The 2016 Project ASTRO introductory workshop will take place September 16-17, 2016. ... Participating teachers and astronomers are required to attend. ... Home Phone: . ... work email . ... Please briefly describe your background and your experiences in astronomy (if different). Describe experiences you have working with schools or explaining astronomy to students and/or the public. ... What grade level(s) do you prefer to work with (check all that apply) . ... either work or home . ...

My research interests are focussed on the theory and modelling of accretion processes as well as star and planet formation mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the stability properties of accretion discs, the generation of MHD turbulence and associated angular momentum transport, disk - planet interactions and the origin and characteristics of jets and winds from accreting systems . ... These results have been published in Salmeron & Wardle, 2005, M.N.R.A.S., 361: 45-69. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... GLORIA will travel to Peru to broadcast the event live. ... Lunar eclipse . Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. ... A partial eclipse will be visible from the Canary Islands. The broadcast . ...

... 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. email: andrei [dot] romashchenko [AT] gmail [DOT] com . ... Born February 22, 1975 in Moscow, Russia. ... Charg de Recherche (du CNRS) at Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique de de Micro lectronique de Montpellier , the project team: Escape . ... Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic information theory, Shannon's entropy, computational complexity, reliable computations and tilings. ... Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences? Ph.D.) received in 2001. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Since September 2008, I am working as a Postdoctoral Bolton Fellow at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) , a division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). ... Bjorn Emonts . ...

BACKGROUND . ... Electron bombarded silicon (EBS) gain makes the CCD interesting for keV electron detection. Ionizing particles absorbed in silicon create electron-hole pairs at the average rate of one per 3.64 eV incident energy. ... The variance in the number of electron-hole pairs created is given by the Fano factor for silicon (.1-.2) times the number of pairs created. When we use a CCD as a detector of ionizing particles, we would like to collect all of the electrons created. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

. Aristarchus was extremely clever and also figured out a way to determine the ratio of distances between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun. While wrong, at least he reasoned that the sun was much farther from the earth than the moon. Just Try and Follow this! . Summary of Greek Science .

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

Next: Evolution of Supernova Explosion Up: Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Previous: Gravitational Waves from Coalescing . The stochastic binary background produced by nearby galaxies from Tully's catalog at the frequency  Hz is shown in Figure  49 in terms of average strain metric amplitude per square degree in a given direction ( l , b ) on the sky: . where the sum is calculated over all sources in the given square degree of the sky; we assumed . ...

It is very easy to create interesting, tileable patterns using only Gimp plug-ins. ... Let's start with a small 80x80 pixel grayscale image. ... Using the rectangular selection tool, select the uppper-left group of four squares and apply *four times* a 90 degree Whirl. ... Why four times a 90 degree Whirl, and not just once a 360 degree one? ... Now you can either do the same thing for the two lower groups of four squares (in the opposite whirl directions relative to the top groups), or use cut . ...

... A Year of Resolving Backgrounds . ... In X-ray light the recently launched spacecraft Chandra and XMM resolved much of the seemingly uniform X-ray background into many discrete sources, many of which appear to be black holes at the centers of galaxies accreting matter. In microwave light , the BOOMERANG and MAXIMA-1 missions resolved with new clarity the seemingly uniform microwave background . ... Publications with keywords: cosmic microwave background radiation . ... Our Dusty Universe . ...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 1: Introduction andGeneral Considerations > 1.9 Recommendations for Proposers . ... However, observers are strongly advised to read the technical sections that follow in order to develop an optimal observation strategy based on the demands of their individual scientific goals. ... In the case of crowded fields, observers are advised to dither their observations with sub-pixel sampling. ...

This artist's illustration shows the effect of intervening matter in the cosmos on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). On the right, the CMB is released shortly after the Big Bang, with tiny ripples in temperature due to fluctuations in the early universe. ... In the direction of the giant newly-discovered void, the WMAP satellite sees a cold spot, while the VLA sees fewer radio galaxies. Bill Saxton/NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA ...

... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 812 . ... Abstract: The calculation of flux upper limits in the source-free ("background") regions of photon-limited images is complicated by instrumental and statistical modeling and requires non-trivial computational effort. ... The principal component in this is the time taken to pre-process and handle the 30 GB of RASS data rather than the calculation of each upper limit. ...

... What are the fluxes of the stars? ... Volume sampled is no longer 4/3 pi r cubed due to curved space-time Want to derive population properties brightness, size, etc - as function of distance (therefore, cosmic time) But - biases in sample Biases NUMBER OF STARS VS MASS Eddington Bias: in astronomy, there are always more little faint things than big bright things. ... Suppose there are 10 stars of mass 0.5 and 100 stars of mass 0.4, and you have a 20 percent error on measuring the mass. ...

SAS home . ... EPIC background spectra are normally extracted from regions of the observation field-of-view, once "contamination" due to individual discrete celestial sources has been removed. ... In order to cope with this situation, blank sky event lists can be downloaded from the XMM-Newton Science Operations Center web site. ... It is in principle possible as well to extract background spectra from blank field event lists, if the spectrum accumulation regions are defined in sky coordinates. ...

... Centrifuge . ... Tests for the Air Force Pilots . ... Tests for Cosmonauts . ... Services / Centrifuge: General description Technical description Photo gallery Price . Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... The Seasons . ... Section #1 Stargazers and Skywatchers described the observed motion of the Sun across the sky, in different seasons of the year. ... If the Earth's axis were perpendicular to the ecliptic, as in the drawings here, the Sun's position in the sky would be halfway between the celestial poles, and its daily path, seen from any point on Earth, would stay exactly the same, day after day. Each point on Earth would be carried around the axis AB once a day. ... The Sun and Seasons . ...

. Cosmology . Very Early Universe . Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy . Dark Matter Models . Large Scale Structure . High Energy Astrophysics . Active Galactic Nuclei . Astrophysics of Compact Objects . Accretion Disks . Scientific Staff: