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The impact on education of Astronomical Olympiads and the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 Astronomical Olympiads and similar competitions for highschool students have been run in some countries for more than half a century, and last year marked the tenth anniversary of the largest such competition with global reach, the International Olympiad
Stachowski Greg, Sule Aniket
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A straightforward estimation of the maximum sunspot number for cycle 23 [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 1999 Using the annual number of geomagnetically quiet days (aa < 20 γ) for the year after the solar minimum, this precursor method predicts that the maximum sunspot number for cycle 23 will be 140 ± 32, indicating that cycle 23 will be similar to cycles
B. Mendoza, B. Mendoza, J. Ramírez
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Galaxies, 2021 Radio astronomy commenced in earnest after World War II, with Australia keenly engaged through the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. At this juncture, Australia’s Commonwealth Solar Observatory expanded its portfolio from primarily studying
Alister W. Graham +4 more
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Statistical Relationship of Demographic and Scientometric Indicators with Edi-torial Board Members Interlocking: A Case Study of Astronomy and Astro-physics Journals [PDF]
پژوهشنامه علم سنجیPurpose: Editorial Board Members (EBMs) play a vital and central role in the operation of peer-reviewed journals. A noteworthy phenomenon that underscores the effectiveness and significance of these EBMs is referred to as "Editorial Board Interlocking ...
Farshid Danesh, Forough Rahimi
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Women’s and men’s career choices in astronomy and astrophysics
Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016 [This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] The Longitudinal Study of Astronomy Graduate Students (LSAGS) arose from the 2003 Women in Astronomy Conference, where it was noted that a majority of young members of the American ...
Rachel Ivie, Susan White, Raymond Y. Chu
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Looking before Leaping: Creating a Software Registry
Journal of Open Research Software, 2015 What lessons can be learned from examining numerous efforts to create a repository or directory of scientist-written software for a discipline? Astronomy has seen a number of efforts to build such a resource, one of which is the Astrophysics Source Code ...
Alice Allen, Judy Schmidt
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Cherenkov Telescope Ring - An Idea for World Wide Monitoring of the VHE Sky [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 With very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy becoming a mature branch of observational astrophysics, and the multi-messenger sky being opened up by neutrino observatories and gravitational wave detectors, we here propose to set up a ring of imaging ...
Ruhe Tim +4 more
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Eliminative Reasoning in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Philosophy of PhysicsI argue that a promising epistemology for astronomy and astrophysics (A and A) involves a new kind of eliminative reasoning. Unlike traditional conceptions that propose to eliminate rival theories or hypotheses, I argue that particular model assumptions
Shannon Sylvie Abelson
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Open Astronomy, 2011 Technological and scientific developments during the past century made a new branch of astronomy flourish, i.e. astrophysics, and resulted in our present deep understanding of the whole Universe.
Høg E.
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InfoScience, EarlyView.With the advancement of 6G communications, high‐precision radar, and advanced imaging technologies, there is a growing demand for compact, high‐performance light sources capable of generating high‐frequency radio waves (millimeter‐wave and terahertz waves). This article systematically introduces how to efficiently generate these high‐frequency waves on
Jianfeng Xiong +8 more
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