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VALENTIJN,
Edwin A.
( RUG-SRON )
Radio
Astronomy on Galaxy Clusters, Cooling Flows in Galaxy Clusters, Stellar
populations - Near Infrared Photometry, Optical surface photometry and the
ESO-LV catalogue, Opacity of Spiral galaxies, Dark Matter, ISO-SWS
VALLEE,
Jacques P.
( Victoria B.C., National Research Council Canada )
Magnetic
Fields in astronomical objects: cosmological, galactic, protostellar, stellar,
planetary, meteoritic, etc.
van
BELLE, Gerard
( JPL )
Optical
interferometry, stellar effective temperatures and radii
VAN
BLERKOM, David
( UMASS )
VAN
DER WERF, Paul
( Leiden Obs. )
VAN
DISHOECK, Ewine
( Leiden Obs. )
VAN
DYK, Schuyler
( IPAC )
VAN
GENDEREN, A.M.
( Leiden Obs. )
VAN
KAMPEN, Eelco
( Edinburgh )
VAN
KERKWIJK, Marten H.
( Utrecht University )
The
formation and evolution of binary stars, and the use of binaries to infer
fundamental properties of stars, especially of compact objects.
Vassar
College - Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Vatican Observatory has its headquarters at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome,
Italy. Its dependent research center, the Vatican Observatory Research Group
(VORG), is hosted by Steward
Observatory at the
University of Arizona, Tucson.
[in French]
VEILLEUX,
Sylvain
( University of Maryland )
Ventspils
International Radioastronomy Centre
( VIRAC )
The
Ventspils 32-m antenna is the biggest in the Baltics. The main purpose of the
VIRAC is to take part in observations at high angular resolution of faint
sources of cosmic natural and artificial radiation in order to accumulate
observational data for fundamental and practical research programmes in
radioastronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, geophysics, geodynamics, geodesy,
co-ordinate-time service and other.
Venus
Revealed Images
( Images of Venus and Venus exploration craft )
A
choice selection of images of Venus and Venus exploration craft from the book
Venus Revealed by David Grinspoon
VERNER,
Dmitri
( U of Kentucky )
Very
Large Array - Schedules
( VLA )
Very
Large Array
( VLA )
Very
Large Telescope Project
( VLT, ESO )
ESO
is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very
Large telescope (VLT).
The ESO Very Large Telescope will consist of four 8-meter telescopes which can
work independently or in combined mode. In this latter mode the VLT provides the
total light collecting power of a 16 meter single telescope, making it the
largest optical telescope in the world. The four 8-m telescopes supplemented
with 3 auxilliary 1 m telescopes may also be used in interferometric mode
providing high angular resolution imaging. The useful wavelength range extends
from the near UV up to 25 microns in the infrared.
Very
Long Baseline Array / Global Network - Schedules
( VLBA )
Very
Long Baseline Array
( VLBA )
Very
Small Array
( VSA )
The
Very Small Array is an interferometer array designed to make images of the
cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around one degree.
The VSA consists of an array of 14 small antennas, working at a frequency in the
range 26-36 GHz, and will be sited at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife.
VESPERINI, Enrico ( UMASS )
Victoria
University of Wellington Astrophysics
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) Astrophysics group web site. The
site describes the group members, their research, and astrophysics courses at
VUW. The Astrophysics group is part of the School of Chemical and Physical
Sciences at VUW.
Video
Astronomy by Craig Zerbe
Astroimaging using an Astrovid 2000 video camera. Examples and techniques for
high resolution lunar and planetary images. The following resources are
similar (same sort-key, different text):
Video Astronomy by Craig Zerbe
Astrovid, Astroimaging Moon and Planets.
Vienna
Theoretical Astrophysics Group
( TAG )
Vienna
University - Institute for Astronomy
The WWW server of the Institute for Astronomy, at the University of Vienna in
Austria, provides information about the Institute and an electronic version of
the Delta Scuti Star Newsletter.
Views Of The Solar System has been created as an educational tour of the solar
system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons,
asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. The image
processing for many of the images was done by Calvin J. Hamilton.
Viking
Mission to Mars - Online Resources
( PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA )
A
list of high quality, web-based resources related to the Viking mission to Mars.
Includes direct links to the PDS-archived data stored on CD-ROM, as well as to
browsers to view and search the data.
Villanova
University - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Virginia Military Institute -
Department of Physics and Astronomy
( VMI )
A
description of the Astronomy Program at Virginia Military Institute, in
Lexington, Virginia. Includes a description of the VMI Observatory and the
astronomy program (along with the Physics Program).
The astrophysics group at Virginia Tech is active in extragalactic astronomy and
studies of the interstellar medium (ISM)
Virgo Interferometer ( VIRGO )
The
purpose of the Virgo interferometer is to detect arrival of gravitational waves
on earth from astronomical sources.
Virtual
Observatories of the Future
The goal of the meeting held in Pasadena, June 13 - 16, 2000, was to explore the
possibilities for new astronomy with large digital sky surveys and archives, and
to define the technical needs and the mandate for the future National (and
ultimately Global) Virtual Observatory.
Discussion forum for the "Virtual Observatory".
Virtual
Sky
( Federated Sky Surveys )
A
portal to multiple representations of the night sky, including a high-resolution
(1 second/pixel) optical survey of the Northern sky and the Uranometria
engravings from 1603.
