We present the map of the artificial sky brightness in Eu-rope in V band with a resolution of approximately 1 km. The aim is to understand the state of night sky pollution in Europe, to quantify the present situation and to allow future monitoring of trends. The artificial sky brightness in each site at a given position on the sky is obtained by integration of the contributions produced by ever...

An automated search for star clusters close to the Galactic plane (|b| < 5) was carried out on the Point Source Catalogue of the DENIS survey. 44% of the Galactic plane have been observed and calibrated. The method allowed to retrieve 22 known star clusters and to identify two new ones, not published yet although previously presented in the 2MASS web site as embedded clusters in HII regions. Ex...

Instrumental climate records suggest that summer precipitation and winter snowpack in Glacier National Park (Glacier NP), Montana, vary significantly over decadal to multidecadal time scales. Because instrumental records for the region are limited to the twentieth century, knowledge * Corresponding author address: Gregory T. Pederson, Big Sky Institute, Montana State University, 106 AJM Johnson...

We show that candidate contact binary asteroids can be efficiently identified from sparsely sampled photometry taken at phase angles α > 60◦. At high phase angle, close/contact binary systems produce distinctive lightcurves that spend most of the time at maximum or minimum (typically >1mag apart) brightness with relatively fast transitions between the two. This means that a few (∼5) sparse obse...

MATTHIEU J. MERCIER†, DENIS MARTINAND, MANIKANDAN MATHUR, LOUIS GOSTIAUX, THOMAS PEACOCK AND THIERRY DAUXOIS Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS–Université de Lyon, Lyon 69364, France Laboratoire M2P2, UMR 6181 CNRS–Universités Aix-Marseille, Marseille 13451, France Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 01239, ...

LIDIA S. SZCZEPANIAK,1,2 EVELYN E. BABCOCK,3 FRITZ SCHICK,4 ROBERT L. DOBBINS,1,2 ABHIMANYU GARG,2 DENNIS K. BURNS,5 J. DENIS MCGARRY,1,2,6 AND DANIEL T. STEIN1,2 1Center for Diabetes Research, Departments of 2Internal Medicine, 3Radiology, 5Pathology, and 6Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235; and 4Department of Radiology, University of Tübingen, 7...

The DENIS/ISOGAL near/mid-IR survey of the Milky Way for the first time probes stellar populations in the innermost obscured regions of our galaxy. Ages, metallicities and extinction-corrected luminosities are derived for these stars individually. An old metal-rich population dominates in the inner galactic Bulge, but there are also indications for the presence of a younger population. The inne...

Category coherence refers to the extent to which a category is perceived to be a meaningful whole (Patalano & Ross, 2002; Ross & Patalano, 2002). We tested the hypothesis that category coherence influences the extent to which a category is used in the generation of category-based causal explanations of social behavior and preferences. In Experiments 1a and b, participants were told that members...