CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . ... 407Gregg+ The FIRST radio survey provides a new resource for constructing a large quasar sample. ... We report here on the results of the pilot phase for a FIRST Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS). Based on matching the radio catalog from the initial 300 deg^2 of FIRST coverage with the optical catalog from the Automated Plate Machine (APM) digitization of Palomar Sky Survey plates, we have defined a sample of 219 quasar candidates brighter than E = 17.50. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Final Data Release of zCOSMOS-bright Redshift Survey . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... This final release of zCOSMOS-bright includes 20689 1-d spectra. The survey was split into two parts: the first, zCOSMOS-bright, which is the subject of this release, aimed to produce a redshift survey of about 20000 I -band selected galaxies at redshift z<1.2. ...

... P ublished Catalogs in CDS/vizier - NOTE: ideally, catalogued sources are cross-connected to multi-wavelength images, spectra, cubes, etc. (a) type *HIPASS* in the second field or go to HIPASS catalogs in CDS/vizier . b) alternately type *pulsar* in the second field or go to Pulsar catalogs in CDS/vizier . ... a) choose the `HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog' (HIPASS BGC) * QUERY+VO . ... NOTE: SkyView allows to overlay CDS/vizier, HEASARC, NED and other VOTables onto images resulting from any query. ...

... Armagh Observatory, 24th March 2009: The International Space Station ( ISS ) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. Evenings will provide the chance of a spectacular view, if the sky is clear, as for the next few days the orbit of the ISS around the Earth repeatedly takes it over Ireland. ... At its best, it is now the second brightest object in the night sky. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... At the nebula's center is an ultra-dense neutron star that rotates 30 times a second. ... Our Galaxy in Stars, Gas, and Dust . ... The red nebulae visible in the above contrast-enhanced picture are primarily emission nebulae, glowing clouds of hydrogen gas heated by nearby, bright, young stars. M83: A Barred Spiral Galaxy . ... The Quintuplet Cluster is located within 100 light-years of the Galactic center, and is home to the brightest star yet cataloged in our Galaxy: the Pistol Star. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... This paper ( Burke et al. 2003 ) describes the creation of one such catalogue - the Southern Serendipitous High-redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster (SHARC) survey - which covers an area of 17.7 deg 2 and consists of 32 clusters with redshifts between 0.05 and 0.7 and X-ray luminosities between 7 x 10 42 and 4 x 10 44 erg/s: the high-redshift subsample contains 16 clusters with = 0.3 and X-ray luminosities greater than 2 x 10 43 erg/s (luminosities are quoted for the 0.5 - 2.0 keV energy band). ... 1997 ...

... December 11, 1998 . High Redshift Quasars . Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey . ... Astronomers use a number known as "Z" to quantify this cosmological redshift and the quasar at the left, with a Z of 5, was just proclaimed the new quasar redshift champion (from left to right the measured Zs are 5.00, 4.90, 4.75). What's the actual distance to quasars with Zs of 5 or so? ... about 15 billion light-years, give or take a few billion light-years depending on your favorite cosmology ! ...

... HIPASS results . ... Of the BGC galaxies, 138 have redshifts for the first time. ... We really need ALFA to address that faint end. ... This estimate accounts for the smaller beam size, the number of pixels, and the available solid angle. ... HIPASS (with an integration time of 250 sec per pixel) was complete only for M * galaxies at cz ALFA (with the same intergration time) would be complete to 15,000 km/s . ... The integration time would be only 1 sec per beam for a total time of about 2.6 hours. ...

... The ROSAT Bright Survey: II. Catalogue of all high-galactic latitude RASS sources with PSPC countrate CR > 0.2 s -1 . ... 1S We present a summary of an identification program of the more than 2000 X-ray sources detected during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (Voges et al. 1999) at high galactic latitude, |b| > 30degr , with countrate above 0.2 s -1 . This program, termed the ROSAT Bright Survey RBS, is to more than 99.5% complete. ...

Supernovae ASASSN-14lp in NGC 4666 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova ASASSN-14lp in NGC 4666 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . ... Discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) (USA). ... This supernova is in the Constellation Virgo . ... 2014/12/09.610 . ... 2014/12/09.832 . ... 13.1 . ... 2015/01/01.458 . ... JM Llapasset . ... Back to Bright Supernovae - 2014 . ...

The maps show how the sky looks at gamma-ray energies above 100 million electron volts (MeV) with a view centered on the north galactic pole. The first frame shows the sky during a three-hour interval prior to GRB 130427A. The second frame shows a three-hour interval starting 2.5 hours before the burst, and ending 30 minutes into the event. The Fermi team chose this interval to demonstrate how bright the burst was relative to the rest of the gamma-ray sky. ... NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration ...

... Miyauchi-Isobe, N., Nakajima, K., & Maehara, H. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... KUG is a catalog of ultraviolet-excess galaxies which have been detected on two- or three-color Kiso Schmidt plates. ... Figure 1: KUG survey areas. ... 2003). ... Figure 2 shows the KUG objects (red dots), and SDSS DR1 galaxies (blue dots) which are sampled in accordance with the magnitude and color ranges of KUGs. Figure 2: SDSS DR1 galaxies over KUG objects. ... Figure 3: SDSS DR1 galaxies over KUG objects in A0225 area. ...

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Heating of interstellar medium by X-ray radiation from quasars, . statistical properties of active galactic nuclei based on hard X-ray surveys " . based on doctor's thesis) . ... Sazonov (IKI) . ... Based on the second half of the thesis, the following questions will be addressed: . ... A catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected by flux in the X-ray range 3-20 keV is created. ...

... For us to see them from such great distances, quasars must be producing enormous energy -- they are about 1000 times brighter than an average galaxy! ... One of their choices for the energy source of quasars was a black hole. ... On the one hand, it may seem difficult to think that mere friction between bits of matter could account for the energy of a quasar, but, on the other hand, gravity is unimaginably strong near a black hole. ... How does matter actually rush towards the black hole? ...