STScI . Research . ... The 8.4m ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week probing dark matter and dark energy, searching for supernovae, near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper-belt Objects. ... GRAPES is an ACS grism spectroscopic survey of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ... The Hubble Deep Field is a Director's Discretionary program on HST to image a typical field at high galactic latitude in four wavelengths as deeply as possible. ...

... 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...

... 2012/11/28 . Bayesian inference of T Tauri star properties using multi-wavelength survey photometry . ... A Volume Limited Radio Survey of Ultracool Dwarfs . ... A high-resolution spectropolarimetric survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars I. Observations and measurements . ... Evolutionary models for double helium white dwarf mergers and the formation of helium-rich hot subdwarfs . ... On the incidence of weak magnetic fields in DA white dwarfs . ... Magnetic fields in central stars of planetary nebulae? ...

... Research . ... The major problem in HVC research is the unknown distance towards most of the HVCs. ... Thilker et al. (2004) used the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to map an area of $7^{\circ} \times 7^{\circ}$ around M31 in H i . They discovered a population of HVCs located within a projected distance of about $50~\mathrm{kpc}$ from M31. ... 2004). ... The remaining HVCs around M31 are isolated in position and velocity and may represent primordial, dark-matter-dominated clouds. ...

P. Frisch - Warm partially ionized interstellar gas at the Sun . ... W. M. Goss - Time variations in small-scale galactic HI structure toward 3C138 . S. Stanimirovic - Does tiny-scale atomic structure exist in the ISM? ... T. Bania - The distance to molecular clouds via HI self-absorption . ... C. Heiles - Arecibo Millennium Survey statistics of magnetic field, column density and turbulence in the CNM . R. Crutcher - Magnetic fields in molecular clouds . ...

... V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow 119899, Russia, shev@sai.msu.ru . ... 1.Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia. shev@sai.msu.ru . ... V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow 119992, Russia, shev@sai.msu.ru . ... 119992 Moscow, Russia; . ... 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, 119992, Russia, . ... Moscow, 119992, Russia shev@sai.msu.ru . ...

Marc White . ... Research . ... The outflows driven by forming protostars provide important clues to the nature of the star formation process. My research focuses on observations and analysis of the outflows driven by actively-accreting protostars. ... How are the outflows being driven? ... Built by my home institution, The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of The Australian National University, NIFS is a fantastic instrument for doing protostellar outflow work. ...

... Grants, Programs, Contracts . ... Grant of the Russian Federal Property Fund: . 12-02-00537 'Specific features of formation of nanostructure at plastic deformation of amorphous alloys' (A.S. Aronin) . ... 09-02-00529-'Role of shear bands in formation nanocrystal structures at deformation of amorphous alloys' (A.S. Aronin) . ... Nanocrystal structure in alloys on the base of transitional metals: formation, atomic and magnetic structure, magnetic properties (A.S.Aronin) . ... LSR ISSP RAS . ...

... My research focusses on spectral line and dust continuum observations of star formation in the Galaxy, particularly using the JCMT. My PhD thesis involved using HARP (the Heterodyne Array Receiver Project, see also my technical pages ), an array spectrograph built in the Cavendish Astrophysics Group for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope ( JCMT ) for a wide-field survey of star formation. ... For an overview of the survey see Curtis, Richer Buckle (2010) . ... 2010) . ... 2010 Emily Curtis | ...

Our group is involved in theoretical and observational research in several topics of star formation. ... The Arcetri group is carrying a coordinated effort to determine the kinematics and physical parameters of clouds where high-mass stars form. Massive stars form in association with solar mass objects from gas clouds of mass anywhere between one hundred and ten thousand times that of the sun. ... Disks around young stars: Inferring planet formation . ... Star Formation Group Page . ...

... More than 300 surface reconstructions are already known for pure Si surface and Si surface with adsorbate. Study of their properties by the methods of surface physics reveal numerous interesting phenomena including various phase transitions accompanied by changes of Fermi-surface topology, development of the charge-density wave, etc . ... The charge-density wave (CDW) develops in materials with a chain-like crystal structure at temperatures below the Peierls transition temperature. ...

Properties of the interstellar gas clouds . ... The angular resolution of this Survey was 2.4' x 130', velocity resolution was 6.3 km/s, r.m.s. fluctuations of antenna temperature (T a ) was 0.25 K. All clouds with kinematical distances r a Some selection effects were discovered and our statistic results were corrected for them. Figure 1. ... In the very high mass range the number of neutral gas clouds may be decreased because of gravitational instability or/and molecularization. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... 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. ...

... We present 5GHz high resolution VLA observations of 2,127 radio-- and X-ray--emitting sources found in both the Green Bank (GB) 5GHz radio catalog and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). We report core flux densities and positions accurate to =-0.5". ... This table has 1861 rows and 9 columns giving: Catalog source name, RA and DEC (J2000), observation code, S/N ratio, VLA core flux density at 5 GHz (mJy), Green Bank flux density at 5 GHz (mJy), error in Green Bank flux density (mJy), and Notes. ...

... Ionization Properties of the Dusty Mesosphere . Boris A. Klumov, Sergey I.Popel Institute for Dynamics of Geopsheres, Russia . ... The problem of influence of the dynamics and charging of dust particles on the ionization properties of the polar summer mesosphere is considered. ... We introduce the notion "dusty mesosphere" for the layer of the mesosphere at the altitudes of approximately 80-90 km, where the conditions for the nucleation and formation of macro (dust) particles are fulfilled. ...

... Protoplanetary Disks and the Hunt for the Youngest Exoplanets . ... Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM . ... But associating the current exoplanet properties with their formation epoch can be problematic, since the formation process is intimately associated with the physical conditions associated with their birthplaces: the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Empirical and theoretical modeling of 3-D structures in the solar corona is confronted by the tremendous amount of data needed to represent phenomena with a large dynamic range both in size and magnitude, and with a rapid temporal evolution. Octree representation of the 3-D coronal electron distribution offers the right compromise between resolution and size, allowing computation of synthetic images of the solar corona. ... The time interval between images is one day. ...

Physical Properties and Internal Structure of Near-Earth Objects . ... The review contains the most recent data on near-Earth objects such as their sizes and densities, rotation and shapes, taxonomy and mineralogy, optical properties and structure of their surfaces, binary systems among the NEOs and internal structure of asteroids and comets constituted the NEO population. ... The European space mission ISHTAR, NEO 4660 Nereus, NEO 5797 Bivoj. ...