... 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. ...

... The requirements for processing Chandra telemetry are very involved and complex. ... Standard Data Processing is accomplished by dozens of ``pipelines'' designed to process specific instrument data and/or generate a particular data product. ... The Automatic Processing system (AP) polls its input directories for raw telemetry and ephemeris data, pre-processes the telemetry, kicks off the processing pipelines at the appropriate times, provides the required input, and archives the output data products...

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 . ...

dfos = Data Flow Operations System, the common tool set for DFO make printable . ... initialization file . ... automatic installation for dfos tools . ... tool to launch dfos cronjobs . ... T here is the template initialization .dfosrc file needed by all DFOS tools to define the standard, common environment. ... Use the top navigation bar to find the tool documentation. ... History' displays the history file with useful information about the evolution of the tool, changes and backwards compatibility. ...

... There are five standard data formats for HSP data. ... The datasets contain a standard header packet , a unique data log , and one to four science data files (and corresponding data quality files). ... HSP Data Files . ... Science data, digital sky .d2h/.d2d . ... Each of the science data files has a corresponding quality file that contains single-precision floating point values. ... The HSP calibration program, calhsp , generates the calibrated file for each corresponding raw science data file. ...

On combined processing of different space geodetic observations . ... A software for combined processing of different space geodetic observations is developed along with the work on the co-location of various observational techniques at the observatories of Quasar VLBI network. ... Various aspects of the combined processing of different types of space geodetic observations are also discussed. ... space geodetic observations, combined processing, normal equations, software package, SINEX-format. ...

... Aidan Hotan Curtin University Orange 2010 Summary Design philosophy, data pipeline (Bailes et al.) ... Monitoring and control 64 MB/s each Primary Node 2 (Memory Buffer) Serial control Primary Node 1 (Memory Buffer) Archives Switch (1Gb) Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Switch (1Gb) Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Raw data files written to disk for processing Node 14 Switch (100Mb) Node 14 Orange 2010 CPSR2: Commissioning Stage (Around back) Parallel cables from FFD to DMA cards in head nodes. ... Ethernet switch (x2). ...

... 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. ...

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... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

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Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

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... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

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... Basic Observables: Zero-differenced phase and code ionosphere-free combinations of global GNSS network stations, corrected by P1-C1 satellite code biases (cc2noncc), daily observations with 30 seconds sampling rate Sites coordinates : IGb08 reference frame coordinates and velocities Displacements: solid tides, ocean loading, pole tide loading (IERS 2010) Geometric model : Receivers antennas eccentricities, absolute receiver and ...

... Axis Controllers . ... Guider Image Controller Commands . ... Multiple controllers (except the guide image controller) may co-exist in one box and share one serial interface. ... Some of these rules only apply to commands that the TCC may execute, and so may be relaxed for engineering commands. ... The command echo should be in the same case as the received command. ... Note: The Galil motion controllers output a semicolon for each command that appears on a line (as part of the command echo). ...

... Watchouts . ... Any XMM-Newton users, who need to convert OM count rates in the optical and UV filters into fluxes (expressed, e.g. , in erg/cm/cm/s/A), can do it by following any of the methods we outline below. OM count rates can be obtained with SAS. ... UVW1 . ... UVM2 . ... convert from count rate, obtained with SAS (files *SWSRLI*, corrected count rate in CORR_RATE column), to flux, selecting the most appropriate factor for the chosen spectral type and filter from the following Tables: . ...

... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

New RRC variables with an additional non-radial pulsation . PZ, vol. ... We present a new study of 14 known RR Lyrae variable stars from the Catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog. ... New Double-Mode RR Lyrae Variables III . ... We present a new study of 123 known RR Lyrae variable stars from the Catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog. ... According to these data, the stars are double-mode RR Lyrae variables, pulsating in the first-overtone and fundamental modes. ...