Estimating the NEO Population and Impact Risk: Past, Present and Future . ... Since most of the risk resides in the largest impactors, finding that fraction of the largest bodies, and that none of them has a significant chance of impacting in the next century or so, "retires" more than 90 % of the impact risk, including most of the risk of a globally catastrophic impact event. ... In the mid-size range, from ~150 m to ~1 km, the main risk is from tsunami generated by an ocean impact. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

[ CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . 2000ApJS..131..335Rutledge+ . Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy MS 220-47, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91107 rutledge@srl.caltech.edu, rb@astro.caltech.edu, prince@srl.caltech.edu

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

... Several attempts to discover the FICN signal in VLBI nutation series made during last years failed. ... We investigated several VLBI CPO series by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. It has been shown that there are several periodic signals with close amplitude around the expected FICN period without any prevailing one that can be reliably associated with the FICN. ... DATA ANALYSIS We analyzed several CPO series obtained in IVS analysis centers by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

... 2005 June 14 . Gliese 876 System Includes Large Terrestrial Planet . ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. The planet's small mass indicates that it is likely terrestrial in nature, similar in composition to the inner planets of our Solar System . ... The newly discovered terrestrial-like planet is depicted in the insert. ... About APOD | ...

... Instrument Science Report WFPC2 2001­008 Creating WFPC2 Dark Reference Files: Addendum J. Mack, S. Baggett, J. Biretta September 5, 2001 ABSTRACT In this report, we describe recent updates to the procedures already in place for making WFPC2 dark reference files. These updates include the ability to create dark reference files by using either weekly or daily dark images as input. ... The dark images you select as input will be combined to make the output dark reference file. ...

Proceedings of the Particle Physics and Early Universe Conference (PPEUC). For this paper: postscript PPEUC CMB index 1 Observations.. ... VLA observations at 8.4 GHz of a field within one of the Hubble MDS regions have allowed us to set upper limits on fluctuations in the CMBR on angular scales from down to . ... We interpret it as the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich signal from a high redshift cluster. Interestingly, within about of this decrement, lie two radio-quiet quasars both at . ...

... For instance, known errors in the line locations, as well as missing lines with only minimal information, can be included directly during fitting. ... The Markov Chain Monte Carlo based method also naturally produces error estimates on the fit parameters.1 Keywords: Differential Emission Measures, Emissivity Matrix, Atomic Data Error, Capella INTRODUCTION The differential emission measures (DEMs) is the distribution of the amount of material in coronae as a function of temperature. ...

Next: NICMOS Science Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Software at the . ... Reference File Tools . Image Analysis and Reduction . ... These include the tasks used in the STScI pipeline, tools to generate the reference files used by the calibration pipeline tasks, and general image analysis, manipulation, and arithmetic tasks. ... Calnica is used to apply instrumental calibrations to individual datasets, while calnicb is used to process associated sets of NICMOS images. ...

... Classes . Files . ... File List . ... casa . Containers . ... include <casa/Containers/Map.tcc> . ... casa::MapRep< key, value > . ... casa::Map< key, value > . Abstract base class for associative arrays. ... casa::MapIterRep< key, value > . Abstract base class for associative array iterators. ... casa::ConstMapIter< key, value > . ... casa::MapIter< key, value > . ... Definition at line 39 of file Map.h . ... Generated on Fri Sep 3 2010 13:07:39 for casacore by 1.7.1 ...

... ekstest (ekstest-2.2.5) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... It then performs a variety of variability tests, including the Kolmogorov-Smirnov probability of constancy test, chi-squared probability of constancy test, flare tests and on the light curve to determine whether the source is variable and writes the various statistics and probabilities that the source is not variable and the number of good bins used to determine these values into the header of a new version of the file or to the screen. ...

... Fortunately, astronomy is an exception in this regard. ... As commercial databases have been described in detail before (see e.g. Watson 1991), this chapter will concentrate on Library information services that require neither an account nor a password and do not charge fees according to the connecting time or the number of data sets that are displayed or downloaded. ... American Astronomical Society (AAS) . Astronomical Observatory Trieste (OAT) library . ... Center for Astrophysics library . ...

Next: Observational Zoo of Binaries Up: No Title Previous: Contents . In the early 1980s, our understanding of binary star evolution љ based on the pioneer work by Paczynski (1971)[ 150 ], Tutukov and Yungelson (1973)[ 195 ], van den Heuvel and Heise (1972)[ 201 ], allowed us to construct a general evolutionary scenario љ which successfully explained the genesis of well-studied normal stars and offered potential explanation for new X-ray sources discovered in space experiments. ...

This is a study of the interstellar matter associated with the Pleiades star cluster. ... Since that time, the project has been extended to include more thorough tests of dust scattering models, more detailed analyses of the gas kinematics, and power spectrum studies of the multiscale structure of the nebulosity. ... The Pleiades Reflection Nebula. ... Gibson, S. J., & Nordsieck, K. H. 2003, Astrophysical Journal , 589 , 347 . ... B&W preprint: local gzipped PS . Color preprint: local gzipped PS | ...

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... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

EURONEAR - recovery, follow-up and discovery of NEAs and MBAs using large field 1-2 m telescopes . ... Using these data, we present the incidental survey work which includes 558 known MBAs and 628 unknown moving objects mostly consistent with MBAs from which 58 objects became official discoveries. ... Based on three evaluation methods, most of our unknown objects are consistent with MBAs, while up to 16 unknown objects could represent NEO candidates and four represent our best NEO candidates. ...