... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Catalogue of agn classification . HyperLeda home | Documentation | ... This catalogue (table a109 in the database) presents the compilation of the activity classification of objects. ... AGNCLASS . ... Have very high luminosities (Mabs<-23) and broad emission lines (FWHM=5,000- 30,000km/s) with a large red-shift ( VCV-12 ). ... Broad-line Seyfert 1. Have broad permitted Balmer HI lines (FWHM=1000-10000km/s, typical is 2000-6000km/s) and narrow forbidden lines (FWHM=300-1000km/s). ...

Next: Identifications and Efficiency Up: THE DEEP X-RAY RADIO Previous: Source Classification . ... For some sources which did not have NVSS positions before the time of optical observations, arcsecond positions from the Texas survey (Douglas et al. 1996) and NED (typically based on VLA data) were used. ... All X-ray/radio sources without counterparts on the survey plates were imaged at either the KPNO 0.9m or the CTIO 0.9m telescopes. ... Previously Identified Sources . Sample Properties . ...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 4: Imaging > 4.1 Filters and Optical Elements . 4.1 Filters and Optical Elements . ... 4.1.2 Out-of-Band Leaks in NICMOS Filters . ... Each camera has 20 filter positions on a single filter wheel: 19 filters and one blank. As a result, not all filters are available in all cameras. ... A trailing letter identifies the filter width, with ? ... Table 4.1: NIC 1 Filters. ... S III] continuum . ...

Next: Analysis Tools for Nebular Emission Lines . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... The direct image is used to locate objects of interest, to find the position of the appropriate spectra in the grism image, to determine the optimal extraction technique to use, and to calibrate the wavelength range of the extracted spectra. ... Figure 1: The NICMOSlook User Interface . ...

... Since the reddening found for the stars in Table 13 was small, no reddening correction was attempted. ... These diamonds indicate the positions of very low mass, 3 Myr old, objects from the work of Burrows et al. ... This optical V versus R - I scheme is a very powerful method of detecting very low mass (VLM) objects. ... Because of this, young brown dwarfs are intrinsically no more difficult to observe in the optical than low mass stars at the age of Orionis. ...

... 840Z: ZELDOVICH YA.B. and GUSEYNOV O.H. Collapsed stars in binaries. abstract from ADS when it exists. Total number of objects found: 7 . Currently displayed are the first identifier in SIMBAD and the object type. By clicking on the [Dic CAT] anchor, you get the informations from the nomenclature dictionnary for the corresponding catalogue. By clicking on the identifier itself , you get the basic data and all the identifiers from SIMBAD. ... Emission-line Star.. Dic HD] #2.. ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

... Астронет | ... Переменные Звезды | ... Микролинзирование . ... На протяжении последних нескольких лет в рамках проекта MACHO проводятся наблюдения микролинзирования звезд Большого Магелланова Облака - спутника нашей Галактики. Эффект микролинзирования заключается в гравитационной фокусировке света звезды массивным объектом, находящимся на луче зрения между звездой и наблюдателем. ... Согласно некоторым гипотезам, линзами могут являться реликтовые черные дыры или "нейтралинные звезды". ...

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 . ...

This section of AMPLE provides a means for identification of minor planets. ... Due to special organization of the package, AMPLE permits the identification to be reliable fulfilled THROUGHOUT the TITLE YEAR. ... In such cases the result of identification depends on where the nearest opposition of inspected planet is situated, within basic interval lasted from November of preceding year to February of subsequent one or without it. ...

We report on our further analysis of the expanded and revised sample of potential BL Lac objects (the 2BL) optically identified from two catalogues of blue-selected (UV excess) point sources, the 2dF and 6dF QSO Redshift Surveys (2QZ and 6QZ). ... Seven 2BL objects with a radio detection are confirmed as candidate BL Lac objects while one extragalactic (z=0.494) continuum object is undetected at radio frequencies. One further radio-undetected object is also a potential BL Lac candidate. ...

... PPS product: list with right ascension (RA), declination (DEC). and position error (RA_DEC_ERR) of detected X-ray sources (default values of the column names are given in brackets) . Optical object catalogue used for cross-correlation, containing columns with right ascension (CAT_RA), declination (CAT_DEC), and position error (CAT_RADEC_ERR) of the catalogue objects (default values of the column names are given in brackets) . ...

... 2001 November 12 . Is Mystery Object an Orphan Afterglow? ... SDSS , DOE , NSF , NASA . Explanation: What is that unusual object? ... Attributes of the object include that it has unusual colors , appears to be fading as months go by, and appears to be associated with a distant galaxy . ... A bit of caution might be merited, however, as the last well-publicized mystery object turned out not to be a new member of the astronomical zoo , but rather an unusual type of quasar . ... About APOD | ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

After the first six months of commissiong of NICS, we recognize the necessity of a new mechanics for the lens of LF camera objective. ... After these mechanical revisions we planned to test the camera in conditions of operativity, putting it in a dewar used for test and controlling alignment by interference of laser beam reflected at the surfaces of the lenses. ... Pattern od interference at room temperature. ... Pattern at about 150 K. Pattern at 100 K after another shift of 0.25 mm . ...

... 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. ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...