... 2.3 Establishing the Extragalactic Distance Scale . ... 2.3.2 The Second Rung: Distances to stellar clusters . ... 2.3.4 Distances to Local Group Galaxies . ... The Luminosity Function of Planetary Nebulae . ... 3.2.2 Clusters of Galaxies . ... 4.2 Evidence for Dark Matter as a Function of Scale Size . ... 4.3 Other Dark Matter Indicators for Galaxies . ... What is the nature of the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe as traced by the three-dimensional galaxy distribution? ...

Next: V652HER AND MERGED BINARY Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: MASSES . Although pulsations in EHes appear to be ubiquitous, it is not possible to summarize their properties with a single definition. ... The first discovery of pulsation in an EHe was made by Landolt (1975), who discovered a 0.1day photometric period in V652Her, and by Hill et al. (1981), who measured the radial velocity curve and demonstrated the variations were due to radial pulsation. ... 1987, Jeffery et al. ...

... Each Digicon diode has its own discriminator, and if they are properly set the dark count rate measured is very low. On-orbit measurement has shown that both GHRS detectors have a dark rate less than the design goal of 0.01 counts diode-1 sec-1 at low geomagnetic latitudes and that the dominant noise source is cosmic rays. ... Do not use CENSOR if the expected count rate exceeds about 100 counts per second per diode because real photon events will be rejected. ... Count Rate Linearity . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . 3UC 281-203711, NOMAD 1403-0437768 . ... The first brightness decrease of 3UC 281-203711, by 0.08 mag, was recorded on JD 2454966.3. ... On one night, we almost completely covered a primary minimum (constant brightness, brightness decrease, total eclipse, and a considerable part of the brightness increase, JD (hel) min I = 245543.1338). ... 3UC 281-203711 is an eclipsing system. ... Bottom panel: primary minimum of the variable star in V and R bands. ...

Hide Zen home . ... sncat2sntab.pl - convert old catalog to table sn . ... CREATE TABLE cats ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); -- a list of properties of galaxy CREATE TABLE properties ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy _property ( gid integer REFERENCES galaxy (id), pid integer REFERENCES properties(id), value float, UNIQUE( gid ,pid) ); CREATE t=# select * from galaxy; id | ...

README for XFree86 on OS/2 : Adding Variables to CONFIG.SYS . ... ETC . Set to an ETC directory. Normally, this is already set to the ETC directory of the TCP/IP code, such as SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\ETC For Warp 4 and later, this may point to the \MPTN\ directory. ... Normally you will set this variable to the same value as the HOSTNAME variable and simply add a :0.0 after it, such as SET DISPLAY=myhost:0.0 Read the X11 man page on the exact meaning of these postfixes and other options. ...

... Star Atlas . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... New kind of variable star discovered . ... Careful observations of these stars by a group from the Geneva Observatory using the Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler Telescope at ESOт??s La Silla Observatory in Chile have shown that 36 of the stars are of a new and unknown class of variable star. ... They have discovered a new class of variable stars by measuring minute variations in stellar brightness. ...

... Observations of the Moon eclipse on 17.09.97 have shown the Moon details contrasts had decreased and the total radio brightness had fallen at all observed frequency range (from 10% at 1.38 sm down to 2.5% at 13 sm). The fall of the Moon radio brightness has been detected during the eclipse at decemeter waves for the first time. ... Radio emission of the Copernicus crater at 1.38 and 2.7 sm has been detected for the first time. ...

... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Solar Eclipse at ESO HQ - 11.08.1999 . ... ESO's new Very Large Telescope allows the discovery of a rather peculiar binary system, made up of two dwarf stars orbiting each other. ... In 1988, when he was working at a telescope at the ESO La Silla observatory, he came across a strange star that suddenly vanished off the computer screen. ... The unsual star in question is designated NN Serpentis , or just NN Ser . ...

Next: Copying Calibration Tables - Up: Calibration, the ATCA, and Previous: Determining Gains and Bandpass . ... This parameter can be used as an alternative way of specifying the XY phase of the antennas. ... Unless you explicitly turn off solving for XY phase in gpcal , then the only important XY phase value is that for the reference antenna. ... means that gpcal will solve for the XY phase of the reference antenna. ... By default it solves for all XY phases, except for the reference antenna. ...

... During the analysis of the surveys carried out on RATAN-600, it was found that almost one fifth of the detected sources shows significant radio flux variations. ... We used the data from "Cold" radio surveys carried out with RATAN-600 in 1980-1994 to search for radio sources with significant flux variability. ... On possibility of detection of variable sources using the data of Cold surveys carried out on RATAN-600. ... Detection of Variable Sources Using the Data of "Cold" Surveys. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Stars . ... Cepheid variable stars have been known since the 18th century. ... Regularly brightening to a peak over days, weeks or months before fading these variable stars were remarkable curiosities to astronomers in past centuries.€а The term Cepheid is taken from the star Delta Cephei in the constellation of Cepheus, which was identified as variable€а in 1784 by the teenaged prodigy John Goodricke (1764-96). ... Tweets that mention Cepheids: Inconstant Stars which break the rules | ...

ASTR 3007 - STELLAR PULSATION COMPONENT P e ter W o o d Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics TOPICS COVERED · Main types of variable stars · Linear adiabatic pulsation theory => periods of pulsation · Linear non-adiabatic pulsation theory => stability - will a star pulsate? ... Here we see Cepheids and long-period variables (LPVs) (movies from Hartman: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/%7Ejhartman/) WHY STUDY VARIABLE STARS? ... What could cause the pulsation period to vary from star to star? ...

... Firenze . The extragalactic group is involved in several lines of research covering a variety of topics from theory to observations across the electromagnetic spectrum (from gamma-rays to radio): the primordial Universe; the physical and evolutionary properties of high-redshift galaxies; the physical processes of nearby and distant AGN; the properties of nearby and high-z SNe; the gas, dust and dark matter physics in nearby normal galaxies and starbursts. ... 055 27521 Fax 055 220039 ...

... astro-ph . ... A Catalog of almost 3900 variable stars . ... Properties of Dust Grains in Planetary Nebulae - I. The Ionized Region of NGC 6445 . ... A model of the ionized region is constructed, using the photo-ionization code CLOUDY 90.05. ... The most likely conclusion is that grains are residing inside the ionized region of NGC 6445 and that the low temperature and flux of the grain emission are caused by the low luminosity of the central star and the low optical depth of the grains. ...

Proposal Identification No.: ... Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 50 Hours 45m The gas mass of eleven damped Lyman-alpha systems at z<0.2 Despite 25 years of studies of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs), the precursors of today's normal galaxies, the physical properties of the absorbers remain unknown. ...

... Part 00 PDF Introduction and Overview . ... Part 02 PDF Stars Phenomenology . Part 03 PDF Stellar Structure . Part 04 PDF Stellar Evolution . ... Part 06 PDF Basic Properties of Galaxies . Part 07 PDF Chemical Evolution . Part 08 PDF Stellar Dynamics . Part 09 PDF Spiral Galaxies . Part 10 PDF Elliptical Galaxies . Part 11 PDF Dwarf Galaxies . Part 12 PDF Active Galaxies . Part 13 PDF Large Scale Structure . ... Part 16 PDF Galaxy Evolution . ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...