The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... December 12, 1997 . Phi Persei: Double Star . ... Based on recent results , this artist's vision of the double star Phi Persei , 720 light years away, shows a bright, rapidly rotating massive star surrounded by a disk of gas. A small companion star orbits 100 million miles away. ... Ten million years ago the small companion was actually the most massive star in the system and because of its greater mass evolved into a giant star more quickly. ... About APOD > . ...

... Credit: William Pounds Explanation: It's clear who is the biggest star in this binary system. Based on recent results , this artist's vision of the double star Phi Persei , 720 light years away, shows a bright, rapidly rotating massive star surrounded by a disk of gas. A small companion star orbits 100 million miles away. ... Astronomers consider the ultimate fate of such mass-exchanging, interacting binary systems an open question and a challenge for present theories of stellar evolution . ...

... 1999, A , 350, 917 . ... Shock heated NH3 in a molecular jet associated with a high-mass young star . ... 1999, ApJL, in press . ... 1999, A , in press . ... 1999, in "The First Stars", eds. A. Weiss, T. Abel and M. Norman, in press . The formation of primordial stars . ... 1999, in "Star Formation 1999", ed. T. Nakamoto, in press . ... T. Jacq, A. Baudry, C.M. Walmsley, P. Caselli . ... 1999, ApJ, in press . ... Star Formation . ... Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri . ... Star Formation Group . ...

... We describe the construction of convolution kernels that allow one to generate (multiwavelength) images with a common PSF, thus preserving the colors of the astronomical sources. We generate convolution kernels for the cameras of Spitzer, Herschel Space Observatory, Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), ground-based optical telescopes (Moffat functions and sum of Gaussians), and Gaussian PSFs. ... ADS ] . ADS Citation Query . citations = 125 . ...

... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Revised Acknowledgement for Publications Based on ESO Data . ... Science Archive Facility . ... When findings based on ESO data are published, acknowledgement is requested through a specific statement, to be found here . ... Please add this acknowledgement to your future papers which are based on ESO data, regardless of whether these are new observations using proprietary data or data obtained from the ESO Science Archive . ...

... Mass loss Recipes | ... Mass Loss is the most important "driver" of stellar evolution in massive stars. ... The final goal is to predict mass loss over the entire evolution of a massive star at all cosmological epochs. ... Very Massive Stars are objects up to 300 times the mass of the Sun. ... Mass-loss rates increase dramatically when objects cross a critical Eddington Gamma factor (Vink et al. ... I have recently edited a book on "Very Massive Stars" including a mass-loss "chapter" . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Next: Observational Zoo of Binaries Up: No Title Previous: Contents . In the early 1980s, our understanding of binary star evolution љ based on the pioneer work by Paczynski (1971)[ 150 ], Tutukov and Yungelson (1973)[ 195 ], van den Heuvel and Heise (1972)[ 201 ], allowed us to construct a general evolutionary scenario љ which successfully explained the genesis of well-studied normal stars and offered potential explanation for new X-ray sources discovered in space experiments. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

. Home . CV . Science . Publications . Links . For more information, my entire CV can be downloaded as a PDF file here and a list of my publications can be found here .

Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch (post-AGB) stars bear signatures of the entire chemical and morphological changes that occur prior to and during the AGB phase of evolution. ... In this talk, I will present two important outcomes of this survey. Firstly, this survey resulted in a well characterised sample of binary and single post-AGB stars. ... However, some objects show peculiar chemical signatures which do not correspond to the accepted single/binary star evolution and nucleosynthesis. ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Re: Filter Based On Catalogs? ... Post Message | ... Posted by Elwood Downey on December 27, 2000 18:54:34 UTC . ... No, you are not missing anything.. there is no filtering that is based literally on catalog. ... Re: Re: Filter based on catalogs? - rknop - December 27, 2000 - 20:53 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 2007: . A Young Binary System Theta 1 Ori C. Based on the interferometer observations on BTA, for the first time we drew an orbit, calculated the masses, luminosity and spectral classes of the components of a very young (~ 100 thousand years old) massive (a total mass of 48 times the Sun) binary system Theta 1 Ori C in the nearest to us Orion complex of star formation. Archive . ...

This document describes when and how to use name-based virtual hosts. ... IP-based virtual hosts use the IP address of the connection to determine the correct virtual host to serve. ... To use name-based virtual hosting, you must designate the IP address (and possibly port) on the server that will be accepting requests for the hosts. ... For example, suppose that you are serving the domain www.domain.tld and you wish to add the virtual host www.otherdomain.tld , which points at the same IP address. ...

... Posts tagged ?model based? ... arXiv:stat.ME:0910.2585] . Variable Selection and Updating In Model-Based Discriminant Analysis for High Dimensional Data with Food Authenticity Applications . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ...

... Stars . ... Cepheid variable stars have been known since the 18th century. ... Regularly brightening to a peak over days, weeks or months before fading these variable stars were remarkable curiosities to astronomers in past centuries.€а The term Cepheid is taken from the star Delta Cephei in the constellation of Cepheus, which was identified as variable€а in 1784 by the teenaged prodigy John Goodricke (1764-96). ... Tweets that mention Cepheids: Inconstant Stars which break the rules | ...

... The acquisition data base of meteorological temporal data including systematic and chronologic cataloque for Global Tropical Cyclogenesis (on the whole of World Ocean's aquatorium) for 1983-1992 time interval is developed and based on personal computer IBM PC/AT. ... The data base consists of the following units: 1. ... This data base offers a unique opportunity to analyze macro- and synoptic-scale temporal features of global tropical cyclogenesis as indivisible physical process. ...