Position Switching Separation Tolerance with Arecibo in L-Band Travis McIntyre The University of New Mexico July 2010 Revised December 2013 Abstract The blocked telescope aperture at Arecibo creates standing waves in the bandpass around 1MHz. ... Test observations with Arecibo in L-Band show that position switching effectively removes standing waves for separations of one half FWHM or less. Standing waves remain for separations of one FWHM, increasing the rms of the baseline by 20%. ...

... After a brief leave in Bangalore to work on astronomy (and holiday in Nepal), Dave will be continuing in management positions within the ATNF. ... We have also hosted an observing project visit from a contingent of ATNF and CTIP vacation scholars, who observed h Carina with the new 12-mm system (see article elsewhere in this issue), observed new HIPASS galaxies, and studied interference from microwave ovens. ... Currently we are testing this system with a single antenna. ...

The above image is a computer simulation of the distribution of mass in a Dark Matter dominated Universe. ... Structure (\eg density enhancements) clearly forms at the intersection of these filaments. ... What is Dark Matter? ... Testing for the presence of dark matter in the solar neighborhood now becomes an accounting problem The possible sources of this mass in the solar neighborhood are 1) luminous stars, 2) interstellar gas, 3) stellar remnants (mostly white dwarfs) and 4) dark matter: . ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #848 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 081/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed GHRS/2 3496 (Ultraviolet Atlas of Sirius) The High Resolution Spectrograph was used to obtain spectra of the star Sirius in the WSCAN Mode to get accurate flux distribution and line profiles at ultraviolet wavelenghts. Thirteen observations were received and displayed. ... All four observations were reported to look okay. ...

Next: Spectral Extraction of Point Up: Spectral Analysis Previous: Structure of the Spectral . A pulse height distribution can be extracted from a QPOE file only if the event structure is `large', `region', or `full'. ... With the new RDF format files, the output from qpspec for most instruments is split into three files: . ... source off-axis histogram . ... background off-axis histogram . For Einstein IPC, there are no off-axis histogram files, but there is a BAL histogram file, _bal.tab. ...

Large-Scale Structure of the local Universe with INTEGRAL observatory >200-300 , . ... It is now widely accepted, that practically every galaxy in the local Universe has supermassive black hole and some of these black holes are AGNs. ... 136 ( ) 49- . ... The map of the survey is shown on the left. ... Using Hard X-ray all-sky survey such important properties of nearby Universe as energetics of accretion to the supermassive black holes and large-scale mass distribution of matter were studied. ...

... 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)...

Optical design and verification of the sub-millimeter limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubov1, G. de Lange1, A. Baryshev2, R. Hesper2, V. Koshelets3, G ... IREE, Russia 4Institute for Remote Sensing Technology, DLR, Germany 5Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland Vertical scan , mm Vertical scan , mm TELIS (Terahertz and submm Limb Sounder) is a cooperation between European institutes, DLR, RAL and SRON, to build a three- ... SIR cold channel phase distribution. ...

... Basic Observables: Zero-differenced phase and code ionosphere-free combinations of global GNSS network stations, corrected by P1-C1 satellite code biases (cc2noncc), daily observations with 30 seconds sampling rate Sites coordinates : IGb08 reference frame coordinates and velocities Displacements: solid tides, ocean loading, pole tide loading (IERS 2010) Geometric model : Receivers antennas eccentricities, absolute receiver and ...

... AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is integrated software package to deal with a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... compiling a list of all numbered minor planets which can be seen at certain moment within specified sky region and visualization of their mutual positions; . ... As AMPLE is able to reproduce virtually any table of "the Ephemerides of Minor Planets" , it may be considered as computer version of the EMP. ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response R. D. Saxton 11 November 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE Blocks changed XSCS ag EPN QUANTUMEF 0015.CCF 2000-01-01 FRACTION CHANNEL, FRACTION ENERGY QE TOTAL, EBINS FRACTION NO EPN REDIST 0009.CCF 2000-01-01 NOISE PARAMS, PARTEVENT PARAMS THRESH LOSS NO 2 Changes Recent calibration work has shown that the Epic-pn redistribution function is in practice narrower than that represented in the current matrices. ...

Our publications in 1996 year . Lindner, U.; Einasto, M.; Einasto, J.; Freudling, W.; Fricke, K.; Lipovetsky, V.; Pustilnik, S.; Izotov, Y.; Richter, G. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.314, p.1-12 (10/1996) . Thuan, Trinh X.; Izotov, Yuri I.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A . ... Edited by Daniel Kunth, B. Guiderdoni, M. Heydari-Malayeri, and Trinh Xu Thuan, 1996., p.607 . ... Edited by Daniel Kunth, B. Guiderdoni, M. Heydari-Malayeri, and Trinh Xu Thuan, 1996., p.587 . ... Thuan, Trinh Xuan; Izotov, Yu. ...

Chiaki Kobayashi, Ralph Sutherland How galaxies did form and evolution? - to answer this unsolved problem, we are simulating the formation and evolutionary history of galaxies in the Universe, including star formation, supernovae feedback, and chemical enrichment. Comparing the spacial distribution of elements within galaxies with observations, we will examine fundamental physical processes that drive galaxy formation. ... COALA : Universe Galaxy AGN Star Planet ...

Feed cabin Nr. ... Fig. ... This allows to realize the sensitivity at frequency ranges 4.8, 11.2 and 30.0 GHz of 5, 7 and 12 mK by double beam switching mode and by the integration time of the output filter 1s. Input waveguide paths were very long and had big losses. ... The focal line of the feed cabin Nr. ... Data Acquisition and Control System . The Data acquisition system of the feed cabin Nr 2 is based on the new measurement ER-DAS system (Embedded Radiometric Data Acquisition System). ...