Virtual
trips to black holes and neutron stars
This page contains MPEG movies and GIFs highlighting the visual distortion
effects an observer would see in the high gravity environment of a neutron star
or black hole (Schwarzschild metric). It is based on a refereed paper by Robert
J. Nemiroff that appeared in the American Journal of Physics and is intended for
educational use. The hypertext reviews several relevant aspects of gravitational
lensing.
VISHNIAC,
Ethan
( JHU )
Theory
of accretion disks, plasma turbulence
Visible
and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
( VISTA )
VISTA
is the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy: a 4-m Wide Field Survey
telescope for the Southern Hemisphere, being built at Cerro Paranal, close to
ESO VLT, by a consortium of 18 UK universities.
Visiting
Assistant Professor Position
The Department of Physics and Space Sciences
at Florida Tech has an immediate opening for a Visiting Assistant Professor.
[posted on 19 May 1998]
VizieR Catalogue Service
( CDS, Strasbourg )
VizieR
provides access to the most complete library of published astronomical
catalogues and data tables available on line, organized in a self-documented
database.
Query tools allow the user to select relevant data tables and to extract and
format records matching given criteria. Specific care has been taken for
optimizing access to some very large catalogues such as Guide
Star Catalog or USNO-A2.
VLAHOS,
Loukas
( Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki )
VLBI
Antenna at Fortaleza, Brazil
VLBI Space Observatory
Programme
( VSOP )
The
VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme) mission is led by the Institute of Space
and Astronautical Science, in collaboration with the National Astronomical
Observatory of Japan. The first VSOP satellite was successfully launched 12
February 1997 on the new ISAS M-V rocket from the Kagoshima Space Center. The
satellite, renamed HALCA after its successful launch, sucessfully deployed an 8
meter diameter radio telescope in orbit on 27 & 28 February 1997. HALCA is
in an elliptical Earth orbit, with an apogee height of 21,000km and a perigee
height of 560km, which enables VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
observations on baselines up to three times longer than those acheivable on
Earth.
VLT
Mid Infrared Imager Spectrometer
( VISIR, ESO VLT )
VLT
Survey Telescope
( VST )
The
VST project is a cooperation between the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and
the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC) for the study, design and
construction of a wide field alt-az telescope of 2.6 m aperture, specialized for
high quality astronomical imaging to be installed and operated on Cerro Paranal,
next to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
VOGEL,
Stuart
( U. Maryland )
VOGELEY, Michael S. ( Princeton )
VOGT,
Nicole P.
( Lick Observatory )
The
WWW page for Nicole P. Vogt at UCO/Lick Observatory contains astronomical
preprints, utilities, and information on the DEEP (Deep Extragalactic
Exploratory Probe) project, a focused study of distant galaxy evolution and
formation.
Volga
Space Plasma Physics Summer School Information - 1997
The purpose of these Summer Schools, held every second summer onboard a river
cruise ship on the Volga and organised jointly by the Radiophysical Research
Institute (NIRFI), Nizhniy
Novgorod, Russia
and the Uppsala Division of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRFU),
Uppsala, Sweden, is to give an introduction to modern space plasma physics by
bringing together experienced researchers, young scientists and scholars in
astrophysics, space physics and plasma physics for a fruitful exchange of ideas
across areas of interest, language, culture and age barriers.
The topics covered include linear and non-linear plasma physics, waves and
radiation phenomena in plasma, waves in random media and turbulence, planetary,
solar and stellar coronal plasma, plasma under extreme conditions in space,
space plasma radio emission, radio methods for investigating space plasma
environments, and the use of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere as a space
plasma laboratory for model experiments simulating phenomena in other plasma
environments.
Voyages
Through the Universe Site
This site accompanies the introductory college textbook by Fraknoi, Morrison,
and Wolff (1997, Harcourt Brace) and includes annotated links, resource lists
for beginning astronomy instructors, teaching hints, and more.
Vrije
Universiteit Brussel. Astrofysisch Instituut
( Belgium )
VRML
3D Interactive Map of Regional Galaxies
( Galaxies in VRML )
This
page is a representation of the nearest 150 or so galaxies for which both a
visible distance estimate exists along with their red-shift values. They are
represented as spheres in their appropriate positions and are color-coded to
display their red-shift values. Names appear as you approach them. As you rotate
this world you can clearly see a clustering/streaming affect and also a
flattened fan-out starting at an area in the vicinity of The Milky Way. The VRML
text was generated by a C++ program which parsed the CFA Redshift Catalogue,
Version June 1995 (Huchra+1995).
VSNET, maintained by VSNET Administrators, Kyoto University, consists of mailing
lists for distribution of various messages on variable stars, especially
cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects. VSNET now has three addresses
for delivering different content of mails. (click to retrieve mail archives)
vsnet-obs@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
vsnet@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp The first address is used for data distribution.
The second is for alert on the discovery of supernovae, novae, rare outbursts,
discovery of new variable star, dramatic change of known variable stars, and so
on. The third is for the general information, discussion on the variable stars
problems, complied data, finding charts, preprints and other variable
star-related contents which are not covered by the first two addresses.
The Vulcan Camera Project, sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center, is designed
to detect transits of large extrasolar planets using differential photometry.
Vulcan uses a 15cm aperture refactor at Lick Observatory to image a wide field
in which ~6000 stars are monitored for two months, in a search for the ~1%
transit signal expect from a 51 Pegasi-type planet. Vulcan is a ground-based
test-bed for the proposed Kepler Mission to detect Earth-sized exoplanets.