... It is notoriously difficult to identify weak cosmic ray events in long exposure observations. ... The method is to compare the probability distribution function (PDF) of cosmic ray events between an observation and a dark frame matched in exposure time. We illustrate the basic idea using dark exposures from a Tek 1024 1024 CCD with varying exposure lengths and read-out times. ... Figure: Histogram of cosmic ray events in a two hour dark frame. ... Original PostScript figure (78 kB) . ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun ASP Conference Series, Vol. 154, 1998 eds. R. A. Donahue and J. A. Bookbinder The Coronal Metallicity of the RS CVn Binary HR 1099 Jeremy ``Unbiased'' Drake and Vinay Kashyap Harvard­Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Abstract: We have derived the abundance of iron relative to hydrogen in the corona of the active RS CVn binary HR 1099 (V711 Tau) using ... CD--1014 Coronal Metallicity of HR 1099 CD--1015 2. ...

Teaching courses . for student of the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy . ... Geophysics and physics of the planets (Kurt, Panteleev) . ... Close Binary Stars . ... Solar Physics . ... This is introductory course for students of the third year of education which are familiar with elementary astronomy and general physics. ... The one-year course includes theory of radiation transfer, theory of internal stellar structure with account of binary systems with compact comapnions. ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

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... WORKSHOP "STELLAR ATMOSPHERES" . THE CHEMICAL AND DYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF STARS AND GALAXIES" . ... Chernomorka , Odessa , Ukraine . ... Modeling and interpretation of the stellar spectra of the usual and peculiar stars. Elemental abundances in the stars of different types and populations of the Galaxy. Chemical evolution of the stars and galaxies. ... Andrievsky S.M. (OAO ONU, Odessa, Ukraine) . ... CHEMICAL and DYNAMIC EVOLUTION STARS and GALAXIES" . ... Odessa mailto:astro@paco.odessa.ua . ...

... Light from a Extra Solar Planet . ... Light emitted by a planet far beyond our Solar System has been identified for the first time. The planet, illustrated in the above drawing, had its light detected by comparing the brightness of only.. NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... How did this strange-looking galaxy form? ... The Galactic Center Radio Arc . ... The pixelated planet above is actually our own planet Earth seen in gamma rays - the most energetic form of light. ... A Tether in Space . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The dayside auroral precipitation consist of magnetosheath related boundary layer precipitation, and plasma sheet related BPS/CPS precipitation (extensions of the nightside precipitation regions). ... For example, the much lower fluxes from the LLBL region when compared to the cusp are compensated by the bidirectional electron beams found in the LLBL: the precipitating energy fluxes in the LLBL and the cusp are not that different. ... directly through the cusp and plasma mantle . ...

... We have made series of computer runs of the orbital evolution of asteroids for the 3/1 and 5/2 resonances with Jupiter using both the symplectic integrator RMVS3 [1] and the Bulirsh­Stoer method [2] (BULSTO). ... Besides the values of r hc presented in the Table at N = 144, for the 3/1 resonance at N = 24 we obtained r hc equal to 4.0, 1.7, 0.33, 0.4, and 0.7 at '' = 10 \Gamma8 , 10 \Gamma9 , d s = 3, 10, and 30 days, respectively. So in some cases a symplectic method can give large errors. ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-319 Up date of the RGS Gain and CTI R. Gonzґlez-Riestra and C. de Vries a July 17, 2014 1 CCF comp onents Name RGS1 RGS2 RGS1 o f CCF ADUCONV 0025 ADUCONV 0028 CTI 0 0 1 3 VALDATE 2013-01-01T00:00:00 2013-01-01T00:00:00 2013-01-01T00:00:00 List of Blocks changed OFFSET GAIN OFFSET GAIN CTI CTI EXTENDED XCTI CTIY1-9 CTI ... No significant differences have b een found, as exp ected, given the small change in the CTI and Gain values. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The S un Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic ... Low mass stars live and die differently than high mass stars. ...

... Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: The Spitzer Space Telescope . Dr Giovanni Fazio . ... He then lead the development of large balloon-borne telescopes for far-infrared astronomical observations above the atmosphere, as Principal Investigator for the 1-Meter Balloon-Borne Far-Infrared Telescope and also the first infrared astronomical telescope to fly on the Spacelab II flight of the Space Shuttle. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. You can display the line by line difference between two files with the diff command. diff file1 file2 . The information given by the command tells you what changes need to be made for file1 and file2 to match. If there is no difference between the files you are returned to the shell prompt . diff indicates which lines need be added ( a ), deleted ( d ) or changed ( c ). Lines in file1 are identified with a ( < ) symbol: lines in file2 with a ( > ) symbol. Examples . Did You Know? .

... Aloisi, A. The Old Stellar Population . Alonso-Herrero, A. HST /NICMOS Observations of the . ... Balcells, M. HST-NICMOS Observations of Galactic . ... Baum, S.A. Investigating the Evolution of . ... Becklin, E.E. A Coronagraphic Search for . ... Clampin, M. The Old Stellar Population . ... Close, L. HST NICMOS Observations of . ... The Stellar Population in . Geballe, T.R. HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Greggio, L. The Old Stellar Population . ... Leitherer, C. The Old Stellar Population . ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

Galushina T., Bykova L., Letner O., Baturin A. Tomsk State University Russia 1 Investigation Dynamics Asteroid of of 2 Solving problems construction of numerical model of asteroid motion with account chosen perturbed factors; asteroid orbit improvement according to positional observations; construction of initial probabilistic domain by linear and nonlinear methods; study of evolution of initial probabilistic domain; revealing of ...