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auriga
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auriga \Au*ri"ga\, n. [L., charioteer.] (Anat.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context constellation English) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a charioteer. It includes the star Capella.
Wikipedia
AURIGA (Antenna Ultracriogenica Risonante per l'Indagine Gravitazionale Astronomica) is an ultracryogenic resonant bar gravitational wave detector in Italy. It is at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, near Padova. It is being used for research into gravitational waves and quantum gravity.
When the oscillator gets hit with a burst of gravitational waves, it will excite the oscillator and it will vibrate for a time span longer than the duration of the gravitational wave burst. This allows for the extraction of the signal from the detector.
Auriga is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Located north of the celestial equator, its name is the Latin word for " charioteer", associating it with various mythological charioteers, including Erichthonius and Myrtilus. Auriga is most prominent during winter evenings in the Northern Hemisphere, along with the five other constellations that have stars in the Winter Hexagon asterism. Because of its northern declination, Auriga is only visible in its entirety as far as 34° south; for observers farther south it lies partially or fully below the horizon. A large constellation, with an area of 657 square degrees, it is half the size of the largest constellation, Hydra.
Its brightest star, Capella, is an unusual multiple star system among the brightest stars in the night sky. Beta Aurigae is an interesting variable star in the constellation; Epsilon Aurigae, a nearby eclipsing binary with an unusually long period, has been studied intensively. Because of its position near the winter Milky Way, Auriga has many bright open clusters in its borders, including M36, M37, and M38, popular targets for amateur astronomers. In addition, it has one prominent nebula, the Flaming Star Nebula, associated with the variable star AE Aurigae.
In Chinese mythology, Auriga's stars were incorporated into several constellations, including the celestial emperors' chariots, made up of the modern constellation's brightest stars. Auriga is home to the radiant for the Aurigids, Zeta Aurigids, Delta Aurigids, and the hypothesized Iota Aurigids.
In Ancient Rome, the Auriga was a slave with gladiator status, whose duty was to drive a biga, the light vehicle powered by two horses, to transport some important Romans, mainly Duces (military commanders); it was then a sort of chauffeur for important men and was carefully selected among trustworthy slaves only.
It has been supposed also that this name was given to the slave who held a laurus crown, during Roman Triumphs, over the head of the Dux, standing at his backs but continuously whispering in his ears Memento homo (remember you are (only) a man) to avoid that the excess of celebration could lead the celebrated commander to lose his sense of proportions.
The term became common in latter times to indicate any biga driver.
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Auriga is a software R&D and IT outsourcing services provider. The company is a privately held C-corporation, incorporated in the US in 1993, while the development centers are in Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don) and EU ( Vilnius,Lithuania). Founded in 1990, Auriga is one of the oldest companies in the Russian software R&D and IT outsourcing industry.
Auriga is the full member of RUSSOFT, the association of software developing companies from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Auriga offers a wide range of software services, including software R&D and product engineering, maintenance and sustaining engineering, testing and QA, re-engineering and porting, product customization and integration, as well as IT consulting. The company has extensive expertise encompassing software for medical devices, embedded systems, mobile solutions, system-level software, multimedia, corporate and web-based applications, social networks, cloud services, and automated testing.
Auriga provides its services to customers in such industries as high-tech (product companies), medical devices, telecom, mobile, finance, information security, media and entertainment, consumer electronics, education, government, automotive, avionics, logistics, robotics, industrial automation etc.
The list of Auriga's clients includes such companies as Broadvision, Chrysler, Dialogic, Digital Guardian, Dräger Medical, Hewlett-Packard, Home Credit, IBM, LynuxWorks, Mindray, Pigeon Point Systems, CROC, Sberbank, Barclays and many others.
The modern constellation Auriga lies across two of the quadrants symbolized by the The White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ) and The Vermillion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què), and Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 御夫座 (yù fū zuò), meaning "the driving man constellation".
Usage examples of "auriga".
Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.
Back on Iota Aurigae, Zara Lyon, sister of Laria, Thian and Rojer, becomes quite upset about the condition of the queen in Heinlein Base and determines to assist the captive.
And we thought the big daddies from Iota Aurigae were heavy, Rojer said, and warned the boat bays to stand by to receive the drones about to be imported.
Just keep our good friends on Iota Aurigae happy and ship off as much of that fine ore as possible.
Skander Aurigae II Dear Pen Pal: You say that while you were waiting for the answer to my last letter you showed the photographic plate to one of the doctors at the hospitalI cannot picture what you mean by doctor or hospital, but let that passand he took the problem up with government authorities.
Apart from the danger to my sister, just how close is this Sodan to Iota Aurigae?
With such a big household to feed, small avian species and burrowing animals, scurriers, and the variety of rabbit that had adapted well to Aurigae were welcome additions to protein requirements, not always as well satisfied by the huge gardens.
Taurus, with the full Moon, then entered into the cone of shadow, and under him was the Celestial River, most properly called the Nile, and below, Perseus, the God of Chemmis, and Auriga, leading a she-goat, himself identical with Pan, whose wife Aiga the she-goat was styled.
Kincaid at her heels, came down from the Tower room and there were wide and happy grins, renewing the acquaintances established on Aurigae, while Flavia introduced Mallen and Jesper.
Aurigae City, Afra went in search of Flk and Trp to inform them of the good news.
When you see the Beta Canis Majoris on the left you blink on the giant Cepheid on an angle of thirty-five to the galactic ecliptic to Auriga and after that it's a matter of blinking by the seat of your pants.
But it was primarily the mental relief that Damia sought so far away from her control Tower at the Federated Telepath and Teleport installation on Aurigae.
Damia's mind was as brilliant as Iota Aurigae, and about as stable as any active star's sur face.
So when Jeff was wondering where to send her, I admit I suggested that she fill the Altairian spot, with an eye toward Aurigae.
She enjoyed these moments of total mental relief from the stresses of Aurigae Tower.