... The 220 Mirrors of CRTF . ... Recently, astronomers with the STACEE project have begun using CRTF to collect secondary light emitted when high-energy gamma rays strike the Earth's atmosphere. Photons in this range might allow further exploration of enigmatic gamma ray burst explosions, and might be emitted when cosmic rays from supernovae impact gas clouds in the interstellar medium . ... Publications with keywords: cosmic rays - telescope - gamma ray . ... Cosmic Rays from Galactic Centers . ...

... October 4, 1999 . The 220 Mirrors of CRTF . ... Explanation: Even the largest of modern optical telescopes are small when compared with the light gathering power of the Central Receiver Test Facility (CRTF) located in New Mexico , USA. CRTF has 220 mirrors each over 7-meters in diameter all focused on a single tower. ... Recently, astronomers with the STACEE project have begun using CRTF to collect secondary light emitted when high-energy gamma rays strike the Earth's atmosphere. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Careers overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Cosmic engine for senior students . ... On the basis of diffusive cosmic ray flow along the galactic arms, the power required for the galaxy to maintain this flow is below watts. Keywords: ISM: cosmic rays . ... Southern Cosmic Ray Anisotropies . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... The Hamamatsu C7244 and C7245 are high-speed gated image intensifier units developed specifically for imaging of high speed phenomena occurring at low light levels. ... The image intensifier head easily connects to the front of a CCD camera to configure a high-speed shutter camera that allows capturing still images of high-speed phenomena at any desired timing. ... C7245 using a two-stage MCP image intensifier) . ... Low image distortion (proximity-focused image intensifier) . ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... Up: Web Services and Publications . ... This is being done natively in new Java-based applications while older applications are being wrapped to provide Web Service interfaces. ... Data access is via the network enabled NDF data access layer for the older, non-Java applications and via the new HDX layer (Giaretta et al. 2003) for the pure-Java application. ... Use of Web Services as a new messaging system will allow Starlink applications increased flexibility. ...

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... 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....

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... This is a web site of the research project Optimal transport: Theory and applications to cosmological reconstruction and image processing (OTARIE) supported by the French National Research Agency ( Agence nationale de la recherche ) under contract ANR-07-BLAN-0235 . ... Optimal transport is a mathematical subject connecting the fields of optimization, partial differential equations, and dynamical systems in finite and infinite dimensions. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Applications ERC Starting Grants Hosted at ESO . ... Observing Facilities . ... ESO welcomes applications from qualified researchers wishing to conduct their frontier research at ESO with the support of one of the prestigious European Research Council ( ERC ) grants in the Starting Grant category. ... The ESO application serves as a preliminary step to grant the host approval that is required by the EU. ...

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... Pre-application form . Excel file with explanations how to fill; please, save the table in format not later Excel-1997-2003.) ... Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad that have to be translated into native languages of participants (if using Word, please, save the translation in format not later Word-1997-2003), attention for additions during last years ( blue and red text ): . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... Light weight and low power consumption combined with nearly quantum limited sensitivity and a wide tuning range of the superconducting local oscillator make SIR a perfect candidate for many practical applications. Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) [1] comprises on one chip a low-noise SIS mixer with quasioptical antenna, an Flux-Flow Oscillator (FFO) acting as a Local Oscillator (LO) and a second SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for the FFO phase locking. ...

For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... SQRT (25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... T= 5063.5 seconds SQRT(r') 3 = 5063 sec r'SQRT=(r') . This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ... International communication satellites are in the equatorial plane of the Earth and have orbits with a 24-hour period. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...