B-Tree - accelerates operations: <,>,<=,>= and =. ...

The points proposed to be analogous to ones for the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 th , 8 th , 9 th and 10 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads . ... National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 11 th APAO and in 2015 may form the teams for the 20 th IAO as well as for the 11 th APAO. ... The Olympiad will be held on November 13-22, 2015. Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...