An Introduction to X-ray Astronomy Keith Arnaud NASA Goddard University of Maryland X-ray Astronomy X-ray Processes X-rays from the Sun X-ray Binaries All-Sky Surveys ...
Title: Ong page 1 of VHE astro Author: Trial User Last modified by: Trial User Created Date: 8/5/2004 1:23:59 PM Document presentation format: On-screen Show
Hard X-ray (10-600 keV) sky not yet surveyed to ROSAT sensitivity. ... Zenith pointer - scanning & nodding for full-sky coverage each orbit (95min) ...
Title: Databases Meet Astronomy a db view of astronomy Author: Jim Gray Last modified by: Jim Gray Created Date: 2/26/2001 6:17:15 PM Document presentation format
Produces highest spatial resolution images. Also best time resolution (but be careful) ... High resolution spectroscopy on extended objects that are larger than 10 ...
High Energy Universe Viewed Through Astrosat P.C.Agrawal Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Talk at the Chandrayan Symposium at IMSc , Chennai , January 4 ...
Title: Databases Meet Astronomy a db view of astronomy Author: Jim Gray Last modified by: Wensheng Wu Created Date: 2/26/2001 6:17:15 PM Document presentation format
High resolution spectroscopy by two gratings that can be placed in the optical ... highest spatial resolution images. Also best time resolution (but be careful) ...
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The revolution in Computational Science. The Virtual Observatory Concept == World-Wide Telescope ... Exploring Parameter Space. Manual or Automatic Data Mining ...
ASTROSAT: A Multi-Wavelength Satellite 1st Dedicated Indian Astronomical Mission ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
... will be in the order S0, S1, S2, and S3. Said numbers will be ... S3:yes S2:no S1:yes S0:yes ... ( For the 1st time through, this will be scalars S0, S1, &S4) ...
1,500 sq cm at 40 keV. Energy resolution 1 keV. 30-60 arc sec HPD angular resolution ... evolution of black hole properties by determining spin and mass ...
... but problems with data acquisition (oscilloscopes! ... Oscilloscope traces. of CR radio pulses. Coherent Geosynchrotron Radio Pulses in Earth Atmosphere ...
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Fresnel mirror. Our Cosmic Ray. experimental device. is an additional payload ... consisted of 37 carbon- plastic segments of the low frequency Fresnel mirror. ...
In the 'old days' astronomers took photos. Starting in the 1960's they began to digitize. ... Data is dirty (cosmic rays, airplanes...) 9. Time and Spectral Dimensions ...
Where The Rubber Meets the Sky Giving Access to Science Data Jim Gray Microsoft Research Gray@Microsoft.com Http://research.Microsoft.com/~Gray Alex Szalay
AMS : A COSMIC RAY OBSERVATORY. ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE ... Astrophysics/Cosmology dependence: 9/14/09. Carlo Bosio SUSY 04. 15. DM searches with positrons ...
Holes in Data Clusters. Isolated Points. Nichol et al. 2001. Slide courtesy of and adapted from ... Clustering. Anomaly finders. 9. But...some science is ...
What is a Solar Flare ? ... The Sun at Solar Minimum and Maximum. EUV Images Telescope (EIT) ... High Resolution Spectroscopy of Solar Gamma-Ray Lines ...
Q14: Find stars with multiple measurements and have magnitude variations 0.1. ... Find all galaxies brighter than magnitude 22, where the local extinction is ...
2-5x more stars than Lick or BC03 ... uses all Lick lines (not just 3-4 out of 25) less affected by poor fluxing, sky subtraction, calibration to Lick, CRs etc ...
set the world's lowest exclusion limits on the WIMP cross section by a factor of ... Energy and direction of gamma rays from 20 MeV to 300 GeV over wide field of view ...
... imaging proportional counter showed that AGN of all types were powerful X-ray ... the deepest X-ray images with which the X-ray background is resolved ...
Week 4 The Large Scale Universe Galaxies, Cosmology, The Theory of Everything Close the barn door! Answer: the view from the observer and the runner is DIFFERENT ...
Title: Databases Meet Astronomy a db view of astronomy Author: Jim Gray Last modified by: Jim Gray Created Date: 2/26/2001 6:17:15 PM Document presentation format
Adopted from 'Observational Astrophysics,' by P. Lena. Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) ... Astrophysics,' by P. Lena. Chandra X-Ray. Observatories. XMM ...
The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project (ChaMP) PIs: Paul Green & Belinda Wilkes X-ray: Dong-Woo Kim Imaging: Rob Cameron, Wayne Barkhouse Spectroscopy: John Silverman
20. He Who Makes & Tests the Quickest & Coolest Prototypes Reigns! 21. Haste Makes Waste. ... 60. FUN ...Is Not a 4-Letter Word. So, too ... JOY. ( And ...
The CRTNT Project (Cosmic Ray & Tau Neutrino Telescope) --- sensitivity and ... SWIFT: near-by (Z 0.033) GRBs 500x more than predicted, neutrinos are more energetic ...
... radio map of the nearby star LS 5039 obtained with VLBA and VLA in ... No WR or Of massive stars in the field, no X-ray binaries or black hole candidates ...
Title: Databases Meet Astronomy a db view of astronomy Author: Jim Gray Last modified by: Jim Gray Created Date: 2/26/2001 6:17:15 PM Document presentation format
Early Models. Problems to Solve. The Structure of Force and Matter. Power of the Atom. March 1, 1954 H-bomb test at Bikini Atol. Matter and Black Holes ...
The observed baryons are only 10-40% of the expected valued from big-bang nucleosynthesis. ... baryon candidate. X-ray will be a window to the missing baryon. ...
X-ray Images... Bright thin ring of reverse-shocked ejecta, primarilly O and Ne. ... of Type Ia spectra from 1D hydro code fed into X-ray emission calculation. ...
Brightest stars on the night sky: too far to measure parallax ... Hipparcos: High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite (Hipparchus: greek astronomer) ...