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... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Previously understood that magnetic fields were directly related to rotation, so when I read that Mars, like Venus, didn't have one, my understanding crumbled. What exactly causes magnetic fields in planets? ... RELATED TOPICS: MAGNETIC FIELD . Planetary magnetic fields are definitely related to rotation, but directly not so much. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... By admin October 14, 2010 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... No one on Earth noticed this cataclysm until January 2010, almost a year later, when the LINEAR survey discovered something odd , initially thought to be a comet. ... For details of observations at this time, see Crash of the Asteroids by Sinead McNicholl in the March 2010 issue of Astronotes . Colliding asteroid P/2010 A2 as seen by Rosetta (Image credit: ESA) . ...

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The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... 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) . ...

... All the information about the propagation of a given plasma wave mode is contained in the appropriate dispersion relation, which relates the angular frequency w to the wave number k (magnitude of the propagation vector k ). ... Phase velocity . ... Group velocity . ... Wave propagation can also be described using diagrams called phase velocity or wave normal surfaces , which give the variations of the magnitude of the phase velocity of plane waves with respect to the magnetic field direction: . ...

... The concepts of Fourier frequency and wavelet duration are obviously related. ... Among many sensible definitions, we chose to require that the peak of the wavelet mean spectrum should be matched with the singularity of the Fourier transform of the cosine wave. Then, it can be shown that the frequency of the cosine is related to the wavelet duration by the relation . ... The ambiguous definition of the duration of an event is common to the sizing of any object of irregular shape. ...

... 4. (a) Distribution of distance from the Galactic plane, (b) kinematic diagram, and (c) relation between metallicity and distance from the Galactic plane for RR Lyrae stars with [Fe /H ] > -0.95 . ... The solid line in the middle panel is a regression line, whose slope is determined by the subsystem’s rotation rate; the open circles and dashed line correspond to stars with [Fe/H] > -0.4, and the filled circles and dashed line to stars with -0.95 < [Fe/H] < -0.4. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

Organisers: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet) , Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institute for Information Transmission Problems) , Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, State University Higher School of Economics) . ... General Information . ... By comparing several restrictions of Siegel-Eisenstein series of degree 3, B.Heim recently found a remarkable (and somewhat mysterious) formula relating central values of triple L-functions to other critical values. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. ... One of the main tasks of the Space Camp program is to facilitate cooperation with educational institutions in Russia and abroad in proliferation and mastering of acquired knowledge in a form of space-related quizzes, contests, scientific experiments, on line- and videoconferences. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The rates of type Ia supernovae from double degenerate mergers channel in different star formation models (left panel), and the rate contribution function to the present-day ( t disc = 10Gyr) supernovae rates in the thin disc (right panel). ... We have compared the impact of different star-formation models on the rates and numbers of DDs and on the rates of type Ia (SNIa) and core-collapse supernovae (ccSN). ...

... F. A. Primini, and H. E. Payne, eds. An Extragalactic Point Source Simulator for SIRTF Pip eline Testing Sonali Kolhatkar, Fan Fang, Mehrdad Moshir SIRTF Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Abstract. ... Our method uses input empirical relations, such as known luminosity functions and galaxy spectral energy distribution templates. ... Point Source Simulator for SIRTF Pipeline Testing 331 -2 log(# galaxies per bin) -4 -6 -8 7 8 9 10 log(L/Lsolar) 11 Figure 2. ...

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Abstract -- Abundances of heavy elements decreases with increasing galactocentric distance almost in all disk galaxies. ... To explain this gradient in young objects and in the interstellar gas one has to assume that a typical disk galaxy is an open system, i.e. it expels some synthesized heavy elements into the circumgalactic space and/or accretes intergalactic gas with zero metallicity, with rates of both processes depending on the galactocentric distance. ...

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Blackholes Forum Message . ... Black Holes And The Relation Of Matter And Anti Matter . ... Black holes... there's many different theories about this. some think that they just might be a superdense section of space... or that its the dark side of a wormhole... the list goes on.. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...