COS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Cosmic Origins SpectrographInstrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: Special Considerations for Cycle 24 > 2.2 COS Observations Below 1150 е: Resolution and Wavelength Calibration Issues . ... COS Observations Below 1150 е: Resolution and Wavelength Calibration Issues . ... In such cases, for each CENWAVE and FP-POS position, a separate GO-wavecal exposure should be taken with Segment A ?on? immediately adjacent to the Segment B science observations. ...

High resolution IR-spectrometer . ... Determination of concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane) from ground-based or spacecraft platforms. ... Compact eschelle spectrometer is built by autocollimation scheme with diffraction grating operating in high orders of diffraction, allowing thereby to reach the resolution up to ?/ 20 000. ... For observations at the ground-based platforms and aboard the ISS the instrument modification RUSALKA will be used. ...

... Science Publications > Science Announcements > 8th VLTI Summer School: High angular resolution in astrophysics: optical interferometry from theory to observations . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Optical/infrared long-baseline interferometry has reached a new stage with the advent of multi-telescope arrays accessible to a broad community of astronomers, most notably VLTI . ...

... 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. ...

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...

Next: Pulsar bin-mode observations Up: ATCA Bin Mode Observations Previous: ATCA Correlator Bin Modes . Miriad 's atlod task has an option, options=hires which converts a RPFITS file observed in high time resolution bin-mode into an apparently normal dataset with fine time resolution. ... In high resolution time mode, the time difference between consecutive integrations might be smaller than this tolerance. ... Miriad manager . ...

... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 е to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

Next: Summary of reduction Up: Echelle Reduction Previous: Saving the Data . In the present version we will be concerned with the standard configuration of CASPEC, the Cassegrain Echelle Spectrograph which is in operation at the Cassegrain focus of the ESO 3.6 m telescope. ... In its standard configuration CASPEC uses a a 31.6 lines/mm echelle grating together with a 300 lines/mm grating cross disperser. ... The table shows the change in resolution with the order number. Table: Resolution . ...