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... The BM effect causes low-luminosity blazars (particularly BL Lacs) to be missed in surveys because the apparent luminosity of the non-thermal nuclear source does not exceed that of the host galaxy by a large factor. ... Browne (1995). ... In addition to these objects, a large fraction of the newly-identified BL Lacs in our sample (10 of 22; see Table 5) have been so classified only by virtue of our usage of the expanded March? et al. (1996) definition of the BL Lac class. ... 1996). ...

... champ name : Source ID in the format explained in the Definitions section. ra : RA in decimal degrees. ... pos_error : Source count extraction radius in arcseconds. netB : net counts in B-band. See Definitions section. error_netB : error of net counts in B-band. see Definitions section. netS : S-band net counts, defined analogously to netB . ... See Definitions section. C21 : X-ray color. ... C32 : X-ray color. See Definitions section. rateB : B-band count rate in ksec. ...

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... The width of hydrogen lines is known to depend on the pressure in the photosphere, and then on the luminosity and effective temperature of the star. We have studied this dependence using the spectra of normal B stars from the databases by Jacoby et al., ... The resolution of Jacoby spectra (4.5А) coincides with the resolution of our BTA/UAGS spectra (4.4A). ... Dependence of full width FWZI of hydrogen lines on star spectral type and luminosity class. ...

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ATCA ­ Calibration at mm wavelengths Rick Forster University of California, Berkeley Hat Creek Radio Observatory Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland ... Basics of interferometry The atmosphere Amplitude phase calibration Atmospheric instrumental effects Antenna effects 1 ATCA synthesis workshop - May 2003 ATCA Bands Band L S C X K W cm 20 13 6 3 1.2 0.35 GHz 1.5 2.3 5.6 8.6 20.5 87.5 mJy/b 0.19 0.24 0.22 0.21 0.53 2.70 beam 33 22 10 5 2 0.6 ...

... Shock is a non-linear plasma wave generated by plasma flow (Burgess, 1995). ... Shocks are thus places where plasma and field go through dramatic changes in density, temperature, field strength, and/or flow speed. If there is no plasma flow through the surface (Un <> 0) or there is no dissipation and compression across it, we talk about discontinuity only, not shock. ... Contact discontinuity . ... Plasma pressure and field strength increase at shock; magnetic field bends away from normal . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

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