XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­229 RGS Background Spectra Templates R. Gonz’alez­Riestra June 19, 2007 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE EVALDATE Blocks changed XSCS flag RGS1 TEMPLATEBCKGND 0004 2000­01­01T00:00:00 -- X100 P090 1 0.00.. ... The structure of the calibration files is as described in the Release Note for the previous version of the CCF (RGS[12] TEMPLATEBCKGND 0003): 64 extensions, 32 for first­order and 32 for second­order background spectra. ...

... Up: Iraf Packages . ... IRAF Group, NOAO 1 , PO Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 . This paper describes a new IRAF spectroscopy exposure time calculator. ... SPTIME takes an input source spectrum, either a reference blackbody, power law, or a user spectrum, a background ``sky'', observing parameters such as exposure time, central wavelength, seeing, airmass, and moon phase, instrument parameters such as aperture sizes and detector binning, a description of the spectrograph, and desired output. ...

Data in GIPSY is stored in so called sets . A set consists of two components: an image component and a descriptor component. These components are stored in separate files, but in GIPSY they are always used together. The image data is stored in a `crystalline' structure with a virtually unlimited (up to 20) number of dimensions. ... Within a set subsets can be defined. ... The figure below shows the possible subset types in a three-dimensional set, a `` cube '': . ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the H_alpha image of the galaxy. ... The line-of-sight velocity fields of gaseous clouds in galactic disks of NGC 157 were analyzed by the method of reconstruction of 3D vector velocity field --- three components of velocities. ... This figure is produced with the help of software VORTEX developed in the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Back to Project Vortex. ...

Next: Results Up: High Resolution Measurements from Previous: Introduction . The first step in PSA is to Fourier transform the image and calculate the square modulus of the FT to generate the power spectrum, . ... Specifically, one excludes the very lowest frequencies where the large scale nonuniformities in the image have the greatest effect, and one limits the fit to a frequency range where the SNR is sufficiently high. ...

Main research interests: . 1) Structure and geometry of the circumnuclear medium of AGN, particularly through hard X-ray observations of obscured sources. ... 3) Physics of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs): analysis of the AGN and starburst components through hard X-ray and infrared (with ground-based 3-5 micron spectroscopy, and with Spitzer in the 5-30 micron band) imaging and spectroscopy. ...

... Posts tagged ?principle component analysis? ... From SINGS (Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey): Isn?t it a beautiful Hubble tuning fork? ... Tags: Classification , clustering , factor analysis , Hubble , multivariate analysis , principle component analysis , SING , Spitzer , tuning fork . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Next: Transparency of the Stochastic Up: Model of the Galaxy Previous: Frequency distribution of galactic . ... The parameters of the model resulted from a numerical fitting of various data, such as the observed distribution of the young star population and neutral hydrogen, the density of population II stars in the vicinity of the Sun, the galactic rotation curve and the dynamics and distribution of globular clusters   and dwarf irregular satellites of the Galaxy. ...

... This guide discusses the concept and use of Dynamic HTML, which includes style sheets, content positioning, and downloadable fonts. ... This document discusses each of the three components of Dynamic HTML, describes how to use them, and gives examples of the use of each one. ... Positioning HTML Content contains the following chapters: Chapter 7, "Introduction," introduces the concept of positioning HTML content and discusses the two kinds of syntax you can use to create positioned blocks of content...

... Science . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Properties of kinematically decoupled structures in Early-Type Galaxies . ... Science Users Information . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... The project consists in measuring the stellar kinematics, stellar populations, dynamics, and morphological properties of the kinematically decoupled structures observed in the inner regions of Early-Type Galaxies. ... Return to list of thesis topics...

... Velocity allipcoid parameters as functions of heigt above the Galactic disk for the complete sample of F -stars (left) and a young ( t 3 Gyr) metal-rich ( [Fe/H] -0.13 ) group (reght). ... next figure | previous figure . ...

... 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. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... A Wavelet Parallel Code for Structure Detection A. Pagliaro Istituto di Astronomia dell'Universit‘a di Catania U. Becciani, V.Antonuccio and M.Gambera Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania Abstract. We describe a parallel code for 3­D structure detection and morphological analysis. The method is based on a multiscale technique, the wavelet transform and on segmentation analysis. ... Segmentation analysis. ...

... 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. ...

... The analysis shows, that asteroid ­ rubble pile loses its fast fragments in no time but the retaining fragments forms a compact structure immersed in dust ­ gas atmosphere, created by interaction of interplanetary medium with dispersed product of collisional evolution of asteroid. By interaction of an asteroid ­ rubble pile with interplanetary medium structures asteroid can increase its brightness on account of blowed up dust simulating phenomenon of distant comet's brightening. ...

... Impedance . Electrical impedance, or simply impedance, describes a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating current (AC). Electrical impedance extends the concept of resistance to AC circuits, describing not only the relative amplitudes of the voltage and current, but also the relative phases. ... Resistance is the real part of impedance; a device with a purely resistive impedance exhibits no phase shift between the voltage and current. ...