Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 11:47:55 EST Comment: HST status and observations written by Joe Ryan of NASA/GSFC Originator: hst-status@stsci.edu Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From ... DAILY REPORT #1301 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 01/06/95 - 0000Z (UTC) 01/09/95 Daily Status Report as of 009/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/ PC-2 5369 (Medium Deep Survey: Cycle 4 Medium High Galactic Latitude) The WF/ ...

... 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. ...

... For these observations night-time is required. Begin ­ End Interval­Interval ­ ­ ­ ­ 2 Days Needed at This Interval Time Constraints (Must Be Justified in the Prop osal Text) LST 0700 0700 0930 1715 Range - 1145 - 1300 - 1300 - 2000 Nights Notes 19 NGC 2577/UGC 4375 + Leo I Group 6 NGC 2577/UGC 4375 + Leo I Group + Abell 1367 51 Leo I Group + Abell 1367 89 Local Void (complete in second semester ) Constraints on scheduling: The Turn On Galfa Survey ( TOGS ) operates commensally with ...

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). ...

... 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...

... 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.: ...

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 . ...

... 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. ...

Next: Polarization efficiency: size/shape/orientation effects Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: The 2175? feature . To model the interstellar polarization one needs to calculate the forward-transmitted radiation for an ensemble of non-spherical aligned dust grains. ... Let non-polarized stellar radiation passes through a dusty cloud with a homogeneous magnetic field. ... The angle between the line of sight and the magnetic field is ( ). ... where the angle is connected with and ( ). ...

... The formation of the disks of disk galaxies remains poorly understood. ... Many disk galaxies have only the thin disk component, with no bulge or significant thick disk. ... Almost all disk galaxies have an exponential radial surface brightness distribution. The reason for this exponential form is not known; nor is it known when the exponential form is established. ... We would compare low redshift galaxies observed in the I band with galaxies at z =0.5 in the J band and at z =1 in the H band. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

Next: Supernova Explosions Up: No Title Previous: X-ray Luminosity Evolution . The origin of cosmic rays (CR) (especially of very high energies, >  eV) until now has been one of the unsolved problems in modern astrophysics. It is unclear as yet whether one universal mechanism of relativistic particle formation in our Galaxy operates or not, and if there are several different mechanisms, what is their relative contribution to CR formation. ... compact X-ray stars in binary systems. ...

Multiphase Turbulence in Extragalactic Jet Cocoons Martin Krause Paul Alexander Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge The observations ( Alignment effect ) · Radio galaxies at redshift 0.5 show associated optical emission : emission lines + rest frame blue continuum, correlations of many properties are evidence for the interaction · ... Note the pronounced peak at 14,000 K. The system energy reduces much faster, the more cold mass added. ... No cool gas appears in the control run. ...

... The scheduling subsystem of the ALMA software system is described. ... Current environmental conditions together with the current state of the telescope itself will be used to algorithmically determine the best scheduling block to execute at any time. ... The sole concern of the ALMA dynamic scheduler is to select the best scheduling block to execute at a particular time, using all available data on current conditions. ... The PI makes the selection of which scheduling block is to be executed. ...

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. ...