... Having quite low efficiency at this pilot stage it is natural to try to improve the selection criteria. The analysis of all accumulated data discussed here, shows that in order to improve the selection of BCGs the following additional criteria and selection procedures should be applied to the preselected lists of candidates: . ... The results of follow-up spectroscopy have shown that even part of the prominent first priority candidates turned out non-emission objects. ...

... AAS 225 . ... Here are a few features of the tweets from the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society . ... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets; also, the Twitter values are updated whereas mine are fixed until the next set of tweets gets analyzed). The most re-tweeted accounts. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... A copy of the original dataset, with the first table containing four additional columns: NABOVE , NDEFA , NEPDH , NDISCLIN and MCOMMODE . ... The overall format of the new dataset is as follows . A table labelled PNAUX1 containing the following columns: . ... FTCOARSE of type int-16 . FTFINE of type unsigned int-16 . ... NABOVE of type unsigned int-16 . ... NEPDH of type unsigned int-16 . ... MCOMMODE of type unsigned int-16 . A table labelled PNAUX2 containing the following columns: . ...

... Virginia Kilborn's program gfinder was run on 388 luthered and edge-masked HIPASS cubes , covering the whole southern sky, over all 1024 channels (i.e. -1281 to 12741 km/s), with an HI peak flux cutoff of 60 mJy/beam. ... The large number of candidates is mostly due to artifacts generated in areas of strong continuum flux, mostly the Galactic Plane, (causing a baseline ripple), the HI emission in our Galaxy, and lots of interference (1408 MHz birdie, GPS etc.) ... Number of galaxies: . ... galaxies ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

... Next: Unsupervised Catalog Classification Up: Object Detection and Previous: Classification of Objects . ... Multi-resolution allows for image analysis in terms of different scales. ... This approach is used for the detection (and subsequent analysis) of globular cluster systems around elliptical galaxies, and for image characterization and object trawling in large image databases. ... The applicability of this approach to object detection in large image collections has been investigated. ...

... APT Analysis of Scheduling Constraints . ... Note that the models for orientation and visibility should be the same on the web page and in APT. ... On the Observation page, fill in the relevant scheduling requirements (on PRIME observations only; observations with the CPAR flag set can use the "No Scheduling Constraints" option) as defined in the Call for Proposals; fill in both the 2 and 3 gyro sections. ... The Planner will display the Total Visibility for the Observation Block. ...

... Team . ... conferences . Holding conferences: . GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... Here we present the V and Rc images of the GRB 021004 optical transient field. ... Below is the text of our telegram in GCN circular TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1717 SUBJECT: GRB021004, late time optical observations DATE: 02/12/02 16:51:59 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS 23.9 ------------------------------------------ At this stage it is not clearly whether the object is the pure host galaxy. ...

... The actual cross-correlations were done as follows: north of WGACAT was correlated with the GB6 catalog with a correlation radius of one arc minute. ... We therefore cross-correlated WGACAT with the GB6 and PMN radio catalogs with a 1.5 arcmin radius. ... As a result of this experiment, we then added to the WGACAT/PMN candidate list the 29 unclassified sources obtained from the 1.5 arcmin correlation and having PSPC offsets arcmin, ratio between X-ray/radio offset and positional error , and . ...

According to the # 7.1. of the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad there should be an Authorized National Representative (Astronomical) Organization (ANRAO) in every participating state: A national astronomical society, a department (section) of the EAAS or IAU in the state, a leading observatory, an astronomical department of a leading university, a ministry of education or another appropriate competent institution. ...