... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 March 9 . A Hole in Mars . Image Credit: NASA , JPL , U. Arizona . Explanation: What created this unusual hole in Mars? ... The hole appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated on the image right. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

. To create a file with the cat command: cat > memo remember to make appointment at opticians get cost of scheduled flight to Athens Ctrl-d . This creates a file called memo in the current directory containing two lines of text. To create a file with the echo command: echo use an editor for large files > tips . This creates a file called tips in the current directory containing a single line of text.

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

... Every morning, the LRPG determines if the previous night's batch-LRP was successful and examines any differences between the last released LRP and the current LRP. ... Was the nightly LRP run successful? ... check that an "AUTO" LRP was created for the most recently run nightly batch-LRP process. ... Daily working LRP names are alphabetically sequenced (A, B, C, ... under normal circumstances, often only A will get created and later released). ... For each run, two files are generally created. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

bdfedit is a tcl/tk program that I've used to create and/or modify several fonts. ... This is also used to automatically save the old glyph when a character is updated, and to save the work area if a new character is selected for editing without saving changes. Glyphs can be dragged from the font to the hold or work areas, or to another character in the font. ... X11 XBM format only. ... large fonts work correctly! . ... Take a look at some fonts I created or maintained using bdfedit. ...

... The following variants exist: - create a colormap editor : editor = GgiPlotColorEditor (ggiCreate, ci, nc); int ci - starting color index int nc - number of color indices int bl - BLANK color - specify data limits: editor = GgiPlotColorEditor (ggiLimits, id, v1, v2); ident id - existing colormap editor float v1 - data value corresponding with lowest color index float v2 - ... Opcode ggiApply can be used to apply the current settings to the currently selected PGPLOT device....

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mysterious Acid Haze on Venus . ... Credit: ESA / MPS , Katlenburg-Lindau , Germany Explanation: Why did an acidic haze spread across Venus? The unusual clouds were discovered last July by ESA 's robotic Venus Express spacecraft currently orbiting Venus . ... The above false-color picture of Venus was taken last July 23rd in ultraviolet light , and shows the unusual haze as relatively smooth regions across the image bottom. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Предыдущий выпуск (N335) . ... Обсудить на форуме Scientific.RU . ... Подписка на рассылку обзоров на Subscribe.Ru . Обзоры препринтов astro-ph . ... Собственно обзоры препринтов. ... Ранее обзоры также были на Астронете и на Scientific.Ru . ... АНКи доступны на Астронете , а с 2006 по 2008 г. также на сайте Элементы.Ру . ... Ранее они также размещались на сайте Астронет и в архиве моих обозрений (кодировка KOI8) на сайте Scientific.Ru . ...

. Project Identification: . Source Name: . Observation Date: . (yyyy/mm/dd) . Start Date: . End Date: . Source Position: . RA (J2000): . h m s . Dec (J2000): . o ' '' . Search box in arcminutes: . +/- (Default 10 arcminutes meaningful . only when both ra dec are specified) .

... This page deals with the operational issue of how to fill the calibration memory properly, and with the interplay of createAB and that memory. The calibration memory is the list of all calibration product files currently available for association. ... The dynamic calibrations are created by the pipeline from raw files and are stored in $DFO_CAL_DIR/<date>. ... DFO_CAL_DIR/VCAL is the pool of virtual calibrations. ... The calibration memory is managed by DFOS in the following way: . ...

Light scattering codes: . SVM for homogeneous spheroids (updating) . SVM for core-mantle spheroids (updating) . SVM for multi-layered spheroids (formulae) . Quasi-TMM for axisymmetric homogeneous particles (ready) . Quasi-TMM for axisymmetric multi-layered particles (testing) . Quasi-static approximation for multi-layered ellipsoids (testing) . S-approximation for homogeneous spheres (testing) . ... Basic Monte-Carlo code of S.Wolf for 3D case (testing) . ...

... JavaScript 1.1: added current, next, and previous properties. ... To change a window's current URL without generating a history entry, you can use the Location.replace method. ... For example, if the history list contains three named entries, these entries are reflected as history[0] , history[1] , and history[2] . ... back . ... onClick="history.go('home.netscape.com')"> The following button navigates to the URL that is three entries backward in the history list: <P><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Go" ...

... Any bugs?! What do you think of my level? ... Upcoming Doom releases by this author : DOOM69 (A 10 level replacement that I'm putting the finishing touches on.) (i.e. erasing chunks 'cause my levels are just too damn big for Doom to handle.. ... General : * Construction * Base : New level from scratch Build Time : 30+ hours, plus beta testing Editor(s) used : DEU 5.21, idbsp 1.12 Known Bugs : Standard glitches from overhanging sectors which are especially noticeable in "the slime pit" area. ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... SSAU History . ... On June 11 Heinz Palkovski, Director of Institute of Metallurgy from Germany conducted a lecture on Preparation, testing and use of sandwich materials . ... The very same material is a sandwich, where the base and the filler arranged in layers of a certain thickness. ... Professor Heinz Palkovski is currently engaged in research of sandwich materials and his lecture was devoted to this theme. ... Tags: heinz palkovski lecture sandwich materials...

... It is unlikely that you will ever need to use the Viewport widget directly. ... You can get and set the adjustments after the widget has been created using the following four functions: GtkAdjustment *gtk_viewport_get_hadjustment (GtkViewport *viewport ); GtkAdjustment *gtk_viewport_get_vadjustment (GtkViewport *viewport ); void gtk_viewport_set_hadjustment( GtkViewport *viewport, GtkAdjustment *adjustment ); void gtk_viewport_set_vadjustment( GtkViewport *viewport, GtkAdjustment *adjustment ); . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Conditional Markup . ... current page is named " PAGENAME " . ... true if current page name matches the regular expression . ... The name and group conditionals will work even for an included page, as the "name" and "group" conditionals always check the currently displayed page, as opposed to the page that the markup appears in. ... can be used with the name and group conditional markups, thus: . ... current page is in group PmWiki or a group beginning with PmWiki . ...

... java.lang.Object ij.macro.MacroRunner . ... Create a new object that interprets a macro file using a separate thread. ... MacroRunner (java.lang.String macro, Editor editor) . ... Create a new object that interprets macro source in a separate thread. public MacroRunner (java.lang.String macro, Editor editor) . ... Create a new object that runs a tokenized macro in a separate thread, passing a string argument. public MacroRunner ( Program pgm, int address, java.lang.String name, Editor editor) . ...