... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

February 10, 2003 (Monday) Igor Tyukhov, Oregon Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory . February 17, 2003 (Monday) Osamu Yasuda, Tokyo Metropolitan University . February 20, 2003 (Thursday) Linear Collider Seminar . ... Fall 2002 . Fall 2001 . ... Fall 2000 . ... 3:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... The American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) has initiated a series of monthly seminars intended for a broad audience. ... This is the inaugural seminar. 1:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

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Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

... This paper describes recent improvements to the FITSIO subroutine library and the fv FITS file viewer and editor, both of which were initially described at previous ADASS conferences. ... Since the time of the last FITSIO update (Pence 1995) a new CFITSIO library has been developed, written entirely in C. CFITSIO is easier for C programmers to build and call than the previously available C wrapper routines built on top of the FORTRAN FITSIO library. ...

All teams have to inform the Olympic Coordinating Council (OCC) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) about their participation not later than the dates determined by the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad , send applications and pre-applications in time. ... For the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), the requirements for the short report are not strong. ... Personal data for visas. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Home Research Publications Software Rencontres People Links . A draft bibliography on optimal transport is available on CiteULike , a free Web service for scientific bibliographies. ... A random collection of optimal transport-related home pages (for a list of OTARIE participants' home pages click here ): . ... Wilfrid Gangbo : Georgia Tech . ... Allen R. Tannenbaum : Georgia Tech . ... Optimal transport-related projects: . ...

... Observations of precipitating (Jp) and trapped (Jt) energetic (> 30 keV) particle fluxes at the ionospheric altitudes within the auroral oval region has revealed the existence of a sharp boundary separating the poleward zone of isotropic precipitation (Jp = Jt) from the equatorward zone of weak loss cone filling (Jp << Jt) at all local times (Sergeev and Malkov, 1988). ... boundaries for higher energy particles are located at lower latitudes than boundaries for lower energy particles . ...

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GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial . ... This section is simply a gathering of wisdom, general style guidelines and hints to creating good GTK applications. ... Use GNU autoconf and automake! They are your friends :) Automake examines C files, determines how they depend on each other, and generates a Makefile so the files can be compiled in the correct order. ... When writing C code, use only C comments (beginning with "/*" and ending with "*/"), and don't use C++-style comments ("//"). ...

Marses Instrument . ... Currently we use a Tem-fast 48 sounding instrument that is based on time domain electromagnetic sounding technology. ... Areas of application are following: . ... hidrogeological research, . ... Despite many competitors' instruments with similar areas of application, Tem-fast 48 has reasonable advantages among small depth sounding devices. ... The Tem-fast 48 sounding instrument consists of following devices: . ... The block diagram of the sounding instrument is outlined below. ...

European . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2008 > The Seventh NEON Observing School . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... The NEON Observing Schools are supported by OPTICON and the European Astronomical Society ( EAS ). ... For more information on the Third NEON Archive Observing School at ESO pelase follow the links on the top right of this page or below. ... For more information about the NEON schools please contact: neon08@eso.org . ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

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This astrostatistics session will honor the memory of Alanna Connors. Alanna was a pioneer in the investigation and development of statistical methods required for the analysis of high energy data. The session will provide a historical perspective on Bayesian methods, highlight the topics where the contribution made by Alanna were particularly important, summarize current analysis challenges and discuss future perspectives. ... 131.02 Promoting widespread use of Bayesian analysis . ...

... P2557 Date Received: 2010-Feb-01 19:50:59 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category : Observation Category : Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Pulsars Galactic 18 Hours 8 A 2­3 GHz Arecibo survey of eight globular clusters The scientific applications of pulsars in globular clusters are plentiful and include the first ever proof of the existence of ionized gas in ...

... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home Page . ...