... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 7 . ... Adopt layout variation that allows camera to be adjacent to compact baseplate supporting other components. ... Kinematic mounting of optics mounts to baseplate not ruled out, but no need to consider in detail yet (until we decide use of different materials for baseplate and mounts is preferable) . ... XS: Calculate bending under thermal gradient of invar or stainless steel baseplate, sized for any of the 3 (plus 1 variation) candidate layouts . ...

Next: A New IRAF Catalog Access Tool for Astrometry . Up: Iraf Packages . ... Twofitlines is a tool developed within IRAF, optimized to be used with data containing multiple spectra along the spatial axis of the detector. A given spectral feature can be decomposed in one or several Gaussian components. ... A given spectral feature can be modeled using one or more components (currently only Gaussian profiles are available), . ... Close spectral features could be modeled simultaneously. ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

HI source finding: 2 novel approaches ATNF, December 2010 Outline · Background · What is source finding? ... Motivation for developing new HI source finding methods · Novel source finding methods · · · · General idea Iterative 3-D median smoothing Characterised noise method Wavelet method · Summary Background What is source finding? ... 3-D median smoothing: Purpose · Goal: Reduce noise while preserving shape · Particularly edges · Median works because it's non-linear · Consider this, Iter. ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...

. Next: Procedure Up: RGS Related CAL Routines Previous: List of CCF Components Contents . Provides the fraction of light that is blocked by the RGA from the beam to the EPIC focus. This is different than , as the RGA support structure has to be considered too. Subsections . Procedure . Calling Parameters . Input . Output . Used CAL State Variables . List of CCF Components used . Michael Smith 2011-09-20

Next: Extinction efficiencies: general behaviour Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: Optical properties of cosmic . It is now evident that observed interstellar extinction cannot be explain using particles of only one kind. ... The intensity of radiation after passing a dust cloud is equal to . ... The interstellar extinction is . ... Next: Extinction efficiencies: general behaviour Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: Optical properties of cosmic root 2003-04-09 ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

The idea of component-oriented programming is that in the course of implementation of various software projects a programmer (or a programmers team) accumulates a library of reused software fragments that are used in different projects. ... To solve such problems there are some special syntax means in Actor Prolog that support component-oriented programming. ... A package in Actor Prolog is a set of classes linked by implication. ... Actor Prolog supports visual component-oriented programming. ...

... In FOS polarimetry mode the incoming beam was split into orthogonal polarization components by a Wollaston prism behind the entrance aperture. ... As with non-polarimetric observations, no concurrent WAVECAL exposure was routinely taken with polarimetry data, so the limiting accuracies of the default pipeline polarimetry wavelength calibration are the same as for the non-polarimetry case described earlier ( See "Wavelength Calibration" on page 32-49. ...

... We study ergodic properties of random maps defined as collections of nonsingular maps $f_1,\dots,f_w$ from a compact metric space $(X,\rho)$ into itself taken with probabilities $p_1,\dots,p_w$ ($\sum_i^wp_i=1$) and considered as Markov processes on $X$. ... In the first situation, when the random map is expanding on average, we mainly follow ideas borrowed from the theory of piecewise expanding maps and the corresponding Banach space is a version of the space of functions of bounded variation on $X...

... Hierarchy and stability 3. Stability criteria for triple systems 4. ... The results for selected systems with weak hierarchy (physical properties of components) System HD 40887 AB+CD HD 76644 AB+CD HD 217675 AB+CD HD 222326 A?+BC HD 284419 A+BC Spectral types K5V, M0V, K4V, ?? ... More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 ( And) Quadruple system More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 Pair B1B 2 More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 (Zhuchkov et al. ...

Next: One example Up: No Title Previous: No Title . Wavelets are versatile tools of harmonic analysis. Because of their many uses, the word `wavelet' comes with different connotations (and different promises) to users in different fields. ... To pursue the analogy, one may wish to select from the data some contact surfaces with specific finish tolerances. the amount of information is then reduced by selection and/or by statistical means. ...

... According to modern views on the evolution and origin of stars, most of the stars are members of binary systems. ... After the second explosion, the pairs tend to break up and neutron stars and/or black holes fly apart. High velocities of radio pulsars are apparently largely due to this effect. ... For all possible pairs the probability of trajectory approach at small distances for the epoch, corresponding to the age of the younger pulsar have been evaluated. ... Pulsars J0543+2329 and J0528+2200. ...

... 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. ...

... Credit Copyright: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Comet 67P from Spacecraft Rosetta . ...

Marc White . ... Research . ... The outflows driven by forming protostars provide important clues to the nature of the star formation process. My research focuses on observations and analysis of the outflows driven by actively-accreting protostars. ... How are the outflows being driven? ... Built by my home institution, The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of The Australian National University, NIFS is a fantastic instrument for doing protostellar outflow work. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...