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The Parkes Galactic Meridian Survey (PGMS): observations and CMB polarization foreground analysis [PDF]
, 2010 We present observations and CMB foreground analysis of the Parkes Galactic Meridian Survey (PGMS), an investigation of the Galactic latitude behaviour of the polarized synchrotron emission at 2.3 GHz with the Parkes Radio Telescope.
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Mediterranea, 2018 This article offers the first study and critical edition of the Liber de motibus planetarum (Lmp), a neglected Latin text on planetary theory that appears anonymously and without any clear indication of date or place of origin in nine manuscripts of the ...
C. Philipp E. Nothaft
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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer heartland [PDF]
, 2016 The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded by magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous state-temples, such as Angkor Wat, but also many other temples and huge water reservoirs ...
Magli, Giulio
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Open Astronomy, 2011 Astronomy has been on the curriculum of Uppsala University from at least the middle of the 15th century. However, since Uppsala also was the ecclesiastical centre of Sweden, the acceptance of new ideas, such as the Copernican heliocentric system, was ...
Stempels H. C.
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LUCIAN AND THE GREAT MOON HOAX OF 1835
Akroterion, 2012 The science of astronomy has had a long and distinguished history at the Cape of Good Hope (hereafter referred to as “the Cape”). This is no accident, since Cape Town was for many years (since 1652, in fact) the only fortified and inhabited European ...
J.L. Hilton
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Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2013 At the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century, observatory buildings underwent a change, because astronomical tools of observation had transformed from light portable equipment into permanently mounted accurate instruments. For
Tapio Markkanen
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Cool spots on the surface of the active giant PZ Mon [PDF]
, 2019 Based on the multiband (BVRIJHKL) photometric observations of the active red giant PZ Mon performed for the first time in the winter season of 2017-2018, we have determined the main characteristics of the spotted stellar surface in a parametric three ...
Antonyuk, K. A. +6 more
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APASS Landolt-Sloan BVgri photometry of RAVE stars. I. Data, effective temperatures and reddenings [PDF]
, 2014 We provide APASS photometry in the Landolt BV and Sloan g'r'i' bands for all the 425,743 stars included in the latest 4th RAVE Data Release. The internal accuracy of the APASS photometry of RAVE stars, expressed as error of the mean of data obtained and ...
Bienaymé, O. +27 more
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GIER: A Danish computer from 1961 with a role in the modern revolution of astronomy
, 2017 A Danish computer, GIER, from 1961 played a vital role in the development of a new method for astrometric measurement. This method, photon counting astrometry, ultimately led to two satellites with a significant role in the modern revolution of astronomy.
Høg, Erik
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Copernicus's Heliograph at Olsztyn -- the 500th Anniversary of a Scientific Milestone
, 2017 Exactly 500 years ago, Nicolaus Copernicus drew a lattice of lines on a panel above the doorway to his rooms at Olsztyn Castle, then in the Bishopric of Warmia.
Fischer, Gordon, Graßhoff, Gerd
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