Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 22.11.2004 . ... Credit: NASA Explanation: Where do gamma ray bursts occur? To help find out, NASA launched the Swift satellite on Saturday, as pictured above . ... Subsequently collected GRB and afterglow information will help astronomers not only determine the nature of the initial explosions, but also the nature of the expanding shockwaves. ... Publications with keywords: Swift - launch . Publications with words: Swift - launch . ... Dawn Launch Mosaic . ...

... 2004 November 22 . Swift Launches . Credit: NASA . ... To help find out, NASA launched the Swift satellite on Saturday, as pictured above . ... Once a gamma ray burst (GRB) is located, Swift itself will rotate to face it head-on and determine its distance directly. ... Subsequently collected GRB and afterglow information will help astronomers not only determine the nature of the initial explosions, but also the nature of the expanding shockwaves. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

... Kepler is a mission designed to detect and characterize Earth-sized planets around solar-like stars. The sizes of the planets are determined from the decrease in light from a star that occurs during planetary transits, and the orbital period is determined from the repeatability of the transits. ... These goals are accomplished by continuously and simultaneously monitoring a single field of 140,000 stars for evidence of brightness changes caused by transits of Earth-sized or larger planets. ...

Some recent results ( see ) attracted the attentions of astronomers working on field which could benefits from photon counting techniques with high speed and spatial resolutions as adaptive optics. ... Fasti has been designed to be fast and largerly configurable. ... The data rate attined in the best case (30 Mhz), give no impossible load to the digital acquisition in the photon counting mode, since data are 1 bit only, they can be parallelized, giving a maximum speed of about 940.000 32 bit word/sec. ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

Three education activities and teachers' workshops will take place at the San Diego meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 7 - 11 June. ... Many astronomers (about 40% of AAS members according to the recent ASP/AAS survey) now have some involvement in K-12 education. ... Consequently, NIST's Metric Program offers an array of products designed to educate the public on the history and merits of the metric system. ... Visit the Metric Program on the web at http://www.nist.gov/metric . ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

We present the Duchamp source finding software package, designed to detect objects in spectral-line data cubes. ... Duchamp is available for download from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Matthew.Whiting/Duchamp . ... Australia Telescope National Facility . PO Box 76, Epping, . NSW 1710, . Australia . ... Matthew.Whiting <at> csiro.au . ph: +61-2-9372-4683 . fax: +61-2-9372-4444 . ... Home Duchamp Duchamp downloads Links Publications Astro Acronyms Japanese Poetry ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Equipment testing began on January 4. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is equipped with six sensors that measure the magnetic field in different compartments of the device, fix electrical discharges and the impact of the space environment on the equipment functionality. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is the third unit of the series, which was created in SSAU Institute of Space Device Engineering led by Professor Nicholay Syomkin. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... esensitivity (esensitivity-1.5) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0] . ... There are many ways in which sources might be detected and selected; however esensitivity is designed to cope with only a single method, namely the sliding-box detection on parallel images as performed by eboxdetect . ... bkgimagesets=list of background maps . ... detmasksets=list of detector masks (made from exposure maps by emask . expimagesets=list of exposure maps . ... expmapsets=list of exposure maps . ...

... We have developed a new extraction software package called aXe that was specifically designed to handle the ACS spectrophotometric data. Using a pair of direct/grism or direct/prism images, aXe can extract tilted spectra, estimate and subtract the local background, wavelength calibrate, flat-field, and flux calibrate them. ... What is aXe? ... 2001, ST-ECF Newsletter, 29, 5 Pirzkal et al. 2002, aXe User Manual 1.1 Spectral Extraction from ACS and VLT Data 487 Figure 1. ...

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YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Posts tagged ?experimental design? ... arxiv:0906.3662] The Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data by Martin A. Lindquist . ... ArXiv] Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data? Tags: data aquisition , experimental design , fMRI , ICA , image analysis , image processing , localization , modeling , pipeline , preprocessing , similarities , Spatial , temporal , time series , voxel . Category: arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ... ArXiv] 1st week, Feb. ...

Direct X-ray imaging model . ... In ordinary imaging of X-rays, an instrument such as a scintillator is used,and the X-rays are converted to visible light before imaging is dine withthe CCD. Because the CCD is made of silicon, however, the inherent characteristicsof the CCD itself enable direct imaging of X-rays. ... Particularly if the incident energy is 1 to 2 KeV or less, it is necessaryto use a back-thinned illuminated CCD. ... SI502A:24 m m/512 x 512/Back-thinned illuminated . ...

... Main page . ... Filters . ... Direct images . ... Back to SAO web page . Last update: 21 Nov 2015 . This page is designed by A.V. Moiseev . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . ... The direct images are obrained in the 6.1х6.1 arcmin field-of-view with any available filters ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Astronomers using the worldтАЩs largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected. ...