... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... What are typical star-to-star distances in globular clusters compared to stellar distances in our region of the galaxy? ... RELATED TOPICS: GLOBULAR CLUSTERS . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Mass . 17a. Measuring Mass . ... A medium-size (1.25 inch wide) binder clip, as is used in offices to hold papers together--the type made of flat blue steel, with two wire handles. ... The theory predicts that the oscillation period should be proportional to the square root of the oscillating mass, including the mass of the clip. Note that gravity plays no part here: the oscillation period would be the same on the Moon or in zero-g. Denoting square root by SQRT, we have . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Solar System . Star Clusters . ... This image, taken from the ALMA observatory in Chile, shows the region (in green) where carbon monoxide snow has formed around the star TW Hydrae (indicated at centre). The blue circle represents where the orbit of Neptune would be when comparing it to the size of the Solar System. ... Solar System : Star : Circumstellar Material . ...

Star formation is often best manifested by bright H II regions.These are regions of hydrogen which have been ionized by ultraviolet photons which are emitted from massive stars (typically stars more than 20 times the mass of the Sun). ... A narrowband filter image centered on this wavelength will then readily reveal these H II regions and hence the current sites of star formation in a galaxy, The luminous blobs that can be seen here are all H II regions . ... NGC 3558 Visual . NGC 3558 Infrared . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Some functions for testing/debugging . This function returns .true. if the given pair of values agree with each other in the given precision (order), or .false. otherwise. LOGICAL(bool) FUNCTION isNearlyEqual(cmp, compared, precision) REAL, intent(in) :: cmp, compared ! or INTEGER INTEGER, intent(in) :: precision END FUNCTION isNearlyEqual . For the pair of the first two arguments, any combination of int8 , int16 , int32 , single and double is allowed. ...

Dust in galaxies can be mapped either by the FIR/submillimeter emission, the optical or infrared reddening of starlight, or the extinction of a known background source. ... We find that distant galaxies are predominantly in low-extinction sections marked by the color maps, indicating that their number depends both on the cloud cover of Spitzer-resolved dust structures, mostly the spiral arms, and a diffuse, unresolved underlying disk. ...

. You can compare any two versions of a file that is under the control of SCCS with the sccsdiff command: /usr/sccs/sccsdiff -r version -r version s. filename . Using this command produces a line by line difference between the two versions of the file. Results are shown in the same format as that produced by the diff command. Examples .

... Classes . Files . ... File List . File Members . casa . Utilities . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory 00023 //# 520 Edgemont Road 00024 //# Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA 00025 //# 00026 //# $Id: Compare.h 20551 2009-03-25 00:11:33Z Malte.Marquarding $ 00027 00028 #ifndef CASA _COMPARE_H 00029 #define CASA _COMPARE_H 00030 00031 //# Includes 00032 #include casa /aips.h 00033 #include casa / Utilities /DataType.h 00034 00035 namespace casa { //# NAMESPACE ...

Jeff mock supplied 6 different types of filters to use with the high resolution mode of the mock spectrometer. ... Plots were made of the time domain voltage response as well as the frequency domain power response. A decimation of 10 was used for the filter decimation. this gave a filter length of 80 coeff. The plots compare the filter shapes for these filter types (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... Each color is a different filter type . middle: spectral density reponse for each filter . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Directory of astronomy web sites. ... Listed Since October 25, 2004 . ... Web Site . http://123world.com/astronomy/index.html . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Kyoto, Nara (Japan) :: 20/08 Nijo castle (ancient shogun palace). Assembly opening. Maiko . Up . Nijo castle, Shogun palace. The main building. Comparing to temples and shrines, royal architecture looks modest. Next >> . Photo album generated by album generator from Marginal Hacks by David Madison on Tue Jun 23 14:46:11 2015 .

As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look to great distances, we are looking back in time. If we can measure how fast the Universe is expanding in the past, and compare it to how fast it is expanding now, we can see the total gravitational effect of all matter in the Universe. Here we plot the distance between two galaxies as a function of time. ... Universes with lots of material . ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

A critical view on Type Ia Supernovae as distance indicators B. Leibundgut European Southern Observatory The use of Type Ia Supernovae to measure cosmological distances relies on several observational facts from nearby supernovae. ... A new approach is to compare global parameters like bolometric (UVOIR) light curves, maximum luminosity, nickel masses, and explosion velocities for many nearby SNe Ia. ...

... Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Program use . Input records are ordered per date of observation, and the list of known (observed) sources is cleared. Each record is compared in position to all the known sources. If the sky distance is less or equal to the specified one, the record is added to the list of observations for that source. If no known sources are within the specified radius, a new source is created, with the coordinates of the observation record. ...

... In short, ROMAFOT performs the best fit by comparing a given pixel to the value of the PSF at the centre of the pixel. This approximation is valid if the pixel size is small compared with the scale length of the point images. ... With the commands below the integral of the PSF over the pixel area is computed via the Gauss - Legendre integration formulae which are characterized by a high precision for a correspondingly small number of subpixels where the PSF must be calculated. ... MODEL/ROMAFOT . ...

Compare to fig 4, of Hogg, D. W., Distance measures in cosmology , # astro -ph/9905116 # use strict; use PDL; use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window; use Astro :: Cosmology ; # cosmologies - h0 is NOT irrelevant here! my $a = Astro :: Cosmology - new ( matter = 1.0, lambda = 0.0, h0 = 100.0 ); my $b = Astro :: Cosmology - new ( matter = 0.05, lambda = 0.0, h0 = Astro::Cosmology v" . Astro::Cosmology->version . ...

... Size of the Solar System Compared to our Galaxy . Mentally construct a model of our place in the Milky Way Galaxy and the distribution of stars using your hand and some birdseed. ... Using a strip of paper, construct a quick scale model of the distances between the orbits of the planets, the Asteroid Belt, and Pluto as part of the Kuiper Belt. Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

The Sun is our nearest star at a distance about eight light minutes. ... The Sun was born about five billion years ago and will continue to shine for another five billion years before it will turn into a red giant. Its energy is created in a fusion reaction of hydrogen atoms into helium. An overview of the Sun's parts. ... The Sun converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into 596 million tons of helium every second .. the rest goes into energy. ...