Next: Analysis Tools for Nebular Emission Lines . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... The direct image is used to locate objects of interest, to find the position of the appropriate spectra in the grism image, to determine the optimal extraction technique to use, and to calibrate the wavelength range of the extracted spectra. ... Figure 1: The NICMOSlook User Interface . ...

Next: Boron in the Up: The Interstellar Medium Previous: GHRS Observations of . ... The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been used to obtain a spectrum of the boron 2500? region of BD-13^o 3442. ... We used the line list of Duncan et al. (1996a), which consists almost entirely of laboratory-measured lines, and which fits both the Hyades giants and metal-poor stars. ... It is clear that BD-13^o 3442 is the most metal-poor star of the three. ...

... HD144941 is a B type hydrogen-deficient star. ... However, its H/He ratio puts it between the classifications of an extreme and an intermediate helium star, and its low C and N abundances make it unique amongst known H-deficient stars. ... Keywords. stars: helium stars -- stars: individual stars (HD144941) -- stars: atmospheres -- stars: abundances -- stars: oscillations -- stars: evolution . ... The iron abundance in the helium star HD144941 has been measured from ultraviolet Fe III lines. ...

... Comparative study of Tl-2201 single crystals with T c =30 and 110 K by means of X-ray structural analysis and NMR. Abstract: . The crystal structure of a tetragonal single crystal of Tl-2201 with T c =30 K has been determined by the X-ray diffraction technique ( a = 3.8717(3), c = 23.224(3) Angstrom, space group I4/mmm, Z = 2). The chemical composition is found to be Tl 1.90(1) Cu 0.10(1) Ba 2 CuO 6.18(4) . ... Structural parameters of Tl-2201 cuprates with various T c have been compared. ...

... A correlation between metal abundance and orbital elements (the eccentricity and angular momentum) has been found for three semples of disk stars of our Galaxy with abundance derived from detailed analysis. The correlation indicates that metal abundance in the Galaxy kept increasing after the birth of old disk stars and that the Galaxy kept collapsing during the formation of its disk subsystems. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 orbit June 28, 2006 Abstract Create a FITS timeseries \HK-like" le from the ODF Spacecraft Reconstructed Orbit File. ... Both sets of values will be written into a standard OGIP-compliant FITS binary extension table with a TIME column value, derived from a start, stop and sampling interval time, each speci ed by the user. ... StartANDEndNotInODFRange (error) Start AND End times selected not congruent with input ODF obs times. ... SAS ODF must be properly set. ...

Workshop on geometric analysis and spectral theory . ... On a class of random walks on groups with infinite number of generators". ... Optimal transportation, weak flows and very degenerate elliptic PDE's". ... Singular solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic equations". ... I will give some hints on how this conjecture is related to minimal surface theory and I will describe some flatness results for non local equations on one hand and on elliptic equations on riemannian manifolds on the other hand. ...

... Abstract (txt) . ... Xiao-li Meng (Harvard U) . ... presentation (pdf) . ... web page: astrostatistics.psu.edu/stat05.html . ... H. Kang (Department of Statistics, Harvard University), D. van Dyk (Department of Statistics, University of California at Irvine), V. Kashyap (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Connors (Eureka Scientific) . ... Poster (ps) . Poster (pdf) . ... Y. Yu, X.L. Meng (Dept. of Statistics, Harvard Univ.) ... Y. Yu (Dept. of Statistics, Harvard Univ.) ...

... We show the analysis of low-hard and intermediate states of sources XTE J1550-564, H 1743-322, GX 339-4, XTE J1859-226, XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105. ... Directly applying the scaling technique we also obtain that a ratio of the BH masses in XTE J1859-226 and in XTE J1550-564 is , and the corresponding ratio for XTE J1650-500 and XTE J1550-564 is . These values of scaling factors r implies that BH masses are ; solar masses in XTE J1859-226 and XTE J1650-500 respectively. ...

... THE DETERMINATION OF THE 'DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS' AND . THE STELLAR WIND VELOCITIES FOR X-RAY BINARIES. ... 13, Moscow, Russia . ... In this work using the observed period changes for four systems: Vela X-1, GX 301-2, Her X-1 and Cen X-3 we determined D , the 'diffusion coefficient',-parameter from the Fokker-Planck equation. Using strong dependence of D on the velocity for Vela X-1 and GX 301-2, systems accreting from a stellar wind, we determined the stellar wind velocity. ...

... The large body of near infrared observations presented in Testi et al. (1997; 1998) are analysed with the aim of characterizing the young stellar clusters surrounding Herbig Ae/Be stars. The results confirm the tendency of early Be stars to be surrounded by dense clusters of lower mass "companions", while Ae stars are never found to be associated with conspicuous groups. ... Only the most massive stars (10-20Msun) are found to be associated with dense (10^3 pc^-3) stellar clusters. ...

... The effective temperature Te = 13700+ 500 and the surface gravity log g = 3.75 ± 0.25 were determined. ... It is shown that the ionization equilibrium for Fe I - Fe II and Mn I Hn II lines is maintained only for the second, more cool model. Out of 10 considered elements the largest overabundance was found for Mn (2.0 dex ), Ga (4.5 dex) and Hg (5.5 dex) . ... Hence it follows also that Y and Ce overabundance cannot exceed 2.5 dex. ...

... Theoretical investigation was carried out of electron transport phenomena in superconducting heterostructures S-MB-N and S-MB-S with magnetic barriers (MB) determined by monolayer of ferromagnet (F) or spin-valve structures FNF or FIF (N is a normal metal, I is insulating layer). ... The I-V characteristics of cuprate bicrystal Josephson junctions have been experimentally investigated at different temperatures, barrier transparency factors and the phase difference of superconducting electrodes. ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

Trudy GAISH, vol. LXV, 1996 . Abstracts . The global distribution of average (5 O x 5 O ) depths . of Mohorovicic discontinuity on the Earth . ... Such analysis allows detecting whether the sources of the largest anomalies reside within the Earth's core. This is possible if the limit depths of the sources exceed the depths of the core-mantle boundary. ... by Pasinok S.L. Influence of the Earth’s cover on the polar free oscillation of the Earth’s inner core is considered. ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 . ... NGC 5128 is the closest example of a giant early type (elliptical or S0) galaxy. Although often dubbed as a peculiar elliptical galaxy since it has a dust lane with recent star formation and an active galactic nucleus, the majority of early type galaxies have similar structures as revealed by recent surveys. ...

SN 1989B Light Curve Analysis. ... In the light curve depicting their observations, definite trends are noted, here is a "thumb-nail" analysis of the the magnitude estimations of the bright SN (1989B) in the galaxy NGC 3627 (M66). ... The observations were inserted against the V magnitude templete of BL, CCD photometric data, (Wells et. al, (1994) and a color trend (B-V) histogram of the mean type Ia SN (BL)(nutemp.gif). Key Words: Amateur Observations, Supernova, Magnitude Estimates, 1989B . ...

Proceedings of the Particle Physics and Early Universe Conference (PPEUC). For this paper: postscript PPEUC CMB index 1 Likelihood Analysis.. ... Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, U.K. Max Tegmark . ... We discuss the problems of applying Maximum Likelihood methods to the CMB and how one can make it both efficient and optimal. ... A much fuller account of most of this work is available ( Tegmark, Taylor & Heavens (1997) ). ...

. NASA TP # 3555, 1997. Jacques Lewalle, jlewalle@syr.edu

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...