Next: Scantable manipulation Up: Basic Processing Previous: Gain-Elevation and Opacity Corrections Index . When time averaging a series of scans together, it is possible that the velocity scales are not exactly aligned. ... Before averaging such data together, they should be frequency aligned using freq_align . ... To average together data taken on different days, which are in different scantables, each scantable must aligned to a common reference time then the scantables averaged. ...

... 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. ...

WFPC2 . Images: version1 , version2 . Catalogs: Version 1 HDF-S , HDF-N ;Version 2 HDF-S . STIS . ... NICMOS . Images: Camera 3 , V2 of psf-convolved STIS 50CCD on NICMOS . ... Images: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF ; Version2: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . Catalogs: Version2 WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . ... Check the instrument specific technical pages for a description of the data products and the implemented data reduction steps: STIS , WFPC2 , NICMOS , Flanking Fields . ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

... Observation pre-processing consists of standard bias, dark and flat-field corrections. The package provides different commands to average images, extract sub-images or normalize flat-fields. General information related to preprocessing commands is available in the section Dark, Bias and Flat-Field of SHOW/LONG and can be obtained by: . ... The command PREPARE/LONG extracts sub-images. ... The command processes a catalog by default or an image if the name is provided with the extension .bdf . ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I want to process MOS data of the same target from different nights together - how can I do that? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... However, if you want to process science data from different nights together you should limit the available calibrations to those from one night as the pipeline assumes that the calibration data were taken without mask movement in between. ...

For the calibration of RATAN-600 data you will need to Download Nobeyama Fluxes (1, 2, 3.75, 9.4, 17 GHz): year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 . Brief description of Work Scan . Main functions of processing, realized in the program are: . ... Correction of various (not fatal) defects of data; . ... Calculating of the lower enveloping curve or an average scan from observations data for a few days; . ... COMMENT This table contains the set (TFIELDS) of 1-dimensional (TFORM# . ... AZIMUTH = 'float' / . ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

SAS home . ... List of SAS threads . OM data processing from A to Z is performed by two "chains": omichain and omfchain , for image and fast mode data respectively. ... Then a source detection algorithm is used to identify the sources present in the image. ... A final source list is obtained from all exposures and filters. ... If the user has PPS products from the processing of his/her observation, or from the XSA, then the first thing to do is to overlay the image source list onto the sky image. ...

On combined processing of different space geodetic observations . ... A software for combined processing of different space geodetic observations is developed along with the work on the co-location of various observational techniques at the observatories of Quasar VLBI network. ... Various aspects of the combined processing of different types of space geodetic observations are also discussed. ... space geodetic observations, combined processing, normal equations, software package, SINEX-format. ...

... See spectral jumps at 2^n channels Intro for a description of pshift,pfb, term s . ... pshift . ... 0x1ff5 . ... 0x1555 . ... noise pshift . ... noise pshift, first butterfly no shift . ... 0x1555 shift every other butterfly (this should work for noise) . ... the black trace has pshift=0x1ff5 (the current standard). the red trace uses 0x1555. shift every other butterfly (with a shift on the first butterfly) . ... When a pshift of 0x1555 is used (shift every other butterfly) no jumps are seen . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... Basic Observables: Zero-differenced phase and code ionosphere-free combinations of global GNSS network stations, corrected by P1-C1 satellite code biases (cc2noncc), daily observations with 30 seconds sampling rate Sites coordinates : IGb08 reference frame coordinates and velocities Displacements: solid tides, ocean loading, pole tide loading (IERS 2010) Geometric model : Receivers antennas eccentricities, absolute receiver and ...

Next: Filtering ROSAT HRI data Up: ROSAT HRI Recipes Previous: Correlating Spectral Data with . Although the spatial variation of the quantum efficiency across the HRI is nominally within 10% for most of the detector, occasionally it may be desirable to flat-field a map with preflight calibration measurements. ... Store the new gain map image using ``blink" in SaoImage. ... The quantum efficiency correction (QEC) is the inverse of the intensity determined from the QE map at the source position. ...

The problem of turbulence is one of the most important and challenging problem of the modern science. ... An experimental investigation of turbulent flows with special experimental setup and equipment, which allow to obtain reliable data with good precision, is very difficult and expensive process. ... The natural assumption for the theory of turbulence is that there exist some (unknown yet) general and universal properties for wide range of different turbulent flows. ...

... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
, I will assume that rtftohtml has not been customized. If it has, the text styles used to create special effects may be different. ... Normally, if your RTF document contained the text "<cite>hello</cite>", the translator would output this as: "&lt;cite&gt;hello&lt;/cite&gt;". ... If, however, you want the <cite></cite> to be interpreted as HTML markup, you must format the tags using Hidden and Shadow. ...

... The most precisely determined characteristic for accreting neutron stars (NS's) is their period. ... Period changes show fluctuations. ... Some applications of stochastic processes in astrophysics especially in accreting systems were discussed in Lipunov (1987),Hoshino Takeshima (1993) and Lipunov (1992).In Hoshino Takeshima (1993) the authors, using simple models of MHD turbulence, try to explain aperiodic changes in X-ray luminosity of X-ray pulsars. ... Here, -constant angular momentum. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE: HOW DO WE KNOW? The nature of the universe, its age, its birth and life story, have been deduced through the process of science. ... In the case of astronomy, it usually starts with making careful observations and measurements -- something your students can begin to do through inspection of astronomical images, and observation of the real sky. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...