... In one situation, we can use light from quasars to probe the material between us and them because that light may pass through one or more galaxies or gas clouds on its way to us. The gas inside the galaxies or the intergalactic clouds acts then as a filter, absorbing selected wavelengths from the quasar light. ... Light from a quasar must pass through clouds of gas and even faint galaxies -- each leaving its imprint on the light -- before we receive it here on Earth. ... Gravitational lensing . ...

... There are preliminary series of photometric and radio spectral observations of the above-mentioned stars, archival data on the light curves of the stars, results of the search for OH and H 2 O maser emission in IRAS point sources that possess the IR parameters similar to Miras. ... The aim is a detailed study of the maser emission variability. ... In 1996-1997, astronomical observations of Mira Ceti-type stars (miras) were carried out in three spectral ranges: optical, infrared, and radio. ...

... 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 . ...

... The Impact of HST on European Astronomy . ... These range from the study of nearby planets, the processes of star and planet formation, the stellar and interstellar components of galaxies, the discovery that most, if not all, galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole that profoundly affects their evolution, to the realisation that the universe as a whole is undergoing acceleration as a result of a yet unknown form of dark energy . ... Formation, structure and evolution of galaxies . ...

... The Russian Federation State Program "Physics of Condenced Matter", the "Superconductivity" division , Project code "Generation-2" . ... The multielement josephson structures are known to allow implementation of the unique properties of the Josephson junctions as electromagnetic waves sources with high change rate of generation frequency, working in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength diapasones. ... Even the optimal type of the junction electrodynamic interconnection isn't chosen. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... An additional objective is to detect micro-particles in the vicinity of the space station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... The circumnuclear GASEOUS disks are often decoupled from the circumnuclear stellar disks and are even stronger inclined to the outer disk planes; in fact, we have found a considerable `population' of inner polar rings. Inner gas polar rings are found as in spiral galaxies with the massive outer gas disks co-planar to the main symmetry planes (e.g. NGC 2841, Sil'chenko et al. 1997, and NGC 7217, Sil'chenko & Afanasiev 2000) as well in many lenticular galaxies (Fig. ...

... 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. ...

... Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: The Spitzer Space Telescope . Dr Giovanni Fazio . ... He then lead the development of large balloon-borne telescopes for far-infrared astronomical observations above the atmosphere, as Principal Investigator for the 1-Meter Balloon-Borne Far-Infrared Telescope and also the first infrared astronomical telescope to fly on the Spacelab II flight of the Space Shuttle. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Figure 1: Data from selected high latitude pointings overlaid in detector co-ordinates. 132ksec total low proton flare conditions, and bright point sources excised . Figure 2: Same data set from selected high latitude pointings but in 0.2-2keV only. ... Figure 3: Same data set from selected high latitude pointings but in 2-10keV only. ... Figure: EPIC MOS data set from selected high latitude pointings plotted as spectra (PATTERNS 12&&#XMMEA_EM), and normalised for approx 1 arcmin square. ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

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... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

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? ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . How to Select the Right Binocular . Meade Sports Optics Support . ... Most commonly, binoculars utilize either porro prisms or roof prism s for this purpose. ... Example: The Meade 8x42mm Waterproof roof prism binocular has a field of view 367 ft. wide for an object 1000 yards distant from the observer, yielding a field of view specification of 367 ft. at 1000 yds. ... Example: Meade 8x21mm Folding Roof Prism. ... Meade Binoculars Instruction Manual . ...

Elsevier Ed itorial System(tm) for JASR 2006 Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: Title: Determination of K, Ar, Cl, S, Si and Al flare abundances from RESIK soft X-ray spectra Article Type: Contributed Paper Section/Category: E2.4 - Solar Magnetic Field and Activities Keywords: solar physics; X-ray flares ; spectroscopy; abundances Corresponding Author: Dr. J. Sylwester , Corresponding Author's Institution: Space Research Center First Author: J ... All flares were observed early Fig. ...

... A.Tsivilev (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory) "Investigation of Orion A nebula by radio recombination lines". ... T.D.Dorokhova (Astronomical observatory of Odessa national university) «Researches of rapidly oscillating Ap stars». ... N.V.Grabko (Odessa State Ecological University), M.I.Ryabov (Odessa Observatory of IRA NANU) "Space Weather and us: influence of change of a condition of solar and geophysical activity on reaction of various systems of an organism of the person". ...

Born: 11.04.1965 (Moscow) . 1982-1988 Study in Moscow Aviation Institute, Department of Applied Mathematics. 1988-1991 Aspirantura, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, supervisor Prof. V.I.Arnold. ... Dissertation title: "Bifurcations of flattenings of space curves and singularities of boundaries of fundamental systems" . 1998-2001 Doctorantura, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, . Habilitation thesis "Characteristic classes in Singularity Theory" (2003) . ... Steklov Math. ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...