... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... we invite you to submit papers based on your plenary, review or contributed talks or posters presented at the conference "Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today" to its Proceedings to be published by Armenian Academy of Science in 2016. Please note that participants who prepare the regular papers for the special issue of JQSRT on radiative transfer, etc. are also invited to submit papers to the Proceedings. ...

... Despite the wide spread use of the terms MTF, CTF, limiting resolution, minimum resolvable target, and contrast to describe CCD image system quality, the terms are often misused and their relations are little understood. ... The modulation transfer function (MTF) is a Fourier transform of the line spread function i.e. its equivalent as an integral sum of sine waves taken over the whole range of spatial frequencies. MTF by its Fourier nature can only be used to operate on sinusoidal frequencies. ...

The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia . July 2-8, 2006 . Workshop Information: . ... Travel support . ... SAC/LOC . ... The 6th INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) Workshop ``The Obscured Universe'' changed its location announced in the first circular and finally will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia on July 2-8, 2006 (the working days July 3-7). ... INTEGRAL Workshop LOC) . ...

On Systematic Differences in Individual Solutions and IERS Products Zinovy Malkin Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 1 Present status Proper determination, modelling, and accounting for systematic differences between contributed series is of the great importance in compilation of the IERS products. ... Possible sources of systematic differences are: · Different reference systems (e.g. TRF, CRF, geopotential, time scale). ... 87 IERS Technical Note No. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... January . ... By admin January 3, 2011 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Hosted by Professor Brian Cox (science advisor to the movie тАЬ Sunshine тАЭ, but we wonтАЩt hold that against him) and comedian Dara O Briain (who trained as a physicist), BBC Stargazing Live will include live observing featuring epic images from observatories around the globe on 3 ? ... Tweets that mention BBC Stargazing Live at Armagh Planetarium | ...

Hallerstrasse 6 · CH-3012 Bern · Switzerland ISSI Call for Proposals 2015 for Johannes Geiss Fellowship The International Space Science Institute is an Institute of Advanced Studies located in Switzerland. ... Purpose ISSI has approved the introduction of the Johannes Geiss Fellowships (JGF). ... ISSI has a visitor programme, funds post-doctoral fellows, and encourages the participation of young scientists in the International Teams. ... Financial support requested from ISSI. ...

Current and Future Pulsar Science with the Arecibo Telescope A Y2K Workshop at Arecibo - March 12-14 2000 First Announcement - Invitation to Participate ================================================================================ Dear Colleague, We are pleased to officially announce our plans to hold a Pulsar Workshop at the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, on March 12-14 2000. ... Shared-room accomodation will be allocated either at the Observatory or at El Buen Cafe Hotel in down-town Arecibo. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description There are several different deadtime contributions that have to be taken into account during the EPIC pn ODF processing: one factor depends solely on the readout mode, the second is related to deadtimes due to discarded CCD columns because of on-board MIP (Minimum Ionizing Particle) rejection, the third factor represents additional deadtimes from MIP rejection per frame per CCD by ground software. ... MIP dependent quadrant livetime factor FC1 . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

Permitted Context: SELECT . ... The OPTION element can only occur within a SELECT element. ... When the form is submitted, the NAME of the enclosing SELECT element is paired with the OPTION's VALUE attribute to contribute a name/value pair for the selection. ... CLASS . ... The string to be used together with the name attribute of the enclosing select element, when submitting the form. ... SELECTED . ... This attribute is used within menus to define shaped hotzones associated with this option's value. ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

... The FFO is a long Josephson junction in which the flow of magnetic flux quanta, and thus the oscillator frequency is controlled by the DC bias current IB, and the DC current ICL producing the magnetic field at the junction ends. ... A number of samples were fabricated, each containing an FFO integrated with a bias current loop designed so that the bias current can generate approximately the same positive or negative contribution to the magnetic fields at both ends of the FFO. ... Figure 2. ...

Clues to the formation and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, are hidden in the chemical abundances and kinematics of its stars. ... The discovery of the ongoing accretion of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy confirmed that mergers with satellite dwarf galaxies have contributed to the formation of the Galactic halo. ... In particular, I investigated the accretion of dwarf galaxies by the Galaxy and the role of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the chemical evolution of these systems. ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

... Sun-like stars are forming - and probably planets too - hidden inside Lynds 1551, an interstellar cloud of molecular gas and dust in the constellation Taurus. ... The North Pole Of Mars . ... M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy . ... M61 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies: bright spiral arms, a central bar, dust lanes, and bright knots of stars. ... 18 Miles From Deimos . ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... It was found that the Sun lies 9?2 pc above the plane of hte Galactic disk in the direction of North Galactic pole and that F0-F9 stars contribute 0.0035 M /pc 3 to the density of the Galactic disk. ... We used this method to determine the scale height of the subsystem of F stars of the Galactic disk, Z 0 =160?10 pc. ... It is suggested that scale height of the metal-poor stars subsystem is due to the infall of the metall-poor intergalactic gas onto the disk. ...