We describe the ultraviolet spectra of the Ap star α CVn that have been acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope and the nature of the optical region analyses for its rotational velocity and elemental abundances that have been undertaken in support of the ultraviolet data.

We report laser spectroscopic and computational studies of host/guest hydration interactions between functional molecules (hosts) and water (guest) in supersonic jets. The examined hosts include dibenzo-18-crown-6-ether (DB18C6), benzo-18-crown-6-ether (B18C6) and calix[4]arene (C4A). The gaseous complexes between the functional molecular hosts and water are generated under jet-cooled condition...

Nickel oxide (NiO) nano-size powder is synthesized using nickel (II) acetate tetrahydrate, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and ammonia as precursors. Applied surfactant is anionic surfactant. The sample was characterized by FT-IR, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results obtained confirm the presence of nickel oxide nano-powders produced during chemical precipitation...

Action spectra for the cytotoxic action of electromagnetic radiation in the solar range 280-434 nm have been determined for human fibroblasts and epidermal keratinocytes derived from the same foreskin biopsy. The spectra for the two cell types are close to identical and coincide with our previously published data for a human lymphoblastoid line indicating that the mechanism of inactivation of t...

Sr5Nb4O15 – Nb2O5 nanocomposites were synthesized in 2 and 4 M KOH aqueous solutions, via a non-stoichiometric 1:2 Sr:Nb molar ratio hydrothermal method at 160°C for 48 h (S1 and S2, respectively). Sr(NO3)2 and Nb2O5 were used as raw materials. The synthesized nanomaterials were characterized by powder X-Ray diffraction (PXRD) technique. It was found that Sr5Nb4O15 has been crystallized in hexa...

We have produced an archive of the ultraviolet low-dispersion spectra for the full set of white dwarf stars observed with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite over the course of its 18 yr mission. This archive contains the spectra of 322 individual degenerate stars which have been processed to optimize the signal-to-noise for each star. In particular, all spectra have been cor...

High resolution (0.010-0.025 nm) IUE ultraviolet spectra of the peculiar 3He star 3 Cen A were analyzed in the whole 120-320 nm region. Abundances were derived from the comparison of the observed and computed spectra. For computing spectra a Kurucz ATLAS9 model with parameters Teff=17500 K, log g = 3.8, and microturbulent velocity ξ=0 km s−1 was adopted. A rotational velocity vsini=0 km s−1 was...

An extensive grid of synthetic midand far-ultraviolet spectra for accretion disks in cataclysmic variables has been presented by Wade and Hubeny (1998). In those models, the disk was assumed to be in steady-state, that is Teff(r) is specified completely by the mass MWD and radius RWD of the accreting white dwarf star and the mass transfer rate Ṁ which is constant throughout the disk. In these m...

Bipolar outflows are present in many disk-accreting astrophysical systems. In disk-accreting cataclysmic variables (CVs), these outflows are responsible for most of the strong features in the ultraviolet spectra of these systems. However, there have been few attempts to model these features quantitatively. Here, we describe a new, hybrid Monte Carlo/Sobolev code, which allows us to synthesize t...