... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

... HYPERBOLOID is a plasma spectrometer aimed at the investigation of the low energy ions dynamics in the polar ionosphere and magnetosphere on the INTERBALL Auroral Probe . ... The instrument is basically a multi-directional ion mass spectrometer measuring ion distribution functions over an energy range from ~0.1 to 80 eV. ... The ion angular and energy distribution are obtained by means of an electrostatic optics defining 2 planes with several entrance windows. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... The tilt of the holes was compared to that of the telecentric surface of the contemporaneous spectrographic optical design, kent005. ... The tilt of each hole as a function of its radial location on the plate is plotted along with the ideal tilt from optical design kmg001 (Figures 2 through 7). ... Figure 2: Hole tilts for uw0100. ... Measurements of the tilts of holes in plates drilled in December of 1994 have been reanalyzed and compared to the ideal hole tilt of the current optical design kmg001....

Numerical simulation of the self-pump ed Long Josephson junction using a modified Sine-Gordon model A.S. Sobolev a,, A.L. Pankratov b, J. Mygind a c Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics (IREE), Mokhovaya st. 11/7, Moscow, 125009, Russia b Institute for Physics of Microstructures of RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia c The Danish Technical University, Kgs. ... In our model the dumping parameter dep ends b oth on the spatial coordinate and the amplitude of the AC voltage. ...

We add radial velocities to the fit and include the stellar masses as fit parameters. Bring up the Data|Spectroscopy widget and load the file zetuma.vel . Type calcmodel to compute the model for the astrometric and spectroscopic data. Select the fit parameters as shown on the left. Then click "Fit". ... Use Plot|Astrometry and Plot|Spectroscopy to plot the fit results. You can now look at the numerical results by clicking the component labels in the model fit widget. ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

asncombine -- Process and combine images in one or two NICMOS associations asncombine association . ... set to yes to include error planes in co-added images error. background . ... This is useful to use different background subtractions for different images. fheader . set to yes in order to multiply the background by the value of keyword "factor" in the image header. ... Set to yes to use quadrants statistics save in the image header from previous runs of asncombine. regquad1 . ...

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. ...

This module provides for documents with Server Side Includes (SSI). ... Any document with handler of "server-parsed" will be parsed by this module, if the Includes option is set. If documents containing server-side include directives are given the extension .shtml, the following directives will make Apache parse them and assign the resulting document the mime type of text/html : AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml The following directive must be given for ... cgi . ...

... Morning Session (10:00 am - 1:00 pm) . Invited reviews (40 minutes, including discussion) . ... The Cosmic Microwave Background: Recent Results and Interpretation . ... Joint Discussion (25 minutes talks, including discussion) . 14:30 Early Evolution in the Universe . ... Developments in General Relativity: Black Hole Singularity and Beyond . ... The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and Neutrinos . ... Theoretical Aspects of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin and Propagation . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... Other Characteristics of the Sun: Variability of Rotation, Magnetism, Chemical Structure, Planetary System. ... Methods of Solar Magnetic Fields Measuring: Visual, Photografic, Photoelectric. ... Empiric Datas of Magnetic Fields in Photosphere, Chromosphere and Corona. ... Characteristics of Magnetic Field in Balanced Force Tubes by Potential and Forceless Field. ... Phenomenons in Active Region (Magnetic Field, Spots, Torches, Solar Prominences, Flares, Discharges. ... Magnetic Fields in Flares. ...

http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/freefree.html . Ralph S. Sutherland . New calculations of free-free transition matrix element integrals are performed using modern symbolic computing techniques to evaluate the hypergeometric functions with complex arguments. The results are presented in both graphical and tabular form including accurate extrapolation methods. ... http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~ralph/data/freefree/ . ...

... Our classification includes quasi­steady types : (1) Heliospheric current sheet (HCS), (2) Slow and (3) Fast SW streams, respectively, from closed and open magnetic field structures in the solar corona, and disturbed types : (4) Corotating interaction regions ( CIR ­ compressed regions between slow and fast SW streams), (5) SHEATH (compressed regions ahead of MC/ EJECTA ) and (6) Magnetic cloud (MC) and (7) ... We believe that this is first estimation of geoeffectiveness of SHEATH. ...

... public class CurveFitter . ... static int . ... Field Detail public static final int STRAIGHT_LINE . ... public static final int POLY2 . ... public static final int POLY3 . ... public static final int POLY4 . ... public static final int EXPONENTIAL . ... public static final int POWER . ... public static final int LOG . ... public static final int RODBARD . ... public static final int GAMMA_VARIATE . ... public static final int LOG2 . ... public static double f (int fit, double[] p, double x) . ...