... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...

This diagram illustrates the effects of floating a box ("inner") and how its "sibling" is forced below it due to the 'clear' property. A document window is shown, with 8 lines (numbered 1 to 8), each 24px high. Text before the "inner" box flows on lines 1 and halfway on line 2. The "inner" box has been floated to the right and occupies the second half of lines 3 and 4. ... The lines, as they appear in the image, contain: 1 Beginning of body contents. ... Inner contents" is blue. ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...

... We study in this paper the effect of shock excitation of leaky and surface modes by the p-polarized electromagnetic wave incident on the rapidly ionized gaseous or solid layer. ... For example, if [pic] (solid density, multiple ionized plasma), the basic frequency [pic], [pic], [pic] we find, that the wavelength of leaky wave [pic] is in soft x rays band. ... If [pic] (low density gaseous plasma), the basic frequency [pic], [pic], [pic] we find, that the wavelength of leaky wave [pic] is in THz band...

... The basic principles of incoherent scatter: . ... Because of the electron movement, spectrum of the observed signal is broad and it has shape which depends, e.g., on the temperature. ... ion temperature . ... According to the theory, Ti should be replaced by (2Ti,perp + Ti,par)/3 (Williams and Jain,1986; Glatthor and Hernandez, 1990; Winser et al., 1990). ... Glatthor, N., and R. Hernandez, Temperature anisotropy of drifting ions in the auroral F-region, observed by EISCAT, J. atmos. terr. ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

program is written 14.01.2009 by L.V. Zotov clear; N_ signal =1024; % generating two-sin signal for (k=1:1:N_ signal ) signal (k)=sin(2*pi/10*(k-1))+sin(2*pi/100*(k-1)); end; plot ( signal ); %fast Fourier transform calculation Ftrns_ signal =fft( signal ); % amplitude spectrum calculation apl_ spectrum =abs(Ftrns_ signal ); plot (apl_ spectrum ); % reading the ...

... Using multipledetector coincidence events in the 100-350 keV energy band, our analysis yields a polarization fraction from this GRB of 98 Б 33%. ... For a source count rate of S , and fractional polarization of s , the expected azimuthal scattering angle () distribution is S dS = [1 - Q s cos 2( - )]. d 2 (1) 2.4. ... Simulated azimuthal scattering angle distribution of 100% polarized photons at 200 keV originating at the GRB position. ...

. The Doppler Effect . Spectroscopy . Wavelengths . The Electromagnetic Spectrum . Spectrographs . PPT Slide . What’s this got to do with velocities? . The Doppler Effect: . How does this affect the spectra? . The Maths . Example. Author: Paul Francis . Email: pfrancis@mso.anu.edu.au . Home Page: http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~pfrancis/astr1001/ . Other information: . Course Notes for ASTR1001 Astronomy

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

pro cormass2,list ; ;procedure to pre-process CorMASS 'differenced' images to correct for reset ;voltage decay effects seen in NICMOS3 images. ... Sep '00 ; ; on_error,1 nl=numlines(list) ;find number of files print,'nl: ',nl files=strarr(nl) openr,lun,list,/get_lun readf,lun,files free_lun,lun for i=0,nl-1 do begin oldim=float(readfits(files[i],hdr)) d=size(oldim,/N_DIMENSIONS) if d GT 0 then begin magicsub2,oldim,procim sxaddhist,'Reset Decay Corrected w/ MagSub2',hdr,/PDU name=str_sep(files[i],'.' ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

Integration and performance of the flight configuration SIR on TELIS P. Yagoubov1, G. de Lange1, A. de Lange, M. Romanini, R. Hoogeveen1, V. Koshelets2, G. Wagner3, M. Birk 1Nation 3 al Institute for ... Netherlands 2Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia 3Institute for Remote Sensing Technology, DLR, Germany Abstract TELIS (Terahertz and submm Limb Sounder) is a cooperation between European institutes, DLR, RAL and SRON, to build a three- ... LO frequency 624.93 GHz. ...

... 2010 January 3 . A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect . ... Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. ... The form and genesis of dark energy is almost completely unknown, but postulated as related to vacuum fluctuations similar to the Casimir Effect but generated somehow by space itself . ... Note: An APOD editor will review astronomy images of 2009 , . ... About APOD | ...

A system of colliding galaxy clusters, nicknamed the Musket Ball Cluster, has been discovered. In these images of the Musket Ball Cluster, the hot gas observed with Chandra is colored red, and the galaxies in the optical image from Hubble appear as mostly white and yellow. The location of the majority of the matter in the cluster (dominated by dark matter) is colored blue. ... X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCDavis/W.Dawson, et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/UCDavis/W.Dawson, et al. ...