... To be read in conjunction with Section 4.11 of the WFPC2 Instrument Handbook , -Version 4.0. ... 1 The second study found evidence that CTE loss for faint stars has increased with time (Whitmore, 1998). The primary observational consequence of CTE loss is that a point source at the top of the chip appears to be fainter than if observed at the bottom of the chip, due to the loss of electrons as the star is read out down the chip (see Figure 1 ). ... Last updated: 06/16/98 10:38:00 . ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

... Highlights . ... PPTA timeline . ... Data release 2 discussion . Editing this wiki . ... Detecting and limiting the gravitational-wave background: Yardley et al. (2011) used the PPTA data sets to attempt to detect a gravitational wave background. ... Jenet et al. (2006) provided the first stringent upper bound on the gravitational wave background using the PPTA data sets. ... 2012). ... We have used the PPTA observations to develop the first major pulsar-based timescale (Hobbs et al. ...

SAS home . ... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract PN spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with epproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name PN.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

... Down), have conducted astrometric observations of main-belt and near-Earth asteroids using the Observatory's ST-7 CCD camera attached to the Armagh Planetarium's 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Three main-belt asteroids were observed, namely (304)Olga, (849)Ara and (1146)Biarmia. ... It is believed that these observations were also the first Earth-approaching near-Earth asteroid to be observed with the Faulkes Telescope (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/press/2000PH5.html). ...

... 12c. Venus transit (1) . 12d. Venus transit (2) . 12e. Venus transit (3) . ... 1 The 2004 Venus transit . ... Kepler's third law allows one to evaluate the dimensions of the solar system in relative units, e.g. in " astronomical units " (AUs), where 1 AU is the mean Sun-Earth distance. ... Edmond Halley suggested using the transit of Venus across the Sun's disk, when it appears as a dark round spot --or to quote one observer of the 2004 transit, "like a blueberry in front of an orange." ...

... The improvement will be more pronounced in our crowded Wide Field Camera (WFC) images, and may be increased further through use of a more sophisticated method of combining the individual dithered images. Our analysis allows us to check for point spread function shape variations in the HST Planetary Camera (PC) field. ... In crowded field images, we are deriving information about the faint end of the luminosity function (LF) from the texture of the image background. ...

... Contacts . 2012: . ... We refined the fundamental parameters of the components, the orbital periods, and the conditions of photospheric heating of the secondary component by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot component. ... The observations of the star clusters associated with ultra-luminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in four galaxies on the 6-meter and VLT telescopes have shown that all the ULXs are located within 200pc of very young star clusters (younger than 5 million years). ... Archive . ...

... We will consider the rms, (K), for observations with a receiver of system temperature, T , frequency resolution, per polarization, and total integration time per observing cycle, . ... For ``in-band'' frequency switching, the line under investigation is always in the observing band. ... Position Switching or ``Out-of-Band'' Frequency Switching: Here the line is only observed for one half of the time, with noise being present all of the time. ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... From the peculiar shape of the light curve in the visible spectral region (a long phase interval of light constancy was observed by Hensberge et al. in 1981 ), HD 56022 had been expected to show unambiguously the nonequatorial symmetry of its surface brightness distribution. However, analysis of the light curve has yielded a possible equatorial position of a spot. ... A solution seems only possible, if the light constancy over the long phase interval in the visible is not observed in the UV. ...

... 1.Magnetic and magneto-elastic properties of heavy rare earth metals. ... High magnetic fields of 100 kOe and more were necessary to saturate the magnetization of havy rare earth metals. ... It was shown that the effective exchange field theory is sufficient for the description of the magnetic order in heavy rare earth metals and their compounds. ... The duality of the state of the magnetic carriers in the traditional 3d-magnetic materials. ... LHPP ISSP RAS © 2004 All rights reserved ...

... 67Lawrence+ Of the 3118 sources in the Arecibo 611 MHz survey, 2911 have been observed using the NRAO 300 ft transit telescope at 6 cm. ... 4 Mean 1950 RA (see col.3.) ... 6 Mean 1950 Decl. (see col.3.). if A appears in col.1, the Arecibo dec. is listed. 7 Dec error in arc seconds (see col.3.) ... 16 Number of observations, in the form abc, where a is the number of observations averaged in RA, b is the number of observations averaged Dec, c is the number of observations averaged in flux. ...

When entering Identification section user should open the file with observed positions of objects which are to be identified (the file may be first created). ... Format of observations must coincide with that of optic observations in which they are published by Minor Planet Center (observed position may be presented as “accurate” or “approximate” one): . ... observed right ascension (in hours, minutes, and seconds of time (“accurate position”) or in hours and minutes (“approximate position”) . ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... Posts tagged ?BEHR? ... A great advantage of Bayesian analysis, they say, is the ability to propagate the posterior. That is, if we derive a posterior probability distribution function for a parameter using one dataset, we can apply that as the prior when a new dataset comes along, and thereby improve our estimates of the parameter and shrink the error bars. ... Suppose you have two data sets, D1 and D2, hypotheses H, and background info (model, etc.) ... Comment . ... 7 Comments . ...

... 19.10.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Simulating Extreme Spacetimes Collaboration Explanation: What happens when two black holes collide? ... The featured video shows a computer animation of the final stages of such a merger, while highlighting the gravitational lensing effects that would appear on a background starfield . ... Eventually the two black holes coalesce . ... Publications with keywords: black hole - gravitational radiation . Publications with words: black hole - gravitational radiation . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... May 2016: Gravitational waves breakthrough . ... Cosmic Adventures . ... Gravitational waves remain elusive, according to Planck . ... GRAVITATIONAL WAVES | ... In fact, in September 2014, Planck revealed for the first time that the polarized emission from dust is significant over the entire sky and comparable to the signal detected by BICEP2 even in the cleanest regions . ...