It is considered the electromagnetic wave in the frame moving transverse to the wave. Due to the velocity of the frame with respect to a preferred reference frame the oscillations of phase arise. The oscillations of phase yield the third order effect which can be seen in the Michelson-Morley experiment. The effect due to the velocity of the earth with respect to CMB is in agreement with the ani...

PURPOSE To design a simple and reproducible method with minimum uncertainty for evaluating the stereotactic accuracy of Computed Tomography imaging and Magnetic Reso-nance Imaging and to compare the results. METHODS 3D phantom has been designed with 1 mm diameter targets in eight sectors for stereotactic MR imaging and CT imaging. The phantom was connected to Leksell stereotactic frame and th...

We have obtained high-quality Keck optical spectra at three epochs of the Type Ia supernova 1997ex, whose redshift z is 0.361. The elapsed calendar time between the first two spectra was 24.88 d, and that between the first and third spectra was 30.95 d. In an expanding universe where 1 + z represents the factor by which space has expanded between the emission and detection of light, the amount ...

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We use a combination of deep, high angular resolution imaging data from the HST/ACS GOODS survey and ground based near-IR Ks images to derive the evolution of the galaxy major merger rate in the redshift range 0.2 z 1.2. We select galaxies on the sole basis of their J-band rest-frame, absolute magnitude, which is a good tracer of the stellar mass. We find steep evolution with redshift, with the...

Deep, near–infrared imaging surveys have been motivated by the desire to study the rest–frame optical properties and stellar content of galaxies at high redshift. Here we briefly review their history, and illustrate one application, using HST NICMOS imaging of the Hubble Deep Field North to examine the rest–frame optical luminosities and colors of galaxies at 2 < z < 3, and to constrain their s...

JEDI (Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation) is a candidate implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM). JEDI will probe dark energy in three independent methods: (1) type Ia supernovae, (2) baryon acoustic oscillations, and (3) weak gravitational lensing. In an accompanying paper, an overall summary of the JEDI mission is given. In this paper, we present further details...

We adapt and modify the eigenfunction method of computing the powerlaw spectrum of particles accelerated at a relativistic shock front via the first-order Fermi process [6] to apply to shocks of arbitrarily high Lorentz factor. The power-law index of accelerated particles undergoing isotropic small-angle scattering at an ultrarelativistic, unmagnetized shock is found to be s = 4.23± 0.2 (where ...

CL, CD, CD0 = lift coefficient, drag coefficient, and drag coefficient with zero lift DSi = dynamic soaring number sample E, Emin = aircraft total energy and minimum sustainable total energy, J g = gravity acceleration, m∕s h, hmin = altitude and safety altitude, m K = drag-polar-induced drag gain k1, k2, k3 = necessary and sufficient conditions inequality parameters L, D = lift and drag forces...

The standard reference frame for a camera C is a right-handed Cartesian frame with its origin at the center of projection of C, its positive Z axis pointing towards the scene along the optical axis of the lens, and itsX axis pointing to the right1 along the rows of the camera sensor. As a consequence, the Y axis points downwards along the columns of the sensor. Coordinates in the standard refer...