... 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. ...

... We present a proposed standard for data dictionaries associated with catalogs being accessed through the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Mosaic Catalog Service. Each catalog made available for searching must have a data dictionary, which consists of a set of specified keywords describing format, content and location of data. ... There are two keywords in the Table Data Dictionary which indicate to the server software that the corresponding column contains special attributes. ...

DFS Department . Standard and recommended development tools . ... This tool is available on request from Helpdesk (except for the following machines: dfs3, dfs4 and dfs5, for which you have to contact Carlos ). ... Source Navigator IDE is recommended as a source code analysis and navigator tool for C, C++, Java, Tcl, [incr Tcl], FORTRAN and even COBOL on Linux:. ... webcheck is the DFS standard tool for archiving/retrieving DFS documents, web pages, Release Notes, schedules and ToDo lists. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...

. Unix considers any device attached to the system to be a file. And that includes your terminal! . By default, a command treats your terminal as the standard input file from which to read in information. Your terminal is also treated as the standard output file to which information is sent from the command. This action can be changed by redirecting standard input and standard output from and to any other file. Redirecting standard input . Redirecting standard output . Appending standard output to a file .

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Describes how funtools can be integrated into the ds9 Analysis menu. SAOImage/DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by astronomers around the world. DS9 can display standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, but also has support for displaying raw array files, shared memory files, and data files automatically retrieved via FTP and HTTP. ... It can be manually loaded into DS9 from the Load Analysis Commands ... option of the Analysis menu. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Delay Line SW / Baseline Solution Software . Need to design this. May be best to implement within a framework which is an embryonic form of the MROI offline software framework - but we need to design the framework! ... Data import/export from/to MCDB . ... Export results (e.g. baseline solution) to MCDB . How to structure data? ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLineSW/BaselineSolutionSoftware) ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

This library currently provides subroutines used to transform theoretical spectra to intermediate and broad-band photometric indices. ... Typical tasks are the response functions and transmission curves for various filters, mirrors and photomultiplier windows. ... The response is zero outside the given wavelength range. ... real . input . Wavelength in nanometres . PHOT_1P21 . ... PHOT_AIR . ... PHOT_ALUM . ... Inputs must be valid as for PHOT_FILTER, PHOT_AIR, PHOT_ALUM and PHOT_1P21. ...

... The New 1997 IEEE Standards Products Catalog features the complete listing of standards publica-tions and services IEEE Standards offers, along with the information you need to place your order. ... Books and Other Products on Standards - contains a detailed listing of informative print and electronic publications relevant to standards and their implementation in areas of electrical engineering, electronics and computer technology. ... IEEE Standards Products Listing 22 . ... Power Electronics 41 . ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Primer for Cycle 24 > Chapter 7: Data Processing and the HST Data Archive > 7.1 Routine Science Data Processing . ... Routine Science Data Processing . ... All the existing calibration pipeline programs used by STScI to process all HST data can found in the HSTCAL package, a package which allows users to compile and run the calibration software originally written in C without using or running IRAF . ...

Digital Equipment Corporation has announced DEC Fortran 90/High Performance Fortran, which is a native Fortran 90/HPF compiler that includes support for parallel execution. ... For parallel execution, a package including DEC Fortran 90 V2.0 together with Digital's PSE is available for Alpha systems running Digital UNIX (OSF/1). For serial execution, DEC Fortran 90 V2.0 is available for Alpha systems running either Digital UNIX (OSF/1) or OpenVMS. ... DEC Fortran 90 V2.0 (for Digital UNIX) . ...

... 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 . ...

... This routine is designed to read in the current correlator set-up, go to the chosen source, and then take data pointing directly at the specified source. This routine will automatically wait until you are on source before beginning to take data. ... Additionally, this routine allows you to take an ON/OFF calibration pair (one 10s scan with the noise diode on, followed by a 10s scan with the diode off), using the chosen noise diode configuration (see Section 1.6 . ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Overview of a Gnome Source Tree . ... Almost all Gnome applications use the same build system based on the GNU tools automake , autoconf , and libtool . ... Beginning with this chapter and continuing throughout Part 2 of the book, a sample application called GnomeHello will be used to demonstrate Gnome features. ... Together, these tools are used to create a portable shell script called configure ; configure is distributed to users with your software package. ...

... smoothstyle =`adaptive'. This is exactly the same as the patchwork convolution described in section 3.3.4 , except here the task calculates the library of convolvers and the associated index image itself. ... The task actually makes two passes through the library of gaussians: the first as described above, to calculate the index image; the second refers to the index image while performing the convolution, exactly as described in section 3.3.4 . ...

The NTP standard specifies an extension which provides cryptographic authentication of received NTP packets. ... The specification allows any one of possibly 4 billion keys, numbered with 32-bit key identifiers, to be used to authenticate an association. ... In the case of MD5, the keys are 64 bits (8 bytes). xntpd reads its keys from a file specified using the -k command line option or the keys statement in the configuration file. ... A zero key in NTP format would be specified as 8080808080808080 . ...

... The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

... 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. ...