The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... 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. ...

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... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in HII regions: correlation with metallicity . ... We have perfomed the aperture photometry of HII regions using infrared images from telescopes Spitzer and Herschel at passbands 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, 24, 70 and 160 m. Emission of PAHs are observed at passbands 3.6 - 8.0 m, 24 m is emission likely of hot small particles and finally large particles are responsible for emission at 70 and 160 m. We determine abundances of PAHs using model of Draine Li (2007) . ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

Comment on J0627-3529 . We have detected the core of an FR-I object and early-type galaxy (Venturi et al. 1995). The core is 0.54 Jy at 2.3 GHz on the Parkes-Tidbinbilla baseline (Morganti et al. 1997) and 0.6 Jy at 5 GHz (VLA data, Ekers et al. (1989) and Morganti, Killeen & Tadhunter (1993)). The VLBA image at 2.3 GHz with the resolution of 15x9 mas shows a "core-jet" structure, with the core brightness of 494 mJy/beam (Venturi et al. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

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... 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. ...