Median Twilight Image . all frames normalized by their median before averaging and corrected for 4-port structure) . Median of Normalized Twilight Images at Rotator Angle 0 . Median of Normalized Twilight Images at Random Rotator Angle . Time Frame and Rotator Angle Distribution . B_UT2_2CCD: 134 frames . ... distribution of rotator angles) . U_UT2_2CCD: 106 frames . ... uncorrected median twilight image) . B_UT2: 298 frames . ... U_UT2: 246 frames . ... B_UT3: 266 frames . ...

... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

This home page belongs to small group of scientists working at . Sternberg Astronomical Institute which is a part of Moscow State University . ... Электронная библиотека научно-технической и художественной литературы (доступна только из ГАИШ) . ... Local staff . Dr. Edward Kononovich (konon -at- sai.msu.ru), Associate Professor . ... Dr. Sergey Ayukov (asv -at- sai.msu.ru), Research Fellow, Webmaster of the group . ... Joint seminar of Solar Studies Structure Group and Solar Photometry Group . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

... COS Data Handbook > Chapter 3: COS Calibration > 3.3 Calcos: Structure and Data Flow . ... Both COS FUV and NUV TIME-TAG event lists and ACCUM images are fully calibrated by calcos . ... Figure 3.1 - Figure 3.6 show how a single raw file moves through the pipeline for FUV Time-TAg (TWOZONE), FUV TIME-TAG (BOXCAR) , FUV ACCUM , NUV Time-TAg and NUV ACCUM spectroscopic data, and for NUV images. ... Figure 3.1: FUV TIME-TAG Spectroscopic Pipeline Flow Chart (TWOZONE). ...

... Wind Baffle Parameters . ... As part of this analysis, the volume, mass, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia of the telescope and optics support structure (OSS) were computed. ... The total moment of inertia of the circular floor panel, wind baffle and telescope in azimuth should be correct to 30% but is dependent on estimates of the mass of equipment supported below and above the circular floor panel. ... Table 8 : Masses and mass moments of inertia of the wind baffle components. ...

... The HH flow associated with young stellar object HL Tau has an exciting history and even until now the origin of some its features is not clear yet. ... Knotty structures of Herbig-Haro jets are common phenomena and knowing the origin of such structures is essential for understanding the processes of jet formation. ... In the flow detected compact knots with high (-150 km/s) and bow shape structures in front of those, with low radial velocities (-50 km/s). ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 9.03.1997 . ... Credit: DMR , COBE , NASA , Four-Year Sky Map Explanation: Above are two images of the microwave sky, north and south of our galaxy's equator , based on data from NASA's COsmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite . ... These spots are the oldest, most distant structures known. They represent temperature variations in the early Universe. ... Publications with keywords: COBE - hotspots . ... Microwave Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known ...

This page gives the name and meaning of the various parameters which can be queried in HyperLeda through SQL requests . ... real . ... actual error on t . ... log 10 of apparent major axis diameter d25 at 25 mag.arcsec -2 (d25 in 0.1') . ... actual error on logd25 . ... Apparent maximum rotation velocity of gas . ... log 10 of apparent corrected diameter (dc in 0.1') . ... total apparent corrected B-magnitude . ... total apparent corrected U-B color . ... Questions: leda@univ-lyon1.fr ...

OOF Software Its Structure and How to Extend It B. Nikolic MRAO, Cavendish Laborator y/Kavli Institute for Cosmplogy University of Cambridge September 2010 B. Nikolic ( University of Cambridge ) OOF Holography September 2010 1 / 18 Software structure Outline 1 Software structure Extending OOF software for application at a new ... B. Nikolic (University of Cambridge) OOF Holography dFNu .. ...

... PmWiki . Summary: PmWiki group header. ... Summary: PmWiki structural support for page organization:) Authors have a range of options to choose from when organizing a collection of wiki pages . ... When a search returns a list of pages, their names need to be clear enough to guide a visitor to the right place. ... Individual wiki pages can also be grouped by having tags and links to a common "category" page; we say that any pages that link to a common page are in a "category" defined by that page. ...

... 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. ...

pro apedance,line,Z,abund=abund,apabref=apabref,verbose=verbose, _extra=e ;+ ;procedure apedance ; remove or correct the abundance dependance of APED emissivities ; ; APED emissivities as stored on disk include both ion balance ; (Mazzotta et al.) and abundances (Anders & Grevesse). This ; can be inconvenient in some PINTofALE tasks since other line ; emissivity databases in PINTofALE do not include either factor. ...

... 2.3 Establishing the Extragalactic Distance Scale . ... 2.3.2 The Second Rung: Distances to stellar clusters . ... 2.3.4 Distances to Local Group Galaxies . ... The Luminosity Function of Planetary Nebulae . ... 3.2.2 Clusters of Galaxies . ... 4.2 Evidence for Dark Matter as a Function of Scale Size . ... 4.3 Other Dark Matter Indicators for Galaxies . ... What is the nature of the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe as traced by the three-dimensional galaxy distribution? ...

Properties of the interstellar gas clouds . ... The angular resolution of this Survey was 2.4' x 130', velocity resolution was 6.3 km/s, r.m.s. fluctuations of antenna temperature (T a ) was 0.25 K. All clouds with kinematical distances r a Some selection effects were discovered and our statistic results were corrected for them. Figure 1. ... In the very high mass range the number of neutral gas clouds may be decreased because of gravitational instability or/and molecularization. ...

XMMнNewton CCF Release Note XMMнCCFнRELн12 RGS Effective Area C. Erd October 4, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag RGS1 QUANTUMEF 0006 1998н01н01T00:00:00 CCD DESC, SI1, SI2, SI3, SI4, SI5, SI6, SI7, SI8, SI9, RGA EFF, RGA INTERCEPT, RGA OBSCURATE --- NO RGS2 QUANTUMEF 0006 1998н01н01T00:00:00 CCD DESC, SI1, SI2, SI3, SI4, SI5, SI6, SI7, SI8, SI9, RGA EFF, RGA INTERCEPT, ... RGS-COL-CAL-00006 Page: 4 Auth.: ... 2] Jean Cottam. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

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 ). ...

We investigate models for main-sequence and horizontal-branch (HB) stars constructed using the Carson opacities and make comparisons with models based on the Cox-Stewart opacities. ... The drop in the hydrogen-shell luminosity due to the helium-core expansion during HB evolution is greater than that obtained with the Cox-Stewart opacities. ... Studies of main-sequence (MS) stars lead to agreement with Stothers' (1974a,b, 1976) results for homogeneous models constructed with Carson opacities. ...

The Extragalactic ALFA Zone of Avoidance team is mapping the distribution of low-Galactic-latitude galaxies and large scale structures through detection of galaxies' 21-cm emission with ALFA. This Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) survey finds new HI galaxies which lie hidden behind the Milky Way, and also provides redshifts and other HI parameters for partially-obscured galaxies known at other wavelengths. ... Discovery and Follow-up of a Nearby Galaxy from the Arecibo Zone of Avoidance Survey. ...