... region (region-6.2.2) [xmmsas_20030110_1802-5.4.1] . ... The region task will automatically determine the optimal source and background extraction regions for a detected source in an XMM observation. ... The regions are defined in sky coordinates. region will attempt to maximise the area of the extraction region for each source, whilst ensuring that the extraction regions of neighbouring sources do not overlap, and that the background extraction region for a given source excludes neighbouring...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus in January 1986, astronomers were treated to their first close-up glimpse of the satellites that orbit the seventh planet. ... But by far the most intriguing of those 15 satellites was a jigsaw-puzzle world called Miranda . ... How dark was it at Miranda? One of the Voyager scientists put it this way: Taking pictures in the Uranus system is like trying to do photography in a ballpark at night when the only light comes from a single candle. ...

... We give evidence that lower pressure model chromospheres can alos reproduce the Balmer line profiles, but give Lyman surface fluxes overestimated by more than an order of magnitude. ... We obtain the Paschen lines in emission and Paschen decrements as large as 41 for Pa$_{\beta}$. ... Formation of all Hydrogen series is collisionally controlled and takes place in a rather thin layer at the top of the chromosphere (Balmer, Paschen, and Brackett) or in the transition region (Lyman). ...

Coronal "hole" on the Sun . ... As a result of the observations of solar eclipse on February 15, 1961 at wavelength 21 cm the lower brightness region of corona was discovered (detail N5 on figure 1) and it's location on east nimbus of the Sun was determined (figure 2). ... Subsegently such phenomena were named "Coronal Holes". Figure 1. ... The detail N5 is Coronal Hole. ... The location on disk of the Sun radiation details of corona at wavelength 21 cm. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 . ... NGC 5128 is the closest example of a giant early type (elliptical or S0) galaxy. Although often dubbed as a peculiar elliptical galaxy since it has a dust lane with recent star formation and an active galactic nucleus, the majority of early type galaxies have similar structures as revealed by recent surveys. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Hot lava flows discovered on Venus . ... Evidence for active volcanoes on Venus . ... Seeing the planet s surface is extremely difficult due to its thick atmosphere, but radar observations by previous missions to Venus have revealed it as a world covered in volcanoes and ancient lava flows. ... But whether Venus is active today has remained a hot topic in planetary science. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... We compare our results with the GRANAT X-ray observations of the Galactic center (Churazov et al. ... It is instructive to compare our results for the Galactic center starburst with what might be expected for a continuous star formation, with the average rate characteristic for the whole Galaxy. For this continuous star formation model, we would expect to observe in the region of around the Galactic center about 10% of the total number of X-ray sources in the Galaxy. ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 20 . ... Molonglo at 408 MHz (3': S=35.5 Jy) and Parkes 64-m at 5 GHz (4': S=7.8 Jy). ADS . ... NRAO 140-ft at 10.6 GHz (3': S=6.8?1.5 Jy). ... VLA observations of nearby source, plus Einstein observations. ... VLA at 327 MHz (1'), 1.5 (7''?14'') and 5 GHz (7''), including spectral comparison. ... VLA at 74 MHz (36''?39'': S=76?10 Jy), 324 MHz (13'': S=39?8 Jy) and 1.5 GHz (17''?19'': S=11.5?1.5 Jy), plus review of flux densities and XMM observations. ...

... astro-ph . ... We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). ... 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. ...

Venus under the clouds. ... Venus is the second from the Sun and the nearest to the Earth planet of solar system. ... As for Venus, it has the densest atmosphere, the smallest rotation around the axis and the least eccentricity of the orbit Venus is the only planet whose own rotation is opposite it’s rotation around the Sun. ... The radiolocation survey of Venus by the soviet station "Venera - 15" and "Venera - 16" brought out in 1984 in the planets satellite`s orbit shoued the tarces of long walls. ...

... Sea Surface Temperature, restored from NOAA satellite data . You may use Java applet to view temperature maps in more detail. Using the applet, you can build "accumulated" temperature maps from selected data, get temperature values in any point and save the resulting image to your local disk. Date and time of the data . ... 14:25 (GMT) . 3.04.2016 . ... For information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Missions Archive . ... News . ... The operation preparation and performance was provided from Mission Control Center near Moscow (MCC-M) by specialists of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia and organizations taking part in the ISS program implementation. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" ....

... Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Achievements . ... The theory of radiative transfer in inhomogeneous atmospheres was developed ( Yanovytskij E.G. ) . ... Calculations shown that the vertical movement of gas and aerosol in the atmosphere of giant planets with velocity w = (0.1-0.5) m/s determines the capacity of visible clouds and therefore affects their brightness characteristics (A. P. Vidmachenko). ...

IC 348 1 IC 348 IC 348 Hubble image of IC 348 and its surroundings.[ ... References External links · Amateur photography ( http ://www.photonhunter.at/IC348.html) Article Sources and Contributors 2 Article Sources and Contributors IC 348 Source: http ://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=549545123 Contributors : Jmencisom, PatrickHochleitner, RJHall Image Sources , Licenses and Contributors File:Hubble image of LRLL 54361 and its surroundings.tif Source: ...

The SOHO spacecraft currently supplies daily images of the solar corona at 1.1-3, 2-6 and 4-30 solar radii. Are ground-based solar corona observations during total solar eclipses have becoming obsolete nowadays? A quick view of SOHO data shows that it is not perfect in some respects. ... On March 9, 1997 an expedition has been organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Baikal region in Siberia for observation of the total solar eclipse. ... Fig. ... Lens: F = 1m, D = 170 mm . ...

... We present a computer program for modelling energy flux distribution and light curves of eclipsing binaries from far ultraviolet to infrared regions. The Roche model is assumed. Proximity effects of components (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... Figure 1: The surface temperature distribution for Algol A-B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation effect. ...

... 331, P 1-10 (1998). Abstract . ... Intergalactic He II absorption and the baryonic content of the Lyman forest . ... 331, P 81-120 (1998). ... 331, P 147-161 (1998). ... 331, P 162-166 (1998). ... 331, P 167-170 (1998). ... 331, P 171-178 (1998). ... 331, P 179-186 (1998). ... 331, P 187-192 (1998). ... 331, P 193-210 (1998). ... 331, P 211-223 (1998). ... 331, P 224-230 (1998). ... 331, P 231-243 (1998). ... 331, P 244-250 (1998). ... 331, P 251-261 (1998). ... helpdesk@link.springer.de ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...