... GPI Data Pipeline 1.0 documentation . ... Thermal/Sky Backgrounds . ... Using Thermal/Sky Backgrounds in GPI Data Reduction: . Creating Calibrations: . ... Thermal emission (from sky or telescope) becomes an important background source for wavelengths longer than 2 microns. ... The pipeline treats thermal/sky backgrounds similar to dark frames and is designed to subtract a thermal/sky background, scaled to the integration time of the science image, from K-band observations. ...

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 . ...

... It?s needs solution satellite?s orientation problem for defining location of sources of ionospheric emissions above Earth?s surface with necessary accuracy. There is possibility to define orientation of photometric devices by using TV images of star background. The CCD TV camera is designed for recording of images of star sky, Earth? limb and adjoining part of Earth? surface to fix the orbit point coordinates during the measurements by FAGOT and SICH-F devices. ...

Next: Bivariate polynomial interpolation Up: Echelle Spectra Previous: Removal of particle . The estimation of the background is one of the critical points in the reduction of echelle spectra for two reasons. ... diffuse light in the interorder space coming from adjacent orders. sky background spectrum . ... These locations are defined when performing the order definition (command DEFINE/ECHELLE or DEFINE/HOUGH ) and can be displayed by command LOAD/ECHELLE . ... Sky background definition . ...

... 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 . ...

... QSO spectra in the ROSAT band are steeper than the background at harder energies, and furthermore at fluxes below 1E-14 ergs/(s cmќ) the quasar source counts flatten off and are replaced by more numerous populations of relatively low red-shift objects, apparently Narrow Emission Line Galaxies (NELG). ... We extracted the luminosity function from ROSAT Deep Survey results, and extrapolated by a factor of 2 - 3 to account for changes expected in the harder XMM band. ...

The detection by EGRET of 40 active galactic nuclei in high energy gamma rays ahs sparked interest in high energy extragalactic gamma ray astronomy. ... In this thesis I investigate the infrared background, the interactions by which it absorbs gamma rays, and I develop a program that uses monte carlo techniques, as well as suitable approximations to model the effect of these interactions on gamma ray spectra, and discuss the implications for high energy gamma ray astronomy. | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Posts tagged ?background? ... Probability density functions are another way of summarizing the consequences of assuming a Gaussian error distribution when the true distribution is Poisson. We can compute the posterior probability of the intensity of a source , when some number of counts are observed in a source region, and the background is estimated using counts observed in a different region. ... In both cases a background of 200 counts collected in an area 40x the source area is used. ...