... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. ... QSO H1821+643 Indicates a Universe Filled with Hydrogen . ... Explanation: A quasar slightly depleted of a specific color of light may indicate that our universe is filled with massive amounts of ionized hydrogen . Light from QSO H1821+643, pictured above , comes to us from about a quarter of the way across the visible universe . ...

Next: Discussion Up: Iterative/Recursive Deconvolution with Application Previous: Test Results . There have been several investigations of the photometric properties of HST image restoration techniques utilizing a range of different algorithms. ... They used that technique to restore a simulated image of a crowded field. ... Cohen (1991) investigated the reliability of the Maximum Entropy method (Skilling 1989, Gull 1989) in restoring astronomical images while preserving photometric accuracy. ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

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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. ...

... Data archive . Main . Click on images to obtain the full-scale picture. Please give credit as listed if you make use of these images. Double pulsar system, PSR J0737-3039A/B (Artist's impression) . ... Period-Period Derivative plot for all known Galactic disk pulsars with different pulsar types indicated. ... Credit: ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (V1.50)/R. N. Manchester . ... Credit: R. N. Manchester . Plot of pulsar discoveries by year and major observatories . ... Group . ... Images . ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

Next: Wavelength calibration Up: Getting Started Previous: Detecting lines in . ... and the Calibration Starting Row will be used for the lines identifications. ... After setting these parameters, click the button. to pop up the Identify window. ... The identification starts by clicking on , which plots one row of the spectrum in the graphic window, indicates the position of the detected arc lines with blue vertical traces and gives a cursor. ... Figure: Lines Identification Window . ...

Where and how are we looking for evidence of life? ... Because the universe is an immense place, it makes sense to search for evidence of life in more than one way. In addition to focusing on what we know about life on Earth, especially in extreme environments, astrobiology currently comprises three basic types of searches in space, each employing different technologies, looking in different places, and expecting to find different kinds of data: . ... The search types ? ... Extrasolar Planets vs. ...

... 1) The MS lower envelopes for groups of stars with different metallicities turn out to be coincident. ... 4) The conformation of the kinematics of stars within narrow ranges ob b-y with the ages derived from isohrones reveals that, at Z < Z , the isohrone ages seem to be increasingly overestimated with growing b-y . ... At a given metallicity, they have a much narrower MS and the locus of their MS lower envelope seems to be brighter for the metal-rich group of stars. ...

... In order to compare the number of different evolutionary stages obtained and X-ray luminosity of the chosen X-ray sources with the observed galactic values we use the sum of C/O+O/C , where C and O are the calculated and observed values of a given binary type, respectively. If we make comparison for a number of different binary species (for example, we compare the number of CV, number of X-ray pulsars,   total X-ray luminosity of LMXB, etc.), we write this criterion in the form: . ...

Magnetic Stars, 2011, pp. ... It follows, in particular, from Fig. 1a, where points show the central intensity of line in 2008 ­ 2009, and asterisks -- the ELODIE Archive (EA) spectra in 2002 ­ 2003 smoothed to the resolution of the MSS. ... Figure 2a demonstrates the distribution of temperature in the atmosphere in the phase = 0.07 and Fig. 2b -- in the phase = 0.53 of the rotation period, obtained from the hydrogen line profiles in 2008 ­ 2009. ...

... ESO Press Photo 19/98 . ... This is a colour photo from the VLT that shows NGC 4650A , a member of the so-called Centaurus chain of galaxies in the southern constellation of that name. ... As it is clear from this high-resolution picture, there are two main components, a lenticular-shaped galaxy (of type S0), surrounded by a knotty extended ring-like distribution of stars, dust and gas , nearly perpendicular to each other. ... This is the caption to ESO PR Photo 19/98 [JPG, 112k] . ...

... We demonstrate that both Pa beta and H alpha can be fit with a model of large chromospheric pressure, but that the two lines indicate clearly different values of the exact pressure. ... Nevertheless, the approximate agreement of the two lines lends support to an earlier theoretical result that the Paschen series is a useful chromospheric diagnostic in M dwarfs. ...

... ME AND MY SCHOOL . SOURCES . THE CHART OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE SPELLING OF SOME WORDS CONNECTED WITH SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN BRITAIN AMERICA. ... РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ СТРАНЫ ИМЕЮТ РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ СИСТЕМЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ, НАПРИМЕР ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ ИЛИ СОЕДИНЕННЫЕ ШТАТЫ. ... ОБО МНЕ И МОЕЙ ШКОЛЕ(ME AND MY SCHOOL), . ... А ТАКЖЕ ВАМ ПРЕДЛАГАЕТСЯ ТАБЛИЦА РАЗЛИЧИЙ В НАПИСАНИИ И ПРОИЗНОШЕНИИ СЛОВ СВЯЗАННЫХ С ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ СИСТЕМОЙ В США(AMERICAN ENGLISH)И ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ(BRITISH ENGLISH)-THE CHART . ...

... Sagittarius Star Cloud . ... Stars come in all different colors. ... Most stars in the above Sagittarius Star Cloud are orange or red and relatively faint, as our Sun would appear. ... Stars like HD 82943 are main sequence G dwarf stars with temperatures and compositions similar to the Sun. Also like the Sun, HD 82943 is known to have at least two giant planets, but unlike gas giants in our solar system their orbits are not nearly circular and bring them closer to the parent star. ... April 2003 . ...

... Previous: Generalized Linear Multi-Frequency Imaging in VLBI . ... At Astronomical Observatory of Valencia University (OAUV), CCD observations of asteroids and big planets satellites are obtained since 2001 with a big format camera and several telescopes. ... Software for comparison of single and overlapped CCD fields obtained at different epochs has been developed. ... After images measurement in CCD field, catalogue stars are identified and adjusted with images. ...

... Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2-040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J-Ks colour. ... SN 2009ip in NGC 7259 Electronic Telegram No. ... 7.09, [19.0; 2009 Aug. ... Accepted for publication in MNRAS Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... It can · · obtain ice sample from 20 cm or deeper surface layer, then melt it and extract biomass from the ice surface water by filtration; Laser TOF MS for the measurements of element composition of the biomass; Gas TOF MS for the detection of: 1) volatile components, generated at the heating of biomass sample (closed window mode); 2) secondary ions , emitted from ice matrix by the influence of energetic magnetosphere ... Spectrum of yeast sample. ... Laser TOF MS 6. ...