The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

Welcome to K -corrections calculator, simple service allowing one to determine K -corrections of a galaxy, given its redshift and one or more colours. ... K -correction in choose filter.. ... Redshift . Colour choose colour.. Colour value . Calculator . ... calculate spectral energy distributions , K-corrections calculator , GALEX FUV NUV , UKIDSS YJHK , K-corrections of galaxies , spectral based k-corrections , SDSS filter set K-corrections , K correction code IDL , kcorrect IDL C , . ...

... The main direction is discrete complex analysis, additional directions are rational classification of embeddings and classification of circular surfaces. I. Discrete complex analysis. ... One of our past results was application of discrete complex analysis to description of all polygons which can be tiled by squares (with Prasolov, 2010). ... The first planned result is convergence of discrete harmonic functions on general lattices to a harmonic function when the lattice becomes finer and finer. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... Thus all regions of the 0.94-2.50 micron wavelength range accessible from Mauna Kea can be recorded using five fixed angle gratings. ... Grating Angle . ... Efficiencies for the NIFS gratings are shown above. The NIFS spectrograph uses a Bouwers collimator and a refractive camera. ... With these assumptions, the NIFS system efficiency including the Gemini telescope optics but excluding the transmission of the adaptive optics system is about 0.17 e - /photon at J , and 0.22 e - /photon at H and K . ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

... The HSL Algorithm for Reducing NICMOS Polarimetry Observations . ... The preflight Thermal Vacuum tests revealed that each polarizer has a unique polarizing efficiency, and that the position angle offsets differ from the nominal positions of 0, 120 & 240. ... I also present estimates of the NICMOS Instrumental Polarization, and discuss both the sensitivity of the Grisms to polarized light and the accuracy of NICMOS imaging polarimetry for faint and low polarization objects. ...

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... How to participate in refining HTML 3.0 . HTML 3.0 Overview . ... Design Guidelines for HTML 3.0 . ... The Structure of HTML 3.0 Documents . The HEAD Element and Related Elements . The BODY Elements . ... Heading Elements . ... Hypertext Links . Overview of Character-Level Elements . Information Type Elements . Font Style Elements . The IMG (Image) Element . ... The ADDRESS Element . ... HTML 3.0 Document Type Definition . ... The Latin-1 Character Entities -- needs work . ...

... 253-256 (2000) 253 Current transport mechanism in YBCO bicrystal junctions on sapphire. ... Experimental results are discussed in framework of predictions for superconducting current transport via Andreev bound surface states in bicrystal junction. ... The most reproducible junctions having a critical current spread of ±12% per chip are fabricated on SrTiO3 bicrystal substrates (Vale 1997), but because of their high dielectric constant >1000 they are unsuitable for high-frequency applications. ...

. Comment on J1239-1023 . No image is shown by Dallacasa et al. (1998) as they did not find the VLBI structure at 2.3 and 8.4 GHz prominent, just dominated by a compact region barely resolved in position angle about -45 . In our case the source is well resolved, with a jet pointing to the W-NW direction, in agreement with what is seen in the images at 2.3 and 8.4 GHz from the VLBA Calibrators database. VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

. Figure 3. Dark dimmings and bright post-eruption arcades in solar sources of the severest FDs over the solar cycle 23 in SOHO/EIT 195 е fixed-base difference images. The FD magnitude of the strongest disturbances and the dates and time of their registration are specified in the upper right corner of each panel. The dates and time of EIT images subjected to the subtraction are specified at the bottom of each panel.

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

... Magnetic fields, subatomic particles, etc., traveling in different directions fill the universe. Do they deflect or otherwise affect one another? If so, isnт??t the information we get from them distorted? ... Neutrino astronomy, which is still in its infancy, is attractive because neutrinos interact so weakly with matter that few of these distorting effects occur. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

MODERN APPROACHES TO CALCULATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE A. Kabanov Samara State University The modern technologies demands to compact and effective rechargeable systems of energy storage. ... In this work we investigated the activation energies of one promising compound ­ Li2CoPO4F using combination of two methods ­ ab-initio and geometrical calculations. ... The nudged elastic band (NEB) method is adopted to find the kinetic energy barrier along diffusion pathways. ...

... Milky Way . ... Map of the Milky Way (based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope) showing its two major stellar arms and central bar. ... ТљIn written science fiction, one often encounters another navigational convention, where towards the Galactic Centre is described as т??Corewardт??, away from the Centre towards the rim of the Milky Way is т??Rimwardт??, objects in the direction of the Galaxyт??s rotation are т??Spinwardт??, while objects in the opposite direction are т??antispinwardт?? ...

LBO LBO has many unique characteristics that contribute to its wide use as a nonlinear optical crystal. ... LBO Specifications Wavefront Distortion Dimension Tolerance Clear Aperture Scattering Sites Flatness Surface Quality Parallelism Perpendicularity Angle Tolerance Damage Threshold /8 at 633nm (W: +/- 0.1mm ) x (H: +/- 0.1mm ) x (L: + 0.2mm/- 0.1mm ) 80% of central area No visible scattering centers when inspected by a 30 mW green laser /8 at ...

ATMoB "Double Star Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ­ in particular, double, triple, and multiple stars. Introduction: Double, triple, and multiple stars are the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the night sky. ... W hile they can be observed under a variety of sky conditions, double stars ­ especially close ones ­ are best viewed on nights when the seeing is steady. ... The direction from a star to Polaris is north. ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

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