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) . ...

Large-scale wave processes in space plasma. ... G.V.Lizunov, O.P. Verkhoglyadova, and K.I. Churyumov, Plasma- beam instabilities in comatary ionospheres, Russian Astronomical Journ. ... Verkhoglyadova, O.P., V.V. Grimalsky, Propagation of ion- sound solitons in unhomogeneous plasma, Ukrainian Phys. Journ., ... Verkhoglyadova, O.P., Ivchenko, V.N., Plasma regime identification technique using magnetospheric satellite measurements, Space Sci. and Technology, 4 (5/6), 18-27 (1998) (in Ukrainian). ...

APO Purchasing and Travel Procedures . If you are staff or a visitor, you are welcome to make purchases or travel requests with prior approval from the Site Operations Manager. ... Vendors . Purchase Requests ( sample ) . ... For ALL methods of APO/SDSS purchasing processed through NMSU or ARC, i.e. petty cash, procurement card, or purchase orders, an e-mail approval must be generated. ... Please submit a purchase request through the Site Operations Manager and a written quote from the vendor. ...

Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Winter 2009 . ... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Dark Night, Rowena Davis . ... The International Dark-Sky Association is leading the movement to save our starry skies. ... Imaging the Universe Online, Paul Deans . ... Time-Domain Astronomy, John Avant . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Night Sky Brightness . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ... Reflections, Paul Deans . ...

... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...

. Discovery returns to the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 where Raffaello, the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, sits inside. The module, which contains trash and equipment removed from the International Space Station, will be removed from Discovery's payload bay and transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility. NASA/KSC

VSOP: The VLBI Space Observatory Programme . Released data. VSOP Survey Publications . ... The VSOP Survey Data Reduction Handbook. ... Data reduction in Difmap in postscript (447 kb) or gzipped postscript (77 kb). ... Template Checklist and Worksheet for reduction and analysis of Survey data. ... Changes to Difmap for VSOP data analysis. ... Difmap macros needed for the processing of survey data. ... VSOP Survey Working Group Data Reduction Meeting , July 10, 12, 13 1999 . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... The IUE Archive at Villafranca M. Barylak and J. D. Ponz ESA Villafranca P.O. Box 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain Abstract. ... The IUE Final Archive (IUEFA) project will generate a high quality and uniform spectral archive during the final phase of the mission (when specialized knowledge on the instrument and calibration procedures are still available), and maintain it so that it is accessible to the scientific community. ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

The Python programs offered here result from the development of methodology for processing image data with high precision, in a flexible command line system useful for astronomical and laboratory image processing. ... Alsvid is efficient in robotic and automated or scripted server processing of astronomical images, and also in interactive command line processing for research and visualization. ... In large part it replaces IRAF and IDL when scripted image processing is required. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Fast Tip Tilt / . Edit Page | Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Design Documentation . ... MROI DL Production SW Contract . ... MROI Fast Tip-Tilt Contract . ... Technical Meetings . ... Meetings . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... Tech Meet 5 . ... Test results from Andor and Princeton EMCCD Cameras . ... Andor iXon+897 is preferred camera; adopt Hamamatsu EMCCD as fall-back option . ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

The design of IAO-Diploma has academic (conservative) style. ... The first row consists of three cells. ... Second cell - logo of EAAS - Galaxy, negative image. ... The second row consists of one cell, two lines. ... Second line - words 'International Astronomy Olympiad'. ... There should be a text in English with the name of the awarded student, his or her team, explanation of awarding including the degree of Diploma and the Number of the International Astronomy Olympiad like: Adam Kohl . ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... In the process of mass exchange, the hydrogen envelope of the star can be almost completely lost, leaving behind a hot WD for , or as a non-degenerate helium star     for higher masses (a WR-star in the case of a star with initial mass > ) as a remnant. ... If the helium (WR) star fills its RL (the relatively rare case ``BB'' of evolution; Delgado and Thomas (1981)[ 44 ]; see discussion in van den Heuvel (1994)[ 205 ]), the helium-rich envelope is lost and a CO stellar core remains with a mass . ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...