Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Rather than using methods conventional in astronomy (e.g., power spectrum and cross-correlation analysis) we employ rule discovery techniques commonly used in analyzing stock-market data. ... Clustering and Rule Discovery The need to understand time series data is not unique to astronomy: time series data exists in a wide variety of fields including geology and atmospheric science as well as many business applications. ...

... 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.. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... 2002 October 6 . The Lagoon Nebula in Three Colors . ... Explanation: The bright Lagoon Nebula is home to a diverse array of astronomical objects. Particularly interesting sources include a bright open cluster of stars and several energetic star-forming regions . When viewed by eye, cluster light is dominated by an overall red glow that is caused by luminous hydrogen gas , while the dark filaments are caused by absorption by dense lanes of dust . ... About APOD | ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

... MNRAS, 327, 46-54 (2001). ... MNRAS, 326, 805-820 (2001). ... 139-140 (2001). ... MNRAS, 326, 358-374 (2001). ... FREIRE, P.C., CAMILO, F., LORIMER, D.R., LYNE, A.G., MANCHESTER, R.N. & D'AMICO, N. "Timing the millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae". MNRAS, 326, 901-915 (2001). ... TAKAHASHI, M., SHIBATA, S., TORII, K., SAITO, Y., KAWAI, N., HIRAYAMA, M., DOTANI, T., GUNJI, S., SAKURAI, H., STAIRS, I. & MANCHESTER, R.N. "Pulsed X-ray emission from the fastest millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21 with ASCA". ...

... Posts tagged ?bimodality? Jun 19th, 2008| 11:46 pm | Posted by hlee . ... Continue reading ?my first AAS. ... Category: Cross-Cultural | 1 Comment . May 19th, 2008| 10:42 am | ... Continue reading ?[ ArXiv] 2nd week, May 2008? ... Category: arXiv , Frequentist , Uncertainty , X-ray | ... ArXiv] 4th week, Feb. ... Category: arXiv | ... Some statistics papers were listed at the top, of which topics would interest some slog subscribers. ... Continue reading ?The last [ArXiv] of 2007? ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Lagoon Nebula in Three Colors . ... 20.08.2001 . ... The above picture , from the Curtis-Schmidt Telescope , however, shows the nebula's emission in three exact colors specifically emitted by hydrogen , oxygen , and sulfur . ... 2001 2002 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: emission nebula - Lagoon Nebula - M 8 . Publications with words: emission nebula - Lagoon Nebula - M 8 . ... M8: The Lagoon Nebula . ...

... Southern . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Using a robust method to identify Pre-Main Sequence (PMS) stars through their photometric excess in the Hн± band, we have recently studied the star formation history in several star burst clusters in the Galaxy, Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. ...

... Radio source identifications . The Web-server of the Astronomical Institute of the St.-Petersburg University opens the experimental service on assignment of clusters data. At present only the data about radio sources in ACO clusters of galaxies are reasonably complete, while only restricted optical information is in our database. Later on, we also intend to include X-ray data and data about brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). ... ACO: radio optic ( for example, A0690 and " optic "), . ...

... The variability of the spectrum of the optical component of the IR-source IRAS01005+7910 was discovered for the first time in the BTA spectra [1]. ... The spectral features include absorptions that form in near-photospheric layers, narrow envelope emissions, and emission-absorption profiles that form in photosphere-to-envelope transition layers (the wind). ... Discovery of spectral variation in the optical counterpart of IRAS01005+7910. ... Dashed line - envelope curve of all the SiII 5979 profiles ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... NGC 3184 is a fairly close Mag 10.3 galaxy, only about half as distant as the Virgo cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gi page . Odd Trondal's 1999gi page . ... CfA image . ... 14.5 . ... Jean Marie Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 3805 ] SN 1999gi in NGC 3184 . vsnet-chat 2438 ] Host galaxy of SN1999gi . ...

... Now primarily for Apogee cameras, XmCCD was developed initially for SBIG cameras and legacy support for them is still included in this version. SBIG ==== SBIG has provided the library used here. It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The open source code for this library is included here. ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...