... The disc accretion process is an essential component of star and planet formation theories. ... Much of the detailed knowledge of the physical processes involved in disc accretion have been gained through observations of nearby ( Z ) of the local environment are thought to affect PMS disc accretion rates, and disc evolutionary timescales. ... I measure the accretion rates of these PMS stars using the intensities of the U /H band excess measured through either optical spectra or imaging. ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 December 5 . Fountains Discovered on Saturn's Enceladus . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . During a recent pass, Cassini was programmed to look back toward the Sun where Enceladus would appear as a thin crescent . ... About APOD | ...

K-band Arcetri Obscured Supernova Search . What is the KAOSS Project? W hat is the KAOSS Project? Some recent surveys aimed at detecting Supernovae (SNe) in the optical have found that starburst galaxies do not show evidence for an enhanced SN rate, with respect to quiescent galaxies (Richmond et al. ... A similar result was obtained by Navasardyan et al. (2001) who looked for SNe in interacting galaxies, finding no evidence for correlations between SN rate and galaxy properties. ...

... On the base of laboratory simulations (on rotating shallow water) of the formation of spiral arms in galactic gaseous disks, the existence of giant anticyclones in them was predicted. Numerical simulations shown that the vortex structures arise on a linear stage of spiral arms formation simultaneously with the latter. ... Thus second giants structures, after spiral arms, in spiral galactic disks are discovered. ...

This image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, next to its parent star. The observations were made using NACO, the adaptative optics instrument for the VLT in infrared light, and using a technique called differential imaging, which improves the contrast between the planet and its dazzling host star. ... The exoplanet appears at the lower left. The blue circle is the size of the orbit of Neptune in the Solar System. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Phase 2 Submission . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... OB Execution Overheads . ... Readme File . ... Checking OBs and README files in the ESO Database . ... These checks will also be automatically performed at the time of checking the Phase 2 material into the ESO Database, and non-compliant OBs or README files will be rejected. ... All Service Mode OBs and README files must be submitted to the ESO Database from P2PP....

... Protoplanetary Disks and the Hunt for the Youngest Exoplanets . ... Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM . ... But associating the current exoplanet properties with their formation epoch can be problematic, since the formation process is intimately associated with the physical conditions associated with their birthplaces: the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The Chinese would certainly not have invented the magnetic compass. ... Chemically and mineralogically, the lodestone is magnetite, a massive type of iron ore, an oxide of iron, a mineral related the the brown stuff coating the magnetic disks and tapes used by computers. ... But even then, just resting a few million years in the Earth's magnetic field would produce no magnetization. ... Still, as Gilbert observed, in a long iron rod that magnetism was channeled to the ends, where it could be noted. ...

... Information processing in nonlinear systems with dynamic chaos // Доклады Международного семинара "Нелинейные цепи и системы".- ... The idea and the method for using one-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems for storing and processing information were proposed in [1, 2]. ... The main part of the preprint is Section 4, where the "InformChaos" software pack, accomplishing the above principles of storing and processing visual information, is described in detail. ...

... Grants, Programs, Contracts . ... Grant of the Russian Federal Property Fund: . 12-02-00537 'Specific features of formation of nanostructure at plastic deformation of amorphous alloys' (A.S. Aronin) . ... 09-02-00529-'Role of shear bands in formation nanocrystal structures at deformation of amorphous alloys' (A.S. Aronin) . ... Nanocrystal structure in alloys on the base of transitional metals: formation, atomic and magnetic structure, magnetic properties (A.S.Aronin) . ... LSR ISSP RAS . ...

MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTER RUSSIAN FEDERATION National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements (VNIIFTRI) e ­ mail: pasynok@vniiftri.ru, ru bezmenov@vniiftri.ru JOURNEESE 2014 VNIIFTRI as the Russian Main Metrological Center of Time, Frequencies and Earth Rotation Service th ti carried out the rapid EOP processing based on GNSS, VLBI and SLR observations for many years. 2 VNIIFTRI takes participation in GNSS and SLR observations of IGS and ILRS too. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

... The NICMOS Parallel Program . Analysis . ... NICMOS observations made in parallel with the other HST instruments have produced an archive of over 2,000 images, covering a wide range of Galactic latitudes. ... The maximum sensitivity of these images is approximately 0.1 Jy, which should allow the detection of such astrophysically interesting sources as brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood and star-forming galaxies out to z 3. ...

As in the last years, the Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2015 are prepared by the IAA RAS only in the electronic form. ... Orbital elements of all numbered planets have been determined in IAA all over again on the ground of available observations in the catalog of the Minor Planet Center. ... More detailed information on orbital elements used in the present volume of EMP and their accuracy is given in section "Information on new orbital elements". ... a) information on new orbital elements; . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... Posts tagged ?Ptolemy? ... Hyunsook once lamented that astronomers seem to be rather trigger happy with correlations and regressions, and everyone knows they don?t constitute proof of anything, so why do they do it? ... Tags: astrostatistics , curve fitting , Earth , ellipses , epicycles , Galileo , history , inference , iTunesU , Kepler , Mars , Owen Gingerich , planetary motion , Ptolemy , Quotes . ... Recipe [ 1 ] is no more suitable as a statistical bible than Ptolemy is for astronomy. ...

The Python programs offered here result from the development of methodology for processing image data with high precision, in a flexible command line system useful for astronomical and laboratory image processing. ... Alsvid is efficient in robotic and automated or scripted server processing of astronomical images, and also in interactive command line processing for research and visualization. ... In large part it replaces IRAF and IDL when scripted image processing is required. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...