X-RAY BURSTS OBSERVED WITH JEM-X S. Brandt, J. Chenevez, N. Lund, C. Budtz-JЬrgensen, N.J. Westergaard Danish National Space Center, Juliane Mariesvej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, E-mail: sb@spacecenter.dk ABSTRACT We report on the search for X-ray bursts in the JEM-X X-ray monitor on INTEGRAL during the first two years of operations. ... DATA ANALYSIS More than 350 type I X-ray bursts were found. ... One source, IGR J17254-3257, previously not known to be an X-ray burster, was found [6]. ... Fig. ...

... Opportunityт??s devilish view from on high . ... Pulsar with widest orbit ever detected, discovered by high school research team . ... PULSARS | ... Discovered by a team of high school students, this pulsar has the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star. ... A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation s (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). ... Discover | ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... On April 8, 2005, an optical afterglow of the GRB 050408 was discovered with the SAO's telescopes (the 1-meter telescope Zeiss and 6-meter telescope BTA) within the framework of a joint BTA request (SAO RAS + IAA CSIC, Granada, Spain) on optical identification of gamma-ray bursts. We first detected a variable object only by our own data in the localization error-box reported by the space observatory HETE and then it was confirmed by our observations in SAO. ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

... One striking feature is a small source of almost pure H 2 line emission, which is located near one of the compact sources in Orion reported by O'Dell and collaborators (HST-18 = 203-504). ... H-H objects, Proplyds, Orion Bar, H 2 . ... We obtained a series of images across the bright rim of the Orion Bar near the peaks of mm-wave molecular line emission with NICMOS cameras 1-3 (NIC1, NIC2, NIC3) in several filters on 1998 February 18. ... The suggestion of an H-H object does not seem compelling. ...

... Several attempts to discover the FICN signal in VLBI nutation series made during last years failed. ... We investigated several VLBI CPO series by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. It has been shown that there are several periodic signals with close amplitude around the expected FICN period without any prevailing one that can be reliably associated with the FICN. ... DATA ANALYSIS We analyzed several CPO series obtained in IVS analysis centers by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. ...

... 330, P L21-L24 (1998). Abstract . ... 330, P L25-L28 (1998). ... 330, P L29-L32 (1998). ... 330, P L33-L36 (1998). ... 330, P L37-L40 (1998). ... 330, P L41-L44 (1998). ... 330, P L45-L48 (1998). ... Number counts and redshift distribution of gravitational arclets as a probe of galaxy evolution . ... 330, P 399-411 (1998). ... 330, P 412-418 (1998). ... 330, P 419-422 (1998). ... 330, P 423-434 (1998). ... The stellar content of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy . ... helpdesk@link.springer.de ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... Original paper: E.Churazov, R.Sunyaev, J.Isern, J.KnЖdlseder, P.Jean, F.Lebrun, N.Chugai, S.Grebenev, E.Bravo, S.Sazonov, M.Renaud, "56CO -ray emission lines fro m the type Ia supernova SN 2014J", Nature, 512, 406, 2014, http://dx.doi.o rg/10.1038/nature13672 Fig 1. ... Microsatellite "Chibis-M" was developed on the plat form originally designed at the Specia l Engineering Depart ment of Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011. ... 1 Fig .1. ... 2014, 52, 2, . ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... Program for detecting sources on OM images, parameterising and performing aperture photometry on those detected. ... QUALITY FLAGS . ... Detection Performance . Algorithm . ... Summary of the algorithm for IMAGING mode data . The detection algorithms . Point-source detection algorithm . ... Extended-source detection Algorithm . ... Image Smoothing Algorithm . Smoke-ring Detection Algorithm . ... Source Flagging Algorithms . ... READ-OUT STREAKS (bit 1) (Algorithm 1) . ... Bit 7) . ...

Signs Constellations Of The Zodiac . Articles | ... The band of the zodiac is some sixteen degrees wide, extending about eight degrees north and south of what's called the ecliptic -- the Sun's path through the stars. ... Since that time, the March equinox Sun has shifted about thirty degrees westward through the constellations of the zodiac. ... While signs neatly extend eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, aligning with the borders of the zodiac, constellations do no such thing. ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

... J5: Radio and Radar Studies of the Solar System. ... Analogously, the key idea of the USSR (United Solar System Radar) concept would be the thousandfold increase in sensitivity over existing radar astronomy facilities, and besides, only the tenfold increase in transmitting power and collecting areas of transmitting and receiving antennas is necessary for this purpose. ... So, let us try to imagine the scientific impact, which would provide this United Solar System Radar. ... 3)  Asteroid's moons; . ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ±30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... We found that 10 metal-poor globular clusters are greately distinguished for anomalously small masses on the "destruction rate-mass" plain. As it turned out, these poor clusters, situated 15 kpc farther from the Galactic centre, are somewhat younger than the bulk of the metal-poor globulars, and have anomalously red horizontal branches. ... At the same time, deficiency of distant massive clusters is noticeable with increasing distance from the galactic centre. ...

Workshop on geometric analysis and spectral theory . ... On a class of random walks on groups with infinite number of generators". ... Optimal transportation, weak flows and very degenerate elliptic PDE's". ... Singular solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic equations". ... I will give some hints on how this conjecture is related to minimal surface theory and I will describe some flatness results for non local equations on one hand and on elliptic equations on riemannian manifolds on the other hand. ...