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Magnetic Fields around Radio Galaxies Robert Laing (ESO) Laing et al. ... 2008) Negligible depolarization and 2 rotation Almost all Faraday effects must be due to foreground material How to fit depolarization caused by foreground Faraday rotation Complex polarization Rotation measure Integrate over a beam Observed RM for 0 2 rotation and depolarization Faraday rotation and depolarization 5.5 arcsec FWHM Faraday effects at high resolution FWHM = 1.5 ...

ASTRONOMICHESKII TSIRKULYAR No.1573, 2010 April 12 1995 2009 . A Comparison of the Latitudinal Variations of the Methane Absorption Bands on Saturn's Disk at Equinoxes 1995 and 2009 Abstract. The observations of Saturn at last equinox 2009 have detected significant differences of the latitudinal variations of the methane absorption from observed at 1995 equinox . ... 1995 . 2008- 2009 , ­ . ... 4 ( 580-880 ) , (.1) , 2008-2009 . ... 2 , 4 725 1995 2009 . ... 1995 2009 15 , 1980 1995 . ...

... T2375 Date Received: 2007-Sep-28 11:22:08 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category : Sub- Category : Observation Category : Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: Long-term Terrestrial Aeronomy Radar Middle-Lower Atmosphere 120 Hours 8 hours around 6 am Micrometeor Observations : Exploring the Solar Wind and Terrestrial Mass Influx Connection ABSTRACT: ... At present, the solar wind material produced in 2002-2004 is approaching the heliospheric boundary. ...

. Dust and gas disk around HD 142527. The dust and gas distributions observed by ALMA are shown in red and green, respectively. Near-infrared image taken by the Subaru Telescope is shown in blue. The image clearly shows that the dust is concentrated in the northern (upper) part of the disk. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/NAOJ/Fukagawa, et al.

Short-Period Comets: Origin and Terrestrial Impact Hazard . ... The model is consistent with the basic observed distributions of near-parabolic comets, short-period comets, Centaurs and high-eccentricity trans-Neptunian objects.This model requires that initial objects in the early Solar System are concentrated to the outer planetary region, and the physical lifetime of comets in the inner planetary region at the present epoch is an increasing function of initial perihelion distances. ...

... The results of long-term monitoring of Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum sources were found the statistically significant differences (0.05 significance level) in the high-frequency spectral index distribution between subgroups of galaxies and quasars. ... This can mean that the electron energy distribution for GPS galaxies is steeper than for GPS quasars. ... The first area corresponds to GPS-quasars that have statistically larger value of redfhift, second area corresponds to GPS-galaxies. ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

MAJOR MAGNETIC STORMS 1932-1997 ACCORDING TO THE Ap* CRITERIA To view a plot of the number of magnetic storms v.s. sunspots, go to ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/APSTAR/magstorm.gif A simpler global index of magnetic activity (other than Kp or Km) is produced in France from the K indices of two nearly antipodal magnetic observatories in England and Australia. ... An AA* index has been derived that is the counterpart of Ap* but is available for the longer span of years. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Research results on fast active processes General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases ... Distribution of the recorded spikes in duration . ...

... Photometric standard stars will be interspersed between science stars. ... INSTRUMENT: SurveyCam FILTERS: VRI COMMENTS: Here is the status of nights so far for this project: program nts backup nts total wipeouts 2014-JUL/AUG/SEP 2 3 12 2014-OCT/NOV/DEC 2 1 4 2015-JAN/FEB/MAR - - - 2015-APR/MAY/JUN 4 7 3 2015-JUL/AUG/SEP - - - TOTAL 8 11 19 program nts = used for primary photometric program backup nts = used for backup program (s) total wipeouts = no useful ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | 2 Comments October is an interesting month for astronomers as World Space Week falls from 4 October until 10 October and coincidentally itтАЩs a good month for keen astronomers to take to [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments I have never met a child who is not fascinated by the stars. €аLearning to find and recognise planets and constellations is the first step in what can be a [ ] . ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

. N OTE: . Only clusters with R<60 kpc were used to compute the spatial parameters and metallicity gradients for all subsystems except the corona. The numbers in parantheses give the number of clusters for which the corresponding parameter is known. The X O scale length of the old halo is strongly distorted by the observed asymmetry of the distribution of the corresponding clusters projected onto the XY plane ( Fig. 4А ) . discussion in the text | previous table .

... Aims: Today, large ground-based instruments, like VISIR on the VLT, providing diffraction-limited (about 0.3 arcsec) images in the mid-infrared where strong PAH features appear enable us to see the flaring structure of the disks around Herbig Ae stars. Although great progress has been made in modelling the disk with radiative transfer models able to reproduce the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Herbig Ae stars, the constraints brought by images have not been yet fully exploited. ...

Large-Scale Structure of the local Universe with INTEGRAL observatory >200-300 , . ... It is now widely accepted, that practically every galaxy in the local Universe has supermassive black hole and some of these black holes are AGNs. ... 136 ( ) 49- . ... The map of the survey is shown on the left. ... Using Hard X-ray all-sky survey such important properties of nearby Universe as energetics of accretion to the supermassive black holes and large-scale mass distribution of matter were studied. ...