... The French-Russian Poncelet Laboratory organizes the conference on "Random Processes, Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems", September 19-23, 2011, to take place in the Independent University of Moscow. ... In the last decades, the understanding of these processes has greatly benefited from the use of conformal field theory (CFT) and integrable systems (IS) which have been widely studied in the community of theoretical and mathematical physicists. ...

... Hardware Platform Hardware Platform IBM Cyclops System: · Very Dense Multi- Node HPC system · 3D grid configuration · Max size 24X24X24 nodes · Each node consisting of one multi-processor Cyclops chip · Each Cyclops Device contains 80 Dual Thread Unit Processing Elements, Dual ALU single FPMAC unit The Cyclops Processor Device Simplified Cyclops Diagram Cyclops Capabilities · 500 MHz system clock frequency · 80 GFLOPS peak ...

Previous Next Table of Contents . Increasing the Threshold value will have dramatic effects on the time it takes to process and image. ... Increases in Flare Intensity and Spike Points will also significantly increase processing time, although probably not as much so as the increase in Threshold. Changing the Spike Color from white to either background or foreground will increase the time to process the image, but the increase is not significant. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE: HOW DO WE KNOW? The nature of the universe, its age, its birth and life story, have been deduced through the process of science. ... In the case of astronomy, it usually starts with making careful observations and measurements -- something your students can begin to do through inspection of astronomical images, and observation of the real sky. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ...

Next: Observational Zoo of Binaries Up: No Title Previous: Contents . In the early 1980s, our understanding of binary star evolution љ based on the pioneer work by Paczynski (1971)[ 150 ], Tutukov and Yungelson (1973)[ 195 ], van den Heuvel and Heise (1972)[ 201 ], allowed us to construct a general evolutionary scenario љ which successfully explained the genesis of well-studied normal stars and offered potential explanation for new X-ray sources discovered in space experiments. ...

... LAND LAUNCH . ... October 20 - November 13, 2009 . Prelaunch processing of Block DM-SLB №4L within the Zenit-3SLB ILV. ... November 6 - 12, 2009 . ... State Committee accepted a decision on the Zenit-3SLB ILV roll-out to LC for ILV further processing for the INTELSAT 15 SC launch. ... On December 1, 2009 at 00:00 Moscow time (on November 30, 2009 at 21:00 UTC) the launch of the Zenit-3SLB ILV with the Intelsat 15 spacecraft was performed. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

On combined processing of different space geodetic observations . ... A software for combined processing of different space geodetic observations is developed along with the work on the co-location of various observational techniques at the observatories of Quasar VLBI network. ... Various aspects of the combined processing of different types of space geodetic observations are also discussed. ... space geodetic observations, combined processing, normal equations, software package, SINEX-format. ...

Next: Rebooting Up: Boots And Shutdowns Previous: The boot process in . It is important to follow the correct procedures when you shut down a Linux system. ... Alternatively, if your system has many users, use the command shutdown -h +time message , where time is the time in minutes until the system is halted, and message is a short explanation of why the system is shutting down. # shutdown -h +10 'We will install a new disk. ... The system is going DOWN for system halt in 10 minutes !! ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

SINCom - the new program package for combined processing of space geodetic observations O. Brattseva, I. Gayazov, S. Kurdubov, V. Suvorkin IAA RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, ipa@ipa.nw.ru The SINCom software package is developed for combined processing of different space geodesy observations. ... Header line) +(BLOCK TITLE) .. ... Further iterative improvement of satellite orbit parameters is also possible - single-technique combination ("horizontal" scheme) of daily solutions. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... To improve the quality of ionograms and to carry out on automatic ionogram processing we have developed a special software, which can be arbitraly devided into the following main parts: . ... Ionogram processing software on the basis of image processing; . Interactive ionogram processing software. ... Here we present ionogram samples for different kinds of chirp sounding . ... Capabilities and samples | ...

SPECTRAL FEATURES OF THE AVALANCHE DEPOSITS IN LUNAR CRATER REINER. ... Crater Reiner. ... 5 Immature soils (coded in green, box 3) occupy most areas of the inner wall slopes of the crater. ... Distribution of the immature soils shown in Fig. 5 correlates with distribution of the bright materials on the wall slope of the crater as it is seen in Fig. ... The presence of very immature soils on the inner wall slopes and on the central peak of the crater Reiner suggests recent intensive slope processes. ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

... Credit Copyright: J. Vilinga (Angola, IAP ), LASCO , NRL , SOHO , ESA , NASA ; . Processing: R. Wittich ; Composition Copyright: S. Koutchmy ( IAP , CNRS ) Explanation: Sometimes, a total eclipse is a good time to eye the Sun. Taking advantage of an unusual juxtaposition of Earth, Moon and Sun , the featured image depicts the total solar eclipse that occurred last month as it appeared -- nearly simultaneously -- from both Earth and space. ... Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun . ...

Next: Electronic database Up: A Database of Optical Previous: A Database of Optical . ... Many new observational data have been measured in the last years, e.g. by the Infrared Space Observatory in 1995-1998, and interpretation of these spectroscopic data is still in progress. This requires the comparison with data of ``analog materials'' delivered by spectroscopical laboratories. Various terrestrial analogs of cosmic solids have been studied in chemical and physical laboratories. ...

... Flats : Properly exposed flats over all echelle orders require a two-step process. Flats are taken both with and without a CuSO4 (aka "blue") filter in the beam. ... Suggested exposures are 7 seconds ("red"; no filter) and 240 seconds ("blue", CuSO4 filter) yielding S/N values of ~480. The filter for "blue" flats is listed as "blue" in the Config window in Echelle control under Remark. ... Exposure times for objects can be derived from the following plot: . ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...