http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution /comment-page-1/#comment-308 Alex Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:08 +0000 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ ... Thanks, Aneta, very useful comment. ...

We present a database of UV-to-FIR data of 83 nearby starburst galaxies. ... The NIR data are from new observations obtained at the NASA/IRTF and the Mount Laguna Observatory, combined with the published results from observations at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. ... In conjunction with IRAS and ISO FIR flux densities, all these data form a set of observed spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the nuclear regions of nearby starburst galaxies. ...

... The R , I photometric observations of SBS 0335-052W were obtained occasionally during the study of SBS 0335-052 with the 3.5m telescope in Calar Alto on 1991 October 6. ... Aperture photometry was performed on the standard star observations using MAGNITUDE/CIRCLE task with the same aperture for all stars. ... For photometry of extended objects, we used the package SURFPHOT as well as dedicated software for adaptive filtering developed at the Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam (Lorenz et al. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... The Hб  I Column Density Distribution Function at z =0: the Connection to Damped Ly Statistics . ... We present a measurement of the Hб  I column density distribution function [ ] at the present epoch for column densities . These high column densities compare to those measured in damped Ly lines seen in absorption against background quasars. ... The Column Density Distribution Function . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Statistics from S. Pesci and P. Mazza logbook. I began my visual hunting program in 1991, after some ten years of variable star observing and deep sky. My patrol galaxies were some one hundred circumpolar galaxies, which were suveryed with a 45cm home made Dobsonian. ... These are checked on average 10-15 times a year, during 35 to 45 nights (numbers depend much on weather), mostly on weekends and holidays. Since 1995 Piero Mazza has joined my search with his 40cm home made telescope. ...

... 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. ...

... Observations of the Moon eclipse on 17.09.97 have shown the Moon details contrasts had decreased and the total radio brightness had fallen at all observed frequency range (from 10% at 1.38 sm down to 2.5% at 13 sm). The fall of the Moon radio brightness has been detected during the eclipse at decemeter waves for the first time. ... Radio emission of the Copernicus crater at 1.38 and 2.7 sm has been detected for the first time. ...

... We demonstrate through numerical simulations that model parameters estimated with our technique are essentially bias-free, even when the average number of counts per bin is 1. ... The IW technique avoids such biases by estimating through successive iterations, where for each iteration, j, , and the best-fit parameters are determined by minimization of . ... In our sample, we find that the minimum values and best-fit parameters converge after about 6 iterations. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

Magnetic Fields around Radio Galaxies Robert Laing (ESO) Laing et al. ... 2008) Negligible depolarization and 2 rotation Almost all Faraday effects must be due to foreground material How to fit depolarization caused by foreground Faraday rotation Complex polarization Rotation measure Integrate over a beam Observed RM for 0 2 rotation and depolarization Faraday rotation and depolarization 5.5 arcsec FWHM Faraday effects at high resolution FWHM = 1.5 ...

... 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. ...

A1652 2002-Feb-01 22:31:07 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Astronomy Observation Category: Extragalactic Total Time Requested: 24 Hours Proposal Title: The Spatial Distribution of LSBs in the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster ABSTRACT: Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBs) appear to be the remnants of the lowest density fragments of the initial density perturbation spectrum of the early Universe (Impey and Bothun 1997). ... In fact, such traits have been observed for LSBs. ...

Next: The Evolution of Stars Up: NICMOS Science Previous: A Coronagraphic Search for . ... The NICMOS Parallel program . ... The Stellar Population . ... NICMOS Camera 3 is being used in parallel mode to observe galactic fields at both high and low galactic latitudes. ... Most of the fields are at high galactic latitude; as Figure 1 shows, only 8 pointings are within |b| = 10 o , i.e. the galactic disk. Figure 1: NICMOS parallel fields distribution in galactic latitude. ... Figure 6 ). ...

... This is particularly true for columns at low energy, because of charge transfer efficiency variations from one column to the next. ... To avoid wrongly detecting columns as bad (either dark or bright), the observed dispersion in the distribution is used to compute the significance of an excess assuming a Gaussian distribution. ... The cost of this security is to detect less easily groups of bad columns/rows, because the observed dispersion is large even when the tested column/row is discounted. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Published: 04 Apr 2014 . ... First data releases of the Elais-S1 and CDFS fields have just been made available. ... The zCOSMOS-bright advanced data products are now available via the Science Data Products query form of the ESO Archive . ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 94 (1 October 2014 - 31 March 2015) has been released. ...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

The radial distribution of metallicity of star-forming galaxies in a galaxy cluster can inform us about the mass assembly and enrichment history of the galaxy cluster. ... Both galaxy clusters are cool-core clusters at redshift z т?? ... The gas-phase metallicity of star- forming galaxies in MACS1115+01 exhibit anti-correlation with projected distance т??0.15 ТБ 0.08 dex/Mpc, whereas the radial metallicity distribution of RXJ1532+30 is statistically flat (т??0.09 ТБ 0.12 dex/Mpc). ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...