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. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... 3D structure rings , spots filaments · Application to Cygnus A and 3C 317 Radio cocoon and shaped Xray gas (contours) in Cygnus A Cygnus A (Chandra archive, courtesy P. Strub) large cocoon width elliptically shaped cluster gas marks bow shock axis ratio: 1.2 Outline · · · ­ Pretty data: Cygnus A Parameters of jet simulations in the history Extension to very low ... L g[ = -2 ] Parameter Study: Axis Ratio Small jets have spherical bow shocks! critical radius depends on . ...

Next: Calling Parameters Up: CAL_getRGAFigure Previous: CAL_getRGAFigure Contents . The grating mis-alignment is parameterized with a set of Gaussian functions, whose parameters are stored in the CCF. ... The parameters , , are stored in the CCF. is the number of parameters available in the CCF. is the chromatic magnification that scales the width of the grating mis-alignment distribution as a function of angle of incidence and diffraction angle. ...

... The technology needed to implement a Distributed Astronomical Data Archive (DADA) is available today (e.g., Fullton 1993). Query interface standards are needed, however, before the DADA information will be discoverable. ... These parameters would be used to index each dataset in each catalog. ... The technology is available today to perform cross-catalog queries, to fetch the data at the click of a mouse, quickly to add new observation catalogs, and to distribute the load across multiple machines. ...

Topics covered by the IAU Symp. ... Do all galaxies have stellar halos? ... Stellar tracers of the MW halo and nearby galaxies; the stellar population of star clusters and their contribution to the galaxy halos . ... NEW: Scientific program of the IAU Symposium 317 can be downloaded here . ... GLOBAL PROPERTIES OF STELLAR HALOS FROM THE MILKY WAY TO EXTERNAL GALAXIES . ... DISCRETE CONSTITUENTS OF STELLAR HALOS IN THE MILKY WAY AND IN EXTERNAL GALAXIES : PLANETARY NEBULAE and GLOBULAR CLUSTERS . ...

Orbital data : INTERBALL AZ GSE and GSM cartesian coordinates, GSE cartesian velocity (once per 10 minutes). ... Magnetic field data from IMAP experiment. Magnetic fileld absolute value and magnetic field index (the difference between absolute value and model value), status flag. ... Counts of H+ and O+ ions are accumulated during one spin period by detectors D6 (antisunward looking), D8 (spin plane), D10 (sunward looking) of TRICS2 subsystem (1.0-30 keV). ... TRICS1, TRICS2, TRICS3 subsystems: . ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

Tammy Smecker-Hane 45 min Review of nearby dSphs and the LMC Taft Armandroff 10 min Andromeda I dE - HST photometry of giant/horizontal branches which illustrate the classic second parameter problem Mario Mateo 10 min Leo II dSph - HST deep CMD and the age distribution Discussion 25 min We will open the meeting by reviewing what is currently known about the star formation and chemical evolution histories of the dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. ... Stars began to form early, ~15 Gyr ago. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... 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. ...

Magellanic Clouds in interaction evolutionary search for good models Adam Rzicka1, Jan Palous1, Christian Theis2 1Astronomical Institute, Prague; 2Institut fЭr Astronomie, Wien Idea investigate the LMC-SMC-Milky Way (MW) interaction by modeling the distribution of HI related to the Magellanic System (BrЭns et al. ... How much does the HI distribution tell about the LMC/SMC motion? ... It's all about proper motion... select a high-quality model (FF 0.5) and look around Tidal models don't work.. ...

... 0 ) = Z '' '' 0 [(1 \Gamma '')'' 1=2 sin 2 i sin 2!] ... We use the similarity theory to present the non--dimensional period T \ Lambda of the evolution of the parameters '' and i as a product of the independent factors: T \ Lambda = \ Gamma (4=15)(a \ Gamma3 =2 \ Lambda =LD )jL c (c 1 ; c 2 )j. Here LD = Ї k \ Lambda a \ Gamma3 k \ Lambda '' \ Gamma3 =2 k Ї \Gamma1=2 \ Lambda is the non-- dimensional parameter of disturbances similarity dependent on the dynamical characteristics of the ...

... Several of the tasks in the spectral package share a common set of parameters. ... Each task in the spectral package has a hidden parameter which points to the pkgpars parameter file. The parameters stored here include the observed data sets and the model descriptor, and instrument-specific parameters. ... The observed counts and error data set contained in the table file ( *_obs.tab ) produced by qpspec will be the input data for subsequent spectral tasks. ...

Next: The Newton--Raphson Method. Up: Fitting of Data Previous: Fitting of Data . ... In a linear problem, if the errors on the observations have a gaussian distribution, the ``Maximum Likelihood Principle'' gives you the ``best estimate'' of the parameters as the solution of the so-called ``Least Squares Minimization'' that follows: . ... A certain number of numerical methods have been developed to solve the non--linear least squares problem, four have so far been implemented in MIDAS. ...

... The file names' construction . The flight (m) stage's file set . ... the orbital data used for the flight operation monthly (m) long-term planning, . ... The orbital calculations are based on the initial orbital data determined by KIAM RAN using the orbital radio- measurement treatment. The determined initial orbital data are presented as a state vector (satellite position and velocity) in the J2000 reference. ... Accept the file with extension '.bgr', where the Moscow time (MT=UT+3h) is used. ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

... There are a lot of computer codes simulating this scattering and freely available in the Internet (see e.g. links on our JPDOC page ). ... The code and input file are available in the directory . ... A slightly modified code of Barber Hill with a C-shell and input files is available in the directory . ... The code, input and test output files are available in the directory . ... See also readme file. file. ... The code, input file and their description (a TeX file) are available in the directory . ...

... In this poster we propose a hypothesis that within fixed assumptions about internal physics (opacity, thermodynamics, nuclear reactions) a strict relation between the surface helium abundance and the entropy of the adiabatic part of the convective zone exists for all solar models. This hypothesis is verified with models under simplified physics (Christensen­Dalsgaard 1988) and with six evolutionary models computed by Christensen­Dalsgaard (1992). ... 1990, Christensen­Dalsgaard 1991). ...