... 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. ...

... 2001) MIR detection rate towards water masers: ~80% (De Buizer et al. ... Is accompanied by outflow Surprisingly, near-IR outflow observations in H2 showed emission PARALLEL to maser distributions, not perpendicular De Buizer (2003) surveyed sites of linearly distributed methanol masers at CTIO ­ ONLY 2 had emission perpendicular to the maser distribution ­ 12 (86%) had emission parallel to the maser distribution De Buizer (2003) G319.95-0.20 G320.23-0.28 Surprisingly, near...

... The jets can also be produced in smaller scale by binary stellar systems. ... Some 200 -- 250 X-ray binaries, systems in which a neutron star or black hole is accreting material from a companion star, are known. Approximately 20% of these sources have been detected at radio wavelengths, and in several cases high resolution radio observations have resolved this emission into jet-like structures, sometimes with components moving at relativistic velocities. ... It is variable radio source. ...

... I present results from several seasons of photometric observations of X--ray sources in the Orion OB1a and OB1b star formation regions. The initial goal was to measure the rotational periods of several dozen pre--main sequence (PMS) stars. ... Infrared and optical data confirm that 90% of the X--ray sources are PMS and about 10% of the PMS stars may have disks. ... I find rotation periods for five stars at confidence of greater than 99.9/ greater than 99/ at much lower confidence. ...

... Near-IR broad-band imaging of V1318 Cygni reveals the presence of two distinct stellar components oriented north-south, a result recently reported by Aspin et al. ... The distribution of the high density molecular gas traced by the CS J emission is highly concentrated around V1318 and V1686 Cygni, while the total column density of gas traced by the J shows a ridge morphology centered on these sources. ... A molecular outflow has been detected in CO J . ...

... Science . ... The goal is to bring together two communitities: the one working on star formation (mostly galactic) and the one working on the formation of young massive clusters (mostly extra-galactic). We will link galactic with extra-galactic work, optical/NIR techniques with sub-mm/mm/radio ones, the formation of stars with the one of massive star clusters - observations and theory. ... Coordinated by Marina Rejkuba (abstract) . ... How did star formation proceed in Globular Clusters? ...

... Credit: CISCO , Subaru 8.3-m Telescope , NAOJ Explanation: Massive star IRS4 is beginning to spread its wings. Born only about 100,000 years ago, material streaming out from this newborn star has formed the nebula dubbed Sharpless 106 Nebula (S106), pictured above . A large disk of dust and gas orbiting Infrared Source 4 (IRS4), visible in dark red near the image center, gives the nebula an hourglass shape. ... Publications with keywords: nebula - stellar nursery - massive stars . ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The white dashed line shows the region studied in this paper, with a radius of 1.5 centered on the massive star system HD 206267 (O6.5V), which is the main ionizing source of the region. ... We demonstrate how the survey can be used to (1) reliably select classical T Tauri star candidates and (2) constrain the mass accretion rates with an estimated relative uncertainty of 0.6 dex. ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1584 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 03/05/96 - 0000Z (UTC) 03/06/96 Daily Status Report as of 066/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5924 (Nuclear Emission Line Region Associated = with Compact Flat Spectrum) The WF/PC-2 was used to make spectrographic observations of the = nuclear emission region of galaxy NGC-984 to study its compact flat = spectrum. ... The observations were = executed as schedule, and no anomalies were noted. ...

... 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. ...

home education > resources . ... Resources . ... Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Castelvecchi, D. "A New Breed of Black Hole" in Sky Telescope , Apr. 2006, p. 36. ... Charles, P. Wagner, R. "Black Holes in Binary Stars: Weighing the Evidence" in Sky Telescope , May 1996, p. 38. ... Nadis, S. "The Secret Lives of Black Holes" in Astronomy , Nov. 2007, p. 28. ... Nadis, S. "Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable" in Astronomy , Apr. 2007, p. 26. ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 310 . ... Optical: Diffuse emission. ... Distance: H I observations suggest 1.9 kpc. ... ADS . ... 1973, ApJS, 26, 19. ... VLA at 1.4 GHz (8'') 4.9 GHz (3'') and 15 GHz (1'') of central region only, plus Einstein image of central region. ... VLA at 327 MHz (3'.1?4'.4: S=660 Jy). ... VLA of associated OH masers. ... 2000, ApJ, 540, 842. ... VLA at 328 MHz (97''?52'': S=425?40 Jy) and 1415 MHz (88''?48'': S=246?20 Jy), and comparison with other observations. ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

IC 348 1 IC 348 IC 348 Hubble image of IC 348 and its surroundings.[ ... References External links · Amateur photography ( http ://www.photonhunter.at/IC348.html) Article Sources and Contributors 2 Article Sources and Contributors IC 348 Source: http ://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=549545123 Contributors : Jmencisom, PatrickHochleitner, RJHall Image Sources , Licenses and Contributors File:Hubble image of LRLL 54361 and its surroundings.tif Source: ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Find 1749. One mass of 687 kg . ... Fall 09 February 1929. 11 masses totaling 3738 g, the largest is 2128 g . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1986. 3 masses totaling about 25 kg . ... Fall 24 March 1933. 75 masses totaling 3-4 kg . ... Fall 29 July 1935. 5 masses totaling 37.35 kg, the largest is 23 kg . ... Fall 23 May 1938. 4 masses totaling 127.5 g . ... Fall 02 October 1933. 10 masses totaling 3.4 kg . ...

... We found that 10 metal-poor globular clusters are greately distinguished for anomalously small masses on the "destruction rate-mass" plain. As it turned out, these poor clusters, situated 15 kpc farther from the Galactic centre, are somewhat younger than the bulk of the metal-poor globulars, and have anomalously red horizontal branches. ... At the same time, deficiency of distant massive clusters is noticeable with increasing distance from the galactic centre. ...

... Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) . ... Searching for SZ clusters . ... Baryon content of galaxy clusters and cosmology . ... 3 sigma peaks: Observational Signatures of High Redshift Galaxies and Low Redshift Clusters . CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES . ... Clusters of galaxies seen in X-rays: war and peace . ... Chandra X-ray Observations of Clusters/Groups/Galaxies . ... Common timing features in neutron stars and black holes . ... X-ray luminosity function of low-mass X-ray binaries in galaxies . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . ... New type of gamma-ray source found . Astronomers report a new type of energetic gamma-ray emitter is likely related to supersonic winds in stellar clusters. ... T he H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) collaboration reports the discovery of a new type of energetic gamma-ray source, probably related to supersonic winds from massive stars in a young open stellar cluster. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...