Arecibo Observatory . ... NAIC (Arecibo) and NRAO (Green Bank) are organizing the fifth NAIC-NRAO school on single-dish radio astronomy. This will be held from 12-18 July 2009 at the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico. The objective of the school is to provide graduate students, post-docs, and experts in other fields of astronomy with both knowledge and practical experience of the techniques and applications of single-dish radio astronomy. ... First Announcement . Second Announcement . ...

home events . ... Other Workshops, Conferences and Events . ... NSTA conferences offer the latest in science content, teaching strategy, and research, all presented by science educators who want to enhance and expand their professional growth. ... 2012 National Conference . ... This event promises to be a standout event with panels, fireside chats, lightning talks, book signings, and ... an extended opportunity to schmooze with glitterati from the worlds of science and science-based entertainment. ...

... Arithmetic Geometry: Explicit Methods and Applications, Program . ... Marc Hindry (Paris) . ... Coffee break . ... Groups of points arising from elliptic curves . ... On CM genus 3 curves . ... Richard Griffon (Paris) . Analogues of the Brauer-Siegel theorem for elliptic curves over function fields . ... Julie Desjardins (Paris) . ... Algorithms for Curves and Jacobians . ... Conference dinner . ... The distribution of the trace in the compact group of type G 2 and applications . ...

... Table 1: Acceptable temperature difference Invar36 0 .0 5 C А (the CTE was selected as 0.7 for the FEA) Stainless Steel 304 0.002 CА(the CTE was selected as 17.2 for the FEA) Aluminium6061 0.0015 CА(the CTE was selected as 23 for the FEA) (2) Analysis of the temperature gradients of the mount generated by an ambient temperature difference of 0.5 CА on both sides of the mount Invar , S.S. or Al ... Stainless steel material is added to Table 4 and 5 for comparison with Invar. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­0099 EPIC PN Astrometry Bruno Altieri December 11, 2001 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag XMM BORESIGHT 0016.CCF 2000­01­01T00:00:00 NO 2 Changes Based on a statistical analysis of correlations of pn sources with with USNO stars in the field­of­view of 349 pointings, a residual of 0.3 degree in pn was found, by J. Tedds and M.Watson (SSC). ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

INTMINS . The INTMINS Project is based on: . The Agreement between Space Research Institute (IKI) Russian Academy of Science (Director IKI - A.A.Galeev) and INSPIRE Project (President - W.W.L.Taylor); . ... INTMINS ( INT erball - M ir- INS pire) is an acronym created out of the names of three projects that are working together to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves from electron and plasma beams in the Earth’s ionosphere. ... ENERGIYA is in charge of MIR. ...

SPECIALIZED COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF DISCRETE POINT STRUCTURES READOUT PROCESS Aleksandr Reznik, Andrey Torgov, Aleksandr Soloviev Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences The paper describes the specialized software systems that have been used to solve difficult mathematical problems in digital images processing. ... Systems for the first computers based on FORTRAN. ... Systems based on Matlab special environment. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

SELECTION FROM DATABASE . ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 January February March April May June July August September October November December 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 . ... From magnetic field: . ... To magnetic field: . ...

... 5 1/ 2 Closing the feedback lo op: 1st option · Feedback efficiency 2NepEep f = Lp 4 3 w1 R 3 E1 w2 c E2 ( Eep E1 if E1 E2) · Pair pro duction rate Nep = · Soft (synchrotron from secondary pairs ) photon field: Eep 2 eB E2 1/2 f w w b , w2 = Es = 4 Es 2 mec2 mec · Hard ( inverse Compton from primary pairs ) photon field: 2 2 wb 3 R w1 , E1 = 3 2Ts wb = 4 R T ct 0 0 mec2 wb is thermal background energy density ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... General information on EUNAWE - PDF Format . ... A two-year fixed-term position of EUNAWE Project Manager is available at the Armagh Observatory funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (EU). ... The EUNAWE Project Manager will be expected to play a full role in the group of postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and occasional visitors to the Armagh Observatory of which he/she will be a part. ...

Magnetic Stars, 2011, pp. ... 2008). ... The origin of magnetic fields of hot massive stars is explained by the fossil field theory, MAGNETISM OF STARS 451 1-5 Be measurements -> 1278 stars 100 N stars 6-10 Be measurements -> 80 stars 50 11-15 Be measurements -> 47 stars 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 The namber of individual measurements The number of individual measurements Figure 1: The number of stars in a single bin versus the number of individual Be determinations for a single star. ...

... INTRODUCTIO N Th e discovery of a strong variable surface magnetic field CrB, HD 126515 and 53 Cam (B ) in four Ap stars: HD 215441, (Preston, 1969a; Wolff and Wolff, 1970; Preston, 1970; Huchra, 1972) changed our knowledge about magnetic field geometry, formerly based only on effective field measurements (B ) . ... In this paper we present some results of an investigation of the variation with the rotation of the surface magnetic field for the Ap star 78 Vir using the curve of growth method. ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

ATM Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Tool Base Material? ... Post Message | ... I've used Pour Stone in the past to make grinding and pitch lap tool bases. ... The pour stone tools worked quite well, but I've read about dental stone and that it doesn't need to be sealed and it doesn't seem to take very long to set up. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . ... python . ... axis . computeObj.py . ... 21 љ tai, . ... 23 љ """!Compute all computed obj fields from user-specified fields except path generator outputs . ... 25 љ @param[in,out] obj object data . ... 29 љ @param[in] doRestart (3 bools) compute new position for (az, alt, rot) axis, if halted? . ... 32 љ @param[in] inst instrument block (tcc.base.Inst) . ... 35 љ @param[in] tai TAI date at which to compute netUserPos and other values (MJD, seconds) . ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...