... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... For example, modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has no relativistic extension, and so makes no firm lensing predictions, but galaxy-galaxy lensing data can be used to empirically constrain the deflection law of a MONDian point-mass. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... CORR_RATE - The count rate after the following corrections have been applied; . 1) A further point-spread function correction may be applied, to extrapolate the counts from 12 to 35 pixels (presently only done for UV observations) 2) Correction for dead-time. 3) Correction for the OM sensitivity-degradation. A key-word TDS_CORR is added to the table to record the correction value. ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-02 ...

Next: The Quasi--Newton Method. Up: Outline of the Previous: The Newton--Raphson Method. ... At each iteration, one computes . ... Neglecting the second derivatives matrix , we obtain the ``normal equations'' and the Gauss--Newton direction . This so--called Gauss--Newton method is intended for problems where is small. ... The algorithm implemented here is a modification of that Gauss--Newton method, that allows convergence even for rank deficient Jacobians or for large residuals. ...

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS BASIC MODIFICATIONS TEST RESULTS . ... integrated drop tests in order to verify the strength of DM modified shell and equipment attachment points, functional check of new chairs and DM structure, determination of shock impacts onto the crew to verify landing safety; . ... nominal landing with the main parachute system (MPS) - drop #1 took place on December 24, 1998; . ... reduction of shock g-loads values at landing in accordance with decrease of landing speeds. MAIN | ...

... Welcome to the GIMP Tutorials Pointer Page! This page is to help not only to find a particular tutorial, but also to promote the creation of more tutorials as well as providing an easy index to some examples of what the GIMP can do for you. If you have written up a tutorial, and would like it added, please send a quick piece of e-mail to me , including the URL of the tutorial, and I'll add it. ... Yes, I'm now using frames for this page. ... I hate frames. ...

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... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

... The Figure shows the parallactic angle in relation to the source position at (RA,DEC), the zenith of the telescope at (LST,AoLatitude), the hour Angle HA, and the azimuth direction AZ (in the picture the source has already transitted). ... Now suppose that a second feed was placed 1 beam width away from the central horn parallel to the azimuth arm. ... Figure 1. shows the parallactic angle rate versus azimuth angle for declinations 8 through 28 (spaced 1 degree steps from Arecibo's latitude). ...

... The accuracy of calculation of both INTERBALL spacecraft (SC) motion has been estimated at the IKI. ... The 30 days measuring intervals were used during the Tail probe (TP) orbital data treatment, and 15 days intervals - during the Auroral probe (AP) orbit determination. ... http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/indap.htm for the Auroral probe; . http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/indtp.htm for the Tail probe . ... http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/ssc.htm , or http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/amisan.htm . ...

... March 25, 2006: Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...

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do mod_pw (must be run from LRP account) . ... SU 0nnnn01 PC: xxxx cycle: 5 orb: 6 st.stat: scheduling in SPSS: Y cw_stat: S orient: Y type: GO/WFI pws.stat: planned S: Y proc_err: N lrp _state: ready LRP : 97073A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- QSP order_num: ( NONE ) week_id: ( NONE ) exe_time: ( NONE ) USC 1996.001:00:00:00 1997.054:00:00:00 M:c C:17-Feb-1997 N:FGS23GS Comment : Visit was unschedulable or had no FGS23 GSs when ...

The two main numerical libraries in Fortran 90 are . NAG Numerical Libraries for Fortran 90 Users . IMSL Fortran 90 MP Library Both of these offer both a modified version of the Fortran 77 library, recompiled for Fortran 90, and a completely new library, using all the new facilities of Fortran 90. ... On the Sun using Sun OS 4.2.1 we also got completely wrong results when using library functions in single precision, since the C system on Sun converted all function calls into double precision. ...

This page was created by the IDL library routine mk_html_help . ... mk_html_help . at the IDL command line prompt. ... to calculate CHIANTI line intensities and continua, to create a synthetic spectrum. ... WRITTEN : Ver.1, 7-Nov-01, Giulio Del Zanna (GDZ) and Peter Young (PRY) MODIFICATION HISTORY: V.2, 7-Nov-01, GDZ . Fixed a small bug (now the spectrum plot is always plotted within the widget), and modified the option to add continua. ... Added extended details in the ascii output spectrum. ...

The SAOtng graphical user interface is written in TCL using the NOAO widget server . A copy of the GUI specification is maintained in a file named saotng.gui , available in the SAOtng bin directory. If you are familiar with TCL, you can modify this file to create a new GUI and use it as your SAOtng interface. ... But if you create a modified version of saotng.gui, use: make crunch in the SAOtng directory to create the crunch.gui file. ...

... Prev . Next . comedi_command_test -- test streaming input/output configuration . ... int comedi_command_test (comedi_t * device, comedi_cmd * command); . The function comedi_command_test() tests the command structure pointed to by the parameter command and returns an integer describing the testing stages that were sucessfully passed. In addition, if elements of the command structure are invalid, they may be modified. Source elements are modified to remove invalid source triggers. ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Denmark: ftp://ftp.dmi.min.dk/pub/Data/WDCC1/indices/kp-ap/ . Germany: ftp://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/pub/home/obs/kp-ap/ . ... we do not guarantee the correctness of the international sunspot number R; these values are published separately (Brussels, Belgium) The following scientific and format documentation is adapted from ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/kp_ap.fmt The subscript p means planetary and designates a global magnetic activity index. ...

... Basically, though 34 these additional modifications were initialized by study CP stellar spectra, they have quite general applications. ffl chemical elements up to Z = 82 + ffl vertical stratification of stellar atmosphere ­ chemical elements + ffl iterative abundance process + ffl horizontal stratification + ffl partition function option (Mn and Ga species) + There is no reason for the cutoff of chemical species at Z=82. ... Figure 2 illustrates vertical stratification of helium. ...

... Interferometric data files handled by CHAMELEON use the HDS (Hierarchical Data System) format, and have an extension .con for point data files output by CONSTRICTOR and .cha for scan-averaged data output by CHAMELEON. Think of the HDS format as a UNIX directory/file tree contained within a single file. ... The .con files are found in /data/npoi/con on gemini. Output files produced by CHAMELEON are always stored in the current working directory. ...