... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 4: Imaging > 4.7 The Infrared Background . 4.7 The Infrared Background . ... Most of the background between 1 and 2 ? ... All three NICMOS cameras carry broad-band filters which are centered on this wavelength. ... Figure 4.17: HST Background as seen by NICMOS. ... The Exposure Time Calculator tool on the STScI NICMOS WWW page also produces background count rates for any filter/camera combination. ...

... HOME . ... Richard J. Edgar, Project Scientist . DXS, the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer instruments were flown on the STS-54 mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in January of 1993. ... A Summary of the First Results from the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer Experiment . ... In January of 1993 the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS) instruments flew on the STS-54 mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. ... The DXS x-ray spectrum from the diffuse background in the constellations of Puppis and Auriga. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... Otherwise it is set true. ... Defaults are chosen but there is likely to be a problem later. corrective action: 6 Input Files  an EPIC image produced by evselect or xmmselect. xmmsas\_20041122\_1834-6.1.0 XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 4 7 Output Files 8 Algorithm 8.1 Optimisation SNRMAX=0 TOTAL_SRC_ COUNTS = counts in the input image within the source region corrected for the encircled energy fraction of the source ...

A new Advanced Instruments and Engineering Facility will be established on Mt Stromlo, establishing new capability for precision optics manufacture and an expanded research and development program. ... ANU has signed an agreement with commercial aerospace partner Auspace to rebuild the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph, (NIFS) for the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. ... This first Australian instrument for the Gemini telescopes is of enormous importance to Australian science and Stromlo staff. ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

hstpolsim -- Produce simulated polarization input data frames for HST instruments . ... inint = "" [name] . ... Name of the HST instrument for which simulated polarization images are to be produced. ... Name of the instrument specific polarizing filter for simulated images (ignored for SPECIAL instrument). filtname = "" [name] . Name of the instrument specific colour filter for simulated images. ... The header parameter FILTER provides the filter name and POLANG the polarizer angle. ...

... 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 . ...

The LIDAR Instrument Information . The LIDAR was designed in a bistatic scheme with a separate transmitter and two receiver channels. ... The total mass of the instrument is only 940 grams (about 2 pounds) and a total volume is 950 cubic centimeters in both assemblies. ... Engineers designed the LIDAR to operate in the temperature range from -100 to 50 degrees Celsius (-148 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit) under lower pressure, near one millibar. ... One of the receiver channels has polarizer. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

Next: The Focal Plane Instruments Up: No Title Previous: The X-ray Optics . CXO has two focal plane instruments - the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Each of these instruments, in turn, has two detectors, one optimized for direct imaging of x rays that pass through the optics and the other optimized for imaging x rays that are dispersed by the objective transmission gratings when the latter are commanded into place directly behind the HRMA. ...

... Parallel to HIPASS: o HIDEEP: "The HI equivalent of the Hubble Deep Field" ­ (9000s per beam) HIDEEP: The Basics ! ... selection limits: o peak flux and velocity width limited o limits are 9.6 mJy and 4 ch = 52.8 km/s o completeness limit at ~18 mJy 5 optim.smooth limit 3 peak flux limit HIDEEP: Optical Follow-Up ! ... Galaxies in HIDEEP are more gas-rich observed corrected HIDEEP: Column Densities - Theory TB = ! ... There don't appear to be any low-column density galaxies in HIDEEP ! ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... 216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree (San Francisco: ASP), 271 . ... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and AppNet, Inc. are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments. Our software architecture combines the platform-independent processing capabilities of Java with the power of XML. ... Instrument description is too tightly coupled with details of implementation. ...

... Instruments are more complicated than star catalogs, but a MIDAS table file is still useful for holding the description of an instrument. ... The main sub-table contains information about the passbands used, and the second sub-table describes the detector(s). ... Basic data for an instrument file include the passbands used (and any coding that is used to represent them in the data); the detectors used, and their properties; and general information about temperature control and optical cleanliness. ...

LOFAR in Australia ­ A Brief Engineering Perspective By Dr Peter J Hall, CSIRO SKA/LOFAR Program Leader 6 November, 2002 Background LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a proposed radio telescope designed to operate in the approximate frequency range 10 - 250 MHz. ... In both cases, the instruments would be built and operated by international consortia; Australia is a founding member of the 11-participant SKA consortium and may join the USA and Europe in the LOFAR endeavour. ...

SOME RESULTS FROM INTMINS . The experiment can be performed when the electron beam (instrument ISTOCHNIK ) and plasma blobs (instrument ARIEL ) are injected approximately along or perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field. ... The pulses of frequency of 1000 Hz will generate EM waves and its harmonics. ... To increase the electron gun pulse duration up to D t = 0.5 f -1 ( D t = 5x10 -4 s) and to stabilise their frequency as good as possible. ... Back to the INTMINS Main Page ...

... This dramatic image of the Moon's edge against a background of distant stars is from a perspective impossible for groundbased telescopes. ... The entire sky is seen projected on a coordinate system centered on our Milky Way Galaxy with the plane of the Galaxy running across the middle of the picture. ... Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ... In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula . ...

... 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. ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

... Average resolution at altitude H=668 km . ... Swath width at H=668 km and inclination of beginning of swath 20.48 degrees . ... Resolution at H=668 км . ... Наименование параметра . ... 1 канале . ... Полоса обзора при H=668 км . ... 1-5 спектральной зоне, не более . ... 1 спектральной зоне . 0,48-0,52 мкм . ... 0,915-0,997 мкм . ... 1-4 канал . ... 1-4 каналов . ... Спектральные характеристики каналов (по уровню 0,5): . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...