Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .

... 2003 . ... Astrophysics of isolated neutron stars: radioquiet neutron stars and magnetars Sergei B. Popov; polar@sai.msu.ru; popov@pd.infn.it Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia; University of Padova, Italy Mikhail E. Prokhorov; mike@sai.msu.ru Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia Here we review present state of theoretical and observational exploration of isolated neutron stars. ... Gvaramadze, V.V.) 2002, «Neutron stars in supernova remnants and beyond», astro-ph/0212541...

... 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 . ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . SMIS PUBLICATIONS . ... M. Andrrev, V. Efremov, M. Gostev, G. Dmitriev, Yu.S. Krasheninnikova , E. Loupian , A. Mazurov , R. Nazirov , A. Proshin , E. Flitman A System for Operational Remote Access to Archives of Data from Russian Earth-Observation Satellite Systems . The paper is devoted to general information system architecture, developed at IKI RAN for building information systems for access to satellite data and derived products. ... Preprint IKI RAS. ...

... Dr. Rodrigues, M1 group, Spain, has pointed out the confusion in identification of SN 1998ar in NGC 2916. ... I have measured the locations of point-like sources around NGC 2916 with DSS-1 image and 5 GSC stars. ... The magnitude of this star is estimated as 15.5 mag or so on DSS1 image. ... Star C seems to be dimmer than Star B, and comparing GSC 14.8 mag star and fainter neighbouring stars, its magnitude is about 1.5 mag dimmer than GSC 14.8 mag star; which tells that SN was about 16.3 mag. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...

... NOAA 11300's . ... The law latitude recurrent pore was observed in the Northern hemisphere since 20.08 to 30.08.05, with breaks. ... The short-time mid latitudes sunspot was observed in the Southern hemisphere on 24.08 and 25.08.05, near the central meridian. ... The bipolar group of the appreciable sizes was observed at the tenth parallel from 13 to 16.12.05, in the Western part of the Southern hemisphere. 14.12 the total area of the region has reached 150 m.s.h., and sunspots quantity - ten units....

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

... G.S.Bisnovatyi-Kogan Gravitational radiation in neutron stars formation and merging. ... Experience SAI MSU в?' INFN collaboration in the GW - experiment . ... V.M.Lipunov Gravitational Waves Sky . ... Michael B. Mensky and Valentin N. Rudenko High-frequency GW detectors based on electromagnetic-gravitational resonance . ... Fulvio Ricci Low Temperature and Gravitational Wave detectors . ... A.M.Cherepashchuk Chairman (SAI MSU, Moscow) . ... V.A.Matveev (INR RAS, Moscow) . ...

... 84, No. 12, pp. 1110?1134. i Optical Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Discovery of Supernovae 2005bv, 2005 , and 2006ak, and Searches for Transients Using the MASTER Robotic Telescope V. M. Lipunov1 , V. G. Kornilov1 , A. V. Krylov1 , N. V. Tyurina1, A. A. Belinskii1 , E. S. Gorbovskoi2 ... , Moscow, Russia Received April 24, 2007; in final form, Abstract--We present the results of observations obtained using the MASTER robotic telescope in 2005 ? ... 2005?2006 . ... SWIFT GRB. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...