... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

I installed yesterday's fix to the stsdas online help and closed the call. I kept tracking the cause between the old and new versions of drizzlepac. There appear to be two causes. ... This, thankfully, is not my problem (yet.) The second is a round off error in the linear interpolation formula, which seems to happen even when the fractional part used in the interpolation is zero. ... Archive for 2014 . Archive for November . ...

... 18apr06 power supply fault contactor not closing. 20apr06: Solution: problem was the digital i/o board. POWER1 signal not arriving. ... At 49880 the master contactor is open so there is no power to the power supplies. ... The problem turned out to be the digital i/o board that drove the POWER1 signal to the master contactor relay. ... The master contactor relay is now being driven through the power supply fault contactor relay and then the little star POWER2 relay. ...

There are 2 main problems with the standard Big Bang model. ... These are determined by the particular density of the universe. ... Early 1980s, Alan Guth suggested new epoch should be added, known as inflationary epoch, lasting between 10 -35 and 10 -24 seconds . ... Gravity became separate force at 10E(-43) seconds after big bang, when temperature 10E(32) K . Strong force became separate force at 10E(-35) seconds, or beginning of inflationary epoch, when temperature 10E(27) K . ...

UNIXhelp is available for anybody to use on the World Wide Web . However if you are based outside Edinburgh, you may find each page slow to load across the network. We would recommend installing a copy at your local site. ... The main distribution site appears below but there may be an mirror of the distribution closer to you. ... Contact the UNIXhelp maintainer if you can help. The Copyright for the UNIXhelp deliverables rests with the Computing Services of the University of Edinburgh. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Note however that the radiospec is built in the ?build? sub-directory of the directory you installed it to and is not installed ? ... Build radiospec wget http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/soft/radiospec-1.0.tar.gz tar --strip-components = 1 -xzvf radiospec-1.0.tar.gz PATH = $INSTALLDIR/bin:$PATH scons PKG_CONFIG_PATH = $INSTALLDIR/lib/pkgconfig/ . ... You will at least also need the numpy package for Python . ... Download & building of the radiospec package . ...

... TLA 16-Mar-95 ************************************************************************* From: aldcroft@garth.harvard.edu (Tom Aldcroft) Message-Id: <9501031718.AA27761@garth.harvard.edu> To: xanusers@garth.harvard.edu Subject: Xanadu 8.50 to become default Date: Tue, 03 Jan 95 12:18:41 EST Although Xanadu v.8.50 has been installed for quite some time, I just noticed that the default version is still v.8.41 (as defined by the soft link /soft/xan/xanadu -> /soft/xan/xanadu-8.41/). ...

... Mars to Appear Normal this August . ... October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. On October 30, Mars will be nearly opposite to the Sun, rise at sunset, set at sunrise, and appear highest and brightest around midnight. ...

The following excerpts were taken from an internal IBM memo regarding OS/2 2.11 Service Pack problems. ... Few lines edited out by me - Karu] ___________________________________________________________________ The XR06200.XRF file on diskette 13 contains the list of problems that the Service Pack fixes. ... Problem: Multiple Desktops If the system's Object Open Behavior behavior is set to CREATE new window, the system will create multiple views of your desktop (folder) at each boot. ...

... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

Summary of A. Skop enkov's prop osal This proposal concerns the classical Knotting Problem in topology: classify embeddings of a given space into another given space up to isotopy. ... The Knotting Problem is known to be hard. ... The Knotting Problem is most interesting for manifolds of dimension at most 4, because embeddings of such manifolds often appear in other branches of mathematics and its applications. ... For N not a homology sphere until 2005 no description of the orbits was known. ...

ChangeLog for rgsspecplot =============================== Version 2.16.13 - 2002-12-12 (NW) ------------------------------- Changed the way of embedding figures to \epsfig, so that the figures appear in the electronic documentation. ... The documentation has also been updated. ... Version 2.17.2 - 2002-07-25 (NW) ------------------------------- Removed the dependency on the STAT_ERR column, now use the square root of the counts as the error, to close the SPR 2949, `Task unable to plot total spectrum'. ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... Go to new wiki . ... LBASep2014 / . ... 20/09/2014 7:46:11 pm] Jamie Stevens: Hobart, looking at the fringe plots I'd say we are actually getting fringes in your high frequency band, just much weaker than the low frequency band . 20/09/2014 7:46:35 pm] Jamie Stevens: If I recall correctly, an SMY freq of 206 MHz is lower than recommended . 20/09/2014 7:47:06 pm] Jamie Stevens: try increasing the SMY output level if you can't change its frequency . ...

... DFS Department Problem Reporting rules and recommendations . ALL change requests, bugs or support request on operational releases (i.e. releases already installed and running on the mountain) must be reported via the DFS Problem Reporting tools , based on the Action Remedy system. ... in case of bug, change request or support need directly reported to you via mail or phone call by s DFS user (Paranal, La Silla, DFO, ...), please, check whether an Action Remedy Problem Report is already open. ...

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The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: Character Device Drivers . Keywords: release method close fclose . Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 03:07:04 GMT . From: < unknown > . I just finished a character device driver and I it appears that when fclose() is called on the device the release() method is called as well even if the device has been opened multiple times.

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... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...