... HST . ... Missions . ... Data . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Servicing Missions . Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . Cycle 23 Results . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Target Acquisition Reference Information . Table 7.3 on page 98 lists the effective areas of the four acquisition mirrors (in cm2) as a function of wavelength, to use to predict acquisition count rates. ...

... Briefly, the count rate at the detector from a source at a redshift z is . ... Another possible way that could lead to arising diverse peculiarities in the - distribution induced by the sources evolution is connected with a possible non-monotonic character of the star formation rate in galaxies. ... The most prominent feature of the obtained theoretical - is a notable sharp increase at low count rates due to evolutionary effects. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Studying the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with (Sub-)mm Observations . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Studies of the Planck data set with optical and sub-mm follow-up observations give new insights about the early assembly of the first clusters, and the later evolution of their gas content as well as of their population of star-forming galaxies. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

Next: EVOLUTION MODELS Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: EXTREME HELIUM STARS . The characteristic surface properties, effective temperature , surface gravity and composition , of EHes have been summarized by Jeffery (1996). ... Helium: ( ) By definition, helium dominates the atmospheric abundances. ... This is supported by a correlation between N and Fe abundances in EHes. ... Next: EVOLUTION MODELS Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: EXTREME HELIUM STARS Simon Jeffery . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... Dark Energy (Part of the Hubble Discoveries Series): http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/dark_energy/ (Flash-based multimedia tutorial on the discovery and meaning of dark energy; includes information on the origin and fate of universe) . ... Cosmology Visualizations from the NASA Universe Forum: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/resources_visual.htm#featcos (A series of computer visualizations of the evolution and structure of the universe, available in a number of formats.) ...

BSc thesis "Metallicity Gradients of Elliptical Galaxies", 1997, Univ. of Tokyo . MSc thesis "Low-Metallicity Inhibition of Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution", 1999, Univ. of Tokyo . PhD thesis "Formation and Chemodynamical Evolution of Galaxies", 2002, Univ. of Tokyo . ... Cosmic SFRs, chemical evolution, mass-dependent galactic winds, and the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies are reproduced (Kobayashi, Springel, White 06). ... What are dwarf galaxies? ...

... arfgen (arfgen-1.73.3) [?? ... arfgen simply constructs the appropriate quantities from the CAL, in the form of vectors of discrete energy-dependent elements, and combines these data multiplicatively to form the ancilliary response. ... This is already taken into account by the CAL in the call to CAL_effectiveArea. The user can enable or disable the effective area, filter transmission, QE or grating attenuation by setting the relevant parameter (eg modeleffarea ) to true or false respectively. ...

... A model for the chemical evolution of a disk galaxy is presented. The model reproduces all the basic . ... investigations of the star formation history. ... the galaxyЫand incorporating a delay in the onset of star formation make it possible to model different scenar- . ios for the evolution of a galaxy's luminosity. ... evolution of massive galaxies. ... of reconstructing the star-formation history and galactic luminosity from observations of galaxies at different . ...

... 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). ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

Minutes of the PALFA telecon: Friday July 8, 2005 ------------------------------------------------- Online: JMC,JvL,IHS,FC,MM,DRL,JWTH,PCCF,RB,DJN,RR,VV,AAD,SC Preliminary items: - Senior review will not complete until next spring. ... Please send comments about spectrometer wishes to JMC by the end of next week (July 15) cc'd to alfa_pulsar@naic.edu. ... Search codes. ... JMC/JD - using CTC have set up a full search pipeline using brute force dedispersion and 7 CPUs. ... JMC agreed to look into this. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... 216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree (San Francisco: ASP), 271 . ... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and AppNet, Inc. are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments. Our software architecture combines the platform-independent processing capabilities of Java with the power of XML. ... Instrument description is too tightly coupled with details of implementation. ...

BNO is in Baksan Gorge at the Northern Caucasus . ... The Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) of volume 3000 cubic centimeters at a depth of more 300 m. The mountainous plant ANDYRCHI to register wide air showers located over BUST on the area 5*10 4 square metres. The complex of surface plants KOVER including a large muon detector, a scintillation telescope and a neutrino monitor meant for studying the hard component of cosmic rays and wide air showers. ...

MARS-96 . ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. ... The main scientific objectives of this mission are to investigate the evolution of Mars, that is, of its atmosphere, its surface, and its interior. ... abundance of minor components in the atmosphere (H2O, CO, O3 , etc), their variation and vertical distribution, and searches for regions with higher humidity; . ... Plasma: . ... the 3D distribution function; the ion and energy composition of plasma (near Mars and during interplanetary cruise); . ...