... As of October 1, 2009, the global rate for the STIS NUV-MAMA dark current has still been occasionally reaching values as high as 13500 counts/s. This high dark current will force use of a signficantly smaller buffer time than would be otherwise needed, and in many cases may push the count rate high enough to make time-tag observations impractical. ... However, we instead found for the NUV MAMA detector an initial global dark rate of between 9000 and 18000 counts/s (a mean of 0.013 counts/s/pixel). ...

... Moons, Rings, and Unexpected Colors on Saturn . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Why would Saturn show such strange colors? The robotic Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn has beamed back images showing that the northern hemisphere our Solar System 's most spectacularly ringed planet has changed noticeably since Cassini arrived in 2004, now sporting unusual and unexpected colors. ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - cassini spacecraft . ...

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 . ...

... 2008 October 20 . Moons, Rings, and Unexpected Colors on Saturn . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Why would Saturn show such strange colors? The robotic Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn has beamed back images showing that the northern hemisphere our Solar System 's most spectacularly ringed planet has changed noticeably since Cassini arrived in 2004, now sporting unusual and unexpected colors. ... About APOD | ...

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... 23 September 2004 - Telescope First Light! ... 30 July 2004 . ... NIC-FPS is an instrument combining the capabilities of a near-infrared imaging camera with a cryogenic Fabry-Perot etalon currently under development at the Center for Space Astrophysics and Space Astronomy , University of Colorado with support from Rice University , Ball Aerospace and the Astrophysical Research Consortium. It is scheduled to begin operations on the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in 2004. ...

As noted earlier Kristian Birkeland, reporting in 1903 on his expeditions to the auroral zone, proposed that magnetic disturbances accompanying the aurora were caused by large electric currents flowing down the length of auroral formations. ... Some scientists disagreed with Birkeland and claimed the electrojets did not connect to space but instead their entire circuit lay inside the ionosphere, like that of other ionospheric currents known at the time, believed to be caused by atmospheric tides. ...

... Files in red?history) . ... Auroral Currents . 25H. Birkeland Currents . ... As noted earlier Kristian Birkeland, reporting in 1903 on his expeditions to the auroral zone, proposed that magnetic disturbances accompanying the aurora were caused by large electric currents flowing down the length of auroral formations. ... In later years these currents became known as the auroral electrojets , and considerable debate ranged over their cause and the way their circuit might be completed. ...

. Other Relevant Links . Number counts have been illustrated earlier in the talk. QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | Front page | . | << - Contamination | QSO close pairs - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

. To display your current working directory in the prompt: . 1. Use your editor to open your .tcshrc and add the line: set prompt='%. %' . 2. Save the file and leave the editor. 3. Enter the command: source .tcshrc . This adds the new values to your working environment.

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THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON JULY 2011 HAS MADE Wjuly =43.9, THAT GIVES FOR 25 MONTH (2011, JANUARY) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*jan. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS AT HIGH LEVEL ON JULY, 30th, WHEN IN SUNSPOT GROUP AR11261 (N16L330, Sp=350 m.v.h) THE LARGE PULSE SOLAR FLARE OF X-RAY CLASS М9.3 WAS OCCURENCED, AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL - ON JULY, 27th, OTHER DAYS - ON A LOW LEVEL. ...

... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Archive, Pipeline & Catalogues XMM-Newton Science Archive Pipeline Processing System Observation Data Status Time Correlation Fix Serendipitous Source Catalogue OM Serendipitous Source Catalogue Slew Survey Catalogue Latest Slew Results Browsing Interface for RGS Data Live Radiation Monitor Plots Radiation Monitor Files . ...

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Novermber 2008 - WORK IN PROGRESS We are currently using the (just announced end-of-life) Netrestore software to install our systems. ... We automount our NFS-based home directories. ... On the Mac end, edit /etc/autofs.conf, and add ",resvport" to the AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS. ... This is more of a problem, because Finder is a busybody, sticking it's nose in business it shouldn't. Simply symlinking to an autmounted directory failed abysmally. ... Here's our current list of files we change, and why: . ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Current Status . ... COAST File Archive . ... Fringes and Power Spectra from COAST . ... The first stellar fringes were obtained in June 1991. ... We obtained sufficient data to reconstruct the first infrared image from an aperture synthesis array. ... The North telescope of the COAST array was moved to a new foundation, further to the North, making the longest baseline 67 metres. ... A fifth telescope was sited on the Southwest arm of the COAST array. ...

. The following is a list of the currently installed versions of the CIMA. The links refer to the CIMA version log page . Normal: version 3.0 - this is the next version of CIMA which has become the new default version --- NOTE that this version uses a new syntax for command file observations, uses new configuration files and needs source files with full velocity information . Old: version 2.2 - this is the old version of CIMA You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

... Anticipated Radiation Effects . ... Various radiation effects can be anticipated, based on similarities to other CMOS devices. ... Total dose radiation effects in CMOS devices can be divided into two broad classes: charge trapping and interface state generation. ... When interface states are located in a depletion region, they act as sources of dark current. Increased dark current is expected to be the dominant radiation effect in active pixel sensors, leading to increased shot noise. ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...