Next: RECEIVER CHOICE Up: Spectral-Line Observing at AO Previous: Spectral-Line Observing at AO . ... This involves deciding which receiver you wish to use, the observing procedure and parameters you wish to employ, what frequency range and set-up for the correlator boards you want, integration length, any equipment you may need to deal with RFI (filters, radar blankers, etc.), etc. ... These files are automatically saved into your project area on the ``observer'' computer. ...

Fortran 90 properties already in CF77 . ... Only the old form (fix form) of the source code is available. ... LOGICAL Default KIND number = 8 INTEGER Default int7 int15 KIND number = 6 1 2 digits = 46 7 15 radix = 2 2 2 range = 13 2 4 huge = 70368744177663 127 32767 bit_size = 46 8 16 INTEGER int31 int46 int64 KIND number = 4 6 8 digits = 31 46 63 radix = 2 2 2 range = 9 13 18 huge = 2147483647 70368744177663 9223372036854775807 bit_size = 32 46 46 REAL half Default,single double KIND ...

Next: The Newton--Raphson Method. Up: Fitting of Data Previous: Fitting of Data . ... In a linear problem, if the errors on the observations have a gaussian distribution, the ``Maximum Likelihood Principle'' gives you the ``best estimate'' of the parameters as the solution of the so-called ``Least Squares Minimization'' that follows: . ... A certain number of numerical methods have been developed to solve the non--linear least squares problem, four have so far been implemented in MIDAS. ...

... A technique allowing automatic representation by a relatively small number of independent parameters based on the principal component analysis of data sequences is presented. ... In recent years the spectrum of observed astronomical data can be characterized as greatly varied. ... In this instance, the problem of initial description and classification of newly-observed data becomes most urgent, especially if there is a lack of preliminary observational material and theoretical expectations. ...

... The scheduling routines assist in creating an observing list (stored in the startable) from scratch or from another list stored on disk, and computing the visibility of the stars in a specific night and array configuration. The date of observation is taken from the variable date , and the array name from the variable systemid . If these are not defined, defaults are used for date (the next night) and for array (NPOI). ... addstar , stars _char Add one or more stars to the startable. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Additionally, they provide insight into the gravitational lensing process and its complex relationship with the various cosmological parameters. Keywords: cosmology: large-scale structure - gravitational lensing . ... The Elements of Gravitational Lensing . ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. Orbital parameters of the Sun. Date Mean Perigee Mean Paral Aberrat Epsilon Nutat longitude longitude anomaly Dec 24 272.6887 283.1787 349.5100 8.941 20.832 2326 6.72 -8.19 Jan 3 282.5451 283.1792 359.3660 8.943 20.837 6.71 -8.18 13 292.4016 283.1796 9.2220 8.942 20.834 6.76 -8.11 23 302.2581 283.1801 19.0780 8.935 20.818 6.87 -7.99 Feb 2 ...

... They include: 4 dither patterns, 4 chop patterns, and 3 dither-chop patterns. For each of these, the observer will be able to specify, during the Phase II Proposal submission, the total number of positions desired (2 to 40), the dither size (0 to 40 arcsecs), the chop size (0 to 1800 arcsecs), and the orientation of the pattern on the sky. ... In addition, the figure number where the pattern is graphically shown is given in column 5 of Table 10.1 . ... Figure 10.3 . ... 0.0 - 1800.0 . ...

... The package AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is dedicated to solving a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... Obtaining selection of orbital elements and/ or photometric parameters of minor planets in conformity with imposed restrictions. ... The orbital elements of all minor planets used in AMPLE for 2015 have been determined in IAA on the ground of available observations in the catalogue of observations of the Minor Planet Center. ...

Welcome to the 10C Survey website! ... The first 10C Survey results from an area of 27 sq. degrees complete to 1 mJy and 12 sq. degrees complete to 0.5 mJy have now been released. ... The first results from the survey, which is the deepest extragalactic radio source survey of any significant extent (> 0.2 sq. degrees) above 1.4 GHz, including the deep 15.7-GHz source count are contained in AMI Consortium: Davies et al. ... For each field, deep and shallow areas have been defined. ...

... There are a lot of computer codes simulating this scattering and freely available in the Internet (see e.g. links on our JPDOC page ). ... The code and input file are available in the directory . ... A slightly modified code of Barber Hill with a C-shell and input files is available in the directory . ... The code, input and test output files are available in the directory . ... See also readme file. file. ... The code, input file and their description (a TeX file) are available in the directory . ...

... APO Password Access . ... Ask your TAC for the current password or if they are not available you may call the site at 575-437-6822 and ask for either an observing specialist (nighttime) or the computer support staff (daytime) for the current password(s) that you require to access our computer systems. ... 1) TUI, which requires a login password for you to connect and/or control the telescope and cameras, and 2) Newton, which you may or may not require, to access data on that specific computer. ...

... Posts tagged ?BEHR? ... A great advantage of Bayesian analysis, they say, is the ability to propagate the posterior. That is, if we derive a posterior probability distribution function for a parameter using one dataset, we can apply that as the prior when a new dataset comes along, and thereby improve our estimates of the parameter and shrink the error bars. ... Suppose you have two data sets, D1 and D2, hypotheses H, and background info (model, etc.) ... Comment . ... 7 Comments . ...

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Next: Generation from Ground Calibration Up: EMOS_REDIST Previous: EMOS_REDIST Contents . The redistribution parameters for the MOS cameras. ... Attributes: . None. Columns: . ... The central CCD of each MOS detector has developed a patch where the energy resolution is worse than the average. ... The energy bounds of PHA channels. ... The energy bounds of the PI channels, used to determine the equivalent energies of spectral channels in the redistribution matrix construction. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... SFIT is a general-purpose code designed to optimize theoretical stellar spectra to an observed spectrum. ... While the programme expects input from "stdio", it is more natural to save commands in a file (eg "sfit_input") and run the code simply by . ... If the spectra to be fitted have a filename "star_spectrum", then the best fit spectrum will be written out, together with the renormalized input spectrum, to a file called "star_spectrum.fit". ... sets up model spectrum grid (and for 2nd star) . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

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