... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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. ...

... News . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Brown dwarfs, stars share formation process, new study indicates . ... BROWN DWARFS | STAR FORMATION . ... The discovery is the first direct evidence that brown dwarfs, intermediate in mass between stars and planets, are produced by a scaled-down version of the same process that produces stars. ... Based on this discovery, we conclude that the formation of brown dwarfs is a scaled-down version of the process that forms larger stars, Morata said. ...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

Ballistic deposition model NNN case With S.Nechaev, R.Santachiara, G. Schehr Elementary act of the deposition in the matrix form It is the description of the whole heap Let us consider the following anzatz We get the following equation The BD process as Markov process on the local semigroup with nontrivial local relations Schematic realization of the BD problem Diffusion equation reduces to the Toda system The system asquires the form of the Toda chain in the rank 2 matrix formulation. ...

... OXIDIZED AND HYDRATED SILICATES ON M- AND S- ASTEROIDS: SPECTRAL INDICATIONS. ... In particular, it was shown that a considerable fraction (ab. 35%) of the mainbelt M-type asteroids have absorption bands at 3 µm [3, 6] diagnostic of water of hydration. At the same time it was found that the visible-range reflectance spectra of some M- and Sasteroids include absorption features characterizing presence of oxidized silicates [4, 5]. ... The reflectance spectra of 161 Athor (Fig. 1), 497 Iva (Fig. ...

... Recent Topics . ... Message to the community: Preparing the Division and Commission Elections . ... Тема: Message to the community: Preparing the Division and Commission Elections . ... Please find below some important information related to the forthcoming Division and Commission elections. ... Indeed, we are undertaking a process that combines two distinct elections by the same community: elections to the Division Steering Committees (DSCs), and to the Commission Organizing Committees (OCs). ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

MPEC 2010-L25 : 2010 LG14 6/7/10 9:33 AM Printer- friendly version Search MPC/CBAT IAU Minor Planet Center MPC Operations Status Processing (Info) ECS: Accessible Observer Services (NEOs) N N N N N N N EO Services Overview EO Confirmation EO Confirmation (RA order) EO Ratings EO Page EO Observation Planning Aid EOChecker MPEC 2010- L25 : 2010 LG14 The following Minor Planet Electronic Circular may be linked- to from your own Web pages, but must not otherwise be redistributed electronically . ...

... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... 18.2 User preferences for colors . ... 18.4 Dynamic outlines: the 'outline' property . ... w-resize| text | ... all elements . ... For example, the 'se-resize' cursor is used when the movement starts from the south-east corner of the box. text . ... For example, if the element is broken across several lines, the outline is the minimum outline that encloses all the element's boxes. ... Graphical user interfaces may use outlines around elements to tell the user which element on the page has the focus ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Research results on fast active processes 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 ... Distribution of the recorded spikes in duration . ...

Introduction This catalogue contains mainly the atomic data needed in the astrophysical investigations of low-density plasma. It is a revised and extended version of the "Catalogue of Atomic Data for the Rarefied Astrophysical Plasma" (Golovatyj et al. ... Low-density plasma. ... In the present study we represent only the atomic data for computation of sp ectra of low-density astrophysical plasma (most known kinds of it are gaseous nebulae), their thermal and ionization structure. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...