... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

Next: *imcalc* - Obtain a Up: Calibration Previous: Exposure Map . Background maps are provided by the standard processing for all ROSAT and Einstein instruments. For the PSPC and IPC these are in three standard bands: soft, hard, and broad (Table 6.2). ... N.B.: ROSAT PSPC background maps in SASS 5-6 or higher are generated by smoothing a source-subtracted, exposure corrected image (see the ROSAT Data Products Guide). ... imcalc* - Obtain a background subtracted image for ROSAT PSPC Data . ...

STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 12: Special Uses of STIS > 12.1 Slitless First-Order Spectroscopy . ... Slitless First-Order Spectroscopy . ... The use of a long slit ensures a clean separation of emission lines arising from different spatial features. ... Figure 4.8 shows an image of SN1987A observed using the 52X2 aperture, and as the source is smaller than the slit, this is effectively a slitless image. ...

... rgsspectrum creates an OGIP-compliant spectrum of counts for a single RGS exposure. ... background-corrected source spectrum . ... Note that although the spatial selection region for the background spectrum is not source-specific, the energy selection region is source-specific, and for this reason the background spectrum is technically source-specific. ... The above description of the BACKSCAL column applies only to Spectroscopy mode data; in HTR mode this column has nothing to do with exposure. ...

... The new emission line galaxies are listed in Table 2 containing the following information: . column 1: The object's IAU-type name with the prefix HS. ... This was not corrected in the figure shown in Appendix A. HS1214+3801 : This is seemingly a supergiant H II -region at the very rim of the nearby edge-on disc galaxy (SA(s)cd) NGC 4244 (V hel = 224 kms -1 and B T =10.88). ... To check this option one needs a detailed map of the NGC 4244 velocity field including HS 1214+3801. ...

... We present a simple, effective technique that allows the contemporary spectroscopy of all the objects, up to a limiting magnitude, contained in a 100 arcmin 2 field. ... For this reason, we have developed a technique, that allows the simultaneous spectroscopy of all the objects included in a square field of view with 10 side, using the widely used FOSC-type optical spectrometer and camera focal-plane instruments. ... Thus the flux calibration of the slitless spectra was also straightforward. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

APO/GIFS Instrument Factsheet The Goddard imager and Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS) has recently been commissioned on the APO 3.5 m telescope. This factsheet presents a high level overview of the GIFS instrument. ... GIFS Imaging The GIFS imaging mode is used for imaging science and target acquisition for the IFS mode. ... Imaging Mode pixel scale: 0.168"/pixel · Comparison to Other APO 3.5m instruments: The GIFS field of view is smaller than SPICAM, but the filter set is far more extensive. ...

... We present a simple, e#ective technique that allows the con­ temporary spectroscopy of all the objects, up to a limiting magnitude, contained in a # 100 arcmin 2 field. This technique makes possible the immediate and unambiguous identification of peculiar objects included in the field. ... We show that this technique should also be quite useful in emission line and WR star surveys, and illustrate the software procedures devel­ oped to make the wavelength and flux calibration of these spectra. ...

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

First light from the Superconducting Integrated Receiver on board Terahertz limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubova, G. de Langea, R. Hoogeveena, A. de Langea and V. Kosheletsb a Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, the Netherlands b Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia Abstract-- We present the flight configuration and performance of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (Terahertz and Submm Limb Sounder). ...

... Tpram - time of the PRAM instrument (aquisition computer) . ... Bx - DC magnetic field with a fixed amplitude calibration; X component . ... The color lines present FFT from the AC magnetic field (Waveform); Bwx, Bwy, Bwz - from the bottom. ...

... Tpram - time of the PRAM instrument (aquisition computer) . ... Bx - DC magnetic field with a fixed amplitude calibration; X component . ... The color lines present FFT from the AC magnetic field (Waveform); Bwx, Bwy, Bwz - from the bottom. ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... 4.85 GHz, Condon et al 1989 (300 foot telescope, Greenbank) 2 Observation setup · Backend: Digital Continuum Receiver (DCR) at GBT · S-band - chose a bandwidth not contaminated by RFI = central frequency=2.09625 GHz, band width = 12.5 MHz · Observations : 1:30 - 6:00 am, July 12 3 Observation setup · Backend: Digital Continuum Receiver (DCR) at GBT · S-band - chose a bandwidth not contaminated by RFI = central frequency=2.09625 GHz, band width = 12.5 MHz · ...

... R-band images obtained at 0.8 arcsec seeing conditions have allowed us to separate foreground star from point-like extragalactic source and estimate their brightness separately. ... To study the nature and properties of the source, we observed it under high spatial resolution. ... CONCLUSION RTT150 optical observations with sub-arcsecond seeing and low resolution spectra confirm the hypothesis of superposition of a radio source onto a `normal' F/G galactic star proposed by [1]. ...

... I.A. Karpov, E.D. Shoo 'New equipment for microwave electric field visualization' Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Iss. 7, 074704 (2012) ... top . G.V. Strukov, G.K. Strukova, E.D. Shoo 'An experimental setup for obtaining metallic multilayer coatings with layers of nanometer thickness' Instruments and Experimental Techniques, Vol. 52, Iss. 5, 727-730 (2009) ... top ... top . ...