We present the first lensing mass measurements of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) selected clusters. Using optical imaging from the Southern Cosmology Survey (SCS), we present weak lensing masses for three clusters selected by their SZ emission in the South Pole Telescope survey (SPT). We confirm that the SZ selection procedure is successful in detecting mass concentrations. We also study 38 optically-...

Using basic physical arguments, we derive by dimensional and physical analysis the characteristic masses and sizes of important objects in the universe in terms of just a few fundamental constants. This exercise illustrates the unifying power of physics and the profound connections between the small and the large in the cosmos we inhabit. We focus on the minimum and maximum masses of normal sta...

The 1991 ROSAT PSPC M31 X-ray point source catalog has been screened in order to set up a sample of candidate supersoft sources in this galaxy, additional to the 16 supersoft sources already known in M31 (Supper et al. 1997). Selection criteria used were based on hardness ratios (“X-ray colors”), as developed in an earlier paper (Kahabka 1998). An additional criterion to be fulfilled was that t...

A case of aggressive angiomyxoma in a 25 year old woman is presented. The patient was admitted to hospital with a history of hesitancy of micturation and pain in the right iliac fossa. She was found to have a left labial mass, which was clinically diagnosed to be a Bartholin gland cyst. A pelvic ultrasound revealed an additional mass in the right paravesical region. At surgery, two distinct mas...

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates.Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its insensitivity to the cluster dynamical state. We perform a weak lensing calibration of 166 galaxy clusters from the REFLEX and BCS cluster catalogue and compare ou...

Observations by the MACHO collaboration suggest that a significant proportion of the galactic halo dark matter is in the form of compact objects with typical masses M ∼ 0.5M ⊙. One of the current mysteries is the nature and origin of these objects. We suggest that these objects are stars composed of mirror matter. This interpretation provides a plausible explanation for the inferred masses and ...

Polluted white dwarfs that have accreted planetary material provide a unique opportunity to probe the geology of exoplanetary systems. However, nature bodies which pollute is not well understood: are they small asteroids, minor planets, or even terrestrial planets? We present novel method infer pollutant masses from detections Ni, Cr and Si. During core--mantle differentiation, these elements e...

We present the first lensing mass measurements of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) selected clusters. Using optical imaging from the Southern Cosmology Survey (SCS), we present weak lensing masses for three clusters selected by their SZ emission in the South Pole Telescope survey (SPT). Curiously, we find one additional 2.5σ peak in the lensing maps which seems to coincide with a low significance peak i...

abstract striped rice stem borer, chilo suppressalis walker (lepidoptera: pyralidae) is one of the important pests in rice fields of mazandaran. therefore, almost the farmers of northern iran apply several pesticides in nurseries for the pest control; while it is causes environmental risks and damages to human. in this research two different items including, 1- study of egg masses density in nu...