... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

... 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? ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Press Release Images . Individual Images . ... The right-hand image shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ... The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction. ... Amazing Space | ...

... Radio source identifications . The Web-server of the Astronomical Institute of the St.-Petersburg University opens the experimental service on assignment of clusters data. At present only the data about radio sources in ACO clusters of galaxies are reasonably complete, while only restricted optical information is in our database. Later on, we also intend to include X-ray data and data about brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). ... ACO: radio optic ( for example, A0690 and " optic "), . ...

Do LIRGs follow the Tully-Fisher relation? ... For a small we can say majority of investigate i Conclusion number of galaxies in our sample, that the T-F relation holds. ... The purpose of this research was to study the LIRGs (Luminous Infrared Galaxies) and see if they follow the Tully-Fisher relation. The LIRGs are different to normal galaxies in the fact that they emit 90% of their light in infrared. ... The faster the galaxy rotates, the wider is the emission line in velocity. ...

Elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Rough subdivision · Normal ellipticals. ... Dwarf ellipticals (dE's). ... E dE BCD dSph 1013 - 1014 108 - 1013 107 - 109 109 107 - 108 300-1000 1-200 1-10 3 0.1­0.5 100 10­100 1­10 0.1­10 5­100 Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies ...

... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . ... Listed as Abell 1060, the Hydra Cluster contains well over 100 bright galaxies. ... All of the bright extended images in the above picture are galaxies in the Hydra Cluster with the exception of unrelated diffraction crosses centered on bright stars. ... In fact, the Hydra cluster is thought to be part of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster of galaxies . ... Publications with keywords: cluster of galaxies - Hydra . ... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA . ... ALMA will provide a major leap forward in our capabilities of studying the high-redshift universe, especially the first galaxies. ... These first galaxies are also found to cluster relatively strongly, and are expected to form proto-clusters, later growing to be the fully-formed galaxy clusters we see in the local Universe....

PEGASE: Project de'Etude des Galaxies par Synthese Evolutive (by Damien Le Borgne and Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange) . Galaxy colours (by Robin Stevens) . ... Images of radio galaxies and quasars mapped at VLA . Atlas of radio galaxies in 3CRR sample (images, description, classification, etc.) Radio Galaxy and Quasar Images at Other Sites by A.Bridle . ... Radio galaxies in Abell clusters . ... Digitized Sky Survey images . Faint Images of Radio Survey at Twenty-cm at VLA . ...

The fundamental properties of early-type galaxies in the Coma Cluster S.A.W. Moore et al. University of Durham, U.K. Co-authors: Lucey, J.R.; Colless, M.; Kuntschner, H.; Bower, R.; Davies, R.L. Early-type galaxies in clusters exhibit remarkably tight correlations between their global properties, e.g. the colour- magnitude relation, the Mg2 - relation and the Fundamental Plane. ... In addition, these data provide a baseline for evolutionary studies of distant clusters. ...

... D. J. Burke and J. Patrick Henry . The Astrophysical Journal, submitted. ... S. Brough, W. J. Couch, C. A. Collins, T. Jarrett, D. J. Burke , R. G. Mann . ... D. A. Wake, C. A. Collins, R. C. Nichol, L. R. Jones, D. J. Burke . ... R. Sadat, A. Blanchard, S. C. Vauclair, D. H. Lumb, J. Bartlett, A. K. Romer, J.-P. Bernard, M. Boer, P. Marty, J. Nevalainen, D. J. Burke , C. A. Collins, R. C. Nichol, . ... S. Majerowicz, D. M. Neumann, A. K. Romer, R. C. Nichol, D. J. Burke , C. A. Collins . ...

B?rbel Koribalski (ATNF) + HIPASS and ZOA teams . Presented here are preliminary results from the "HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog" which currently includes more than 1000 of the HI brightest galaxies according to their HIPASS peak flux in the global HI spectrum. ... Sky distributions (Aitoff projection, STG projection, Galactic etc.) Histograms I. Measured HI properties (HI peak flux, total HI flux, systemic vel., widths, etc.) ... Comparisons (total HI flux vs w50, w20 vs w50, etc.) ...

A comparative study of type I and type II supernovae . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R. (Received 26 November, 1985) . ... No significant difference between SNe I and SNe II has been found in their radial distribution and frequency of outbursts in spiral galaxies. ... The radial distribution of type Ia SNe in spiral galaxies is only slightly steeper than the one for SNe II, while SNe Ib/c are more concentrated towards the central regions. ...

... Research . ... A rare hybrid morphology radio galaxy . ... In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Current models of galaxy evolution regulate the star formation rates within the simulated galaxies by invoking radio-mode feedback from AGN. ... Julie.Banfield@anu.edu.au . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The last step encompassed them all with galaxies , and how we discovered that the Milky Way was not the entire Universe. ... And just like those star clusters, there are different kinds of galaxy clusters. ... There are vast clusters of clusters, called superclusters, which contains hundreds of thousands or even millions of galaxies. ... Our own Galaxy has 400 billion stars in it, yet there are clusters out there with millions of galaxies like our own. ...

Rastorguev А.S. "Astronomical Distances" (Lecture course for postgraduates, 2009-2016) . Part 1. ... Trigonometric parallaxes of stars. Moving clusters distances. ... Photometric distances: general approach. Normal stars as "standard candles". ... Main Sequence fitting or distance scale of star clusters. ... Moving photospheres technique. Cepheid distance scale and P-L relations. RR Lyrae distance scale. ... Globular clusters luminosity function. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

. F IGURE . 5. Relation between metallicity and (a) cluster Galactocentric distance and (b) distance from the Galactic plane. The straight lines are the rms regression fits for the thick-disk, entire Galaxy, and halo from top to bottom, respectively. The slopes of the lines yield the corresponding metallicity gradients. discussion in the text | previous figure | next figure .