Flammability Parameters of Candles

Cepheid Standard Candles

Thanks to HST, there are now many galaxies with Cepheid distances and these provide the main platform for the calibration of the secondary distance indicators. I review recent progress in our understanding of the standard candle properties of Cepheids with particular emphasis on the techniques used in the HST studies. The PL relation defined by Cepheids in the LMC is shown to be excellent, alth...

Mulch Flammability

Introduction Regardless of how horrible and devastating wildland fires are portrayed by the media, they are a natural disturbance that many native ecosystems depend on for regeneration. As the population of the United States increases, more individuals are building their homes in wildlands rather than urban landscapes. Homes built in undeveloped wildland vegetation create areas often referred t...

Flammability of Australian forests

1CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 2School of Resources, Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 0200, Australia 3Email: [email protected] 4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University College, University of NSW, Campbell, ACT 2602, Australia 5Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, Australia 6Snowy Mountains Region Fire ...

Pulsars as Standard Candles

To illustrate the standard candle property of gamma-ray pulsars (and also to thereby confirm the recent first-principle calculation of pulsar gamma-ray emission), we “measure”, via the lightcurve fitting, three distances and one moment of inertia of some weak pulsars. We are not sure what the three distances are good for, but the measurement of the moment of inertia must be of interest for nucl...

Flammability Properties of Hydraulic Fluids