Title: The Spatial Distribution of Organics toward the High-Mass YSO NGC 7538 IRS9 Authors: Karin I. Oberg, Mavis Dufie Boamah, Edith C. Fayolle, Robin T. Garrod, Claudia Cyganowski, Floris van der Tak Based on astrochemical theory, the complex molecular composition around high-mass YSOs shou...
Title: A first orbital solution for the very massive 30 Dor main-sequence WN6h+O binary R145 Authors: O. Schnurr, A.F.J. Moffat, A. Villar-Sbaffi, N. St-Louis, N.I. Morrell We report the results of a spectroscopic and polarimetric study of the massive, hydrogen-rich WN6h stars R144 (HD 38282 = B...
Title: Finding a 60.9-day orbital period for the HMXB 4U 1036-56 with the Swift-BAT monitoring Authors: G. Cusumano, A. Segreto, V. La Parola, N. Masetti, A. D'Aì, G. Tagliaferri Since November 2004, the Burst Alert Telescope on board Swift is producing a monitoring of the entire sky in the 15-150 k...
Orbital elements:
2013 KB Earth MOID = 0.0083 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 345.35581 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.37320998 Peri. 191.79634 -0.39218538 +0.91888386
a 1.9105888 Node 55.12742 -0.83966677 -0.33853351
e 0.4679128 Incl. 2.99953 -0.37569980 -0.20260186
P 2.64 H 27.2 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2013 KA Earth MOID = 0.0037 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 347.26709 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.57294094 Peri. 353.46991 -0.66333706 +0.74468549
a 1.4356971 Node 234.94628 -0.68243552 -0.64238785
e 0.2943496 Incl. 5.16333 -0.30702722 -0.18105624
P 1.72 H 28.0 G 0...
Title: Is IRAS 01072+4954 a True-Seyfert 2? Hints from Near Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy Authors: M. Valencia-S., J. Zuther, A. Eckart, M. Garcia-Marin, C. Iserlohe, G. Wright In contrast to the predictions of the unified model, some X-ray unobscured Seyfert 2 galaxies have been discov...
The M94 Group (Canes Venatici I Group) is a loose, extended group of galaxies located about 13 million light-years away in the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices. The group is one of many groups that lies within the Virgo Supercluster (i.e. the Local Supercluster) and one of the close...
Kepler-69 (KOI-172, 2MASS J19330262+4452080, KIC 8692861) is a G-type main-sequence star similar to the Sun in the constellation Cygnus, located about 2,700 ly (830 pc) from Earth. On April 18, 2013 it was announced that the star has two planets. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-69...
Orbital elements:
2013 JD34 Earth MOID = 0.0059 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 4.73108 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.19638634 Peri. 281.22636 -0.86279733 -0.49617110
a 2.9313108 Node 229.10678 +0.49927869 -0.80618112
e 0.7695287 Incl. 7.36693 +0.07938238 -0.32231390
P 5.02 H 25.0 G 0...
Oliver Heaviside FRS (18 May 1850 - 3 February 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations (later found to be equi...
Malcolm Sim Longair FRS is a Scottish physicist. He was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, from 1991 to 2008. His primary research interests are in the fields of high energy astrophysics and astrophysical cosmology. He has written...
ASTRON creates new nature reserve in Drenthe Astronomy can produce fascinating and exciting results. But a completely new nature reserve resulting from the building of a telescope is something no one has thought of yet. However, the LOFAR project made this possible. This new sensor network, init...
Deep sea 'gold rush' moves closer The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer. The United Nations has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called "nodules" - small miner...