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Nowe czasopismo on line (fwd)
by Andrzej Marecki 08 May '03

08 May '03

----- Forwarded message from Biblioteka CA UMK ----- Delivered-To: astro.staff(a)astri.uni.torun.pl Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:35:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Biblioteka CA UMK <cfalib(a)newton.astro.uni.torun.pl> To: staff(a)astro.uni.torun.pl cc: staff(a)astri.uni.torun.pl Subject: Nowe czasopismo on line Szanowni Czytelnicy! To jest oferta nowego czasopisma on-line. Do konca roku mamy dostep za darmo ale od nowego roku zaproponuja oplate. Prosze przejrzec ta oferte i zdecydowac czy warto sie tym zainteresowac. O ewentualnej prenumeracie elektronicznej na rok 2004 musze wiedziec do konca maja. pozdrawiam Karolina Wojtkowska ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: 8 May 2003 00:00:53 -0000 To: Dominika.Czyzak(a)bu.uni.torun.pl (Dominika Czyzak) From: andrew.wray(a)iop.org Send reply to: karen.brixey(a)iop.org Subject: Free offer from Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (3/415) We're delighted to introduce a major new electronic-only publication, the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP). JCAP is published in partnership between the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and will follow a similar trajectory to that of its sister journal Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). JCAP brings together cutting-edge research in all aspects of cosmology as well as astrophysics and particle physics. The journals remit encompasses theoretical, observational and experimental areas as well as computation and simulation. The first papers appeared online in March 2003. Access to the full text is free to all until the end of 2003. Beginning January 2004 a low annual subscription will be introduced for institutions. For more information or to place your order, please visit http://ej.iop.org/pdf/jcap.pdf to download an order form. JCAP will be included in Packs A, B and Z as well as the new Package H for 2004. With this new addition there has never been a better time to upgrade to an IOP journal package! Please contact your regional representative for more information on how you can save money on your subscriptions. A full list of representatives is available at www.iop.org/EJ/enquiries or e-mail custserv(a)iop.org for more information. We have also produced a colourful A3 poster to enable you to publicise this exciting new journal to your end users and I am delighted to offer you a complimentary copy for your institution. If you would like to receive a copy, please reply to this email, indicating to whom the parcel should be addressed. I look forward to hearing from you soon Kind regards Dr Andrew Wray Senior Publisher Institute of Physics Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE, UK ------- End of forwarded message ------- ***************************************************************************** ----- End of forwarded message from Biblioteka CA UMK -----

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Re: Nowe czasopismo on line
by Andrzej Marecki 08 May '03

08 May '03

[...] > Access to the full text is free to all until the end of 2003. Beginning January > 2004 a low annual subscription will be introduced for institutions. ^^^ Hope it's going to be truly low. ;) Anyway, let's go for it! A.M.

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The Extragalactic Distance Scale
by Andrzej Marecki 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Paper: astro-ph/0304427 From: Joseph B. Jensen <jjensen(a)gemini.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:52:07 GMT (67kb) Title: The Extragalactic Distance Scale Authors: Joseph B. Jensen (Gemini), John L. Tonry (Hawaii), John P. Blakeslee (JHU) Comments: 18 pages, 1 figure; contribution to Measuring and Modeling the Universe, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series Vol. 2, ed. W. L. Freedman \\ Significant progress has been made during the last 10 years toward resolving the debate over the expansion rate of the Universe. [...] We discuss remaining systematic uncertainties, particularly related to the Cepheid calibration, and identify where improvements are likely to be made in the next few years. \\ ( http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304427 , 67kb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [...] ----- End of forwarded message from astro-ph -----

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"projective sphere" (fwd)
by boud 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

hi, i received this from a friend. The projective sphere is the 2-sphere S^2 where each point is identified with its opposite point. So the fundamental polygon is a hemisphere. Geodesics only intersect once in the projective sphere. > Hi Boud, > what an irony, but I am looking for your help with Polish !!! > Could you or your collaborators on topology in Torun > enlighten me with Polish term for "projective sphere" ? > Thanks in advance, Can anyone help? boud

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topology - WMAP - urgent
by boud 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Witam, Micha³, Bartek, anyone else interested. Now that there's some big time media coverage, anyone interested in working together on this? IMHO it's urgent to do the analysis ourselves. I haven't fully understand Marek's comments, but I think he's just playing safe ;) - no harm there. Anyone who sees signs that our North/South American and or European colleagues have done something concrete on this, please say and point to the URL! Boud amr wrote: > Artyku³ o odkryciu ("odkryciu" ?) Tegmarka: > http://www.gazeta.pl/nauka/1,34148,1376101.html > Krytyka Marka Demiañskiego: > http://www1.gazeta.pl/nauka/1,34148,1376526.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:57:53 +0100 (MET) > From: Programme National de Cosmologie <pnc at iap.fr> > To: diffusion PNC <pnc at iap.fr> > Subject: divers ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Extraits d'un article du New-York Times du 11 mars 2003 "Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate" The New York Times March 11, 2003 Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate By DENNIS OVERBYE Long ago in the dawn of the computer age, college students often whiled away the nights playing a computer game called Spacewar. It consisted of two rocket ships attempting to blast each other out of the sky with torpedoes while trying to avoid falling into a star at the center of the screen. Although cartoonish in appearance, the game was amazingly faithful to the laws of physics, complete with a gravitational field that affected both the torpedoes and the rockets. Only one feature seemed outlandish: a ship that drifted off the edge of the screen would reappear on the opposite side. Real space couldn't work that way. Or could it? Imagine that the Spacewar screen is wrapped around to form a cylinder or a section of a doughnut so that the two edges meet. That is the picture of space, some cosmologists say, that has been suggested by a new detailed map of the early universe. Their analysis of this map has now provided a series of hints though only hints that the universe may have a more complicated shape than astronomers presumed. ... This mirror game is not limited to cubes and doughnuts. Over the years mathematicians, particularly Dr. William Paul Thurston, now at the University of California at Davis, and Dr. Jeffrey Weeks, an independent mathematician, have speculated about universes composed of various polyhedrons glued together in various ways. In 1996 the French astronomer Dr. Jean-Pierre Luminet of the Paris Observatory and his colleagues Dr. Roland Lehoucq and Dr. Marc Lachieze-Rey, both of the Center for Astrophysical Studies in Saclay, France, developed a method called "cosmic crystallography," using galaxy statistics to detect and diagnose the repeating periodic patterns that would be created in the sky by light going around and around in differently shaped universe. Finite or Infinite? Problems Are Posed For Favored Theory ...

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astro-ph/0302496 - T^1 model in WMAP data? - compare astro-ph/0007140
by Boud Roukema 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

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final polski version of grant application
by Boud Roukema 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

