... Smooth Sections on Asteroid Itokawa . ... 22.04.2007 . ... The unusual asteroid has been visited recently by the Japan ese spacecraft Hayabusa that has been documenting its unusual structure and mysterious lack of craters . ... In late 2005, Hayabusa actually touched down on one of the smooth patches, dubbed the MUSES Sea, and collected soil samples that are to be returned to Earth for analysis. ... April 2007 . ... Publications with keywords: asteroid . ... Asteroid 2007 TU24 Passes the Earth . ...

... 2007 April 22 . Smooth Sections of Asteroid Itokawa . ... Recent analyses of the border regions between smooth and rugged sections of Itokawa indicate that jostling of the asteroid might be creating segregation between large and small rocks near the surface, like the Brazil nut effect . In late 2005, Hayabusa actually touched down on one of the smooth patches, dubbed the MUSES Sea, and collected soil samples that are to be returned to Earth for analysis. ... About APOD | ...

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... Use of a NOM profilometer to measure large aspheric surfaces , J. L. Pearson, G. W. Roberts, P. C. T. Rees, S. J. Thompson , Proc. SPIE vol. ... Advances in active x-ray telescope technologies, Atkins, Carolyn; Doel, Peter; Brooks, David; Thompson, Samantha ; Feldman, Charlotte; Willingale, Richard and 7 co-authors, Proc. SPIE vol 7437 (2009). ... A nickel-carbon-fibre composite for large adaptive mirrors: Fabrication methods and properties , S. J. Thompson , D. Brooks, and A. P. Doel, Opt. ...

Main Sections LabIR main page . Instrument page . ... Tirgo Page . Tirgo Archive . ... Actually, two observations of Z Cnc are available in our archive. ... The data show a well resolved stellar surface (diameter 0.00487?0.00018 arcseconds) and the possible presence of circumstellar emission at the level of few percent of the total flux. The second occultation was recorded at the ESO 3.6m with TIMMI at 10?m on Dec 11, 1995 in collaboration with H.U. Ka?fl (ESO) and B. Stecklum (Jena). ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, Morse lemmas for functionals of the variational calculus, Func.Anal.Appl., ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman. ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, A.B.Shubin, Algorithms for control with a minimal number of switchings, Automation and remote control , V.53, 5:619, 1992. ... TeX file ) . ... Quadratic Poisson brackets compatible with an algebra structure . ... Yu.M.Burman. ... Yu.M.Burman, Whitney's index formula in higher dimensions and Laplace integrals , Preprint math.DG/9801044 . ...

REFEREE REPORT: %% %% %% As made clear by the title of the paper and the observational %% evidence presented, the authors believe that the correct %% identification of HS1216+5032 is as a physical quasar pair, albeit %% with one component showing the rather unusual combination of %% BAL troughs and significant radio luminosity. ... Removed most of the discussion of dark lenses and cosmology, and deleted the section on BALQSOs. ... The paper now totals 5.5 pages, down from 10. ...

Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko . ... Situation Analysis of The "PROGNOZ" Orbit for Solar- Terrestrial Space Experiments. ... Studies of Satellite Situations Mission. ... A Situation Analysis of the Orbits of the Tail and Auroral Probes in the "INTERBALL" Project. ... Specific Tasks of Multiple Scale Plasma Measurement in Regatta- Cluster System (co-authors S. Savin and L. Zelenyi)- In Book: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Space Plasma Physics Investigations by Cluster and Regatta. ...

... Even future mission archives tend to concentrate more on what can be extracted out of a proposal or a Guaranteed Time Observation log than the actual extracted science out of the data itself. ... A year later the data is then publicly available. An archive researcher has then to go through a mass of data to find what may be useful without any indication as to what the actual observer's results were while using the data except the proposal, which in most cases is very general. ...

... VOLUME**, **PUBLICATION YEAR** **EDITORS** Time-resolved spectral analysis of the pulsating helium star V652 Her C.S. Je ery, V.M.Woolf Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, N. Ireland D.L.Pollacco School of Physical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 9NN, N. Ireland Abstract. We present a summary of a new time-dependent spectro- scopic analysis of the pulsating helium star V652 Her. ... The rst direct evidence of a supersonic shock at minimum radius is also obtained. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... The Fiery Birth of Chondrules . ... Chondrules are among the oldest objects in the solar system, dating back to the period when the Sun formed" says Anders Meibom of Stanford University, coauthor of a new paper that examines the chondrules in two chondrites to learn more about how the planets in our solar system formed. ... Lightning zaps and shock waves briefly heated isolated regions of the disk, partially melting the dust. ...

From Paul S. Ray . Discovery of Periodic Phase Modulation in LSI +61 303 Radio Outbursts by P. C. Gregory, M. Peracaula, and A. R. Taylor, ApJ, in press (1999) . Bayesian Periodic Signal Detection: Analysis of 20 Years of Radio Flux Measurements of the X-ray Binary LSI +61 303 by P. C. Gregory, ApJ, in press (1999) . ... The ASCA X-ray Spectrum of the Unusual Binary LSI +61 303 ( 195k .ps ), D. Leahy, F. Harrison, and A. Yoshida, ApJ , 475 , 823 (1997). ...

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... R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D.J. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, B.W. Holwerda, C. Purcell, J. Sick, D.B. Zucker, 2007, ApJL 667, 49 . ... S.A. Kassin, R.S. de Jong, B.J. Weiner 2005, ApJ 643, 804 . ... I. Near-Infrared and Optical Broadband Surface Photometry of 30 Galaxies . ... Eric F. Bell and Roelof S. de Jong 2001, ApJ 550, 212-229 . ... Roelof S. de Jong 1996, A Suppl. ... Back to Roelof's home page () . ...

... 2012: . ... During the study of a deep sample of galaxies in the nearby Lynx-Cancer void on the Indian GMRT radiotelescope in the HI 21 cm line, we discovered an unusual triplet of dwarf galaxies with a low surface brightness (SDSS J0723+3621, J0723+3622 and J0723+3624) in its central part at a distance of 16 Mpc. ... Published: MNRAS, 2013, Volume 428, Issue 2, p.1579-1586 . Discovery of the cosmological evolution of the characteristics of the birthplaces of gamma-ray bursts . ... Archive . ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... More than 300 surface reconstructions are already known for pure Si surface and Si surface with adsorbate. Study of their properties by the methods of surface physics reveal numerous interesting phenomena including various phase transitions accompanied by changes of Fermi-surface topology, development of the charge-density wave, etc . ... The charge-density wave (CDW) develops in materials with a chain-like crystal structure at temperatures below the Peierls transition temperature. ...