This spectacular view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the rich galaxy cluster Abell 1689. The huge concentration of mass bends light coming from more distant objects and can increase their total apparent brightness and make them visible. ... NASA/ESA/L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins Univ.) R. Bouwens (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)/H. Ford (Johns Hopkins Univ.) G. Illingworth (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) ...

... H.I.T.M.A.N. is a program that I have written to analyze transient host galaxies and obtain charateristics and properties of them. ... It determines physical, photometric, and cosmological properties of the host galaxies and can also correlate with transient properties. ... Any routine can be done stand alone instead of the full routine. ... The full details of the program will be described in Tucker et al 09a, and Tucker et al 09b, in prep. ...

... Posts tagged ?filter? ... A fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical datasets ? ... ArXiv] A fast Bayesian object detection? ... Comment . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

Next: Critical Frequencies and Gravitational Previous: Extragalactic Gravitational Wave Background . The number of binaries per frequency decade per solid angle from a separate stellar system (galaxy or cluster of galaxies) is . ... For example, for the Andromeda galaxy M31 ( rad, ) one gets . ... If the angular size of the galaxy is less than the angular resolution of the detector, the critical frequency is independent of the angular resolution, . ...

... Several HST instruments both current and decommisioned have provided imaging linear polarimetry capabilities. ... The STECF IRAF layered package impol provides five tasks specifically aimed at reduction of HST imaging polarimetry data. ... Reduction of HST polarimetry data and simulation of raw polarimetry images, together with polarization vector plotting, are covered. ... For reduction of data from imaging linear polarization instruments other than from HST, the instrument name is `SPECIAL'. ...

Subject, Object and Problems of Astrophysics. Practical and Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Visual Telescope; Problems Which Are Solved with the Its Help. ... Resolution of Telescopes. ... Effectiveness of Telescope in Respect of Resolution. ... Optical Power of Telescopes for Star-like and Extensive Objects. Boundary Magnitude. Reasons of Light Dissipation in Telescopes. ... Spectral Instruments in Astrophysics. ... Basic Photometrical Ideas, Magnitudes and Their Measurement. ...

The Nature of CO Emission in z 6 Quasars Desika Narayanan University of Arizona Radiative Transfer Modeling Chris Walker Romeel DavИ Craig Kulesa Cosmological/Hydro Modeling T.J. Cox Yuexing ... Springel Introduction: z 6 Quasars · 1 Gyr after Big Bang · Host Galaxies allow us to study first collapsed objects · CO Observations probe molecular ISM and let us study coeval evolution of SMBH + Starburst Desika Narayanan , Tucson Workshop August Bertoldi et al, Fan et al. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

Return to Hidden Hollow 2008 Info . ... A few thousand stars resolved through a small telescope. ... Special thanks go out to Tammy Plotner and her Hidden Hollow associates from the Richland Astronomical Society who organized this event. ... It is nice to see that they are providing us with all of the essentials. ... Ron Ravneberg is an amateur astronomer, telescope builder and long-time member of the Columbus Astronomical Society. ... Phil Creed is an active participant in amateur astronomy. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­119 OM PSF Bing Chen June 13, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM PSF1DRB 0006 2000­01­01T00:00:00 PSF­U No PSF­B No PSF­V No PSF­UVW1 No PSF­UVM2 No PSF­UVW2 No 2 Changes This CCF file provides new measurement of OM PSF. ... 1 XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­CCF­REL­119 Page: 2 Figure 1: Growth curves as a function of radius for V and UVW1 filters. ... Therefore, this new PSF is field position independent. ...

. SOME OF WELL-KNOWN DEEP SKY OBJECTS: . All images taken with 150/695mm homemade Newton reflector + SBIG ST6 CCD camera (falsecolors) . The treasures of Orion - some special images . Some galaxies on the Lion's mane . Messier 98, 99, 100 - three fine galaxies in Coma . NGC 6946 and NGC 6939 - nice galaxy and fine star cluster in one field of view. HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus)

... OEM COMPONENTS . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... Objective, Plan Achromatic, 4 X 0.12, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 20 X 0.40, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 60 X 1.00-0.70, Oil, Iris, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 100 X 1.25, Oil, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 2.5 X 0.08, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 50 X 1.0-0.70, oil, iris, BF/DF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 100 X 1.25, oil, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 100 X 1.30, oil, iris, BF/DF ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... Observations of the local Universe clearly demonstrate that very active star formation phases (starbursts) are often associated with interacting and merging galaxies and that in these systems much of the short wavelength emission is absorbed by dust and re-emitted in the IR. ...

Comment on J0627-3529 . We have detected the core of an FR-I object and early-type galaxy (Venturi et al. 1995). The core is 0.54 Jy at 2.3 GHz on the Parkes-Tidbinbilla baseline (Morganti et al. 1997) and 0.6 Jy at 5 GHz (VLA data, Ekers et al. (1989) and Morganti, Killeen & Tadhunter (1993)). The VLBA image at 2.3 GHz with the resolution of 15x9 mas shows a "core-jet" structure, with the core brightness of 494 mJy/beam (Venturi et al. ...

... Here are some tips on how to get the best guiding out of our current system. ... NA2 Guider Tips . ... Optical double stars, late-type galaxies, and bipolar PNs may pose a problem for guiding, as will objects where you desire to observe a position away from the bright center (e.g., SNs near bright galaxies). ... Field Star is good if your object is too faint or asymmetrical for Boresight guiding, or if you need the slit to be off-center. ... Use Field Star guiding almost always. ...

... arXiv.org . astro-ph . ... We fit the near-infrared to radio spectral energy distributions of 30 luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies with pure starburst models or models that include both starburst and AGN components to determine important physical parameters for this population of objects. In particular we constrain the optical depth towards the luminosity source, the star formation rate, the star formation efficiency and the AGN fraction. ...

P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute Astro Space Center Russian Academy of Sciences S.A. Lavochkin Association, Roscosmos RADIOASTRON The Ground ­ Space Interferometer: radio telescope much larger than the Earth The Spectr-R Project http://www.asc.rssi.ru/ radioastron / High- Resolution HI 21 cm Mosaic of M 33 galaxy GENERAL OUTLINE The RadioAstron ... Such forecast could be used to prepare a long time-scale schedule of scientific observations. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...