SPICE system is a data system built by Navigation Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) , acting under the directions of NASA's Office of Space Science, to assist scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations from space borne instruments. ... Scientists in many countries may be counted as SPICE customers. In addition to providing SPICE technology to NASA and international space missions the NAIF Group serves as the Ancillary Data Node of NASA's Planetary Data System . ...

... Design, fabrication and experimental studies of a novel device: Cold Electron Bolometer (CEB). ... The Cold-Electron Bolometer (CEB) proposed at Chalmers University is a novel device, which could be a turning point in realization of modern supersensitive detectors. ... The key element of my research is design, fabrication and studies of such terahertz band cold electron bolometer with attowatt sensitivity, to develop a novel type of bolometer in which electrons are cooled below the phonon...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

Statistics for Astronomy III: Non-parametric statistics , Error Analysis and Confidence Inter vals B. Nikolic b.nikolic@mrao.cam.ac.uk Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/lecture/astrostats.html October 2008 Goals for this Lecture Non-parameteric statistics Kolmogorov-Smirnov test U-test (MannWhitney Wilcoxon) Likelihood versus posterior probability Basic ... Probability theory and the model give: P ({xi }| ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

... Proximity e#ects of com­ ponents (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... As an example, we consider the Algol (# Persei) system, where an eclipsing pair (Algol A­B) is accompanied by the third component (Algol C). ... The surface temperature distribution for Algol A­B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation e#ect. ... We solve this equation by the iterative Newton­Raphson method. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... AIA 304 ? ... bottom) images (colour table reversed) of a coronal hole region at the South Pole taken on 14 May 2010. ... In the present work we derive a Differential Emission Measure (DEM) distribution from a region dominated by spicules. ... This distribution is then used to study the thermal properties of the emission contributing to the 171 ? ... From our off-limb DEM we found that the radiance in the AIA 171 ? ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... History of MAO . ... БЂ“ 2013. ... Zakhozhay O. and Vorobyov E.I. The signatures of disk fragmentation in spectral energy distributions // Proceedings of the conference Hot Planets and Cool Stars, Garching, November 12-16, 2012. ... Zakhozhay O.V., Vorobyov E.I. Spectral energy distributions of fragmenting protostellar disks // Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets Proceedings IAU Symposium No....

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

The participants have to be familiarized in advance with the site of the round during the daytime in the case the round (part of the round) organized during the night. In the case the round have a task with a telescope (except for observations with the already adjusted and guided telescope) every participant has to be familiarized with that actual telescope, on which one the participant will work during the round . ... APAO 2005 Irkutsk , IAO 2006 Bombay, APAO 2006 Vladivostok, IAO 2007 Crimea, . ...

. This Directory contains Model of distribution of density, temperature and effective collision freguency of electrons. Yu.K.Chasovitin. 1998. This Directory contains The program RIM98 for calculating the parameters of the ionosphere to use the "Reference Ionospheric Model-98" (RIM-98).Yu.K.Chasovitin. 1998.

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . FileљList . ... core . modules . Skylight.hpp . ... 33 љ float color[3]; // 3 component color, can be RGB or CIE color system . ... 48 љ void setParams( float sunZenithAngle, float turbidity); . ... 109 љ float zenithLuminance; // Y color component of the CIE color at zenith (luminance) . 110 љ float zenithColorX; // x color component of the CIE color at zenith . 111 љ float zenithColorY; // y color component of the CIE color at zenith . ...

... The Radon transform (also known as the Hough transform) is formulated as a family of line integrals through a two-dimensional function. ... The Radon transform provides us with a simple means of computing the FF plane of the autochirplet transform, by using the Wigner distribution, and arriving at a transform space that tells us basically the same information as the chirplet FF-plane, except that we benefit from the greater resolution of the Wigner distribution. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... 2006: . ... 1) A study of the solar corona. ... 2) The study of the solar northern polar region. A powerful radio source above the solar North Pole in the region of the polar coronal hole was discovered. ... A transition boundary from brightening to darkening at the wavelength of 3.5cm was found in the emission of the polar coronal hole. These facts are decisive for the choice of the solar cycle model. 3) Polarized radio emission of a high-latitude prominence was registered. ... Archive . ...

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