Masers and Galactic Structure: µas Astrometry with the VLBA Mark Reid Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Andreas Brunthaler & Karl Menten Germany Xu Ye & Zheng Xing-Wu China Lincoln Greenhill CfA Luca Moscadelli Italy Talk Outline · · Locating Sgr A*(IR) with masers Proper motion of Sgr A*: Sgr A* is very massive measured value for 0/R0 Star Formation Parallaxes and Proper Motions: Locations of Spiral Arms Rotation Curve (dark matter) Spiral Density Wave Theory · Where is the Galactic Center? ... Plane! ...

B.I. Rabinovich . About the rolling disturbance caused by the joint work of a rocket carriers LPR Engines" . ... The problem of the rolling disturbance moment is considered arising during the joint work of a lot of liquid propellant rocket engines (LPR Engines). ... The arising of the disturbing moment around the longitudinal axis of the rocket caused by the jets twist during the joint work of all of the rocket engines. ...

... 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. ...

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ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

... The relationship of the mass and the observed galactocentric distance R -- (a), and that of the mass and the total dissipation velocity n taken from Gnedin, Ostriker (1997) -- (b). The dotted line in diagram (a) shows the "cone of survival" according to the paper by Surdin and Arkhipova (1998) . ... The solid line is a regression stright line for the main sequence of clusters, and the dotted line parallel to it separates the sequence of clusters of anomalously small mass shown by open triangles. ...

Next: The Formation and Evolution Up: NICMOS Science Previous: NICMOS Observes the Galactic . ... We have taken diffraction-limited ( 0.15") near-infrared F160W (henceforth H-band, for convenience) images with NICMOS on HST of the center of the R136 cluster (age 3.5 Myr) in the core of the 30 Dor giant HII region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... 1996, ApJ 466, 274) can sample only M >2M , while previous V and I band HST images with WFPC2 (Hunter et al. ...

... Archives . ... Another deduced conclusion from reading preprints listed in arxiv/astro-ph is that astronomers tend to confuse classification and clustering and to mix up methodologies. They tend to think any algorithms from classification or clustering analysis serve their purpose since both analysis algorithms, no matter what, look like a black box . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Frequentist , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ...

... Smoke sighted . ... B. Call USFS at 437-2286, provide fire info as well as local weather data. ... B. 3.5m telescope: Face enclosure into smoke direction and turn on PF1. 2.5m telescope: Turn on HVAC system or set system for 1.0 pressurization. ... If time permits and immediate evacuation is not ordered: . a. make sure everyone on site is awake and aware of . ... Echelle: Top off LN2, (if time does not permit, turn Ion Pump off, turn off camera power) . DIS: Turn off camera electronics . ...

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... Telescope . ... Images . ... Optical pulsations of Crab pulsar (33 ms period). The optical image of Chandra Galactic ultra deep field (1.5-deg field). Mosaic, pseudocolors are from images in g',r',i' . Full screen (JPG, 0.3Mb) . ... The central part of Coma galaxy cluster. Full screen (JPG, 0.6Мб) . ... The optical image of distant galaxy cluster cl0230+1836 (z=0.80) from 400d X-ray cluster survey . ...

... A collection of codes is compiled for studying some aspects of the large scale clustering of galaxies, clusters and superclusters of galaxies. ... That is why a package of codes for large scale structure analysis cannot be written as a general tool. Nevertheless, a collection of procedures for studying some aspects of the clustering in the Universe can be constructed; inevitably any such package or collection of codes will only be a starting point and will require additional development. ...

... 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. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

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? ...

. The gravitational instability - is the increasing of the perturbation of the density and the velocity under the gravitational force influences. The results of the gravitational instability are the cluster of substances. The gravitational instability is a cause of generation of many astronomical objects (stars, galaxies, etc). Back .

... For an input list of EBOXDETECT source locations, simultaneous maximum likelihood PSF fits to the source count distribution are performed in all energy bands of each EPIC telescope. A description of the main properties of the detection algorithm may be found in Cruddace, Hasinger, Schmitt (1988). ... Note, that =1 in the case of the individual energy band detection likelihoods listed in source table rows with ID_BAND 0 and is equal to the total number of energy bands in the ID_BAND=0 summary rows. ...

... With the stars gamma Can and delta Can , it forms another asterisms called " the Asses and the Manger ". ... Formed by the stars delta Ori, epsilon Ori and zeta Ori ; in Latin America it is called the " Three Marys ". ... Built by the four stars alpha UMa, beta UMa, gamma UMa and delta UMa . ... Formed by the four stars alpha Del , beta Del , gamma Del and delta Del . ... Also on Orion; the belt stars ( delta Ori , epsilon Ori and zeta Ori ), the sword and eta Ori build up this asterism. ...

... MAO main . ... The DRAGON globular cluster simulations: a million stars, black holes and gravitational waves . ... simulations of globular clusters with a million stars on the high-performance . ... of stars in globular clusters at unprecedented detail but also shed light into . the dark world of black holes. ... clusters of single and binary black holes. ... of a globular cluster. www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/328833/hl201603 . ... MAO/NASU, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St. 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine . ...

... The perceptron structure, on the basis of which the database is built, is defined by a number of the input and output parameters and a required accuracy. ... The output perceptron data are the expansion coefficients of the scattering matrix elements in series of the generalized spherical functions. ... As the cluster structure depends on the generation conditions the expansion coefficients were averaged over 5--7 realizations of the clusters (for N . ... is the coefficient number. ...