69/518 Open-ended Working Group on the Fourth Special Session of the General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament

2015 ◽  
pp. 245-246
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session

scholarly journals DIVISION IV / COMMISSION 26 / WORKING GROUP BINARY AND MULTIPLE SYSTEM NOMENCLATURE

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 207-208
Author(s):  
Brian D. Mason ◽  
William I. Hartkopf ◽  
Dimitri Pourbaix ◽  
Colin D. Scarfe ◽  
Marion Schmitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Multiple Star ◽  
Comprehensive Database ◽  
Visual Binary ◽  
Naval Observatory ◽  
The Us ◽  
Substellar Companions

The Working Group on Binary and Multiple System Nomenclature was formed within Commission 26 following Special Session 3 held during the 2003 Sydney General Assembly. Its purpose is to create the Washington Multiplicity Catalog, a comprehensive database first introduced at a multi-commission meeting at the IAU XXIV General Assembly in Manchester, 2000. Data are being compiled from the US Naval Observatory visual binary catalogs and supplemented with binary and multiple star information from other sources to include but not limited to spectroscopy, photometry, eclipsing and interacting system, as well as extra-solar planets and substellar companions. The goal being creation of a comprehensive hierarchical database and to reduce confusion from multiple nomenclature schemes used by disparate techniques.

scholarly journals Marking the 400th Anniversary of Kepler's Astronomia nova

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 821-827
Author(s):  
T. J. Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Round Table ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Round Table Discussion ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Johannes Kepler ◽  
Table Discussion ◽  
The Future ◽  
Open Session

AbstractSpecial Session 9 of the XXVII General Assembly (11–14 August 2009, Rio de Janeiro) was devoted to the topic “Marking the 400th Anniversary of Kepler's Astronomia nova”. During the two-and-a-half day meeting (spread over four days), there were nine invited and three contributed talks, a round-table discussion on the future of Kepler studies and an open session to propose the setting up of a Johannes Kepler Working Group under the aegis of the IAU.

General Assembly

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-575
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
New Members ◽  
The Soviet Union

The fourth emergency special session of the General Assembly, summoned by the Secretary-General in accordance with a resolution adopted by the Security Council at its 906th meeting on September 16, 1960, was held from September 17 through 19, 1960. During consideration of the provisional agenda, Mr. Wadsworth (United States) suggested that the admission of new members, scheduled for the regular fifteenth session of the General Assembly, be added to the agenda of the emergency session as item No. 1. After objections to this addition were voiced by the Soviet Union, several African states, and others, on the ground that the necessary documents were not yet in the hands of the Assembly, a proposal by the representative of Guinea for postponement of the matter was adopted by 43 votes to none, with 26 abstentions.

scholarly journals DIVISION IX / COMMISSION 25 / WORKING GROUP INFRARED ASTRONOMY

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 313-315
Author(s):  
Eugene F. Milone ◽  
Andrew T. Young ◽  
Eva Bauwens ◽  
Roger A. Bell ◽  
Michael S. Bessell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Infrared Photometry ◽  
Water Vapour Content ◽  
Atmospheric Extinction ◽  
Variable Water ◽  
Johnson System ◽  
Atmospheric Windows ◽  
New System ◽  
Over Time

As we have noted before, the WG-IR was created following a Joint Commission Meeting at the IAU General Assembly in Baltimore in 1988, a meeting that provided both diagnosis and prescription for the perceived ailments of infrared photometry at the time. The results were summarized in Milone (1989). The challenges involve how to explain the failure to systematically achieve the milli-magnitude precision expected of infrared photometry and an apparent 3% limit on system transformability. The proposed solution was to re-define the broadband Johnson system, the passbands of which had proven so unsatisfactory that over time effectively different systems proliferated although bearing the same JHKLMNQ designations; the new system needed to be better positioned and centered in the atmospheric windows of the Earth's atmosphere, and the variable water vapour content of the atmosphere needed to be measured in real time to better correct for atmospheric extinction.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Joint Discussion: Parameters of the Earth's Gravitational Field

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 607-609
Author(s):  
A. H. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
Earth’S Gravitational Field ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Astronomical Constants

The Chairman, W. Fricke, President of Commission 4, opened the Joint Discussion by drawing attention to the purpose and proposed procedure for the meeting. The Joint Discussion had been arranged by the Executive Committee of the Union in order to avoid the necessity for separate discussions by each Commission that was affected by the Report of the Working Group on the IAU System of Astronomical Constants. The Organizing Committee therefore proposed the following resolution:‘The members of the IAU at this Joint Discussion recommend to the Executive Committee that the following resolution be put before the General Assembly: “The International Astronomical Union endorses the final list of constants prepared by the Working Group on the System of Astronomical Constants and recommends that it be used in the national and international astronomical ephemerides at the earliest practicable date.’”

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Joint Discussion: Arguments in Favor of the Revision of the Conventional System of Astronomical Constants

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 604-606
Author(s):  
W. Fricke
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Conventional System ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Astronomical Constants

The Chairman, W. Fricke, President of Commission 4, opened the Joint Discussion by drawing attention to the purpose and proposed procedure for the meeting. The Joint Discussion had been arranged by the Executive Committee of the Union in order to avoid the necessity for separate discussions by each Commission that was affected by the Report of the Working Group on the IAU System of Astronomical Constants. The Organizing Committee therefore proposed the following resolution:‘The members of the IAU at this Joint Discussion recommend to the Executive Committee that the following resolution be put before the General Assembly: “The International Astronomical Union endorses the final list of constants prepared by the Working Group on the System of Astronomical Constants and recommends that it be used in the national and international astronomical ephemerides at the earliest practicable date.’”

scholarly journals DIVISION IX-X WORKING GROUP: ENCOURAGING THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ANTARCTIC ASTRONOMY

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (T27B) ◽  
pp. 239-239
Author(s):  
Michael Burton
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Special Session

The work of this group is well covered in the report on Special Session 3 given in “Highlights of Astronomy 15”, to be published by CUP in 2010.

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