Gamma Rays from Galactic Center Dark Matter . ... Fermi Space Telescope , NASA Explanation: What is creating the gamma rays at the center of our Galaxy? Excitement is building that one answer is elusive dark matter . Over the past few years the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been imaging our Galaxy's center in gamma-rays . Repeated detailed analyses indicate that the region surrounding the Galactic center seems too bright to be accounted by known gamma-ray sources . ...

... This section will deal with obtaining photons within specified regions of an image. Available regions are: Annulus Box Circle Ellipse Field -- entire field Irregular region based on intensity of map... i.e. region defined by contour levels. ... The imcnts task in the xray-spatial package sums the source and background counts in specified regions, and subtracts one from the other properly normalized. ... imcnts* - Find counts in an extended region, after removing an embedded point source . ...

... 2014 March 10 . Gamma Rays from Galactic Center Dark Matter? Image Credit: T. Daylan et al. ... Explanation: What is creating the gamma rays at the center of our Galaxy? ... Over the past few years the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been imaging our Galaxy's center in gamma-rays . ... A raw image of the Galactic Center region in gamma-rays is shown above on the left, while the image on the right has all known sources subtracted -- leaving an unexpected excess. ... About APOD | ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

... OGIP spectrum for selected source region . OGIP spectrum for selected background region . ... The primary input to especget is an image data set and two spatial selection expressions which need to mark an extraction region around a point source and a source-free background region. ... All regions will be deleted from the image - new initial selections for source and background regions must be made In the first and second case especget is eventually invoked with the appropriate input. ...

... Classes . ... Regions . ... 00001 //# WCLELMask.h: Class to define a mask as a LEL expression 00002 //# Copyright (C) 2000,2003 00003 //# Associated Universities, Inc. ... /# National Radio Astronomy Observatory 00023 //# 520 Edgemont Road 00024 //# Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA 00025 //# $Id: WCLELMask.h 20615 2009-06-09 02:16:01Z Malte.Marquarding $ 00026 00027 00028 00029 #ifndef IMAGES _ WCLELMASK _H 00030 #define IMAGES _ WCLELMASK _H 00031 00032 //# Includes 00033 #include images /...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Publications . ... AMI Consortium: Hurley-Walker N. et al., 2011, preprint (arXiv:1103.0947) . ... AMI Consortium: Olamaie M. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.4996) . ... AMI Consortium: Shimwell T. W. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.4441) . ... AMI Consortium: Davies et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.3659) . ... AMI Consortium: Franzen et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.3711) . ... AMI Consortium: Rodriguez-Gonzalvez C. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1011.0325) . ...

home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...

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... The flux distributions of spectrophotometric standard stars were initially derived from the comparison of stars to laboratory sources of known flux but are now mostly based on calculated model atmospheres. ... Several historical lab-based flux calibrations are reviewed; and the SEDs of stars in the major online astronomical databases are compared to the CALSPEC reference standard spectrophotometry. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 14 . citations vs. year [year,citations] . ...

... Clean . ... Flux Sign Expo . ... The map above is movable . The image is shown in significance with a squared root color map ranging from 0 to 25. ... Original shows mosaics with all data available. Flux map Error map Significance Exposure . Flux and error maps are in mCrab units. ... Exposure maps are in ksec. INTEGRAL/IBIS 9-year Galactic Hard X-Ray Survey* , A , Volume 545, id.A27 { NASA ADS | ... 7-year Galactic Bulge map , 2009 . 9-year Galactic survey , 2012 . ... Exposure . ...

1000 of these sources, however, remains a mystery; these are the so-called unassociated gamma-ray sources, with no known astrophysical counterpart at any other wavelength. While many LAT unassociated sources likely belong to known classes of objects (e.g. pulsars), a more exotic origin for some of these sources is also possible (e.g. dark matter annihilation). ... These results will aid further studies and follow-up observations of LAT unassociated sources. ...

... 1997: . For the most representative sample of 277 most nearby galaxies, their masses, separations and tidal indexes were determined based on the BTA observations. ... The most detailed light curve of optical star-like source (corresponding to the gamma-burst of May 8, 1997) was obtained from the BTA observations simultaneously in 4 photometric bands. ... An effect of an abrupt rate slowdown is noticeable in the infrared (~8000A) 36 days after the gamma-ray burst. ... Archive . ...

Next: Sample Properties Up: Sample Identification Previous: Comments on Individual Sources . Previously known serendipitous sources were selected by cross-correlating WGACAT with a variety of optical and radio catalogs, including the Ver?n-Cetty & Ver?n (1996) and Hewitt & Burbidge (1993) quasar catalogs, the 1 Jy (Stickel et al. 1994) and S4 (Stickel & K?hr 1994) radio catalogs, and the BL Lac catalog of Padovani & Giommi (1995b). ... Details of these 97 objects are given in Table 6. ...

Next: The Model Up: No Title Previous: Radiopulsars as Sources of . In this section, we study the evolution of stellar populations on a time-scale of 10 Myr for a starburst љ occurring under conditions similar to those in the Galactic Center (see Lipunov et al. (1995d)[ 126 ]). We estimate the expected number of X-ray transient љ sources (NS + MS star), super accreting BH, and BH + supergiant binaries, all as functions of time elapsed after the burst. ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

. This article is a biographical note on Kenneth Essex Edgeworth, sometime Army officer, engineer, economist and independent theoretical astronomer. A bibliography of Edgeworth's known papers is incorporated, and his interesting cosmogonic theories are highlighted, in particular his postulation in 1943 of a source of potential comets occupying the region of the solar system beyond Neptune, recently termed the Kuiper belt.

... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

... 40 љ template < class FuncObject> void processIntersectingRegions ( const SphericalRegionP & region, FuncObject& func) const . ... 44 љ const RootNode* node = treeForRadius[i-1]; . ... 87 љ const Vec3d & c0 = triangle.getConvexContour().at(0); . ... 195 љ template < class FuncObject> void processIntersectingRegions ( const Node& node, const SphericalRegionP & region, FuncObject& func) const . ... 212 љ template < class FuncObject> void processAll ( const Node& node, FuncObject& func) const . ...

The Arcetri Catalog contains measures and bibliographic data for all known H2O maser sources north of declination = -30 degrees (to be observable with the Medicina radiotelescope). ... This database is fully described in Cesaroni et al. ... A statistical analysis on the atlas has been carried (Palagi et al 1993). R. Cesaroni, F. Palagi, M. Felli, M. Catarzi, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, C. Giovanardi, F. Palla: A Catalogue of H2O maser sources north of delta=-30 , Astronomy and Astrophysics Suppl., ...