Tammy Smecker-Hane 45 min Review of nearby dSphs and the LMC Taft Armandroff 10 min Andromeda I dE - HST photometry of giant/horizontal branches which illustrate the classic second parameter problem Mario Mateo 10 min Leo II dSph - HST deep CMD and the age distribution Discussion 25 min We will open the meeting by reviewing what is currently known about the star formation and chemical evolution histories of the dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. ... Stars began to form early, ~15 Gyr ago. ...

... We have assumed a constant in time star formation rate and the total number of stars in the Galaxy, , to be such that the total mass of the galaxy is ; assuming the Salpeter mass function   , we get . ... This number agrees with a standard estimation of the galactic star formation rate of order of per year. In each run of calculations, we trace the evolution of binaries with initial parameters randomly distributed according to the chosen initial laws. ...

... PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Testing galaxy formation in high density environments - the extended stellar haloes of giant elliptical galaxies . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... The aim of the thesis is to study the dynamics in the extended haloes of the brightest elliptical galaxies, and to unveil the fossil record caused by past accretion events using Planetary Nebulae (PNe). ...

Next: Power of test Up: Basic principles of Previous: Test statistics . In principle, it is possible to compute a value of the statistic for a single frequency and to test its consistency with a random signal ( ). ... The factor N means that there is an increased probability of accepting a given value of the statistic as consistent with a random signal. ... In the command individual descriptions, we often refer to probability distributions of specific statistics. ...

The Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy Robert L. Brown N AI C Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 1 "FUTURE" Year 2001 Vision* 1. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Board on Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 2 1 "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 1. ... Robert L. Brown "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 7. ... Robert L. Brown A Science-Driven Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy 4. ...

Next: *period* - Period search Up: *fft* - Period search Previous: A summed or incoherent . The distribution of coefficient values for a single FFT is exponential if the original data contain no periodic signal. ... Significant coefficients will appear beyond the high-value end of the normal distributions. ... xt> fft.histogram_bi=0.5 # if necessary, adjust number for an aesthetic plot xt> ftpplot input table file: rp90_ftp The plot will appear on the screen. ...

Light element abundances in NGC 5128 from planetary nebulae Jeremy R. Walsh, ESO George H. Jacoby, WIYN Reynier Pelletier, Kapteyn Lab., Groningen Nic A. Walton, IoA, Cambridge Planetary nebulae · Low mass (~0.7-7M^ј ) main sequence stars undergo a planetary nebula (PN) phase at ages 0.1-10Gyr depending on initial mass , following the red-giant branch (RGB) and asymptotic g iant branch (AGB) to the white dwarf cooling track · L eng th of PN phase ~104 yr (depending on core mass ) · ...

. Subdwarfs . Metal deficient red giants in galactic field . Red horizontal branch stars . Blue horizontal branch stars . Extended horizontal branch stars . Stars inside globular clusters . W Vir type stars . IRAS-sources identified with peculiar supergiants . RCrB type stars . Sakurai's object . peculiar supergiant FG Sge .

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response R. D. Saxton 11 November 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE Blocks changed XSCS ag EPN QUANTUMEF 0015.CCF 2000-01-01 FRACTION CHANNEL, FRACTION ENERGY QE TOTAL, EBINS FRACTION NO EPN REDIST 0009.CCF 2000-01-01 NOISE PARAMS, PARTEVENT PARAMS THRESH LOSS NO 2 Changes Recent calibration work has shown that the Epic-pn redistribution function is in practice narrower than that represented in the current matrices. ...

... Big ellipse: the region of the photometric analysis Smaller ellipses: the adopted inner boundaries of the Main Body and the C component Small circles: diffuse background objects, manually selected and removed from the photometry Uncleaned CMDs [V-I, I] of I Zw 18, obtained using Aloisi et al. (left) and Izotov & Thuan (right) datasets. ... Where is the 'halo'? Blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 1415+435 Hubble Space Telescope / Advanced Camera for Surveys NASA, ESA A. Aloisi (STScI, ESA) et al. ...

... Class . ... FRAMES NO FRAMES All Classes . ... FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD . DETAIL: FIELD | ... java.lang.Object ij.plugin.Distribution . ... public class Distribution . ... This plugin implements the Analyze/Distribution command. ... This method is called when the plugin is loaded. void . ... Constructor Detail public Distribution () . ... This method is called when the plugin is loaded. 'arg', which may be blank, is the argument specified for this plugin in IJ_Props.txt. ...

Last time we saw that flat rotation curves for galaxies, when measured in galaxies with extended gas distributions, provides unambiguous data that shows the mass distribution is dominated by an unseen, spherical halo. ... Perhaps only galaxies with extended dark matter halos are capable of retaining large gaseous extents? . ... Clusters of Galaxies: . ... The case of the Cancer cluster: . ... Below is the velocity distribution of galaxies in the Cancer cluster: . ... What's going on in Cancer? ...

... Figure 5: The location of CPDтИТ20 1123 on the log g T eff diagram, compared with normal sdB stars (Edelmann et al. 2003), helium-rich sdB stars (Ahmad Jeffery 2003; Naslim et al. 2010), helium-rich sdO stars (Stroeer et al. ... We present a fine analysis of the bright intermediate helium sdB star CPDтИТ20 1123 (Albus 1) which shows it to be cool, for a hot subdwarf, with T eff 23 000 K and with a surface helium abundance 17 per cent by number. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... All the galaxies are divided into 4 groups depending on the environment type; every subsample contains more than 10 galaxies. ... An effect of environments is seen both for the nuclei and for the bulges: if we consider the clusters (Virgo and Ursa Ma jor) and group centers as dense environments and the field and group periphery as sparse environments, then in the dense environments the stellar populations of S0s are in average older by 4­5 Gyr than in the sparse ones. ...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

... The obtained results lead to the following conclusions: a) the heavy element enrichment had taken place in the Galaxy in a few bursts of its activity rether than in a continuons manner; b) these bursts occured during the callapse of the early Galaxy; c) the star formation had been inhibited in the time of the bursts; d) the metal enrichment did not proceed in the periods of star formation, between these bursts of activity. ...

... 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. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . OGLE II Sco_SC1 72677 . ... The spectral energy distribution (SED) in the near infrared from 2MASS, MSX6C and IRAS data does not support a post Asymptotic Giant Branch star (post AGB), however, as can be seen from examining the SEDs of known post AGBs (e.g. Szczerba et al. 2007; http://www.ncac.torun.pl/postagb) where usually the flux at 60 and 100 microns shows a distinct downturn. ... Szczerba, R., Si?dmiak, N., Stasinska, G., Borkowski, J., 2007, Astron. ...

... 2005) INT star counts Theory: Origin of outer disk structure Type I: long standing debate about exp. form (but we may have for Type II and Type III) Type II: several models CT: starformation threshold (Kennicutt, 1989; Martin & Kennicutt, 2001; Schaye, 2004) (Elmegreen & Hunter, 2006; Li, Mac Low & Klessen, 2006) OLR: (bar) resonance phenomenon (Debattista et al. 2006) Type III: connection with interactions? star formation? ... Elmegreen & Hunter, 2006) more data is needed to decide on origin! ...