... 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. ...

... 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.) ...

Amanda Karakas One of the most important research fields in astrophysics is the study of the origin of the elements. ... Asymptotic Giant Blanch (AGB) Stars: For low and intermediate-mass stars (with initial masses between about 0.8 to 8 solar masses) the most important nucleosynthesis occurs when stars evolve off the main sequence to the giant branches. ... This indicates that these stars obtained their unusual abundances via mass transfer from a previous red giant star, that has long evolved away. ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... Observations of the local Universe clearly demonstrate that very active star formation phases (starbursts) are often associated with interacting and merging galaxies and that in these systems much of the short wavelength emission is absorbed by dust and re-emitted in the IR. ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... This process is thought to occur in circumstellar disks of gas and dust around young stars on rather short timescales : infrared surveys show that the number of low mass stars with disks drops dramatically for stars older than 10 Myr, suggesting that in order to form large solids before the disk disperses, the growth process has to take place within a few million years. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

Modelling Protostellar Disks Sarah Maddison Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Swinburne University Overview · Types of circumstellar disks : ­ protostellar disks ­ circumbinary disks ­ protoplanetary disks · Modelling disk - important parameters: ­ Mdisk, Rdisk, H(r), i, T(r,z), (r,z)... ­ grain properties Introduction to PS Disks · Disks are a natural by- product of star formation process · Indirect evidence for ... Fuor and Xor outburst) convection in accretion disks? ...

... Mass loss Recipes | ... Mass Loss is the most important "driver" of stellar evolution in massive stars. ... The final goal is to predict mass loss over the entire evolution of a massive star at all cosmological epochs. ... Very Massive Stars are objects up to 300 times the mass of the Sun. ... Mass-loss rates increase dramatically when objects cross a critical Eddington Gamma factor (Vink et al. ... I have recently edited a book on "Very Massive Stars" including a mass-loss "chapter" . ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

... Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) . ... Searching for SZ clusters . ... Baryon content of galaxy clusters and cosmology . ... 3 sigma peaks: Observational Signatures of High Redshift Galaxies and Low Redshift Clusters . CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES . ... Clusters of galaxies seen in X-rays: war and peace . ... Chandra X-ray Observations of Clusters/Groups/Galaxies . ... Common timing features in neutron stars and black holes . ... X-ray luminosity function of low-mass X-ray binaries in galaxies . ...

... Chandra Observation of DEEP2 Galaxy Groups and Clusters . ... Monday: 'Normal' Galaxies, Tuesday: Cluster Formation and Evolution . ... Statistics of galaxy groups in ultradeep XMM surveys. ... What can multiwavelength observations tell about cluster/group formation as well as galaxy evolution? ... I will present results from a Chandra study of eight low-redshift clusters that has systematically measured the AGN fraction in clusters and describe their spatial, kinematic, and host galaxy...

... In LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTROPHYSICS OF SPECIAL ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY OF RAS . ... History . ... Current problems of the group research interests: . study for cosmic microwave background, . study of radio galaxies (identification, evolution, statistical investigation of population), . investigation of the RATAN-600 antenna, . observations in the survey mode with RATAN-600 and their analysis, . creation of the software for data analysis. vo @ sao.ru ( Oleg Verkhodanov ) ...

... M81 and M82: GALEX Full Field . ... Intriguing galaxy pair M81 and M82 shine in this full-field view from the orbiting GALEX observatory. GALEX - the Galaxy Evolution Explorer - scans the cosmos in ultraviolet light, a view that follows star formation and galaxy evolution through the Universe. ... The center of the Andromeda galaxy is beautiful but strange. ... As a present to APOD readers, digital imager Mattias Malmer offers a very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... 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 . ...

Evolution of the double neutron star merging rate and the cosmological origin of Gamma-ray burst sources " , Astroph.J., 1995, v.454, 593-596 (Lipunov, V.M. Postnov, K.A. and Prokhorov M.E.) . Evolution of SupernovaЃExplosion Rates in theЃ Universe (Jorgensen H., Lipunov.M., Panchenko I.E., Postnov K.A., Prokhorov M.E.) ApJ, 1997, v.486,p.110 . ... Formation of a Gravitationally Bound Object after Binary Neutron Star Merging and GRB phenomena " (G.V.Lipunova, V.M.Lipunov). ...

... 318, P L63-L66 (1997). ... Article in PDF format (144 KB) . ... 318, P L67-L70 (1997). ... 318, P 667-672 (1997). ... 318, P 673-679 (1997). ... 318, P 680-686 (1997). ... 318, P 687-699 (1997). ... 318, P 700-720 (1997). ... 318, P 721-728 (1997). ... 318, P 729-740 (1997). ... The number of O-type runaways, the number of O and Wolf-Rayet stars with a compact companion and the formation rate of double pulsars predicted by massive close binary evolution . ... helpdesk@link.springer.de . ...

... Next: The OPUS Pipeline: Up: Software Systems Previous: The ASC Pipeline: . ... The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer ( EUVE ) Guest Observer (GO) Center is in its second year of data processing. ... The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer ( EUVE ) Guest Observer (GO) Center is now in its second year of data processing. ... From its inception the GO Center expected to disseminate very complete raw data sets to GOs, calibration and reduction software, as well as the calibrated data products. ...

... 2001 - present-day Researcher in Theoretical Department of Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute ot RAS . ... Department Number . ... Astro Space Center . ... arna@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ... Arkhipova N.A., Komberg B.V., Lukash V.N., Mikheeva E.V., "Population of Cosmic Voids", Astronomy Reports 51, pp 787-796 (2007) . ... Surdin, V.G., Arkhipova, N.A., "Influence of dissipation and dynamical friction on the number of globular clusters in a galaxy", Astronomy Letters, Vol.24, p.343 (1998) ...