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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. ...

The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Statistic . This statistic enables us to test whether observed frequencies are close to . those we would expect. ... Expected frequencies . ... For example, if we . have an honest die we would expect 1/6 of all cases to show any of . ... So, for example, if we roll a die 60 times we would expect : . ... If we actually roll a die 60 times we wouldn't expect each of the faces . ... times each face actually comes up is the observed frequency for that face. ...

Next: Hierarchical Wiener filtering Up: Noise reduction from Previous: The convolution from . Let us consider a measured wavelet coefficient at the scale i . We assume that its value, at a given scale and a given position, results from a noisy process, with a Gaussian distribution with a mathematical expectation , and a standard deviation : . ... We get: . ... This is done from the study of the variation of the noise between two scales, with an hypothesis of a white gaussian noise; . ...

... Where we have just a single image we assume a probabilistic mode of source detection such that, at a given image pixel, if the probability that the observed value at that pixel could have arisen through statistical fluctuation of the background at that pixel lies below a certain limiting probability , the pixel is considered to contain a source. In XMM practice it is likelihood rather than itself which is employed; in this case the detection criterion is for to exceed the cutoff . ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

... Expectations from a Microlensing Search for Planets . ... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... Events . ... Samples of expected results from an intensive search for planets about stars acting as gravitational lenses (lens stars) of galactic bulge stars (source stars) during microlensing events are constructed. ... The Gould and Loeb (1992) detection probabilities are scaled to arbitrary planetary mass and mean lens distance and averaged over the lens mass function. ...

Detecting Variations in Source Intensity for Poisson Data Y. Yu, XL. Meng, D. van Dyk, V. Kashyap, and A. Zezas Abstract The analysis of light curves is an especially challenging statistical task for low-count Poisson data: Variation in the source intensity may be shadowed by the Poisson variation of the counts. Here we discuss a class of statistical models that are designed to capture trends and autocorrelations in Poisson data that are collected over time. ... Example: A downward trend? . ...

... The standard science quicklook processing produces over a dozen sky maps at each downlink, and these maps are automatically searched for potential transient point sources. ... We have found that a heuristic modification of a formula derived by Li & Ma (1983) provides reasonably accurate estimates of p -values for point source detections even for very low p -value detections. ... Case 1u. The most straightforward approach uses the signal , where . ... To get a p -value, use . ...

... I.A.Dynnikov, Three-page approach to knot theory. ... Universal semigroup, Funktsional'nyi Analiz I Prilozhenija, 34 (2000), no.1, 29-40 (Russian); English translation in Functional Analysis and Its Appl. 34 (2000), no.1, 24-32. I.A.Dynnikov, Finitely presented groups and semigroups in knot theory. ... Math. 2000, no. ... English translation: Russian Math. ... A.Vershik, Numerical invariants of exponential groups, and a locally free approximation of braid groups (in Russian), Zapiski Nauchn. ...

The overall efficiency (including atmospheric transmission, reflectivity of the telescope mirrors and overall efficiency of the optics and of the detector) for broad-band imaging should be about 25% in H and K, and about 15% in J. The main noise source for both broad- and narrow-band imaging should be the photon noise associated to the background+source flux. ... Flat fielding (and possibly background subtraction) might increase the noise by a factor 2 ? ...

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Hide Zen home . ... SAI RVO . SAI CAS . ... Supernovae . ... Our proposal is not very specific to SNAP and could be applied to the all large scale survey projects. ... The number of "resolved" galaxies should be proportional to z^2 with slight (at such z range) deviation due to cosmological effect. ... We need to develop and implement new storage and catalog of Supernovae on top of it. ... Expected number of SN discovered by SNAP exceeds the capability of current SN nomenclature scheme (26**2). ...

... An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco . ... It appeared just as the astrophotographer and his friend were photographing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California against a more predictable night sky. ... The consensus of experienced sky observers was that the plume resulted from a rocket launch -- an explanation that was soon confirmed as an unpublicized test of a submarine-launched, unarmed, Trident II D5 nuclear missile. ... Publications with keywords: rocket - launch . ...

Trail encounter . ... Expected meteor rates . ... The Leonids are the debris of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. ... The Earth's passage right through the centre of trails is associated with the most spectacular meteor displays (studies show that, as well as how close to the centre of the trail you are, the strength of the display also depends on how far along a trail's length you are). ... The encounter with the 1932 trail will lead to enhanced meteor activity: a nice outburst, but below storm level. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . ... Defining the in-flight relationship between changes in the eye structure, state of its blood vessels and sense of vision and movement of fluids to the head, sizes of the blood vessels and blood flow types. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

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. ...

Precision Telescope Control System PTCS Project Note 51.1 A Preliminary Analysis of the Correlation Scales of Wavefront Errors of the GBT Using the Moon Bojan Nikolic, Dana S. Balser & Richard M. Prestage 27 June 2006 GBT Archive: PR063 File: PROJECTS Keys: PTCS, OOF Abstract Observations of the GBT error beam are performed using the Moon to explore the spatial scales in the aperture plane over which the dominant wavefront errors are correlated. ... The expected observed scan is shown in Figure 7. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...