Treating stars and planets as quantum objects could make it easier for astronomers to directly image exoplanets.

Students ; , the professor, and eight systems engineering advisors for a class project in the fall of 2009 designed a light management system for an operations room for astronomers on Mauna Kea on top of Hawaii. For these astronomers who need constant illumination, BIMS is a light and energy management system that will make them more comfortable and productive, and will save money. Unlike conve...

The apparent retrograde motion of the planets was a puzzle for astronomers from ancient world to final establishment heliocentric cosmology in early modern period, but enjoyed an especially rich discussion Carolingian Renaissance. We explore first stirrings eighth-century response this epistemological challenge remarkable series letters between Alcuin York and Charlemagne, sent while latter on ...

Examination Committee Chair László Kontler (Department of History – CEU) Members Endre György Szőnyi – Supervisor (Department of Medieval Studies – Department of History – CEU) Marcell Sebők – Supervisor (Department of Medieval Studies – CEU) Pál Ács – external reader and external member (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies) Mária Dobozy– external reader and external m...

This paper gives a summary of the results of a radio frequency interference mitigation project. Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a problem radio astronomers are facing increasingly in recent years. The goals of this project were: 1) investigate the cost vs. benefits of real-time RFI flagging, 2) determine ways of statistically flagging RFI by doing noise simulations, and 3) to develop a vi...

The Institute for Science Information (ISI) has generated two lists of citation information for astronomers that are restricted both as to the years surveyed for the cited papers, and the years surveyed for the citing papers. These databases are unique among the electronically-available citation data in their restrictions of both citing and cited years. The main list (P&A-100) gives citation da...