Next: Miscellaneous Analysis Tasks Up: Image Analysis Previous: Modifying Images by Models . In this section we see how to make total polarised intensity and position angle images (task impol ), fractional polarisation images, and rotation measure images (task imrm ). ... These images are all blanked when the error in the position angle image is greater than 10 degrees or when the signal-to-noise ratio in the polarised intensity image is less than three. ... Polarised intensity and error images . ...

... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

Allows you to specify a drift scan: motion at a constant velocity along a great circle. ... The path starts at the new object position (though the telescope actually intersects the path later, see Subtleties ). ... Note that the units are always /sec for both axes. ... The velocity along the path is 0.01 /sec. ... The path is assumed to start when you hit the Slew button (more precisely, when the TCC parses the command). However, it takes the telescope awhile to slew to meet the specified path. ...

... The alfa rotation angle was set to 0 degrees. ... Beam 0 was sampled more often than the others to get a better measure of the pointing offsets. ... Page 5: Pointing error. beam 2 had large za errors. ... Compute the change in the pointing error if the alfa rotation error was off by -5 to +5 degrees in .1 degree steps. ... Top: rms pointing error vs rotation angle offset. ... Red: Az rms pointing error . ... rotating by + 1.1 degrees reduces the non beam 0 rms from 13 to 12 asecs. rms Error asecs . ...

fitcircle - find mean position and pole of best-fit great [or small] circle to points on a sphere. fitcircle [ xyfile ] -L norm [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -S ] [ -V ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] fitcircle reads lon,lat [or lat,lon] values from the first two columns on standard input [or xyfile ]. ... Then two locations are found: the mean of the input positions, and the pole to the great circle which best fits the input positions. ... If no file is specified, fitcircle will read from standard input. ...

polimplot -- Plot a polarization vector map . ... inpol = "" [name] . Input linear polarization image (in %) to plot. inpopa = "" [name] . Input image for position angle of linear polarization vectors (degrees). poi_err = "" [boolean] . ... Name of corresponding polarization position angle error image (degrees). ... This task is a flexible tool for plotting a polarization vector map from two images of the polarization and the position angle of the polarization vector. ...

polimplot -- Plot a polarization vector map . ... inpol = "" [name] . Input linear polarization image (in %) to plot. inpopa = "" [name] . Input image for position angle of linear polarization vectors (degrees). poi_err = "" [boolean] . ... Name of corresponding polarization position angle error image (degrees). ... This task is a flexible tool for plotting a polarization vector map from two images of the polarization and the position angle of the polarization vector. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 orbit June 28, 2006 Abstract Create a FITS timeseries \HK-like" le from the ODF Spacecraft Reconstructed Orbit File. ... Both sets of values will be written into a standard OGIP-compliant FITS binary extension table with a TIME column value, derived from a start, stop and sampling interval time, each speci ed by the user. ... StartANDEndNotInODFRange (error) Start AND End times selected not congruent with input ODF obs times. ... SAS ODF must be properly set. ...

ntpdate [ -bBdosu ] [ -a key ] [ -e authdelay ] [ -k keyfile ] [ -o version ] [ -p samples ] [ -t timeout ] server [ ... ] . ntpdate sets the local date and time by polling the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server(s) given as the server arguments to determine the correct time. ... A number of samples are obtained from each of the servers specified and a subset of the NTP clock filter and selection algorithms are applied to select the best of these. ... The default is /etc/ntp.keys . ...

... Posts tagged ?error bars? ... It is somewhat surprising that astronomers haven?t cottoned on to Lowess curves yet. ... how does one figure what the error bounds are on the ?best-fit? Lowess curve? ... Tags: Brad Wargelin , error bands , error bars , Fitting , least-squares , Loess , Lowess , polynomial , question for statisticians , smoothing . ... 11 Comments . ... Astronomers usually present errors as +-stddev on the quantities of interest, but that presupposes that the errors are uncorrelated. ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...