... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...

... We consider the astrophysical evolution of the Galaxy over large time scales, from early stages (an age of ~10 8 yrs) to the end of traditional stellar evolution (~10 11 yrs). ... In the model considered, the basic stages of Galactic evolution are as follows. ... Essentially all other basic parameters of the Galaxy vary little. ... The final "stellar epoch" in the life of the Galaxy is completed ~10 13 yrs after its formation, when the evolution of the least massive stars comes to an end. ...

... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) presented Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards to two high School Seniors at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held May 10 to 15 in Reno this year. ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ... About 10 years ago, at the suggestion of the American Astronomical Society, the activities supported by the Bok Fund were expanded to include the joint sponsorship of an astronomy award at Intel Science and Education Fair. ...

... Chubukova I. - Data Mining (2007) PDF Data Mining . Hand D. Mannila H. Smyth P. - Principles of data mining (2001) DJVU Data Mining . Mitra S. Acharya T. - Data mining (2003) (In Russian) DJVU Data Mining . Abbass H. Sarker R. Newton C. - Data Mining Heuristic Approach (2002) PDF Data Mining . Rao C. Wegman E. Solka J. - Handbook of Statistics Data Mining and Data Visualization (2004) PDF Data Mining . ... Whittet D. - Dust in galaxies (2003) PDF Межзвездная среда . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... V.V.Makarov, V.P.Reshetnikov, V.A.Yakovleva . Photometric study of the peculiar galaxy NGC 2685" . ... eds.), Tallinn, 1989, p.19 . ... Press, 1994, p.272-273 . ... A.A.Mullari, V.V.Orlov, St.Petersburg Univ. ... conference, St.Petersburg, 1997, p.168-169 . ... All-Russian Astronomical Conference, Book of Abstracts, . ... in "Astronomy: traditions, present, future", V.V.Orlov, V.P.Reshetnikov, N.Ya.Sotnikova (eds.), St.Petersburg University Press, 2007, p.92-115 (in Russian) . ...

... The analysis of two-dimensional galaxy distribution in the Jagiellonian Field (JF) was carried out by the wavelet technique. The positions of galaxies were taken from the Revised Jagiellonian Field Catalogue (RJFC) based on digitized scans of the JF original photographic plates. We discuss briefly the procedure of star/galaxy separation applied by us to the RJFC, the algorithm and the first results of mapping of the selected parts of the RJFC. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... 333, P L71-L74 (1998). Article in PDF (240 KB) | ... 333, P L75-L78 (1998). ... 333, P L79-L82 (1998). ... 333, P L83-L86 (1998). ... 333, P L87-L90 (1998). ... 333, P L91-L94 (1998). ... 333, P 767-778 (1998). ... 333, P 779-789 (1998). ... 333, P 790-794 (1998). ... 333, P 795-802 (1998). ... 333, P 803-808 (1998). ... 333, P 809-812 (1998). ... 333, P 813-826 (1998). ... 333, P 827-840 (1998). ... 333, P 841-863 (1998). ... 333, P 864-876 (1998). ... helpdesk@link.springer.de ...

Russian . ... Very Early Universe: inflation, generation of primordial perturbations, preheating . Very Early Universe: inflation, generation of initial perturbations, preheating . Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: anisotropy and polarization . ... Dark Energy and Dark Matter models . High Energy Astrophysics: accretion discs, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts . ... Astrophysics of black holes and wormholes . ...

Working session on Standard Candles Chair: F. Haberl · Definition of standard candles Sources with constant X-ray flux: white dwarfs isolated neutron stars supernova remnants cluster of galaxies · Scientific drivers for accurate absolute fluxes neutron star radii cosmology (e.g. total mass of galaxy clusters, Sunyaev Zeldovic effect) · Calibration purposes absolute flux ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Mass loss Recipes | ... Mass Loss is the most important "driver" of stellar evolution in massive stars. ... The final goal is to predict mass loss over the entire evolution of a massive star at all cosmological epochs. ... Very Massive Stars are objects up to 300 times the mass of the Sun. ... Mass-loss rates increase dramatically when objects cross a critical Eddington Gamma factor (Vink et al. ... I have recently edited a book on "Very Massive Stars" including a mass-loss "chapter" . ...

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... IAU planet classification Observing with a Telescope Large Scale Structure The observables: Local Group (size 1 Mpc) Virgo cluster (size 2+ Mpc) Virgo supercluster (size ~33 Mpc) Voids (size ~ 10-150 Mpc), Walls and sheets, aka filaments (size ~ 50-80+ Mpc) 1 parsec The nearest star is 1.2 parsecs away (Proxima Centuri). ... Virgo supercluster Voids, Sheets Filaments The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 18.0 Mpc away in the constellation Virgo. ...

... Анк а дня . ... Аппарат NASA обнаружил необычный хвост у давно известной звезды . 18-08-2007 17:33 Компьюлента . Космическим аппаратом NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer была сфотографирована звезда, обладающая чрезвычайно длинных хвостом, наподобие тех, которые имеют кометы. ... Используя орбитальный телескоп NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer, американские астрономы смогли увидеть, как гигантская черная дыра поглотила звезду в галактике в созвездии Волопаса. ... Все ключевые слова . ...

... Galaxy clusters in presence of dark energy: a kinetic approach . ... The external regions of galaxy clusters may be under strong influence of the dark energy, which was discovered by observations of supernovae Ia at redshift z < 1. The presence of the dark energy in the gravitational equilibrium equation, with the Einstein ? ... diagram where equilibrium solutions are not possible. ... Galactic Cluster in the Presence of Dark Energy . ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...