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Facultad
de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas. Departamento de Astronomía
( Universidad de Chile )
Department
of Astronomy of the University of Chile. [in Spanish]
Faint
Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters
( VLA FIRST )
FIRST
-- Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm -- is a project designed to
produce the radio equivalent of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey over 10,000
square degrees of the North Galactic Cap. Using the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA)
and an automated mapping pipeline, we produce images with 1.8" pixels, a
typical rms of 150 Jy, and a resolution of 5" . At the 0.75 mJy source
detection threshold, there are ~110 sources per square degree, ~35% of which
have resolved structure on scales from 2-30" .
FALCKE,
Heino
( Max-Planck-Insitut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn )
Scientific
Home Page with complete publication record and links to all articles. Research
keywords: AGN, quasars, low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN), compact radio cores, linear
and circular polarization, Galactic Center, Sgr A*, Seyferts, jets, accretion
disks, black holes, VLBI, VLA, HST.
In
which we fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of
images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of
light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit. After you are
done dying at the central singularity of the black hole, feel free to explore
more about the Schwarzschild geometry, about wormholes, and about the collapse
of a black hole.
FANG, Yihu ( Columbia Univ. )
Far
Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
( FUSE )
Information
on the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a satellite astronomy project
based at The Johns Hopkins University
FAST
Mission
( NASA Small Explorer Program )
The
NASA Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) Satellite is designed to investigate
the plasma physics of the auroral phenomena which occur around both poles of the
earth.
Federation
of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services
( FAGS )
The
Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services (FAGS) was
formed by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in 1956 and
includes today eleven Permanent Services each operating under the authority of
one or more of the intererested Scientific Unions: International Astronomical
Union (IAU), International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), and Union
Radiologique Scientifique (URSI). Their tasks are to continuouisly collect
observations, information and data related to astronomy, geodesy, geophysics and
allied sciences; to analyse, synthesize, and draw conclusions from them; to
distribute data; and to publish the results obtained.
FEIGELSON,
Eric D.
( Penn State Univ. )
FEILER,
Roman
( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
FELDMEIER,
John
( Case Western Reserve University )
Fermilab
Library
( Information Resources Department )
Fermilab
Theoretical Astrophysics Group - Postdoctoral Positions
Fiber
Linked Unit for Optical Recombination
( FLUOR )
One
of the three recombination instruments of IOTA interferometer.
Fibre
Large Area Multi Element Spectrograph
( FLAMES, ESO VLT )
FLAMES
is a Fibre Facility for the ESO VLT. It includes an high and intermediate
resolution optical spectrograph (GIRAFFE), with its own fibre system.
FIGARO
Data reduction system
( AAO )
FIGER,
Don
( UCLA )
FINI, Luca ( Arcetri )
Finnish
amateur astronomy homepage
FIRBACK
Survey
( IAS, Orsay )
FIRBACK
is a cosmological survey which used the Infrared Space Observatory to study the Cosmic Far Infrared Background, and distant galaxies.
The final products will include:
·
maps and galaxy
catalogs of 3 fields of 4 square degree at 175 microns (using ISOPHOT)
·
maps of some
interesting sources at 90 microns (using ISOPHOT)
·
maps and galaxy
catalogs of 1 fields of 1 square degree at 15 microns (using ISOCAM)
·
maps and
catalogs at various other wavelengths, from optical to radio.
FISCHER,
Debra
( UCSC )
FITS
archive documents database
The
nrao-fits WAIS server supports searches of all of the text files in the entire
FITS archive. " All" means everything -- READMEs, standards, drafts,
overviews, and all of the news and Email messages in the traffic archive, even
including the ASCII headers of the FITS sample and test data files. All of the
Postscript documents are in the index too. The WAIS server enables users to
search this huge mass of text for instances of any strings.
