Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. ... Galileo scientists also are trying to determine the cause of the hole they found in Jupiter's magnetic field when the spacecraft was closest to Io. ...

Galileo Finds Giant Iron Core in Jupiter's Moon Io . Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. If so, it would be the first planetary moon known to have one. ... Space History Galileo . ...

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... Table of Contents - Index - PS reprint - PDF reprint . ... All RXTE telemetry will be archived in a hierarchical database consisting entirely of FITS Binary Tables. We describe an interactive tool, the XTE Data Finder (XDF). ... Our basic design contains a three level hierarchy: Master Index, Subsystem Index, and Data Table. ... The Master Index acts as an observation catalog with references to Subsystem Indices, while the latter contain configuration information and references to the Data Tables. ...

... How do I find the correct reference Transfer Function for the analysis of my double star Transfer Function? ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... Data Analysis . ... A: All available reference Transfer Functions are available from the FGS Transfer Mode Calibration Products page. The calibration reference file used should represent an observation taken through the same filter as the observed Transfer Function. ... Data taken after day 352 of 1993 should NOT use any reference files before that date. ...

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Next: *imexamine* - General analysis Up: Regions and Source Parameters Previous: *imcnts* - Find background . input file: xdata$snr.qp . output file: snr_cnt.tab . ... N.B.: The use of imcnts to obtain counts in regions can lead to wrong results when more than one region is used in the same run, if there is any overlap between them, since each pixel can be assigned to ONE AND ONLY ONE region (the last one defined that includes that pixel. See ``help regions''). rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

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. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ssclib (ssclib-3.33.4) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Miscellaneous utilities . Author: Clive Page (University of Leicester, cgp@star.le.ac.uk) . This subroutine returns a number of a free I/O unit, i.e. one that is not currently allocated to and file. The calling sequence is: . SUBROUTINE getFreeIoUnit(nunit) INTEGER, INTENT(out) :: nunit ! unit number free for use . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-01

. Next: Selection effects Up: Searches and surveys Previous: The problem of sensitivity . љ . Fourier analysis . But these are not sinusoidal signals! . Signal strength is spread over several harmonics . Harmonic folds (incoherent) . Coherent fold search on small grid . Also have to search in DM . Account for size of search space when assessing significance of any spikes in the spectrum . Significance . Jon Bell . Thu Dec 19 15:15:11 GMT 1996

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

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... 1b. Pole Star . ... Two bright constellations occupy opposite sides of the pole star--the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... The Big Dipper consists of 7 bright stars, forming a dipper, a small pot with a long handle. ... It shows the 7 stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris, the north star. ... Ursa Minor , the "Small Bear" or "Little Dipper" is a constellation somewhat resembling the Big Dipper, and Polaris is the last star in its tail. ... Questions from Users: About the stars of the Big Dipper . ...

Next: ANALYSE/ROMAFOT Up: The Interactive Path Previous: The Interactive Path . FIND/ROMAFOT frame [cat_tab] . This command works exactly like SELECT/ROMAFOT and therefore needs no detailed explanation. The only difference is that FIND/ROMAFOT , designed to select many stars, stores the positions of the objects in a catalogue table which has a different structure than then the intermediate table created by SELECT/ROMAFOT . This table serves as as input for the command ANALYSE/ROMAFOT . ...

... The Dancing Auroras of Saturn . ... Credit Copyright: VIMS Team, JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other purposes, trying to find enough aurora images to correlate changes and make movies . ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - aurora - cassini spacecraft - infrared . Publications with words: Saturn - aurora - cassini spacecraft - infrared . ...

. To locate a file in the file system , use the find command. find pathname -name filename -print . The pathname defines the directory to start from. Each subdirectory of this directory will be searched. The -print option must be used to display results. You can define the filename using wildcards. If these are used, the filename must be placed in 'quotes'. Examples . Did You Know? . Defining filenames with wildcard characters .

This form calculates which transits of the 1039 known transiting exoplanets are observable from a given location at a given time. Specify a time window, an observing location (either an observatory from the list or choose "Enter latitude/longitude" at the end of the list), and optionally any filters (e.g. minimum transit depth or elevation). The output includes transit time and elevation, and links to further information about each object, including finding charts and airmass plots. ...

... 2010 September 27 . The Dancing Auroras of Saturn . ... Explanation: What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other purposes, trying to find enough aurora images to correlate changes and make movies . ... Inspection of many more Saturnian images may well lead to an even better understanding of both Saturn's and Earth's auroras . ... About APOD | ...