... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Summary of reduced ISAAC fields . ... This data release includes eight fully reduced VLT/ISAAC fields in J,H,K s bands covering 50 arcmin 2 of the GOODS region in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). ... 8 ISAAC fields) . ... The 8 ISAAC fields which are part of this data release are superimposed onto a SOFI image (J+K) (part of a previous EIS data release). ... In one case (GOODS field 11/J-band), for which not enough standard stars were available, the ZP was boostrapped from previous SOFI/EIS data...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

Next: Data Fusion from Diverse Resources for Optical Identification of Radio Sources. ... Sung, H.-i., Kim, S. C., Yim, I. S., Nam, H.-W., Kim, B. G., Kim, J., & Lee, D.-J. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The first dataset is from the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO)'s 1.8m optical telescope. ... In this paper, we introduce the prototype version of KADC using the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) 1.8m optical telescope data. ... Figure 3: The KADC web page showing the search result. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

The HST images of GRB 990123. HST has observed this field in the 50CCD (open) filter on the 8 February 1999, 23 March 1999, and the 7 February 2000, or 16, 59 and 380 days after outburst. ... On the left in the above image is the February 1999 image of GRB 990123, on the right the difference between that image and the February 2000 image. ... On the left in the above image is the March 1999 image of GRB 990123, on the right the difference between that image and the February 2000 image. ... 1999). ...

The ChaMP announces a second release of processed optical and X-ray data. ChaMP X-ray Point Source Catalog , the basic parameters, photometry, and flux of 6512 ChaMP sources in 130 Chandra observations from Chandra Cycles 1 and 2 (Last Update 08/09/2006, Release Notes ) . ChaMP X-ray Products and Catalogs for Publicly released Chandra/ChaMP Fields . Full Field Images includes FITS and GIF images, source lists, and X-ray data products. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... The 9C survey of radio sources was made with the Ryle Telescope at a frequency of 15.2 GHz and a resolution of 25ТљxТљ25Тљcosec(dec) arcsec 2 . ... Waldram, E.M., Pooley, G.G., Grainge, K.J.B., Jones, M.E., Saunders, R.D.E., Scott, P.F., Taylor, A.C., 2003, MNRAS, 342, 915 . ... Field name . ... It comprises seven fields, each delineated by boundaries in RA and Dec, together covering a total of 114.7 deg 2 for which the source catalogue is complete to ~ 10 mJy. ...

... 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. ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Email discussion lists . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Arch | ... Duchamp . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... This email announces the latest update to the Duchamp source-finding . software package. ... Next message : Matthew.Whiting_at_email.protected: ""[duchamp-user]" [Duchamp] New version of the Duchamp source-finder" . ...

Slews: Fast and Slow Fast Slew Status XMMSL1 : catalogue of slew sources released May 2006 Revs 314-978, 5180 detections, 2692 clean sources , 259 hard (2-10 keV) sources , 6200 square degrees, attitude error=8 (1 sigma) Read et al, 2006, PASJ - Scientific highlights Esquej et al, 2007, A A ­ High variability galaxies Saxton et al, 2007, A A (in prep) ­ Full description SOFT 0.2-2 keV HARD 2-12 keV Fast ... Total of 10,000 deg^2; about 4000 clean sources. ...

... Solar flare activity is produced by the processes of accumulation and release of energy in an active region. ... In the framework of study of solar active regions, producing powerful flares the researchers from the RATAN-600 radio telescope have detected sources with features in the form of a sharp drop in the intensity of polarized radiation in various parts of the recorded frequency range (2-16GHz), sometimes changing the sign of polarization. ...

Next: Population Synthesis of X-ray Up: Cosmic Rays and Evolution Previous: Supernova Explosions . Immediately after the discovery of pulsars, especially of the Crab pulsar,   it became clear that rapidly rotating NS are copious sources of relativistic particles. ... Figure 37: Evolution of magnetorotational energy of NS in elliptical and spiral galaxies. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

. The Source Code Control System is an essential tool for any project with multiple source files or which has several people working with multiple source files. It provides a way to keep track of a source file's development and to prevent it from being altered by more than one person at a time. Putting files under SCCS control . Checking out files . Checking in files . Getting information about files . Creating new releases . Comparing files under SCCS control .

The Sun 11 Solar radio bursts study with high spatial and temporal resolution V.A. Alexeev, A.F. Dementyev, B.N. Lipatov, V.F. Melnikov, M.B. Nechaeva, S.D. Snegirev, Yu.V. Tikhomirov Radiophysical Research Institute NIRFI, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia Theoretical and experimental researches of the energy release fragmentation in solar ares need observations with high spatial 0.01 1 arcsec and temporal 1 ms resolution. ... Several VLBI stations all over the Russia were supplied by this set of equipment. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... This project was my personal idea quite some time ago: to port XFree86 , the free and optimized X11R6 implementation to OS/2. ... XFree86/OS2 is now available as a public version 3.3.6, which does not expire and for which full source code is available. ... x.physics.usyd.edu.au Please send a mail to me with a complete URL if you have set up a ftp server or a mirror for XFree86/OS2. ... Available ported software . ... I'll still be available as the mediator between XFree86/OS2 and general XFree86. ...

... This story was presented at a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, at 10am on 7th January 2004, US Eastern Time (2am 8th January AEST). ... The animation uses data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (at Siding Spring Observatory) and the Blanco Telescope (at Cerro Tololo Observatory), and should be credited to NASA. NASA Website: The galaxy filament was first identified using the Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory: . ...