Space-VLBI with RadioAstron : new correlator capabilities at MPIfR PoS(EVN 2014 )119 G. Bruni1 , J. M. Anderson1,2 , W. Alef1 , A. Lobanov1,3 , J. A. Zensus1 1 2 Max-Planck-Institut fЭr Radioastronomie, Auf dem ... Potsdam, Germany 3 Institut fЭr Experimentalphysik, UniversitДt Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany E-mail: bruni@ mpifr -bonn.mpg.de DiFX is a correlator for VLBI ... This enables the RadioAstron data to be converted into a format supported by DiFX. ...

... QtPlot supports ASCII and XML format. ... This modified package, QtPlot, supports column delimited ASCII format tables (the so-called IPAC table format), but of greater importance is the fact that it supports XML structured for astronomical plot directives, underpinned by the eXtensible Data Format(XDF), a container for transporting scientific data. ... Data Format Broadly speaking, QtPlot supports two formats: column delimited ASCII tables (IPAC table format), and XML. ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

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... 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. ...