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\adminthree} \newcommand\totalthree{\arabic{totalthree}} \newcounter{totalall} \setcounter{totalall}{\totalone+\totaltwo+\totalthree} \newcommand\totalall{\arabic{totalall}} \newcounter{grandtotal} \setcounter{grandtotal}{\totalall} \newcommand\grandtotal{\arabic{grandtotal}} \newcounter{dummy} \setcounter{dummy}{12} \newcommand\dummy{\arabic{dummy}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{document} \begin{flushleft} \textcolor[rgb]{1.000,1.000,1.000}{{\footnotesize{} }} \textbf{\textcolor[rgb]{1.000,1.000,1.000}{Za\l{}ącznik nr 15}} \end{flushleft} \begin{center} \end{center} \begin{center} \end{center} \begin{center} \textbf{WNIOSEK} \end{center} \begin{center} \textbf{o finansowanie projektu badawczego} \end{center} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{Tytu\l{} projektu} {\bf \centerline{\underline{Poszukiwanie soczewkowania topologicznego}} \centerline{\underline{wśród aktywnych radiogalaktyk (AGNs) i gromad galaktyk}} } \smallskip \centerline{(Search for Topological Lensing of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Clusters)} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{A. DANE WNIOSKODAWCY} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} Wype\l{}nia Komitet Bada\'n Naukowych {\em 1. Nazwa i adres jednostki, w której będzie realizowany projekt} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em (w przypadku uczelni poda\'c tak\.ze: wydzia\l{}, instytut, katedrę lub zak\l{}ad)} \end{flushleft} Centrum Astronomiczne Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika (CA-UMK), %Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy, Nicolas Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina, 11, Toru\'n 87-100; director prof. hab. dr Andrzej Kus \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. NIP} \NIPTCfA \\ {\em REGON} \REGONTCfA \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Nazwa banku, numer rachunku} \\ \bankTCfA \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 4. Kierownik projektu\textit{ }(tytu\l{} i stopie\'n naukowy, imię, nazwisko, adres prywatny, telefon; miejsce zatrudnienia - w przypadku uczelni poda\'c tak\.ze: wydzia\l{}, instytut, katedrę lub zak\l{}ad - telefon, e-mail)Numer rejestracyjny projektu} \end{flushleft} dr Boudewijn Roukema, \adresboud \begin{flushleft} {\em Data z\l{}o\.zenia} \end{flushleft} \datepolski \begin{flushleft} {\em Zespó\l{} Komitetu} \end{flushleft} PO3D \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{B. DANE OGÓLNE} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1. Planowany okres realizacji projektu. {\bf \monthstotal}.. miesięcy (01.2004 -- 12.2006)} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. Liczba osób przewidzianych do udzia\l{}u w realizacji projektu} {\bf 6} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Rodzaj projektu: \textbf{w\l{}asny} - %\rule[0.5ex]{48mm}{0.2ex}\hspace{-45mm} \sout{promotorski -- zamawiany Nr} wg og\l{}oszenia (niepotrzebne skre\'sli\'c).}\\ \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 4. Propozycja skierowania wniosku: (symbol lub nazwa sekcji specjalistycznej Komitetu)} \end{flushleft} {\bf P03D: Astronomia i astrofizyka} \begin{flushleft} {\em 5. Planowane nak\l{}ady {\rm \grandtotal~PLN} (w z\l{}) ogó\l{}em} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em w tym w latach } 2004: \totalone~PLN; 2005: \totaltwo~PLN, 2006: \totalthree~PLN \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 6. S\l{}owa kluczowe} \end{flushleft} kosmologia obserwacyjna, topologia kosmiczna, aktywne jądra radiogalaktyk, gromady galaktyk \clearpage \begin{flushleft} {\bf 7. Streszczenie projektu} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} (streszczenie mo\.ze by\'c upowszechnione przez Komitet po zakwalifikowaniu projektu do finansowania) \end{flushleft} \begin{centering} {\underline{Poszukiwanie soczewkowania topologicznego}} {\underline{wśród aktywnych radiogalaktyk (AGNs) i gromad galaktyk}} \smallskip (Search for Topological Lensing of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Clusters) \end{centering} \smallskip % Równania Hilberta-Einsteina są niewystarczające do opisania geometrii % Wszechświata, ponieważ dotyczą tylko lokalnej geometrii: krzywizny. % Ogólna wiedza na temat geometrii przestrzeni, jeśli w ogóle możliwa, % wymagać będzie pomiaru topologii Wszechświata. % Od czasu kiedy temat ten był dyskutowany przez Schwarzschilda (1900), % próby obserwacyjnego zmierzenia ogólnej topologii były rzadkie. % Przyspieszeniu uległy dopiero w latach 1990-tych wskutek gwałtownego % wzrostu obserwacji The Hilbert-Einstein equations are insufficient to describe the geometry of the Universe, as they only constrain a local geometrical property: curvature. A global knowledge of the geometry of space, if possible, would require measurement of the topology of the Universe. Since the subject was discussed in 1900 by Schwarzschild, observational attempts to measure global topology have been rare for most of this century, but have accelerated in the 1990's due to the rapidly increasing amount of observations of non-negligible fractions of the observational sphere. The basic physical test for measuring the topology of the Universe is simple from a na\"{\i}ve theoretical point of view: it is sufficient to see multiple images of extragalactic objects whose light travels to the observer via straight lines (geodesics) in different directions, or in other words that crosses the Universe from different directions or more than once. Hence, the term ``topological lensing'', since whatever theory might in the future explain the global shape of the Universe will presumably be an extension of general relativity, and just as general relativity is tested by gravitational lensing, where single objects such as high redshift galaxies are seen several times, the future theory (probably a theory of quantum gravity) should be constrained by topological lensing. In practice, just as the individual and statistical observational properties of extragalactic objects have made determination of local cosmological parameters (such as the matter density parameter, the cosmological constant and the Hubble constant) much more difficult than was hoped, their properties make the search for topological lensing difficult. The most promising objects at high redshifts for detecting topological lensing are those we can see in large numbers and across large volumes of space: (1) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and (2) clusters of galaxies. In the Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy, we have a combination of \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item existing observational expertise in radio-loud AGNs (RLAGNs) including the study of the evolution of RLAGNs (Marecki, Kunert, Gawro\'nski); and \item with the OCRA (One-cm Receiver Array) project, we hope to soon obtain a catalogue of thousands of clusters of galaxies at high redshifts via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (Soberski); and \item the PI (Roukema) has developed observational strategies for investigating cosmic topology. \end{list} For this reason, we have an excellent opportunity at TCfA to excel in this field. Although our focus will be on the use of RLAGNs and clusters of galaxies, knowledge of cosmic microwave background (CMB) observational analyses will be crucial for independently checking any serious candidates for topological lensing. We are fortunate to have the presence in our group of an expert in CMB data, Bartosz Lew, who we expect to achieve the status of Magister during 2003. \clearpage \begin{flushleft} \textbf{C. INFORMACJE O WYKONAWCACH} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1. O\'swiadczenia} \end{flushleft} \begin{quote} {Przyjmuję warunki udzia\l{}u w konkursie projektów badawczych, okre\'slone w przepisach w sprawie kryteriów i trybu przyznawania i rozliczania \'srodków finansowych ustalanych w bud\.zecie pa\'nstwa na naukę oraz wyra\.zam zgodę na zamieszczenie moich danych osobowych zawartych we wniosku w zbiorze danych Komitetu Bada\'n Naukowych oraz na przetwarzanie tych danych zgodnie z przepisami ustawy z dnia 29 sierpnia 1997 r. o ochronie danych osobowych (Dz. U. Nr 133, poz. 883 z pó\'zn. zm.).} \end{quote} \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. Wykaz wykonawców} \begin{tabular}{c|l|r|c|c} \hline \\ Lp. & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Charakter udzia\l{}u w realizacji projektu,} & Udział w & Symbol & {~~Podpis~~} \\ & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{tytu\l{} i stopie\'n naukowy, imię, nazwisko, nr PESEL} & realizacji &\multicolumn{1}{c|}{rodzaju} & \\ &\multicolumn{1}{c|}{miejsce zatrudnienia, stanowisko} & projektu&&\\ 1 & Kierownik projektu - dr Boudewijn Roukema & 100\% & \symbolrodzaju\\ & CA-UMK, adiunkt \fbox{\rule{3cm}{0cm}\rule{0cm}{1.5ex}} &&& \\ 2& Wykonawca - dr Andrzej Marecki \protect\fbox{\rule{3cm}{0cm}\rule{0cm}{1.5ex}}& 67\% &\symbolrodzaju& \\ & CA-UMK, adiunkt &&& \\ 3& Wykonawca - mgr Magdalena Kunert \fbox{ \peselmagda } & 50\% & \symbolrodzaju&\\ & CA-UMK, doktorant &&& \\ 4& Wykonawca - mgr Marcin Gawro\'nski \fbox{\rule{3cm}{0cm}\rule{0cm}{1.5ex}}& 50\% & \symbolrodzaju&\\ & CA-UMK, doktorant&&& \\ 5& Wykonawca - mgr Sebastian Soberski \fbox{\rule{3cm}{0cm}\rule{0cm}{1.5ex}}& 50\% &\symbolrodzaju& \\ & CA-UMK, doktorant &&& \\ 6& Wykonawca - (2003 mgr) Bartosz Lew \fbox{\rule{3cm}{0cm}\rule{0cm}{1.5ex}}& 50\% &\symbolrodzaju\\ & CA-UMK &&& \\ &&&&\\ \hline \end{tabular} $^{\mathrm{1/}}$ nale\.zy wpisa\'c ,,P''- umowa o pracę, mianowanie, ,,Z''- umowa zlecenia, ,,D''- umowa o dzie\l{}o \end{flushleft} %%% end table %%%% \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Ankieta dorobku naukowego kierownika projektu i najwa\.zniejszych wykonawców projektu} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1) Imię i nazwisko} \end{flushleft} dr Boudewijn Roukema \begin{flushleft} {\em 2) Przebieg pracy naukowej: nazwa szko\l{}y wy\.zszej, instytutu lub innej jednostki organizacyjnej specjalno\'s\'c } \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em data uzyskania tytu\l{}u zawodowego, tytu\l{}u lub stopnia naukowego} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} doktora \end{flushleft} 1989-93: Doktorat z Filozofii w Astronomii i Astrofizyce, Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (M.S.S.S.O.), Australian National University (A.N.U.), Canberra. 1985-88: Bachelor of Science (Hons), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia \begin{flushleft} {\em 3) Informacje o pracach wykonanych w okresie ostatnich 4 lat przed zg\l{}oszeniem wniosku} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em (wykaz najwa\.zniejszych publikacji - maksimum 10 pozycji, poda\'c miejsce i datę publikacji; opracowane nowe technologie; najwa\.zniejsze osiągnięcia poznawcze, aplikacyjne).} \end{flushleft} Główne Tematy Badawcze %{Main Research Interests} (i) {\em Observational Cosmology} and (ii) {\em Galaxy Formation}: (i) Observational constraints on statistics of ``large scale'' structure, observational constraints on local cosmological parameters (such as the density parameter and the cosmological constant), and observational programmes to try to constrain global cosmological parameters; (ii) Merging-history-tree based galay formation models in a cosmological context and their comparison with observational galaxy statistics. \begin{list}{\arabic{enumi}}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.} \& Bajtlik, S., 1999;;Transverse Galaxy Velocities from Multiple Topological Images;;\mnras;;308;;309 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/9903038) %% CAMK, IAP, IUCAA %art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2000a;;COBE and Global Topology: An Example of the Application of the Circles Principle;;\mnras;;312;;712 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/9910272) %% IUCAA %ftp blacksci 15/10/99 %art \mdcitem %\item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.} \& Mamon, G.A., 2000;;Tangential Large Scale Structure as a Standard Ruler: Curvature Parameters from Quasars;;\AandA;;358;;395 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/9911413) %art %%395-408 %\item \mdcitem \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2000b;;A Counterexample to Claimed COBE Constraints on Compact Toroidal Universe Models;;\cqg;;17;;3951 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0007140) \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2000c;;The Topology of the Universe;;Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India;;28;;483 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0010185) \revinvit \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.} \& Mamon, G.A., 2001;;Lifting cosmic degeneracy within a single data set;;{\AandA};;366;;1 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0010511) \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2001b;;How to distinguish a nearly flat Universe from a flat Universe using the orientation independence of a standard ruler;;{\AandA};;369;;729 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0102095) %art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2001d;;On the comoving distance as an arc-length in four dimensions;;{\mnras};;325;;138 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0102099)%art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, Ninin, S., Devriendt, J., Bouchet, F.B., Guiderdoni, B., Mamon, G.A., 2001;;Star Formation Losses Due to Tidal Debris in `Hierarchical' Galaxy Formation;;\AandA;;373;;494 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0105152) %art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, Mamon, G.A., \& Bajtlik, S., 2002;;The Cosmological Constant and Quintessence from a Correlation Function Comoving Fine Feature in the 2dF Quasar Redshift Survey;;{\AandA};;382;;397 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0106135) \end{list} \begin{flushleft} {\em 4) Wykonane i aktualnie wykonywane projekty badawcze finansowane ze \'srodków bud\.zetowych na naukę - numery projektów - charakter udzia\l{}u przy realizacji projektu oraz czy uzyska\l{} lub uzyskuje z tego tytu\l{}u wynagrodzenie (tak, nie). } \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 5) Do\'swiadczenia naukowe zdobyte w kraju i za granicą (kraj, instytucja, rodzaj pobytu, okres pobytu).} \end{flushleft} \noin od 2002: adiunkt, Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy, Uniwersytet Miko\l{}aja Kopernika, Toru\'n, Poland \noin 2001: konsultant, DARC/LUTH (Laboratoire de l'Univers et ses Th\'eories), Observatoire de Meudon, France \noin 1998--2000: postdoctoral fellow, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy \& Astrophysics, Pune, India \noin Feb--July 1998: konsultant, CAMK, Warszawa %\noin May-Sep 1997: konsultant, Institut d'Astrophysique % de Paris, CNRS, France %(R) %\noin April 1997: konsultant, Beijing %Astronomical Observatory, Beijing, P.R.China %(R) \noin 1996--1997: Centre of Excellence foreign visiting fellow, NAOJ, % Mitaka, Tokyo, %181, Japan %(R) %\smallskip \noin 1994--1995: postdoctoral research fellow, Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, U.K. %(RT) %United Kingdom %\smallskip %\noin Aug/Sep 1994: Visitor, Dept of Astronomy, Bandung Institute of %Technology, Bandung, Indonesia %(T) %\smallskip \noin Jan/Feb 1994: konsultant, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom %(R) %\smallskip \noin 1993: postdoctoral fellow, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France %(R) \begin{flushleft} {\em 6) Najwa\.zniejsze międzynarodowe i krajowe wyró\.znienia wynikające z prowadzenia bada\'n naukowych lub prac rozwojowych (rodzaj wyró\.znienia, miejsce i data).} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} Miejscowo\'s\'c i data \rule{2cm}{0ex} Podpisy osób wype\l{}niających ankietę \end{flushleft} \bigskip \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Ankieta dorobku naukowego kierownika projektu i najwa\.zniejszych wykonawców projektu} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1) Imię i nazwisko} \end{flushleft} dr Andrzej Marecki \begin{flushleft} {\em 2) Przebieg pracy naukowej: nazwa szko\l{}y wy\.zszej, instytutu lub innej jednostki organizacyjnej specjalno\'s\'c } \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em data uzyskania tytu\l{}u zawodowego, tytu\l{}u lub stopnia naukowego} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} doktora \end{flushleft} 1980 Magister (astronomia) UMK, Toru\'n 1992 Doktor (astronomia) UMK, Toru\'n \begin{flushleft} {\em 3) Informacje o pracach wykonanych w okresie ostatnich 4 lat przed zg\l{}oszeniem wniosku} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em (wykaz najwa\.zniejszych publikacji - maksimum 10 pozycji, poda\'c miejsce i datę publikacji; opracowane nowe technologie; najwa\.zniejsze osiągnięcia poznawcze, aplikacyjne).} \end{flushleft} Krótki odpis projektów naukowych: %Brief description of research projects: %Interferometryczne obserwacje radiowo głośny AGN (RLAGN) Interfermetric observations of radio-loud AGN (RLAGN) aimed to reveal structures of compact i.e. {\it young} objects. Selection and observations (MERLIN, VLBI) of a new sample of faint compact objects. Measurements of the velocities of the components in such radio structures. \begin{list}{\arabic{enumi}}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item \underline{Marecki, A.}, Falcke H., Niezgoda J. Garrington, S.T., Patnaik A.R. (1999) "Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources from the Jodrell Bank-VLA Astrometric Survey" A\&AS 135, 273 \item Fanti, C. ... \underline{Marecki, A.}, et al. (2000) "ISO observations of a sample of CSS and GHz Peaked Spectrum radio galaxies", A\&A 358, 499 \item Browne, I. W. \underline{Marecki, A.}, et al. (2000) "OCRA: a one-centimeter receiver array" SPIE 4015, 299 \item \underline{Kunert, M.}, \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2002) "FIRST-based survey of Compact Steep Spectrum sources. I. MERLIN images of arc-second scale objects" A\&A 391, 47 \item \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2003) "Location of Weak CSS Sources on the Evolutionary Path of Radio-Loud AGN", PASA 20, in press (astro-ph/0211253) \item \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2003) "Weak CSS Sources from the FIRST Survey", PASA 20, in press (astro-ph/0211249) \item \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2003) "1245+676 - a CSO/GPS source being an extreme case of a double-double" PASA 20, in press (astro-ph/0209212) \end{list} \begin{flushleft} {\em 4) Wykonane i aktualnie wykonywane projekty badawcze finansowane ze \'srodków bud\.zetowych na naukę - numery projektów - charakter udzia\l{}u przy realizacji projektu oraz czy uzyska\l{} lub uzyskuje z tego tytu\l{}u wynagrodzenie (tak, nie). } \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 5) Do\'swiadczenia naukowe zdobyte w kraju i za granicą (kraj, instytucja, rodzaj pobytu, okres pobytu).} \end{flushleft} od 1992 adiunkt, Centrum Astronomii, UMK, Toru\'n \begin{flushleft} {\em 6) Najwa\.zniejsze międzynarodowe i krajowe wyró\.znienia wynikające z prowadzenia bada\'n naukowych lub prac rozwojowych (rodzaj wyró\.znienia, miejsce i data).} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} Miejscowo\'s\'c i data \rule{2cm}{0ex} Podpisy osób wype\l{}niających ankietę \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{flushleft} \textbf{\newpage } \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{D. OPIS PROJEKTU BADAWCZEGO, METODYKA BADA\'N ORAZ CHARAKTERYSTYKA OCZEKIWANYCH WYNIKÓW} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1. Cel naukowy projektu - jaki problem wnioskodawca podejmuje się rozwiąza\'c, co jest jego istotą, co uzasadnia podjęcie tego problemu w Polsce, jakie przes\l{}anki sk\l{}aniają wnioskodawcę do podjęcia proponowanego tematu?