VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures December 20, 2001 1. ... Goals of Science Verification The goals of SV are manifold, and include: ffl Offer to ESO users first science ­grade data from a new instrument ffl Demonstrate the scientific potential of the VLT + instrument ffl Foster an early scientific return from the VLT + instrument ffl Experiment any pipeline and reduction tools that may be available at the time of SV ...

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STScI . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... STScI solicits proposals for HST Observing, Archival Theoretical Research. ... HST Cycle 24 Phase II Proposal Deadline . The Call for Proposals (CP) invites the astronomical community to propose for observing time on HST in a given cycle (nominally one year in duration). It summarizes the policies and procedures for proposing in that cycle of HST observing, including requests for funding research on archival HST data. ...

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Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

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The following are useful tcsh completions I use, which should mostly be fairly standard for any unix platform, so you can just drop them into place. # directories complete cd 'C/*/d/' complete rmdir 'C/*/d/' complete lsd 'C/*/d/' # signal names # also note that the initial - can be created with the first completion # but without appending a space (note the extra slash with no # append character specified) ...

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Main Sections LabIR main page . ... August 1997: new set tested (including the new offset/filter box and a wave generator as a clock, see messages ). ... May 1997: the new offset/filter box is being tested, and should be available at CA starting with the July 1997 run. ... February 1997: FIRPO II succesfully tested at the 6m telescope in Russia. December 1996: new versions of the FIRPO logbook sheets are now available, in two separate versions for photometry (54 Kb) and occultations (42 Kb) . ...

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... There are compelling reasons for the pulsar community to utilise a standard data storage format. For example, standardisation of file formats significantly decreases the amount of effort required to integrate new instruments into the analysis chain. ... Accordingly, we have defined PSRFITS as a standard FITS-based format for pulsar data files. ... For example, the first line of Processing History HDU contains information about the data acquisition program and the initial structure of the file. ...

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STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

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A Large Programme 171.A-3045 (PI: Cesarsky) has been approved in period 71 to carry out a spectroscopic survey in the CDF-S with VIMOS, now installed on UT3. ... MOS (LR_Blue/MR grisms) . ... The VIMOS coverage of the GOODS field (right). ... With an average integration time of 4h per mask and 30% overheads, this makes a total of 125h. The VIMOS spectroscopic campaign is designed to complement the FORS2 spectroscopic program. ... OII],Hbeta,[OIII],(Halpha),CaII H . ... OII],CaII H CIV,AlIII . ...

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... Meta Index / Home Page / User-visible functionality The OAL provides functionality to expand a pair of two or a tuple of four identifiers into a valid ODF data set name which can then be used to physically open the set, e.g. with the dal open method. The corresponding OAL routine receives a string which is either a valid data set name or of the form . odf(<instr>, <mode>[, <expnr>, <ccdnr>[, scheduledFlag]]) . ... For data sets for which the field is not applicable a value of 0 must be given. ...

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... ESO-MIDAS is decribed in full detail in a number of documents. ... ESO-MIDAS User's Guide ( Release 95NOV or Release 94NOV ) : . ... Describes the basic MIDAS system with all general purpose facilities such as MIDAS Control Language, all available commands, data input/output (including plotting and image display), table system (MIDAS Data Base). ... Apart for this "standard" set of documentation, the MIDAS Users community is provided with two other sources of information: . ...

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... Astrophysics Group . Graduate Research Opportunities 2016 . Available research projects/areas . ... Astrophysics Admissions Form . ... This includes active participation in the development of new instruments as well as the use of ground and space observatories. ... Further details are available at the following web site: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/research/extragalactic-group-2/ . ... Our research group has a wide range of expertise in the development of receivers for radio astronomy. ...

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... -instrument capability: manual at first; heading toward multi-port fast change capability [got it] Excellent pointing and tracking: 1 arcsec goal; can usually point to within ~few arcsec [or better] Excellent delivered image quality: 0.5 arcsec goal; often subarcsecond, but still feel we could improve about .3 arcsec [median seeing still about 1 arcsec ] Full suite of science instruments : Got them, upgraded them, have plans and paths to replace aging ...

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This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Reflections: Science Fare , Phil Plait . The Bad Astronomer (a.k.a. Phil Plait) gives a short speech to students who participated in a science fair. ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Education Matters, David Bruning . ... Reflections, Phil Plait . ...

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Research Technician Radio Meteor Detection A fixed-term Research Technician position is available at the Armagh Observatory funded by the Europlanet Research Infrastructure (RI) under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (EU). ... There is a timeframe for these tests, which are also funded by Europlanet, and details of field tests will be agreed following discussion between the candidate and the PI of the pro ject. ... The Armagh Observatory is an equal opportunities employer. ...

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... Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Time Requested this semester: Hours already used for this pro ject : Additional Hours required to complete pro ject : Minimum Useful Time : Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 6 0 1 hour less than 100 GB The HI mass of a gamma ray burst host galaxy at z=0.0334 We propose to use the Arecibo L-wide receiver to carry out a deep search for ...

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Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

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... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

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What follows is a list of resources that excel in astronomy education. ... We believe the list is topologically complete in that there are no publicly advertised astronomy resources on the WWW that cannot be found by following the internal links of these resources. ... How Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is being used as a learning tool by teachers and students. ... Bad Astronomy Blog . ... Dr. Jeff's Blog on the Universe . ... Detailed pictures and explanations of Hubble Space Telescope results. ...

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For solar wind dials without any explanatory text, see this page . ... There are three logs, one for each condition index ( K P , Solar Wind ,and NOAA/SEC .) ... More about the solar wind's recent behavior can be found on my Current Solar Wind Conditions page. ... Other items of interest include NOAA/SEC Current Conditions , my composite current Auroral Images page, Windows on the Universe: Space Weather , and Public Outreach Index, Department of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University . ...

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... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

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