... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... A distance-limited sample of southern Wolf-Rayet stars within 3 kpc of the Sun has been observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at 8.64 GHz and 4.80 GHz. ... Five sources are classified as non-thermal. ... We derive mass-loss rates for the thermal sources. After combining them with all existing radio mass-loss rates of Wolf-Rayet stars in the northern and southern hemisphere, we perform a comparison with mass-loss rates derived from optical emission lines. ...

... 349Stickel+ III/175 Optical spectroscopy of radio sources (Stickel+, 1989-94) ================================================================================ Optical spectroscopy of 1Jy, S4 and S5 radio source identifications STICKEL M., KUEHR H., FRIED J.W. " sign for lower redshift limit 14- 18 F5.3 --- z []? ... Of the 54 radio sources with previously published identifications, 50 optical counterparts have been confirmed while for 4 sources new identifications are proposed. ...

Lunar occultation of the quasar 3C273 observed on Calar Alto Christoph LeinertН , Klaus MeisenheimerН , Andrea Richichi Н MPI fur Astronomie, Heidelberg, О ESO, Garching ? О In lunar occultations, high spatial resolution information on the object is contained in the occultation light curve. ... Two Saros cycles later, on May 31, 2001, 19:59 UT, again a lunar occultation occured, this time observable from Calar Alto. We wanted to take advantage of this opportunity by near-infrared observations. ...

ChaMP and the High Redshift Quasars in X­rays S. Mathur 1 Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 02138 H. Marshall 1 MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 N. Evans 1 , P. Green 1 and B. Wilkes 1 Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 02138 Abstract. ... This will enable us to determine the high redshift X­ray luminosity function. ... Prediction of Redshift Distribution of Quasars in ChaMP Fields The X­ray Luminosity Function at z = 0 is described as \Phi(L X ) = \Phi ? ...

... Observing may be done from any location. ... See this link for further details, limiting magnitude charts, and star count tables: http://www.imo.net/visual/major/observation/lm Proof Point Information : Shapley-Sawyer Classification: Reference: http://x.astrogeek.org/articles/article.php?article_id=15 Brief Description: I - High concentration toward the center; E.g ., NGC 6864, M75 II - Dense central condensation; E.g ., NGC 7089, M2 III - Strong inner core of stars ; E.g ., ...

... The first step to improve the FORS calibration is therefore to obtain data to allow a computation of the illumination correction across the field. ... Another limitation on the calibration accuracy has been the brightness of the Landolt standards which have forced the use of extremely short exposures introducing small but non-negligible shutter-time errors and also resulting in a very small number of useful standards per frame. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Radio luminosity - spectral type plot for all ultracool dwarfs observed at 4.9 GHz. ... Whilst no radio emission was detected from any of the targets, significant upper limits were placed on the radio luminosities that are below the luminosities of previously detected ultracool dwarfs. Combining our results with those from the literature gives a detection rate for dwarfs in the spectral range M7 тАУ L3.5 of тИ® 9%. ...

Proposal Identi cation No.: A1759 Date Received: 2003-Feb-03 10:47:30 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Astronomy Sub-Category: Spectroscopy Observation Category: Total Time Requested: 50 Hours Proposal Title: Completing the HI observations of late-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster ABSTRACT: We aim to obtain Hi detections or signi cant upper limits (rms0.2-0.4 mJy at 5 km/s resolution) for a complete sample of 30 late-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster. ...