} \end{flushleft} The problem being posed is to try to measure the shape of the Universe. This is important because the Universe is the object in which we live and it is of obvious scientific and cultural interest to be aware of the shape of the object in which we live. It should be undertaken here because we have a combination of present and developing observational expertise in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGNs) and clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect respectively, plus expertise in the development of observational strategies for measuring cosmic topology. Poland has obvious historical precedents in showing that the Earth is not the centre of the Universe, and that planets around other stars exist. It would clearly be good to continue the tradition on a much larger length scale (Gigaparsecs). \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. Istniejący stan wiedzy w zakresie tematu bada\'n -jaki oryginalny wk\l{}ad wniesie rozwiązanie postawionego problemu do dorobku danej dyscypliny naukowej w \'swiecie i w Polsce, czy w kraju i w \'swiecie jest to problem nowy czy kontynuowany i w jakim zakresie weryfikuje utarte poglądy i dotychczasowy stan wiedzy?} \end{flushleft} It is clear that topological lensing on scales of a few hundred Megaparsecs is extremely unlikely. Attempted constraints on scales from 1 Gigaparsec (1$h^{-1}$Gpc) to the horizon diameter of about 20$h^{-1}$Gpc (comoving) are much weaker and generally very model dependent. This project will use RLAGNs and clusters of galaxies up to redshifts of about $z\sim2-3$ as tracers, covering a volume of about half the diameter of the observable Universe, i.e. about 10$h^{-1}$Gpc. It will advance discovery and understanding by using these tracers as realistically as possible given understanding of their evolution and properties. This problem dates back to the pre-relativistic era (Schwarzschild 1900), but has only been tackled non-trivially since the early 1990s. Work on this theme is still in the pioneering stage. \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Metodyka bada\'n - co stanowi podstawę naukowego warsztatu wnioskodawcy i jak zamierza rozwiąza\'c postawiony problem, na czym będzie polega\'c analiza i opracowanie wyników bada\'n, jakie urządzenia (aparatura) zostaną wykorzystane w badaniach, czy wnioskodawca ma do nich bezpo\'sredni dostęp i umiejętno\'s\'c obs\l{}ugi?} \end{flushleft} The methodology is to use a range of methods, from studies of individual objects to statistical studies of large catalogues, and to parametrise understanding of the properties of the tracers in order to make these methods as observationally correct and precise as possible. Just as the supernova type Ia method was only one among many methods proposed for measuring local cosmological parameters, but happened to be the most dramatically successful, it is impossible to predict beforehand which specific method for measuring topological lensing will first yield highly significant results. Although the TCfA 32m telescope will be used for part of the general understanding of RLAGNs and for the OCRA project, which should in the long term yield large numbers of high-redshift clusters of galaxies, use of existing public catalogues such as those available at the Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) and the information processing analysis requires the use of computers and computer peripherals. We do have access to these telescopes and databases and have experience managing computer resources. \begin{flushleft} {\em 4. Co będzie wymiernym, udokumentowanym efektem podjętego problemu - zak\l{}adany sposób przekazu i upowszechnienia wyników (publikacje naukowe oraz referaty na konferencjach w kraju i za granicą, monografie naukowe, rozprawy doktorskie i habilitacyjne, nowe patenty i ,,know-how'', nowe metody i urządzenia badawcze)?} \end{flushleft} This is a {\bf research} project, not a {\bf development} project, and the required theory which goes beyond general relativity has not yet been developed, so while we would hope to detect topological lensing, the results cannot be predicted before they are found. Articles on the results will of course be published in refereed journals, presented at conferences, and professionals and non-professionals will be able to follow (and maybe participate) in the research on our web pages via the normal methods of internet culture such as publicly archived mailing lists and wiki pages. \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{E. W ODNIESIENIU DO PROJEKTÓW ZAMAWIANYCH -- INFORMACJA O SPE\L{}NIENIU OKRE\'SLONYCH PRZEZ KOMITET WARUNKÓW UCZESTNICZENIA W KONKURSIE, W SZCZEGÓLNO\'SCI DOTYCZĄCYCH WSPÓ\L{}PRACY Z PARTNERAMI ZAGRANICZNYMI} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{F. }\textbf{ HARMONOGRAM WYKONANIA PROJEKTU BADAWCZEGO -- PLAN ZADA\'N} \end{flushleft} %\begin{center} %Lp.Nazwa i opis zadaniaTermin realizacji %\\(m-c, rok)Przewidywane koszty\\(z\l{})1234Razem %\end{center} %\begin{flushleft} %\textbf{F. PROJECT} \textbf{SCHEDULE} \textbf{- ANTICIPATED TASKS} %\end{flushleft} \setcounter{x}{(\saltotalyear) /2} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\x *6} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} \setcounter{z}{\consult /3} \renewcommand\z{\arabic{z}} \setcounter{w}{\y + \equip + \z*3 +\allconfer + \adminone+ \admintwo+ \adminthree } \renewcommand\w{\arabic{w}} \usecounter{enumi} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{clrr} \hline \\ Lp. & Nazwa i opis zadania %Termin realizacji %&(m-c, rok)Przewidywane koszty %&(z\l{})1234Razem & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Termin} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Przewidywane} \\ %Expected cost (z\l{}) \\ & & \multicolumn{1}{c}{realizacji} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{koszty (zł)} \\ & & \multicolumn{1}{c}{(m-c, rok)} & \\ \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & parametryczne modelowanie efektów rzutowania %parametric modelling of projection \\ & i ewolucji wielokrotnych obrazów %and evolution effects of multiple images & 6/2004 & \x~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & zastosowania do poszczególnych par kandydatów % application to individual candidate pairs & 12/2004 & \x~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} % & zakup komputerów i periferiów %purchase computer items & 12/2004 & \equip~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & międzynarodowe konsultacje kosmologiczne % international cosmology consultants & 12/2004 & \z~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & konferencje, public relations & 12/2004 & \allconferyear~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & koszty pośrednie & 12/2004 & \adminone~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & poszukiwania przewidywanych obrazów topologicznych %predictions of further images & 6/2005 & \x~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & statystyczna analiza katalogów RLAGN'ów %statistical analysis of RLAGN catalogues & 12/2005 & \x~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & międzynarodowe konsultacje kosmologiczne %international cosmology consultants & 12/2005 & \z~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & konferencje, public relations & 12/2005 & \allconferyear~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & koszty pośrednie & 12/2005 & \admintwo~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & statystyczna analiza katalogów gromad galaktyk, %statistical analysis of cluster catalogues, \\ & przewidywania obrazów topologicznych dla OCRA & 6/2006& \x~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & poszukiwania przewidywanych obrazów topologicznych %predictions of further images & 12/2006 & \x~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & międzynarodowe konsultacje kosmologiczne %international cosmology consultants & 12/2006 & \z~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & konferencje, public relations & 12/2006 & \allconferyear~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & koszty pośrednie & 12/2006 & \adminthree~PLN % % \\ \hline & & Razem & \w~PLN \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{flushleft} {\footnotesize{}\newpage } \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{G. KOSZTORYS PROJEKTU BADAWCZEGO} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1. Poszczególne pozycje kosztorysu w cenach bie\.zących (w z\l{})} \end{flushleft} % \begin{center} % Lp.Tre\'s\'cPlanowane koszty w roku bud\.zetowym %Razem12345671Koszty bezpo\'srednie, w tym: %1/ Wynagrodzenia z pochodnymi 2/ Koszty zakupu aparatury naukowo - %badawczej 3/ Inne koszty realizacji projektu2Koszty po\'srednie %3Koszty ogó\l{}em finansowane ze \'srodków na naukę (1+2) % \end{center} \begin{center} \begin{spacing}{1.24} \setcounter{y}{\saltotalyear + \saltotalyear + \saltotalyear} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} \setcounter{z}{\consult /3} \renewcommand\z{\arabic{z}} \begin{tabular}{llrrr|r} \hline Lp. & Tre\'s\'c & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Planowane koszty} & \\ & & \multicolumn{3}{c}{w roku bud\.zetowym (zł)} & \\ %1 1/ 2/ Koszty zakupu aparatury naukowo - badawczej %3/ Inne koszty realizacji projektu2Koszty po\'srednie3Koszty %ogó\l{}em finansowane ze \'srodków na naukę (1+2) %No. Item & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Funds for each budget year (z\l{})} % & Total \\ & & 2004 & 2005 & 2006 & Razem \\ % 1&2&3&4&5&6 \\ {\bf 1} & Koszty bezpo\'srednie, w tym: &&&& \\ {\footnotesize{}1/ } & Wynagrodzenia z pochodnymi %Salaries and benefits & \saltotalyear & \saltotalyear & \saltotalyear & \y~PLN \\ % % {\footnotesize{}2/} &Koszty zakupu aparatury naukowo - badawczej %Equipment & \equip & & & \equip~PLN\\ % {\footnotesize{}3/} &Inne koszty realizacji projektu %Other direct costs &&&&\\ % &międzynarodowe konsultacje kosmologiczne %international cosmology consultants & \z &\z &\z & \consult~PLN \\ % &konferencje, public relations & %conferences, public relations & \allconferyear &\allconferyear &\allconferyear & \allconfer~PLN \\ \hline % &{\bf 1} Razem & \subone & \subtwo& \subthree & \suball~PLN \\ &&&&\\ {\bf 2} & \multicolumn{4}{l|}{ Koszty pośrednie (koszty admin UMK -- 30\% 1/ + 3/)} %Indirect costs %(admin costs to UMK - 25\% 1st yr; 30\% 2nd, 3rd yrs)} &\\ && \adminone & \admintwo & \adminthree & \adminall~PLN \\ \hline {\bf 3} &Koszty ogółnem finansowane ze &&&& \\ &środków na naukę ({\bf 1+2}) & \totalone &\totaltwo &\totalthree& \totalall~PLN \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{spacing} \end{center} \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. Kalkulacja poszczególnych pozycji kosztorysu} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1) Wynagrodzenia z pochodnymi} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em Kierownika projektu - liczba osobomiesięcy udzia\l{}u w projekcie: {\bf \monthstotal} , forma wynagrodzenia, } \end{flushleft} Według regułe KBN, 100\% \salrate{}PLN/rok dla kierownika projektu jeśli dr., 75\% dla innych wykanowców jeśli dr., 50\% \salrate{}PLN/rok dla innych wykanowców jeśli mgr. Więc: \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \setcounter{x}{\salrate *3} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \item dr Boudewijn Roukema \salrate{}PLN *3 = \x~PLN \end{list} \setcounter{x}{(\monthstotal *(\persontotal-100))/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \begin{flushleft} {\em Wykonawców projektu - liczba osobomiesięcy udzia\l{}u w projekcie: {\bf \x} , forma wynagrodzenia.} \end{flushleft} \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \setcounter{x}{(\salrate *67)/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\x *3} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} % \item dr Andrzej Marecki \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN % \setcounter{x}{(\salrate *50)/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\x *3} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} % \item mgr Magdalena Kunert \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \item mgr Sebastian Soberski \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \item mgr Marcin Gawro\'nski \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \item (2003 mgr) Bartosz Lew \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \end{list} \setcounter{x}{(\salrate *(\monthstotal/12)*(\persontotal))/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} Razem: \x~PLN \begin{flushleft} {\em 2) Opis planowanych zakupów lub wytworzenia aparatury naukowo- badawczej (poda\'c nazwę zakupu, planowany koszt, planowany miesiąc i rok zakupu oraz merytoryczne uzasadnienie zakupu).} \end{flushleft} %\prefixing Uzasadnienie: Wymienione zespoły komputerów i podzespoły są potrzebne dla syntezy i analizy danych doświadczalnych, oraz dla stworzenia sumarycznego rezultatu w postaci wyników projektu (prezentacja i dostępność wyników). Porównywanie par obiektów w dużych katalogach jest operacją czasochłonną (jak $N^2$), wymagającą dużej mocy obliczeniowej. Można ją przyspieszyć poprzeż wprowadzenie odgórnych założeń. Jednakże, historia astronomii pokazuje że przyjmowanie rozsądnych, ale złych zalożen często prowadzi do przeoczenia prawdziwego sygnału, więc posiadanie dużej mocy obliczeniowej byłoby dużym zyskiem dla projektu. Planowane zakupy na rok 2004: \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item komputer (M. Gawro\'nski) % - AMD Athlon, 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, 100Gb hard disk, %CD burner, ethernet card, 19'' screen + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd \perso~kPLN \item komputer (B. Lew) % - AMD Athlon, 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, 100Gb hard disk, %CD burner, ethernet card, 19'' screen + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd \perso~kPLN \item komputer (M. Kunert) % - AMD Athlon, 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, %100Gb hard disk, CD burner, ethernet card, 19'' screen + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd \perso~kPLN \item periferia (A. Marecki) - 2 SCSI dyski 73Gb lub więcej + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd \scsi~kPLN \item komputer peripheral (S. Soberski) - nagrywarka CD 200~PLN, 512Mb RAM 500~PLN, %- CD burner 200~PLN, 512Mb RAM 500~PLN, razem \sober~PLN \item przenośny komputer (dla wszystkich członków grupy) + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd \portable~kPLN \item inkjet drukarka atramentowa/skaner/fotokopiarka + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd (np. inkjet PSC 750 kosztuje 900PLN; odzyskane pojemniki na tusze kosztują około 35~PLN B/W, 50~PLN kolorowe) 1~kPLN \item drukarka laserowa/skaner/fotokopiarka + 3 letnie ubezpieczenie przed kradzieżą itd 7~kPLN \end{list} Razem: \equip~PLN \smallskip \begin{flushleft} {\em 3) Uzasadnienie wysoko\'sci planowanych innych kosztów realizacji projektu (wymieni\'c rodzaj kosztów, wysoko\'s\'c oraz ich powiązanie z planem zada\'n projektu).} \end{flushleft} Koszta te odnoszą się do planu projektu w tym sensie iz, projekt jest konkurującym z innymi miedzynarodowymi, programem tak więc: (1) potrzebni są zagraniczni konsultanci dla zapewnienia wglądu do teoretycznych i doświadczalnych strategii, dotyczących sposobów dzięki którym RLAGN i gromady galaktyk mogą być używane jako obiekty soczewkowane topologicznie, jak również (2) potrzebujemy mieć możliwość prezentacji naszych wyników na miedzynarodowych konferencjach i konsultacji ze swiatowymi ekspertami w ich własnych placowkach badawczych. \smallskip (1) Środowisko naukwe, dla projektu konkurującego z innymi tego typu projektami na świecie, wymaga konsultacji ze światowymi ekspertami w okresie od 1 tygodnia do kilku miesięcy. Trzech ludzi, każdy po jednym miesiącu i czterech ludzi każdy po jednym tygodniu, w ciagu jednego roku, daje w sumie 12 osobo-miesiecy w okresie 3 lat trwania projektu. Koszt 5100 PLN/miesiąc na zagranicznych konsultantów z dziedziny kosmologii daje razem: 61200 PLN. \smallskip (2) W celu prezentacji naszych wyników na konferencjach i innych spotkaniach naukowych, uczestnictwo na dwóch międzynarodowych konferencjach na cząstkową osobe na rok byłoby zgodne z światowymi standardami Pojedyncza konferencja: międzynarodowy (Europa, Stany Zjednoczone) typowy przejazd pociągiem klasy drugiej (lub lot samolotem) w Europie, lub podróż samolotem do USA średnio wynosi 2000 PLN; miedzykontynentalny lot (economy class) (Indie/Japonia/Australia) nie przekracza 10000 PLN; tak więc średnio 3.5 kPLN jest bezpiecznym kompromisem. Tygodniowe zakwaterowanie i dniówka w Europie/USA/Japoni/Australii (2kPLN) + oplaty rejesracyjne (1 kPLN) $\Rightarrow$ 14000 kPLN. Tak więc dwie konferencje rocznie dla wszystkich osób znajdują się w zalecanych granicach wydatkow. Dwie konferencje rocznie na efektywną osobę, oraz 3.67 efektywnej osoby w okresie trzech lat daje: Razem: 154140 PLN \smallskip W celu zwiększenia przejżystości i odpowiedzialności, zyskania elastyczność, wszyscy członkowie komisji są mile widziani w naszej archiwizowanej publicznie dostepnej liscie dyskusyjnej, ze wszystkimi naukowo przydatnymi komentarzami, sugestiami lub/i krytyką: \\ \url{http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{H. O\'SWIADCZENIA I PODPISY} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 1. O\'swiadczam, \.ze zapozna\l{}em się z wnioskiem o finansowanie projektu badawczego pt.: {\bf Poszukiwanie soczewkowania topologicznego wśród aktywnych radiogalaktyk (AGNs) i gromad galaktyk (Search for Topological Lensing of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Clusters)} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 2. W przypadku przyjęcia projektu badawczego do finansowania jednostka zobowiązuje się do: \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} - w\l{}ączenia projektu do planu zadaniowo-finansowego jednostki, \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} - udostępnienia lokalu, aparatury i obs\l{}ugi administracyjno-finansowej, \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} - zatrudnienia pracowników niezbędnych do realizacji projektu, zgodnie z wnioskiem, na podstawie umowy o pracę, umowy o dzie\l{}o lub umowy zlecenia, \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} - sprawowania nadzoru nad prawid\l{}owo\'scią wydatkowania \'srodków finansowych przeznaczonych na realizację projektu, a w przypadku stwierdzenia nieprawid\l{}owo\'sci - do niezw\l{}ocznego powiadomienia Komitetu. \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 3. O\'swiadczam, \.ze jednostka nie mo\.ze zapewni\'c dostępu do urządze\'n wymienionych w wykazie aparatury w dziale G ust. 2 pkt 2. \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 4. O\'swiadczam, \.ze wniosek nie obejmuje do\'swiadcze\'n na ludziach lub zwierzętach $^{\mathrm{2)}}$. % \sout comes from \usepackage{ulem} \sout{Do wniosku do\l{}ączono zgodę w\l{}a\'sciwej komisji etycznej na przeprowadzenie do\'swiadcze\'n na zwierzętach lub na przeprowadzenie innych bada\'n objętych w\l{}a\'sciwo\'scią komisji.} $^{\mathrm{2)}}$ \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 5. O\'swiadczam, \.ze zgodnie z moją wiedzą przygotowany wniosek o finansowanie projektu badawczego nie narusza praw osób trzecich. \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} $^{\mathrm{2) }}$Niepotrzebna skre\'sli\'c. \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} Wniosek sporządzono w dniu \end{flushleft} \datepolski \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \begin{tabular}{cccc} {\em Pieczęć jednostki} & Kierownik jednostki & Kwestor & Kierownik projektu \\ & Prorektor ds Nauki i Wsp\'o\l{}pracy\\ & z Zagranic\c{a} \\ & prof dr. hab. Marek Zaidlewicz & mgr Henryk Heldt & dr Boudewijn Roukema \\ \\ \\ \\ & podpis i pieczęć & podpis i pieczęć & podpis \end{tabular} \end{flushleft} \begin{center} \end{center} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.472222in-1in} \setlength{\textwidth}{\paperwidth - 0.472222in-0.472222in} \begin{center} \end{center} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \end{document}

