... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Next: Three-dimensional Data Analysis in IRAF and ZODIAC+ . ... A data analysis system has been developed at SRON, which has been designed to allow rigorous control of the quality of its processed data products. ... This means recording all parameters of all steps which lead to the establishment of the final data products (Figure 1 ). ... Figure: A processing pipeline is a sequence of tasks with several input/output files and parameters, which pass data from one task to the next. ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

Next: NICMOS Science Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Software at the . ... Reference File Tools . Image Analysis and Reduction . ... These include the tasks used in the STScI pipeline, tools to generate the reference files used by the calibration pipeline tasks, and general image analysis, manipulation, and arithmetic tasks. ... Calnica is used to apply instrumental calibrations to individual datasets, while calnicb is used to process associated sets of NICMOS images. ...

... Intro to HST Data Handbooks 8.0 May 2011 . ... Introduction to the HST Data Handbooks > Chapter 3: Analyzing HST Data > 3.1 Analysis Options for HST Data . ... Analysis Options for HST Data . 3.1.1 IRAF/STSDAS . 3.1.2 PyRAF . 3.1.3 Python . ... STSDAS is an IRAF package developed by STScI for the reduction and analysis of HST data. ... Since PyRAF is so highly compatible with the IRAF CL, virtually all of the examples shown in this handbook will work the same for PyRAF . ...

... Using the DRAO Synthesis Telescope (Landecker et al. 2000), the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey ( CGPS ; Taylor et al. 2002) has captured a multitude of HISA features, the majority of which are invisible in prior surveys at lower resolution. ... Since the HISA gas temperature must be less than the background brightness temperature, all the H I shown in this poster has T ~ 100 K. Figure 1 provides panoramic views of the cold H I visible as HISA in the CGPS. ... GIFs: HISA + CO | HISA only | ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... TYC 4016-264-1 . ... Comm. 1 . ... 2MASS J00465096+6017454 . ... TYC 4025-639-1 . ... IRAS 00439+6001, J Ks = 1.409 0.025. ... IRAS 00491+6456 = 2MASS J00521297+6512262, J Ks = 1.379 0.043. ... Two 7.8 5.9 fields in Cassiopeia (136 images centered at = 00:59:05, = +63:31:01, J2000) and Puppis (92 images centered at = 08:14:06, = 24:00:00, J2000) are investigated using the New Milky Way (NMW) survey archive (Sokolovsky, Korotkiy & Lebedev 2013). ... Astron. ... 2006, Astron. ...

The multiscale analysis of heterogeneous structures is actually an important and effective tool of mathematical modeling in physics, technique and biology. ... The special year will extend the existing cooperation between French and Russian researchers in the multiscale analysis and in mathematical modeling in hemodynamics, taking into consideration the mass transport, coagulation, fluid-structure interaction and other aspects. ...

. Home . Watchouts . Software requirements . Installation . Download . Documentation . Calibration . Help . Notice that SOC-only packages like deceit, newsiam, odfcheck, etc , may appear listed in the list of all packages but no documentation is available for any of them. SAS User's Guide . HTML . PDF . PS . HEASARC ABC Guide . HTML . PDF . ps.gz . Pages maintained by SAS librarian . Any question about SAS should be addressed to the XMM-Newton help desk . Updated on: June 30, 2006

The A TNF S pectral A nalysis P ackage is a new software package that has been developed within the ATNF, to reduce single-dish, single-pointing spectral line observations. ASAP is now used for single-dish data from ATNF instruments and should be able to read data from any telescope if the data can be written in the "sdfits" format. ... The c++ code makes extensive used of the casa libraries (the package formerly known as aips++). ... A binary version for Fedora Linux should be available shortly. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

... FTS Operators and Functions . ... Ranking attempts to measure how relevant documents are to particular queries by inspecting the number of times each search word appears in the document, and whether different search terms occur near each other. ... CREATE FUNCTION rank( [ weights float4[], ] vector TSVECTOR, query TSQUERY, [ normalization int4 ]) RETURNS float4 . ... Both of these ranking functions take an integer normalization option that specifies whether a document's length should impact its rank...

... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

... In temperate latitudes, this is a good time to see halos formed by clouds of ice crystals high in the atmosphere where the temperature is always well down below -30 deg. ... The most prominent halos, however, appear quite close to the sun where it can be uncomfortably bright to look. ... In a sense, halos are like rainbows, glories and coronae in that they require the presence of a bright source of light, the Sun or the Moon, and water floating in the air. ...

... The very demanding goal of 50 milliarcseconds root-mean-square (mas RMS) for the astrometric precision of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey implies that focus and collimation motions of the secondary must be very smooth. The Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m telescope secondary is a hot-gas-fusion borosilicate lightweight (25% of solid) mirror. ... Differential rotation provides tilt motions. ... Also, we made measurements with the indicators sensing the motion of the whiffletrees near actuators 1 and 2. ...

Modules | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... This document describes what a Multi-Processing Module is and how they are used by the Apache HTTP Server. ... Choosing an MPM . MPM Defaults . The Apache HTTP Server is designed to be a powerful and flexible web server that can work on a very wide variety of platforms in a range of different environments. ... At the user level, MPMs appear much like other Apache modules. ... mpm_winnt . ...