We present a mid-infrared analysis of star-formation activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud's molecular ridge (south of 30 Doradus). The Magellanic Clouds are a rare laboratory in which extragalactic star-formation diagnostics can be tested at high spatial resolution. ... Detailed analysis in very nearby galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds, allows us to test and better understand the scaling relations used in unresolved and distant star-formation regions. ...

... The extraordinary solar activity of October--November 2003 manifested itself in many powerful eruptive events, including large CMEs and extremely powerful flares. ... We study large-scale post-eruptive activity manifestations on the Sun associated with CMEs, i.e., dimmings and coronal waves, observed in extreme ultraviolet with the EIT telescope on SOHO and SPIRIT telescope on the CORONAS-F satellite. ...

... Sagittarius B2 with the ATCA: A Broadband Glimpse of our Molecular Universe . ... The work of Corby et al. (2015) is the first published spectral line survey conducted with a new-generation broadband interferometer. ... Sgr B2 is the preeminent source for studying complex chemistry in the ISM, as it hosts the most complex chemical environment observed anywhere outside of the Solar System! ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Sequence of four video frames captured at 01:05 BST at Armagh Observatory on the night of the 24/25th July 2013, showing the onset, development and demise of the sprite. ... Unlike common lightning discharges, which often jump between clouds or between the clouds and the ground, sprites are associated with similarly powerful electrical fields that occur high above the clouds of the EarthтАЩs atmosphere. ...

The starburst-AGN connection in local and distant galaxies is relevant for understanding galaxy formation and evolution, the star formation and metal enrichment history of the universe, the origin of the extragalactic background at low and high energies, and the origin of nuclear activity in galaxies. ... In this contest, I'm interested in detremining the Infrared spheroid (bulge) structural parameters obtained by a two-dimensional image in galaxies with well known BH masses. ...

... OOF . ALMA . ... OOF Index . Zernike Polys . GBT example . ... Observed data and analysis . The observed beam maps are shown in the first row of the table below. ... We show the best-fitting aperture and the best-fitting beams as the number of Zernike orders used for the fitting is increased. A sample OOF observed data set (top row) and the results of analysis with increasing number of Zernike polynomials used to parameterise the aperture. ... In-focus beam . ... Observed beams . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: How much can a supermassive black hole consume? ... Science Users Information . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Software . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Data Handling and Products . Quality Control and Data Processing . Data Pipelines and Calibrations . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Support of activities at the Radio telescope General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of ... 9.4 GHz band. ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

... Correia, S., Carbillet, M., Fini, L., Bertero, M., Boccacci, P., Vallenari, A., Richichi, A., & Barbati, M. 2001, in ASP Conf. ... AIRY is a modular software package designed to simulate optical and near-infrared interferometric observations and/or to perform subsequent image restoration/deconvolution. ... Bertero, M., Boccacci, P., Correia, S., & Richichi, A. 2000, in Interferometry in Optical Astronomy , ed. P. J Lena & A. Quirrenbach, SPIE 4006, 514 . ...

Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity :Issued: 2016 Apr 08 2200 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. ... Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 07/2100Z to 08/2100Z: Solar activity has been at low levels for the past 24 hours. ... Geophysical Activity Summary 07/2100Z to 08/2100Z: The geomagnetic field has been at quiet to minor storm levels for the past 24 hours. ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... Contacts . 2012: . ... We refined the fundamental parameters of the components, the orbital periods, and the conditions of photospheric heating of the secondary component by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot component. ... The observations of the star clusters associated with ultra-luminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in four galaxies on the 6-meter and VLT telescopes have shown that all the ULXs are located within 200pc of very young star clusters (younger than 5 million years). ... Archive . ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

... Courses . ... Analytic theory of differential equations, . Qualitative theory of differential equations (two years course), . ... Selected topics in differential equations, . Selected topics in complex analysis, . Evolutionary systems and their attractors, . Complex analysis, Cornell 1996, . ... Partial Differential Equations, Cornell 99, . ... Ordinary differential equations (modification of Arnold's course with relations to complex analysis inserted). ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data . ... Kriging is the first thing that one learns from a spatial statistics course. ... There are three distinctive subjects in spatial statistics: geostatistics , lattice data analysis , and spatial point pattern analysis. ... Tags: BLUP , book , books , CMB , Cressie , Diggle , geostatistics , hierarchical model , kriging , MADS , point pattern analysis , sparse , spatial statistics , Stein , WMAP . ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog....

... Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn . ... A Galactic Star Forming Region in Infrared . ... How do stars form? To help study this complex issue, astronomers took a deep image in infrared light of an active part of our Milky Way Galaxy where star formation is rampant. ... X-rays from young stars and infrared light from stars and cosmic dust are combined in this false color image of a star-forming region in Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. ... Northern Cygnus . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... The Sun of our solar system is a typical star of intermediate size and luminosity. ... The Sun has a very complex surface magnetic field created by convective flow of the electrically conducting solar material. ... The escaping hot coronal plasma is called the solar wind . ... See the table below for the observed features above the Sun's surface. ... Chromospheric features . Coronal features . ... dense clouds of material suspended above the surface of the Sun by magnetic field line loops . ...