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(fwd) WMAP results
by Andrzej Marecki 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

-- forwarded message -- Newsgroups: sci.astro.research Path: mat.uni.torun.pl!news.man.torun.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!skynet.be!skynet.be!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!unknown From: ebunn(a)lfa221051.richmond.edu Subject: WMAP results Approved: sci.astro.research-request(a)slimy.greenend.org.uk (mjh) Sender: unknown(a)hercules.star.bris.ac.uk (Address not verified) Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <mt2.0-19184-1045046860(a)star.bris.ac.uk> X-Posting-Tool: modtool v2.0 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:47:41 GMT Lines: 78 Xref: mat.uni.torun.pl sci.astro.research:2262 MAP (now WMAP -- see below) had its press conference and has released a bunch of papers on the first-year sky maps. Technical papers are at http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/pub_papers/firstyear.html and a pretty picture and less-technical explanation of the results is at http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html The most exciting thing about the results is that there are no big surprises! The angular power spectrum, which is the primary bit of science you get out of a microwave background sky map, is very consistent with what has become the "standard model" of cosmology: a flat inflation-based model containing dark matter and dark energy. The power spectrum is well measured past the second acoustic peak and into the third one. The temperature-polarization cross-correlation signal was also seen at about the expected level. Although surprises in the data would have been fun, the lack of surprises is actually extremely remarkable, considering (a) how strange the "standard model" is and (b) how recently cosmology has become a mature scientific discipline. I haven't read the papers yet -- there are 13 of them, some quite long! But here are a couple of highlights from scanning abstracts and figures: 1. The data let you constrain cosmological parameters much more precisely than before. In particular, the age of the Universe is 13.7 +/- 0.2 Gyr. (Not that long ago, we couldn't say more than "12 to 20 Gyr"!) The Universe is flat: Omega total is 1.02 +/- 0.02. The densities of various forms of matter and energy are pinned down quite well too. One reason WMAP is such an improvement over previous data is that it's a single data set covering both large and small scales. To get limits on parameters from previous data, you had to stitch together COBE on large scales with other experiments on small scales. Since each experiment has its own calibration errors, that means you don't measure the heights of the peaks all that well. 2. The TE polarization correlation showed up as expected. This strongly confirms that the initial fluctuations were adiabatic. That matters, because adiabatic fluctuations are a strong prediction of inflation, and large-scale adiabatic fluctuations are hard to produce in any way other than inflation. 3. The large-angular-scale polarization gives information about the way the Universe reionized after the time of decoupling. This is an area about which very little was known before now: reionization had to have happened some time, but the data didn't say when. Now we know: the optical depth to reionization is 0.17 +/- 0.04, which means that the Universe reionized at an age of about 200000 years. This is presumably when the first stars formed -- their UV radiation is what presumably reionized the Universe. 4. There is a hint that the spectral index may vary with scale, from n>1 on large scales to n<1 on small scales. That is, the primordial spectrum of fluctuations may not have been a pure power law. That's only significant at the 2-sigma level, so it may go away. If it's true, it gives useful information on discriminating between specific inflationary models. That's all I'll say for now. There's a ton of information in this data set, and people will be poring over it for a long time to come, but those are the main things that jumped out at me after a quick look. On a non-scientific note, they changed MAP to WMAP. The W stands for Wilkinson, a member of the MAP team who died last year. David Wilkinson was a leader in observational cosmology for decades, and this is a very fitting tribute to him. -Ted -- [E-mail me at name(a)domain.edu, as opposed to name(a)machine.domain.edu.] -- end of forwarded message -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrzej Marecki | Torun Centre for Astronomy | e-mail: amr(a)astro.uni.torun.pl N. Copernicus University | WWW: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl ul. Gagarina 11 | tel: +48 56 6113032 PL-87-100 Torun, POLAND | fax: +48 56 6113009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cosmo params from MAP
by Andrzej Marecki 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Paper: astro-ph/0302209 From: Robert S. Hill <bhill(a)map.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:59:59 GMT (273kb) Title: First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters Authors: D. N. Spergel [...] et al. (see also: astro-ph/0302207 and astro-ph/0302208) -- Andrzej

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MAP data
by Andrzej Marecki 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from NASA Science News ----- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:12:03 -0600 Subject: The Oldest Light in the Universe Content-Type: text NASA Science News for February 11, 2003 A NASA satellite has taken a picture of the Big Bang's ancient afterglow. Scientists have analyzed the data and learned that the universe is 13.7 billon years old (plus or minus 1 percent)and that the first stars appeared only 200 million years after the Big Bang. These results are a milestone in cosmology, says the NASA director of astronomy and physics. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/11feb_map.htm?list13497 [...] ----- End of forwarded message from NASA Science News -----

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CMBEASY - C++ C_l spectrum code
by Boud Roukema 10 Feb '03

10 Feb '03

Witam, i haven't looked at this yet - if it's GPL it might be very interesting... http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302138 http://www.cmbeasy.org boud

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(fwd) MAP data release now Feb 11
by Andrzej Marecki 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

-- forwarded message -- Newsgroups: sci.astro.research Path: mat.uni.torun.pl!news.man.torun.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news.supermedia.pl!news.nask.pl!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!south.jnrs.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!unknown From: jgraber(a)mailaps.org (Jim Graber) Subject: MAP data release now Feb 11 Approved: sci.astro.research-request(a)slimy.greenend.org.uk (mjh) Sender: unknown(a)hercules.star.bris.ac.uk (Address not verified) Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <mt2.0-24947-1044533939(a)star.bris.ac.uk> X-Posting-Tool: modtool v2.0 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:19:01 GMT Lines: 4 Xref: mat.uni.torun.pl sci.astro.research:2241 MAP website http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/ms_status.html now says "Tuesday February 11, 2:00 pm EST at NASA Headquarters". Coming soon. Jim Graber -- end of forwarded message -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrzej Marecki | Torun Centre for Astronomy | e-mail: amr(a)astro.uni.torun.pl N. Copernicus University | WWW: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl ul. Gagarina 11 | tel: +48 56 6113032 PL-87-100 Torun, POLAND | fax: +48 56 6113009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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(fwd) MAP data release NOT on 6 February!!!!!!
by Andrzej Marecki 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

-- forwarded message -- Newsgroups: sci.astro.research Path: mat.uni.torun.pl!news.man.torun.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news-fra1.dfn.de!eusc.inter.net!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!unknown From: ebunn(a)lfa221051.richmond.edu Subject: MAP data release NOT on 6 February!!!!!! Approved: sci.astro.research-request(a)slimy.greenend.org.uk (mjh) Sender: unknown(a)hercules.star.bris.ac.uk (Address not verified) Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <mt2.0-22300-1044472201(a)star.bris.ac.uk> X-Posting-Tool: modtool v2.0 References: <mt2.0-27782-1042888051(a)star.bris.ac.uk> <mt2.0-15914-1043793431(a)star.bris.ac.uk> <mt2.0-5569-1043853434(a)star.bris.ac.uk> <mt2.0-668-1043871004(a)star.bris.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:10:01 GMT Lines: 14 Xref: mat.uni.torun.pl sci.astro.research:2239 Note the change in the subject line. According to http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/ms_status.html the release is scheduled for "Early 2003." Rumor has it that it'll be delayed for only a week or two, because NASA is obviously preoccupied with other matters right now, but I don't know that for sure. -Ted -- [E-mail me at name(a)domain.edu, as opposed to name(a)machine.domain.edu.] -- end of forwarded message -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrzej Marecki | Torun Centre for Astronomy | e-mail: amr(a)astro.uni.torun.pl N. Copernicus University | WWW: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl ul. Gagarina 11 | tel: +48 56 6113032 PL-87-100 Torun, POLAND | fax: +48 56 6113009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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habilitation
by boud 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Witam, Any comments, negative, postive, or whatever on my habilitation thesis are welcome. The 6 articles are available on http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr http://de.arXiv.org Cześć boud

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1st MAP data release
by Andrzej Marecki 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Feb. 2003 First Data Release, Feb. 6, 1 pm EST. NASA Headquarters. A NASA Space Science Update press conference will release the initial findings of the full sky survey. see: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/ms_status.html -- Andrzej

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RL/RQ quasar dichotomy
by Andrzej Marecki 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Paper: astro-ph/0301526 From: Cirasuolo Michele <ciras(a)sissa.it> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:52:07 GMT (391kb) Title: The Radio Loud / Radio Quiet dichotomy: news from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey Authors: M. Cirasuolo, M. Magliocchetti, A. Celotti, L. Danese Comments: 11 pages, 14 figures, accepted by MNRAS [...] ----- End of forwarded message from send mail ONLY to astro-ph ----- This paper uses the modern surveys: FIRST and 2dF to show (or rather confirm): 1. SMBH mass is _not_ responsible for the radio loudness. 2. The alleged RL/RQ dichotomy is a selection effect - there is a continuum of possible levels of radio loudness. My 0.03 PLN: I will still like the term "radio-loud" for those AGN which occupy the particular part (side) of that radio loudness continuum. -- Andrzej

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grant appln revised: deadline wtorek 28.01 poludniu! more comments?
by boud 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

