... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 May 31 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Image Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Long ago, far away, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... About APOD | ...

... December 30, 1998 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 31.05.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA Explanation: Long ago, far away, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D , visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526 . Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... Publications with keywords: supernova - cosmology . ... A Supernova through Galaxy Dust . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I see unexpected boxy emission-like features in my REDL spectra - where do they come from? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... The pipeline by default interpolates across the bad columns in the REDL CCD when it creates the master bias, but does not so when it processes the science data. This inconsistency can create boxy emission-like features as seen in the figure below. ...

Next: A New IRAF Catalog Access Tool for Astrometry . Up: Iraf Packages . ... Twofitlines is a tool developed within IRAF, optimized to be used with data containing multiple spectra along the spatial axis of the detector. A given spectral feature can be decomposed in one or several Gaussian components. ... A given spectral feature can be modeled using one or more components (currently only Gaussian profiles are available), . ... Close spectral features could be modeled simultaneously. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page This section documents the parameters recognized by this task (if any). ... string . ... maxlegal'/`maxactual'/`user' . ... If xrangetype is set to `maxlegal', the values of TLMINn and TLMAXn are used, where n is the number of the column whose name is given by the xcolumn parameter. ... When xrangetype is set to `user', this parameter is expected. xmax . ... This is set if the total flux image should be read (using the name given in parameter imageset ) rather than created. ...

Cosmic ray detection was performed in stacks with the same dither position. ... At each pixel CRREJ looks at the stack of frames and selects some initial pixel value, which can be the minimum or the median across the stack. ... For these suspect pixels, the thresholds are multiplied by a parameter PFAC which can be anything from zero, meaning that all suspects are automatically rejected, to one. ... The pixel values for pixels thrown out by a PFAC=0 choice, but not by PFAC=0.5 choice were compared. ...

... In order to disentangle the effects of different climate variables on tree-ring growth rates of different species, and to explore the possibility that more than one species could improve the accuracy of the reconstructions of climate using tree rings, a methodical study of trees in close proximity to the Armagh Observatory climate station was initiated together with Ana Maria Garc?a Su?rez, and continued as part of the latter's PhD thesis with John Butler and Professor Mike Baillie (QUB). ...

Next: Context Levels Up: MIDAS Command Language Previous: Interrupting Procedures . ... In MIDAS, the ENTRY command defines entry points for different procedures in the same file. These individual procedures are executed by specifying also their entry point besides the file name in the `@@' command. ... DEFINE/PARAM P1 11 NUMBER "Enter input number: " . DEFINE/MAXPAR 1 ! only one parameter expected . ... DEFINE/PARAM P1 spiral IMA "Enter input image: " . ... DEFINE/LOCAL LOOP/I/1/1 0 . ...

... The parameter y   characterizes the ratio between the gravitational and magnetic ``properties'' of a star and will, therefore, be called the gravimagnetic parameter . Two magnetic rotators having quite different magnetic fields, subjected to different external conditions but with identical gravimagnetic parameters, have similar magnetospheres, as long as the accretion rate is quite low ( ). ... For isolated rotators, the accretion rate  yr is assumed. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Consolidated study of the ISS dynamic characteristics; parameters defining a space position of scientific devices and attitude sensors with respect to the station hull deformation; parameters of magnetic and microgravity disturbances on board the station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...