... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Current telescope status . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Archives . ... Reduced and Processed Data . ... 2 distribution plays an incredibly important role in astronomical data analysis, but it is pretty much a black box to most astronomers. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... I guess in the typical analysis we call chi2 a ?random variable? that follows the chi2 distribution: . ... where D(i) is the observed data, M(i) is the model predicted data and we ?silently? assume that D(i) is normally distributed and each i measurement is independent. ... Chandra Blog . ...

... support coversheet file _cs.html . ... PANL2 for nightlog information; asm (thru qcm) ; dataproducts..calib for pre-existing ANC files . ... twin ancillary fits files (LOGS and PLTS) . ... merge2Fits is a helper tool which prepares all input for creating product ancillary fits files. ... straightforward ingestion with existing tools: cdbIngest can handle any kind of product fits file . ... Ancillary fits files: content . The content of ancillary fits files is controlled by merge2Fits . ... LOGS . ...

Next: Description of algorithm Up: A Method of Integrating Previous: A Method of Integrating . The fast real-time processing of radiometer signals can be successfully implemented because of the existence of modern high performance ADC and data acquisition systems. ... On the other, hand the median-like rank estimation are very robust to spike type contamination (up to 50%), but there is loss in efficiency in case of normally distributed, spike-free signal. ...

Multi-Frequency Synthesis in K-band . The Multi-Frequency Synthesis (MFS) permits to realize a good quality imaging of the continuum radio sources in short time. ... The RadioAstron mission will operate one K-band circular polarized channel at fixed frequency 22,232 GHz. ... In general one K-band RadioAstron channel with fixed frequency will be unchanging and compatible with all the ground radio telescopes. ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Modules . ... To enable mod_dav , add the following to a container in your httpd.conf file: Dav On . ... In addition, a location for the DAV lock database must be specified in the global section of your httpd.conf file using the DavLockDB directive: DavLockDB /usr/local/apache2/var/DavLock . ... Use the Dav directive to enable the WebDAV HTTP methods for the given container: <Location /foo> Dav On </Location> . ...

As it was already mentioned, the idea behind File Juggler is rather simple: using CGI scripts as processing tools and WWW browser as user interface, display the structure and content of typical anonymous FTP server in a convenient, easily navigated form. ... My P5-133 spends about 0.025 ms on one file when doing linear search with simple criterion (690 ms for 27,000 files, search for substring among file names/descriptions with 70 hits). ... Let's now look whether we can handle 1,000,000 files. ...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

... Class . ... METHOD . ... java.lang.Object ij.plugin.filter.ImageMath . ... This method is called by ImageJ to inform the plugin-filter about the passes to its run method. int . ... This method is called after setup(arg, imp) unless the DONE flag has been set. ... The method should return a combination (bitwise OR) of the flags specified in interfaces PlugInFilter and ExtendedPlugInFilter . ... This method is called by ImageJ to inform the plugin-filter about the passes to its run method. ...

The most recent kpyymm.tab (yymm stands for year and month, each expressed with two digits) files are distributed per e-mail half-monthly by Dr. H.-J. Linthe, mailto:kp_index@gfz-potsdam.de Both recent and past tables are supplied as an archive on the FTP servers . ... Since many observatories are interested mainly in the international quietest and most disturbed days, beginning August 1996 three extra lines have been added to the end of the table containing these values in an easy to read form. ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

... 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 . ...

... Classes . ... Nebula Class Reference . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getCloseViewFov (const StelCore *core=NULL) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

NAME httpd - Apache hypertext transfer protocol server SYNOPSIS httpd [ - X ] [ - R libexecdir ] [ - d serverroot ] [ - f config ] [ - C directive ] [ - c directive ] [ - D parameter ] httpd [ - h ] [ - l ] [ - L ] [ - v ] [ - V ] [ - S ] [ - t ] [ - T ] DESCRIPTION httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. ... This manual page only lists the command line arguments. ... Paths in this manual may not reflect those compiled into httpd. ... The default is /usr/local/apache . ...

Description and Technical Details . In 1980s two medium-size horizontal solar telescopes 50/35000 cm with large spectrographs Czerny-Turner made by Carl Zeiss Jena were installed in the Ondњejov observatory. The Czerny-Turner-spectrographs in the Ondњejov observatory called HSFA1 and HSFA2 according to the German name Horizontal-Sonnen-Forschungs-Anlage ("horizontal device for solar research") have been explored for more than two decades. ... Diffraction grating - Richardson, Spectra-Physics . ...