Pulkovo NEO Page . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . ... The estimation of accuracy of the current CCD observations of asteroids and comets is constantly performed at Pulkovo Observatory. ... The (O-C) values, so called "Observed" minus "Calculated" positions, characterize numerically the observations of any observatory, both professional and amateur, during a short period (one or several close nights). ... So the (O-C) values for these objects nearly entirely define the errors of observations. ...

... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 10: Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) > 10.2 Mode = POSConfig = FGS . 10.2 Mode = POS . ... In addition, a few stars (reference and/or target) should be observed multiple times during a visit to map any positional drift of the field due to HST pointing characteristics (see the FGS Instrument Handbook) . ... The default values of the Optional Parameters are set in this Mode to provide acceptable data for single, zero angular diameter stars. ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... Time related attributes: . observation related: DATE_OBS and DURATION required by XMM-SOC-ICD-0006-SSC ([ 3 ]), write also DATE_END and OBSSTART , OBSSTOP . ... SAS_VERBOSITY should be set to `Sparse' (4) for normal processing and `Verbose' (5) for more detailed processing. Values of 6 and higher may yield quite a number of messages related to rejected events (MIPs) depending on CCD number and instrument mode. SAS_MEMORY_MODEL should be set to `high' for normal processing. ...

... Archives . ... One realization of mine during the meeting was related to a cultural difference; therefore, there is no relation to any presentations during the 212th AAS in this post. ... I cannot cover all perspectives from both disciplines but I think there are two distinct fashions in practicing normalization. $$\frac{1}{N(\theta)}\int_{\Omega} f(x;\theta)dx=1$$ . ... This is my last posting on my first AAS . Tags: AAS , measure , measure theory , normalization , PDF , pmf . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) is a 110-meter baseline K-Band infrared interferometer located at Palomar Mountain, California. In 1999 an effort was started to provide more observer-friendly observation planning and monitoring tools, such as might be used in NASA interferometer missions. This session illustrates how these prototype tools aid in the observation of spectroscopic binary stars. ... In 1999 an effort was undertaken to prototype mission operations support tools at PTI. ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

Next: Results & Discussion Up: Coronal Hole Diagnostics out Previous: Introduction . ... The dates of the observations discussed here, their locations, pointing, slit sizes and exposure times are given in BTDW. ... Line fits are given by the dotted line. ... An estimation of the errors in the derived parameters was obtained using the GA-derived parameters as an input for a ``classical'' IDL-CURVEFIT procedure (Peter, 1999; Peter & Judge, 1999). ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

... When this mode is used, there is a potential error caused by the imbalance in amplitude and phase of the two signals (linear polarization) being input to the hybrid. ... Vaout,Vbout : Hybrid A,B voltage outputs. eps : The relative phase error between the two input signals. w : Frequency of the input signal. ... When a single diode is used (correlated cal.. eg. the calibration button on the gui) then eps is defined and the output cal value in the two channels will vary depending on the phase error...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Estimation of masses of some minor planets from observations of perturbed bodies O. M. Kochetova Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The most straightforward method of mass determination of minor planets is the dynamical one which uses the gravitational perturbations produced by minor planet in the motion of other bodies. ... The values of the masses of minor planets (15), (29) and (65) appear to be rather close in both papers. ...

Next: Reduction procedure Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Strategy . Standard stars can be included in the extinction solution, if one is careful. The problem is that there are usually appreciable ``conformity errors'' due to mismatch between the instrumental and the standard passbands [ 16 ]. ... Thus, it is wrong to assume that the transformation between the instrumental system and the standard system is exact, even if there were no measurement error in either system [ 1 ]. ...

... User Guide ] Task: uvsfit Purpose: Fit point sources to a given vis file. ... You can reduce the data volume by averaging in frequency using the line parameter (apply bandpass first) or selecting a subset of the data. If you want to produce model or residual visibilities at full resolution for all the data, you can run UVSFIT again with all source parameters specified and fixed. ... Key: sspar This gives initial estimates of source spectral parameters. ... 1 The spectral term alpha1 is fixed. ...

... Let us first find out which way -- rise in spectral resolution with some loss in the S/N ratio or increase in the S/N ratio with a fixed spectral resolution -- is better for the purpose of reduction of equivalent width determination errors. ... N -- number of counts for 1 ? ... line equivalent width, . ... Thus if the spectral resolution is managed to be increased (i.e. to decrease )without loss in the number of counts falling at 1 ?, the equivalent width measurement error is then proportional to . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Developer Documentation . ... In general, a hook function is one that Apache will call at some point during the processing of a request. ... Use the AP_DECLARE_HOOK macro, which needs to be given the return type of the hook function, the name of the hook, and the arguments. ... During initialisation, the server will call each modules hook registering function, which is included in the module structure: . ...

... DevHlp_Security This devhlp allows to open a file for read access in the Init routine of a BASEDEV . ... returned: size of file SYIOpenFile ends Valid at INIT time only. ... This routine uses the corresponding function of the miniFSD , not normal file I/O, thus access is restricted. ... Although the size argument of the data structure implies, I'd recommend to better not read more than 32K at a time. ... DL = 044h This function will return the table of security helper functions for file access. ...

This module provides for server-side imagemap processing. ... Configurable generation of imagemap menus. The lines in the imagemap files can have one of several formats: directive value [x,y ...] . ... The directives can come in any order, but are processed in the order they are found in the imagemap file. base Directive . ... Module: mod_imap . ... Its value is overridden by a default directive within the imagemap file. ... Its value is overridden by a base directive within the imagemap file. ...

... There are TPM log files for every night of the dark run except for the nights of 08 October and 14 October 1999. ... The figures below are plots of the MIG data with the y-axis in TPM MIG units (real MIG units*1000) and the x-axis in seconds since midnight. ... Figure: Plot of MIG values vs elapsed time from midnight 10 October 1999. ... Figure: Plot of MIG values vs elapsed time from midnight 08 October 1999.The plot starts recording data from 21:26:52.0 on that day. ... 11/24/1999 ...

This is how a typical dispersion modeling result looks when shown as a map. ... Their numerical values are shown at the top. White normally means no data, but high values may be also shown as white if above the fixed high limit (that is, if no automatic normalization is used for colors). Note that calculations were done both for cell positions and for station positions, so both are colored. PO territories are filled by color corresponding to the average value of cells overlaying them. ...