Home | ... XUVLab is an Academic Research & Technology Center involved in challenging scientific national and international programs in the field of: . ... High-energy astrophysics . ... Material science & processing for innovative detectors . ... My research interests and activities mainly lies in the field of technologies and electronics instrumentation for ground and space-based Astrophysics and Polarimetry/Spectropolarimetry. ... e-mail: mauro@arcetri.astro.it . ... Copyright © 2008 Mauro Focardi. ...

... 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 . ...

... WFPC2 IDT Observations of Circumstellar Material . ... HST . ... The Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) Investigation Definition Team (IDT) has used the instrument on HST to observe circumstellar material around eleven young stellar objects, three main sequence stars with debris disks, and three shell stars. ... DG Tau shows a number of arcs of reflection nebulosity and significant jet structure. ... HH 30 has a disk and jet (models of the disk nebulosity are presented). ...

Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about space stations: . APOD: 2006 May 16 - The International Space Station from Above . ... Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery . ... APOD: 2002 October 20 - The Space Shuttle Docked with Mir . ... Pictured above in 1995, the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the segmented Mir . ... APOD: 2006 April 29 - Skylab Over Earth . ... Index | ...

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... II-VI Semiconductors . ... CdS . ZnS . ... ZnS -UV-radiation semiconductor lasers for optical lithography . ZnSe - blue radiation semiconductor lasers for projection systems . ... Zn 1-x Cd x Se - light-blue and red radiation semiconductor lasers for projection systems light modulators . Zn 1-x Cd x S -light-blue and red radiation semiconductor lasers for projection systems . Zn 1-y Cd y S 1-x Se x -UV and light-blue and red radiation semiconductor lasers for projection systems . ...

... As modern observatories evolve to production units delivering data products and calibrated scientific data to the end users, new challenges arise in assessing the quality of data products. ... Taking the analogy of speed control on a motorway we can describe the system as a device (radar) collecting measurements of the system performance (passing cars). ... One of the direct applications of quality control is the verification of instrument performance based on the analysis of calibration exposures. ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

. Note: This material is from a 1994(!) Talk about CCDs - the physics remains the same, only the detector size has increased since then. ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

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ENERGOSPECTROMETER OF IONOSPHERIC PLASMA P3-3 . ... The major objective of the P3-3 experiment is complex investigation the main parameters of ionospheric plasma with high time and spatial resolution. ... Measured parameters: . ... The experiment produce regular data - measured with fixed time interval and «packet» data - measured once per specific time interval and producing blocks of TM-information. ... If all parameters will be measured once per second, the experiment will produce 10 MB per orbit. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Opening of COSMION - 99 Chair - M.Yu.Khlopov 10.50-11.25. A.Yu.Kamenshchik, I.M.Khalatnikov, A.V.Toporensky "Dynamics of Closed Cosmological Model with a Scalar Field" 11.25-12.00. A.A. Starobinsky "A new life of the Lifshitz-Khalatnikov quasi-isotropic solution" Coffee break Chair - A.A.Starobinsky 12.20-12.55. ... M.Yu.Khlopov "Cosmological Consequence of the Particle Theory: Dark Matter, Antimatter and Mirror Matter in the Universe" Coffee break Chair - Yu.N.Parijsky 12.30-13.10. ...

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... Star formation requires interstellar clouds that are cold and dense enough for self-gravity to overcome internal pressure from gas thermal motions and other factors, thus leading to cloud contraction and eventual collapse to stellar densities. ... Absorption has all of these parameters plus one more describing the fraction of the emission (p) that is behind the absorbing cloud. ... Obser ving Interstellar Hydrogen Clouds Clouds in the ISM can produce either emission or absorption spectra. ...

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. ...