... Spider scans ( heiles calibration scans ) were taken with alfa on 02nov09 using beam 0 and 03nov09 using beams 0,2,3,4,5 to test its performance. ... Page 5: Pointing error. beam 2 had large za errors. beam 3 had large az errors. ... Plot the rms error and mean error for these newly computed series. ... Plots showing the pointing error vs rotation angle offset (.ps) ( .pdf ): . ... rotating by + 2 degrees reduces the non beam 0 rms from 18.7 to 14.8 asecs. rms Error asecs . mean error asecs . ...

... A photometric analysis was made of the simulated images using two of the widely available reduction programs, ROMAFOT (Buonanno et al. 1983) and DAOPHOT (Stetson 1987). ... The rebinned and expanded image gave better results (Fig. 7b), with the smallest errors in the order of = 0.04. ... Similarly to ROMAFOT, the image with the Moffat PSF gave significantly better results than the image generated with the Tiny Tim PSF; the errors in the magnitudes of the brighter stars were around = 0.02. ...

... The fitting package in STSDAS (Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System) relies on two basic techniques (one linear and one non-linear) for fitting functions to data. ... Results show that both methods may generate biased coefficients (at the ~few percent level), and over or under-estimate error bars (at the ~10 percent level), in particular from low signal-to-noise data. ... Function coefficient errors are computed directly from the covariance matrix. ... Abscissa is signal-to-noise. ...

... Holes in the plug plates for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey must be positioned and sized accurately. We tested several techniques by drilling holes in a number of test plates and measuring the characteristics of each hole. ... Four different kinds of drill bit were used, two plates per type of bit, for a total of eight test plates. ... Plate 1: Speed Test . ... Based on the drilling tests, we can hold hole diameter error to 15 ?m RMS (likely better if we can get bit-to-bit variation down). ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

Next: Reduction procedure Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Strategy . Standard stars can be included in the extinction solution, if one is careful. The problem is that there are usually appreciable ``conformity errors'' due to mismatch between the instrumental and the standard passbands [ 16 ]. ... Thus, it is wrong to assume that the transformation between the instrumental system and the standard system is exact, even if there were no measurement error in either system [ 1 ]. ...

... Classes . ... Class List . ... casa . casa::SolarPos . ... Solar position class and calculations. ... SolarPos (const SolarPos &other) . ... operator() ( Double epoch) . ... Barycentric position of Earth. const MVPosition & casa::SolarPos::baryEarthDerivative . ... Barycentric position of Sun. const MVPosition & casa::SolarPos::barySunDerivative . ... Double casa::SolarPos::checkEpoch [private] . ... Double casa::SolarPos::checkSunEpoch [private] . ... Double casa::SolarPos::deval [3] [private] . ...

... 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. ...

... IPACMAN V2.5 Test Plan (or more) . ... Anyway, results given hereafter are related to one plaform only (the one mentioned on the top). ... specific testcases The following testcases correspond to the minimum set of tests to be run on every new IPACMAN release (alpha, beta, final, .. ... 1/ START IPACMAN . ... Expected result . ... Verify IP: select an IP on disk and run Reports>verify IP . ... IP Diff: select two IPs on disk, and run Reports>IP Diff and check manually the results: verify the . ...

When a command is carried out successfully, the results are sent to the standard output file. But if the command fails to execute successfully the results are displayed on the standard error file -your terminal. For example: ls -l part1.txt part1.txt not found . The ls command fails because the file part1.txt does not exist in the current directory. A message is sent to the standard error - your terminal - informing you of this. ...

multi-rsh is a perl script which runs the same command on multiple machines, in parallel, and provides reasonable, adjustable timeouts for those machines which fail to answer. Both standard output and standard error are returned through the same channel, and all output has the hostname prepended to each line. Multi-rsh must be run as root (remote jobs can be set to run as any user, see Options below). ... Neither form allows you to directly pass input to the remote programs. ...

... Watchouts . ... The difference between the "standard matrices", available in the XMM-Newton calibration pages , and those generated via the SAS tasks arfgen and rmfgen is now virtually negligible, at least as long as one is concerned with spectral fitting of point-like, on-axis sources. ... If one has a spectrum with very good statistics in an emission line with centroid energy larger than 2.5 keV ( e.g. : the Iron K-alpha line), one should be careful about using the "standard" matrices. ...

... Format of the orbital elements | Estimation of the extrapolation errors | Version 1" of the orbital elements collection, determined by KIAM during flight and used for operations planning . Version 2" of the of the orbital elements collection, modified by IKI during flight and recommended for the orbital calculations during scientific data processing . ... Three kinds of the INTERBALL Auroral probe (IB_AUR) orbital elements' collections are presented here. ... IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | ...

ON THE IMPACT OF THE GALACTIC ABERRATION ON VLBI-DERIVED PRECESSION MODEL Z.M. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory Pulkovskoe Ch. ... Corrections to adopted precession rate are usually computed from the linear trends in long-term time series of celestial pole offset (CPO), which are the differences between the measured and the theoretical coordinates of the celestial pole. ... CONCLUSIONS We have estimated the impact of GA on parameters of precession-nutation model derived from VLBI observations. ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ALMA . We present a framework for modelling atmospheric phase errors and their correction by both the fast-switching and water vapour radiometeric techniques. ... We use this framework to simulate relative point source sensitivity and effective resolution for a range of atmospheric conditions, with and without phase correction. ... Published as ALMA Memo #582. ... Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science . ...

... Results of measurement of Jovian flux, enumerated on a standard distance 4.04 бе, are displayed on figure 1a. The attempt is made to divide a response of a magnetosphere of the falling comets into two parts: immediate responce during impacts and more delaed one. On figure 1b the relation of the measured flows to a relative phase is showed and the data from July 17 till July 23 are excluded. ... A shaped line - prospective sinusoidal relation of a flow to a phase. c) Flux depending on date. ...

... A theory suggests that a certain sub-class of gamma-ray bursts all have the same absolute magnitude. ... The author claims that this absolute magnitude is so different from that in the previous sample that this must belong to a new sub-class of gamma-ray bursts. ... To do this, there needs to be some feature in their spectra which correlates with their absolute magnitude. ... Consider a telescope which is continually monitoring a star, looking for transits due to planets orbiting this star. ...

Next: Procedure for Dealing with Up: scientific Previous: Code of Good Practice . ... Any practice or conduct that seriously deviates from the ethical standards embodied in the Code of Good Practice for Scholarly and Scientific Research for proposing, conducting and publishing scientific research constitutes Scientific Misconduct, and if proven renders the offending member liable to the Observatory's disciplinary procedures. ...

I/146 Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser+ 1988) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions Roeser S., Bastian U. =1988A .. ... 449R ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Positional data; Proper motions Description: PPM North gives J2000 positions and proper motions of 181,731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. ... The mean epoch is near 1931. ...