Next: Generating Calibration Reference Files with an OPUS Pipeline . Up: Data Pipelines and Quality Control . ... Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 . ... The OPUS pipeline data processing software, developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), handles this demanding level of throughput by providing a distributed, concurrent pipeline processing environment for the set of applications that transform the raw telescope telemetry into archival products. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... This class is designed to be an up to date summary of the last 10-20 years of observations relevant to Cosmology. ... Theory today is bombarded by a vast array of observational data but there remains no clear and preferred model for the origin and evolution of structure in the Universe. ... The inflationary paradigm and the nature of the Dark Matter - Inflation solves a lot of problems that are inherent in the standard Big Bang Model. ... Kinds of Dark Matter and Observational Constraints . ...

The presence of dust in starburst galaxies complicates the study of their stellar populations as the dust's effects are similar to those associated with changes in the galaxies' stellar ages and metallicities. ... We present the calibration of the flux ratio method for calculating the dust attenuation at a particular wavelength, Att(ЮЛ), based on the measurement of the F(IR)/F(ЮЛ) flux ratio. ... However, at longer wavelengths the relationship is dependent on the assumed stellar properties. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

Lectures . ... 100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ ? ... Michael Way, astronomer/computer scientist at NASAтАЩs Ames Research Center and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will give the first lecture of the AAAтАЩs 2009-10 lecture series Friday, October 2 when he discusses тАЬ100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ The free public lecture is at 6:15 p. m. at the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH. by . ...

... What are the fluxes of the stars? ... Volume sampled is no longer 4/3 pi r cubed due to curved space-time Want to derive population properties brightness, size, etc - as function of distance (therefore, cosmic time) But - biases in sample Biases NUMBER OF STARS VS MASS Eddington Bias: in astronomy, there are always more little faint things than big bright things. ... Suppose there are 10 stars of mass 0.5 and 100 stars of mass 0.4, and you have a 20 percent error on measuring the mass. ...

... 2001) MIR detection rate towards water masers: ~80% (De Buizer et al. ... Is accompanied by outflow Surprisingly, near-IR outflow observations in H2 showed emission PARALLEL to maser distributions, not perpendicular De Buizer (2003) surveyed sites of linearly distributed methanol masers at CTIO ­ ONLY 2 had emission perpendicular to the maser distribution ­ 12 (86%) had emission parallel to the maser distribution De Buizer (2003) G319.95-0.20 G320.23-0.28 Surprisingly, near...

A press release on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey was associated with this poster. ... Below are maps of HI emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity ( Figure 1 ) and latitude ( Figure 2 ) axes. ... 2000, A. J. , submitted . ... GIF | ... We are developing automated methods of locating HISA in velocity cubes by removing large-scale emission in space and velocity and flagging small-scale dark residuals. ...

... High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy" Symposium | ... ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Colleague, We would like to invite you to participate in the International Symposium on "High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy", to be held June 26-30, 2000, in Heidelberg, Germany. The idea of the Symposium is to discuss the basic topics and the objectives of the rapidly developing field of gamma-ray astronomy in the high energy regime above 10 GeV. ... High energy counterparts of Gamma-Ray Bursts. ... Gamma rays from Dark Matter. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The new document explaining how to get and run the code: Using casata (i.e., how to get it without revision control!) ... casata is a thin layer on top of CASA which implements commonly used procedures for analysis of data from aperture array telescopes at radio frequencies. ... One way to think of casata is as a CASA data reduction script but with an attempt at careful software engineering. ... Contributing to casata . ... casata: CASA Tools for Analysis . ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Data Reduction Pipelines Distributed as RPM Packages . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Instrument Pipelines . ... ESO has started to distribute the instrument data reduction pipelines as RPM packages. ... Instructions on how to configure the ESO RPM repository as well as to download and install the VLT instrument pipelines are available from the pipelines page or directly here ...

asncombine -- Process and combine images in one or two NICMOS associations asncombine association . ... set to yes to include error planes in co-added images error. background . ... This is useful to use different background subtractions for different images. fheader . set to yes in order to multiply the background by the value of keyword "factor" in the image header. ... Set to yes to use quadrants statistics save in the image header from previous runs of asncombine. regquad1 . ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

FITS format . ... This short introduction to the FITS format is written for the astronomers not accustomed to use FITS files. ... A FITS file is composed by one or several Header Data Unit (HDU), each being an independent data structure: image or table. ... The beginning of the header must contains the following keywords: SIMPLE to tell it is a FITS file (or XTENSION if it is not the first HDU) BITPIX to give the format of the data (eg. 16 for short integer, or -32 for floating point values). ...

Stellar population of the interacting galaxies M51. ... Stellar photometry of about one million stars in the system of the interacting galaxies M51 has been carried out on the basis of the ACS images of the Hubble Space telescope. ... A comparison of the stellar distribution in the main galaxy NGC 5194 with the empirical model of the distribution of stars showed their similarity, in spite of interaction in the system. ...

... In collaboration with Drs Van Genderen (Leiden, Holland) and Sterken (Brussels, Belgium) papers XV and XVI in the series `Light Variations of Massive Stars' were published. These dealt with the brightness variations of several massive stars in the two nearest neighbour galaxies, namely six stars (R85, R99, R103, R110, R123 and R128) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and two (R42 and R45) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

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