... 1.4 Completed WF/PC-2 8592 (Pixel Microlensing of M87) The WF/PC-2 was used to undertake a pixel microlensing study of M87 in order to: 1} probe the lower end of the M87 IMF via star-star lensing, 2} possibly obtain the first evidence of Massive Compact Objects (MACHOs) in the halo of a galaxy other than our own, and 3} search for intracluster MACHOs. ... They are also the only sample of galaxies selected on the basis of their mass rather than their luminosity or surface brightness. ...

... Man, Zirm & Toft 2014 . Resolving the Discrepancy of Galaxy Merger Fraction Measurements at z ~ 0 - 3 . Man, Toft, Zirm, Wuyts & van der Wel 2012 . The Pair Fraction of Massive Galaxies at 0 <= z <= 3 . ... Is merging important for the size and mass growth of galaxies? Image credit: Hubble . ... Are quiescent galaxies actually . ... Man, Greve, Toft et al. 2014 . ... Image credit: NASA, ESA, S. Toft (U. Copenhagen), and A. Felid (STScI) . ...

... I note that "Z" plays an important role in what the ALFA surveys will look for: . ... low Z . nearby low mass . ... Arecibo . ... ADBS (Arecibo Dual Beam Survey): Rosenberg & Schneider 2002. ... A few sources with unobvious optical counterparts. ... Coverage wins for volume, but if you do a shallow survey you are sampling only the nearby volume at low masses. ... So need artificial test sources to find completeness. ... Total volume within survey in which source could have been detected. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... The black-hole powered core of the Circinus galaxy. ... Andy Bunker (AAO): "Galaxy evolution at the earliest accessible times" . ... Mark Lacy (CalTech): "High redshift radio galaxies and SMBH evolution" . Roger Windhorst (Arizona): "When during galaxy assembly did AGN growth take place?" ... Role of mergers and blackholes in galaxy evolution . ... Arman Khalatyan (Marseille): "The role of mergers in galaxy evolution" . ... Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves . ...

... The El Gordo Massive Galaxy Cluster . ... The above image of El Gordo is a composite of a visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope , an X-ray image from the Chandra Observatory showing the hot gas in pink, and a computer generated map showing the most probable distribution of dark matter in blue, computed from gravitational lens distortions of background galaxies. ... Publications with keywords: galaxy cluster - dark matter . Publications with words: galaxy cluster - dark matter . ...

... 2014 April 22 . The El Gordo Massive Galaxy Cluster . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Jee ( UC Davis ) et al. ... Dubbed "El Gordo", the seven billion light years ( z = 0.87) distant galaxy cluster spans about seven million light years and holds the mass of a million billion Suns. ... That galaxy is actually far in the background and has its image stretched by the gravitational lens action of the massive cluster. Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... Observational Zoo of Binaries with Compact Stars . Evolutionary Scenarios of Binary Systems . ... Evolution of Magnetic Rotators . ... Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ... Binary Pulsar Diversity and High Neutron Star Birth Velocity . ... Ejectors in Massive Binary Systems . ... Other Candidates for Ejecting Stars in Binary Systems . ... Cosmic Rays and Evolution of Binary . ... Sky in Gravitational Waves . ... Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binary Stars . ...

Weak Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter Halos Tereasa Brainerd Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University, USA It is currently thought that all large galaxies reside within massive dark matter halos. Despite the apparent ubiquity of such halos and their importance for developing a complete picture of the history of galaxy formation, the characteristic parameters (e.g., total mass, physical extent, and shape) of these objects remain largely unconstrained at present. ...

... Star Atlas . ... solar system . ... stars . ... Observe the Solar System . ... What fact