... The spherical aberration affecting the HST primary mirror (Burrows et al. 1992) can seriously alter the core brightness profile of elliptical galaxies. ... In this paper we test the performance of deconvolution in recovering the original surface brightness profile in the case of elliptical galaxies observed with the HST Planetary Camera (PC). ... Keywords: Elliptical Galaxies, Deconvolution . ...

The parameter brief (with its actual uncertainty sbrief) is the mean effective surface brightness in B-band , i.e. the mean surface brightness inside the effective aperture (the circular aperture enclosing one-half the total flux). It is expressed in mag arcsec -2 . ... 2) from the mean surface brightness "LV" inside the effective isophote (elliptical isophote enclosing one half the total flux) measured by Launberts&Valentijn (1989) . ... Effective radius . ... HyperLeda . ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

... Modifies the PSF map, by applying the effect of EPIC charge transfer smearing. This should be called BEFORE any pile-up correction (see 3.3.31 ) in order to ensure that the correct fraction of INPUT detected events are re-distributed. The routine consults the ModeParams files for a smearing fraction, and takes the integrated surface brightness in each CCD column, and reduces the brightness according to this fraction, then redistributes the smeared fraction evenly over the column. ...

Next: Program use Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Description of program searchdup . Parameter input is done with a graphic user interface. ... Input file: Name of the input catalog file. It has to be formatted, one record per source/observation, according to the format used in the Arcetri observations and source archives. ... Minimum number of observations per source Source with less than this number of independent observations are not included in the output file . ...

Old subtables of the extended ``HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog'' . ... Koribalski, Staveley-Smith, Kilborn, + HIPASS/ZOA teams 2004, AJ 128, 16 . The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: The HI Mass Function . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ... To download the gzipped ps-file click here . ... The Brightest Galaxies from HIPASS . Presented is the distribution of the 700 brightest HIPASS galaxies. ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

... We demonstrate through numerical simulations that model parameters estimated with our technique are essentially bias-free, even when the average number of counts per bin is 1. ... The IW technique avoids such biases by estimating through successive iterations, where for each iteration, j, , and the best-fit parameters are determined by minimization of . ... In our sample, we find that the minimum values and best-fit parameters converge after about 6 iterations. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOFTWARE BERNESE FOR CALCULATION OF THE EARTH ROTATION PARAMETERS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF SATELLITE LASER RANGING (LAGEOS 1, LAGEOS 2) IN THE MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTRE OF THE STATE TIME AND FREQUENCY SERVICE Tsyba E. N., Kaufman M. B. 141570, Mendeleevo, Moscow region, Russia tel. +7-903-194-7575; tsyba_e_n@mail.ru ABSTRACT Preparatory ...

... Luminosity (L) · · · · A source's luminosity is the power that it emits in radiation. ... NB Astronomers often say `flux' when they mean `flux density' · SI units are Wm-2Hz -1 -26 filter · Also used are Jy 10 Wm-2Hz -1 E= РРРF d dA dt Specific Intensity, Surface Brightness (I) · Specific intensity (or surface brightness) is the power received (or emitted) per unit area per unit frequency per unit solid angle. ч F at surface of a spherical source = I · · Specific intensity is independent of distance...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

System parameters on Digital UNIX . ... Digital and Cray use the number of bytes as the KIND -parameter. ... LOGICAL Default byte word KIND number = 4 1 4 LOGICAL Default double quad KIND number = 4 8 16 INTEGER int15 int31 int63 KIND number = 2 4 8 digits = 15 31 63 radix = 2 2 2 range = 4 9 18 huge = 32767 2147483647 9223372036854775807 bit_size = 16 32 64 REAL single double quad KIND number = 4 8 16 digits = 24 53 113 maxexponent = 128 1024 16384 minexponent = -125 -1021 -16381 ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ±30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

... Field size . Object name . ... Map size . ... Field size: the approximate size of the map in the Y direction. ... Galaxies: . ... Galaxies, which size exceeds some value depending on the field and map sizes, are displayed with their real positional angles and sizes by 25m isophote. ... In the "tools" fields there are links to the several famous AVO (Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) resources: NED and Simbad databases and DSS2 (Palomar Digitized Sky Survey) images of the corresponding sky area. ...

... The models provided are: . abs - absorption of x-rays by neutral gas with solar abundances. parameter 1 = . ... parameter 2 = . ... normalization - logarithmic value of the flux density at 1 keV in units of keV cm -2 s -1 keV -1 . ... normalization - logarithmic value of the normalization of the gaussian in units of keV cm -2 s -1 . ... absorption ( params )* model ( params ) . ... A single value for the normalization (i.e., fixed normalization) will force the program to use that value. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... 0,50-0,59 (0,50-0,59) µm . ... Swath Width . ... at end of visibilty area . ... Visibility Area Width . ... Ground Resoultion in Nadir: . along swath . ... across swath . ... Ground Resolution at End of Visibilty Area: . ... 200 lines per second . ... at least 200 . Ground resolution corresponds to normal flihgt altitude 650 km. For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... We cannot use for this purpose equivalent widths and profiles of HI lines (well known criteria of atmospheric conditions for normal supergiants), since these lines are strongly distorted in the spectrum of IRAS04296 as seen in Fig. ... Figure: Upper: iron abundance FeI (circles) and FeII (crosses) calculated for IRAS04296+3429 with model parameters , and using lines with different excitation potentials EP of a low level; bottom: the same as a function of the equivalent width W . ...