... Archives . ... ArXiv] SVM and galaxy morphological classification, Sept. 10, 2007 . ... On the Metallicity-Color Relations and Bimodal Color Distributions in Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems by M. Cantiello and J. P. Blakeslee . Many observations on globular cluster systems (GCS) show bimodal distributions in color and metallicity space. ... Based on their simulation study, (V-H) and (V-K) are confirmed to be good colors for revealing unbiased bimodal metallicity distributions in GCS. ...

Main research interests: . 1) Structure and geometry of the circumnuclear medium of AGN, particularly through hard X-ray observations of obscured sources. ... 3) Physics of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs): analysis of the AGN and starburst components through hard X-ray and infrared (with ground-based 3-5 micron spectroscopy, and with Spitzer in the 5-30 micron band) imaging and spectroscopy. ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... AIA 304 ? ... bottom) images (colour table reversed) of a coronal hole region at the South Pole taken on 14 May 2010. ... In the present work we derive a Differential Emission Measure (DEM) distribution from a region dominated by spicules. ... This distribution is then used to study the thermal properties of the emission contributing to the 171 ? ... From our off-limb DEM we found that the radiance in the AIA 171 ? ...

... In this first example, we allow an object to fall onto a small radar unit . The resulting Time-Frequency distribution is shown as a contour plot in Fig. 8 (a). Figure: FIGURE GOES SOMEWHERE IN THIS GENERAL VICINITY . ... Its density plot appears as an image in Fig. ... The response has a very high peak, as evidenced from Fig. ...

Next: Extinction efficiencies: general behaviour Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: Optical properties of cosmic . It is now evident that observed interstellar extinction cannot be explain using particles of only one kind. ... The intensity of radiation after passing a dust cloud is equal to . ... The interstellar extinction is . ... Next: Extinction efficiencies: general behaviour Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: Optical properties of cosmic root 2003-04-09 ...

... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search - PS reprint - PDF reprint . ... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 304 . ... The Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) prototype is a suite of tools that serves as a testbed for scientific and technical use cases. ... The AVO is a research and demonstration programme jointly funded by the European Commission and six European organizations. ...

... ,E_=v_B_z,B_z0 Light cylinder at RL U = electric voltage created by rotating BH I = large scale current I U LK Centrifugal acceleration in BH magnetosphere Assume `reasonable' B and E fields, from current I : Bz = 0 = v/v 1 Motion of a test particle P ( ) Light cylinder Pz() P() z() Here = 0.01 and = rc,i/RL = 0.01 Growth of particle Lorentz factor ( ) log k At light cylinder : = Here with initial value is the absolute maximal reachable by this process (ie no ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Cosmic Adventures . ... Planck steps closer to the cosmic blueprint . ... This all-sky image shows the spatial distribution over the whole sky of the galactic haze at 30 and 44 GHz, extracted from the Planck observations. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... 2009: . ... New Wolf-Rayet Type Star. ... It was discovered that the peculiar velocity of the star is about 50km/s, and that it was discarded from a young star cluster. ... Based on the observational data from the 6-m telescope and from other sources, it was shown with high reliability that chemically peculiar stars with strong depressions in their continuum energy distributions possess the magnetic fields and rotation periods 2 and 3 times larger, respectively, than the stars with weak depressions....

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

... astro-ph . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . ... Quasar Variability in the Framework of Poissonian Models . ... It is shown that in this very general framework the well established anti-correlation between variability amplitude and wavelength can only be understood as an effect of an underlying spectral component which remains stable on long time-scales, and is redder than the variable component. ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

... Measure spectrographic field distortion . ... Test collimation . ... The systems that comprise the 2.5-m Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope must be tested as installation and integration occurs so that problems are discovered at the component and subsystem level rather than at the system level where debugging is more expensive and time consuming. ... This document complements the telescope tests dependency chart that is available as a postscript file. ... Z1 == azimuth axis (zenith direction)...

... The Infrared Sky . ... The Great Nebula in Orion . ... Interplanetary Spaceship Passes Earth . ... The Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC) . ... Jovian Aurora . ... These two recently released Hubble Space Telescope close-ups show the Northern and Southern lights ... on Jupiter. Like aurora on Earth, these Jovian aurora are caused by charged particles funneled into the atmosphere above the planet's North (right) and South poles by magnetic fields. Closer To Beta Pic . ... Arachnoids on Venus . ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . FileљList . ... core . modules . Skylight.hpp . ... 33 љ float color[3]; // 3 component color, can be RGB or CIE color system . ... 48 љ void setParams( float sunZenithAngle, float turbidity); . ... 109 љ float zenithLuminance; // Y color component of the CIE color at zenith (luminance) . 110 љ float zenithColorX; // x color component of the CIE color at zenith . 111 љ float zenithColorY; // y color component of the CIE color at zenith . ...