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 . ...

... At present, SDSS (ugriz), UKIRT WFCAM (YJHK), ; Johnson-Cousins (UBVRcIc), and 2MASS (J2H2Ks2) ; are supported ; redshift - redfshift of a galaxy ( floating point) ; colour_name - colour identification (string) ; colour_value - value of colour in magnitudes ( floating point) ; should be in the AB mags for ugrizYJHK ; and in Vega mags for Johnson-Cousins/2MASS colours ; ; RETURN VALUE: K-correction in the specified filter for given redshift ; and ...

MAJOR MAGNETIC STORMS 1932-1997 ACCORDING TO THE Ap* CRITERIA To view a plot of the number of magnetic storms v.s. sunspots, go to ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/APSTAR/magstorm.gif A simpler global index of magnetic activity (other than Kp or Km) is produced in France from the K indices of two nearly antipodal magnetic observatories in England and Australia. ... An AA* index has been derived that is the counterpart of Ap* but is available for the longer span of years. ...

INNER POLAR RINGS REGULAR LENTICULAR GALAXIES 1 K. Sil'chenko 2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 119992 Moscow, Russia; Isaac Newton Institute Chile, Moscow Branch; olga@sai.msu.su Afanasiev Special Astrophysical Observatory, 369167 Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia; vafan@sao.ru Received 2003 December accepted February 4 ABSTRACT have investigated a sample of galaxies, mostly with circumnuclear dust lanes orthogonal their major axes, chosen from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images. ...

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... 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. ...

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... 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. ...

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