Next: XMM_MISCDATA Up: CCF Components Previous: Appendix: List of valid Contents . While some relevant RGS calibration data are given in the general-purpose CCF components . ... Some information concerning the maintenance of RGS CCF files is given below, though more details are available in the release notes that accompany new file releases and other technical notes. ... Use of CCF components by RGS SAS tasks . ... Purpose . Functionality . Ground calibration . Maintenance procedures . ...

... Previous: ESO C Library for an Image Processing Software Environment (eclipse) . ... A new CLEAN-type algorithm searches for model components not in the dirty image but in the multi-resolution wavelet transform of the dirty image based on the dirty beam. ... The improvement of this prototype Wavelet CLEAN, which does convolve with the dirty beam, can be attributed to a suppression of noise and aliasing in the dirty image by use of information in the sidelobes of the whole image domain. ...

Next: The Clark CLEAN Up: Image Deconvolution Previous: Introduction . The CLEAN algorithm (H?gbom 1974) (A&AS 15, 417) represents the image as a number of point sources in an otherwise empty field of view. ... The H?gbom CLEAN algorithm looks for the brightest (in an absolute sense) pixel (called a CLEAN component) in a specified region in the image (called the CLEAN window which must include all the real emission in the image). ... This subtracted image is called the residual image. ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

... Iron abundance in the atmospheres of components of the binary system 41 Draconis . ... 5B Iron abundances, FeI and FeII lines equivalent widths, and microturbulence velocities were found for the components of a highly eccentric spectroscopic and interferometric binary system 41 Dra from high resolution spectra obtained close to the periastron. Weighted mean values of iron abundances in the atmospheres are lgN(Fe) = 7.66 ± 0.03 and lgN(Fe) = 7.72 ± 0.03 for the component a and b, correspondingly. ...

... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

Next: Examples and Photometric Up: Image Restorations of High Previous: Introduction . ... where is the intensity of the point sources (mainly zero apart from -functions at the positions of designated sources) and is the intensity of the background. ... When is zero the objective function becomes the same as that of the standard Lucy-Richardson technique. takes the form of an entropy expression which may be calculated in two ways, relative to a flat background: . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction . ... Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Geomagnetic storms and substorms are a natural hazard similar to hurricanes, floods etc. ... Solar and geomagnetic activity also probably influences the Earth's climate and human health. ... Under southward directed IMF the Earth's magnetosphere is open to input from the solar wind flow. ... Since practical importance of solar wind measurements was recognized, a number of approaches was developed for prediction of the geomagnetic activity basing on the solar wind data. ...

Next: Stellar models Up: Introduction Previous: Photometry Contents . In a hierarchical stellar system, the separation between two neighboring stars is always much smaller than the separation of this pair from the next companion in the system, be it another pair or a single star. ... They are also numerically easier to handle than non-hierarchical systems, since each pair can be described with the standard orbital parameters, and each star with a small number of physical parameters. ... System . ...

... In this first example, we allow an object to fall onto a small radar unit . The resulting Time-Frequency distribution is shown as a contour plot in Fig. 8 (a). Figure: FIGURE GOES SOMEWHERE IN THIS GENERAL VICINITY . ... Its density plot appears as an image in Fig. ... The response has a very high peak, as evidenced from Fig. ...

... Column Fmt Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 Blank 2- 5 I4 Year (19__) 6- 8 A3 Blank 9-10 I2 Month 11-13 A3 Blank 14-15 I2 Day 16-17 A2 Blank 18-20 F3.1 Time in tenths of hour 21-24 A4 Blank 25 I1 Code number of the ssc in the N collection (0, 1, 2 or 3 -- the number 9 occurs when no record was available) 26-29 A4 Blank 30 I1 Code number of the ssc in the T ... 181-182 A2 Blank 183-185 I3 Order number of ssc in the year. ...

Next: stecf.cplucy - Enhanced Two-channel Up: The ``stecf" IRAF Layered Previous: The ``stecf" IRAF Layered . For many years the ST-ECF has developed IRAF tasks and packages for HST and related data analysis. ... To allow wider and more efficient distribution and to bring all components to a uniform level of quality and documentation we have decided to combine these components into a standard-format IRAF package to be called ``stecf''. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

Next: Code of Good Practice Up: scientific Previous: scientific . The Armagh Observatory recognizes that honesty is an essential component of scholarly activity. All researchers have a duty to society, to their profession, to their employer, and to those funding their research, to conduct their research in the most conscientious and responsible manner possible. ... Next: Code of Good Practice Up: scientific Previous: scientific webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 33 , No. ... I present the discovery of an eclipsing component in light variations of the known High-Amplitude Delta Scuti star GSC 1374-01131 based on the Catalina Surveys publicly available data. ... From a single night of their observations, the variable was classified as a HADS (High-Amplitude Delta Scuti) star, with the light elements: . ... The light curves of GSC 1374-01131 based on Catalina data, folded with periods of pulsations and eclipses. ...

... OEM COMPONENTS . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... Objective, Plan Achromatic, 4 X 0.12, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 20 X 0.40, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 60 X 1.00-0.70, Oil, Iris, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 100 X 1.25, Oil, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 2.5 X 0.08, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 50 X 1.0-0.70, oil, iris, BF/DF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 100 X 1.25, oil, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 100 X 1.30, oil, iris, BF/DF ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...