This
is an archive for the Flexible Image Transport System [FITS], the standard data
interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community.
fitsbits
( exploder gated to news:sci.astro.fits )
The
unmoderated USENET newsgroup sci.astro.fits provides a forum for the discussion
of all topics concerning the FITS [Flexible Image Transport System] data format,
the standard data interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy
community. The newsgroup is interfaced to the Email exploder fitsbits@nrao.edu
so that traffic originating on either the newsgroup on the exploder is
automatically transmitted to the other.
Fitsblink
is a program for Unix computers with the following functions: it reads and
displays an arbitrary number of FITS images, allows their alignment, blinks them
on screen, extracts and reads star lists, matches them with GSC, USNO and ACT
catalogs, performs astrometry, identifies asteroids using the asteroid_server
and allows sending of results directly by email. Binaries in easy to install RPM
format for Linux, binaries for OS/2 and sources with user manual are available.
FITSview
FITS image viewers
( FITSview )
The
FITSview family of viewers for FITS format astronomical images are available for
Microsoft Windows (FITSview), Apple Macintosh (MacFITSview) and Unix/X-Windows (XFITSview)
computer systems. These viewers have easy to use graphical controls and will
display astronomical images in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format
allowing zooming, scrolling, modifying the brightness, contrast and pseudo color
and allow determination of celestial positions and the physical brightness units
in the image. Both standard World Coordinate System (WCS) and Digitized Sky
Survey
Five
College Astronomy Dept. - Full texts of Ph.D. Theses
( Full text Ph. D. Theses )
The
Five College Astronomy Dept. has begun placing the full text of Ph.D. theses
from the department on a departmental WWW server. They will become available
shortly after the final acceptance of the thesis. Besides the HTML version,
Postscript files will be available on a chapter by chapter basis.
Five
College Radio Astronomy Observatory - Schedules
( FCRAO )
Five
College Radio Astronomy Observatory
( FCRAO )
The
FCRAO was founded in 1969 by the University of Massachusetts, together with
Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. The
original low frequency telescope was superseded in 1976 by a 14-m diameter
radome-enclosed antenna for use at high radio frequencies (mm wavelengths),
built primarily to study the physics and chemistry of interstellar clouds,
circumstellar envelopes, planetary atmospheres, and comets.
Flexible
Image Transport System
( FITS archive at NRAO )
Florida
Tech Physics and Space Sciences
The
Astronomy Group at Florida Tech is concerned primarily with observational and
theoretical studies of white dwarf stars, both as single stars and as members of
binary or multiple systems. The Space Physics Group at Florida Tech studies the
interaction of the Sun on the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere
FLYNN,
Brian
( UC Berkeley/CEA )
Description
of current research as an astronomer on the EUVE mission.
FOcal
Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph
( FORS, ESO VLT )
The
two FORS instruments are designed as all-dioptric focal reducers for the ESO
Very Large Telescope. They are capable of doing : direct imaging , long slit
grism spectroscopy , multi object grism spectroscopy , polarimetry (FORS1),
medium dispersion echelle grism spectroscopy (FORS2), and all sensible
combinations of these modes (e.g. imaging- or spectropolarimetry) in the
wavelength range from 330nm to 1100nm.
FOLTZ,
Craig
( Univ. Arizona )
FONTAINE,
Gilles
( Montréal )
FORESTINI,
Manuel
( Obs. Grenoble )
Fors
Deep Field
( FDF )
The
FORS Deep Field is a key project of the FORS consortium (ESO VLT).
FOSBURY,
Bob
( ST-ECF )
FOSCHINI, Luigi ( TeSRE, Bologna )
FOSTER,
John C.
( MHO )
FOUQUE,
Pascal
( Obs. Paris-Meudon - DESPA
)
Fox
Park Public Observatory
( FPPO )
The
Fox Park Public Observatory is located in Potterville, Michigan.
FRAKNOI,
Andrew
( Foothill College )
Education
in astronomy.
FRANCIS,
Paul
( Melbourne )
Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Observatory
( OFXB )
The
François-Xavier Bagnoud Observatory, located above the village of St-Luc in the
Swiss Alps, stands at an altitude of 2200 metres. It is intended not only for
the experienced amateur wishing to produce work of a quasi-professional quality,
but also for the use of schools and for simple visitors. curious.
