The following files list line and continuum emissivities from the Arcetri Spectral Code. ... Ne = 10^8 g-zipped file (phot cm^3 s^-1); Ne = 10^8 g-zipped file (erg cm^3 s-1) . ... File format (html): File format for the continuum files . ... File format (html): File format for binned line emission files The following files list transitions whose emissivities have values greater than a fixed amount (10^-19 phot s^-1 cm^+3 and 10^-30 erg s^-1 cm^+3 respectively): . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

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... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Specifying source region shapes . When radiusstyle =`contour', the task calculates the source region shape as an elliptical locus which approximates the contour of the PSF at a given flux value. ... Clearly, in order to calculate the shape of such a flux contour, it is necessary firstly to normalize the PSF to the source brightness and secondly to determine the flux level (in `brightness' units per pixel) at which to find the contour. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 21, 1999 . Follow The Spots . Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA . ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

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A. A. Sukhanov . Modern Methods for Space Flight Dynamics and Their Applications . ... The following effective mathematical methods are suggested for solution of different space flight dynamics problems: . 1) A simple method for the calculation of the state transition matrices of the first and second order. The method allows calculation of the matrices for any orbit types. ... 3) A double planet swingby optimization. ... Applications of the methods are given. ...

ERS -1,2 SAR . ... SIR-C/X SAR . ... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994, simultaneously recorded SAR data at three wavelengths (L-, C-, and X-bands; 23.5, 5.8, and 3.1 cm, respectively). ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

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... The first of the equations defines the position of the spectral orders, m , in the raw image, while the second equation gives, for each order, the dispersion relation in one dimension. ... where the coefficients are computed using least squares techniques on a grid , i.e. sample number and line number of points located within the spectral orders of the image. These points in the grid are found automatically by an order--following algorithm, normally using the FLAT or STD image. ...

... The IRAF task rvcorrect is used to compute radial velocity corrections. rvcorrect is in the IRAF astutil package and it calls on task observatory , which is also found in astutil. The following steps are an example of its use for an HST dataset where the HST velocity around the Earth is ignored (maximum residual: +/- ~7.8 km/s): . ... Here is an example of file rvcor . ... Run the rvcorrect task: cl>rvcorrect f=rvcor.in > outputfile The above example produced the following output file. ...

... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

The following tasks belong to the category UTILITY: . General utilities'' In parentheses the name of the source file is given. ... DISK . DISK lists the contents of the current directory and lists some properties of GIPSY sets. ( disk.c ) . ... Loads a Digitized Sky Survey FITS file into a GIPSY set. ( dssload.c ) . ... Add, change, delete or list item(s) in set header ( fixhed.c ) . ... List FITS files on a tape ( lfits.c ) . ... Load FITS files from tape into a GIPSY set. ( rfits.c ) . ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

Distribution of the analyzed SEPs with different >100 MeV proton fluxes ( J 100 ) at the microwave flux density plane ' S 9 vs. ... 1) General correspondence takes place between intensities of microwave bursts and proton fluxes - J 100 increases when S 9 and S 15 rise. ... 3) Powerful microwave bursts ( S 9 , S 15 >3000-10000 sfu ) with hard radio spectra ( S 9 < S 15 ) correspond to majority of powerful proton fluxes ( J 100 >10 pfu ). ...

These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

... Suppose that a NS having a rotational magnetic   luminosity forms a binary system (with semi-major axis a ) with a normal star losing matter in the form of stellar wind (with a loss rate ). ... This means that while deriving the formula for a cavern in the general case, we must take into account the proximity of the normal star. ... It follows from the symmetry considerations that at the anterior point of the cavern (i.e. the point closest to the normal star), . ... If , the cavern is closed. ...