... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Science . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Properties of kinematically decoupled structures in Early-Type Galaxies . ... Science Users Information . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... The project consists in measuring the stellar kinematics, stellar populations, dynamics, and morphological properties of the kinematically decoupled structures observed in the inner regions of Early-Type Galaxies. ... Return to list of thesis topics...

The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

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 . ...

... It has been largely superceded by MatWeb . Conversion Factors . Material properties . Physical constants . Astronomical constants . This table gives conversion factors to convert various units to their SI equivalents. ... The units are SI. This is a short list of physical constants in SI units. ... Boltzmann constant . ... Gas constant . ... Mass . ... Plank's . ... Radiation constant . ... This is a short list of astronomical constants in SI units. ... Sun . ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... Physical Properties of Crystals . ... The course is an introduction into crystal physics and consists of two introductory parts devoted to the basics of crystallography and tensor analysis and six main chapters in which the physical phenomena in anisotropic medium are described by the example of the elastic, electrical and magnetic crystal properties. The effect of symmetry is also discussed. ... Effect of symmetry on crystal properties. ... Effect of symmetry on crystal optical properties. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Saxton & Wu (1999) presented calculations of the stability of the accretion shock which forms on the surface of an accreting magnetic white dwarf in AM Herculis type systems in an attempt to explain the observed properties of the quasi periodic oscillations sometimes seen in these systems. He showed that radiative cooling may cause thermal instability in the post-shock structure of the accretion flow settling onto a magnetic white dwarf. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Stellar Evolution . Nucleosynthesis in Stars . The Evolution of Star Clusters . JAVA Physics Lab . Alternative Energies Class . Steve Kevan's Physics 251 Class . ... Talk on Solid State Physics of CCD detectors . Talk on Cosmological Issues . ... Digital Spectra of Stars . NETexperts E-mail List . The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu ...

Physical conditions of the interstellar medium in galaxies are closely linked to the ambient radiation field and the heating of dust grains. ... The KINGFISH profiles are well suited to examining trends of dust temperature Tdust and нІ because they span a factor of ~200 in the ISRF intensity heating the bulk of the dust mass, Umin. Results from fitting the profile SEDs suggest that, on average, Tdust, dust optical depth о„dust, and Umin decrease with radius. ...