... To avoid extensive numerical calculations in the statistical simulations, we treat the continuous evolution of each binary component as a sequence of a finite number of basic evolutionary states (for example, main sequence, red (super)giant, helium (Wolf-Rayet) star,     hot WD), in which stellar parameters significantly differ from each other. ... Figure 2: Schematic representation of the typical evolutionary track of a massive binary system with normal and compact star stages indicated. ...

... This project is lead by Dr Brian Schmidt and aims to measure the ultimate fate of the Universe: Will the Universe expand forever, or will gravity eventually halt its expansion, and send it crashing into the "gnaB giB" the "Big Bang" in reverse? ... Measuring distances in the Universe is extremely difficult, but by comparing the relative brightnesses of SN Ia, it is possible to measure a distance to a single object with a precision of about 7%. ... SN 1997ck, the most distant star yet discovered . ...

... Tidal influence on each of the galaxies in our sample is quantified by identifying and measuring the distance to the nearest companion, using a photometric technique with good completeness characteristics. ... Massnormalised starformation rates were derived using galaxy stellar masses estimated from zband luminosities Nearest companions were identified using the algorithm illustrated in Figure 1. ... Some of the lowredshift galaxies in our sample with close companions are illustrated in Figure 3. ...

... I was in the process of writing on ?model uncertainty? to understand why the same term is used differently in astronomy and in statistics and planned to include some papers to show how statisticians handle uncertainty. ... Draper used the O-ring data set, one of the most frequently cited data sets in statistics textbooks. ... One of my favorite statisticians is John Tukey , of Fast Fourier Transform, higher criticisms, and exploratory data analysis which are all well known to astronomers. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... Section M-7 describes the basic problem of trigonometry (drawing on the left): finding the distance to some far-away point C, given the directions at which C appears from the two ends of a measured baseline AB. ... That means that the angle ? ... 2? r covers an angle 360њ . ... Suppose you want to estimate the distance to some distant landmark--e.g. a building, tree or water tower. ... Alpha Centauri, the sun-like star nearest to our solar system, has a distance of 4.3 years and a parallax of 0.75"....

Next: Storage format Up: File Formats Required Previous: Column label: MOONALT . Information specific to a particular instrument is not so easy to categorize. ... Columns BAND and NBAND . Column FILTCODE_ n . Column NDVALUE . Column NDETUSED . Columns REDLEAK, RLTYPE, and MAKER . Instrument descriptors . ... Character descriptor FILTCAT . Character descriptor FILTSTAT . ... Columns NDET and DETNAME . Column DETCODE . Column DET . ... A simple photometer . ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Up: Iraf Packages . ... IRAF Group, NOAO 1 , PO Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 . This paper describes a new IRAF spectroscopy exposure time calculator. ... SPTIME takes an input source spectrum, either a reference blackbody, power law, or a user spectrum, a background ``sky'', observing parameters such as exposure time, central wavelength, seeing, airmass, and moon phase, instrument parameters such as aperture sizes and detector binning, a description of the spectrograph, and desired output. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Listed Since October 22, 1998 . ... 203) 484-7705 . ... 203) 484-9016 . Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

. To you, the user, it appears as though there is only one type of file in UNIX - the file which is used to hold your information. In fact, the UNIX filesystem contains several types of file. Ordinary files . Directories . Special files . Pipes .

This module supports ISAPI Extensions within Apache for Windows. ... This module implements the Internet Server extension API. It allows Internet Server extensions ( e.g. ISAPI .dll modules) to be served by Apache for Windows, subject to the noted restrictions. ISAPI extension modules (.dll files) are written by third parties. ... Review the Additional Notes and the Programmer's Journal for additional details and clarification of the specific ISAPI support offered by mod_isapi. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Pulsars offer a variety of observables for study of interstellar scattering. Observations of scattering of nearby pulsars and intra-day variable quasars point to the existence of a component of the interstellar medium (ISM) which has properties quite different from the more distant, diffuse ISM. ... The time series of electric field emitted by the pulsar is convolved with an impulse-response function due to scattering, when sampled at the observer plane [1]. ... Nearby interstellar scattering. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... From The Planetary Society Home Page: http://planetary.org/articlearchive/headlines/1998/headln-041698.html Mission Prepares To Collect Pieces of Stardust April 16, 1998 Earth's First Cometary Dust Sample Return Mission Will Fly Planetary Society Member Names to a Comet and Back Scientists and engineers continue to prepare the Stardust spacecraft for its February 1999 launch. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

... Electronic Raman scattering in the single - CuO 2 layered superconductor Tl 2 Ba 2 CuO 6+ d . ... Electronic Raman scattering in Tl 2 Ba 2 CuO 6+ d (Tl-2201) has been investigated in order to test whether the scattering cross section in high-temperature superconductors depends on the number of CuO 2 planes, i.e., sheets specific details of the Fermi surface. ... The peak in the B 1g symmetry component of the scattering intensity is found at 460 cm -1 ( T c = 90 K), or 430 cm -1 ( T c = 80 K). ...