DAILY REPORT #1674 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 07/12/96 - 0000Z (UTC) 07/15/96 Daily Status Report as of 197/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Five Sets of WF/ PC-2 6253 (Pure Parallel Archive Program) The WF/ PC-2 was used to execute a pure parallel program taking = ultraviolet observations running concurrently with prime science = observations ... The = observations were completed as scheduled, and no problems were reported. ...

... Completing the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey . ... A Continuing Drift-Scan Pulsar Search at 327 MHz (AO327) . ... Millisecond pulsar searches in unidentified Fermi sources at high Galactic latitudes . ... Timing of pulsars discovered by the PALFA survey . ... Continued Timing of a Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System . ... Further Follow-up of Millisecond Pulsars Discovered in the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift Scan Survey . ... Continued timing of a millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system...

The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS) BЁrbel Koribalski a CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility The `Local Volume' -- the sphere of radius 10 Mpc centered on the Local Group -- includes at least 500 known galaxies. ... To expand and deepen our knowledge of the nearby Universe several teams are currently targeting LV galaxies, among them the "Local Volume HI Survey" (LVHIS; Koribalski et al.), the "Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey" (FIGGS; Begum et al.) ... Koribalski et al. ...

... Since the pioneering work of Markarian ([ 1967 ]) objective prism surveys were recognized as a powerful tool to search for galaxies of various types of activity. ... Of special interest are blue compact galaxies (BCGs). ... A third sample of BCGs of Popescu et al. ([ 1997 ], [ 1998 ]) contains about 200 BCGs distributed in four regions of the northern sky and is based on a sample selected on the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS; Hagen et al. [ 1995 ]) digitised IIIa-J plates. ... 1997, 1998). ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

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... Science . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Properties of kinematically decoupled structures in Early-Type Galaxies . ... Science Users Information . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... The project consists in measuring the stellar kinematics, stellar populations, dynamics, and morphological properties of the kinematically decoupled structures observed in the inner regions of Early-Type Galaxies. ... Return to list of thesis topics...

... We suggest simple method of the selection of distant galaxies based on their radio properties. ... RC0015+0503a , RC0015+0503b , RC0015+0501 , RC0034+0513 , RC0038+0449 , RC0042+0504 . ... RC0105+0501 , RC0110+0500 , RC0117+0503 , RC0126+0502 , RC0133+0459 , RC0135+0450 , RC0137+0539 , RC0143+0505 , RC0152+0453 , RC0154+0459 , RC0159+0448 . ... RC0209+0501b , RC0213+0516 , RC0226+0512 , RC0250+0512 . ... RC0302+0456 , RC0308+0454 , RC0311+0507 , RC0318+0456 , RC0355+0449 . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 . ... Direct Measurement of the Contribution of Point Sources to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission in Record Deep Observations by the Chandra Observatory . ... These demonstrate that electrons generating hard X-ray intensity have been an initiator and main source of flare plasma heating, the particle acceleration and the plasma heating is a system with positive feed back. ...

... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

... H.I.T.M.A.N. is a program that I have written to analyze transient host galaxies and obtain charateristics and properties of them. ... It determines physical, photometric, and cosmological properties of the host galaxies and can also correlate with transient properties. ... Any routine can be done stand alone instead of the full routine. ... The full details of the program will be described in Tucker et al 09a, and Tucker et al 09b, in prep. ...

... 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 . ...

... Credit Copyright: W. Keel and R. White ( U. Alabama ), NASA Explanation: How much dust is in spiral galaxies? ... This striking, detailed Hubble Space Telescope image of dust in the outer reaches of a foreground spiral galaxy (left) back lit by an elliptical galaxy offers an elegant approach to providing the answers . ... Publications with keywords: dust - spiral galaxy . Publications with words: dust - spiral galaxy . ... Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 . NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends . ...

... January 16, 1998 . Dusting Spiral Galaxies . Credit: W. Keel and R. White ( U. Alabama ), NASA . Explanation: How much dust is in spiral galaxies? ... This striking, detailed Hubble Space Telescope image of dust in the outer reaches of a foreground spiral galaxy (left) back lit by an elliptical galaxy offers an elegant approach to providing the answers . As expected, dust lanes in the foreground galaxy seem to be associated with spiral arms. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

K-band Arcetri Obscured Supernova Search . What is the KAOSS Project? W hat is the KAOSS Project? Some recent surveys aimed at detecting Supernovae (SNe) in the optical have found that starburst galaxies do not show evidence for an enhanced SN rate, with respect to quiescent galaxies (Richmond et al. ... A similar result was obtained by Navasardyan et al. (2001) who looked for SNe in interacting galaxies, finding no evidence for correlations between SN rate and galaxy properties. ...

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

... -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- 0845am WELCOME ------- Harvey Tananbaum 0900am A SURVEY of X-RAY SURVEYS ------- MISTs and ANEWs Paul Green 0910am PLENARY SESSION 1: The X-ray Time Machine ----------------- Chair - Georgantopoulos INVITED REVIEW: Amy Barger 25+10 Extragalactic Surveys 0935am 4 CONTRIBUTED ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? How to use SAS SAS Workshops SAS Version Changes Download and Install SAS Science Simulator (SciSim) . ... Is this going to be your first download of the SAS? ... Which version of the SAS do you intend to download? SAS version? RedHat 9 RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Fedora Core 3 SuSE 8.2 SuSE 7.3 Solaris 9 Solaris 8 Mac OS X 10.4 Mac OS X 10.2 VMWare for Windows . ... How many SAS users are going to be served through your download? ...