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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: Bolometer observations at 250 GHz of fifteen minor planets have shown that the emissivity of these objects is close to unity. This results in an independent method to determine the absolute calibration scale of radio observations at mm wavelengths: Applying our results to Mars, the prime calibrator at this wavelength, gives a mean absolute disk temperature at mean solar distance of approximately 210 K. Further, the diameters of circularly symmetric asteroids can be determined or the surface area of asteroids can be estimated assuming some geometric constraints on their shape.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361); 287; 2; p. 641-646
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Acta Astronautica (ISSN 0094-5765); 29; 7; p. 537-545.
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: Seventy-seven extragalactic radio sources north of -2 deg declination have been observed using Mark III VLBI during 13 experiments from 1988 October to 1989 November. Radio positions derived from these observations supplement an ongoing project to define and maintain an all-sky radio/optical reference frame of 400 or more extragalactic sources with milliarcsecond (mas) accurate radio and optical positions. Positions for 11 new sources are presented along with improved positions for 54 sources already in the reference-frame catalog. An additional five sources have been determined to be unsuitable reference-frame objects. Observations of seven calibration sources tie the new positions to the existing catalog. The radio positions of the new sources have formal mean errors of about 0.7 mas in each coordinate. Sources for which improved positions are reported now have formal errors not greater than 1 mas, an improvement in some cases by as much as 85 percent. The complementary optical program is addressed briefly.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 104; 2, Au
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The orbit of the double-lined spectroscopic binary Phi Cygni, the distance to the system, and the masses and absolute magnitudes of its components are presented via measurements with the Mar III Optical Interferometer. On the basis of a reexamination of the spectroscopic data of Rach & Herbig (1961), the values and uncertainties are adopted for the period and the projected semimajor axes from the present fit to the spectroscopic data and the values of the remaining elements from the present fit to the Mark III data. The elements of the true orbit are derived, and the masses and absolute magnitudes of the components, and the distance to the system are calculated.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 104; 6; p. 2217-2223.
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Angular diameters determined with the Mark III Optical Interferometer are presented for 12 stars at wavelengths of 450 and 800 nm. The uniform disk diameters resulting from fits to the visibility observations have rms residuals of order 1 percent for the 800 nm measurements and less than 3 percent for the 450 nm measurements. The improvement over previous observations with this instrument is due to improved data analysis and the use of a wider range of baseline lengths. An analysis of the calibration systematics for the Mark III Optical Interferometer is included. There is good agreement between these measurements and previously published data. The changes in uniform disk diameter between wavelengths of 450 and 800 nm agree with models of stellar atmospheres.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 101; 2207-221
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Observations from 600 Mark III VLBI experiments from 1979 to 1988, resulting in 237,681 acceptable pairs of group delay and phase delay rate observations, have been used to derive positions of 182 extragalactic radio sources with typical formal standard errors less than 1 mas. The sources are distributed fairly evenly above delta = -30 deg, and 70 sources have delta greater than 0 deg. Analysis with different troposphere models, as well as internal and external comparisons, indicates that a coordinate frame defined by this set of radio sources should be reliable at the 1 mas level. The right ascension zero point of this reference frame has been aligned with the FK5 by using the optical positions of 28 extragalactic radio sources whose positions are on the FK5 system. Because of known defects in the knowledge of astronomical constants, daily nutation offsets in longitude and obliquity were determined relative to an arbitrary reference day in the set of experiments.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 99; 1284-129
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-31
    Description: Before contemplating an optical interferometer on the Moon one must first review the accomplishments achieved by this technology in scientific applications for astronomy. This will be done by presenting the technical status of optical interferometry as achieved by the Mount Wilson Optical Interferometer. The further developments needed for a future lunar-based interferometer are discussed.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: New Mexico Univ., A Lunar Optical-Ultraviolet-Infrared Synthesis Array (LOUISA); p 35-48
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-31
    Description: AI (Artificial Intelligence) scheduling techniques for HST are presented in the form of the viewgraphs. The following subject areas are covered: domain; HST constraint timescales; HTS scheduling; SPIKE overview; SPIKE architecture; constraint representation and reasoning; use of suitability functions by scheduling agent; SPIKE screen example; advantages of suitability function framework; limiting search and constraint propagation; scheduling search; stochastic search; repair methods; implementation; and status.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, Space Network Control Conference on Resource Allocation Concepts and Approaches; p 183-192
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-31
    Description: The following recommended programs are reviewed: (1) infrared and optical interferometry (a ground-based and space programs); (2) compensation for the atmosphere with adaptive optics (a program for development and implementation of adaptive optics); and (3) gravitational waves (high frequency gravitational wave sources (LIGO), low frequency gravitational wave sources (LAGOS), a gravitational wave observatory program, laser gravitational wave observatory in space, and technology development during the 1990's). Prospects for international collaboration and related issues are also discussed.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: National Academy of Sciences(National Research Council, Working Papers: Astronomy and Astrophysics Panel Reports; 22 p
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Microwave observations of Pallas, Vesta, and Hygiea at 2 and 6 cm wavelength yield brightness temperatures that are much lower than would be expected for a rapidly rotating blackbody. An analysis of the wavelength dependence of the observed brightness temperatures shows that, as was found for Ceres, these asteroids may be covered by a layer of material with the physical properties of finely divided dust. Models with layer depths of greater than 6 cm (Pallas), 6 cm (Vesta), and 8 cm (Hygiea) were found to represent well the variation in emissivity at radio wavelengths. The properties of the underlying layer are not well constrained by the microwave observations. It does appear that the real part of the dielectric vector for the substrate is similar to that of basaltic rock. Major compositional changes, if any, must take place at depths greater than about 10 cm. No evidence for water ice was found. Disk-resolved observations of the 2-cm emission of Vesta yield physical dimensions consistent with the recently published speckle-interferometry results.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 98; 335-340
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