For those not staying on site, rooms have been block-booked in two nearby hotels. Transportation will be provided from these hotels in the morning and back in the evening. Staff at both hotels speak English, please mention that it is for the conference at Arecibo Observatory when booking. The deadline for booking hotel rooms is the 3 rd of January, 2008. ... Punta Maracayo Resort : Standard Queen Bed $89.00. 1-877-887-0100 (toll-free) or 1-787-544-2000 - FULL . ... 1-787-898-1000 . ...

... 2.3 Data acquisition Spectra generated by the Multibeam correlator contain the usual structure seen in spectra from other H i instruments: a bandpass spectrum which is the sum of the sky , ground and receiver temperatures multiplied by the product of the filters in the receiver chain; superimposed on this is a noise ... Note also that sources extended much beyond ,40 arcmin can be imaged poorly in HIPASS images because of the bandpass sidelobe effect described in Section 3.3. ...