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. ...

. 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

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 . ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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 goal of this paper is to present the results of a preliminary analysis of the extended infrared (IR) emission by dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We combine Spitzer Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) and Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data and correlate the infrared emission with gas tracers of H I, CO, and HЮБ. ... We construct maps of the temperature of large dust grains. ...

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. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Sample fits to the SB2 observations of HD 22128 (top two frames) and HD 56495 (bottom two frames). Fits (smooth lines) to the observations (points) show the combined synthetic spectra, as well as the two component synthetic spectra. ... HD 22128 and HD 56495 are both double-lined spectroscopic binary systems with short orbital periods, which have been proposed to host magnetic Ap stars. ...

... 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. ...

... OOF software . ... Memos . ... Raw data . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Please note that the files"COPYING" in each of the distribution packages have GPL listed but it is in fact LGPL which applies. ... This is the raw data from the SMA used in the analysis shown in Section 4 of the memo. ...

... We employ Bayesian inference for the joint estimation of sources and background on ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) data. ... Background maps were estimated in a single step together with the detection of sources without pixel censoring. ... The source probability is evaluated for single pixels as well as for pixel domains to enhance source detection of weak and extended sources. ... The spline fits the background component whereas count enhancements classify pixel (domains) with source contributions. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 1 July 1998, 1200 UT (RR) . ... Relates the wave number k to the wave frequency. ... From the equation of motion , m d v /dt = q( v x B ) one can calculate that, in a presence of magnetic field B , a charged particle is accelerated in direction perpendicular to both v (perp) and B . ... The angle a between magnetic field B and velocity vector of a charged particle, v ., i.e., sin a = v(perp) / v(total), where v(perp) refers to the velocity component perpendicular to B . ...

... This talk focuses on exploring the connection between Ly absorbers and galaxies. The theorist view of gas in the low z universe is based on the filamentary structures that are evident in simulations based on the CDM paradigm. ... The observer's view of gas in the low-z universe is based on the Ly absorbers which have column densities as low as 10 cm , while galaxies are at column densities of 10 cm . ... The absorber has N cm . ... Can examine LSS defined by gas-rich galaxies around absorbers. ...

... 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. ...

Progenitors and remnants of red novae V838 Mon and V4332 Sgr Special Astrophysical Observatory Elena Barsukova Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia) In collaboration with Goranskij Vitaly ... Moscow University); Kroll Peter (Sonneberg Observatory, Germany); Valeev Azamat (Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia) The light curve of V838 Mon in the outburst from January to May 2002 ... The B star disappeared. ... Spectra of V4332 Sgr (top) and V838 Mon (bottom) in 2007. ...

... 2009: . ... New Wolf-Rayet Type Star. ... It was discovered that the peculiar velocity of the star is about 50km/s, and that it was discarded from a young star cluster. ... Based on the observational data from the 6-m telescope and from other sources, it was shown with high reliability that chemically peculiar stars with strong depressions in their continuum energy distributions possess the magnetic fields and rotation periods 2 and 3 times larger, respectively, than the stars with weak depressions....