... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

The Developments: Infrared and Radio Telescopes . 2000+ Have a good idea what to loo for. ... Space-born telescope to work at “far infrared” (SIRTF) ? observe the dust emission from very young galaxies. 2005: Indian radio telescope GMRT ? may have sensitivity to observe the neutral hydrogen. 2000-2010: X-ray observatories available (AXAF, XMM) ? probe hot gas around groups of galaxies . 2000-2020: Computing power sufficient to perform “experiments” . Previous slide . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... I have a snack from April 1998 that gives a brief intro to these peculiar objects , but briefly, brown dwarfs (or BDs for short) are objects that are a little less massive than "normal" stars, but bigger than any planets we currently know about. ... A star forms from a collapsing gas cloud. ... One more point: is a BD a star? ... 2008 Phil...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Regularity and chaos for planetary orbits in binaries D. Benest Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France 1. ... Previous papers showed that stable planetary orbits, around either the lightest or the heaviest component of several nearby binary systems, exist up to distances from their primary of the order of more than half the binary's periastron sep­ aration. ... Chaos: bounded or sticky? It is now well­known that planetary dynamics may include some proportion of chaos. ...

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