... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

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... ABBREVIATIONS . ... ASTO (Archive Storage System) . ... COMMON . Common components . ... Common Pipeline Library . ... Data Base Browser . DFS . DFS (Data Flow System) . DHS . DHS (Data Handling Server) . ... DHS SUBRIBE . ... DFS Department general level . ... ISAAC pipeline . ... MIDAS (Munich Image Data Analysis System) . ... Next Generation Archive System . ... OLAS (On-Line Archive System) . ... SAF (Science Archive Facility) . ... VLT Control Software On-Line Archive Client . ...

Info on software packages that i may have messed with: . ... livedata . predict : satellite prediction software . ... share/megs/phil/x101/fftw/ . ... share/megs/phil/x101/fftw/idl . ... Neither of these will work with the zoa data. /share/megs/phil/predict . ... Idl routines to access predict is in /pkg/rsi/local/libao/phil/sat . ... Gives the az, za, time and ra,dec of the satellites. /share/megs/phil/x101/sigproc/sigproc . ... share/megs/phil/svn/pdev/pdev/psrfits/sigproc/ . ... home_~phil ...

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... System . By using software standards provided by most computer manufactures, ESO-MIDAS runs on VMS and OpenVMS systems (Trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation) =, a large variety of UNIX (Trademark of AT ) platform, as well as one personal computers (386, 486, Pentium) running Linux. ... IBM/AIX RS/6000 systems; . ... The full MIDAS system requires of the order of 20 Mbyte of disk storage if shared libraries ( e.g. SUN, PC/Linux) are available, otherwise up to 100 Mbyte may be needed. ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

The preferred way to document an SAS package is via LaTeX. If you created the package directory structure with the SAS package maker pkgmaker , a subdirectory called doc will have been created with partially filled out LaTeX templates. ... Also, the new structure is seamlessly integrated in the overall SAS make file mechanism so that it becomes possible to generate HTML or PostScript documentation for the whole SAS. ... The BibTeX file is called sas.bib and is pat of the package sas . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...