Program: MOMENTS Purpose: Program to calculate moments and other properties of a profile Category: MANIPULATION, CALCULATION, PROFILES File: moments.c Author: M. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set (, subsets): Maximum number of subsets is 2048. ... 3: Physical coordinate of peak value in profile. ... If there are a certain number of adjacent subsets with amplitudes within the given range, and this number of subsets is greater than or equal to WINDOW, these sub- sets are taken into account. ...

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... Introduction | ... Tail Probe is a spin-stabilized spacecraft spinning around the main axis of the maximum moment of inertia. ... To know the spacecraft attitude for a given time we use a matrix N to transform any vector V from the Geocentric Solar-Ecliptic ( GSE ) coordinate system to the Spacecraft Construction ( S/C ) coordinate system . ... X S axis is the spacecraft struclural axis which is close to the spin axis and to the main axis of the maximum moment of inertia X m , . ...

... Archives . ... If getting the first derivative (score function) and the second derivative (empirical Fisher information) of a (pseudo) likelihood function is feasible and checking regularity conditions is viable, a test for global maximum (Li and Jiang, JASA, 1999, Vol. 94, pp. 847-854) seems to be a useful reference for verifying the best fit solution. I didn?t see any ways to confirm that best fit results from XSPEC or Sherpa are a global maximum without searching whole parameter space. ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

Solar Maximum Mission . USA Solar Mission . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was designed to provide coordinated observations of solar activity, in particular solar flares, during a period of maximum solar activity. ... Complementary studies were made as part of the SMM guest investigator program, and coordinated in situ measurements of flare particle emissions were made from the ISEE 3 spacecraft. ...

... First ask for the controlling parameters} set_string (s1,10) ask_for_string (Maximum step size [days],s1) set_maximum_step(s1) set_string (s1,100) ask_for_string (Maximum number of steps in the search,s1) set_number_of_iterations(s1) set_string (s1,1e-6) ask_for_string (Tolerance,s1) set_tolerance(s1) new_line write_string (Allowed coordinate types are true, apparent, and topocentric) new_line set_string (s1,true) ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... Classes . ... All љ Classes љ Namespaces љ Files љ Functions љ Variables љ Typedefs љ Enumerations љ Enumerator љ Pages . coordConv: Astronomical Coordinate Conversions . The coordConv package provides the following classes and functions. ... Coord : represents a position on the sky, with proper motion and radial velocity; provides easy access to spherical and cartesian position. ... Position conversion functions: . ... Time conversion functions: . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... Calabretta, M. R., Valdes, F., Greisen, E. W., & Allen, S. L. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... Of particular interest to the fields of astrometry and spectroscopy, the fourth in a series of papers defining conventions for encoding world coordinate information in FITS headers will consider the problem of representing small systematic errors, or distortions. ... Greisen, E. W., Valdes, F. G., Calabretta, M. R. & Allen, S. L. 2003, A&A, in preparation, Representations of spectral coordinates in FITS (Paper III) ...

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The aim of this section of the course is to familiarise you with celestial Coordinates. ... I found some good notes explaining the celestial coordinate system on the web: . ... 1st Dec: 04hr, 00min In addition to the equatorial coordinates described in the notes above, astronomers also use (at least) two other coordinate systes: galactic coordinates and ecliptic coordinates. ... Ecliptic coordinates use the ecliptic (the Earth's path around the sun) as the equator, and are used for solar system work. ...

... AstroCC is a coordinate conversion utility for astronomy. It accepts an object designation or the coordinates of an object and calculates coordinates in alternative systems, and at different dates, times, and locations. It also provides lunar and bright planet coordinates to aid in planning observations. ... BJD values may also be retrieved from http://astroutils.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/time/utc2bjd.html which is based on Eastman et al. ... Coordinate data are obtained from SIMBAD. ...

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... R P is the perigalactic radius and R a , the apogalactic radius. Z max is the maximum deviation of the star from the Galactic plane. THe dotted curve shows the position of the Galactic plane. The hatched horizontal band shows schematically the band in Z , where the probability of that location of the star was calculated. The vertical band shows the width of the column in which we reconstruct the star distribution in Z . ... next figure | previous figure . ...

... Telescopes . ... Diameter of circular antenna . ... Number of antenna elements . ... Geometrical area . ... Effective area of full circle . ... Wavelength range . ... Frequency range . ... 2 arcsec . ... Flux density limit . ... Absolute brightness temperature limit . 0.050 mK . ...

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Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... GSC 04232-02059, NSVS 3145727, NSVS 3145773, NSVS 3173757 . ... 13.1-13.6 (R, NSVS); . ... To combine our unfiltered photometry with publicly available NSVS (Wozniak et al., 2004; http://skydot.lanl.gov/nsvs/nsvs.php) data, we shifted the zero point of our light curve to match its magnitude at maximum light to the magnitude at maximum of the NSVS light curve. ... Light Curve . The light curve of GSC 4232-02059 in the magnitude scale of NSVS 3145773. ...