We present results of new Monte Carlo calculations made with the DIRTY code of radiative transfer of stellar and scattered radiation for a dusty giant late-type galaxy like the Milky Way, which illustrate the effect of the attenuation of stellar light by internal dust on the integrated photometry of the individual bulge and disk components. ... In addition, we find that the structure of the dusty ISM affects more sensitively the observed magnitudes than the observed colors of both bulge and disk. ...

... The variability of the spectrum of the optical component of the IR-source IRAS01005+7910 was discovered for the first time in the BTA spectra [1]. ... The spectral features include absorptions that form in near-photospheric layers, narrow envelope emissions, and emission-absorption profiles that form in photosphere-to-envelope transition layers (the wind). ... Discovery of spectral variation in the optical counterpart of IRAS01005+7910. ... Dashed line - envelope curve of all the SiII 5979 profiles ...

XMM ­Newton CCF Release Note XMM ­ CCF ­REL­1 Effective area of the X­ray telescopes P. Gondoin October 4, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag XRT1 XAREAEF 0006 2000 ­01­13T00:00:00 ONAXISXAREAEF, VIGNETTING Cal 3.80, xmm ­ sas 20000903 1900 NO XRT2 XAREAEF 0007 2000 ­01­13T00:00:00 ONAXISXAREAEF, VIGNETTING Cal 3.80, ... 3 Scientific Impact of this Update This update has no impact on on­axis the effective area accuracy. ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... CORCHAN(1) specifies the number of spectral channels per baseband channel (one polarization component) that the correlator will write. CORCHAN(2) specifies the number of channels to use in the internal FFT in the correlator. ... Over averaging can cause loss of amplitude due to ``delay smearing'' -- the effect of large phase slopes across the channels going into an average. ... But excessive numbers of channels lead to excessive output data rates and data set sizes. ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This is the first in a series of papers in which we describe and report the analysis of a large survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars in circular spectropolarimetry. Using the ESPaDOnS and Narval high-resolution spectropolarimeters at the Canada-France-Hawaii and Bernard Lyot Telescopes, respectively, we have acquired 132 circularly-polarised spectra of 70 Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig candidates. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 11 . ... This meeting is intended as an initial brainstorm on how we will perform the component and integrated tests in the PDR phase. ... How to measure movement of mount versus movement of optic in mount? ... Most tests should be conducted here in the lab but we could use COAST for some tests, particularly a system level test using a pin-hole at one end of the tables and the base-plate, optics and camera arrangement at the other end. ...

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... The width of hydrogen lines is known to depend on the pressure in the photosphere, and then on the luminosity and effective temperature of the star. We have studied this dependence using the spectra of normal B stars from the databases by Jacoby et al., ... The resolution of Jacoby spectra (4.5А) coincides with the resolution of our BTA/UAGS spectra (4.4A). ... Dependence of full width FWZI of hydrogen lines on star spectral type and luminosity class. ...

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