I don't think we're ready for this yet, but feel free to
think about this. If anyone can think of a project, go
ahead and write your thoughts to the list - be creative!
And don't worry about your ideas being crazy. Starting
off from a crazy idea and playing with it can often yield
a good idea... Which is better than no ideas at all...
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> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:26:20 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: AstroVirtel User <astrov at eso.org>
> To: boud.roukema@...
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> Subject: ASTROVIRTEL: Third Call for Proposals
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>
> Dear Colleague,
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> The ASTROVIRTEL Project, supported by the European Commission
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> at enhancing the scientific return of the ST-ECF/ESO Archive.
> It offers the possibility to European Users to exploit it as
> a virtual telescope, retrieving and analysing large quantities
> of data with the assistance of archive operators and scientific
> personnel. The first two cycles of operation of the ASTROVIRTEL
> project are almost completed and some interesting results
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> We are now announcing the Third Call for ASTROVIRTEL Proposals.
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> The deadline for submission is June 17th, 2002.
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NEWSALERT: Friday, March 22, 2002 @ 1504 GMT
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The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now
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NEW EVIDENCE: EXPANSION OF UNIVERSE IS ACCELERATING
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A team of UK and Australian astronomers has discovered new, independent
evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Their findings
have just appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
A team of 27 astronomers led by Professor George Efstathiou of
the University of Cambridge has published strong evidence for the
existence of dark energy using an entirely different technique.
Their results show that the universe is full of dark energy, completely
consistent with the earlier supernovae results. "Dark energy appears to
exist and to dominate over more conventional types of matter" says
Professor Efstathiou. "An explanation of the dark energy may involve
String Theory, extra dimensions or even what happened before the Big Bang.
At present nobody knows. The ball is now firmly in the theorists court."
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0203/22expansion/
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Andrzej Marecki
Hi. I'm just sending this message to have it conveniently on the
archive with an obvious "Subject:" header. I think I've already
mentioned these two projects (or themes) which are linked to local
observational facilities:
(1) polarisation of radio-galaxies
Ryszard Wielebi�ski of Bonn suggested that a good way
to use the radio telescope here would be to observe galaxies at
different frequencies, so with different amounts of Faraday
rotation of polarised light, so that the polarisation could be
inferred.
(2) galaxy formation modelling in preparation for future infrared
satellite data
Ryszard Szczerba said something about NCAC being involved in
an infrared satellite project (I think I got the name wrong -
Ryszard, do you have a link to the web site of the project?),
so if someone does some galaxy formation work in preparation for
this, there would be a good chance of getting good observational
constraints, and maybe even falsifying some models, and having
to generate new ones, which is the exciting part of science :).
Cze��
Boud
Ryszard: this email will be archived on
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/
Please reply directly to the list (unless you have something secret to
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