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\allconferyear} \newcommand\subthree{\arabic{subthree}} \newcounter{suball} \setcounter{suball}{\subone+\subtwo+\subthree} \newcommand\suball{\arabic{suball}} \newcounter{adminone} \setcounter{adminone}{\subone /4} \newcommand\adminone{\arabic{adminone}} \newcounter{admintwo} \setcounter{admintwo}{(\subtwo *3)/10} \newcommand\admintwo{\arabic{admintwo}} \newcounter{adminthree} \setcounter{adminthree}{(\subthree *3)/10} \newcommand\adminthree{\arabic{adminthree}} \newcounter{adminall} \setcounter{adminall}{\adminone+\admintwo+\adminthree} \newcommand\adminall{\arabic{adminall}} \newcounter{totalone} \setcounter{totalone}{\subone + \adminone} \newcommand\totalone{\arabic{totalone}} \newcounter{totaltwo} \setcounter{totaltwo}{\subtwo + \admintwo} \newcommand\totaltwo{\arabic{totaltwo}} \newcounter{totalthree} \setcounter{totalthree}{(\subthree + \adminthree} \newcommand\totalthree{\arabic{totalthree}} \newcounter{totalall} \setcounter{totalall}{\totalone+\totaltwo+\totalthree} \newcommand\totalall{\arabic{totalall}} \newcounter{grandtotal} \setcounter{grandtotal}{\totalall} \newcommand\grandtotal{\arabic{grandtotal}} \newcounter{dummy} \setcounter{dummy}{12} \newcommand\dummy{\arabic{dummy}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{State Committee for Scientific Research -- KBN }{\footnotesize{}For KBN use only} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{00-529 Warszawa Nr.} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{ul. Wsp\'olna 1/3 Group} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{POLAND} \\ \end{flushleft} \begin{center} \textbf{GRANT APPLICATION} \end{center} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{Project Title:} \centerline{\underline{Search for Topological Lensing}} \\ \centerline{\underline{of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Clusters}} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{A. APPLICANT DATA} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1. Name and address of the organization where work will be performed (include department, institute, laboratory, and chair, as applicable): } \end{flushleft} Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy, Nicolas Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina, 11, Toru\'n 87-100; director prof. hab. dr Andrzej Kus \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. Principal Investigator (include title, first name, last name): } \end{flushleft} dr Boudewijn Roukema \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Principal Investigator's employer, if different from above organization (include department, institute, laboratory, and chair, as applicable): } \end{flushleft} (same as above) \begin{flushleft} \textbf{B. GENERAL DATA} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 1. Funding period: } {\bf \monthstotal}..months (01.2004 -- 12.2006) \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 2. Number of personnel involved in the project:} {\bf 6} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 3. Type of project (pick one):} \textbf{Individual Project} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em 4. Requested funding amount (in Polish z\l{}otys{\footnotesize{} Polish z\l{}oty annual 2002 mid - rate against the euro is estimated at 3,95 (Ministry of Finance - draft budget for the Year 2002)} - z\l{}):} \end{flushleft} \grandtotal~PLN \begin{flushleft} {\em 5. Keywords:} \end{flushleft} observational cosmology, cosmic topology, radio-loud active galactic nuclei, clusters of galaxies \clearpage \begin{flushleft} 6. \textbf{Project summary} (not to exceed 1 page; may be published by KBN if grant is awarded): \end{flushleft} \begin{centering} {\underline{Search for Topological Lensing of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Clusters}} \end{centering} The Hilbert-Einstein equations are insufficient to describe the geometry of the Universe, as they only constrain a local geometrical property: curvature. A global knowledge of the geometry of space, if possible, would require measurement of the topology of the Universe. Since the subject was discussed in 1900 by Schwarzschild, observational attempts to measure global topology have been rare for most of this century, but have accelerated in the 1990's due to the rapidly increasing amount of observations of non-negligible fractions of the observational sphere. The basic physical test for measuring the topology of the Universe is simple from a na\"{\i}ve theoretical point of view: it is sufficient to see multiple images of extragalactic objects whose light travels to the observer via straight lines (geodesics) in different directions, or in other words that crosses the Universe from different directions or more than once. Hence, the term ``topological lensing'', since whatever theory might in the future explain the global shape of the Universe will presumably be an extension of general relativity, and just as general relativity is tested by gravitational lensing, where single objects such as high redshift galaxies are seen several times, the future theory (probably a theory of quantum gravity) should be constrained by topological lensing. In practice, just as the individual and statistical observational properties of extragalactic objects have made determination of local cosmological parameters (such as the matter density parameter, the cosmological constant and the Hubble constant) much more difficult than was hoped, their properties make the search for topological lensing difficult. The most promising objects at high redshifts for detecting topological lensing are those we can see in large numbers and across large volumes of space: (1) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and (2) clusters of galaxies. In the Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy, we have a combination of \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item existing observational expertise in radio-loud AGNs (RLAGNs) including the study of the evolution of RLAGNs (Marecki, Kunert, Gawro\'nski); and \item with the OCRA (One-cm Receiver Array) project, we hope to soon obtain a catalogue of thousands of clusters of galaxies at high redshifts via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (Soberski); and \item the PI (Roukema) has developed observational strategies for investigating cosmic topology. \end{list} For this reason, we have an excellent opportunity at TCfA to excel in this field. Although our focus will be on the use of RLAGNs and clusters of galaxies, knowledge of cosmic microwave background (CMB) observational analyses will be crucial for independently checking any serious candidates for topological lensing. We are fortunate to have the presence in our group of an expert in CMB data, Bartosz Lew, who we expect to achieve the status of Magister during 2003. \clearpage \begin{flushleft} \textbf{C. STAFF INFORMATION} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em For the Principal Investigator and each senior staff member, provide the following biographical information:} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 1. {\em Name} \end{flushleft} dr Boudewijn Roukema \begin{flushleft} 2. {\em Educational history including, for each degree, the field, institution, and date obtained} \end{flushleft} 1989-93: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (M.S.S.S.O.), Australian National University (A.N.U.), Canberra. 1985-88: Bachelor of Science (Hons), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (awarded National Undergraduate Scholarship for this degree ) \begin{flushleft} 3. {\em Academic and professional appointments, in reverse chronological order} \end{flushleft} \noin since 2002: adiunkt, Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy, Uniwersytet Miko\l{}aja Kopernika, Toru\'n, Poland \noin 2001: visitor, DARC/LUTH (Laboratoire de l'Univers et ses Th\'eories), Observatoire de Meudon, France \noin 1998--2000: postdoctoral fellow, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy \& Astrophysics, Pune, India \noin Feb--July 1998: visitor, CAMK, Warszawa %\noin May-Sep 1997: Visitor, Institut d'Astrophysique % de Paris, CNRS, France %(R) %\noin April 1997: Visitor, Beijing %Astronomical Observatory, Beijing, P.R.China %(R) \noin 1996--1997: Centre of Excellence foreign visiting fellow, NAOJ, % ďźĺ˝çŤĺ¤Šćĺ°ďź Mitaka, Tokyo, %181, Japan %(R) %\smallskip \noin 1994--1995: postdoctoral research fellow, Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, U.K. %(RT) %United Kingdom %\smallskip %\noin Aug/Sep 1994: Visitor, Dept of Astronomy, Bandung Institute of %Technology, Bandung, Indonesia %(T) %\smallskip \noin Jan/Feb 1994: visitor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom %(R) %\smallskip \noin 1993: postdoctoral fellow, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France %(R) \begin{flushleft} 4. {\em Brief descriptions of research projects completed in the last four years, including up to 10 publications (provide publication data).} \end{flushleft} {Main Research Interests} (i) {\em Observational Cosmology} and (ii) {\em Galaxy Formation}: (i) Observational constraints on statistics of ``large scale'' structure, observational constraints on local cosmological parameters (such as the density parameter and the cosmological constant), and observational programmes to try to constrain global cosmological parameters; (ii) Merging-history-tree based galaxy formation models in a cosmological context and their comparison with observational galaxy statistics. \begin{list}{\arabic{enumi}}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.} \& Bajtlik, S., 1999;;Transverse Galaxy Velocities from Multiple Topological Images;;\mnras;;308;;309 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/9903038) %% CAMK, IAP, IUCAA %art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2000a;;COBE and Global Topology: An Example of the Application of the Circles Principle;;\mnras;;312;;712 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/9910272) %% IUCAA %ftp blacksci 15/10/99 %art \mdcitem %\item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.} \& Mamon, G.A., 2000;;Tangential Large Scale Structure as a Standard Ruler: Curvature Parameters from Quasars;;\AandA;;358;;395 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/9911413) %art %%395-408 %\item \mdcitem \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2000b;;A Counterexample to Claimed COBE Constraints on Compact Toroidal Universe Models;;\cqg;;17;;3951 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0007140) \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2000c;;The Topology of the Universe;;Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India;;28;;483 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0010185) \revinvit \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.} \& Mamon, G.A., 2001;;Lifting cosmic degeneracy within a single data set;;{\AandA};;366;;1 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0010511) \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2001b;;How to distinguish a nearly flat Universe from a flat Universe using the orientation independence of a standard ruler;;{\AandA};;369;;729 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0102095) %art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, 2001d;;On the comoving distance as an arc-length in four dimensions;;{\mnras};;325;;138 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0102099)%art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, Ninin, S., Devriendt, J., Bouchet, F.B., Guiderdoni, B., Mamon, G.A., 2001;;Star Formation Losses Due to Tidal Debris in `Hierarchical' Galaxy Formation;;\AandA;;373;;494 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0105152) %art \item \pub \underline{Roukema, B.F.}, Mamon, G.A., \& Bajtlik, S., 2002;;The Cosmological Constant and Quintessence from a Correlation Function Comoving Fine Feature in the 2dF Quasar Redshift Survey;;{\AandA};;382;;397 \ (arXiv:astro-ph/0106135) \end{list} \begin{flushleft} 5. {\em Awards received} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 1. {\em Name} \end{flushleft} dr Andrzej Marecki \begin{flushleft} 2. {\em Educational history including, for each degree, the field, institution, and date obtained} \end{flushleft} 1980 MSc (astronomy) UMK, Toru\'n 1992 PhD (astronomy) UMK, Toru\'n \begin{flushleft} 3. {\em Academic and professional appointments, in reverse chronological order} \end{flushleft} since 1992 adiunkt, Centrum Astronomii, UMK, Toru\'n \begin{flushleft} 4. {\em Brief descriptions of research projects completed in the last four years, including up to 10 publications (provide publication data).} \end{flushleft} Brief description of research projects: Interfermetric observations of radio-loud AGN (RLAGN) aimed to reveal structures of compact i.e. {\it young} objects. Selection and observations (MERLIN, VLBI) of a new sample of faint compact objects. Measurements of the velocities of the components in such radio structures. \begin{list}{\arabic{enumi}}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item \underline{Marecki, A.}, Falcke H., Niezgoda J. Garrington, S.T., Patnaik A.R. (1999) "Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources from the Jodrell Bank-VLA Astrometric Survey" A\&AS 135, 273 \item Fanti, C. ... \underline{Marecki, A.}, et al. (2000) "ISO observations of a sample of CSS and GHz Peaked Spectrum radio galaxies", A\&A 358, 499 \item Browne, I. W. \underline{Marecki, A.}, et al. (2000) "OCRA: a one-centimeter receiver array" SPIE 4015, 299 \item \underline{Kunert, M.}, \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2002) "FIRST-based survey of Compact Steep Spectrum sources. I. MERLIN images of arc-second scale objects" A\&A 391, 47 \item \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2003) "Location of Weak CSS Sources on the Evolutionary Path of Radio-Loud AGN", PASA 20, in press (astro-ph/0211253) \item \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2003) "Weak CSS Sources from the FIRST Survey", PASA 20, in press (astro-ph/0211249) \item \underline{Marecki, A.} et al. (2003) "1245+676 - a CSO/GPS source being an extreme case of a double-double" PASA 20, in press (astro-ph/0209212) \end{list} \begin{flushleft} 5. {\em Awards received} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{D. PROJECT DESCRIPTION, METHODOLOGY, AND EXPECTED RESULTS} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \textbf{ }{\em What problem is being proposed and why? Why should this work be undertaken in Poland?} \end{flushleft} The problem being posed is to try to measure the shape of the Universe. This is important because the Universe is the object in which we live and it is of obvious scientific and cultural interest to be aware of the shape of the object in which we live. It should be undertaken here because we have a combination of present and developing observational expertise in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGNs) and clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect respectively, plus expertise in the development of observational strategies for measuring cosmic topology. Poland has obvious historical precedents in showing that the Earth is not the centre of the Universe, and that planets around other stars exist. It would clearly be good to continue the tradition on a much larger length scale (Gigaparsecs). \begin{flushleft} {\em What is the present state of knowledge in the field, and to what extent does this project verify it? How will the project advance discovery and understanding in its field or across fields? Is this a new or a continued problem? } \end{flushleft} It is clear that topological lensing on scales of a few hundred Megaparsecs is extremely unlikely. Attempted constraints on scales from 1 Gigaparsec (1$h^{-1}$Gpc) to the horizon diameter of about 20$h^{-1}$Gpc (comoving) are much weaker and generally very model dependent. This project will use RLAGNs and clusters of galaxies up to redshifts of about $z\sim2-3$ as tracers, covering a volume of about half the diameter of the observable Universe, i.e. about 10$h^{-1}$Gpc. It will advance discovery and understanding by using these tracers as realistically as possible given understanding of their evolution and properties. This problem dates back to the pre-relativistic era (Schwarzschild 1900), but has only been tackled non-trivially since the early 1990s. Work on this theme is still in the pioneering stage. \begin{flushleft} {\em What is the proposed methodology? How will it solve the problem? What equipment will be used? Does the applicant have the required equipment skills and access?} \end{flushleft} The methodology is to use a range of methods, from studies of individual objects to statistical studies of large catalogues, and to parametrise understanding of the properties of the tracers in order to make these methods as observationally correct and precise as possible. Just as the supernova type Ia method was only one among many methods proposed for measuring local cosmological parameters, but happened to be the most dramatically successful, it is impossible to predict beforehand which specific method for measuring topological lensing will first yield highly significant results. Although the TCfA 32m telescope will be used for part of the general understanding of RLAGNs and for the OCRA project, which should in the long term yield large numbers of high-redshift clusters of galaxies, use of existing public catalogues such as those available at the Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) and the information processing analysis requires the use of computers and computer peripherals. We do have access to these telescopes and databases and have experience managing computer resources. \begin{flushleft} {\em What are the expected results of this project (``know-how'', patents, methods, equipment), and how will they be disseminated (publications, conference presentations, PhD theses)?} \end{flushleft} This is a {\bf research} project, not a {\bf development} project, and the required theory which goes beyond general relativity has not yet been developed, so while we would hope to detect topological lensing, the results cannot be predicted before they are found. Articles on the results will of course be published in refereed journals, presented at conferences, and professionals and non-professionals will be able to follow (and maybe participate) in the research on our web pages via the normal methods of internet culture such as publicly archived mailing lists and wiki pages. \begin{flushleft} \textbf{E.} \textbf{SOLICITED PROJECTS ONLY: DOES THE APPLICANT MEET THE CALL CRITERIA, PARTICULARLY THOSE CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION?} \end{flushleft} N/A \begin{flushleft} \textbf{F. PROJECT} \textbf{SCHEDULE} \textbf{- ANTICIPATED TASKS} \end{flushleft} \setcounter{x}{(\saltotalyear) /2} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\x *6} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} \setcounter{z}{\consult /3} \renewcommand\z{\arabic{z}} \setcounter{w}{\y + \equip + \z*3 +\allconfer} \renewcommand\w{\arabic{w}} \usecounter{enumi} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{clrr} \hline \\ No. & Name and description of task & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Expected} & Expected cost (z\l{}) \\ & & \multicolumn{1}{c}{completion} \\ & & \multicolumn{1}{c}{date (mm/yy)} \\ \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & parametric modelling of projection \\ & and evolution effects of multiple images & 6/2004 & \x~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & application to individual candidate pairs & 12/2004 & \x~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} % & purchase computer items & 12/2004 & \equip~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & international cosmology consultants & 12/2004 & \z~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & conferences, public relations & 12/2004 & \allconferyear~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & predictions of further images & 6/2005 & \x~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & statistical analysis of RLAGN catalogues & 12/2005 & \x~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & international cosmology consultants & 12/2005 & \z~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & conferences, public relations & 12/2005 & \allconferyear~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & statistical analysis of cluster catalogues, \\ & OCRA predictions & 6/2006& \x~PLN % \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & predictions of further images & 12/2006 & \x~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & international cosmology consultants & 12/2006 & \z~PLN \\ \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \arabic{enumi} & conferences, public relations & 12/2006 & \allconferyear~PLN % % \\ \hline Total & & & \w~PLN \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \smallskip \begin{flushleft} \textbf{G. PROPOSED BUDGET} \end{flushleft} \begin{center} \begin{spacing}{1.24} \setcounter{y}{\saltotalyear + \saltotalyear + \saltotalyear} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} \setcounter{z}{\consult /3} \renewcommand\z{\arabic{z}} \begin{tabular}{lrrr|r} \hline No. Item & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Funds for each budget year (z\l{})} & Total \\ & 2004 & 2005 & 2006 \\ % {\bf 1} Direct costs, including: &&&& \\ {\footnotesize{}1/ }Salaries and benefits & \saltotalyear & \saltotalyear & \saltotalyear & \y~PLN \\ % % {\footnotesize{}2/} Equipment & \equip & & & \equip~PLN\\ % {\footnotesize{}3/} Other direct costs &&&&\\ % international cosmology consultants & \z &\z &\z & \consult~PLN \\ % conferences, public relations & \allconferyear &\allconferyear &\allconferyear & \allconfer~PLN \\ \hline % Subtotal: & \subone & \subtwo& \subthree & \suball~PLN \\ &&&&\\ \multicolumn{4}{l|}{{\bf 2} Indirect costs (admin costs to UMK - 25\% 1st yr; 30\% 2nd, 3rd yrs)} &\\ & \adminone & \admintwo & \adminthree & \adminall~PLN \\ \hline {\bf 3} Total costs (1+2) & \totalone &\totaltwo &\totalthree& \totalall~PLN \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{spacing} \end{center} \begin{flushleft} \begin{spacing}{1.24} Details of direct cost items \end{spacing} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} 1) {\em Salaries and benefits} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} {\em Principal Investigator {\bf \monthstotal} person-months} \end{flushleft} Based on KBN guidelines, 100\% of \salrate{}PLN/annum for the principal investigator if dr., 75\% for other investigators if dr., 50\% of \salrate{}PLN/annum for other investigators if mgr. Hence: \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \setcounter{x}{\salrate *3} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \item dr Boudewijn Roukema \salrate{}PLN *3 = \x~PLN \end{list} \begin{flushleft} \setcounter{x}{(\monthstotal *(\persontotal-100))/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} {\em Staff {\bf \x} person-months} \end{flushleft} \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \addtocounter{enumi}{1} \setcounter{x}{(\salrate *67)/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\x *3} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} % \item dr Andrzej Marecki \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN % \setcounter{x}{(\salrate *50)/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\x *3} \renewcommand\y{\arabic{y}} % \item mgr Magdalena Kunert \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \item mgr Sebastian Soberski \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \item mgr Marcin Gawro\'nski \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \item (2003 mgr) Bartosz Lew \x~PLN *3 = \y~PLN \end{list} \setcounter{x}{(\salrate *(\monthstotal/12)*(\persontotal))/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} Total: \x~PLN \smallskip \begin{flushleft} 2) {\em Equipment (type, estimated cost, planned month of purchase, and justification)} \end{flushleft} Justification: These computing facilities are needed for synthesis and analysis of empirical data, and for creating added value of the scientific products of the project (presenting and communicating results). Comparison of pairs of objects in a large catalogue is an $N^2$ operation, i.e. it is CPU intensive. It can be speeded up by making introducing prior assumptions. However, the history of astronomy shows that making reasonable, but wrong, assumptions often leads to missing a real signal, so having good CPU power would be an advantage to the project. Purchases are planned for 2004. \begin{list}{(\roman{enumi})}{\usecounter{enumi}} \item inkjet scanner/copier/printer + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) (an inkjet PSC 750 costs 900PLN; recycled cartridges cost about 35~PLN B/W, 50~PLN colour) 1~kPLN \item colour laserwriter/scanner/copier + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) 7~kPLN \item computer (Gawro\'nski) - AMD Athlon, 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, 100Gb hard disk, CD burner, ethernet card, 19'' screen + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) \perso~kPLN \item computer (Lew) - AMD Athlon, 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, 100Gb hard disk, CD burner, ethernet card, 19'' screen + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) \perso~kPLN \item computer (Kunert) - AMD Athlon, 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, 100Gb hard disk, CD burner, ethernet card, 19'' screen + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) \perso~kPLN \item computer peripherals (Marecki) - 2 SCSI 73Gb disks + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) \scsi~kPLN \item computer peripheral (Soberski) - CD burner 200~PLN, 512Mb RAM 500~PLN, total \sober~PLN \item portable computer (``notebook'') (available to all members of the group) + 3yrs insurance (loss/theft/etc.) \portable~kPLN \end{list} Total: \equip~PLN \smallskip \begin{flushleft} 3) {\em Other direct costs (type of expenditure, amount, and relation to project plan)} \end{flushleft} These relate to the project plan in that the project is internationally competitive research and so (1) international consultants are required for providing theoretical insights and observational strategies regarding the ways in which RLAGNs and clusters of galaxies can be used as candidate topologically lensed objects, and (2) we need to be able to present our results at international conferences and consult international experts at their home research institutes. \smallskip (1) The research environment for an internationally competitive research project requires consultations from international experts for periods of between 1 week and a few months. Three people each for one month, and four people each for a week, per year, yields a total of \consultpm{} person-months over the three-year period of the project. At a rate of \consultrate~PLN/month for international consultants in cosmology, we have Total: \consult~PLN \smallskip (2) In order to present our results at conferences and other public relations exercises, attendance at two international conferences per fractional person per year would be consistent with international standards. One conference: typical economy class flight costs ($3.5$~kPLN) $+$ 1 week's accommodation and per diem in Europe/US/Japan/Australia (2~kPLN) $+$ registration fees (1~kPLN) $\Rightarrow$ \oneconfer~kPLN. Hence, two conferences/year for a 100\% person are within the recommended spending limits. \setcounter{x}{\persontotal/100} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} \setcounter{y}{\persontotal-100*(\persontotal/100)} \renewcommand\x{\arabic{x}} At a rate of \confperyear per effective person, and \x{}.\y{} effective people over 3 years, this implies: Total: \allconfer~PLN. \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \begin{tabular}{cccc} {\em Date} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\em Grantee organization }& {\em Principal Investigator}; \\ & Kierownik: & Kwestor &dr Boudewijn Roukema \\ & Prorektor ds Nauki i Wsp\'o\l{}pracy&mgr Henryk Heldt & \\ & z Zagranic\c{a} \\ & prof dr. hab. Marek Zaidlewicz & \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ & Signature & Signature & Signature \end{tabular} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \begin{flushleft} \end{flushleft} \end{document}

