... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... During the jump, the power level of the rfi goes down. (more info). p1693 took 327 pulsar search data during the main cable 8-4 repair. The data from 20feb14 (after midnite) showed (what appeared to be ) total power dropouts: . ... The first 2 gbyte file of each scan was processed (129 secs/file). There are 7 files starting at: . ... Page 2-4. total power vs time for files 100 -> 700. the dropouts became weaker, and then returned in file 500. ... dropouts were seen in the total power. ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

ASKAP Signal Processing Overview DIFX Users and Developers Meeting Dr. Grant Hampson | ... DIFX Users and Developers Meeting | Grant Hampson | 25 Sep 12 ASKAP Differences · BETA (Eng. ... 25 Sep 12 Frequencies? ... 25 Sep 12 Why use FPGAs for Beamforming? ... 25 Sep 12 Why use FPGAs for Correlator? ... Thank you CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Dr. Grant Hampson ADE Team Leader t + 61 2 9372 4647 e grant.hampson@csiro.au w www.csiro.au/cass CSIRO ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCE ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED RECEIVER V.P. Koshelets, P.N. Dmitriev, A.B. Ermakov, L.V. Filippenko, A.V. Khudchenko, N.V. Kinev, O.S. Kiselev, A.S. Sobolev, M.Yu. Torgashin Kotel'nilov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Science, Mokhovaya 11, 125009, Moscow, Russia A Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) [1, 2] was proposed more than 10 years ago and finally has been developed for practical applications [3]. ... Supercond.", vol. 17, pp 336-342 (2007). ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

ERS -1,2 SAR . ... SIR-C/X SAR . ... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994, simultaneously recorded SAR data at three wavelengths (L-, C-, and X-bands; 23.5, 5.8, and 3.1 cm, respectively). ...

... USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ... The Venera 15 and 16 radar (radio) altimeter systems were identical, and were used to determine the topography of the surface of Venus from the north pole down to about 30œN latitude. ...

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... files referenced by the PNMs are FTPed to PASSOPS: . ... one of the standard PASS calibration files or the . ... Modules . ... Data . ADD_PASS_ARCHIVE_DIR = '/data/scheduling/spss_flight_data/pass/archive/add' . CALIBRATION_DIR = '/data/scheduling/spss_flight_data/pass/calib' . ... CCSXFER = '/data/scheduling/spss_flight_data/pass/ccsxfer' . ... PASS_ARCHIVE_DIR = '/data/scheduling/spss_flight_data/pass/archive' . PASS_TO_SPUNIX_DIR = '/data/scheduling/spss_flight_data/pass/tospunix' . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...

... Resolution to be issued: . For reports, received before June 11: not later than 15 days after receiving . For reports, received on June 12-21: not later June 27 . For reports, received on June 22 - June 27: not later July 27 . For reports, received on June 28 - July 16: during the week July 26-30 . For reports, received on July 17-31: not later 4 weeks after receiving . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

... 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. ...

PLANCK --- UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE A. L˜ahteenm˜aki 1 , M. Tornikoski 1 , J. Aatrokoski 1 , E. Valtaoja 2 1 Mets˜ahovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of Technology Mets˜ahovintie 114, 02540 Kylm˜al˜a, Finland alien@kurp.tkk.fi 2 Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland The Planck satellite is a European Space Agency ESA's mission capable of mapping the whole sky at several radio wavelengths. ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

... The SAS_ODF environment variable shall be set to the summary file produced by odfingest , or to a directory containing the data, and access to calibration files shall be set through cifbuild . ... step 3 The count rates of tracking stars are written into a file. omthconv thxset =/path_to_your_data/proc/I0125321001OMS006TRHIS0000.FIT nphset =/path_to_your_data/0644_0125321001_OMX00000NPH.FIT outset =/path_to_your_data/proc/P0125321001OMS006TSTRTS000.FIT . ... A sky image (North on top) is produced. ...