In the current view of galaxy formation and cosmology most galaxies undergo phases of high nuclear activity, where they accrete lots of matter (compared to their Eddington accretion rate) and shine brightly. Such an object is then called an Active Galaxy and the thing in the center that actually shines and where lots of other [...]
Two days ago I submitted my first, recently accepted, paper to the widely used preprint server arXiv/astro-ph. People have studied the dependence of long-term citation rates of astrophysical papers put on astro-ph as a function of position in the daily listing. Even astro-ph seem to have realized that and offer a page where part of [...]
Okay, I hope you already are aware that astronomers do not just go out in the night and watch stars. Well, sometimes they do [these reports are in German], but most time they don’t.
While searching for something different today I found that sometimes they even make music, like the SWIFT people (a mission to study [...]
You would believe that a company that sells software licenses for thousands of Euros would make it as easy as possible for their users to use their software once they have rightfully acquired a license. With ITTVIS’s IDL this is unfortunately not the case. Instead of selecting the license file with a file picker you [...]