Slide 1 The Milky Way and Galaxies Nicola Loaring, SAAO Slide 2 2 Current State of the Art Facilities Slide 3 3 What is a galaxy? 2 A massive collection of stellar and interstellar…

Slide 1 Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression Raanan Fattal Dani Lischinski Michael Werman Slide 2 The Dynamic Range Problem What’s wrong with these images? What’s…

Slide 1 Proposal Writing and PST Demo Joan Wrobel, EVLA Scheduling Officer Twelfth Synthesis Imaging Workshop 2010 June 8-15 Outline Proposal writing Generic EVLA and VLBA…

Intrinsic ellipticity correlation of luminous red galaxies and misalignment with their host dark matter halos The 8th Sino – German workshop Teppei OKUMURA (SHAO) Collaborators:…

Why is the universe lumpy? Tuesday, February 19 The average density of the universe is 9 × 10-27 kg/m3. Some of the universe is much denser than average (stars, white dwarfs,…

Known Black Holes (BHs) in the Universe Stellar mass BHs (3-15 M): Endpoint of the life of massive stars Observable in X-ray binaries 107-109 in every galaxy Supermassive…

Exploring the origin of the stellar halo of the Milky Way Eric Bell Ann Arbor 29 July 2009 Stellar halo : fossil record of assembly? Dwarf galaxies are disrupting and contributing…

Learning outcomes Describe colour properties Value Hue Saturation Describe and identify colour schemes Monochromatic Analogous & Complimentary Ready made colour schemes…

Mapping the Early Universe with Galaxies at z=3-6 Masami Ouchi (Space Telescope Science Institute) for the SXDS Collaboration Cosmic Web Made of 515 Galaxies at z=5.7 Kona…

Galaxy Clustering Topology in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Yun-Young Choi Kyunghee University Collaborators Changbom Park (KIAS) Juhan Kim (KIAS) Rich Gott (Princeton U.)…