... 1.4 Completed WF/PC-2 8592 (Pixel Microlensing of M87) The WF/PC-2 was used to undertake a pixel microlensing study of M87 in order to: 1} probe the lower end of the M87 IMF via star-star lensing, 2} possibly obtain the first evidence of Massive Compact Objects (MACHOs) in the halo of a galaxy other than our own, and 3} search for intracluster MACHOs. ... They are also the only sample of galaxies selected on the basis of their mass rather than their luminosity or surface brightness. ...

... Man, Zirm & Toft 2014 . Resolving the Discrepancy of Galaxy Merger Fraction Measurements at z ~ 0 - 3 . Man, Toft, Zirm, Wuyts & van der Wel 2012 . The Pair Fraction of Massive Galaxies at 0 <= z <= 3 . ... Is merging important for the size and mass growth of galaxies? Image credit: Hubble . ... Are quiescent galaxies actually . ... Man, Greve, Toft et al. 2014 . ... Image credit: NASA, ESA, S. Toft (U. Copenhagen), and A. Felid (STScI) . ...

... I note that "Z" plays an important role in what the ALFA surveys will look for: . ... low Z . nearby low mass . ... Arecibo . ... ADBS (Arecibo Dual Beam Survey): Rosenberg & Schneider 2002. ... A few sources with unobvious optical counterparts. ... Coverage wins for volume, but if you do a shallow survey you are sampling only the nearby volume at low masses. ... So need artificial test sources to find completeness. ... Total volume within survey in which source could have been detected. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... The black-hole powered core of the Circinus galaxy. ... Andy Bunker (AAO): "Galaxy evolution at the earliest accessible times" . ... Mark Lacy (CalTech): "High redshift radio galaxies and SMBH evolution" . Roger Windhorst (Arizona): "When during galaxy assembly did AGN growth take place?" ... Role of mergers and blackholes in galaxy evolution . ... Arman Khalatyan (Marseille): "The role of mergers in galaxy evolution" . ... Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves . ...

... The El Gordo Massive Galaxy Cluster . ... The above image of El Gordo is a composite of a visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope , an X-ray image from the Chandra Observatory showing the hot gas in pink, and a computer generated map showing the most probable distribution of dark matter in blue, computed from gravitational lens distortions of background galaxies. ... Publications with keywords: galaxy cluster - dark matter . Publications with words: galaxy cluster - dark matter . ...

... 2014 April 22 . The El Gordo Massive Galaxy Cluster . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Jee ( UC Davis ) et al. ... Dubbed "El Gordo", the seven billion light years ( z = 0.87) distant galaxy cluster spans about seven million light years and holds the mass of a million billion Suns. ... That galaxy is actually far in the background and has its image stretched by the gravitational lens action of the massive cluster. Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... Observational Zoo of Binaries with Compact Stars . Evolutionary Scenarios of Binary Systems . ... Evolution of Magnetic Rotators . ... Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ... Binary Pulsar Diversity and High Neutron Star Birth Velocity . ... Ejectors in Massive Binary Systems . ... Other Candidates for Ejecting Stars in Binary Systems . ... Cosmic Rays and Evolution of Binary . ... Sky in Gravitational Waves . ... Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binary Stars . ...

Weak Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter Halos Tereasa Brainerd Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University, USA It is currently thought that all large galaxies reside within massive dark matter halos. Despite the apparent ubiquity of such halos and their importance for developing a complete picture of the history of galaxy formation, the characteristic parameters (e.g., total mass, physical extent, and shape) of these objects remain largely unconstrained at present. ...

... Star Atlas . ... solar system . ... stars . ... Observe the Solar System . ... What factors determine if a massive star (say, 100 solar masses) forms instead of a Sun-like star? ... Stars of all masses form from dense clumps within exceptionally cold molecular clouds. ... Massive stars tend to form at the centers of high-mass reservoirs of gas. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO's double black holes started as one massive star . ...

This animation shows a galaxy cluster with two mass concentrations (the pink shading indicates the projected mass density) lensing a background field of faint blue galaxies. ... Inside the Einstein ring radius one has radial arcs, and right in the center of the cluster there are demagnified images. The highest magnifications occur at the Einstein ring radius, giving the large tangential arcs. ... Abell 2218 and CL2244-02 are clusters with tangential arcs. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

... HI mass fractions Comparison samples HeViCS bright galaxy Catalogue(BGC) Davies+2012 Average scaling relations for HI-normal and extremely HI-deficient galaxies in H3 survey (Gavazzii+ 2013 ) Dwarf galaxy survey (DGS) Madden+ 2013 KINGFISH Kennicutt 2011 Specific star formation rates Schiminovich +2007 Comparison samples HeViCS bright galaxy Catalogue(BGC) Davies+2012 Dwarf galaxy survey (DGS) Madden+ 2013 KINGFISH Kennicutt 2011 Dust ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Posts tagged ?massive data? ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

Since the first stars and then galaxies formed the Universe has been an immense factory converting neutral gas into stellar material. ... In this seminar I will discuss recent results from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, probing the assembly of stellar mass though both in-situ star formation (as traced by multiple SFR indicators) and interactions (both mergers and interaction induced star-formation) - in galaxies spanning ~4 decades in stellar mass. ...

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Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... We consider the astrophysical evolution of the Galaxy over large time scales, from early stages (an age of ~10 8 yrs) to the end of traditional stellar evolution (~10 11 yrs). ... In the model considered, the basic stages of Galactic evolution are as follows. ... Essentially all other basic parameters of the Galaxy vary little. ... The final "stellar epoch" in the life of the Galaxy is completed ~10 13 yrs after its formation, when the evolution of the least massive stars comes to an end. ...

The LCDM paradigm: successes and challenges on scales of galaxies Anatoly Klypin (NMSU) LCDM · · · · DM profiles, concentrations, .. Clustering of galaxies: P(k) and correlation functions Satellites: abundance, number-density profiles Galaxies and Dark Matter: abundances Dwarfs. ... Springel et al 2008. ... Klypin et al 2010. ... Observations - LCDM: just enough Magellanic Clouds Observations LCDM Vmax > 50 km/s Busha et al 2010 Dark matter profiles: standard LCDM Aquarius simulation. ...