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The run progress pages document the execution of Service Mode and Visitor Mode observing runs carried out at the Paranal Observatory. A summary of the run's characteristics is given, as well as a time-stamped list of all Observation Blocks (OB) that were executed until now. ... If reduced data for the given run exist, those are also reported in both the OB Summary table and in the details. ... Reduced : information shown only if pipeline-processed reduced data exist for the OB . ... OB ID . ...

Observatory Support . News and Advisories . ... Focus . Reports . ... Available in PDF format from the Reports page . ... New Instrument Science Report (18 Dec 1997) OSG-CAL-97-07, detailing the NICMOS Distortion Correction, is now available in PDF and PostScript formats from the Reports page . ... Instrument Science Reports in PDF Format (02 Dec 1997) PDF versions are now available for most of the Instrument Science Reports currently accessible on-line from the Reports page . ...

... TOAs in ITOA format are assumed to be referenced to UTC. ... Princeton Format columns item 1-1 Observatory (one-character code ) 2-2 must be blank 16-24 Observing frequency (MHz) 25-44 TOA (decimal point must be in column 30 or column 31) 45-53 TOA uncertainty 69-78 DM correction (pc cm^-3) Parkes Format columns item 1-1 must be blank 26-34 Observing frequency (MHz) 35-55 TOA (decimal point must be in column 42) 56-63 Phase offset (fraction of P0, added to ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... We present an analysis of new and previously published spectropolarimetric observations of these stars. ... A re-analysis of the published longitudinal field measurements obtained with the low-resolution FORS1/2 spectropolarimeters finds that the measurements of all stars show more scatter from zero than can be attributed to Gaussian noise, suggesting the presence of a signal and/or systematic underestimation of error bars....

... The quasar database tables are in the subdirectory QSO as follows: QSO.DOC General documentation FORMAT.DOC Summary of column names and fortran formats QSOS Object list XOBS X-ray observational data XFLUXA X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.0 XFLUXB X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.5 XFLUXC X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.0 XFLUXD X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.5 OPTICAL Optical information MISSING QSOs not processed NOTES Notes to all the ... O stars Chlebowski,T., Harnden Jr., ...

The CHIANTI database consists of 4 primary ASCII files for each ion in the database. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental data and theoretical values of the levels energies. ... contains wavelengths, gf and A values for each transition. Wavelengths are based on experimental level energies where available; wavelengths calculated from theoretical energies are less accurate and are given as negative values. ...

Date when RFI was seen(dd/mmm/yyyy): . Time in Ast when RFI was seen: . Observer's Name: . Observer's Email_Id: . ... Receiver Name: . RFI characteristics(if you need help go to http://www.naic.edu/~rfiuser) . ... No Yes Unknown . ... Contacts . Have you made any contacts? No Yes . ... Name of the person contacted: . Organization of contact : . ... You may enter additional handwritten notes below. ...

The preliminary version of documentation of the format for the interchange of calibrated optical/IR data being developed by Tom Pauls of NRL and John Young of COAST was presented and a number of issues discussed. The proposed format is in the general form of a relational database with different components stored in FITS binary tables. ... Should there be a single data table type that includes all data types, or multiple table types, one per data type? What data types are needed? ...

... The process of proposing for Hubble Space Telescope observing time has been revised, to make it simpler for proposers. We describe the simple, flexible, and robust prototype system created to handle proposal submission. ... Proposing for Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) observing time proceeds in two phases: the scientific merits of the proposal are considered in Phase I; only accepted proposals enter Phase II, where the observations are described in complete detail. ...

... Column Fmt Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 Blank 2- 5 I4 Year (19__) 6- 8 A3 Blank 9-10 I2 Month 11-13 A3 Blank 14-15 I2 Day 16-17 A2 Blank 18-21 I4 Begin time 22-25 A4 Blank 26-27 I2 Number stations reporting an A event 28 A1 Letter A -- denotes very remarkable event observed 29-31 A3 Blank 32-33 I2 Number of stations reporting a B ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

... Chandra Survey . ... Data Archive . X-ray Database . Optical Database . ... The ChaMPlane survey is being conducted at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. This page provides a walk-through of the X-ray catalog interface which includes positions, error circles, fluxes, optical counterparts and much more. A webpage interface is used to choose field, data format and parameters of interest, to enable download of entire catalogs or investigation of individual . ...

... Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics . ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences . EXPLORE ANU . ... Research . ... ANU College of . ... SEARCH . ... Search query . Search . Search query Search button . ... Intranet . Intranet home . ... RSAA people . ... ANU Outlook 365 email login . ... ANU Library request form . ... 2006 (PDF,6MB) . 2005 (PDF,6MB) . 2004 (PDF,2MB) . ... 2002 (PDF,2MB) . 2001 (PDF,2MB) . 2000 (PDF,2MB) . 1999 (PDF,2MB) . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Impact of Covariance Information on the Orientation Parameters Between Radio Source Position Catalogs, IVS 2012 General Meeting Proceedings, p.339­341 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2012/sokolova.pdf Impact of Covariance Information on the Orientation Parameters Between Radio Source ... IVS Analysis Centers provide these catalogs in a standard IERS format, where together with radio source positions and other relevant information, RA/DE correlations are reported. ...

. In an effort to provide a centralized database for indexing locations and descriptions of Shuttle debris, the editors of Astronomy Net have generated a database and web page where reports can be logged. This may or may not prove useful for cataloging debris reports, but Astronomy Net is happy to dedicate computer resources to help out any way possible. We express our sympathy and prayers to the families and friends of the Columbia crew. If you have located Shuttle debris, report it here.

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...