... The generation of simulated sources whose physical properties are well understood is useful in assessing the functionality of point source analysis software. Qpsim is an IRAF/PROS task which will generate events from sources of given intensity, shape, and position and either overlay them on a flat background in a new QPOE file or inject them into an existing QPOE file. ... The simulated data can be a useful tool in calibrating point source analysis software. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

Next: Photometry Up: Regions and Source Parameters Previous: *imcnts* - Find counts . This task (developed for use with optical images, but also useful with x-ray data) will quickly compute location, size, ellipticity, and position angle of sources. ... User can generate contour plots of any portion of the image and count rates in slices through the image. The program is advertised as ``quick [optical] photometry''. input file: rp110590_im1.imh . output file: logfile . ... Photometry . ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

... Miriad has a couple of tasks available for finding positions of sources (see also cgcurs in Chapter 17 ). ... It fits a 2-D parabola to the image intensities in a 3 by 3 pixel box centred on the brightest pixel in a specified region and reports the fitted location and intensity. ... Input image . ... The quality of your fit can improve significantly by selecting a snug region, and/or using the clip keyword to keep pixel values with little signal (e.g. sidelobes and noise) out of the fitting process....

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... POS mode . TRANS mode . ... Position Mode . Transfer Mode . ... exposure time, Position Mode . ... position centroid, POS . ... Transfer Mode acquisition . ... calculation, Position Mode . ... fine bit error . ... ACQ-DIST, POS mode . ACQ-DIST, TRANS mode . ACQ-MODE, POS mode . ACQ-MODE, TRANS mode . COUNT, POS mode . FESTIME, POS mode . LOCK, POS mode . NULL, POS mode . ... SCANS, TRANS mode . ... Position mode . ...

On 1 February 2002 this Mirror was upgraded from NVSSlist v2.10 to NVSSlist v2.17 . ... This form searches the source catalog produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). ... Object name [optional] : . ... Search radius and verification halfwidth in arcseconds [Optional] : . ... Enter a list of positions to search: . ... The contents of the NVSS source catalog and the techniques used by NVSSlist to derive error estimates and other parameters are described here. ...

... The data was taken over many days with the same source in more than one file. ... You want to convert the data to kelvins (this is galactic work) and then average all the scans for each source. ... input each onscan, average, and then scale to kelvins . place all of the averaged scans in an array, when done with the file, store this array in an idl save file for this day. ... Average together scans of the same source and then baseline them. input all of the daily save files into a single array . ...

First results of X/S and X/Ka-band catalog combinations with full covariance information Andreas Iddink , Christopher Jacobs, Thomas Artz, Axel Nothnagel 22.09.2014 First results of S/X and X/Ka-band catalog combinations with full covariance information Andreas Iddink ­ 22.09.2014 Motivation Features of the ICRF2 ICRF2 (Defining- Sources ) 3414 ... Step: Import of the X/Ka catalog with full covariance information (Data provided by Christopher Jacobs et al. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Renderer . FileљStructure . ... core . ... 29 љ Vec2f position; . ... 32 љ VertexP2 ( const Vec2f position) : position(position) {} . ... 43 љ Vec2f texCoord; . ... 46 љ VertexP3T2 ( const Vec3f & position, const Vec2f texCoord) . ... 50 љ VertexP3T2 ( const Vec2f pos, const Vec2f texCoord) . ... 64 љ VertexP3T2C4 ( const Vec3f & position, const Vec2f texCoord, const Vec4f & color) . ... 68 љ VertexP3T2C4 ( const Vec2f pos, const Vec2f texCoord, const Vec4f & color) . ...

... Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Program use . Input records are ordered per date of observation, and the list of known (observed) sources is cleared. Each record is compared in position to all the known sources. If the sky distance is less or equal to the specified one, the record is added to the list of observations for that source. If no known sources are within the specified radius, a new source is created, with the coordinates of the observation record. ...

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The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the following articles and reports, which are available online . Mills, D.L. Internet time synchronization: the Network Time Protocol. ... Mills, D.L. Network Time Protocol (Version 3) specification, implementation and analysis. ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . ... python . ... axis . coordConvWithFP.py . ... 22 љ def coordConvWithFP (fromCoordSys, fromPVTPair, fromPxPMRadVel, fromDir, toCoordSys, obj, inst, zeroPM, useGSWavelen): . 23 љ """!Convert a coord from one coordinate system to another . ... 35 љ @param[in] obj object block computed at desired desired TAI date of conversion . ... 50 љ obj = tcc.base.Obj(obj) # make a copy so I can change obj.site if useGSWavelen . ... tcc.axis.rotFromObs.rotFromObs . ...

The Texas survey of radio sources covering -35.5{deg} < {delta} < 71.5{deg} at 365MHz . ... We present the Texas Survey of discrete radio sources between -35.5deg and 71.5deg declination (B1950), which was carried out at 365MHz with the Texas Interferometer during 1974-1983. ... The Texas Survey . ... The sources in the simpler model. ... Right Ascension 1950 . ... field separator . ... Some sources came from Version 6 of the Texas Survey ('TS6' in strp field) or Version 7 ('TS7' in strp field) . ...

IRAF/STECF 2-D spectrum point source / background decomposition package . ... The general problem is one of spectral decomposition - of separating the spectra of the point sources from the background. ... The STECF IRAF layered package "specres" provides two tasks to extract point source spectra from 2-D images (either longslit, multislit or cross-dispersed) and decompose the full background over the image. ... A Point Source Function spectrum image is required as a 2-D spectrum. ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

home education > resources . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomical Pseudo-Science . ... Astronomy of Many Cultures Resource Guide . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Astronomy Education Review . Space Science Education Resource Directory . ... This is a selected list of resources for those who want to examine with a skeptical eye some of the claims at the fringes of science that seem connected to astronomy. ...