... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... The measured Mg2 index corresponds to a certain defined region of the object and, after systematic corrections applied to series of measurements, it is reduced to a common standard aperture (for galaxies only). The compilation of Mg2 measurements may be accessed in HyperLeda. mg2 is the Mg2 index in mag. The Mg2, as well as velocity dispersions, are standardized to an aperture r norm of 0.595 h -1 kpc, which is equivalent to an angular diameter of 3.4 arcsec at the distance of Coma. ...

... User Guide ] Task: imfit Purpose: Fit models to a given image dataset Categories: image analysis IMFIT is a Miriad task that fits model components to an image. ... Key: clip Clip level. ... Possible objects are: level An offset (DC) level gaussian An elliptical or circular gaussian. disk An elliptical or circular disk. point This is a short-hand for a gaussian with the width of the point-spread-function. beam This is a short-hand for a gaussian with a peak value of 1 and located at the image centre....

... The BL Lac objects found within DXRBS fall mostly in the range . ... A large fraction of the BL Lacs so far in our sample are at L X / L R < 10 -6.5 , the region of Figure 6 populated by LBLs. In this region of parameter space (to the left of the left-most dashed line in Figure 6), DXRBS includes objects up to two orders of magnitude fainter than the 1 Jy survey. ... For comparison, we have plotted the values for members of these three ROSAT-based surveys (DXRBS, HQS/RASS and RC) in Figure 7. ...

slitless -- Extract a spectrum from a direct/GRISM image pair slitless image grism output PARAMETERS . ... A two dimensional direct image to be used to select an object. grism . A two dimensional GRISM image containing slitless spectra of objects present in the direct image. output . ... Toggle whether or not a background estimate is subtracted from the extracted object spectrum. mingood = INDEF . Pixels of the grism image with values smaller than this are ignored. maxgood = INDEF . ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

... This effect is visible in Figure 4.3 which shows a logarithmic stretch of the image resulting from a 100s exposure on a star of V magnitude 2.6 through filter F502N in the PC. Extreme overexposure of the Loral CCDs is not believed to cause any permanent effects, and therefore the WFPC2 does not have a bright object limit. ... Several other artifacts that are common in saturated stellar images are also obvious in Figure 4.3 . ... Figure 4.3: Saturated Stellar Image Showing Horizontal Smearing. ...

... The spectrograph is designed for detailed studies of extended objects - galaxies and HII regions with a moderate spectral resolution. ... The updated Universal Astronomical Grating Spectrograph (UAGS, Carl Zeiss Jena) with a fast Schmidt camera is a base of the Long Slit Spectrograph (LSS). A cryostated Charge Coupled Device (CCD) detector is built inside the Schmidt camera. ... It was realized in the Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Photometry of Extragalactic Objects of SAO RAS. ... Camera . ...

... This section will deal with obtaining photons within specified regions of an image. Available regions are: Annulus Box Circle Ellipse Field -- entire field Irregular region based on intensity of map... i.e. region defined by contour levels. ... The imcnts task in the xray-spatial package sums the source and background counts in specified regions, and subtracts one from the other properly normalized. ... imcnts* - Find counts in an extended region, after removing an embedded point source . ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

... All the parameters provided in this database have been obtained using the the MIRIAD ( Sault et al. 1995 ) task MBSPECT . MBSPECT makes a spectrum of the velocity (or frequency) axis of a cube. The spectrum is beam-weighted, over the width specified, for the other image axes. ... Robust parameters are calculated by using an algorithm which minimises the mean absolute deviation of the flux-weighted velocities. mask= This specifies the x-axis ranges to be excluded from any continuum fit. ...

... A file upload element on an HTML form. ... JavaScript 1.1: added type property . ... The HTML INPUT tag, with "file" as the value of the TYPE attribute. For a given form, the JavaScript runtime engine creates appropriate FileUpload objects and puts these objects in the elements array of the corresponding Form object. ... form . ... For all FileUpload objects, the value of the type property is "file" . ... Use the value property to obtain the file name that the user typed into a FileUpload object. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... We find a transition of LBV star from the LBV instability strip to the region of classical WN for the first time. ... Numerical modeling of the atmospheres of these objects are very important for understanding the evolutionary relationship WR and LBV stars, as well as of the physical causes of LBVs variability. We studied spectra of two very luminous stars in the M33 galaxy - LBV V532 and late WN star FSZ35. ... Bottom: The spectrum of FSZ35 with the final model . ...

Statistical inversion method for binary asteroids orbit determination I.Kovalenko, D. Hestroffer, A. Doressoundiram, N. Emelyanov, R. Stoica ikovalenko@imcce.fr (IMCCE - LESIA, Paris Observatory) Introduction We focus on the study of binary asteroids, which are common in the Solar system from its inner to its outer regions. ... Particularly, we use the Metropolis-Hasting algorithm with Thiele-Innes equation for sampling the orbital elements and system mass through the sampling of observations. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelSphericalIndexMultiRes Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... Insert the given object in the StelSphericalIndexMultiRes . ... template<class FuncObject > . ... processIntersectingRegions (const SphericalRegionP &region, FuncObject &func) const . ... processAll (FuncObject &func) const . ... processBoundingCapIntersectingRegions (const SphericalCap &cap, FuncObject &func) const . ... processContainedRegions (const SphericalRegionP &region, FuncObject &func) const . ...

... Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form?. ... In order for material to accrete onto a protostar it has to lose angular momentum. The angular momentum of a large natal cloud leads to the formation of a circumstellar disk and inner accretion disk as the cloud collapses. ... Winds generated in the inner disk or close to the stellar surface (we don't know which) expel material along the disk rotation axis. ... This provides the highest resolution observational data on nearby young stars. ...

The main objective of measurements of charged particles and plasma flux characteristics in the INTERBALL project is to study the spatial structure of the terrestrial magnetosphere as a global system in various scales and for varying external conditions. ... The SPS spectrometer is designed for estimating the ion energy and angular distributions and for measurements of the electron energy distributions. ... Particles under measurements . ions/electrons . ions . ... 3 for ions,1 for electrons . ...