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Next: Other People's Software . ... Quality system management of computer workstations for astronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost-effective administrative design decisions are made. ... This is all done with essentially one system manager. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

... Imagine that for every pixel in the color image, you take its luminance value (that's how bright it appears). ... In the end, you will have a histogram which counts how many times each luminance value appears in the image (that histogram can be used to analyze the distribution of the luminance values in the image). ... For the watermark effect, we want to use the same value that we used in the Stretch Contrast step, so that the lightest color will be in fact white (255), and nothing will get clamped...

... The shape of the spectrum and its overall level are closely tied, which is why both sensitivity and vignetting were discussed in the previous section. ... Therefore, undulations in the sensitivity function, which have length scales of many ngstroms, at most have a small linear effect across a given spectrum. ... Thermal drifts caused a spectrum to move on the photocathode, so the GHRS routinely performed a SPYBAL (spectrum Y-balance) to properly center the spectrum on the diode array. ...

... User Guide ] Task: linmos Purpose: Linear mosaicing of datacubes Categories: map combination LINMOS is a MIRIAD task that performs simple linear mosaicing of input cubes to produce a single output cube. If only one input cube is given, LINMOS essentially does primary beam correction on it. ... To determine the primary beam of the telescope, LINMOS first checks the map header for the presence of the "pbtype" and then "pbfwhm" parameters. ... If so, then the known form for the primary beam is used. ...

... epiclccorr (epiclccorr-1.0.8) [?? Meta Index / Home Page The aim of this task ( epiclccorr ) is to correct EPIC source TS produced by eveselect for the following effects: . ... Relative Corrections : Corrections which vary with time: . Dead Time. ... Exposure. background counts. ... The background TS will be corrected for relative effects related to the geometrical area of the source TS. epiclccorr will perform the Absolute corrections making use of the arfgen and evselect SAS tasks. ...

... Give volunteers public recognition . ... previous page | ... Public recognition for service to the club (such as managing the website or securing meeting speakers) is as important as recognition for public outreach. ... Ideas for Giving Public Recognition . ... Sharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse ...

... How much energy is there in a 20 mph wind? . 20 mph wind =10 m/s .0006 * 10 3 = .0006 * 1000 = .6 KILO watts per square meter . ... In your back yard the average wind speed is 10 mph which yields 100 watts per square meter. ... 4 3 = 64 if a 10 mph wind gives you 100 watts per square meter then a 40 mph wind gives you 64 times more power per square meter 6400 watts per square meter . total power = 6400 watts per square meter * 2 square meters = 12800 watts = 12.8 Kilowatts this is a lot! ...

... The BM effect causes low-luminosity blazars (particularly BL Lacs) to be missed in surveys because the apparent luminosity of the non-thermal nuclear source does not exceed that of the host galaxy by a large factor. ... Browne (1995). ... In addition to these objects, a large fraction of the newly-identified BL Lacs in our sample (10 of 22; see Table 5) have been so classified only by virtue of our usage of the expanded March? et al. (1996) definition of the BL Lac class. ... 1996). ...

Plasma phenomena occuring at one place in the magnetosphere also affect other locations This linkage is most pronounced between points that share the same field line, since field lines guide the motion of ions and electrons. ... It follows that the places on Earth most sensitive to distant magnetic effects are the "polar caps" , the regions around the magnetic poles. A good example is the polar aurora . ... way polar field lines . ... and to the Sun . ... Next Stop: #26H. Polar Cap--History . ...

... Briefly, the count rate at the detector from a source at a redshift z is . ... Another possible way that could lead to arising diverse peculiarities in the - distribution induced by the sources evolution is connected with a possible non-monotonic character of the star formation rate in galaxies. ... The most prominent feature of the obtained theoretical - is a notable sharp increase at low count rates due to evolutionary effects. ...

... 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. ...

Ref: ALMA band 2 horn measures Date: 27/08/2002 Technical note ALMA band n.2 horn measurements Author: Renzo Nesti Summary This document is intended to give pattern and return loss measurements of the ALMA band n.2 horn (69-90 GHz) produced by CLOEMA and designed by MECSA and Arcetri. ... A first set-up is formed by the port 1 of the VNA feeding the transition+horn radiating in free space. ... With the first set-up we have a direct measure of the horn plus the circular to WR12 transition as a whole. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

... We will consider the rms, (K), for observations with a receiver of system temperature, T , frequency resolution, per polarization, and total integration time per observing cycle, . ... For ``in-band'' frequency switching, the line under investigation is always in the observing band. ... Position Switching or ``Out-of-Band'' Frequency Switching: Here the line is only observed for one half of the time, with noise being present all of the time. ...

... Repeat chorus @ SONG : Never Trust A Klingon The Klingon bastards flies around Always ready for some war They don't care about any rules at all As long as they can kill some more Evil barbarians without discipline Unpredictable death-machine With their cloaking device they remain invisible Until the time has come To appear right ahead of us And obliterate everyone If you ever would give them a helping hand You can be sure they'll chop of the arm Chorus : ...