... 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. Compare: A Scaleable and Portable Catalog Cross-Comparison Engine for the NVO Serge Monkewitz, John Good Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Abstract. We describe the architecture of a general cross-comparison engine capable of spatially matching sources in one astronomical source catalog with those in another. ... Data access and source list processing Figure 2. ...

... OOF software . ... Memos . ... Raw data . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Please note that the files"COPYING" in each of the distribution packages have GPL listed but it is in fact LGPL which applies. ... This is the raw data from the SMA used in the analysis shown in Section 4 of the memo. ...

... Radio astronomical tests of the engineering model of the space radio telescope (SRT) were completed in Pushchino - see Results . ... Monitoring of the development of the upgrade on-board 1.35-cm receiver (R-SRT-1.35 cm): . ... EM Engineering Model . ... OHCFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne and Clock Frequency Synthesizer set . OHFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Hydrogen Frequency Standard . ORFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Rubidium Frequency Standard . ...

... astro-ph . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . ... Quasar Variability in the Framework of Poissonian Models . ... It is shown that in this very general framework the well established anti-correlation between variability amplitude and wavelength can only be understood as an effect of an underlying spectral component which remains stable on long time-scales, and is redder than the variable component. ...

... Press Releases . ... Press & Web Coverage . ... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. Click here to hear more and here to see who plays this music . Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. Click here to to see more press cuttings. ... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... The majestic star-forming region in the Lagoon Nebula. The pale ring to the right is an internal reflection in the telescope.€а (Image credit: ESO/ VPHAS+/ V. Kalari and J. Vink (Armagh Observatory) . ... The 18 component images were further processed twice. ... Venu and his colleagues use images like this to identify individual young forming stars in the Lagoon Nebula and determine their ages. ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... This tutorial is about how to setup typical FTS application using PostgreSQL. We create our configuration pg , which will be default for locale ru_RU.UTF-8 . ... We'll use postgresql specific dictionary using synonym template dictionary and store it under PG_ROOT/share/dicts_data directory. ... After vacuuming, we are ready to perform full-text search. =# select rank_cd(fts_index, q)as rank, title from pgweb, plainto_tsquery('create table') q where q @@ fts_index order by rank desc limit 10; . ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

... Speckle polarimeter (previosly known as Multimode Fast Camera MFC) is an instrument which will implement several observational methods of astronomy in visible (BVRI bands): speckle interferometry, polarimetry, speckle polarimetry (including polaroastrometry), and fast photometry. The speckle polarimeter will be installed in one of auxiliary Nasmyth ports of 2.5 m telescope of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Speckle interferometry. ... Tests of speckle polarimeter at 2.5 m telescope. ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and back­ ward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Pro­ posal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

The construction of NIFS is progressing well with preparations in hand for the next two cooldowns. The detailed design of all the NIFS mechanisms has been completed and the mechanisms are under construction. ... The NIFS OIWFS filter/aperture wheel and OIWFS gimbal mechanism have been manufactured by the University of Hawaii and delivered to the Australian National University. ... Vinko Medic polishing the OIWFS optable in preparation for cold-testing the NIFS mechanisms in the cryostat. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main research and development work completed in 2012 and ready for implementation . ... Main research and development work completed in 2011 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2010 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for implementation ...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: ATP1021 Title: comment on the paper by Dalin , Pertsev and Romejko Significance of lunar impact on noctilucent clouds ( revised version) Article Type: Research Paper Section/Category: Keywords: Noctilucent clouds moon influence mesosphere Manuscript Region of Origin: Abstract: a critical review of the paper by Dalin , ... Reference: Dalin, P.A., N.N. Pertsev, V.A. Romejko. ...