... The spectrograph is designed for detailed studies of extended objects - galaxies and HII regions with a moderate spectral resolution. ... The updated Universal Astronomical Grating Spectrograph (UAGS, Carl Zeiss Jena) with a fast Schmidt camera is a base of the Long Slit Spectrograph (LSS). A cryostated Charge Coupled Device (CCD) detector is built inside the Schmidt camera. ... It was realized in the Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Photometry of Extragalactic Objects of SAO RAS. ... Camera . ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

... SFIT is a general-purpose code designed to optimize theoretical stellar spectra to an observed spectrum. ... While the programme expects input from "stdio", it is more natural to save commands in a file (eg "sfit_input") and run the code simply by . ... If the spectra to be fitted have a filename "star_spectrum", then the best fit spectrum will be written out, together with the renormalized input spectrum, to a file called "star_spectrum.fit". ... sets up model spectrum grid (and for 2nd star) . ...

... They include: 4 dither patterns, 4 chop patterns, and 3 dither-chop patterns. For each of these, the observer will be able to specify, during the Phase II Proposal submission, the total number of positions desired (2 to 40), the dither size (0 to 40 arcsecs), the chop size (0 to 1800 arcsecs), and the orientation of the pattern on the sky. ... In addition, the figure number where the pattern is graphically shown is given in column 5 of Table 10.1 . ... Figure 10.3 . ... 0.0 - 1800.0 . ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

November 5, 2001 (Monday) Xiao-Gang He, National Taiwan University . ... Tuesday, 2:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . Fall 2000 . Winter 2001 . Spring 2001 . ... Recent data from type Ia supernovae show that our universe is currently expanding with an accelerating rate. ... I will also discuss how structure formation is affected. 4:00pm, 318 Willamette Hall . ... To facilitate interpretation of this result, model independent analyses are also presented. 2:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

... Bakhshiyan . ... MV- and E-optimal design of experiments: theory and simplex algorithms . ... A mathematical analogy between a L-and MV-optimal experiments design and an ideal linear correction of system parameters is established, Optimality conditions are derived on the basis of this analogy and effective algorithms for solving these problems are designed. ... The E-optimal problem is reduced to the generalized linear programming problem with M+1 by constraints, where M=m (m+1) /2. ...

... In laboratory the design and a manufacturing techniques mirror aspherical optics are developed ("fokon", ellipsoid, aspherical mirror).Such optical elements are made of widespread aluminium alloys on the standard equipment without use diamond turning. ... Using: optical blocks of not image optical devices for transitions, collimation, focus (concentration) radiations in a wide spectral range from UV to IR. Focusing and collimation of light; . ... circle aperture/ring aperture; . ... Back Forward . ...

... 6 Input Files  an EPIC spectrum le containing a datasubspace de nition  an optional second le containing the bad pixel extensions 7 Output Files  The input spectrum is modi ed 8 Algorithm Create a grid which encompasses the source region if ( source region half-width 2 arcmins) { grid_element_Width = 10 } xmmsas\_20041122\_1834-6.1.0 XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 3 else { grid_element_Width = 20 } ...

... Graca Rocha ё 2 · 1998 Talk given in the National Astronomy and Astrophysics meeting (8ENA), entitled `Estimation of Cosmological Parameters using CMB data', held in Porto, Center for Astrophysics of the University of Porto, CAUP, Portugal - July 30-31, 1998. ... Porto, May 1999. ... 2000 Talk given at the Center for Astrophysics of the University of Porto, CAUP, entitled `Reading the future through the spots in the sky', Porto, 16th of February, 2000. ... Porto, March 2001. ...

... As part of the AXAF Science Center (ASC) Data Analysis Environment, we will provide to the astronomical community a Fitting Application. ... The high spatial and spectral resolutions that will be obtained with AXAF instruments require a sophisticated data modeling capability. ... Fitting models to data is a vital part of the analysis of astronomical data. As part of the ASC Data Analysis Environment, we have designed a Fitting Application. ... Empirical Models. ... AXAF Instrument Response Models. ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... Here we detail the input parameters that cover the overall process control, and the switches to turn on & off different parts of the pipeline. Values for parameters that act as flags (ie. those that accept true/false values) should be given in lower case only , to ensure comparisons work properly. These parameters affect how the slurm jobs are set up and where the output data products go. ... SUBMIT_JOBS . ... User Parameters - Pipeline & job control . ...

... 2004 November 22 . Swift Launches . Credit: NASA . ... To help find out, NASA launched the Swift satellite on Saturday, as pictured above . ... Once a gamma ray burst (GRB) is located, Swift itself will rotate to face it head-on and determine its distance directly. ... Subsequently collected GRB and afterglow information will help astronomers not only determine the nature of the initial explosions, but also the nature of the expanding shockwaves. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

Next: Results of follow-up spectroscopy Up: Data reduction Previous: Reduction of the Calar . In the final spectra, redshifts and line fluxes are measured within MIDAS, applying Gaussian fitting to the emission lines. To determine redshifts for individual galaxies, averages are taken over the prominent individual emission lines (mostly H , H , [O III ] 4959,5007 ?) The line [O II ] 3727 ? ... For all spectra, the individual emission line fluxes of the H , [N II ] 6548,6583 ? ...

... This tool is designed to create formatted and unformatted file-by-file reports from fits headers, or fits files. fitsreport reads from a configuration file all the keys to be displayed: . ... retrieve non-FITS information (file name, path name). ... The tool reads all fits files in the given path, evaluates the configuration file fitsreport_raw.cfg (to be in ${DFO_CONFIG_DIR}) and dumps the output into out. ... This is more evident in the other config file, fitsreport_raw.cfg. ...

... The Post-Reduction Off-line Software (PROS) is a portable x-ray analysis software system designed to run under NOAO's Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). The PROS system provides IRAF users with tasks that will properly access the x-ray data. ... Similarly many IRAF tasks will be useful for x-ray data. ... The IRAF system, previous to the development of the PROS software, provided many of the features needed to analyze generic astronomical data, optical data in particular. ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

... There are preliminary series of photometric and radio spectral observations of the above-mentioned stars, archival data on the light curves of the stars, results of the search for OH and H 2 O maser emission in IRAS point sources that possess the IR parameters similar to Miras. ... The aim is a detailed study of the maser emission variability. ... In 1996-1997, astronomical observations of Mira Ceti-type stars (miras) were carried out in three spectral ranges: optical, infrared, and radio. ...

The Interball-Tail KP archive is final. ... Select a day: . Data available since August 3, 1995) . ... DAY . ... Magnetic field (PRAM) Electron density and mean energy (ELECTRON) Ion density, velocity and temperature (CORALL) Energetic particle fluxes (DOK-2 and SKA-2) H+ and O+ fluxes (PROMICS) AKR intensity (AKR) Antisunward ion flux (VDP) Plasma wave amplitudes (MIF-M/PRAM) PC index (Ground-based) INTERBALL-TAIl orbit . ... Now data in all formats are available for 1995-2000) . GIF plot . ...