... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

Land of the Normal Textures! ... Click on a texture to see it set as the background of a sample homepage. To download a texture, click the right mouse button on it (Macs click and hold the mouse button). A little menu will pop up and from that menu select "Save this Image As" . ... Texture Land was created by . ...

... In the three intervening decades there have been many observations of this diffuse emission over a wide range of x-ray energies. ... During the 1970's researchers at the University of Wisconsin, lead by Dr. William Kraushaar, used a series of sounding rocket flights to map the diffuse x-ray emission from the sky in several bands. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the B-band (0.13-0.188 keV) x-ray intensity. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the 2-6 keV band x-ray intensity. ...

... To help find out, ESA launched the Planck satellite to map, in unprecedented detail, slight temperature differences on the oldest surface known -- the background sky left billions of years ago when our universe first became transparent to light. Visible in all directions, this cosmic microwave background is a complex tapestry that could only show the hot and cold patterns observed were the universe to be composed of specific types of energy that evolved in specific ways. ... The Universe Nearby . ...

... 3) Decide which scans were off-Fringe and use them to estimate the background noise. 4) For the on-Fringe scans, estimate the mean square power (per wavenumber bin), subtract the off-Fringe power, and if you have courage, take the square root. ... Some disadvantages of this procedures are: You have to have a good estimate of the off-Fringe noise power; if the nominal signal/noise in a single wavenumber bin is small: (S/N)<1 , then the S/N of the correlated flux after M samples is only (S/N)^2 (M). ...

. Shutter video (to view, right click on the link, download to your machine and use Quicktime, VLC viewer, or Windows media player) . Note: This presentation will use gotomeeting to better show the assembly of the instrument. Meeting code is: 244-576-637. Once on the gotomeeting page select "Join a Meeting" in the upper right of the page. Enter the code we will provide.

... Gooch, R.E., 1995, "Space and the Spaceball" , in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV , ASP Conf. ... Gooch, R.E., 1995, "Visualisation: from Data to Understanding", in Workshop on Applications of Radio Science 1995 , Australian Academy of Science through the National Committee for Radio Science ISBN 1-86408-030-2 . Gooch, R.E., 1996, "Karma: a Visualisation Test-Bed" , in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V , ASP Conf. ...

... Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( RSAA ) . Research School of Earth Sciences ( RSES ) ( Earth Chemistry ) . Australian National University ( ANU ) . Research . ... Media ( Media coverage of research and appearances in the media, downloadable .pdf, .mp3 and .flv files) . email: charley@mso.anu.edu.au . Dr Charley Lineweaver . ... Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics . ... Research School of Earth Sciences . ... Back to the Astrophysics & Optics homepage. ...

... Observing . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Astronomy 101: Cosmic microwave background . ... The microwave sky as it looked with 1965 technology // NASA/WMAP Science Team Two scientists, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, discovered the cosmic microwave background in the mid-1960s whileТљ testing a large radio antenna for Bell Laboratories. ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below...

... LINKS . ... Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... Club News . ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . by title : PDF File Download (640KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ... SOME LINKS . ...

... SDSSmosaic allows you to create science image mosaics of SDSS frames in 3 easy steps, described below (see Usage). ... SDSSmosaic requires a standard IRAF installation (including STSDAS and tables packages); python (including urllib); SExtractor and Swarp by E. Bertin (can be obtained at http://astromatic.iap.fr/software/ ). ... The package is developed by Stefano Zibetti (2009-.. ... If you received this package from a third party, please notify the author ( zibetti at arcetri.astro.it ). ...

... Another significant contribution to the crystal energy of metals is the electron-ion interaction or the electron bandstructure energy (E BS ) which is defined by the interaction of valence electrons and the Brillouin zone (BZ) planes. ... The program BRIZ has been developed for 3D visualization of Brillouin zone configurations and intersections of BZ planes with a Fermi sphere[4]. ... 1.75 (electrons/atom). ... 4] Degtyareva V.F., Smirnova I.S.: BRIZ: a vizualization program for Brillouin zone ? ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... Gamma-Ray Bursts observations . Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst formation . ... MASTER (Global Robotic optical monitoring system) . ... All news ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 812 . ... Abstract: The calculation of flux upper limits in the source-free ("background") regions of photon-limited images is complicated by instrumental and statistical modeling and requires non-trivial computational effort. ... The principal component in this is the time taken to pre-process and handle the 30 GB of RASS data rather than the calculation of each upper limit. ...

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Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

Bigbang Forum Message . ... Post . ... Solution . ... Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | ... OK - a friend explained it to me this way... for example - the background microwave radiation which originated shortly after the big bang. Take a mirror and reflect that radiation directly back the way it came. - hitch a ride on :) . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...