... We propose that the bimodal nature of the kick velocity distribu­ tion of radio pulsars is connected to the dichotomy between hadronic stars (i.e. neutron stars with no quark matter content) and quark stars. ... Here we propose a scenario in which the low­velocity part of the distribution is connected with normal (hadronic) compact stars, and high­velocity part is formed by objects with some amount of quark matter inside (hybrid or strange stars). ...

This all-sky image shows the spatial distribution over the whole sky of the galactic haze at 30 and 44 GHz, extracted from the Planck observations. In addition to this component, other foreground components such as charged particles accelerated radially, known as synchrotron radiation, thermal dust, spinning dust, and extragalactic point sources contribute to the total emission detected by Planck at these frequencies. ... ESA/Planck Collaboration ...

... Results 3. ... 2004), Escapa (2011): Hamiltonian approach, simplified elastic response. ... PАg. ... Let us recall that assuming a rheological model based in Smith (1974) , Wahr (1979) and IERS (2010) for the elastic/anelastic response of the Earth, the second order harmonic components of the redistribution potential admit a truncated development in complex spherical harmonics in the form Generalized Love Numbers, dependent on: Harmonic order, Excitation frequencies In magnitude, PАg. ...

... The Radon transform (also known as the Hough transform) is formulated as a family of line integrals through a two-dimensional function. ... The Radon transform provides us with a simple means of computing the FF plane of the autochirplet transform, by using the Wigner distribution, and arriving at a transform space that tells us basically the same information as the chirplet FF-plane, except that we benefit from the greater resolution of the Wigner distribution. ...

. Next: Procedure Up: RGS Related CAL Routines Previous: List of CCF Components Contents . The contribution of the grating non-flatness bows to the figure error of the RGA distribution. Subsections . Procedure . Calling Parameters . Input . Output . Used CAL State Variables . List of CCF Components used . Michael Smith 2011-09-20

Topics covered by the IAU Symp. ... Do all galaxies have stellar halos? ... Stellar tracers of the MW halo and nearby galaxies; the stellar population of star clusters and their contribution to the galaxy halos . ... NEW: Scientific program of the IAU Symposium 317 can be downloaded here . ... GLOBAL PROPERTIES OF STELLAR HALOS FROM THE MILKY WAY TO EXTERNAL GALAXIES . ... DISCRETE CONSTITUENTS OF STELLAR HALOS IN THE MILKY WAY AND IN EXTERNAL GALAXIES : PLANETARY NEBULAE and GLOBULAR CLUSTERS . ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] SVM and galaxy morphological classification, Sept. 10, 2007 . ... On the Metallicity-Color Relations and Bimodal Color Distributions in Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems by M. Cantiello and J. P. Blakeslee . Many observations on globular cluster systems (GCS) show bimodal distributions in color and metallicity space. ... Based on their simulation study, (V-H) and (V-K) are confirmed to be good colors for revealing unbiased bimodal metallicity distributions in GCS. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Next: Examples and Photometric Up: Image Restorations of High Previous: Introduction . ... where is the intensity of the point sources (mainly zero apart from -functions at the positions of designated sources) and is the intensity of the background. ... When is zero the objective function becomes the same as that of the standard Lucy-Richardson technique. takes the form of an entropy expression which may be calculated in two ways, relative to a flat background: . ...

Main research interests: . 1) Structure and geometry of the circumnuclear medium of AGN, particularly through hard X-ray observations of obscured sources. ... 3) Physics of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs): analysis of the AGN and starburst components through hard X-ray and infrared (with ground-based 3-5 micron spectroscopy, and with Spitzer in the 5-30 micron band) imaging and spectroscopy. ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

... Latest SNe . ... Statistics on Supernovae Discoveries . Discoveries by amateurs have been rising in recent years. ... And the next page shows the amateurs who have discovered a supernova: . ... All SNe since 1885. (external link) . The next pages relate to all supernovae discovered so far, their properties and their parent galaxies: . SNe distribution according to galaxies' morphological type. ... SNe distribution according to their magnitudes. All SNe distribution since 1885. ...

Optical/IR infrastructure priority setting process The Town Hall community meeting agreed that the "base" component of Gemini (i.e. the current 6.19% + Aspen program) is the community's highest priority, and that it should be wholly funded under NCRIS (i.e. without the LIEF or university contributions of the present arrangement). ... Infrastructure funded through NCRIS should serve the research and innovation system broadly, not just the host/funded institutions. ...

Proceedings of the XXVIIth Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC). ... Please Note: e-mail addresses and external links in these contributions were correct when these papers were written in 1995, but may no longer be valid. ... In addition to the hypertext version of each paper, indicated by the link from the title of the paper, there are links to postscript versions of each paper, which are suitable for printing if you want a hardcopy of a given paper. ... Sandor Frey (or postscript ) . ...

... The Impact of HST on European Astronomy . ... These range from the study of nearby planets, the processes of star and planet formation, the stellar and interstellar components of galaxies, the discovery that most, if not all, galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole that profoundly affects their evolution, to the realisation that the universe as a whole is undergoing acceleration as a result of a yet unknown form of dark energy . ... Formation, structure and evolution of galaxies . ...

... Using the central limit theorem, the total noise can be approximated by a Gaussian or normal distribution which has the frequency function : . ... where is the mean intensity of the source. ... In the statistical analysis of the probability distribution of data several estimators based on moments are used. ... For a normal distribution, these moments are and while for a Poisson distribution are and . Besides these moments other estimators are used to describe a distribution e.g. median and mode . ...

Interstellar Scintillation of Pulsar B0809+74 B. J. Rickett 1 , Wm. ... These have been used to constrain the spectrum, the distribution and the transverse velocity of the scattering plasma with respect to the local standard of rest (LSR). ... 1998). ... Scintillation time scale for observation in April 1996 (solid lines) and in October 1998 (dashed lines), calculated for a uniform scattering medium with a uniform velocity (V ff ; V ffi ) relative to the LSR. ...