Light scattering by multi-layered ellipsoidal particles in quasi-static approximation V.G. Farafonov St.Petersburg University of Aerocosmic Instrumentation St.Petersburg, 190000, Russia and V.B.Il'in Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg ... University St.Petersburg, 198504, Russia ABSTRACT Calculation of light scattering by finite size non-axisymmetric inhomogeneous particles is a complicated problem whose solution by the exact methods (e.g., the Discrete Dipole ... Spectr. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... Stochastic Particle Acceleration and the Problem of Background Plasma Overheating " . D.O. Chernyshov and V.A. Dogiel (P.N.Lebedev Institute of Physics) . ... It was concluded also from these investigations that it is problematic to produce emitting electrons from a background plasma by stochastic (Fermi) acceleration because the energy supplied by external sources in the form of Fermi acceleration is quickly absorbed by background plasma. ...

Proceedings of the Particle Physics and Early Universe Conference (PPEUC). For this paper: postscript PPEUC CMB index 1 Introduction.. ... Combining measurements of the thermal Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect with X-ray data allows calculation of a direct, physical estimate of Hubble's Constant ( ) without the need for distance-ladder-type arguments. ... 1 Introduction . ... 3 Calculating Hubble's Constant . 4 Errors In Determination of . ... PPEUC Proceedings . Fri Jun 27 15:29:33 BST 1997 ...

A full explanation of the motion of trapped particles would be too abstract and mathematical for this level, but some basic ideas may be described on an intuitive level. The magnetic force on a moving particle is always perpendicular to the motion, as well as to the magnetic field lines. That is why the basic pattern is motion in a circle, around a magnetic field line. ... The best-known periodic motion is the back-and-forth swing of a pendulum, say of a weight suspended by a string (drawing). ...

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... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

Apollo asteroids 1566 Icarus and 2007 MK6: Icarus family members? ... J., 668, L71-L74 (2007) . ... Although it is more complicated to search for near-Earth object (NEO) families than main belt asteroid families, since differential orbital evolution within a NEO family can cause current orbital elements to drastically differ from each other, we have found that Apollo asteroids 1566 Icarus and the newly discovered 2007 MK6 are almost certainly related. ...

Abstract . A first-generation CMOS Charged Particle Spectrometer chip [1] was designed at JPL for flight on the STRV-2 spacecraft. These devices will collect electron and proton spectra in low Earth orbit as part of an experiment to demonstrate Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology in space. This paper presents the results of total dose testing on these chips and, where possible, attempts to extend the results to other Active Pixel Sensors. ...

... Task epreject (1) corrects shifts in the energy scale of specific pixels which are due to high-energy particles hitting the EPIC PN detector during the calculation of the offset map and (2) suppresses the detector noise at low energies by statistically flagging events according to the known noise properties of the lowest energy channels. In the case of timing mode data, epreject also permits the flagging of soft flare events. ... Suppression of detector noise at low energies . ... Input Files . ...

... Programme . ... Abstract: Centaurus A is the first system in which direct evidence for a strong shock associated with radio-lobe expansion has been found, and is the nearest and most dramatic example of a jet / environment interaction. ... I will discuss the implications of these results for particle acceleration at the shock, for Centaurus A as a source of TeV radiation and UHECRs, and for shock heating in nearby and more distant galaxies. go back . ...

... For eight samples of main-sequence disk stars, the metallicity indices 0.6 , R-1 (U-V), m1 ( ) have been calculated. The indices 0.6 and (U-B) have been calibrated to the metal abundance [Fe/H] for the spectral types F, G and K separately. ... It is found that the UBV and RI data for F- and K-dwarfs imply that the metallicity of the Sun coincides with that found for the Hyades, whereas the G-dwarfs give the well known smaller metallicity of the Sun with respect to the Hyades. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... It is necessary to select a topic interesting from scientific point of view and simple enough to allow students understand and participate in all stages of experiment from measurements via data analysis to physical inference. ... Solar modulation effects and physical characteristics and analysis of the major solar events are possible only by joining data from space-born and surface particle and radiation detectors. ...

Dynamical stability of N-body models for M32 with a central black hole . ... We study the stability of stellar dynamical equilibrium models for M32. Kinematic observations show that M32 has a central dark mass of 3 x 10^6 solar masses, most likely a black hole, and a phase-space distribution function that is close to the `two-integral' form f=f(E,L_z). ... This is the first stability analysis of two-integral models that have both a central density cusp and a nuclear black hole. ...

... 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. ...

The radiation belts around the planets are the interrnal regions of planets' magnetospheres where the own magnetic field of a planet keeps the charged particles (protons and electrons) having the great kinetic energy. ... They usually distinguish the Earth's internal and external radiation belts. the internal radiation belt of the Earth has the maximum particles density (mainly protones) over the equator in the height of 22 thousand km. ... Jupiter and Saturn have the powerful radiation belts. ...

... We present 7mm observations of the dusty disk surrounding the 10 Myr old 1.5 Msun pre-main-sequence star CQ Tauri obtained at the Very Large Array with 0.8 arcsecond resolution and 0.1 mJy rms sensitivity. ... We find that the disk radius is constrained to the range 100 to 300 AU, depending on the steepness of the disk surface density distribution. The power law index of the dust opacity coefficient, beta, is constrained to be 0.5 to 0.7. ...

Physical and dynamical parameters of particles in outbursting Comet 17 P/Holmes . ... The time depending offset between the center of brightness and center of mass of the comet nucleus has been determined on the ground of positional observations of the comet. ... The motion of these particles allowed subsequent offset between the center of brightness and center of mass of the comet nucleus to be obtained from positional observations. ... comet, dynamical model, outburst, brightness. ...

... Acceleration of particles in the vicinity of a massive black hole We propose a two-step mechanism for charged particle acceleration in the magnetosphere of a massive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk. Particles first gain energy by stochastic process during the accretion phase. It is shown that effective proton acceleration up to energies eV is possible in the turbulent magnetized accretion disk. ...

... The hierarchy is derived of non-linear equations for the averaged the process of in the transport at ion of an admixturbulent medium. ... The exact numerical tions of this equation and also for calculating the approximate analytic formulae are used types of turbulence E (p) ~ p -5/3 turbulent diffusivities for some E (p) is the and spectrum of turbulence E (p) ~ (p p ). 0 of Kolmogoroff's type It is shown that this method allows us to calculate the values of the paramelife- turbulent ...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...