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grant meeting Fri 24.01 @14:00
by Boud Roukema 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Witam, people *not* on the grant proposal - please ignore this message! people *on* the grant proposal - i think most of us will be at Piwnice on Fri afternoon (24.01). Could we meet at 14:00 to discuss the proposal? i've updated it a bit since the previous version, i'll bring several copies to the meeting. You may wish to see advice from Kazik Stepień about making the application: http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~kst/KBN.html though IMHO what's most important, apart from the overall guidelines of spending rules, is the committee of astronomers - they're the only ones who will really understand (or who *should* understand) what science we are asking funding for. It seems to me that Kazik is a bit worried about bureaucrats who want to have the price of every paper clip written on the proposal and who haven't got the faintest idea of what cosmology is about... Anyway, see you this afternoon - i need some sleep... boud

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grant proposal - first (incomplete!) draft
by boud 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Witam, This is just the first draft, still quite incomplete of the grant application - sorry for being slow - we should meet and discuss the details by Friday or else very, very early next week, since it then has to be signed and sent by UMK admin to KBN... pozd boud

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(fwd) Re: MAP data release?
by Andrzej Marecki 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

-- forwarded message -- Newsgroups: sci.astro.research Path: mat.uni.torun.pl!news.man.torun.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news.internetia.pl!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!news.iesy.de!troll.iesy.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!south.jnrs.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!unknown From: ebunn(a)lfa221051.richmond.edu Subject: Re: MAP data release? Approved: sci.astro.research-request(a)slimy.greenend.org.uk (mjh) Sender: unknown(a)hercules.star.bris.ac.uk (Address not verified) Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <mt2.0-8392-1043086785(a)star.bris.ac.uk> X-Posting-Tool: modtool v2.0 References: <mt2.0-27782-1042888051(a)star.bris.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:19:46 GMT Lines: 27 Xref: mat.uni.torun.pl sci.astro.research:2220 In article <mt2.0-27782-1042888051(a)star.bris.ac.uk>, Jim Graber <jgraber(a)mailaps.org> wrote: >I understand MAP is due to make its first major data release >this month. Last I heard, towards the very end of the month. I'm pretty sure that no exact date has been announced. >Does anyone know where and when this will be announced? Some combination of press release, papers on the astro-ph arXiv, and information at the MAP web page, http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html I expect. I'd also expect Ned Wright to mention it on his News of the Universe page, http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm#News Someone (me, if no one else beats me to it) will surely post something to this group when the announcement comes. -Ted -- [E-mail me at name(a)domain.edu, as opposed to name(a)machine.domain.edu.] -- end of forwarded message -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrzej Marecki | Torun Centre for Astronomy | e-mail: amr(a)astro.uni.torun.pl N. Copernicus University | WWW: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl ul. Gagarina 11 | tel: +48 56 6113032 PL-87-100 Torun, POLAND | fax: +48 56 6113009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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A healthy dose of scepticism or a humbug?
by Andrzej Marecki 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

Paper: astro-ph/0301137 From: Blanchard Alain <alain.blanchard(a)ast.obs-mip.fr> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:45:24 GMT (138kb) Title: Cosmological Parameters: Fashion and Facts Authors: A. Blanchard (LAOMP, Toulouse) Abstract: [...] I would like to emphasize that some results are established beyond reasonable doubt, like the (nearly) flatness of the universe and the existence of a dark non-baryonic component of the Universe. But also that the evidence for a cosmological constant may not be as strong as needed to be considered as established beyond doubt. In this respect, I will argue that an Einstein-De Sitter universe might still be a viable option. Three global tests: 1) the evolution of the abundance of clusters with redshift 2) the baryon fraction measured in local clusters 3) apparent evolution of the baryon fraction with redshift might be consistent with a high matter density for the Universe in the range $0.6-1.$. I therefore conclude that the dominance of vacuum to the various density contributions to the Universe is presently an interesting and fascinating possibility, but it is still premature to consider it as an established scientific fact. ------- Andrzej

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None
by Andrzej Marecki 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

A reference if you want to know what the "right" values of those $%$&*# cosmo-parameters are. ;-) --- Paper: astro-ph/0301012 From: Lawrence M. Krauss <krauss(a)theory1.phys.cwru.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:13:44 GMT (360kb) Title: The State of the Universe: Cosmological Parameters 2002 Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss (Case Western Reserve University) --- Andrzej

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OCRA relatd paper
by Boud Roukema 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Here's one paper by an OCRA colleague Richard Battye (Jodrell) + others on SZE constraints on local cosmological parameters: http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002PhRvL..88w1301W boud

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AGN formation notes
by Boud Roukema 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi Waldek, Sorry for taking more than a week to respond, now that you have a theme for your licencjat. Here's my first suggestion at the basic ideas and reading: http://adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl:9673/zwicky/GalaxyAGNFormation Please add to this, change it, and/or write the Polish version. If you prefer to write in \LaTex rather than on zwicky, tell me and I'll find out how you can upload files (e.g. postscript files) to zWicky - otherwise you could just send them as attachments to cosmo-torun at astro.uni.torun.pl when you want to show them to people for comments. pozdrawiam boud

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zwicky pages (so far)
by Boud Roukema 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

Cześć wszystkim, (1) How to write in latin-2 on emacs: (1a) With a fairly new emacs (e.g. 20.7 or later): - M-x set-language-environment latin-2 - M-x set-input-method latin-2-prefix (also C-x <ret> C-\) - then can toggle input method with: C-\ Examples: `a`e`l's'c'o`z'z'n ąęłśćóżźń to stop ' being used, use, e.g., a space: ' a -> 'a (1b) You can put the following in your ~/.emacs file (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. '(case-fold-search t) '(current-language-environment "latin-2") '(default-input-method "latin-2-prefix")) (2) The zwicky pages at the moment have a verrrrrrrrrry long URL: http://adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl:9673/zwicky/ Please see Tomek (czosnek) or me to create an account. pozd boud

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Re: interesting cosmo CMB software?
by Michal Frackowiak 29 Oct '02

29 Oct '02

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 19:42, Boud Roukema wrote: > What do people think of: > > http://arcturus.mit.edu/cosmics/ > It was the first free code for calculating density peturbations with an emphasis on CMB fluctuations. CMBFast is based on it. But it calculates perturbations in linear regime using full set (not full, but cut anyway) of Boltzmann equations - as opposed to some radical approximation by CMBFast. The inconsistency however is only about 1-2%, but required comp. power is MUCH bigger. In my oppinion there is no point in dealing with this soft - CMBFast is much faster and gives you practically the same accuracy. It also has more features e.g. grav. lensing, reionization. You would need a supercomputer to run COSMICS. And just a PC to run CMBFast. regards - michal

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phenomenological
by Boud Roukema 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

Hi I'm having an interesting (random) discussion with Sebastian, and pointed out some nice galaxy formation pages at the IAP: http://brunello.iap.fr/galics/GalICS/main_frames.html There's a useful word related to these: "phenomenological" Its meaning is somewhere in between "theoretical" and "observational", i.e. finding formulae which are reasonable from a theoretical point of view, but not directly justified, and which can be "fit" to observations. My guess is the constraints we have on Omega_m and Omega_Lambda could probably be described as phenomenological, since although they are very directly linked to GR, which definitely counts as theory, they're not (yet) linked into the rest of physics except by a range of "reasonable" hypotheses. The challenge is to get these solid observational and/or (preferably "and") theoretical support... pozd boud

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PROPOSALS su/web/TWiki/backup/quotas DEADLINE TUE 22 OCT 00:30
by Boud Roukema 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

Witam, The deadline passed and there were several useful comments, onlist and offlist - thanks everyone. Here are some updates and specific proposals. ########## PROPOSALS su/web/TWiki/backup/quotas V0.1 ################## ### deadline for comments/veto Tue 22 Oct 00:30 ### (1) superusers - There is now one staff member and one student who have been suggested and who have accepted, in principle, becoming superusers. I would be happy for both of them to be su, and think 3 people is sufficient. (Other people can become ordinary users, of course, and since there is plenty of scratch space, that's enough to develop experience in GNU/Linux, IMHO.) Anyone who wishes to know their names please contact me offlist. (2) web server - I've (tried to) install the default apache server of Deb3.0, and if noone objects, would like to put it online once the decision deadline passes. Are there any recommendations for firewalls etc, or good Deb /other linux links/hints for this? (3) (T)Wiki server for * cosmic topology page - complete references to all published articles (last time I counted, there were only 36 authors during the 20th century + 1 in the last year of the 19th century) * standard ruler page * meta-page for other cosmology stuff * galaxy/AGN formation/evolution pages If there are no objections, I'd like to try installing this quickly, since I think it's a key piece of software for working together efficiently. (4) backup strategy? Initial backup strategy: - daily hard disk backups (incremental) of /home - weekly hard disk backup (full) of /home + backup of same on to CDROM(s) (max 3 CDROMs since 2GB partition) (5) initial quotas: - 200MB per user on /home - 2GB per user on a /scratch disk (6) - mail server? For the moment seems safer *not* to run adjani as a mail server, and there's no obvious need anyway. So I propose to *not* run a mail server, at least for the moment. Any comments (or veto, if for a fundamental reason of what we are here for) on (1)-(6) welcome by the deadline. ##################################################################### ########## PROPOSAL for machine installation V0.02 ################## ### deadline passed ### > - Deb 3.0r0 or RedHat ? > I would like to install Debian 3.0r0, with the 2.4.18bf kernel > flavour. This includes software like SnapPea which is useful for ... There was one strong recommendation in favour of Deb 3.0r0 :) from Michał Frąckowiak. > - superusers - I think that Andrzej M and I should be superusers, but For security reasons, it's probably better to discuss this more offlist in terms of individual names. There was one objection to having a student or two as su, but the same person agreed that if it's someone we know and trust, who knows GNU/linux, it could be OK. Another opinion was in favour of having a student or two as su. See above for a specific proposal. > - name of machine (silk, sahni, liddle, peebles, novikov, levin?) Andrzej pointed out that the "dead astronomer" tradition is really just for the solaris machines. Michał F had a bunch of suggestions which show that we have different personal tastes ;), and was not enthusiastic for using the name of a dead (or live) cosmologist. But since this is a question of taste anyway, I finally chose "Adjani" after Isabelle Adjani :). > - partition suggestions (there are 2 disks each of 60Gb) Geniu and Michał H made several useful comments - thanks. > My idea of 650MB /home is that CDROM backups should be relatively easy. However, given that disks are so big today, should we create much more backed up home space? E.g. using hard disk backups on a daily basis + tape backups once a week? Or daily hard disk + up to 3 CDROMs once a week (I don't think I would have more patience than copying 3 CDROMS, even that would be pretty boring, done every week)? 3 CDROM => approx 2GB => 200MB for 10 users. Probably plenty for the next 12 months. See proposal above. In any case, the only decision required immediately is how big the partitions should be. And of course, there could be parts of a scratch disk which are linked with ln -s from the real /home in order to look like home disks so that users know/expect that they are backed up. ######################################################################

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PROPOSAL for longer term policy on new computer V0.01
by Boud Roukema 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

