From limits to detection of a gravitational wave signal George Hobbs ATNF PPTA team. ... Jenet et al. 2005 Must look for correlated residuals Need ~20 pulsars, observed of ~5 years with rms timing residuals ~100ns Gravitational wave detection Basic ideas Jenet et al. ... 2006 New limit technique (Bill's talk) Improve timing residuals Bayesian Detection technique Gravitational wave detection A Bayesian technique for detecting gravitational waves · Work carried out by Y. Levin and R. van Haasteren. ...

... generates irreproducible results, Nature Methods 12, 179 http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n3/full/nmeth.3288.html · · · Source Detection Survival Analysis Upper Limits Source Detection · The process of source detection is an application of p-value based null hypothesis rejection Background usually estimated locally, and multiple tests are made on ... Why is this not an upper limit? ... Set the max probability of a false detection, (e.g., =0.003 for a "3" detection) 3. ...

We present submillimeter statistical detections of galaxies discovered in the 5'У?5' Spitzer Early Release Observations (to ~4-15 ЮМJy 5 Я? at 3.6-8 ЮМm, 170 ЮМJy at 24 ЮМm) through a stacking analysis of our reanalyzed SCUBA 8 mJy survey maps and a Spitzer identification of a new submillimeter point source in the 8 mJy survey region. ... We also marginally detect the Spitzer 24 ЮМm galaxies at 850 ЮМm at 97% confidence and place limits on the mean submillimeter fluxes of the 3.6 and 4.5 ЮМm sources. ...

... In the case of a single pixel of a single image, is the Poisson distribution about the expectation value of the counts due to background, . As described in section 3.2 , we say there is a source present in this pixel if is larger than a cutoff value . ... This value of , minus the expectation due to background , is defined here as the detection sensitivity. Note that this does not mean that a source with an expectation value of counts which is greater than will always be detected. ...

Next: SLIM: A Program to Simulate the ACS Spectroscopic Modes . ... Previous: On the Fly Bad Pixel Detection for the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Aspect Camera . ... We here present an overview of Celldetect , a source detection program for Chandra. ... Celldetect identifies point sources in the presence of background. ... At each point where a detection is attempted, celldetect uses an appropriately sized cell. ... The background statistics in celldetect change as the cell size increases. ...

Detected Supernovae . The search have produced till now the detections of 4 SNe. ... This result highlights the power of infrared monitoring in detecting Obscured SNe and indicates that optical surveys are probably missing a significant fraction of SNe, especially in obscured systems such as starburst galaxies. ... In Fig. we show the archival SOFI image of NGC3256 (left) and the first image obtained in 2001 (right) where SN2001db has been detected. ...

Next: Wavelength calibration Up: Reduction using Standard Previous: Order Definition: Methods . ... The algorithm accepts frame which can be mildly contaminated by particle hits, bad columns, order gaps due to absorption lines, as found in FLAT or STD . ... the interorder background is roughly constant over the frame. the slope of the orders is in the range ]0., ... For a background estimate without previous order definition, consider the echelle command BACKGROUND/SMOOTH . ... LOAD/TAB order :X :Y . ...

... 28.11.2001 . ... Credit: Greg Bacon ( STScI /AVL) Explanation: By directly detecting the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System , humanity has taken another small step toward finding extraterrestrial life . ... November 2001 . ... 2001 2002 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet . Publications with words: extrasolar planet . ... Atmospheres Detected on Two Extrasolar Planets . ...

... 2001 November 28 . Extra-Solar Planetary Atmosphere Detected . ... Explanation: By directly detecting the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System , humanity has taken another small step toward finding extraterrestrial life . The unexpected detection by David Charbonneau ( Caltech ) and associates came from Hubble Space Telescope observations of Sun -like star HD 209458 . ... About APOD | ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

EGRET Pulsar Modeling Using EGRET detections, upper limits, and di use background measurements, we nd L = 10 32:0 P 1:8 B 1:5 12 ergs=s  EGRET should have detected 20 pulsars ) there are 70 unidenti ed Galactic EGRET sources!  GLAST should detect 750 pulsars, including 120 known radio pulsars See Mclaughlin & Cordes, ApJ, vol 538

... During the analysis of the surveys carried out on RATAN-600, it was found that almost one fifth of the detected sources shows significant radio flux variations. ... We used the data from "Cold" radio surveys carried out with RATAN-600 in 1980-1994 to search for radio sources with significant flux variability. ... On possibility of detection of variable sources using the data of Cold surveys carried out on RATAN-600. ... Detection of Variable Sources Using the Data of "Cold" Surveys. ...

Next: Gamma-Ray Bursts Up: Detection rate of binary Previous: Detection rate of binary . Figure: A schematic dependence of the detection rate ratio on the detector sensitivity (the upper scale) and the limiting distance from which binary NS (1.4+1.4M , the middle scale) and binary BH (8.5+8.5M , the bottom scale) mergings can be detected. ... At the end of this segment evolutionary effects can affect the detection ratio (the dashed line). ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

Galaxies are diffuse images which must be detected against a background of finite brightness with noise. Those galaxies which have the highest contrast with respect to this background are the most easily dectect. Low surface brightness galaxies are ones in which the contrast with respect to the background sky brightness is low, as such they are difficult to discover and therefore are easily missed. See some representative picture of these objects in the Galaxy Gallery.

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The three panels show different components of near-infrared background light detected by the Hubble Space Telescope in deep-sky surveys. ... When all the stars and galaxies are masked, the background signals can be isolated, as seen in the second and third panels. The middle one reveals intrahalo light from rogue stars torn from their host galaxies, and the panel on the right captures the signature of the first galaxies formed in the universe. ...

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 . ...