The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Предыдущий выпуск (N335) . ... Обсудить на форуме Scientific.RU . ... Подписка на рассылку обзоров на Subscribe.Ru . Обзоры препринтов astro-ph . ... Собственно обзоры препринтов. ... Ранее обзоры также были на Астронете и на Scientific.Ru . ... АНКи доступны на Астронете , а с 2006 по 2008 г. также на сайте Элементы.Ру . ... Ранее они также размещались на сайте Астронет и в архиве моих обозрений (кодировка KOI8) на сайте Scientific.Ru . ...

... Current . Missions . ... Data . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... Events . ... PLANET members have access to Dutch, South African, and Australian telescopes which are widely separated in longitude, giving the possibility of nearly continuous monitoring. ... The PLANET collaboration has nearly completed the data reduction of the 1995 campaign, during which a binary event was found. A preliminary on-line reduction facility was added in 1996 at the Dutch/ESO 0.9m telescope. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Current Status . ... COAST File Archive . ... Fringes and Power Spectra from COAST . ... The first stellar fringes were obtained in June 1991. ... We obtained sufficient data to reconstruct the first infrared image from an aperture synthesis array. ... The North telescope of the COAST array was moved to a new foundation, further to the North, making the longest baseline 67 metres. ... A fifth telescope was sited on the Southwest arm of the COAST array. ...

... What is the configuration of the device driver software? ... If the software you use doesn't adequately tell you what's wrong (or automatically configure it correctly) then you need to investigate how your hardware devices and their drivers are configured. ... Another problem is that when you view configuration messages on the screen, it's sometimes not clear whether the reported configuration is that of the device driver, the device hardware, or both. ...

Name: PGQID Purpose: inquire current device identifier Category: GRAPHICS File: pgplot.src Author: T.J. Pearson Use: see description below. Description: SUBROUTINE PGQID (ID) INTEGER ID This subroutine returns the identifier of the currently selected device, or 0 if no device is selected. The identifier is assigned when PGOPEN is called to open the device, and may be used as an argument to PGSLCT. Each open device has a different identifier. ...

... Up: Distributed Data Systems, Data Mining . ... The EROS (Exp?rience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) experiment is a French collaboration between astronomers and particle physicists to search for the baryonic dark matter of the Galactic Halo by gravitational microlensing. ... Cross-identification with stellar objects in other surveys (e.g. ISOGAL, DENIS, see Omont et al. 1999) will also certainly become another use of EROS data in the next few years. ... EROS collaboration) 1998, A&A, 337, L17 . ...

. The following is a list of the currently installed versions of the CIMA. The links refer to the CIMA version log page . Normal: version 3.0 - this is the next version of CIMA which has become the new default version --- NOTE that this version uses a new syntax for command file observations, uses new configuration files and needs source files with full velocity information . Old: version 2.2 - this is the old version of CIMA You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "ASTRONOMY - 2005: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS" . ... Preliminary Registration Form . Abstracts Registration Form . Contacts . ... You may register to the Symposium sending your completed Registration Form by e-mail to: congress_(_at_)_sai.msu.ru (preferably, as attached .doc file) with Subject: "cong2005 registration". ... So you can find Registration Form in the on-line or . ...

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

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... The ESO ADS mirror site is currently unavailable. ... Please use one of the ADS sites listed below. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA . ... European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany . National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo, Japan . ... Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Beijing, China . Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India . ... Korea Astronomy Observatory . Send comments to <webmaster@eso.org> . ...

... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... Users . ... Data Collection and Analysis . ... This particular part of the analysis has been disabled since the code is struggling to cope with the number of users seen this year, in particular the large contingent of people who have re-tweeted NASA. ... Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS225 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS225 . ... by user number . ...

... 23 September 2004 - Telescope First Light! ... 30 July 2004 . ... NIC-FPS is an instrument combining the capabilities of a near-infrared imaging camera with a cryogenic Fabry-Perot etalon currently under development at the Center for Space Astrophysics and Space Astronomy , University of Colorado with support from Rice University , Ball Aerospace and the Astrophysical Research Consortium. It is scheduled to begin operations on the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in 2004. ...

Next: Future plans Up: Electronic database Previous: Electronic database . The JPDOC gives access to references to the papers, data files and links to the internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to the radio domain. ... The database also provides links to internet collections of optical data files and personal WWW pages with relevant software and includes some other useful information. ...

. Other Relevant Links . Number counts have been illustrated earlier in the talk. QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | Front page | . | << - Contamination | QSO close pairs - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Dr Jayanne English, Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada will present the talk Cosmos versus Canvas: Tensions Between Art and Science in Astronomy Images in the Science Gallery, TCD, on August 7 th . ... Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...