... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Next: Other parameters of the Up: The Model Previous: Initial binary parameters . As we only deal with initially massive binary systems (their primary's mass is higher than 10 ), which are capable of evolving off the main sequence during less than years, the compact stars left behind stellar evolution are (in the case of the most massive stars) NSs and BHs. ... For a NS belonging to a binary, the evolution complicates as the secondary star evolves: for example, (recycling), etc. ...

... A document window is shown, with 8 lines (numbered 1 to 8), each 24px high. The text of the "outer" box (at the end of line 1, halfway into line 2, and halfway into line 3) is shifted upward 12px. The text of the "inner" box, thought shifted upward as well, has been relatively positioned so that it lies in its normal flow position at the end of line 2. ... The lines, as they appear in the image, contain: Start 1 Beginning of body contents. 2 of outer contents. Inner contents. ...

... Problem 5. ... See figure 1 for the light curve of these narrow Nitrogen lines. ... Figure out the behaviour of each parcel of gas, and then add them all up to find the light curve. 5.4 (3pts) Using expression from problem 5.2, derive the expression for the time after SN explosion date, when the first light from the ionised ring reaches Earth. Using the expression from problem 5.2, derive the expression for the time after SN explosion date when the maximum brightness of the ring occurs. ...

Federal Communications Commission (ix)(A) For a station authorized pursuant to § 73.215 or Sec. § 73.509, a showing that the root mean square (RMS) of the measured composite antenna pattern (encompassing both the horizontally and vertically polarized radiation components (in relative field)) is at least 85 percent of the RMS of the authorized composite directional antenna pattern (in relative field). ...

... The target list of 127 NLTT stars was selected using preliminary colour-magnitude selection criteria, which result in the inclusion of stars up to 30-40 parsecs from the Sun. Of the 127 targets, 28 are known late-type dwarfs and 29 have suspect 2MASS magnitudes (bright star diffraction spikes, unresolved companions etc.) ... Figure B2.1: Calibrating relations for computing spectral type from VO and TiO5 indices. ... Figure B2.3: Abundance calibration for M dwarfs. ... NStars proper motions index . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... The first of the equations defines the position of the spectral orders, m , in the raw image, while the second equation gives, for each order, the dispersion relation in one dimension. ... where the coefficients are computed using least squares techniques on a grid , i.e. sample number and line number of points located within the spectral orders of the image. These points in the grid are found automatically by an order--following algorithm, normally using the FLAT or STD image. ...

These are very prominent absorption lines is most all galaxies. ... These pair of absorption lines will appear in all the spectra and they should be your principle source for determining the redshift. ... When this applet opens you will see an iconic representation of galaxies in the left hand side of the applet and a target area in the right side of the applet. ... Note: What you are doing in this excercise is identical to what Hubble did in the 1920's and you are using the same galaxies. ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . Utilities . The CASDA upload utility prepares artifacts for submission to the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA). ... Evaluation Pipeline Artifacts (any file format) . ... The measurement set is a directory, where CASDA requires a single file per artifact . ... The following example declares four artifacts to be uploaded to CASDA, one for each of the artifact types: image, source catalogue, measurement set and evaluation report. ...

UFO Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... It Really Is Relative . ... Post Message | ... If you are on the Earth the moon does not rotate around its own axis. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Poissonian statistics and source / Source detection limits . ... as well. subroutine minDetPoissonCountsVector(bkgCounts, likelihoodCutoff , detectableSrcCounts, detectableSrcCountsUncert, srcCountRatios , status) real (single), intent (in) :: srcCountRatios (:), bkgCounts(size( srcCountRatios )), likelihoodCutoff real (single), intent (out) :: detectableSrcCounts( size( srcCountRatios )) real (single), intent (out) :: detectableSrcCountsUncert( size( ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 03 - 09.08.2015, Forecast on 10 - 17.08.2015, Carrington Rotation 2166, 2167 (14,84.07; 07,30.09.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... Therefore all energy of the emerging magnetic fluxes was realized in fla- res of class C and S (36 for three days). ... ACCORDING TO THE DATA FROM SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS, >35 CMEs ONE WAS "PARTIAL HALO II" TYPE (angular width 90 - 180 deg.) HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. ...

... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
, I will assume that rtftohtml has not been customized. If it has, the text styles used to create special effects may be different. ... Normally, if your RTF document contained the text "<cite>hello</cite>", the translator would output this as: "&lt;cite&gt;hello&lt;/cite&gt;". ... If, however, you want the <cite></cite> to be interpreted as HTML markup, you must format the tags using Hidden and Shadow. ...

... To plot the data (and model, here xitau.model), I have read the model, computed the model values for the ASTROMETRY, and used Plot|ASTROMETRY to produce the ASTROMETRY plot widget. ... First, plot the data and with Util|Ellipse and the mouse buttons interactively define an apparent ellipse to fit your data as best as you can. ... Under Util|Orbit, there is a Thiele-Innes procedure to estimate the orbital elements using your apparent ellipse and Kepler's laws! ... Back to tour page . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

N. A. Vavilov Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, State University of Saint-Petersburg St. Petersburg, Russia nikolai-vavilov@yandex.ru Calculations in exceptional groups Let be a reduced irreducible root system, R be a commutative ring with 1. ... The Steinberg group St(, R). ... 2] R. Hazrat, N. Vavilov, K1 of Cheval ley groups are nilpotent, J. Pure Appl. ... 6] N. Vavilov, An A3 -proof of structure theorems for Cheval ley groups of types E6 and E7 , Int. J. Algebra Comput. 17 (2007), no. ...

Geometric Algebra 2 Quantum Theory Chris Doran Astrophysics Group Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge, UK Spin · Stern-Gerlach tells us that electron wavefunction contains two terms · Describe state in terms of a spinor S N · A 2-state system or qubit MIT2 2003 2 Pauli Matrices · Operators acting on a spinor must obey angular momentum relations · Get spin operators · These form a Clifford algebra · A matrix representation of the geometric algebra of 3D space ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... To derive the motion of a penny dropped inside an airliner moving at 600 miles/hr (about 1000 km/hr)--should we calculate it with respect to the interior of the airliner, or with respect to the ground? ... And if a similar penny is let go inside an orbiting spaceship--should its motion be calculated relative to the interior of the spaceship, or relative to the Earth outside? ... Each such choice is known as a frame of reference . Some possible frames are -- the interior of the airliner, . ...