... Chapter 14. ... Data consist of numbers, of course. ... In the following sections, you will repeatedly encounter the following paradigm: § apply some formula to the data to compute a statistic § compute where the value of that statistic falls in a probability distribution that is computed on the basis of some null hypothesis § if it falls in a very unlikely spot, way out on a tail of the distribution , conclude that the null hypothesis is false for your ... 609 610 Chapter 14. ...

... Posted by hlee . ... Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. Continue reading ?[ ... Category: arXiv , MCMC , Uncertainty | ... Since I began to subscribe arxiv/astro-ph abstracts, from an astrostatistical point of view, one of the most frequent topics has been photometric redshifts . ... Just searching by photometric redshifts in google scholar and arxiv.org provides more than 2000 articles since 2000. ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Data Processing , Galaxies , Stat | ...

... The question which method of the detection of features in the test statistic is the most sensitive, is of considerable importance for all practical TSA applications. ... A power of the test statistic is the probability that is accepted for the given Y : . ... Then, all statistics based on models with 3 parameters have similar values of the test power: power spectrum, Scargle statistics, fit of a sinusoid, AOV(3) statistic and PDM(3) statistic with corrected probability distribution. ...

... Up: Data Analysis Tools, Techniques, and Software . Previous: Starfinder: a Code for Crowded Stellar Fields Analysis . Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - PS reprint - . ... 216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree (San Francisco: ASP), 627 . ... Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 . ...

... PPTA timeline . ... List of projects . ... RedGW . ... One of the main goals of pulsar timing array projects is to limit the existence of a background of gravitational waves (GWs). Jenet et al. (2006) developed a method to determine such a limit if (and only if) the pulsar timing residuals were statistically white. In the paper we used data from six pulsars from the PPTA project to obtain a limit. The remaining pulsars were rejected because their timing residuals were not white. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Generation of the Calibration / Using the CCF constituents . Normally a valid CCF constituent will have the CATEGORY attribute set to XMMCCF . However, it is possible to instruct cifbuild to accept constituents with a different category via the parameter category . ... If the parameter append is true, then cifbuild appends to the CIF set pointed to by calindexset any other CCF constituent that is not already in that CIF. ...

... 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. ...

Distribution of the analyzed SEPs with different >100 MeV proton fluxes ( J 100 ) at the microwave flux density plane ' S 9 vs. ... 1) General correspondence takes place between intensities of microwave bursts and proton fluxes - J 100 increases when S 9 and S 15 rise. ... 3) Powerful microwave bursts ( S 9 , S 15 >3000-10000 sfu ) with hard radio spectra ( S 9 < S 15 ) correspond to majority of powerful proton fluxes ( J 100 >10 pfu ). ...

FEATURES OF THE HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTION AROUND LUNAR CRATERS PROCLUS AND KEPLER. ... In result of analysis of the data Lawrence and Feldman constructed the hydrogen distribution on the lunar surface [1]. ... However, the authors shown, that EN flux data features may be explained by other element abundance in the lunar soils, namely: Si, Ca, Gadolinium (Gd), Samarium (Sm) and Fe. ... Using of the Feldman's interpretation of the Lunar Prospector data [8], we constructed hydrogen distribution map (Fig.1). ...

... Statistic files are managed using file generation sets and scripts in the ./scripts directory of this distribution. ... Each valid update appends a line of the following form to the current element of a file generation set named peerstats : . ... This keyword allows the (otherwise constant) filegen filename prefix to be modified for file generation sets, which is useful for handling statistics logs. filegen name [ file filename ] [ type typename ] [ flag flagval ] [ link | ...

... In our numerical experiments we have mainly considered two test objects provided by R. Hanisch and characterized by different types of brightness distribution; one of the objects simulates an elliptical galaxy and the other one a star cluster with size 512 512 and 256 256 pixels, respectively. ... The best performances in the restoration of the star cluster image are provided by the R-L algorithm and the LWPOS one; they give accuracies of 6%and 5%, respectively (see Table 1). ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

... Big ellipse: the region of the photometric analysis Smaller ellipses: the adopted inner boundaries of the Main Body and the C component Small circles: diffuse background objects, manually selected and removed from the photometry Uncleaned CMDs [V-I, I] of I Zw 18, obtained using Aloisi et al. (left) and Izotov & Thuan (right) datasets. ... Where is the 'halo'? Blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 1415+435 Hubble Space Telescope / Advanced Camera for Surveys NASA, ESA A. Aloisi (STScI, ESA) et al. ...

... One of the most widely used tools of Fourier analysis is the Parseval theorem. It enables the experimentalist to view how the `energy' in the signal is distributed among frequencies. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms have made power spectra one of the obvious diagnostics tools during data acquisition, and energy maps are a versatile alternative. ... The result is an energy map (Fig. 9), showing the distribution of energy corresponding to the wavelet map (Fig. ...

... astro-ph . ... Aims: We aim for an understanding of the morphological and spectral properties of the supernova remnant RCW~86 and for insights into the production mechanism leading to the RCW~86 very high-energy gamma-ray emission. ... Studies of the morphological correlation between the 0.5-1~keV X-ray band, the 2-5~keV X-ray band, radio, and gamma-ray emissions have been performed as well as broadband modeling of the spectral energy distribution with two different emission models. ...

These lesson introduces you to the use of uncertainties. ... It introduces probability distribution functions, the Gaussian Distribution, hypothesis testing and model fitting. This lesson introduces you to the different types of uncertainty, and how you can estimate them from the scatter in your measurements, or from knowledge of your experimental set-up. ... It also covers averaging and how that affects uncertainties. Back Main Lab-Skills Page . ...

Andrea Zoia CEA/Saclay DEN/DANS/DM2S/SERMA/LTSD Residence time and collision number statistics : a Feynman-Kac approach International Conference Random Processes, Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems September 19 - 23, 2011 Poncelet Laboratory, Moscow, Russia Outline Introduction Stochastic transport : random flights Collision number statistics and diffusion limit Exponential flights and residence ...

The Redshift Distribution of Flat-Spectrum Radio Sources at Low Flux-Densities J.P. McKean et al. ... The relative size and completeness of CLASS coupled with its stringent search criteria make it ideal for performing a lens statis- tics analysis. ... These results, as well as forming a vital part of the CLASS lens statistics analysis, will also contribute to our understanding of the at-spectrum radio source population at low ux-densities.. ...

... The distribution of galactic RCB stars is controversial. Several authors have argued that they belong to a thick galactic disk, and are thus old Population I stars. However, they may alternatively belong to the even older galactic bulge (Population II). ... In either case, the populations are sufficiently old that RCB stars must have relatively low masses ( ). ... These are the only RCB stars for which a distance is known and hence for which an absolute magnitude can be deduced. ...