Title: IX Draconis - a curious ER UMa-type dwarf nova Authors: M. Otulakowska-Hypka, A. Olech, E. de Miguel, A. Rutkowski, R. Koff, K. B\kakowska We report results of an extensive world-wide observing campaign devoted to a very active dwarf nova star - IX Draconis. We investigated photometric beh...
Thanks to a $50,000 donation from Synergy Credit Union, the College Park School will have a top-of-the-line observatory when it opens in September 2014. The Synergy Observatory will be the first structure of its kind in any public school across Western Canada. Michael Diachuk, director of educat...
Title: Dwarf elliptical galaxies as ancient tidal dwarf galaxies Authors: Jörg Dabringhausen, Pavel Kroupa The formation of tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs) is triggered by the encounters of already existing galaxies. Their existence is predicted from numerical calculations of encountering gal...
Title: Variability of the Ap Star HD9996 Authors: V.D. Bychkov, L.V. Bychkova, J. Madej, A.V. Shatilov We present here new measurements of the longitudinal magnetic field (B_e) in the binary system HD9996, where the primary companion is an Ap star. Series of 63 B_e observations was obtained in yea...
Orbital elements:
2012 VG26 Earth MOID = 0.1821 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 359.10022 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24194980 Peri. 326.41440 +0.95752663 -0.16061772
a 2.5506598 Node 44.86048 +0.27544955 +0.75510385
e 0.5568438 Incl. 19.84555 -0.08526600 +0.63562578
P 4.07 H 22....
Orbital elements:
2012 VF26 Earth MOID = 0.1080 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 352.21643 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25390471 Peri. 340.27268 +0.77956155 -0.62386116
a 2.4699541 Node 58.45096 +0.58303382 +0.69044618
e 0.5555020 Incl. 3.73458 +0.22881292 +0.36617117
P 3.88 H 23.6...
Orbital elements:
2012 VD26 Earth MOID = 0.0383 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 346.75170 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.36101049 Peri. 181.54948 +0.71877225 -0.69042321
a 1.9533924 Node 222.50837 +0.63916956 +0.70247657
e 0.4729516 Incl. 6.94858 +0.27354840 +0.17274970
P 2.73 H 26....
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught. He is know...
Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9, 1906 - January 1, 1996 Hamburg) was a German rocket engineer and member of the Nazi party who played a key role in the development of the V-2 rocket. After World War II he was brought to the United States, subsequently becoming a pioneer of the United States space p...
Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (9 November 1885, Wilhelmsthal, today part of Opole - 19 January 1954, Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in five-dimensional space. His idea that fundamental forces can be unified by in...
Title: Physical Properties of the Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary NSVS 02502726 Authors: Jae Woo Lee, Jae-Hyuck Youn, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee NSVS 02502726 has been known as a double-lined, detached eclipsing binary that consists of two low-mass stars. We obtained BVRI photometric follow-up ob...
Title: How supernova explosions power galactic winds Authors: Peter Creasey (1,2), Tom Theuns (2,3), Richard G. Bower (2) ((1) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, (2) U. of Durham, (3) U. of Antwerp) Feedback from supernovae is an essential aspect of galaxy formation. In order to improve...
Title: SOAP-T: A tool to study the light-curve and radial velocity of a system with a transiting planet and a rotating spotted star Authors: M. Oshagh, I. Boisse, G. Boué, M. Montalto, N. C. Santos, X. Bonfils, N. Haghighipour We present an improved version of SOAP (Boisse et al. 2012) named "SO...
