We present an analysis of the dust and gas in Andromeda, using Herschel images sampling the entire far-infrared peak. We fit a modified-blackbody model to ~4000 quasi-independent pixels with spatial resolution of ~140 pc and find that a variable dust-emissivity index (ЮВ) is required to fit the data. ... We show that the gas-to-dust ratio varies radially, increasing from ~20 in the center to ~70 in the star-forming ring at 10 kpc, consistent with the metallicity gradient. ...

... Because keywords are implemented as a global data structure, different MIDAS procedures can access the same keyword. ... WRITE/KEYWORD N/I/1/1 0 . ... Local keywords are defined inside a MIDAS procedure via the command DEFINE/LOCAL . ... Local keywords љ may have the same name as an existing global keyword (except the system keyword names as stored in MID_MONIT:syskeys.dat ) or local keyword of any other procedure, since local keywords are searched before the global ones. ... DEFINE/LOCAL N/I/1/1 0 ...

... 2005 October 17 . Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Localized . ... Explanation: What causes gamma-ray bursts? ... Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been localized , over the past few years, to blue regions in the universe rich in star formation. ... Over the past few months, short duration GRBs have finally been localized and found to occur in different types of regions -- not only blue regions rich in star formation. ... About APOD | ...

... 2000 October 23 . Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 205 in the Local Group . ... It is part of a gathering of about 25 galaxies known as the Local Group . ... Pictured on the lower left is one of the many dwarf ellipticals : NGC 205 . ... The above image shows NGC 205 to be unusual for an elliptical galaxy in that it contains at least two dust clouds (at 1 and 4 o'clock - they are visible but hard to spot) and signs of recent star formation . ... About APOD | ...

Next: The hardware and software Up: Keeping Time Previous: Keeping Time . ... Since the Earth is round, noon happens at different times in different places. This leads to the concept of local time . ... As soon as you need to communicate with distant places, you'll notice the need for a common time. ... Each local time is called a time zone. ... Other countries do not do this. ... In the US and some other countries, the local time zones have a name and a three letter abbreviation. ...

... Posts tagged ?local regression? ... Posted by chasc . Diab Jerius follows up on LOESS techniques б with a very nice summary update and finds LOCFIT to be very useful, but there are still questions about how it deals with measurement errors and combining observations from different experiments: . ... Tags: Diab Jerius , error , experimental error , local regression , locfit , Loess , Lowess , observational error , Ping Zhao , question for statisticians . ... 2 Comments . ... Entries RSS . ...

... Using the uvby -photometry and proper motion data for about 5500 F stars within 80 pc from the Sun, we have studied velocity ellipsoid parameters and obtained the following results. 1) The sizw of all wllipsoid semiaxes increase systematically for groups of stars with the decrease of both temperature (at constant metallicity) and metallicity (at constant temperature). ... As a result, each of the three parameters - temperature, metallicity and velocity dispersion - is an age indicator. ...

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... European Southern Observatory micro Workshop on: . ESO, Garching bei M nchen, Germany . ... Contrary to normal ESO practice there is no block-booking at Garching Hotels for this workshop. ... More Information on hotels in Garching on ESO's web-site or alternatively you can find here or try your favourite search engine. ... The international airport of Munich (M nchen) is located some 20 km north of Garching. ... More travel instructions can be found on the ESO Travel and Local Information pages. ...

... I.Barkalov 1.42432chernogorovka, Russia SUPERCONDUCTING RESPONSE BULK CdSb ALLOY NEAR THE LOCALIZATION THRESHOLD IN V. F.Gantmakher, V.M.Teplinskii, Institute of Solid State Physics, Experiments with rnetastable CdSb alloy (S) demonstrate superconducting response on the insulating side of the metal(M)-insulator(I) transition. ... The state g=4 separates M- and I-states [7]. of Fig.1 displays the evolution in the S-response. lJhen g>4, i.e. the curves demonstrate the I-states, guasireentrant behavior...

... Because of the low conductivity, the magnetic coupling is weak and depends critically on density, temperature, ionisation rate and charged species. ... Implications When the Hall regime dominates near the midplane and ambipolar diffusion is dominant closer to the surface, a thicker layer of the disc is unstable to MRI perturbations and modes grow faster than under the ambipolar diffusion approximation. ... Right panel: For weak coupling, Hall limit perturbations grow until vA/cs ~ 2.9. ...

Swift/ XRT radiation damage and results from the lab using a proton-damaged CCD Claudio Pagani (Swift/ XRT team) XMM Calibration Meeting, Leicester, 7/3/2012 XRT CCD e2v CCD -22 detector (developed for EPIC MOS camera on XMM) Operated in Photon Counting (PC) and Windowed Timing (WT) mode 4 55Fe corner sources continuously illuminate CCD corners, used to monitor CCD performance Spectral resolution at launch: FWHM = 135 eV at Mn K- (5.9 ...

... Credit Copyright: Dana Berry, NASA Explanation: What causes gamma-ray bursts? ... Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been localized , over the past few years, to blue regions in the universe rich in star formation. Massive young stars nearing the end of their short lives commonly explode in these regions. ... Over the past few months, short duration GRBs have finally been localized and found to occur in different types of regions -- not only blue regions rich in star formation. ...

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) . Home page Team Galaxy Sample Observations Papers Projects Related Surveys Pipeline Meetings . Local Volume galaxies ( B. Koribalski) . The Local Volume HI Survey'' (LVHIS) is a project comprising deep HI line and 20-cm radio continuum observations for all nearby, gas-rich galaxies, supplemented by multi-wavelength data. ... Our aim is to study the formation and evolution of galaxies in the Local Universe. ...

Since the light from galaxies represents the integrated contribution of its consitutient stars, then we can learn about stellar populations in galaxies by modelling their light by summing up individual stellar spectra for different kinds of stars. ... The data cover the wavelength range 3500 - 9000 angstroms. ... Retrieve Digital Stellar Spectra Click on the appropriate spectral type. ... Note that the designation V means main sequence, IV means subgiants, III means giants, I means supergiant. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Initial Setup Tasks . ... Most PmWiki configuration is performed in files called local/config.php and pub/css/local.css . ... When you first install PmWiki, the local/config.php file does not exist. Copy the sample-config.php file (in the docs/ directory) to local/config.php and use it as a starting point. ... When changing the configuration of your site, always change the local/config.php file or add files to the cookbook/ or pub directories. ... Just make an text-file. ...

... Laboratory . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow region, 142190 Russia . e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... Since the MIT shape strongly depends on magnetic activity, quiet conditions (1 <= Kp <= 3) were selected to study the MIT shape diurnal variations; i.e., very quiet and slightly disturbed conditions were not considered. ... DEPENDENCE OF THE MIT SHAPE ON MAGNETIC ACTIVITY . ...

... 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. ...

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (normally known as AGES) is using the Arecibo Telescope to search for galaxies in a number of quite different areas of the local universe. ... NGC 628 group (precursor) - published (Auld et al., ... NGC 1156 (isolated galaxy) - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . NGC 7332/9 galaxy pair - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . ... NGC 5523 (isolated galaxy) - completed (contact: Robert Minchin) . ... AGES team page - password protected . ...

Quasar VLBI network observatories as co-location sites A. Ipatov, I. Gayazov, S. Smolentsev Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... supposes: 1. installation of different observational techniques at sites (co-location) 2. combined processing of different types of observations (collocation) IAA activity in space geodesy · Quasar VLBI network : ­ VLBI observations ­ GPS /GLONASS observations ­ DORIS ( ...