Feed cabin Nr. ... Fig. ... This allows to realize the sensitivity at frequency ranges 4.8, 11.2 and 30.0 GHz of 5, 7 and 12 mK by double beam switching mode and by the integration time of the output filter 1s. Input waveguide paths were very long and had big losses. ... The focal line of the feed cabin Nr. ... Data Acquisition and Control System . The Data acquisition system of the feed cabin Nr 2 is based on the new measurement ER-DAS system (Embedded Radiometric Data Acquisition System). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... M81: Feeding a Black Hole . ... Credit Copyright: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wisconsin/D.Pooley CfA/A.Zezas; . ... IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA Explanation: This impressive color composite shows spiral galaxy M81 across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The inset highlights X-rays from some of M81's black holes, including black holes in binary star systems with about 10 times the mass of the sun, as well as the central, supermassive black hole of over 70 million solar masses . ... Across the Center of Centaurus A ...

... 2008 June 27 . M81: Feeding a Black Hole . Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wisconsin/D.Pooley CfA/A.Zezas; . Optical: NASA/ESA/CfA/A.Zezas; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA/J.Huchra et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA . ... The inset highlights X-rays from some of M81's black holes, including black holes in binary star systems with about 10 times the mass of the sun, as well as the central, supermassive black hole of over 70 million solar masses . ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

The offsets (in focal plane and sky) are shown for various configurations (.ps) ( .pdf ): . Each plot shows the location of the 19 dipoles in various positions. ... On 29jun10 i switched to use the measured center locations on the sky.. but: . ... Page 1,2 have the dipoles as they are mounted on the positioner with no rotation. ... Page 3: Dipoles at center (focal plane) . ... Page 5: Dipoles at center and positions A1-A6 (focal plane) . Page 6: Dipoles at center and positions A1-A6 (on sky) . ...

This page describes the Twitter feed that gives the current location of the Chandra X-ray Telescope. ... Further information on Chandra can be found at: . ... Tracking Chandra . ... The twitter feed is actually a simple Haskell program that grabs the current location from the Science@NASA Chandra Track page, and then uses the GeoNames web service to convert this location into something more readable than a latitude and longitude. ... If you have any other ideas send them to the Chandra Twitter feed . ...

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The antenna element Ravi ATNF, Narrabri 1. ... Miriad works out the radio Parabolic reflector: A parabolic reflector adds all the fields from a surface = aperture at a focal point. ... Feeds are `compact' and `corrugated' horns The inner profile is curved The inner surface has grooves Cross-section of a horn Sub-reflector 28 main-reflector Feed horn O `optical axis' The feed horn adds all the rays that come from the 28 deg. wide sub-reflector. The feed down-weights rays that come off-axis. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Feeding frenzy of a supermassive black hole . ... Without much material, the black hole remains fairly quiet, at least when compared with the supermassive black holes in some other galaxies. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

We report MIPS photometry of 20 radio-loud quasars and galaxies at 24 and 70 ЮМm (and of five at 160 ЮМm). We combine this sample with additional sources detected in the far-infrared by IRAS and ISO for a total of 47 objects, including 23 steep-spectrum type I AGNs: radio-loud quasars and broad-line radio galaxies; and 24 type II AGNs: narrow-line and weak-line FR II radio galaxies. ... Thus, the measurements at these wavelengths can be used to test the orientation-dependent unification model. ...

... 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. ...

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... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Near-infrared images of the active galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, disclose with unprecedented detail a complex central network of filamentary structure spiralling down to the centre of the galaxy. ... Our analysis of the VLT/NACO images of NGC 1097 shows that these filaments end up at the very centre of the galaxy ", says co-author Juha Reunanen from ESO. ... The Centre of the Active Galaxy NGC 1097 ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

RATAN-600 as a Multibeam Radio Telescope for CMBA Observations V.Khaikin et al. The Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS, Russia Multibeam mode seems to be an unavoidable solution for the ex- isting and the next generation re ector radio telescopes where high sensitive(or high speed) mapping is the main goal. In some observation modes RATAN-600 aberrationless focal zone may be signi cant enough to locate a feed array consisting of 500-3500 receiver elements. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... This image combines orbital imagery with 3-D modelling to show flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars' Newton crater. ... Warm season flows on a slope in Newton Crater, possible evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today. Image credit: NASA) . ... Frozen water is common on and under the surface of Mars but these images are the best evidence to date for the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface today. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... PU-TAIN !! ... Post Message | ... It was a clear and beautiful day today. Deep blue sky. This night I watched for two flares, Iridium 72's one and Iridium 26's one. 72 were scheduled to pass just above Jupiter at 11h25 pm. ... H-10 : The sky is clear and limpid. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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