... NB The next 2 columns will only be present if the parameter usecat has been set to true . ... Source parameters such as count-rates, magnitudes and semi-major axes, are given in sub-tables-eg the column CORR_RATE is actually a vector column containing the values for each filter. ... QUALITY FLAGS Each source has an associated ``quality flag''. ... 0 1 Source lies above one or more bad pixels . ... QFLAG The quality flag for each source in each filter obtained from the input source-lists. ...

... Posts tagged ?parameter estimation? ... Leccardi & Molendi (2007) have a paper in A&A ( astro-ph/0705.4199 ) discussing the biases in parameter estimation when spectral fitting is confronted with low counts data. Not surprisingly, they find that the bias is higher for lower counts, for standard chisq compared to C-stat, for grouped data compared to ungrouped. ... Tags: bias , C-stat , chi-square , chisq , Cstat , Fitting , parameter estimation , Peter Freeman , spectra . ... 1 Comment . ...

GHRS Instrument Handbook 5.0 115 Index 116 GHRS Instrument Handbook 5.0 A Accumulation Mode 13, 19, 34, 43--45 CENSOR 44 details 95--96 CENSOR, see also noise rejection COMB 15, 44 DOPPLER 44 FP­SPLIT 14, 30, 43, 44 high signal­to­ noise methods 107 parameter summary 44 STEP ­PATT 15, 44, 92, 114 STEP ­ TIME 44 substepping 19 acquisition parameters ACQ/PEAKUP, see acquisition ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

The reduction of a given magnitude m to it is given by: . ... The galaxy extraction was made with a Discriminant Analysis based on seven parameters (peak intensity over area, Mean surface brightness, Peak intensity, Axis ratio, Relative surface object/matrix, Elongation of the matrix and Diffraction cross) and calibrated with a sample of 1146 DENIS objects visually classified as "galaxy", "star" or "unknown". A visual inspection of every galaxy candidate was made on the matrix of pixels. ...