T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] SVM and galaxy morphological classification, Sept. 10, 2007 . ... On the Metallicity-Color Relations and Bimodal Color Distributions in Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems by M. Cantiello and J. P. Blakeslee . Many observations on globular cluster systems (GCS) show bimodal distributions in color and metallicity space. ... Based on their simulation study, (V-H) and (V-K) are confirmed to be good colors for revealing unbiased bimodal metallicity distributions in GCS. ...

This all-sky image shows the spatial distribution over the whole sky of the galactic haze at 30 and 44 GHz, extracted from the Planck observations. In addition to this component, other foreground components such as charged particles accelerated radially, known as synchrotron radiation, thermal dust, spinning dust, and extragalactic point sources contribute to the total emission detected by Planck at these frequencies. ... ESA/Planck Collaboration ...

... We propose that the bimodal nature of the kick velocity distribu­ tion of radio pulsars is connected to the dichotomy between hadronic stars (i.e. neutron stars with no quark matter content) and quark stars. ... Here we propose a scenario in which the low­velocity part of the distribution is connected with normal (hadronic) compact stars, and high­velocity part is formed by objects with some amount of quark matter inside (hybrid or strange stars). ...

Proceedings of the XXVIIth Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC). ... Please Note: e-mail addresses and external links in these contributions were correct when these papers were written in 1995, but may no longer be valid. ... In addition to the hypertext version of each paper, indicated by the link from the title of the paper, there are links to postscript versions of each paper, which are suitable for printing if you want a hardcopy of a given paper. ... Sandor Frey (or postscript ) . ...

Next: Accretion Disks with Up: StarsStellar Populations, Previous: Spectroscopic Analysis of . ... We present and discuss spatially resolved spectra of the accretion disk and the gas stream region as a function of distance from disk center, the spectrum of the uneclipsed light, and the radial temperature distribution in the ultraviolet. Keywords: Accretion disks, Cataclysmic variables . ... In this paper we report on the HST spectral mapping of the nova-like UX UMa. ...

. Next: Procedure Up: RGS Related CAL Routines Previous: List of CCF Components Contents . The contribution of the grating non-flatness bows to the figure error of the RGA distribution. Subsections . Procedure . Calling Parameters . Input . Output . Used CAL State Variables . List of CCF Components used . Michael Smith 2011-09-20

The above image is a computer simulation of the distribution of mass in a Dark Matter dominated Universe. ... Structure (\eg density enhancements) clearly forms at the intersection of these filaments. ... What is Dark Matter? ... Testing for the presence of dark matter in the solar neighborhood now becomes an accounting problem The possible sources of this mass in the solar neighborhood are 1) luminous stars, 2) interstellar gas, 3) stellar remnants (mostly white dwarfs) and 4) dark matter: . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... AIA 304 ? ... bottom) images (colour table reversed) of a coronal hole region at the South Pole taken on 14 May 2010. ... In the present work we derive a Differential Emission Measure (DEM) distribution from a region dominated by spicules. ... This distribution is then used to study the thermal properties of the emission contributing to the 171 ? ... From our off-limb DEM we found that the radiance in the AIA 171 ? ...

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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 . ...

... Latest SNe . ... Statistics on Supernovae Discoveries . Discoveries by amateurs have been rising in recent years. ... And the next page shows the amateurs who have discovered a supernova: . ... All SNe since 1885. (external link) . The next pages relate to all supernovae discovered so far, their properties and their parent galaxies: . SNe distribution according to galaxies' morphological type. ... SNe distribution according to their magnitudes. All SNe distribution since 1885. ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... A1400 Date Received: 2000-Feb-01 15:08:18 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Astronomy Sub-Category: Spectroscopy Observation Category: Extragalactic Total Time Requested: 60 Hours Proposal Title: Determining the z< 0.1 Baryon Budget ABSTRACT: Due to considerable uncertainty in the high end of the scale length distribution for low surface brightness galaxies, the contribution of these galaxies to the baryon density in the local universe is currently a matter of debate. ...

... In most astronomical observations the image intensity consists of contributions from both object and sky background. Depending on the complexity of the field and the type of object, different methods are used to estimate and subtract the background intensity. ... Non--linear filters are often used to remove stellar images and other sharp features (see Section ) while extended objects are very difficult to eliminate automatically. ...

... We employ Bayesian inference for the joint estimation of sources and background on ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) data. ... Background maps were estimated in a single step together with the detection of sources without pixel censoring. ... The source probability is evaluated for single pixels as well as for pixel domains to enhance source detection of weak and extended sources. ... The spline fits the background component whereas count enhancements classify pixel (domains) with source contributions. ...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

... In this first example, we allow an object to fall onto a small radar unit . The resulting Time-Frequency distribution is shown as a contour plot in Fig. 8 (a). Figure: FIGURE GOES SOMEWHERE IN THIS GENERAL VICINITY . ... Its density plot appears as an image in Fig. ... The response has a very high peak, as evidenced from Fig. ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

The main focus of my research is the study of stellar mass in galaxies, in particular: calibration of stellar mass photometric estimators, including testing of stellar population synthesis models; resolved studies of the stellar mass distribution, using imaging, integral field spectroscopy (in collaboration with CALIFA), infrared data constraining the amount and properties of dust (in collaboration with KINGFISH and HeViCS). ...