hstpolsim -- Produce simulated polarization input data frames for HST instruments . ... inint = "" [name] . ... Name of the HST instrument for which simulated polarization images are to be produced. ... Name of the instrument specific polarizing filter for simulated images (ignored for SPECIAL instrument). filtname = "" [name] . Name of the instrument specific colour filter for simulated images. ... The header parameter FILTER provides the filter name and POLANG the polarizer angle. ...

... The STECF IRAF layered package impol provides five tasks specifically aimed at reduction of HST imaging polarimetry data for ACS, FOC, NICMOS and WFPC2. ... Reduction of HST polarimetry data and simulation of raw polarimetry images, together with polarization vector plotting, are covered. ... hstpolsim -- Produce simulated polarization input data frames for HST instruments from images of the total signal, the linear polarization and the position angle of the polarization vectors. ...

Displays the current status of NICFPS spectrograph and allows you to change the configuration. ... Once the instrument builders have more time with the instrument we plan to refine the controls. ... Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... The contextual menu on each control can return that control to the current setting of the instrument. ... the current set of filters. ... Current : reset all configuration widgets to the current state of the instrument. ...

FSP1 : The time intervals corresponding to the INTERBALL TAIL PROBE (IB_TAIL) or GEOTAIL passage through the simulative magnetosphere boundary layer (BL) . ... FSP3 : That part of the FSP1 or FSP2 time intervals, which corresponds to the magnetic conjugations between any couple of the considered spacecraft. The value of the relative geocentric angular distance between magnetic field line's footprints is considered during FSP3 situation selection. ...

FSP1 : The time intervals corresponding to the INTERBALL TAIL PROBE (IB_TAIL) or GEOTAIL passage through the simulative magnetosphere boundary layer (BL) . ... FSP3 : That part of the FSP1 or FSP2 time intervals, which corresponds to the magnetic conjugations between any couple of the considered spacecraft. The value of the relative geocentric angular distance between magnetic field line's footprints is considered during FSP3 situation selection. ...

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Program: GETVAL Purpose: Get image values at given positions in a set Category: UTILITY File: getval.c Author: M.G.R. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set (,subset): Maximum number of subsets is 1. ... The image values are formatted according the string entered in FORMAT= APPEND= Ok to append? ... The flag characters and their meanings are: - The result of the conversion is left- justified within the field. ... If the result of a conversion is longer than the field width, an asterisk is returned. ...

MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . ... The Duffield Heliostat was designed and constructed for the Stromlo Exploratory, and forms the central feature within the building. It produces a stationary, high-quality image of the sun, which is one of the major exhibits in the Exploratory, and was installed in time for the opening ceremony on July 26, 1997(Fig. ... The tracker module of the Heliostat is located at the top of the pier in the central area of the building, under a roll-off roof. ...

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On 1 February 2002 this Mirror was upgraded from NVSSlist v2.10 to NVSSlist v2.17 . ... This form searches the source catalog produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). ... Object name [optional] : . ... Search radius and verification halfwidth in arcseconds [Optional] : . ... Enter a list of positions to search: . ... The contents of the NVSS source catalog and the techniques used by NVSSlist to derive error estimates and other parameters are described here. ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

... We have collected together many of the astronomical applications developed as IRAF tasks at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) into a new IRAF layered package called ``stecf''. ... For many years the ST-ECF has developed IRAF tasks and packages for HST and related data analysis. ... The impol package consists of five tasks to reduce, simulate and plot imaging linear polarimetry data taken with the HST instruments with polarizing facilities - currently FOC, NICMOS and WFPC2. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Circular polarization of the bright side of Iapetus versus wavelength, obtained with FORS2 at the ESO VLT during the night 2011-03-28 at a phase angle of 0.77 . ... It can be noted that a change in signal occurs in circular polarization observations that are taken after rotating the instrument by 90 degree with respect to the intial position angle on the sky. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... All the ELT pro jects present a segmented primary mirror. ... In 2001 Esposito [3] proposed the PWFS as phasing sensor for segmented mirrors, demonstrating, with numerical simulations, that the sensor can sense and control at the same time differential piston, tip and tilt of each segment. ... A new co-phasing loop has been arranged with the PWFS and the segmented mirror of NAOMI [6] (the AO system located at the telescope nasmith platform). ...

Next: *.imh and *.qp Extensions Up: IRAF/PROS Files Previous: IRAF Image Arrays . The x-ray data are stored in QPOE files (Quick Position-Ordered Events, *.qp ) rather than image arrays. ... Note that, unlike IRAF images, QPOE files have no associated header file, and are always stored in the current directory, unless explicitly specified otherwise. Non-PROS IRAF tasks can also access QPOE data files in place of image arrays. ... rp110590.qp[pi=2:30] . ... The ROSAT PSPC qp file images are . ...

Next: CONCLUSION Up: CHIRPLET TRANSFORM SUBSPACES Previous: Nondilational Chirplet Transform . Suppose we choose a windowed sinusoidal FM signal for our mother chirplet. Such a signal has a frequency that periodically rises and falls (much like the vibrato of musical instruments or the wail of a police siren). ... Figure 14 . ... Using the warbling mother chirplet, we also computed the ``dilation-dilation'' ( ) plane of the chirplet transform (Fig. 16 ) for the pendulum data. ...

Next: Scattering properties Up: Polarization properties (transmitted radiation) Previous: Linear polarization: wavelength dependence . Traditionally, the main problem considered in connection with circular interstellar polarization is the meaning of the wavelength where changes the sign . ... This is also demonstrated by Fig. 19 (lower panel) which shows the wavelength dependence of the factors of linear and circular polarization for particles of magnetite as was done by Shapiro ([ 1975 ]). ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...