Equipped with numerous instruments (60 cm reflecting telescope with CCD camera,
20 cm refracting telescope, coelostat, 16 cm coronagraph) it may be used day or
night.
FRANK,
Louis A.
( U. Iowa )
Franz
Niklaus König: Celestial atlas (1826)
Fred
Lawrence Whipple Gamma-Ray Telescopes
( Tucson, Ariz )
FREDRICK,
Laurence W.
( U. Virginia )
FREEMAN,
John W. Jr.
( Rice Univ. )
Freie
Universität Berlin - Institut für Meteorologie [English]
( [German] )
The
Department of Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin WWW server offers an
index of sources for meteorological data on the Internet sorted by continent,
manner of data and server-type. In addition they provide weather observations
from Berlin and Meteosat pictures received from the University of Nottingham.
For users from the FU Berlin they also offer latest radar images. They have
links to other servers with interesting documents.
Fremont
Peak Observatory Association
( FPOA )
The
Fremont Peak Observatory Association is a non-profit corporation associated with
the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation. FPOA is one of many
state parks cooperative associations. It is unique in the it is the only
cooperative association devoted to interpreting astronomy to the public. The
FPOA constructed an observatory in the Fremont Peak State Park in San Benito
County. It is eleven miles from San Juan Bautista. The main objective of the
FPOA is to promote astronomy through public educational and interpretive
programs at Fremont Peak State Park.
French
WWW Servers
( France )
FREUDLING,
Wolfram
( ST-ECF )
From
Stargazers to Starships
( Stargazers )
A
collection of about sixty linked files, forming a self-contained course at the
high school level on (1) elementary astronomy (pre-telescope), (2) Newtonian
mechanics (3) Spaceflight and spacecraft. The material is presented in a
historical framework with many side excursions and incidental connections, with
many outside links. Also contains a 9-section "Math refresher", a
section for the guidance of teachers, a template of a sundial with explanations,
glossary and timeline.
It is an attempt to create a high-school curriculum which makes as much use of
space and spaceflight as possible.
Front
Range Consortium
( FRC )
The
Front Range Consortium (FRC) is a consortium of three institutions: CAPP,
NCAR/SCD, NOAA/FSL, all of which are located in Boulder, Colorado. The FRC is
committed to the development of high performance scalable computing and its
application to Grand Challenge research problems in science and engineering. The
FRC is a member institution of the National Consortium for High Performance
Computing (NCHPC).
This
is the UK mirror of the HEASARC (GSFC) FTOOLS pages. FTOOLS is a collection of
utility programs used to create, examine, or modify the contents of FITS data
files. There are also user friendly GUI tools which allow interactive browsing
of FITS files and provide a more intuitive interface for running the FTOOLS. The
FTOOLS package forms the core of the HEASARC software system for reducing and
analyzing data in the FITS format.
Innovative
developer of TCP/IP transports and applications for DOS, Windows and OS/2
FUEGOS
- Multi-Object Area Spectrograph
( ESO VLT )
The
FUEGOS instrument stands for Fibre Unit for Extra-Galactic Optical Spectroscopy
and will be capable of performing Multi-object spectroscopy and Area
spectroscopy in the 370nm to 900nm wavelength range and with two resolving
powers, 17000 and 7500.
Full-sky
Astrometric Mapping Explorer
( FAME )
FAME
is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy
the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic
neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Naval Observatory
(USNO) and several other institutions. FAME will measure stellar positions to
less than 50 microarcseconds. It is a NASA MIDEX mission scheduled for launch in
2004.
FULLAGAR,
David
( MSSSO )
Fundamental
Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory
( IAU Symposium 189 )
Table
of Contents of proceedings, conference in Sydney, Australia, 13-17 January 1997.
FUSE
( French site, IAP, Paris )