... Papers . ... Sesana, Vecchio, Colacino (2008), The stochastic gravitational-wave background from massive black hole binary systems: implications for observations with Pulsar Timing Arrays . van Haasteren, Rutger; Levin, Yuri; McDonald, Patrick; Lu, Tingting (2008), On measuring the gravitational-wave background using Pulsar Timing Arrays . ... 2006), Upper Bounds on the Low-Frequency Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Pulsar Timing Observations: Current Limits and Future Prospects . ...

... The GW from coalescing compact binaries composed of NS and BH are the best understood of all astrophysical GW sources. A conservative lower limit to the event rate of galactic binary neutron star coalescence of about 1 per 100000 year follows from double pulsar   statistics studies (Narayan et al. ... In Figure  47 we show the rates of coalescence of binary WD and NS in a model elliptical galaxy   consisting of stars, depending on time elapsed since the (assumed instantaneous) star formation. ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Foreground emission and Cosmic Microwave background intrinsic anisotropies . ... Since its discovery the Cosmic Microwave Radiation (CMB) has been one of the pillars of modern Cosmology. ... Further development of this work is the application of already tested algorithms to disentangle the foreground emission from the CMB maps and the determination of the CMB intrinsic emission. ... Return to list of thesis topics ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

The angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the CMB contains information about the formation of the Universe and its current contents. ... The image above shows an all-sky map with only ell=2 power on the left, and another map with only ell=16 power on the right. ... The current status of microwave background anisotropy measurements in my compilation from the literature has 95 data points from 25 experiments. These are all plotted in the figure below: . ...

Program Number . ... Abstract . ... Galaxy Evolution During Half the Age of the Universe: ACS imaging of rich galaxy clusters . ... Complexity in the Smallest Galaxies: Star Formation History of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal . ... The Sloan sky survey provides a powerful tool for identifying candidate galaxy-galaxy lenses; this program is using HST-ACS imaging to verify the nature of those candidates, and provide the angular resolution necessary to model the mass distribution. ... Past weeks: . ...

stable spacetime manifold Expected to propagate at speed of light Expected to have 2 independent polarizations Sources ­ ­ ­ ­ http ://www.johnstonsarchive.net/relativity/pictures.html Unmodeled bursts Binary Coalescence Periodic Sources Stochastic Background http ://mucholderthen.tumblr.com/post/55970198303/gravitational-waves-patterns-in-space-time-a 3 LIGO-VIRGO Interferometer Gaussian Noise: Coherent Signal vs. ...

... 2000, ApJ, 537, L49 . ... F. Palla . Invited Talk at the IAU Symposium 200 "The formation of binary stars" eds. R.D. Mathieu and H. Zinnecker (ASP Conf. Ser.) in press . Optical follow-up of ROSAT discovered candidate members of the open cluster Coma Berenices . ... 2000, A , in press . ... 2000, ApJ, in press . ... 2000, ApJ, in press (Sept. ... 2000, ApJ Lett., in press . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

Proposal Identi cation No.: P1481 Date Received: 2000-Sep-30 20:41:33 Technical Page Proposal Type: Long-term General Category: Pulsars Observation Category: Galactic Total Time Requested: 605 Hours Proposal Title: Probing the NanoHertz Gravitational Wave Background with a Pulsar Timing Array ABSTRACT: Precision timing of an array of millisecond pulsars provides the only method for direct detection of gravitational radiation at nanoHertz frequencies. ... This includes GPS monitoring of time. ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... 2.3 Establishing the Extragalactic Distance Scale . ... 2.3.2 The Second Rung: Distances to stellar clusters . ... 2.3.4 Distances to Local Group Galaxies . ... The Luminosity Function of Planetary Nebulae . ... 3.2.2 Clusters of Galaxies . ... 4.2 Evidence for Dark Matter as a Function of Scale Size . ... 4.3 Other Dark Matter Indicators for Galaxies . ... What is the nature of the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe as traced by the three-dimensional galaxy distribution? ...

... Estimation of the residual Soft Proton flare contamination . ... The script can be run on any EPIC event files (MOS1, MOS2 and/or pn), to estimate the amount of *residual* Soft Proton (SP) flare contamination, i.e. it should only be used *after* attempts have been made to clean the event files for SPs using GTI filtering. ... The higher the in-FOV to out-of-FOV ratio, the more the file is contaminated by SPs: . ... File is not contaminated by SPs. ... File is slightly contaminated by SPs. ...

... Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) . ... Searching for SZ clusters . ... Baryon content of galaxy clusters and cosmology . ... 3 sigma peaks: Observational Signatures of High Redshift Galaxies and Low Redshift Clusters . CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES . ... Clusters of galaxies seen in X-rays: war and peace . ... Chandra X-ray Observations of Clusters/Groups/Galaxies . ... Common timing features in neutron stars and black holes . ... X-ray luminosity function of low-mass X-ray binaries in galaxies . ...

Next: A New Entropy Measure Based on Multiple Resolution and Noise Modeling . ... The entropy measurement has been proposed for image restoration several years ago in astronomy. ... The multiscale entropy has the advantage to introduce a noise modeling, and the concept of information at different level of resolution. ... We show in this paper that it can also be used for background fluctuations analysis. ... Five simulated images were created by adding 400, 200, 100, 50, 0 sources to a noisy image. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Figure 1: Dynamic spectrum of Jovian radio emission recorded by Cassini on October 21, 2000 (courtesy of W.S. Kurth, Cassini RPWS Team, University of Iowa). ... We investigate the formation of zebra-like fine spectral structures (consisting of several parallel bands in the dynamic spectrum) in the Jovian broadband kilometric radiation; such radio bursts were observed by Cassini in 2000/2001. ...

A Bulls Eye Einstein Ring . ... Credit Copyright: L. J. King ( U. Manchester ), NICMOS , HST , NASA Explanation: Can one galaxy hide behind another? ... Here the foreground galaxy acts like a huge gravitational lens , pulling the light from the background object around it, keeping it visible. Here the alignment is so precise that the distant galaxy is distorted into a nearly perfect giant ring around the foreground galaxy, a formation known as an Einstein ring . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...