########## PROPOSAL for longer term policy V0.01 ######### ### no deadline for the moment ### - susers - boud + amr? + a student? - web server? - home space per user - h.m. MB? With 650MB on /home, and potentially a dozen people, that's only about 50MB each. This brings up the question of... - backup strategy? - scratch space? Probably not much to say here - except the question of whether the observers can use this for radio data while waiting for us to find other cosmo uses for this disk space. What sort of policy could be reasonable? - mail server? - (T)Wiki server for * cosmic topology page - complete references to all published articles (last time I counted, there were only 36 authors during the 20th century + 1 in the last year of the 19th century) * standard ruler page * meta-page for other cosmology stuff * galaxy/AGN formation/evolution pages - sympa vs mailman? Sympa running at the moment on "astro" is fine, but I'm just wondering... - other software? CMB stuff? specific packages? N-body stuff for galaxy formation? - standard CPU rules - more than 5 min => nice 19 - quotas for accounts and/or scratch space, decision-making on acc and/or scratch space? ######################################################################

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PROPOSAL for machine installation V0.01
by Boud Roukema 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

########## PROPOSAL for machine installation V0.01 ################## ### deadline Thu 10/10/02 19:00 (decisions a matter of taste, IMHO) ### - Deb 3.0r0 or RedHat ? I would like to install Debian 3.0r0, with the 2.4.18bf kernel flavour. This includes software like SnapPea which is useful for cosmic topology, and also gives the users (cosmologists) maximum control and freedom to manage the software. I don't imagine we could get easy consensus on Deb vs Redhat vs Mandrake (or other) ;), but please make any comments you feel like anyway. - superusers - I think that Andrzej M and I should be superusers, but at least one or two other people than me should also be su, e.g. a student or two. This is really a more serious and longer term decision, but if anyone wants to help install, now is the time to speak up, since I'm eager to get started... :) - name of machine (silk, sahni, liddle, peebles, novikov, levin?) In the tradition of TCfA, I guess we should pick the name of a famous astronomer. So for this machine, it should be a famous cosmologist. IMHO, it would be fun to name it after a *living* cosmologist, and preferably someone who's also a cool dude ;). Since this is a question of taste, I'm not sure how we should decide, and probably if I make an authoritarian decision, it would be reasonable since it won't really affect other people that much. But suggestions welcome :). At the moment the names I've thought of include: * liddle * silk * peebles * sahni * levin * padmanabhan * novikov - partition suggestions (there are 2 disks each of 60Gb) / 185MB /boot 15MB /tmp 150MB /home 650MB /usr 3GB /usr/local 2GB /var 1GB /var/mail 1GB /home2 2GB /scratch1 10GB /scratch[2-9] 10GB -> 80Gb /scratch10 20GB My idea of 650MB /home is that CDROM backups should be relatively easy. Any good ideas for partition? ######################################################################

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PROPOSAL for a decision-making method for new computer V0.01
by Boud Roukema 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

Witam wszystkim, A computer has been bought for the TCfA cosmology group! :) This is a big investment and I would like to try to apply modern management methods - specifically, consensus decision-making techniques - for deciding on how to use and run it, rather than just one or two people deciding. Please comment, criticise this proposal. (If you think it's fundamentally against what we are here for, you could argue to veto the proposal itself!) Next message: concrete proposals for the machine. boud ########## PROPOSAL for a decision-making method V0.01 ################## First, a reminder on the AIM of our group: * research and education-leading-to-research in observational cosmology * Second, background reading on what consensus is and why it's effective: flow chart: http://www.consensus.net/flowchart.html word description: http://www.consensus.net/ocac2.html Third, a simplified consensus method: DEFINITION: "anyone" is defined here as undergrad students, masters/PhD students, postdocs or faculty studying or teaching at TCfA/CAMK-Toru� in cosmology related fields. (I will put a proposal for "cafe+" type meetings on http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-spotka/2002-10/ soon...) PROPOSALS: WHO - anyone (the proposer) can make a proposal for use of the computer, but hopefully it should be someone willing to do the work once the decision is made! HOW - the proposal is made on the most appropriate mailing list, e.g. cosmo-torun HOW - anyone can make comments, constructive criticisms, to try to improve the proposal HOW - the proposer writes successive versions of the proposal based on the comments DECISION - after discussion seems to have converged, the proposer (or other moderator) sends an email to the same list with Subject: PROPOSAL <name of proposal> DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS/VETO <deadline>, where the deadline is X days after the date of the email. X = 2 if the decision is essentially a matter of taste X = 7 if the decision is more serious X = 1 if there is some unexpected really urgent decision to be made STEPPING ASIDE - anyone who is against the proposal, but accepts that his/her criticisms have been listened to and are not important enough for a veto, can "step aside", and these criticisms are added to the proposal. This way, others are aware of the (claimed) weak points. VETO - anyone can veto the decision, but only based on the aim of our group (see AIM: above), i.e. not for trivial reasons. He/she should explain the reason for the veto. #######################################################################

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Is DE related to CDM?
by Boud Roukema 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

Witam What if DE (dark energy) is not something from early universe physics but instead is directly related to the properties of the CDM (cold dark matter) particles as some sort of negative pressure? Two articles on this idea: http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209584 Schwartz http://de.arXiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0209322 Gondolo \& Freese (Varun Sahni et al. had some ideas earlier - last 12-18 months - on how DE and non-baryonic DM could be the same thing, but I think it was just phenomenological. Though I'm not sure.) pozd boud

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Fwd: U Chi: Microwave Background Announcement (fwd)
by boud 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

CMB polarization discovered? Notice how the journalist manages to convert: "it's in line with theoretical predictions." into a much stronger statement: > verifies the theoretical framework that supports modern cosmological > theory. But i guess the DASI people will need to struggle to get as much media attention as MAP... i haven't followed the debate on CMB polarization, so i don't know how seriously a detection can constrain any models. Maybe Micha� F has done some reading on this...? pozdrawiam boud > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:26:58 -0400 (EDT) > From: David Spergel <dns@... > To: all(a)astro.Princeton.EDU > Subject: Fwd: U Chi: Microwave Background Announcement (fwd) ... >**This material was sent earlier under embargo to reporters and the >embargo having expired, is now sent to press officers.** > >THE FOLLOWING RELEASE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, >IN ILLINOIS, AND IS FORWARDED FOR YOUR INFORMATION. (FORWARDING >DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY.) >Steve Maran, American Astronomical Society > >September 19, 2002 >Contact: Steve Koppes >773-702-8366 >E-mail: s-koppes(a)uchicago.edu > >Discovery supports astronomers' >paradoxical views of the universe > >The universe really is as surprising as scientists have come to >suspect it is, according to a discovery that University of Chicago >astrophysicists will announce Thursday, Sept. 19, at the COSMO-02 >conference at Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. The discovery, >which astrophysicists have pursued with increasingly sensitive >instruments for more than two decades, verifies the theoretical >framework that supports modern cosmological theory. > >Using a radio telescope called the Degree Angular Scale >Interferometer (DASI) at the National Science Foundation's >Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the Chicago scientists measured >the minute polarization of the cosmic microwave background, the >sky-pervading afterglow of the big bang. > >Most light is unpolarized, its many individual waves jumbled >together, each wave flickering up and down in a different plane as it >speeds toward Earth. Unpolarized light becomes polarized whenever it >is reflected or scattered. This is the principle behind polarizing >sunglasses that remove the glare from the hood of a car or the >surface of a pool. In both cases the sunglasses only permit waves >that tend to flicker up and down in the same plane to pass. > >The polarization of the cosmic microwave background was produced by >the scattering of cosmic light when it last interacted with matter, >nearly 14 billion years ago. If no polarization had been found, >astrophysicists would have to reject all their interpretations of the >remarkable data they have compiled in recent years, said John >Carlstrom, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in >Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. > >"Instead of stating that we think we really understand the origin and >evolution of the universe with high confidence, we would be saying >that we just don't know," said Carlstrom, who will announce the >discovery. "Polarization is predicted. It's been detected and it's in >line with theoretical predictions. We're stuck with this preposterous >universe." > >It's a universe in which ordinary matter, the stuff of which humans, >stars and galaxies are made, accounts for less than five percent of >the universe's total mass and energy. The vast majority of the >universe, meanwhile, is made of a mysterious force that astronomers >call "dark energy." This vague name reflects the fact that scientists >simply do not know what it is. They only know that it acts in >opposition to gravity, accelerating the expansion of the universe. > >In addition to the dark energy theory, cosmic inflation theory >improbably proposes that the universe underwent a gigantic growth >spurt in a fraction of a second just moments after the big bang. > >"This beautiful framework of contemporary cosmology has many things >in it we don't understand, but we believe in the framework," said >Clem Pryke, Assistant Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the >University of Chicago and a member of the DASI team. "This new result >was a crucial test for the framework to pass." > >Carlstrom's other collaborators on the polarization discovery were >John Kovac and Erik Leitch, University of Chicago; and Nils Halverson >and Bill Holzapfel, University of California, Berkeley. > >The discovery follows in the wake of another important DASI finding. >Last year Carlstrom's team precisely measured temperature differences >in the cosmic microwave background, further supporting for the cosmic >inflation theory. > >The polarization signal is more than 10 times fainter than the >temperature differences that DASI detected earlier. DASI's first >discovery came after it collected data for 92 days from 32 spots in >the sky. But DASI needed to watch two spots in the sky for more than >200 days to detect the polarization. > >The discovery opens a new era in cosmic microwave background >experiments, said the Chicago astrophysicists. They predict that >increasingly sensitive detections of polarization will yield many >more discoveries. "It's going to triple the amount of information >that we get from the cosmic microwave background," said Kovac, a >Ph.D. student in Physics. "It's like going from the picture on a >black-and-white TV to color." > >The polarization is a signpost from when the universe was only >400,000 years old, when matter and energy were only just beginning to >separate from one another. "What's unique about polarization is that >it directly measures the dynamics in the early universe," Carlstrom >said. > >Temperature differences revealed patterns of lumpy matter frozen in >the early universe, but by measuring polarization, astronomers can >actually see how the early universe was moving. > >In the coming years, astronomers will attempt to use the CMB >polarization to measure gravity waves, a form of radiation predicted >by general relativity that corresponds to ripples in the fabric of >space-time, said Michael Turner, the Bruce and Diana Rauner >Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the >University of Chicago. > >"Detection of the polarization opens a new door to exploring the >earliest moments and answering the deep questions before us," Turner >said. > ### >sk/02-79 > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CONTINUE RECEIVING PRESS RELEASES THAT ARE >FORWARDED TO THE NEWS MEDIA VIA THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, >PLEASE REPLY ACCORDINGLY TO ANY INCOMING PRESS RELEASE, OR WRITE >TO hrsmaran(a)eclair.gsfc.nasa.gov. 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How the Universe got its Spots [if it has them]
by Boud Roukema 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Cze�� cosmo-torun list, There was one positive comment and zero negative comments on my book proposition: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/msg00003.html so i'll ask for this to be ordered. :) Cze�� Karolina, Could we please order the following cosmology book for the TCfA library? http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7324.html > How the Universe Got Its Spots: > Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space > Janna Levin > Cloth | 2002 | $22.95 / ?15.95 | ISBN: 0-691-09657-0 > 224 pp. | 6 x 9 | 68 line illus. Thanks boud

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another cosmology book?
by Boud Roukema 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Hi everyone, Sorry if the method of deciding and ordering library books on cosmology was a little confusing - I'm still learning about how things work here, so I take any blame which is due. A bunch of books has been ordered, and most have arrived, and Karolina and I will try to make up a list of these to help guide students and anyone else interested. Anyway, I just saw that a book has come out by one of the main people in observational cosmic topology work (Janna Levin): http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7324.html > How the Universe Got Its Spots: > Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space > Janna Levin > Cloth | 2002 | $22.95 / ?15.95 | ISBN: 0-691-09657-0 > 224 pp. | 6 x 9 | 68 line illus. Why I think we should buy this: * The level of difficulty is for the common reader, but I think this should be a good motivational book, and good for bringing students up to "state-of-the-art" cosmology. * Also, most of the books we have say almost nothing on the global shape of the Universe. * There also seems to be a selection effect in the cosmology books we have so far: 50% of the population is unrepresented, and since the number of introductory cosmology books we have is something like a dozen or so, having zero introductory books by women is about 3-4 sigma inconsistent with unbiased selection. Could anyone with comments please provide them within a week or so? This way, there would be a chance of having the book not too long after students start in October-ish... Cze�� Boud

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wt/sr 20/21 sierpnia 14:00 sala budynku radio
by Boud Roukema 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Cze�� wszystkim, Wprowadzenie do kosmlogii do studenci od Krak�w/Z.G�ra wtorek 20 sierpnia 14:00 �roda 21 sierpnia 14:00 wyk�adowca: boud (cosmo-torun(a)astro.uni.torun.pl) studenci: praktyki(a)astri.uni.torun.pl Witam wszystko! dla ostatnia informacja: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/

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strony kosmologii w TCfA
by Boud Roukema 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

Cze�� studenci z Krakowie/Zielona G�ra, Tu s� strony pracy kosmologia w TCfA: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/ Sugeruj� �e studenci prac*(a)astri.uni.torun.pl mog� tworzy� lista mejla z archiwem - tu jest przyk�ad archiw: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/thrd1.html z *tej* mejlem, b�dzie: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/msg00001.html - dla rozmawia� o jak uczy� si� o astronomia, gdzie s� dobre sajta internecie dla jak my�le�cie jest interesuj�cy w astronomia, itd... Mo�liwe Krzysztof G (chris@astri...) mo�e pomaga� z programem "mailman" (jest jaki program "sympa"). Je�li chcescie �e robi� wyk�ad o kosmologi�, prosz� organizowajcie si� dni i czas (np w drugie p�lowie miesi�c, ale jak chce�cie). Pracuj� w pokoju #36 w budynku radio-owy. pozdrawiam boud

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studenci Krakow/ZG
by Boud Roukema 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Cze�� Krzysztof, The students from Krak�w/�.G�ra will only officially start in the radio group during the second two weeks of their visit, but since once of the best ways they can learn about astronomy research - including cosmology research - includes learning how to find and analyse observational data, and this includes them talking to each other in and writing "reports" on their ideas, i asked Andrzej Strobel if it could be possible if you could give these students computer accounts right now, and from the radio group, we could help straight away by providing them a mailing list using the "sympa" robot, which would archive all of their email messages automatically in html files, like these: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/ In fact, one or two of the students could be the list manager(s), this can work perfectly OK even if they only have accounts on astri machines. (I think...) I would be happy to spend some time with them getting them started, but you'd need to tell me/them what disk usage is possible/reasonable. They could of course use the mailing list for discussing spectroscopy to start off with, and then radio stuff / cosmology later... It's up to them to take the initiative. Pozdrawiam Boud PS: This message will (hopefully ;) be publicly archived here: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-08/thrd1.html

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urlop 29/07 - 02/08
by Boud Roukema 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Cze�� wszystkim, B�dzi� w urlopu 29/07 - 02/08, w Hajn�wce przez �ubr�w... Na ra�e Boud

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test with 'resurrected' asterix
by Andrzej Marecki 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

