Next: The Scenario Machine: Operational Up: Evolution of Magnetic Rotators Previous: Ejector-propeller hysteresis . ... The length of this segment is determined by the eccentricity. ... In this case no hysteresis occurs and transitions E -- P and the reverse take place in symmetrical points of the orbit. ... Here EP means a mixed state of the rotator at which it is in the ejector state during one part of the orbit, and in the propeller state during the rest of the orbital cycle. ...

... Each visibility sample is given a weight in the imaging step. ... However the synthesised beam-shape and sidelobe levels are usually poor. ... Uniform weighting (including super- and sub-uniform weighting) minimises sidelobes, whereas natural weighting minimises the noise level. ... Suppressing sidelobes over the entire field of the dirty beam corresponds to uniform weighting - that is, we get uniform weighting if sup is set to the field size of the dirty beam; this is the default. ...

... There are 6 different analysis options: . 0:all : all the exposures corresponding to the chosen observation are reduced to calibrated event lists, unless disabled via the corresponding parameter ( PN , MOS , RGS , OM , all set to "yes" by default). ... The EPIC data is then searched for source detections, via edetect_chain . By default, for the EPIC data, if more than one exposure is present, these actions are taken over the event list corresponding to the longest observation. ...

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. ...

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. ...

... PG 1115+080: A Gravitational Cloverleaf . ... Credit: CISCO , Subaru 8.3-m Telescope , NAOJ Explanation: All four blue images in the above photograph are the same object. The gravitational lens effect of the red, foreground, elliptical galaxy visible near image center creates a cloverleaf image of the single distant quasar . Light from the quasar is pulled around the massive galaxy in different paths, corresponding to different images. ... Publications with words: gravitational lens - quasar . ...

... Using the uvby -photometry and proper motion data for about 5500 F stars within 80 pc from the Sun, we have studied velocity ellipsoid parameters and obtained the following results. 1) The sizw of all wllipsoid semiaxes increase systematically for groups of stars with the decrease of both temperature (at constant metallicity) and metallicity (at constant temperature). ... As a result, each of the three parameters - temperature, metallicity and velocity dispersion - is an age indicator. ...

FOS FLATS FROM SUPER SPECTRA D. Lindler, R. Bohlin, G. Hartig, and C. Keyes FOS Instrument Science Report CAL/FOS-088 March 29, 1993 ABSTRACT: A new algorithm for computing the FOS detector non-uniformities (flat field response) uses spectra of stars taken in 9 different positions in the 4.3 arcsec aperture. ... Future flat field data should be collected with a newly recommended set of locations of the star in the FOS 4.3 arcsec aperture. ...

Fabry-Perot data cubes. Introduction: what is "data cubes"? Observations with the IFP consist of successive acquisition of a few dozen images of interference rings from the object (or from a calibration lamp) when changing the optical path between the flat-parallel plates. The radius of the rings is a function of wavelength and gap between the plates of the interferometer. ... Its interference rings of Ne line which use for phase calibration (convert object data to wavelength-scale). ...

... The Batch Reduction window allows catalogs of observations to be processed and a data reduction scheme to be defined dynamically. The different steps like Bias, Dark, Flat-Field correction, etc. are optional and must be set by clicking on the option buttons located on the left side of the window. ... Image numbers: by indicating the prefix of the images in the field Prefix/Catalog and providing the image numbers in the field Numbers , using dashes and/or commas. as in: . ... Numbers: 3-5,8 . ...

Copies of The Nine Planets are maintained at several dozen different locations around the world in addition to my primary site at SEDS. ... You may find it faster to access one of the mirror sites that's near to you. ... The Nine Planets has been translated into French , Spanish , Italian , Polish , Portuguese , Slovenian, Norwegian , French , Dutch , Danish, German , Chinese, and Japanese . ... This mirror and a Dutch translation of TNP are maintained by Guido Hemeleers . ... Mirrors .. ...

... 0 ) = Z '' '' 0 [(1 \Gamma '')'' 1=2 sin 2 i sin 2!] ... We use the similarity theory to present the non--dimensional period T \ Lambda of the evolution of the parameters '' and i as a product of the independent factors: T \ Lambda = \ Gamma (4=15)(a \ Gamma3 =2 \ Lambda =LD )jL c (c 1 ; c 2 )j. Here LD = Ї k \ Lambda a \ Gamma3 k \ Lambda '' \ Gamma3 =2 k Ї \Gamma1=2 \ Lambda is the non-- dimensional parameter of disturbances similarity dependent on the dynamical characteristics of the ...

... This function can also be used for particular types of subtypes or kinds: KIND (0) integer KIND (0.0) floating point number KIND (.FALSE.) logical variable KIND ("A") string of characters There is an intrinsic function SELECTED_REAL_KIND , which returns the kind of the type REAL that has a representation with (at least) the precision and the exponential range requested. ... With the choice SELECTED_INT_KIND (5) all integers between (but not including the limits) -100 000 and +100 000 are permitted. ...

On Systematic Differences in Individual Solutions and IERS Products Zinovy Malkin Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 1 Present status Proper determination, modelling, and accounting for systematic differences between contributed series is of the great importance in compilation of the IERS products. ... Possible sources of systematic differences are: · Different reference systems (e.g. TRF, CRF, geopotential, time scale). ... 87 IERS Technical Note No. ...

. The polar diagram shows the spacecraft corrected geomagnetic co-ordinates : co-latitude - local time . The geomagnetic co-latitude in the range (10 ° , 50 ° ) is shown with 10 ° step. The geomagnetic local time meridians correspond to 6, 12 and 18 hours. The different colours are used for each of the 4 spacecraft. On the plot the SC names are shown by the corresponding colours.

Alfa was reinstalled in the dome in sep11. Calibration runs were done in sep11,oct11 to measure any pointing offsets. ... After looking at the results, the alfa model was updated to correct for the constant offset term. ... The heiles calibration scans were used to measure the pointing error. ... page 1: measured pointing errors: . ... The pointing errors are: . ... Page 3: pointing errors in za and az with the fits over plotted: . ... Page 4: pointing errors with the fit removed: . ... 1az term . ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ±30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

... Gravity data reflect changes, related to the groundwater redistribution, ice melting, and precipitation accumulation. ... We apply Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA, or extended EOF) technique to filter GRACE data and separate the principal components (PCs) of different periods. We performed data averaging over the large river basins of Russia. ... Fig 1. ... MSSA is a promising method for GRACE data processing, de-striping, filtering, and Principal Components (PCs) separation. ...

Next: Calibration with the ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis (PIA) . ... ISO P HOT I nteractive A nalysis, PIA , is a scientific and calibration data analysis tool for ISOPHOT data reduction. The PIA software was designed both as a tool for use by the instrument team for calibration of the PHT instrument during and after the ISO mission, and as an interactive tool for ISOPHOT data analysis by general observers. ... PIA is entirely based on the Interactive Data Language IDL (IDL92). ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I want to process MOS data of the same target from different nights together - how can I do that? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... However, if you want to process science data from different nights together you should limit the available calibrations to those from one night as the pipeline assumes that the calibration data were taken without mask movement in between. ...