... The exercises are now available on the web and in six booklets (100 pages in total), titled: . ... Exercise 1: Measuring the Distance to Supernova 1987A", . Exercise 2: The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars", . Exercise 3: Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula" and . Exercise 4: Measuring a Globular Star Cluster's Distance and Age". ... More exercises will follow in the future. ... Exercise 3 - Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula . ...

Two groups are measuring distant supernovae with the goal of determining whether the Universe is open or closed by measuring the curvature in the Hubble diagram. The figure below shows both data sets: Perlmutter et al. (1997) and (1998) in black and Garnavich et al. (1997) in orange. The curves show a closed Universe (Omega = 2) in red, the critical density Universe (Omega = 1) in black, the empty Universe (Omega = 0) in green, and the steady state model in blue. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

Problem Set 2 - Cosmology­A3002 ­Due on or before November 7th. Can be sent via internal mail (Brian Schmidt, RSAA) use H0=70 km/s/Mpc, M=0.27, =0.73, w=-1 for all problems. ... Finish off your Monte Carlo simulation by selecting objects at random redshifts from 0<z<0.1, assuming that they have a mean absolute magnitude of M=-19.5 with a dispersion 0.2 magnitudes. ... Problem 2.1 (2 pt): In class we described the scale at which material can collapse in the Universe as the Jeans' length. ...

... We want to know time-scales, and sequences of events, and the ages of stars. ... We would, ideally, like to create a solar comparison sample by finding stars of essentially the same mass, composition, and age and then observing the range of behavior they exhibit. ... At best we can estimate a star 's age. ... Having to construct models that work consistently across a broad range of masses constrains the problem, and yet even for the nearest open clusters we do not know the age to even 10%. ...

... Initially SAI Supernova Catalogue was presented in the form of filebased system. ... The current version of SAI Supernova Catalogue presents data on supernovae together with data on their parent galaxies. ... The main source of data for the galaxies was LEDA database. ... In some cases our data were compared with the ones from the Asiago Supernova Catalogue and from List of Supernovae at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but the compilation of our Catalogue is carried out independently. ...

The azimuth encoder rack gear is mounted on the inside of the azimuth ring girder. The azimuth encoder turns on this gear as the azimuth moves 0 to 720 degrees. ... The software assumes that this arc length along the encoder rack gear is correct (at a constant radius of 127/2 feet). The error in the radius of the rack gear becomes an azimuth error. To measure the error in the azimuth encoder rack gear, jon hagen built a proximity sensor. ... To compute the az encoder runout error: . ...

... The most precisely determined characteristic for accreting neutron stars (NS's) is their period. ... Period changes show fluctuations. ... Some applications of stochastic processes in astrophysics especially in accreting systems were discussed in Lipunov (1987),Hoshino Takeshima (1993) and Lipunov (1992).In Hoshino Takeshima (1993) the authors, using simple models of MHD turbulence, try to explain aperiodic changes in X-ray luminosity of X-ray pulsars. ... Here, -constant angular momentum. ...

... Rumors of a Strange Universe . ... NASA Explanation: Only a few short years ago , when the APOD editors were in graduate school, the pervasive, cosmic Dark Energy was not even seriously discussed. Of course, it now appears that this strange energy dominates the cosmos (as well as lectures on cosmology ) and provides a repulsive force accelerating the large scale expansion of the Universe . ... Publications with keywords: supernova - cosmology - dark energy . ... Nobels for a Strange Universe . ...

... A. M. Neminsky, P. N. Nikolaev, and D. V. Shovkun . ... The temperature dependence of the magnetic field penetration depth lambda ( T ) is determined down to 0.2 T c by the ac-susceptibility measurements on the Rb 3 C 60 fine powder with small, about 1 K, variation in the grains' superconducting transition temperatures. The lambda ( T ) temperature dependence is exponential at low temperatures, which allows us to determine the energy gap Delta 0 =1.7 k B T c . ...

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2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

ATNF Student Symposium 2001 First Session Chair: Erik Muller 9.30am Melanie Johnston-Hollitt An Interpolated All Sky Rotation Measure Map 9.50am Daniel Mitchell Interferometric Decorrelation of Low to Mid Earth Orbiting Satellite Signals 10.10am Sebastian Gurovich Baryonic Tully Fisher Relation from HIPASS galaxies 10.30am Tracy Getts OH/IR Stars and the Galactic Centre Distance 10.50am Co ee Second Session Chair: Daniel Mitchell 11.10am Hayley ... Dion Lewis Pulsar glitches at Parkes and Mt. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... We discuss the diagnostic potential of high cadence ultraviolet spectral data when transient ionization is considered. ... The ionization fraction of the transition region ion O v and in particular the contribution function for the O v 1371 line are computed within the Atomic Data and Analysis Structure, which is a collection of fundamental and derived atomic data and codes which manipulate them. ...

Supernova Cosmology: Legacy and Future, (preprint) . Goobar, A. and Leibundgut, B. Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science , 2011, 61, 251 . Cosmological Implications from observations of Type Ia Supernovae, . ... Type Ia Supernovae, . ... Leibundgut, B., Suntzeff, N. B. in "Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts", 2003, . ... Cosmology with Supernovae, . ... Leibundgut, B. in Frontiers of Cosmology, 2005, . ... Twenty Years of SN 1987A . ... ApJS, accepted . ... ApJ, 782, 28 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... type 1a supernovae seem most useful . ... This is a bright, massive star that explodes after fusing all the light elements in its core. ... That means we can calculate how far away it is. ... This is exactly what we are trying to do with these supernovae; look far enough away that any deviations from flatness of the Universe can be seen. ... Phil Plait . ...

... Home Education Classes AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . ... Classes . AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ April 2016 . ... Dec. ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Holostars: Black Holes Without Event Horizons . ... Its name derives from the fact tht information is preserved in such a black hole, and must be a contraction of hologram and star. ... The exterior metrics and fields of the charged holostar are equal to the Reissner-Nordstroem black hole solution. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Detection technique . We are using ISIS , the optimal image subtraction method developed by C. Alard & R.H. Lupton, to search for SNe in our images. ... The second image shows the same subtraction, but after the convolution of the best image with ISIS: . ... For this reason, we are suggested to search for nuclear SNe with NICMOS on HST, to exploit its stable PSF, sensitivity and angular resolution to detect from space nuclear obscured SNe which might have been missed by ground-based surveys. ...