... The Search for Stellar Origins from Antiquity to the 21st Century . Dr. Charles Lada, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . ... In this talk, "The Search for Stellar Origins from Antiquity to the 21st Century," Dr. Lada will explore the question of why it took so long for star formation to become an active branch of astronomical research. ... ground-based and space-based telescopes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Meetings . Past meetings . THE@INT Science Discussion Meeting: 6th October 2014, RAS, London . ... We will be holding an afternoon (2pm start) meeting on 6th€аOctober 2014€аto present and discuss the prospects of a new high resolution spectrograph installed on the Isaac Newton Telescope.€а This meeting is in light of the recent call for new instrument ideas ( http://www.ing.iac.es/about-ING/int2014.html ) put forward by the ING group in La Palma. ...

P. Frisch - Warm partially ionized interstellar gas at the Sun . ... W. M. Goss - Time variations in small-scale galactic HI structure toward 3C138 . S. Stanimirovic - Does tiny-scale atomic structure exist in the ISM? ... T. Bania - The distance to molecular clouds via HI self-absorption . ... C. Heiles - Arecibo Millennium Survey statistics of magnetic field, column density and turbulence in the CNM . R. Crutcher - Magnetic fields in molecular clouds . ...

STScI . Research . ... The 8.4m ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week probing dark matter and dark energy, searching for supernovae, near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper-belt Objects. ... GRAPES is an ACS grism spectroscopic survey of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ... The Hubble Deep Field is a Director's Discretionary program on HST to image a typical field at high galactic latitude in four wavelengths as deeply as possible. ...

... Ph.D. ( University of Toronto, Canada ). Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (retired) . ... For this she has made observations with the IUE, HST, Chandra, FUSE, WIRE, and XMM satellites. ... Dr. Evans has published over 90 refereed journal articles. This work has appeared in such journals as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomical Journal, Astrophysical Journal. Nancy Evans is a Member of the American Astronomical Association and the Canadian Astronomical Society. ...

The ATNF Canberra office hosted a meeting of the nucleus of the data reduction team for the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) Survey Program, 10-24 November 2000. ... Japan 52, 997-1014, 2000). The complete VSOP Survey sample includes all catalogued extragalactic radio sources in the sky with a total flux density at 5 GHz greater than 0.95 Jy, spectral index a >-0.45, and Galactic latitude |b|>10њ. ... More information on the VSOP Survey can be found at http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/survey . ...

... Talks Posters . ... San Francisco, California (U.S.) - December 17th, 2015 . Investigating the ion-scale spectral properties of solar wind turbulence with high-resolution hybrid simulations" . ... Arcetri, Florence (Italy) - November 11th, 2015 . Ion-scale spectral properties of solar wind turbulence: high-resolution hybrid simulations" . Talk at the "Arcetri 2015 Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics" . ... High-resolution hybrid simulations of kinetic plasma turbulence at proton scales" . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2015 > Galaxies2015 . ... Observing Facilities . ... ALMA . ... Future Facilities and Development . ... A workshop to discuss the scientific results and upcoming opportunities afforded by these new capabilities is timely. ... The workshop location and timing, a few weeks prior to the ALMA Cycle 3 proposal deadline, will provide a rich scientific environment with an emphasis on current and future ALMA capabilities....

... We present 5GHz high resolution VLA observations of 2,127 radio-- and X-ray--emitting sources found in both the Green Bank (GB) 5GHz radio catalog and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). We report core flux densities and positions accurate to =-0.5". ... This table has 1861 rows and 9 columns giving: Catalog source name, RA and DEC (J2000), observation code, S/N ratio, VLA core flux density at 5 GHz (mJy), Green Bank flux density at 5 GHz (mJy), error in Green Bank flux density (mJy), and Notes. ...

... Membership . ... The name of this organization shall be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Incorporated (hereinafter abbreviated as AAAP). ... General membership shall be open to any person paying dues with the proviso that any member under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult while at any AAAP meeting, other function, or observatory. ... A. Director The Director shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees and at all general membership meetings. ...

... Opening of COSMION - 99 Chair - M.Yu.Khlopov 10.50-11.25. A.Yu.Kamenshchik, I.M.Khalatnikov, A.V.Toporensky "Dynamics of Closed Cosmological Model with a Scalar Field" 11.25-12.00. A.A. Starobinsky "A new life of the Lifshitz-Khalatnikov quasi-isotropic solution" Coffee break Chair - A.A.Starobinsky 12.20-12.55. ... M.Yu.Khlopov "Cosmological Consequence of the Particle Theory: Dark Matter, Antimatter and Mirror Matter in the Universe" Coffee break Chair - Yu.N.Parijsky 12.30-13.10. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... 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. ...

Research Area: Observational Astrophysics . Research Interests include: Galaxy Evolution , Large Scale Structure, CCD Sky Surveys. ... Research Area: Astrophysics . Research Interests include: accretion disks; dense fluids . ... Research Area : Experimental Astrophysics . Research Interests : Galaxy surveys, evolution and properties of galaxies, . Research Area: Theoretical Astrophysics . Research Interests include: Gravitational Wave formation, propagation and detection; . ...

... X-ray (left) and magnetic field (right) evolution of an X-ray jet in coronal hole. ... In both coronal holes and quiet-Sun regions, all brightening events are associated with bipolar regions and caused by magnetic flux emergence followed by cancellation with the pre-existing and/or newly emerging magnetic flux. ... The dominant flux of the coronal hole form the largest concentration of magnetic flux in terms of size while the opposite polarity is distributed in small concentrations. ...

Next: Examples of data contained Up: Electronic database Previous: Future plans . In astrophysics, the optical constants mainly are used to calculate the optical properties of scatterers, i.e. cross-sections, scattering matrix, etc. ... Optical properties derived from such models have been discussed in some books (see, e.g., [ 2 , 3 ]) and in principle can be calculated by using various light-scattering tools which are freely available via the internet [ 4 ]. ...

... By taking advantage of atomic hydrogen (HI) observations obtained as part of the GALEX Arecibo SDSS and ALFALFA surveys, I will demonstrate that the combination of deep, targeted observations and spectral stacking of blind, large-area shallow surveys is critical in order to characterize how the gas content of galaxies depends on their structure, star formation activity and environment. ...

... of the RadioAstron Meeting . ... Chairman Kulikov S.D. · Welcome . S.D. Kulikov (10 min) . Discussion of the Agenda (10 min) . Development and tests of the spacecraft “SPEKTR-R” and general time-line of the mission . ... Time-line of development of science payload . ... E. Fomalont (NRAO), P. Diamond (EVN), D. Jauncey (Australia), . ... E. Fomalont, W. Cannon, L. Girvits, S.F. Likhachev (30 min) . ... Technical and operation experience, and science results from VSOP mission . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

Swift/ XRT radiation damage and results from the lab using a proton-damaged CCD Claudio Pagani (Swift/ XRT team) XMM Calibration Meeting, Leicester, 7/3/2012 XRT CCD e2v CCD -22 detector (developed for EPIC MOS camera on XMM) Operated in Photon Counting (PC) and Windowed Timing (WT) mode 4 55Fe corner sources continuously illuminate CCD corners, used to monitor CCD performance Spectral resolution at launch: FWHM = 135 eV at Mn K- (5.9 ...