We present results of new Monte Carlo calculations made with the DIRTY code of radiative transfer of stellar and scattered radiation for a dusty giant late-type galaxy like the Milky Way, which illustrate the effect of the attenuation of stellar light by internal dust on the integrated photometry of the individual bulge and disk components. ... In addition, we find that the structure of the dusty ISM affects more sensitively the observed magnitudes than the observed colors of both bulge and disk. ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Lightcurve of HW Vir from images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory . The blue triangles show the difference between two stars whose brightness is constant. ... This shows the value of the Faulkes Telescopes in the follow-up observations of eclipsing binaries with the aim to detect and characterise additional circumbinary companions. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction . ... Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Intrinsic Short Term Variability in W3-OH and W49N Hydroxyl Masers W.M. Goss National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro , New Mexico, USA A.A. Deshpande, Raman Research Institute Bangalore India R. Ramachandran , San Jose CA, USA The method-W3 OH · Use the VLBA with a beam of 5 mas and a velocity resolution of 0.1 km/s. Only simple sources are analyzed. ie no confusion from multiple components within the 2 arc sec maser region. ... About 400 or so time samples. ... Zeeman pairs at 1612 and 1720 MHz. ...

Next: Using the sky Up: Reductions --- at Previous: Subtraction of dark . For the user interested in the details of the methods used, here are the actual algorithms used in selecting the ``nearest'' sky, and in the sky-brightness model: . ... This brings us to the sky model. ... An example of data that extend to large enough airmass to determine all four parameters is the dark-sky brightness table published by Walker [ 25 ], which were used by Garstang to check his models. ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

... Contacts . 2012: . ... We refined the fundamental parameters of the components, the orbital periods, and the conditions of photospheric heating of the secondary component by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot component. ... The observations of the star clusters associated with ultra-luminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in four galaxies on the 6-meter and VLT telescopes have shown that all the ULXs are located within 200pc of very young star clusters (younger than 5 million years). ... Archive . ...

GALFACTS MEMO: # 10 ALFA RFI Saturation Problem J. S. Dever 20 Decemb er 2006 1 Overview Observations made with ALFA can be partially or completely lost due to strong RFI saturating a component in the receiver chain. ... A determination of where the saturation is occuring should be made, and the problem solved. ... 1 Radar RFI 1.35 1.3 1.25 Power 1.2 1.15 1.1 16750 16800 16850 16900 Time 16950 17000 17050 Figure 1: Band average plot for 135 seconds showing the effect of Radar RFI in the continuum. ...

... Initial mass function and binary stars . ... The principal goal of this study is to show that the real shape of the initial mass function for low- and intermediate-mass stars differs from the observed one. In particular, comparison of radii of eclipsing binary components and single stars shows a noticeable difference for B0V-G0V components of eclipsing binaries and single stars of the corresponding spectral type. ...

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: . ...

... SB, Porb = 55.9212d. V0745 Cas| ... Component B of the double system observed brighter than in the Hipparcos Input Catalogue. ... The variability may be due to the fainter component. ... Type ELL: is also possible. pi Cas| ... Variability type and spectral type (F2/F3Ib/II) do not agree. ... Variability type and spectral type (F3/F5II) do not agree. ... Variability may be due to component B. VZ Pic| ... Variability may be due to component B. V1377 Ori| ... SB, Porb = 9.073d. V0421 Cep|105091| ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... parameters were derived from bright shell at N . Abundance of O-like element was set to zero asumming Typ1 I SN( Hughes et al., 1995 ). source=(xswabs * xsvraymond) . reduce chi^2 = 7.41398 . ... DataSet 1: 153 data points -- 144 degrees of freedom. Statistic value = 1067.61 . ... DataSet 3: 90 data points -- 76 degrees of freedom. ... Back to SNR J0519.5-6902 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

In the PROJECT we are using the following peculiar . features of RATAN-600 . ... Brightness temperature sensitivity being equal to the antenna temperature sensitivity .. ... Receiver system .. ... Using aperture averaging effect. dual- beam and dual (multi-) frequency filtration, we demonstrated full filtration of the atmosphere noise down to the receiver noise at all scales of acoustics peaks ( Fig.1 , Fig 2 ). ... We select this frequency as the central one in our project. ... Antenna surface . ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

Next: Cross References between CCF Up: Applications of CCF Previous: Applications of CCF Contents . Table 2: Cross reference of mirror CCF components to In-Flight Calibration Plan. Target Name . ... PSF . ... FilTransX, QuantumEf, XAreaEf . ... Table 3: Cross reference of EPIC CCF components to In-Flight Calibration Plan. ... Table 4: Cross reference of EPIC Inflight Calibration Targets to CCF components . ... Table 7: Cross reference of In-Flight Calibration Targets to OM CCF components . ...

Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Observing conditions . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... The following definitions of the observing conditions are common between Phase 1 preparation and Phase 2 preparation, as well as between Service Mode and Visitor Mode observations. ... There are additional Service Mode Policies and Service Mode Guidelines regarding the observing conditions. ... Seeing (Phase 1) and Image quality (Phase2) constraints . ... Moon . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Using positional observations of minor planets for improving the orientation of star catalogue Yu. ... But expe­ rience shows that this kind of observations can be used succesfully for improving orientation parameters of star catalogues with respect to dynamical reference system. ... Observations of 90 selected minor planets were used in general solution for their orbital elements, orientation parameters and some parameters of phase re­ duction. ...