... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

. Cosmology . Very Early Universe . Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy . Dark Matter Models . Large Scale Structure . High Energy Astrophysics . Active Galactic Nuclei . Astrophysics of Compact Objects . Accretion Disks . Scientific Staff:

... We describe some results of a study for a possible HST instrument, namely an area spectrograph combined with a simplified version of the High Speed Photometer. The spectrograph samples a two-arcsecond diameter area with up to 37 spectra, each with an angular resolution of 0.14 arcseconds. ... Two instruments are mounted in the old HSP axial enclosure: a simplified High Speed Photometer and an area (``3-d'') spectrograph (shown schematically in Figure 1 ). ... The spectrograph covers 2000 ? ...

... Automatic real-time control of scientific instruments and/or operational units, data processing, storage and transfer. ... This PC104-based device is a robust real-time control system of high reliability and readiness with possibility of embedding. QNX operational system allows using sophisticated software, multitasking, TCP/IP protocols and modern friendly user interface. ... Ilya Chulkov, Head of laboratory +7(495)333-45-23, http://lex.iki.rssi.ru , ilya@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ...

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 . ...

... This will only be implemented at a later time, if in-orbit experience warrants it. rgsoffsetcalc accepts a list of DIAGNOSTIC datasets (refer to the ODF ICD [ 1 ]. For each DIAGNOSTIC dataset rgsoffsetcalc calculates the mean and standard deviation of the pulse height distribution. ... Optionally, rgsoffsetcalc can store the pulse height distributions for each input dataset and node in a dataset (see the description of withhistogramset and histogramset ). ...

The following papers summarize the characterization and technical performance of IBIS : . ... Characterization of Fabry-Perot interferometers and multi-etalon transmission profiles. ... Righini, A., Cavallini, F., Reardon, K. P., 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 515 , A85, . ... The filter wheel is located between the two interferometers. ... The interferometers can be rapidly tuned, simultaneously, so to allow sequential scanning of the spectral lines of interest (see movie in IBIS Intro ). ...

... The low energy plasma composition spectrometer AMEI-2 is built to be able to find in the low energy range of the phase space (E, q, j) and separate the fluxes of the major ion species in the magnetotail - H+, He++, He+ and O+, and analyse their energy and angular distributions. ... Electrostatic angular scanning in one direction and the use of the spin of the satellite to sample the other angle give the ability to measure 2-D distributions for each ion specie several times per spin. ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

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... Instrument Description . Software: Version 4.0 . Version 3.0:Complete Documentation . ... ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС, разработанный в ИЗМИРАН, предназначен для диагностики ионосферы и оперативного прогноза КВ связи. ... Общая структура ИОНОЗОНДА ПАРУС, Технические Характеристики , Конструктивные параметры на настоящий момент соответствуют модификации Комплекса: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... Там же находится полное описание Комплекса ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... 2004 IONOSONDE PARUS ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

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... About INTEGRAL . INTEGRAL is a European (ESA) Gamma-Ray Observatory Satellite Mission for the study of cosmic gamma-ray sources in the keV to MeV energy range. ... The PROTON launcher injected the satellite into a transfer orbit and INTEGRAL's own propulsion system brought the satellite into its 72 hours eccentric operational orbit with an apogee of 153600 km and an inclination of 52.5 degrees. More details on ESA website dedicated to INTEGRAL mission. 2016 IKI RAN ...