Rex Parker (609) 730-0670 drexparker@aol.com ereal times id s The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Treasurer: Ron Mittlestaedt (609) 771-6981 C8User@aol.com Secretary: Ludy D'Angelo (609) 882-9336 ldangelo106@comcast.net Program ... 448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 35 From the Director AAAP Meeting April 11 (8:00 Peyton Hall) ... The majority of attendees were AAAP members. ...

... Based on available observations we discuss criteria for development of optical wide-field camera and present the automatic telescope that is being developed for the purpose of simultaneous optical observations of GRB counterparts. ... Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow and Optical Prompt Emission Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomenon has been studied in -rays since 1967 (first publication in 1971) by space born wide field -ray detectors. ... Time scale. ... Wide FOV versus sensitivity. ...

A System Design for the MRO Interferometer Revision: 1.31 Date: October 2002 Contents 1 Intro duction 2 Aims and ob jectives 2.1 Strategic aims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Science ob jectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Overall concept 4 Functional requirements 4.1 Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Wavelength range . . . . . . 4.3 Spectroscopic resolution . . 4.4 Spatial resolution . . . . . .

The Millimetre White Paper: a strategy for high-frequency radio astronomy in Australia Contributors to this document Peter Barnes (U Sydney), Kate Brooks (ATNF), Michael Burton (UNSW), Maria Cunningham (UNSW), John Dickey (U Tasmania), Phil Edwards (ISAS), Ron Ekers (ATNF), Yasuo Fukui (U Nagoya), Annie Hughes (Swinburne U), Ilana Klamer (U Sydney / ATNF), Vincent Minier (CEA Saclay), Erik Mueller (ATNF), Juergen Ott (ATNF), Bob Sault (ATNF), Mark Thompson (U Hertfordshire), Andrew Walsh (UNSW), Tony Wong

How Dry is the Brown Dwarf Desert?: Quantifying the Relative Number of Planets, Brown Dwarfs and Stellar Companions around Nearby Sun-like Stars Daniel Grether1 Charles H. Lineweaver 1 1,2 arXiv:astro-ph/0412356 v1 15 Dec 2004 Department of Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Planetary Science Institute, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University ... 4­ Fig. ...