... Up: Data Compression . Previous: Cosmic Ray Rejection with NGST . ... The concept of Automatic Programming and Managing of simulations is applied to the compression of the data stream expected from the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) aboard Planck Surveyor, the next millennium European Space Agency (ESA) satellite for imaging the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). ... Mandolesi, N., et al. 1998a, ``Low Frequency Instrument for Planck'', Proposal submitted to ESA . ...

... With the beginning term of a new Board of Trustees, AAAP would like to thank Michele Novatski (past Program Chair) and Mark Jaworsky (past Secretary) for their dedicated work for the club in 2004-05. ... The AAAP Observatory is in top gear now, with public star watch sessions held the first and last Friday of each month throughout the spring and summer at the AAAP's Washington Crossing Observatory. ... Newly elected program chair Ken Kramer requested member suggestions on future programs for the...

Rep ort by the ESA­ESO Working Group on Extra-Solar Planets 4 March 2005 Summary Various techniques are being used to search for extra-solar planetary signatures, including accurate measurement of radial velocity and positional (astrometric) displacements, gravitational microlensing, and photometric transits. Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some