Experiment COLD . ... JSEC Astronomy . ... The entire project was called "Experiment Cold". ... The best radiometer (in terms of fluctuation sensitivity) known to us, based on a parametric amplifier with a closed-cycle helium cooling system, was used in the experiment; measures were taken to "cool" the radio telescope itself; and a method of controlling the numerous sources of interference was carefully thought out. ...

... The sky background can contribute significant Poisson noise in broad and medium band filters, and must be taken into account during noise calculations. The actual sky brightness depends on the heliocentric ecliptic coordinates (latitude and longitude) in a manner summarized in Table 6.3 . ... For many targets LOW-SKY will have minimal impact on the observing efficiency. ... Table 6.4 shows approximate sky count rates for the WFC and PC1 for filters with significant sky count rates. ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Next: Basic Properties Up: R Coronae Borealis Stars Previous: Introduction . RCB stars are named after a star just visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Corona Borealis. RCrB was discovered by Edward Pigott, an English amateur astronomer, who had been observing a star in the `Northern Crown' for over a decade. ... Since 1795, other RCB stars have been discovered and their properties have been carefully observed. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... We are using Canadian Galactic Plane Survey l 74.2њ, -3.6њ < b This poster gives preliminary results for a full-fledged analysis of the gas properties and distribution of HISA features in the CGPS. ... where T ON and T OFF are observed brightnesses on and off the HISA feature, T S is the spin or excitation temperature of the HISA gas, tau is its optical depth, T C is the continuum intensity, and p is the fraction of H I emission lying behind the HISA feature. ... GIF | ...

Next: Observations and data reduction Up: HS 0822+3542 - a Previous: HS 0822+3542 - a . ... I Zw 18, a BCG with the lowest known oxygen abundance among the galaxies (O/H 1/50 (O/H) , Searle & Sargent [ 1972 ]; Izotov & Thuan [ 1999 ]), has been suggested as a candidate to be a truly-local young galaxy, experiencing its first short SF episode. ... 1998 ]). ... In this paper we describe the data obtained for the third most metal-deficient galaxy, HS 0822+3542 with O/H = 1/36 (O/H) . ... 0822+3542 1 . ...

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... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 19 . ... Notes: This is the remnant of the SN of AD 1006. ... Optical: Filaments to the NW, with broad H component. ... Point sources: The background Schweizer Middleditch star is near the middle of the remnant. ... van den Bergh 1976, ApJ, 208, L17. Optical observations. ADS . ... X-ray spectroscopy. ... Schweizer & Middleditch 1980, ApJ, 241, 1039. ... Optical spectroscopy of the Schweizer Middleditch star. ... Optical spectroscopy. ... 2013, A&A, 552, A9. ...

... In the three intervening decades there have been many observations of this diffuse emission over a wide range of x-ray energies. ... During the 1970's researchers at the University of Wisconsin, lead by Dr. William Kraushaar, used a series of sounding rocket flights to map the diffuse x-ray emission from the sky in several bands. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the B-band (0.13-0.188 keV) x-ray intensity. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the 2-6 keV band x-ray intensity. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

Next: Gravitational Wave Background from Previous: Galactic Gravitational Wave Background . ... It is intuitively clear that at frequencies above the critical ones for our Galaxy, one will detect rare bright jerks produced by coalescing white dwarfs   (at a rate of 1 per 100 year) and NS (at a rate of 1 per - year) in our Galaxy, against a background of the extragalactic stochastic GW. ... Firstly we consider GWB from close individual galaxies, and then will discuss overall extragalactic GWB. ...

... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... 1998, 15, 147­8 . An Imaging Survey of Northern Galactic H Emission with Arcminute Resolution Brian Dennison, John H. Simonetti and Gregory A. Topasna Martin Observatory, Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA dennison@astro.phys.vt.edu; jhs@vt.edu; topasna@astro.phys.vt.edu Abstract: We present preliminary results from a high-resolution, high-sensitivity imaging survey of the northern galactic H emission. ...

... Estimation of the residual Soft Proton flare contamination . ... The script can be run on any EPIC event files (MOS1, MOS2 and/or pn), to estimate the amount of *residual* Soft Proton (SP) flare contamination, i.e. it should only be used *after* attempts have been made to clean the event files for SPs using GTI filtering. ... The higher the in-FOV to out-of-FOV ratio, the more the file is contaminated by SPs: . ... File is not contaminated by SPs. ... File is slightly contaminated by SPs. ...

... 2006: . ... 1) A study of the solar corona. ... 2) The study of the solar northern polar region. A powerful radio source above the solar North Pole in the region of the polar coronal hole was discovered. ... A transition boundary from brightening to darkening at the wavelength of 3.5cm was found in the emission of the polar coronal hole. These facts are decisive for the choice of the solar cycle model. 3) Polarized radio emission of a high-latitude prominence was registered. ... Archive . ...

... He was alive 400 years ago to be able to see the youngest supernova in the Milky Way that has been seen from Earth. Amazingly, he was able to see the Kepler supernova without the aid of a telescope. ... The explosion is referred to as a supernova and the light that it gives off can be brighter than the light given off by an entire galaxy. It will look like an extremely bright star and can be seen with the naked eye for many days and sometimes months after it starts. ...