... Dark Matter Ring Modeled around Galaxy Cluster CL0024 17 . ... These are multiple images of a few distant galaxies, showing that the cluster is a strong gravitational lens . ... A hypothesis for the formation of the huge dark matter ring holds that it is a transient feature formed when galaxy cluster CL0024+17 collided with another cluster of galaxies about one billion years ago, leaving a ring similar to when a rock is thrown in a pond. ... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ...

... Updates to HST Standard-Star Fluxes . ... These data are in an STScI data base named CRCALSPEC and have been divided into two categories to help the user understand the origin and accuracy of these flux distributions. ... 1990, ApJS, 73, 413) and Oke (1990, AJ, 99, 1621) spectra are available. Oke (1990) used the DoubleSpectrograph on the 5-m Hale Telescope to obtain these spectra for HST calibration; and these data are identified in the HST data bases by the keyword OBSMODE=OKE DBSP. ...

Princeton and New York University researchers have simulated the effect of a primordial black hole passing through a star. Primordial black holes are among the objects hypothesized to make up dark matter тАФ the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe тАФ and astronomers could use the researchers' model to finally observe the elusive black holes. ... The different colors correspond to the density of the primordial black hole and strength of the vibration. ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

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