The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) is carrying out a comprehensive multiwavelength survey on a sample of 75 nearby galaxies. The 1-850 ЮМm spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are presented using broadband imaging data from Spitzer, 2MASS, ISO, IRAS, and SCUBA. ... Spitzer's excellent sensitivity and resolution also allow a detailed investigation of the infrared SEDs for various locations within the three large, nearby galaxies NGC 3031 (M81), NGC 5194 (M51), and NGC 7331. ...

Next: State of the problem Up: Old neutron star distribution Previous: Abstract . Recent results from BATSE device onboard GRO observatory have shown full isotropy of gamma-ray bursts locations upon the sky and their unhomogeneous space density ) (Meegan et al. 1992), where is the angle between the source and the galactic center, b is the galactic latitude and signifies averaging upon the whole sample. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Archives . ... I asked a couple of astronomers if they heard the term plug-in estimator and none of them gave me a positive answer. ... Whilst clarifying the form of sampling distribution, or on verifying the formulas or estimators of sample mean and sample variance truly match with true mean and true variance, I can drop plug-in part because I know asymptotically such interval (estimator) will cover 68%. ... Category: Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Uncertainty | ...

Hide Zen home . ... SAI CAS . ... More information: cas=# select sn_name,snt.name, gal_type, gal_type_code, gal_type_code_prec, coalesce((sndist(s)).reldist,0) as rd from sn.sn_cat s, sn.sntypes snt where s.sn_type = snt.id and sn_name='1997C'; sn_name | ... Top 10 relative distances: cas=# select sn_name,snt.name, gal_type, gal_type_code, gal_type_code_prec, coalesce((sndist(s)).reldist,0) as rd from sn.sn_cat s, sn.sntypes snt where s.sn_type = snt.id order by rd desc limit 10; sn_name | ...

... RelatedљPages . ... FITS-WCS and related software . Several implementations of the FITS WCS standards are available: . The WCSLIB software distribution (i.e. this library) may be obtained from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Mark.Calabretta/WCS/ . ... The Kapteyn Package http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/ by Hans Terlouw and Martin Vogelaar. pywcs , http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs/ by Michael Droettboom. ... Gentoo, http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-astronomy/wcslib . ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

Next: The CDS Information Hub . ... In this context, the CDS (Centre de Donn?es astronomiques de Strasbourg) has developed the GLU system (G?n?rateur de Liens Uniformes). This tool allows all managers participating in the system to describe and easily distribute the URL definitions required to access their databases. ... So, the GLU system is particularly adapted to design cooperative Web services, allowing one to generate links to other services which remains always up-to-date. ...

A statistical method for the evaluation of the probable amount of interlopers included in the most recently identified asteroid families is developed. ... An application to the most important families listed by Zappal\`a \etal\ {\bf [1995, Icarus in press]} allows to derive the probable amount of interlopers at different size ranges. ... The procedure developed in this paper allows to assess ``how many'' interlopers are probably included in the nominal member lists, but not ``which ones''. ...

... 2. (a) Metallicity function and relations between (b) metallicity and radial velocity, (c) metallicity and maximum distance from the Galactic plane,and (d)metallicity and variability period for RR Lyrae variables in the initial sample.The curve in the first graph is the maximum-likelihood approximation of the distribution using a sum of two normal curves with the indicated means,dispersions,and total numbers. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

It is possible to incorporate in the SAS software packages that are not part of the official SAS distribution. These we call 'external packages'. All that is needed is to set the environment variable SAS_PATH to point to all directories that contain SAS components, in the form of a colon-separated list. ... He will have to set the SAS_DIR and SAS_PATH environment variable and call the sas-setup script (preferably in a login script), e.g. (csh): setenv SAS_DIR /usr/sas . ...

. Merging cluster DLSCL J0916.2+2951 and its three matter components. Overlaid on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) color image of the galaxies is the total mass distribution (blue) based on WL analysis of the HST images and the cluster gas distribution (red) based on Chandra X-ray observations. The bulk of the collisional gas is located between the two collisionless galaxy and mass concentrations, indicative of a dissociative merger.

... The MIDAS system is available, free of charge, to all non--profit research institutes, whereas other organisations or companies may be charged a nominal fee to cover distribution. Institutes interested in using MIDAS must sign a User Agreement before they receive MIDAS. The necessary forms can be obtained by contacting the Data Analysis Group at ESO/Munich. ... The current system at ESO/Munich is frozen several months prior to the official release. ...

... Finding Dark Matter . ... Where is dark matter? Galaxies rotate and move in clusters as if a tremendous amount of unseen matter is present. ... Where do the most massive stars form? ... Visible in the image center are massive stars in the open cluster. ... Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s. Ganymede: Torn Comet Crater Chain . ... Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. ... First page ] Prev. ...

... 1995: . ... for the first time a magnetic field was registered on normal white dwarfs. ... A study of variability of the first galactic superluminal radio source GRO J1915 +10 with the RATAN-600 showed a delay of flare activity at 3 frequencies of 5-10 days after the X-ray flares with an inversion of the radio spectrum. ... The distribution of linear dimensions of clouds in the first approximation is power-law. The distribution of clouds by concentrations depends on the galactic latitude. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2010 . ... Moon's topography is shown based on LOLA laser altimeter data, white contour shows a permanently shadowed region and a white rhomb indicates LCROSS spacecraft impact location. ... Ultra deep survey of the sky in hard X-rays, performed by INTEGRAL observatory . INTEGRAL observatory has completed the first and the most sensitive survey of the sky in hard X-ray energy band. ...

Interstellar Scintillation of Pulsar B0809+74 B. J. Rickett 1 , Wm. ... These have been used to constrain the spectrum, the distribution and the transverse velocity of the scattering plasma with respect to the local standard of rest (LSR). ... 1998). ... Scintillation time scale for observation in April 1996 (solid lines) and in October 1998 (dashed lines), calculated for a uniform scattering medium with a uniform velocity (V ff ; V ffi ) relative to the LSR. ...

... 368, 2007 Petr Heinzel, Ivan Dorotovi and Robert J. Rutten, eds. c Some Structural Prop erties of Solar Magnetic Fields B. Ioshpa, E. Mogilevskii and V. Obridko IZMIRAN, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia Abstract. We discuss some results of the study of spatial characteristics of solar magnetic fields. ... The global fractal numbers of space distribution of magnetic field on solar surface is closely connected with the mean absolute values of the longitudinal magnetic field for this surface. ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

Procedure to be followed by DMD secretary for DFS Group documentation . Initial email comes from author requesting document number. ... An email is then sent by the DMD secretary to the Technical Archive (tecarch@eso.org) with the same information, to request the last 4 digits of the document number (the 'chronological number'). ... Some time will pass and then the author, using the DFS Group tool 'WebCheck', will post a web readable version of the document on the DFS Group website. ...