... 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....

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In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Research . ... A rare hybrid morphology radio galaxy . ... In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Current models of galaxy evolution regulate the star formation rates within the simulated galaxies by invoking radio-mode feedback from AGN. ... Julie.Banfield@anu.edu.au . ...

First ASKAP antenna on-site in Western Australia. Home page * Postdoc Ads * Proposal Publications Team Working Groups Meetings PHISCC Workshops Computing 3D Visualisation - wikis - WALLABY wiki ASKAP wiki - more - ASKAP ASKAP News ASKAP Computing - surveys - HIPASS . Galaxies in the Local Volume . ... In addition, we plan to search for faint HI emission in well-selected optical/IR galaxy samples by co-adding (`stacking') the HI data at the position and redshift of the optical/IR galaxy. ...

... Explanation: The bright core and outer reaches of giant elliptical galaxy M60 (NGC 4649) loom large at the upper left of this sharp close-up from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some 54 million light-years away and 120,000 light-years across, M60 is one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster . ... Cataloged as M60-UCD1, it may well be the densest galaxy in the nearby universe. ... Publications with keywords: Elliptical Galaxy - dwarf galaxy . ... NGC 6822: Barnard s Galaxy . ...

Next: A candidate young galaxy? Up: Results and discussion Previous: Current star formation rate . The integrated H I line flux, the characteristic widths of 21 cm line profile W 50 and W 20 (for a Hanning smoothing of 10.6 km s -1 ), and the derived H I mass for HS 0822+3542 are presented in Table 1 . The small H I mass 2.4 of this galaxy is consistent with its low optical luminosity. ... A rough estimation can be made also on the dynamical mass of HS 0822+3542. ...

... 2015 December 9 . Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Space Telescope ; Processing: Douglas Gardner . ... As further evidence, the face-on spiral galaxy on the right, also known as NGC 3808A, exhibits many young blue star clusters produced in a burst of star formation. ... The prominent edge-on spiral at the far left appears to be a more distant background galaxy and not involved in the on-going merger. ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... This bizarrely shrunken planetary system was found by NASAтАЩs Kepler mission, hence the parent star has been named Kepler-11. ... Planetary scientist and Kepler science team member Jack Lissauer said ?These six planets are mixtures of rock and gases, possibly including water.тАЭ €аNone of these strange new worlds are likely to be home to any form of life; their surface conditions are simply too extreme. ...

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... Research . ... There is mounting evidence that AGN feedback is important in galaxy evolution. Radio-mode feedback is thought to be particularly significant because the mechanical action of the expanding lobes provides a strong coupling mechanism between AGN energy and the surrounding environment. In order to quantify this feedback, detailed models of radio lobe evolution are required. ... Cambridge, UK - Nov 2013 . PDF . Poster for Modern Radio Universe conference . ...

... More recently, I have been concerned with observing masers located in the circumstellar shells generated by red giant stars in their mass-loss phase, and in what we can therefore learn about the late stages of stellar evolution. 100 mJy are now undetectable after ~12 years, aka the DEATH of an OH/IR star or its cyclical evolution back to a Mira variable. ... I find that this momentum flux is sufficient to support the largest observed rates of AGB mass-loss. last updated: 14 January 2015 . ...

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

... My primary research interests are the formation and evolution of nuclear star clusters. ... Nuclear star clusters are common objects in nearby galaxies. ... Feldmeier-Krause, A. ; Neumayer, N.; SchУЖdel, R.; Seth, A.; Hilker, M.; de Zeeuw, P. T.; Kuntschner, H.; Walcher, C. J.; LУМtzgendorf, N.; Kissler-Patig, M. Astronomy Astrophysics, accepted, 2015 . ... SchУЖdel, R.; Feldmeier, A. ; Neumayer, N.; Meyer, L.; Yelda, S. Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 31, Issue 24, 12/2014 . ... 2014 . ...

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As noted earlier Kristian Birkeland, reporting in 1903 on his expeditions to the auroral zone, proposed that magnetic disturbances accompanying the aurora were caused by large electric currents flowing down the length of auroral formations. ... Some scientists disagreed with Birkeland and claimed the electrojets did not connect to space but instead their entire circuit lay inside the ionosphere, like that of other ionospheric currents known at the time, believed to be caused by atmospheric tides. ...

. Other Relevant Links . Number counts have been illustrated earlier in the talk. QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | Front page | . | << - Contamination | QSO close pairs - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Up: Surveys & Large Scale Data Management . ... The CoCat (Co-processor Catalogue) project main goal is to parallelize the VizieR large catalogue treatments (data extraction, cross-matching) for reducing the response time. ... Figure 2: The CoCat cluster. As the Sun server is becoming overloaded we decided to move the set of large catalogues to a Linux cluster (the CoCat cluster). ... The CoCat cluster involves one master node and five slave nodes (Fig 2 ). ...

... Files in red?history) . ... Auroral Currents . 25H. Birkeland Currents . ... As noted earlier Kristian Birkeland, reporting in 1903 on his expeditions to the auroral zone, proposed that magnetic disturbances accompanying the aurora were caused by large electric currents flowing down the length of auroral formations. ... In later years these currents became known as the auroral electrojets , and considerable debate ranged over their cause and the way their circuit might be completed. ...

Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix . The first version of the Scenario Machine was aimed especially at the simulation of massive binary star evolution. ... First, there is a large class of intermediate mass binaries (say, consisting initially of 8 + 5 solar masses) that can also produce NS and thus lead to the formation of a bright X-ray source. ... Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix Mike E. Prokhorov . ...