We present observations of V838 Mon and its close vicinity in the three lowest rotational transitions of CO. The J = 2→1 and 3→2 data were obtained using the 3 m KOSMA telescope. They include on-the-fly maps covering a large area (∼3.4 sq. deg.) around V838 Mon and long integrations on the star position. Complementary observations in the CO J = 1→0 transition were obtained using the 13.7 m Deli...

Transformations of agriculture and natural lands to urban use are dominant well known effects urbanization, but consistent reliable methods map regional-scale land transitions limited. Herein, we develop a classification approach assess spatiotemporal patterns expansion associated changes. We utilized 33-year annual time series (1984–2016) fractional characteristics cover data from Landsat sate...

Cairngorms as a Unique Extreme Environment: The Cairngorms is a sub-arctic site with a mixture of continental and oceanic climates. The area hosts a wide diversity of habitats, from native woodlands and open moorland through scrub and sub-arctic habitats [1]. The Cairngorms provides a good initial evaluation site for biosensing equipment and astrobiological instrumentation due to the variety an...

Small watershed sediment yield data were evaluated for eight small watersheds ranging from 35.2 to 159.5 ha within the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) in southeastern Arizona, USA. Stock pond sediment accumulation measurements covering time periods from 30 to 47 years were combined with water level records and es...

The giant panda is confined to south-central China. Currently, it occurs in portions of six isolated mountain ranges (Minshan, Qinling, Qionglai, Liangshan, Daxiangling, and Xiaoxiangling) in Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan Provinces (about 75% of the population inhabits Sichuan Province). The panda's total range encompasses approximately 30,000 sq km between 102–108.3° E longitude and 28.2–34.1° N ...

Western land development initiatives by the federal government led to a fragmented ownership in much of western Oregon. A project to examine the feasibility of voluntary land exchanges between public and private owners to increase ecological health of fish and other species in Umpqua Basin while maintaining timber supply has been initiated. A landscape model has been developed to quantitatively...

The study assessed the flood vulnerability of developed properties (DP) in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers State, Nigeria. made use DP data obtained from open street map, and combination landuse/ landcover map Landsat imagery 2020, soil texture data, elevation proximity to active river channel. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis. Findings showed that 44014 DPs estimated Metropolis. ...

In [12] Quackenbush has expected that there should be subdirectly irreducible Steiner quasigroups (squags), whose proper homomorphic images are entropic (medial). The smallest interesting cardinality for such squags is 21. Using the tripling construction given in [1] we construct all possible nonsimple subdirectly irreducible squags of cardinality 21 (SQ(21)s). Consequently, we may say that the...

We present Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) UV line spectroscopy and integral-field unit (IFU) observations of the intra-group medium in Stephan's Quintet (SQ). SQ hosts a 30 kpc long shocked ridge triggered by galaxy collision at relative velocity 1000 km/s, where large amounts molecular gas coexist with hot, X-ray emitting, plasma. COS five positions sampling diverse en...