... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

Organisateurs: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet) , Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institut des Probl mes de Transmission de l'Information) , Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, Haute Ecole d'Economie) . ... In the set of all lattices I define subset of principial unstable lattices. ... Comparing this with the measure of all lattices we get some inequality between regulator and discriminant of number field. ... Laboratoire Poncelet . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Recent studies indicate that stars are most likely forming within the binary and multiple systems. ... During several years we are conducting the observations of such multiple stellar systems at the BTA telescope in order to find their companions and study the properties therein. ... This star is interesting in that it may be a dynamically unstable multiple star, meaning that over time, such systems will split into individual stars. ... A bright component is a very tight spectroscopic binary star. ...

... It was found in this way that the radio variations (5 MHz) followed the optical ones, but that the time delay was a linear function of time with the mean value being about 2370 days and with the rate of increase days/year. ... We take days/year as the test value. ... To show that the method has real abilities to determinate a value of of the time delay rate of increase in the light curves we again use Monte-Carlo simulation as it is explained in (1) and (2), but the actual value is 110 days/year. ...

A.F.Kholtygin . Emission of the inhomogeneous plasma: line intensities and element abundances in the gaseous nebulae with T e and n e fluctuations, Astrophysics , 43 , 627-640 (2002) . ... We calculate radial and vertical abundance gradients of C, N, O, Ne, Ar, Cl and S depending of different ages of the central star of the nebula. It have been founded statistically significant dependence of abundance gradients with the age of central star. ...

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... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil La Spiral Planetary Nebula retrouve ses vraies couleurs . ... 07/04/2016 - Plong†йe au centre de la Voie lact†йe . 01/04/2016 - Impact r†йcent sur la face cach†йe de la Lune . ... 22/03/2016 - LтАЩoptique du JWST est achev†йe . ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... St Petersburg 23, September 2014 1 Motivation · Origin of Martian moons? ... Considered error sources: ­ Phobos a priori ephemerides; ­ Phobos a priori GM value; ­ measurements noise; ­ different strategies; · Methods: ­ real data analysis; ­ simulations. ... St Petersburg 23, September 2014 8 Simulations: sensitivity of the measurements to the a priori GM value Simulations: zero noise+ IMCCE a priori ephemerides +GMPH = 7.16 * 105 m3/sec2. ... St Petersburg 23, September 2014 14 Thank you! ...

... It is found that the metallisity distribution of disk stars has a gap which subdivide the disk population into two groups. The distribution may be described by the sum of two normal curves which are centered at [Fe/H]=-0.22 and +0.08. The curves can be interpreted as distributions of random errors in metallisity of sample stars. This leads to the conclusion that all stars in each group have actually the same value of [Fe/H]. ... Рассмотрен вопрос о происхождении подсистем Галактики. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

... astro-ph . ... We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). ... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ...

... Shematovich, V.I . ... Shematovich, V. I. ; Bisikalo, D. V.; Marov , M. Ya . ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V., and Gerard J.-C. Superthermal particles in the planetary atmosphere. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V., and Gerard, J.-C. The thermospheric odd nitrogen photochemistry : role of non-thermal N(4S) atoms (abstract) . ... Geophys ., ... Gerard, J.C., Shematovich, V.I., and Bisikalo, D.V. Effect of hot N( 4S) atoms on the NO solar cycle variation in the lower thermosphere (abstract) . ...

Orbital Data and Parent Star Data for: XO-3_____ b . ... Orbital eccentricity . ... Planetary mass . ... Stellar mass . ... Stellar T_eff . Kelvin . ... Planetary T_eff . ... Stellar Radius . ... Measured Planetary Radius . ... T_circ (w/o core) . Gyr . ... T_damp (w/o core) . ... Bodenheimer, Laughlin, and Lin 2003, Astrophysical Journal, v. 592, 555-563. ... Adams and Laughlin 2006, ApJ : link . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

. Andrey Kravtsov "High-Resolution Cosmological Simulations of Cluster Formation" . < FIRST ] [ PREVIOUS ] [ MAIN . Slide 17 (of 17) .

The emergence of life based on amino acid and RNA/ DNA on an Earth type planet requiers a quite narrow parameter space of many of the planet's physical parameters, most important are its mass and temperature conditions. ... The period, more or less, is conserved for the giant planets.) ... Thus, the mass of a terrestrial planet suitable for the advent of the LANA should be close to 5*10 27 g. The same value follows from quite a different condition: the planetary atmosphere should be retained. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... The crew training without the actual science hardware before the first session of operation with this science hardware (for which there is a virtual manual) with a log file generated; . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Numerical Modeling of RadioAstron SRT Temperature Deformations M. Yu. Arkhipov, I. S. Vinogradov, S. B. Novikov, and S. D. Fedorchuk Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia e mail: rusengineer@mail.ru Received December 16, 2013 Abstract--The results of modeling the thermal deformations of a space radio telescope's reflecting surface are presented in the paper. ...