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Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey
The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey (or EC in astronomical notation)C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz, ''Asteroseismology'' (2010), p. 105. is a major astronomical survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B~18 in the southern hemisphere, and is an extension of the earlier Palomar-Green survey. At the time of its initiation, the completed survey was expected to cover "around 10,000 square degrees at high galactic latitudes in the southern hemisphere to a limiting magnitude of B ~ 18 mag". The star EC 20058-5234, also known as QU Telescopii, was discovered during the survey. Other notable stars observed include BB Doradus, and the survey generally contributed to the number of known H-deficient stars. The stellar objects to be observed were "selected by automatic techniques from U and B pairs of UK Schmidt Telescope plates scanned with the COSMOS measuring machine", with "follow-up photometry and spectroscopy" being obtained with the South African Astron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O-type Star
An O-type star is a hot, blue-white star of spectral type O in the Yerkes classification system employed by astronomers. They have temperatures in excess of 30,000 kelvin (K). Stars of this type have strong absorption lines of ionised helium, strong lines of other ionised elements, and hydrogen and neutral helium lines weaker than spectral type B. Stars of this type are very rare, but because they are very bright, they can be seen at great distances and four of the 90 brightest stars as seen from Earth are O type.Those four stars are Gamma Velorum, Alnitak (Zeta Orionis), Mintaka (Delta Orionis), and Zeta Puppis. Due to their high mass, O-type stars end their lives rather quickly in violent supernova explosions, resulting in black holes or neutron stars. Most of these stars are young massive main sequence, giant, or supergiant stars, but the central stars of planetary nebulae, old low-mass stars near the end of their lives, also usually have O spectra. O-type stars are typical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EC 20058-5234
EC 20058-5234 (QU Telescopii), is a star in the constellation Telescopium. With an apparent magnitude of 15.03, it's impossible to detect with the naked eye and requires a powerful telescope to be seen; this degenerate object is located 388 light years from the Solar System based on parallax. QU Telescopii has a classification of DB2, which states it's a white dwarf with He I lines present in its atmosphere. At the moment, it has 56.9% the mass of the Sun, but a high surface gravity suggests QU Telescopii has a low radius. It has an effective temperature of 24,843 K, which gives it a blue hue as opposed to a white hue. QU Telescopii belongs to a class of stars known as V777 Herculis variables or DBV stars. First noticed in the Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey (or EC in astronomical notation)C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz, ''Asteroseismology'' (2010), p. 105. is a major astronomical survey to discover blue stellar o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BB Doradus
BB Doradus or BB Dor is a cataclysmic variable In astronomy, cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are stars which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent state. They were initially called novae (), since ones with an outburst brightness visible to ..., a pre-nova star, thus a close pair binary star system. It is composed of a red dwarf and a white dwarf. Observations of the white dwarf's faint but certain accretion disk are consistent with it being at ~10° inclination (to the line of sight from the Earth). Its parallax (movement against background stars due to the Earth's orbit around the Sun) given by the ''Gaia'' space observatory's second data release puts the pair at about 3,000 light years away. References {{DEFAULTSORT:BB Doradus Cataclysmic variable stars Dorado Doradus, BB M-type main-sequence stars White dwarfs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hearnshaw
John Bernard Hearnshaw (born 16 March 1946) is a New Zealand astronomer who is Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Canterbury. He served as director of the Mt John University Observatory at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 2008. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and was president of its Commission 30 (on radial velocities) from 1997 to 2000. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. In 2017, he was honoured with a Queen's Birthday honour for his astronomical work. The minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ... 5207 Hearnshaw is named after him. References Living people 1946 births 20th-century New Zealand astronomers People from Wellington C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Schmidt Telescope
The UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) is a 1.24 metre Schmidt telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (formerly the Anglo-Australian Observatory); it is located adjacent to the 3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. It is very similar to the Samuel Oschin telescope in California. The telescope can detect objects down to magnitude 21 after an hour of exposure on photographic plates. It was originally built and operated by the United Kingdom, starting from 1973, and was merged with the former Anglo-Australian Observatory in 1988. It has been wholly operated by Australia since the UK withdrew from the AAO in 2010 (though the name is unchanged). The UKST is a Schmidt camera, with a design based on the Oschin Schmidt Telescope. It is a survey telescope with a 6 ° by 6° field of view, originally imaged onto a 35 cm square glass photographic plate, and was the primary source of optical survey data in the southe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Astronomical Observatory
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics. The primary telescopes are located in Sutherland, which is from Observatory, Cape Town, where the headquarters is located. The SAAO has links worldwide for scientific and technological collaboration. Instrumental contributions from the South African Astronomical Observatory include the development of a spherical aberration corrector and the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). The Noon Gun on Cape Town's Signal Hill is fired remotely by a time signal from the Observatory. History The history of the SAAO began when the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope was founded in 1820, the first scientific institution in Africa. Construction of the main buildings was complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Near Infrared Survey Of The Southern Sky
The Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS) was a deep astronomical survey of the southern sky in the near-infrared and optical wavelengths, using an ESO 1-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory. It operated from 1996 to 2001. See also * DENIS-P J1058.7-1548 * DENIS-P J1228.2-1547 * DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 * DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b * DENIS-P J101807.5-285931 * DENIS J024011.0-014628,6dFGS gJ024011.1-014628 * Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey (or EC in astronomical notation)C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz, ''Asteroseismology'' (2010), p. 105. is a major astronomical survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B~18 in the so ... References External links DENIS—Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern SkyESO 1-metre telescope Astronomical catalogues Astronomical surveys {{astronomical-catalogue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronomical Surveys
An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky (or of the whole sky) that lacks a specific observational target. Alternatively, an astronomical survey may comprise a set of images, spectra, or other observations of objects that share a common type or feature. Surveys are often restricted to one band of the electromagnetic spectrum due to instrumental limitations, although multiwavelength surveys can be made by using multiple detectors, each sensitive to a different bandwidth. Surveys have generally been performed as part of the production of an astronomical catalog. They may also search for transient astronomical events. They often use wide-field astrographs. Scientific value Sky surveys, unlike targeted observation of a specific object, allow astronomers to catalog celestial objects and perform statistical analyses on them without complex corrections for selection effects. In some cases, an astronomer interested in a particular object will find tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
