Pixels , slits and facets for the NGST NIRSpec: Appendix ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits and facets for a MEMS-type spectrograph for NGST Appendix : Extension to different PSF and detector properties Santiago Arribas, Peter Jakobsen, Robert Fosbury Wolfram Freudling --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits , and ... This PSF meets the two requirements established by Bely et al. for the OTA optical quality. ...

... 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. ...

Instrument Summary -- Why Use the GHRS? Here we provide a brief overview of the basic properties of the GHRS. ... The GHRS can obtain spectra from about 1150 to 3200 . ... The repeatability of fluxes is even better, being better than 1%; i.e., it is possible to compare measures of the same wavelength in the same star at different times to within 1% for observations with the LSA. ... The source to be observed may be placed in a Large Science Aperture (LSA) or a Small Science Aperture (SSA). ...

... 7.1 Introduction to media types . ... 7.3 Recognized media types . 7.3.1 Media groups One of the most important features of style sheets is that they specify how a document is to be presented on different media: on the screen, on paper, with a speech synthesizer, with a braille device, etc. Certain CSS properties are only designed for certain media (e.g., the 'cue-before' property for aural user agents). ... For example, the 'font-size' property is useful both for screen and print media. ...

... There are several classifications of the exact methods. ... A more physical classification is that of Th.Wriedt (1998) where he devides the methods in 3 groups: Mie theory expansions (SVM), surface-based (PMM, EBCM, GMT, MoM) and volume-based (FDTDM, TLMM, FEM and various volume IEMs - CDM, DDA, etc.) methods. Features of the methods . Among the methods only SVM and EBCM are capable to provide very accurate results (5 and more correct decimals) (Mishchenko et al., 2000). ... 1998) Part. ...

The possibility to have Visitor Instruments at the VLTI has been granted to permit innovative observations by teams using stand-alone instruments, free from a substantial fraction of the requirements for fully automated VLTI general use instruments. In addition, the Visitor Instruments could provide a powerful scientific/technical test bench for new instrumental concepts, eventually to be incorporated later in VLTI facility instruments. ... a thorough technical description of the instrument, . ...

... The sky distribution of the BCGs from the HSS sample is shown in Fig. 6 together with BCGs from the SBS and Case surveys (Izotov et al. [ 1993b ]; Pustilnik et al. ... First, we compare the apparent magnitude distributions of the three samples. ... The similar behaviour of the faint end of the apparent magnitude distributions infers that the Northern BCG sample may have a similar completeness down to this limiting magnitude. ...

MODERN APPROACHES TO CALCULATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE A. Kabanov Samara State University The modern technologies demands to compact and effective rechargeable systems of energy storage. ... In this work we investigated the activation energies of one promising compound ­ Li2CoPO4F using combination of two methods ­ ab-initio and geometrical calculations. ... The nudged elastic band (NEB) method is adopted to find the kinetic energy barrier along diffusion pathways. ...

... Physical Properties of Crystals . ... The course is an introduction into crystal physics and consists of two introductory parts devoted to the basics of crystallography and tensor analysis and six main chapters in which the physical phenomena in anisotropic medium are described by the example of the elastic, electrical and magnetic crystal properties. The effect of symmetry is also discussed. ... Effect of symmetry on crystal properties. ... Effect of symmetry on crystal optical properties. ...

... Spectra obtained with the 6-m telescope of SAO RAS are used along with archival data from Spitzer and several ground-based telescopes to infer a strength of PAH emission, age, properties of the UV radiation field, and metallicity of studied HII complexes. Physical properties (age, radiation field parameters, metallicity) are related to the F 8 /F 24 ratio used as a proxy for the PAH abundance in order to reveal factors that may influence the PAH evolution in HII complexes. ... Projects | ...

... 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...

... The improvement will be more pronounced in our crowded Wide Field Camera (WFC) images, and may be increased further through use of a more sophisticated method of combining the individual dithered images. Our analysis allows us to check for point spread function shape variations in the HST Planetary Camera (PC) field. ... In crowded field images, we are deriving information about the faint end of the luminosity function (LF) from the texture of the image background. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Saxton & Wu (1999) presented calculations of the stability of the accretion shock which forms on the surface of an accreting magnetic white dwarf in AM Herculis type systems in an attempt to explain the observed properties of the quasi periodic oscillations sometimes seen in these systems. He showed that radiative cooling may cause thermal instability in the post-shock structure of the accretion flow settling onto a magnetic white dwarf. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Open symbols refer to data available in the literature. ... The best-fit lines correspond to the exponential-linear relation discussed in Sect. ... We present a new extensive analysis of the old problem of finding a satisfactory calibra- tion of the relation between the geometric albedo and some measurable polarization properties of the asteroids. To achieve our goals, we use all polarimetric data at our disposal. ...

... 1) Our CAS system will store the catalogues. ... Each catalogue should contain one or more tables. 2) The names of the catalogues should be unique, as well as the the names of tables of the SAME catalogue. ... 4) All the metadata about the CAS system, its tables, catalogues should reside in separate schema (currently "cas_metadata"). 1) The main system table of CAS is the table "catalog_list". ... short info (column "info") . ... 2) The second system table of CAS is the table "table_list". ...

... The random graph obeys the zero-one law if for each firstorder property L either its probability tends to 0 or tends to 1. ... In 1988 S. Shelah and J.H. Spencer proved that the random graph G(n, n- ) obeys zero-one law if > 0 is irrational. ... 1 Recently I proved that if (0, k-2 ) then the random graph G(n, n- ) obeys 1 1 zero-one law. ... I also proved that the random graph G(n, n- ) obeys the zero-one k -law if k = 1- 2k-1 + , (0, )\Q. Moreover, 1- 2k-1 + S1 for any {1, ..., 2k-1 -2}. ...

... We show the analysis of low-hard and intermediate states of sources XTE J1550-564, H 1743-322, GX 339-4, XTE J1859-226, XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105. ... Directly applying the scaling technique we also obtain that a ratio of the BH masses in XTE J1859-226 and in XTE J1550-564 is , and the corresponding ratio for XTE J1650-500 and XTE J1550-564 is . These values of scaling factors r implies that BH masses are ; solar masses in XTE J1859-226 and XTE J1650-500 respectively. ...

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My research interests are focussed on the theory and modelling of accretion processes as well as star and planet formation mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the stability properties of accretion discs, the generation of MHD turbulence and associated angular momentum transport, disk - planet interactions and the origin and characteristics of jets and winds from accreting systems . ... These results have been published in Salmeron & Wardle, 2005, M.N.R.A.S., 361: 45-69. ...