Is this list being correctly archived now? This is not a trivial question - asterix (the machine that keeps the archives) has got a new disk & operating system. If you can read this message at: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2002-06/thrd1.html - the answer is "yes, everything is OK". -- Andrzej

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(fwd) Master Optical/Radio/Xray Catalogue (final version) now available on
by Andrzej Marecki 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

-- forwarded message -- Newsgroups: sci.astro.research Path: mat.uni.torun.pl!news.man.torun.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!unknown From: eric(a)flesch.org (Eric Flesch ) Subject: Master Optical/Radio/Xray Catalogue (final version) now available on Approved: sci.astro.research-request(a)slimy.greenend.org.uk (mjh) Sender: unknown(a)scorpius.star.bris.ac.uk (Address not verified) Organization: Orcon Internet Message-ID: <mt2.0-4318-1023269017(a)star.bris.ac.uk> X-Posting-Tool: modtool v2.0 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:23:20 GMT Lines: 55 Xref: mat.uni.torun.pl sci.astro.research:1433 Announcing the final version of the Master Catalogue of Radio/Xray Detections overlaid onto the Optical Background. This version is earmarked for the refereed process. Changes are as follows: Optical background: The APM catalogue has recently been completed to include the southern galactic cap, and these data have been added to the optical background of the Master catalogue (which merges APM & USNO). Thanks to Mike Irwin for the final push to complete the southern fields, and to Ray Stathakis for publishing that data on the AAO website. Radio detections: The FIRST and NVSS catalogues are found to have astrometry at least as good as the APM, so field shifts for these are restricted to corrections of the APM astrometry. Thanks to Rick White in clarifying issues involved in this. Detection of double radio lobes has been much improved in this version, and over 10,000 of these are displayed. These detections are reliable in this version, compared with an admittedly cursory effort last time. Xray detections: It is necessary to shift the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA fields over the optical background to find the correct astrometry. The method has been improved now to clean up recalcitrant fields. Whilst never perfect, the bulk of xray fields have been aligned with good confidence. QSOs and AGN with optical APM/USNO signatures are included even if they do not have radio/xray associations. These include the SDSS early data release and there are about 30,000 in total. QSOs from old papers from the 70's and 80's are now correctly identified using improved likelihood algorithms. There are about 200 such objects, previously identified incorrectly, which are now assigned to the correct optical object. The Master Catalogue assigns probabilities to radio/xray objects that they are QSOs, galaxies, stars, or erroneous associations. This has been refined via a decision tree algorithm, as well as the complete APM data allowing better compensation against local sky densities. The probabilities are calculated against a 670,000,000 object whole-sky background database. Get the Master Catalogue at ftp://quasars.org/quasars . There is a ReadMe there and smaller subset catalogs. There will be some site cleanup as this catalog goes to publication, so get the subset catalogs now if you want them. This version of the Master Catalogue improves selection of about 15% of the objects compared with the previous version, but the highest-probability QSO candidates are mostly unchanged. The SUMSS southern sky radio catalog is due for release any day now, and I will update the Master Catalogue with that data when it is available. Eric Flesch Wellington, New Zealand 5 June 2002 -- end of forwarded message -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrzej Marecki | Torun Centre for Astronomy | e-mail: amr(a)astro.uni.torun.pl N. Copernicus University | WWW: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl ul. Gagarina 11 | tel: +48 56 6113032 PL-87-100 Torun, POLAND | fax: +48 56 6113009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cosmic Background Imager
by Andrzej Marecki 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

The team of Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) released images with a resolution as good as 6 minutes of arc which allows to resolve blobs of matter with masses of about 5-80 x 10^14 solar masses i.e. corresponding to the mass of galaxy clusters. See: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/CBI/ -- Andrzej

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proposition for masters students 2002/2003
by Boud Roukema 23 May '02

23 May '02

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposition for Supervising Masters (Magister) projects at TCfA for Oct 2002 - Sep 2003 Supervisor: B. Roukema Number of students: up to 3-4 students is possible Title: Observational Constraints on Cosmological Parameters Description: There are many possible projects which could be done as a master's thesis project, in using publicly available archival data from observational surveys to constrain one or more of the local or global cosmological parameters, either those related to shape (curvature, topology) or maybe also those unrelated to shape ("dark energy"). The precise projects would be chosen in discussion with the masters students during Oct-Nov 2002. Some examples would include further development and application of the "Dark Energy" software package which has been worked on during the "Shape of the Universe" monograph course: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/shape-univ/ Requirements: - basic knowledge in astronomy, physics, mathematics, computing skills - desire to measure something about the shape of the Universe - willingness both to learn from and to teach others interested in observational cosmology at TCfA - willingness to learn the following practical skills: touch-typing, emacs, \LaTeX, usage of the sympa mailing lists - willingness to participate in the "Shape of the Universe" monograph course and/or Bronek Rudak's semester 9 "Kosmologia" course: http://www.ncac.torun.pl/~bronek/KOS.html - nie ma problemu je�li student magisterowy nie (jeszcze) dobrze m�wi� po angielsku ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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XXI Texas Symposium - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! (fwd)
by boud＠astro.uni.torun.pl 21 May '02

21 May '02

Hi everyone, I'm not that eager to go to an "expensive hotel chain" meeting, but if I miss the northern summer cosmo meetings then at least I could go to one big cosmo meeting this calendar year... Cze�� Boud > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:44:37 +0200 (CEST) > From: XXI Texas Symposium <texaflor(a)arcetri.astro.it> > Subject: XXI Texas Symposium - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! > Texas in Tuscany XXI Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics Florence, Italy, December 9-13, 2002 FIRST CIRCULAR (May 2002) Introduction The XXI Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics will be organized in Florence, 9-13 December 2002, by the National Institute of Astrophysics - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and other scientific Institutions (the complete list will appear in a subsequent announcement). The meeting will be held in the Palazzo dei Congressi, in the historic center of the city, and will consist of Invited Review Talks (IT) in the morning (each lasting about 40 minutes) and Joint Discussions (JD) during the afternoon. Invited Talks will review recent developments in various fields in Astrophysics, Cosmology and related issues of Physics of Gravitation and Elementary Particles. Joint Discussions will cover specific areas with a number of shorter invited talks (about 20 minutes each). In addition, participants will be able to propose poster papers covering their recent research. The goal of the meeting is to provide a general review of the status and the prospects of research for a diversified audience of astrophysicists and physicists. How to reach Florence Florence can be reached directly by airplane from several major European cities. Alternative airports with international connections are Bologna or Pisa (both about 1 hour train ride from Florence). Another alternative is Rome (the train ride from the Rome Central Station Termini to Florence can be as short as 95 minutes) or Milan (the train ride from the Milan Central Station to Florence takes almost 3 hours). Please note, however, that both in Milan and in Rome the trip from the Airport to the Central Station will take about one additional hour. Accommodation The Organizers have selected a travel agency in Florence to handle all the problems connected with accommodation. The Organizers will not be able to help in any other way with this matter. Block reservations in various hotels are being made, which will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis until November 15, 2002. Participants who want to arrange directly their own accommodation, or to contact a different travel agency are of course free to do so; they are however advised to book their accommodation as soon as possible, given the strong touristic pressure on Florence. Booking will be firm after a deposit equal to the cost of the first night in the chosen hotel. The quoted costs include breakfast, and all applicable taxes. The deposit will be acknowledged in the final bill, to be paid by the participant directly at the hotel upon leaving. Participants who want to leave earlier than initially arranged must notify the hotel at least 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be possible only until November 15, 2002; in these cases the deposit will be returned less a 30% handling fee. The accommodation form is now available at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~texaflor/accommodation_first.html Registration The registration fee for the Symposium will be 300 Euros if paid by November 1 and 400 Euros thereafter. This will cover participation, coffee breaks and a personal copy of the Proceedings. The registration form is now available at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~texaflor/registration_first.html Program The following topics will be covered by Invited Talks and (in some cases) additional Joint Discussions: - PHYSICS AROUND THE BIG BANG - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE - COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS - THE DAWN OF LIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE - COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND - DARK MATTER AND GRAVITATIONAL LENSES - LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES AND CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES - GAMMA RAY BURSTS - ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI - SUPERNOVAE, REMNANTS AND COLLAPSED STARS - BLACK HOLES - GRAVITATIONAL WAVES - COSMIC-RAY AND GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY - NEUTRINO PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Invited speakers A partial list of invited speakers includes: R. Blandford, C. Cesarsky, A. Fabian, F. Halzen, A. Lasenby, B. Leibundgut, P. Madau, I. Novikov, B. Schutz, P. Steinhardt, V. Trimble, G. Veneziano, M. Vietri, S. White. The program with the complete list of speakers and convenors of the Joint Discussions will appear on the web at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~texaflor/program.html. The Proceedings of the Symposium will include the invited reviews and the presentations at the joint discussions (no posters). Scientific Organizing Committee F. Pacini (Chair, Italy), M. Baldo Ceolin (Italy), M. Rees (UK), R. Barbieri (Italy), V. Rubin (USA), C. Cesarsky (ESO), G. Setti (Italy), A. Gimenez (ESA), J. Silk (UK), G. Hasinger (Germany), M. Tavani (Italy), R. Kolb (USA), Y. Totsuka (Japan), R. Manchester (Australia), V. Trimble (USA), I. Novikov (Denmark), G. Veneziano (CERN), A. Olinto (USA), L. Woltjer (France) Local Organizing Committee M. Salvati (Chair), R. Bandiera, L. Falai, R. Maiolino, F. Mannucci, A. Marconi, E. Masini, N. Nagar. Further information: http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~texaflor/ e-mail: texas_florence(a)arcetri.astro.it fax ++ 39 055 220039

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astro-ph/0205155 another step in cosmo-topology...
by Boud Roukema 13 May '02

13 May '02

Cze�� wszystkim, An interesting paper by Rocha et al., a European collaboration (including Krzyszek G�rski) on COBE analysis of equal-side-length torus models of the Universe: http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205155 They use the word "asymmetric" to talk about the possibility that the side lengths might be unequal. Given the absence of any serious physical theory for the global shape of the Universe, it seems best, IMHO, to keep all options open... Pozd, Boud

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Paddy+Tirth: DE & DMatter same thing?
by Boud Roukema 09 May '02

09 May '02

Paddy and his PhD student Tirth have come up with an idea for how dark matter and dark energy could just be two components of the same thing: http://de.arXiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205055 Cool! :)

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Dimming Supernovae by Axions
by Andrzej Marecki 08 May '02

08 May '02

Yet another "non-orthodox" view on SN dimming attributed to the expansion of the Universe: http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/terning/axion.html (This is based on a paper accepted by Physical Review Letters 88 (2002), 161302.) -- Andrzej

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ASTROVIRTEL: Third Call for Proposals (fwd)
by boud 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

I don't think we're ready for this yet, but feel free to think about this. If anyone can think of a project, go ahead and write your thoughts to the list - be creative! And don't worry about your ideas being crazy. Starting off from a crazy idea and playing with it can often yield a good idea... Which is better than no ideas at all... > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:26:20 +0200 (MET DST) > From: AstroVirtel User <astrov at eso.org> > To: boud.roukema@... > X-SBFolder: Default > X-SBClass: OK > Subject: ASTROVIRTEL: Third Call for Proposals > > > Dear Colleague, > > The ASTROVIRTEL Project, supported by the European Commission > and managed by the ST-ECF on behalf of ESA and ESO, is aimed > at enhancing the scientific return of the ST-ECF/ESO Archive. > It offers the possibility to European Users to exploit it as > a virtual telescope, retrieving and analysing large quantities > of data with the assistance of archive operators and scientific > personnel. The first two cycles of operation of the ASTROVIRTEL > project are almost completed and some interesting results > have already been achieved and published > [see http://www.stecf.org/astrovirtel/publications.html] > > We are now announcing the Third Call for ASTROVIRTEL Proposals. > Detailed instructions for the submission of proposals can be found > at http://www.stecf.org/astrovirtel/. > > The deadline for submission is June 17th, 2002. > > ASTROVIRTEL is an initiative financed by the European Commission under > the scheme "Enhanced Access to Large Infrastructures" and therefore is > open to European scientists from EC Member and Associated States > [for a list of these states, see > http://www.stecf.org/astrovirtel/ECStates.html]. > > Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information. The > ASTROVIRTEL email address is astrovirtel(a)eso.org . > > Best regards, > > Piero Benvenuti, Head / ST-ECF > Peter Quinn, Head / DMD > > PS: Since we merged different mailing lists, it might happen that > you receive this email twice. Our apologies. > > -- > ASTROVIRTEL > > Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes > A Project supported by the European Commission > Access to Research Infrastructures > Action of the Improving Human Potential Programme > > Tel: +49 89 32006291 Fax: +49 89 32006480 > mailto:astrovirtel@eso.org URL: http://www.stecf.org/astrovirtel/

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Another confirmation of the existence of dark energy.
by Andrzej Marecki 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

----- Forwarded message from NewsAlert ----- NEWSALERT: Friday, March 22, 2002 @ 1504 GMT --------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now [...] NEW EVIDENCE: EXPANSION OF UNIVERSE IS ACCELERATING --------------------------------------------------- A team of UK and Australian astronomers has discovered new, independent evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Their findings have just appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A team of 27 astronomers led by Professor George Efstathiou of the University of Cambridge has published strong evidence for the existence of dark energy using an entirely different technique. Their results show that the universe is full of dark energy, completely consistent with the earlier supernovae results. "Dark energy appears to exist and to dominate over more conventional types of matter" says Professor Efstathiou. "An explanation of the dark energy may involve String Theory, extra dimensions or even what happened before the Big Bang. At present nobody knows. The ball is now firmly in the theorists court." http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0203/22expansion/ [...] ----- End of forwarded message from NewsAlert ----- -- Andrzej Marecki

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2 observation-linked galaxy projects (long term)
by Boud Roukema 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

Hi. I'm just sending this message to have it conveniently on the archive with an obvious "Subject:" header. I think I've already mentioned these two projects (or themes) which are linked to local observational facilities: (1) polarisation of radio-galaxies Ryszard Wielebi�ski of Bonn suggested that a good way to use the radio telescope here would be to observe galaxies at different frequencies, so with different amounts of Faraday rotation of polarised light, so that the polarisation could be inferred. (2) galaxy formation modelling in preparation for future infrared satellite data Ryszard Szczerba said something about NCAC being involved in an infrared satellite project (I think I got the name wrong - Ryszard, do you have a link to the web site of the project?), so if someone does some galaxy formation work in preparation for this, there would be a good chance of getting good observational constraints, and maybe even falsifying some models, and having to generate new ones, which is the exciting part of science :). Cze�� Boud Ryszard: this email will be archived on http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/ Please reply directly to the list (unless you have something secret to say).

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