Slide 1Anisotropies in the CMB Current Topics 2010 Katy Lancaster http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/katy Slide 2 The course Today (12pm, 4pm): The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

Slide 1Meteorology ENV 2A23 Radiation Lectures Slide 2 How is energy transferred? Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Conduction Convection Radiation Slide 6 Conduction Convection Radiation…

Slide 1 3RF Sciences, LLC Slide 2 Blackbody defined…  A blackbody is an object that absorbs all light that hits it  Also emits light provided that its temperature…

Slide 1CLARREO UW & Harvard Team Proposed IIP Activities (with description of underlying research) Fred Best CLARREO Meeting at NIST 12 June, 2008 University of Wisconsin…

Slide 1 Slide 2  High luminosity from the galactic central region L bol ~ 10 44-46 erg/s  High X-ray luminosity  Supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy…

Slide 1 May 13, 2003Lynn Cominsky - Cosmology A3501 Professor Lynn Cominsky Department of Physics and Astronomy Class web page: http://glast.sonoma.edu/~lynnc/courses/a350/…

Slide 1 Lecture 5PHYS1005 – 2003/4 Lecture 5: Stars as Black-bodies Objectives - to describe: Black-body radiation Wien’s Law Stefan-Boltzmann equation Effective temperature…

Slide 1 6 December 2001Astronomy 102, Fall 20011 Image: Artist’s conception of COBE, the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center). Today…

Figure 8.1 Climate Models and Their Evaluation CLIM 690: Scientific Basis of Climate Change Substitute for reality Closely mimics some essential elements Omits or poorly…

Skin Colour Imaging That Is Insensitive to Lighting Conditions Lilong Shi and Brian Funt School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada Skin Colour Imaging…