home education > resources . ... Resources . ... Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Castelvecchi, D. "A New Breed of Black Hole" in Sky Telescope , Apr. 2006, p. 36. ... Charles, P. Wagner, R. "Black Holes in Binary Stars: Weighing the Evidence" in Sky Telescope , May 1996, p. 38. ... Nadis, S. "The Secret Lives of Black Holes" in Astronomy , Nov. 2007, p. 28. ... Nadis, S. "Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable" in Astronomy , Apr. 2007, p. 26. ...

The red noise source was used to take spectra with and without the new mixture chassis. ... All spectra were 30 seconds of integration, 170 Mhz sampling and 8192 channels. The red noise source was used. The spectra through the mixer were centered at 325 Mhz in the noise spectra. The non mixer spectra used a 60 Mhz low pass filter between the noise src and the digitizer. ... The two measurements used different portions of the noise source spectrum (325 Mhz and baseband). ...

Next: *imcnts* - Radial Profile Up: Radial Profiles and Projections Previous: *tabplot* - Displaying a . ... Input a spatially blocked and energy filtered image from above and use with the background determined from the broad-band background map. cl xray xr xspatial xs imcnts addbkg=no # Do not add the background error Source image file : xdata$snr.qp Source region descripter: c 503 513 50 p 503 513 0 360 n=10 # circular region centered on point ...

Next: The Model Up: No Title Previous: Radiopulsars as Sources of . In this section, we study the evolution of stellar populations on a time-scale of 10 Myr for a starburst љ occurring under conditions similar to those in the Galactic Center (see Lipunov et al. (1995d)[ 126 ]). We estimate the expected number of X-ray transient љ sources (NS + MS star), super accreting BH, and BH + supergiant binaries, all as functions of time elapsed after the burst. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... 10.09.2001 . ... CXO , NASA Explanation: Why would the center of our Galaxy flicker? Many astronomers believe the only credible answer involves a black hole . ... This short flicker therefore provides additional evidence that a black hole does indeed reside at our Galaxy's center . ... Publications with keywords: black hole - Galactic Center - Sgr A . Publications with words: black hole - Galactic Center - Sgr A . ... Journey to the Center of the Galaxy . ... Too Close to a Black Hole . ...

... Up: Science Data Pipelines . ... We designed and developed a package which simulates extragalactic point source data within a given field of view and SIRTF band. ... The simulator is modular and extensible to enable multi-wavelength simulations, has been optimized by utilizing parallel processing capabilities, and will be used to test pipeline software. ... The extragalactic simulator is capable of generating large numbers of galaxies within a given patch of sky for SIRTF pipeline testing. ...

Point Source SNR Plots . In this section we present plots which may be used to rapidly estimate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for point sources with stellar spectra observed through popular WFPC2 filters. ... There are separate lines for PC1 (light lines) and the WFC (heavy lines), as well as for ATD-GAIN=7 (default, solid lines), and ATD-GAIN=15 (dashed lines). Dotted lines across the top of each plot indicate the onset of saturation. ... We now give a sample SNR calculation using these plots. ...

... The filter "Lighting Effects" is a freebie that came with this program, and in my opinion is practically worth the whole purchase price all by itself. ... You can select different light sources, and combine them with texture channels to warp your image. ... Depending on how you use it, pure white is the highest point on the image, and black the lowest. ... You can adjust the brightness and spread here, or choose other types of lighting. ... Use these if your image is turning out too dark or light. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­55 OM Astrometry R. Much December 11, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM ASTROMET 0008 2000­01­01T00:00:00 FILTER­U Yes FILTER­B Yes FILTER­UVW1 Yes FILTER­UVW2 Yes FILTER­UVM2 Yes FILTER­WHITE Yes FILTER­MAGNI Yes FILTER­GRISM1 Yes FILTER­GRISM2 Yes POLYNOM MAP No 2 Changes Compared to the previous version the distortion maps of the U­, B­ and the three UV­filters have been updated. ... UVW2­positions). ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... This listing's details have proven difficult to confirm. See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . An extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy. ... Listed Since October 29, 1998 . ... NASA CERES Project Box 170560 . ... 406) 994-3560 . ... Web Site . http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/ . ... Web . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

This illustration compares the environment around NGC 4151's supermassive black hole with the orbits of the planets in our solar system тАФ the planets themselves are not shown to scale. Echoes of X-ray flares detected in XMM-Newton data demonstrate that the X-ray source (blue sphere, center) is located above the black hole's accretion disk. ... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

These pages collect together references to many pictures of the solar system that can be found on the Net. ... Since I originally compiled this list the number of relevant images has grown tremendously. ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/ . ... ftp://dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gifs/ . ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images.html . http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/images.html . ... http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/ . ... NASA Image Access Homepage (Planetary Photojournal) . ...

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... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

... Files . ... File List . File Members . lattices . Lattices . ... 00001 //# LCEllipsoid.h: Define an N-dimensional ellipsoidal region of interest 00002 //# Copyright (C) 1997,1998 00003 //# Associated Universities, Inc. ... 00085 LCEllipsoid ( const IPosition & center , Float radius, 00086 const IPosition & latticeShape ); 00087 00088 // Construct an N-dimensional sphere with the given center and 00089 // radius (in pixels). ... Generated on Fri Sep 3 2010 13:07:07 for casacore by 1.7.1 ...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... This page is intended for those with a technical background who want more detail than was available in the press releases. 23) 5% of the sources. ... Radio quiet quasars have essentially uniform B-K colours (around 2.5) while these Parkes sources had B-K ranging from 2.5 out to 8! ... Dust: these actually are typical blue quasars obscured by dust somewhere along the line of sight. ... They appear pink to the human eye (I combined out BVR imaging weighted such that a sun-like star would appear white)...