... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... The following changes have been initiated by user feedback: . ... SAOtng command line options can be stored as csh-style environment variables in the ~/.saotng file. ... See SAOtng Command Line Options for more information. ... See SAOtng Colormap Considerations for more information. ... We have added the ability for SAOtng to resize image frame #1 each time a new image is loaded (as did SAOimage). ... See Autoflip of Images for more information. ... See Marker Analysis in SAOtng for more...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... Figure 1 below shows the time allocated at the Compact Array, as a percentage of the total allocated time, for proposals where the principle investigator (PI) is at the ATNF or another Australian institution, and where the PI is overseas. ... Figure 1: Compact Array time allocation, 2000 - 2006 (click on image for larger version) Figure 2 shows the number of publications in refereed journals for papers that include data taken with ATNF facilities. ...

... 7.1 Introduction to media types . ... 7.3 Recognized media types . 7.3.1 Media groups One of the most important features of style sheets is that they specify how a document is to be presented on different media: on the screen, on paper, with a speech synthesizer, with a braille device, etc. Certain CSS properties are only designed for certain media (e.g., the 'cue-before' property for aural user agents). ... For example, the 'font-size' property is useful both for screen and print media. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 21, 1999 . Follow The Spots . Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA . ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

Next: The root filesystem Up: Overview of the Directory Previous: Overview of the Directory . This chapter is loosely based on the Linux filesystem standard, FSSTND, version 1.2 (see the bibliography, [ Qui95 ]), which attempts to set a standard for how the directory tree in a Linux system is organized. ... This chapter does not explain all files in detail. ... The major parts are the root, /usr љ , /var љ , and /home љ filesystems (see figure 2.1 ). ... Figure 2.1: Parts of a Unix directory tree. ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

... When I display the weight map generated for my final drizzled image (or any of the single drizzled images as well), there seem to be representations of the objects in my science image. ... Most likely you need to refine the parameters that are set during the driz_cr step which detects cosmic rays in each of your science frames. ... I've calculated refined offsets between my science images but when I supply MultiDrizzle with the delta shifts the final image is not aligned properly. ...

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). ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Post Message | ... As all my friends know, my mouth exerts a strong pull on my foot, so that the latter often ends up inside the former. ... I grew up with the distinct feeling that I'm different from most people. ... I don't believe in blindly following authority, and I believe no one should. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 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...

It is important to set this directive to one of the configuration used for this data set. The fit results will be associated with this configuration. Different configurations have different calibrations, and this is why this selection has been introduced for the NPOI 6-station array reduction. The configuration selection acts just like a scan/point selection.

... Accurate positions of 404 compact radio sources used as calibrators by the VLA are presented. In addition, the structure and polarization of each source at both 4885 and 1465 MHz are given. ... Amplitude calibration was based on 3C286, whose fluxes at 4885 and 1465 MHz were assumed to be 7.41 and 14.41 Jy, respectively, in accord with the scale of Baars et al. (1977). short description of columns, as taken from the publication: . 1 source name . ... 8 Polarized flux at 4885 MHz (mJy) . ...

... Give an overview of the utilization of the Colorado river over the last 60 years. ... In the year 2000, the world's population will be about 6 billion people. If the world's population continues to grow at the rate of 2% per year, what will the world population be in the year 3000? ... The Following Table shows the population of Oregon Counties from The period of 1950 to 1995. ... a) What would the projected population of Lane County be in the year 2010? . ... THE DATA . ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

... What is an intelligence or an intelligent life? ... Various particular cases, new regimes, original approaches etc. being attractive as they could, all this is a pale shade of a real process of cognition. ... May an infinitely complicated object be indeed so simple? ... An intelligence could not arise in an infinitely complicated universe! ... There are two possibilities: whether our imagination of infinitely complicated object is incorrect or the surrounding world is not infinitely complicated. ...