... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... The improvement will be more pronounced in our crowded Wide Field Camera (WFC) images, and may be increased further through use of a more sophisticated method of combining the individual dithered images. Our analysis allows us to check for point spread function shape variations in the HST Planetary Camera (PC) field. ... In crowded field images, we are deriving information about the faint end of the luminosity function (LF) from the texture of the image background. ...

Next: Spectral Extraction of Point Up: Spectral Analysis Previous: Structure of the Spectral . A pulse height distribution can be extracted from a QPOE file only if the event structure is `large', `region', or `full'. ... With the new RDF format files, the output from qpspec for most instruments is split into three files: . ... source off-axis histogram . ... background off-axis histogram . For Einstein IPC, there are no off-axis histogram files, but there is a BAL histogram file, _bal.tab. ...

... PPTA timeline . ... List of projects . ... RedGW . ... One of the main goals of pulsar timing array projects is to limit the existence of a background of gravitational waves (GWs). Jenet et al. (2006) developed a method to determine such a limit if (and only if) the pulsar timing residuals were statistically white. In the paper we used data from six pulsars from the PPTA project to obtain a limit. The remaining pulsars were rejected because their timing residuals were not white. ...

... Using multipledetector coincidence events in the 100-350 keV energy band, our analysis yields a polarization fraction from this GRB of 98 Б 33%. ... For a source count rate of S , and fractional polarization of s , the expected azimuthal scattering angle () distribution is S dS = [1 - Q s cos 2( - )]. d 2 (1) 2.4. ... Simulated azimuthal scattering angle distribution of 100% polarized photons at 200 keV originating at the GRB position. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... Our resulting sample of ELGs presented in Tables 2 and 3 is not artificially biased to any specific type of galaxies. ... Since we are looking for selection of a sample of Case BCGs, it is interesting to examine how the detected BCGs are connected with Case emission-line codes. ... Altogether BCGs comprise about 60 % of all Case ELGs which display emission lines in our spectra, or about 44 % of all Case galaxies with some emission-line code. ... Among those with the code ``w'' about 40 % are BCGs. ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

... esensmap (esensmap-3.11) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . ... subroutine esensmap Loop over image pixels: Loop over input images: IF detection mask == 1 Accumulate background in 3 x 3 pixel detection cell Determine exposure in detection cell END IF END Loop Evaluate cumulative Poissonian distribution Subtract background and divide by exposure Correct for fraction of PSF outside of the detection cell IF exposure in pixel /= 0: Write result to output sensitivity map END Loop end subroutine esensmap . ...

... 2004). ... Spitzer imaging of M101 has been obtained with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC, Fazio et al. 2004) at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0 µm and with the Multiband Imaging Photometry for Spitzer (MIPS, Rieke et al. 2004) at 24, 70, and 160 µm. In addition, targeted spectroscopic observations of a handful of HII regions are planned with the InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS, Houck et al. ... Spitzer IRAC and MIPS images of M101 are shown for a region 3 met = 9.2? met = 8.7 met = 8.5 ? ... 2005, ApJ, in prep. ...