Direct Electron Imaging Using Back Thinned CCDs . ... A proximity focused Gen III image intensifier has been built using a back illuminated 512 x 512 CCD in place of the phosphor screen. Signal to noise, spatial resolution, minimum resolvable signal and life are discussed. ... Very low light level imaging is driven by the need for high quantum efficiency detection of single photons at the highest possible speed and the highest spatial resolution. ...

Proceedings of the Particle Physics and Early Universe Conference (PPEUC). For this paper: postscript PPEUC CMB index 1 Introduction.. ... Observatoire de Strasbourg , 11, rue de l'Universit?, ... We discuss the implications of two possible, recent Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) detections for which no optical or X-ray counterparts have been found. This suggests that the objects reside at high redshift, which is difficult to reconcile with a critical cosmology. ... Fri Jul 25 11:32:28 BST 1997 ...

... In order to further constrain the design task, and to map to the flow of a design from abstract to concrete, a set of abstract towers were defined. ... The abstract supports are replaced by actual supports placed on top of each other, with angles between the joints determined automatically according to the connectors at the joints. ... It is composed of a single support. Its base and platform sizes are relatively meaningless, since the support is placed in their center (see Figure ). ...

... Programme . ... Presenter: Felix Aharonian (DIAS/Dublin and MPIK/Heidelberg) . Abstract: Recently the HESS collaboration announced the discovery of very high energy -rays from the nearby radiogalaxy Centaurus A. I will describe the results obtained with the HESS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes located in Namibia, and discuss different possible scenarios and sites of -ray production. go back . CSIRO 2009 Legal Notice / Privacy Statement Last modified: 15/11/2010 ...

. In this review we discuss optical contiuum emission from stellar flares and the possible physical mechanism that may be responsible.

... This paper discusses evidence for and properties of disks associated to brown dwarfs in the star-forming region rho-Oph. ... We present low-resolution near-infrared spectra in the J, H and K bands, and determine for each source spectral type, extinction, effective temperature a nd luminosity by comparing the spectra to those of field dwarfs and to the most recent model stellar atmospheres. ... The coolest object in our sample has mass in the range 8-12 Mjup (0.008-0.012 Msun). ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

... Next: FITS Checksum Verification Up: Data Models and Previous: A Proposed Convention . ... The FITSIO Subroutine Library has been available for 3 years, and has matured into a stable, full-featured interface for reading and writing FITS format files. ... The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS files is now three years old and is used by many projects as the standard programming interface for accessing FITS format data files. ...

About Zones of Resonant Returns of Asteroid Apophis . ... Asteroid Apophis is one of extremely dangerous NEOs. ... Using analytical and numerical tools, we investigate the loss of precision after the Earth approach in 2029 and the possible approach in 2036. ... Possible trajectories of collisions with the Earth have been found analytically and numerically in this chaotic region. To construct these trajectories we used quasi-random intermediate motions, made up from resonant collision orbits. ...

... Jitter imaging (also known as microscanning ) is probably one of the most efficient ways to perform astronomical observations in infrared. ... This paper discusses the various issues attached to each data processing step and offers several algorithms, having in mind an automatic data processing in pipeline mode (i.e. without user interaction) as intended for the VLT. ... Poisson offset generation . ... Frame offset detection . ... Peak detection algorithm . ... Header offsets . ... Linear average . ...

... Program,Proceedings . ... Abstracts . ... The main purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing the results of recent low temperature investigations in the microgravity environment, as well as future related studies in fundamental physics that can be carried out on ground and onboard the International Space Station, taking into account the advantage of long-duration experimentation in reduced gravity. ... Manuscript Submission - on attendance the Workshop . ...

Find Similar Abstracts . ... The formation of galaxies in Friedmannian universes . ... 00/1974 . ... ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY, GALACTIC CLUSTERS, GALACTIC EVOLUTION, GRAVITATION THEORY, DENSITY DISTRIBUTION, GALACTIC ROTATION, GAS HEATING, GAS IONIZATION, PERTURBATION THEORY, TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION . ... Use: Authors Title Abstract Text Text Query with Keywords Return: Query Results Query Form Database: Astronomy Instrumentation Physics and Geophysics ABSTRACT QUERY USER FEEDBACK HELP ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Is biochemistry alternative to earth one possible? ... Possibility of existence of life based on biochemical processes different from typical for Earth living organisms is discussing. ... They can be organisms used absolutely different material bases and solvents (i.e. methane life) and living under different physical and chemical conditions (temperature, medium composition)/ These organisms are rather often examining in literature. ...

Detecting Variations in Source Intensity for Poisson Data Y. Yu, XL. Meng, D. van Dyk, V. Kashyap, and A. Zezas Abstract The analysis of light curves is an especially challenging statistical task for low-count Poisson data: Variation in the source intensity may be shadowed by the Poisson variation of the counts. Here we discuss a class of statistical models that are designed to capture trends and autocorrelations in Poisson data that are collected over time. ... Example: A downward trend? . ...

... Using the uvby -photometry and proper motion data for about 5500 F stars within 80 pc from the Sun, we have studied velocity ellipsoid parameters and obtained the following results. 1) The sizw of all wllipsoid semiaxes increase systematically for groups of stars with the decrease of both temperature (at constant metallicity) and metallicity (at constant temperature). ... As a result, each of the three parameters - temperature, metallicity and velocity dispersion - is an age indicator. ...

... Annual Meeting . ... Earth Space Science: Making Connections in Education and Public Outreach . ... A Symposium on Improving the Community of Practice for EPO Professionals . ... Click here for instructions to register for the Earth & Space Science EPO symposium. The Earth & Space Science EPO Symposium program committee welcomes four kinds of abstracts: . ... The Earth & Space Science EPO program committee is arranging a number of plenary talks or panels to complement the above sessions. ...

... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

Abstract -- Abundances of heavy elements decreases with increasing galactocentric distance almost in all disk galaxies. ... To explain this gradient in young objects and in the interstellar gas one has to assume that a typical disk galaxy is an open system, i.e. it expels some synthesized heavy elements into the circumgalactic space and/or accretes intergalactic gas with zero metallicity, with rates of both processes depending on the galactocentric distance. ...