The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

This is a tabulation of interstellar dust scattering properties dertermined from observations of various astrophysical objects (eg., ... Almost all studies in this field aim to determine the single scattering albedo (a) and scattering phase function asymmetry (g = <cos( )>) as different wavelengths. ... Plot Details . ... Plot details links to a page describing the studies included in the plot, the radiative transfer model used in each study, and an ascii listing of data plotted. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Saxton & Wu (1999) presented calculations of the stability of the accretion shock which forms on the surface of an accreting magnetic white dwarf in AM Herculis type systems in an attempt to explain the observed properties of the quasi periodic oscillations sometimes seen in these systems. He showed that radiative cooling may cause thermal instability in the post-shock structure of the accretion flow settling onto a magnetic white dwarf. ...

Next: EVOLUTION MODELS Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: EXTREME HELIUM STARS . The characteristic surface properties, effective temperature , surface gravity and composition , of EHes have been summarized by Jeffery (1996). ... Helium: ( ) By definition, helium dominates the atmospheric abundances. ... This is supported by a correlation between N and Fe abundances in EHes. ... Next: EVOLUTION MODELS Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: EXTREME HELIUM STARS Simon Jeffery . ...

... Physical Properties of Crystals . ... The course is an introduction into crystal physics and consists of two introductory parts devoted to the basics of crystallography and tensor analysis and six main chapters in which the physical phenomena in anisotropic medium are described by the example of the elastic, electrical and magnetic crystal properties. The effect of symmetry is also discussed. ... Effect of symmetry on crystal properties. ... Effect of symmetry on crystal optical properties. ...

... 7.1 Introduction to media types . ... 7.3 Recognized media types . 7.3.1 Media groups One of the most important features of style sheets is that they specify how a document is to be presented on different media: on the screen, on paper, with a speech synthesizer, with a braille device, etc. Certain CSS properties are only designed for certain media (e.g., the 'cue-before' property for aural user agents). ... For example, the 'font-size' property is useful both for screen and print media. ...

... 1) Our CAS system will store the catalogues. ... Each catalogue should contain one or more tables. 2) The names of the catalogues should be unique, as well as the the names of tables of the SAME catalogue. ... 4) All the metadata about the CAS system, its tables, catalogues should reside in separate schema (currently "cas_metadata"). 1) The main system table of CAS is the table "catalog_list". ... short info (column "info") . ... 2) The second system table of CAS is the table "table_list". ...

... Contains properties describing the display screen and colors. ... JavaScript 1.2 The JavaScript runtime engine creates the screen object for you. ... Specifies the height of the screen, in pixels, minus permanent or semipermanent user interface features displayed by the operating system, such as the Taskbar on Windows. availLeft . ... Specifies the width of the screen, in pixels, minus permanent or semipermanent user interface features displayed by the operating system, such as the Taskbar on...

... The sky distribution of the BCGs from the HSS sample is shown in Fig. 6 together with BCGs from the SBS and Case surveys (Izotov et al. [ 1993b ]; Pustilnik et al. ... First, we compare the apparent magnitude distributions of the three samples. ... The similar behaviour of the faint end of the apparent magnitude distributions infers that the Northern BCG sample may have a similar completeness down to this limiting magnitude. ...

... Continous developing since 1978 · It can simulate many of this parameters and produce a spectra output · Much of the properties of the ionized gas (kinetic temperature, chemical state, level of ionization, and level populations...) are determined by microscopic processes, rather than a single temperature · We can run cloudy with different input datasets and compare the outputs with the real data Cloudy project web: www.nublado.org Why CLOUDY? ...

... Unsafe act - a behavioral departure from an accepted, normal, or correct procedure or practice which, in the past, has produced injury or property damage or which has potential for doing so in the future; an unnecessary exposure to a hazard; conduct reducing the degree or safety normally present in an activity. ... Any hazardous unsafe condition, or act that presents a situation of imminent danger to life and/or property requires urgent action. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Figure 1. ... Scattering geometry illustration. ... Maps of scattering angle in the cluster core for standard GCW grains and a Model A nebula (left) and UV-altered GCW grains in the same model (right). ... Degrees of consistency between the scattering angles of different models at different wavelengths. ... Schmidt scattering angles over a wider area. ... Schmidt line-of-sight separations over the same area, derived for two different simplified geometric models. ...

... At the simplest level of modelization, these phenomena are described by reaction-diffusion equations. The theory of this type of equation is far away from being fully understood but one can give however several results providing in some cases existence of solutions and their qualitative behaviour. ... Reaction-diffusion equations. ... Theory of uniformly elliptic equations: existence, regularity, Schauder theory, Agmon-Douglis-Nirenberg theory, Harnack estimates, boundary Harnack principle. ...

European Industrial Engineering MRO Project Unit Telescope Enclosure & Relocation System Design and Fabrication Management UTE ­ FTT interface control document Ref.: ... Issue Date Page Title Control :MRO-ICD-EIE-0023 :4 :2010.03.24 : 3 of 6 :UTE-FTT Interface Document MROI PROJECT Unit Telescope Enclosure & Relocation System Table of Contents 1. ... This document is property of European Industrial Engineering Srl - Any reproduction or circulation is forbidden without prior approval. ...

... Science . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Properties of kinematically decoupled structures in Early-Type Galaxies . ... Science Users Information . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... The project consists in measuring the stellar kinematics, stellar populations, dynamics, and morphological properties of the kinematically decoupled structures observed in the inner regions of Early-Type Galaxies. ... Return to list of thesis topics...

Authors: Yu.G. Shevelev , V.A. Marsakov , . ... We have constructed and investigated properties of metallicity function of disk stars with different ages, proceeding from the statistically restored real altitude distributions of stars at the solar galactocentric distance. It is shown that the metallicity distribution of stars in each age range is not of Gaussian form, but it may be considered as a superposition of two normal distributions centered at -0.2 and 0.0 dex. ...

... Astronomical Definition: self-replicating information . ... Climate Changes . Milloins of years timescale . ... Mass Extinctions in Geological History: . 500 million years ago (unclear) . ... Evidence from Fossil Record: 100-150 million year extinction periodicity ?? ... Climate Cycle ? ... Since the orbital period of the Sun around the center of the Galaxy is about 250 million years then every 100-150 million years the earth is in a spiral arm which is a region of high supernova density. ...

Pixels , slits and facets for the NGST NIRSpec: Appendix ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits and facets for a MEMS-type spectrograph for NGST Appendix : Extension to different PSF and detector properties Santiago Arribas, Peter Jakobsen, Robert Fosbury Wolfram Freudling --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits , and ... This PSF meets the two requirements established by Bely et al. for the OTA optical quality. ...

... More than 300 surface reconstructions are already known for pure Si surface and Si surface with adsorbate. Study of their properties by the methods of surface physics reveal numerous interesting phenomena including various phase transitions accompanied by changes of Fermi-surface topology, development of the charge-density wave, etc . ... The charge-density wave (CDW) develops in materials with a chain-like crystal structure at temperatures below the Peierls transition temperature. ...