... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... We present a proposed standard for data dictionaries associated with catalogs being accessed through the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Mosaic Catalog Service. Each catalog made available for searching must have a data dictionary, which consists of a set of specified keywords describing format, content and location of data. ... There are two keywords in the Table Data Dictionary which indicate to the server software that the corresponding column contains special attributes. ...

... ESO-MIDAS is decribed in full detail in a number of documents. ... ESO-MIDAS User's Guide ( Release 95NOV or Release 94NOV ) : . ... Describes the basic MIDAS system with all general purpose facilities such as MIDAS Control Language, all available commands, data input/output (including plotting and image display), table system (MIDAS Data Base). ... Apart for this "standard" set of documentation, the MIDAS Users community is provided with two other sources of information: . ...

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Next: Examples of Setup Files Up: Setup Files Previous: Setup Files Contents . Over 200 standard setup files have been created, covering many of the normal modes of observing. ... These especially include precisely defined, and somewhat complex cases like the Mark III standard modes (although MarkIII went the way of the dinosaur long ago. ... v '' files: . These are setup files for VLBI observations using VLBA recording formats. ... These are setup files for Mark III observations. ...

Optical and UV Spectrophotometric Standard Stars . ... The HST project has identified six types of calibration targets essential to the good calibration of HST data: . UV spectrophotometric calibrations stars . Optical photometric and spectrophotometric calibration stars . ... ApJS, 73, 413, 1990) discuss the UV calibration of HST standards from IUE data. ... There are spectra available for 23 stars in this white dwarf flux system and the data are held in the CALSPEC data base at STScI. ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

... Recalibration / 26-10 . ... DPERSC-CP34SE: ...and 0 packets were found to have segments without Reed Solomon corrections CPEEND- DATA EDITING ENDED 31-AUG-94 16:23:20 FOR U28S0303P . CPE0EN--------------------------------------------- DATA EDITING COMPLETED ----------------------------------------------------- CPG0VS--------------------------------------------- DATA EVALUATION STARTED ----------------------------------------------- DPVSTR- DATA EVALUATION STARTED 31-AUG-94 16:23:39 FOR ...

dfos = Data Flow Operations System, the common tool set for DFO . ... phoenix: the process . ... Internal data products (IDP) . ... When this process was terminated in October 2011, it was replaced by a service to associate science data to quality-checked and certified master calibrations. ... The main goal remains - creation of science-grade data products, hence a master calibration phoenix project is normally always followed by an IDP project. ... Data product standards . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?standard procedure? ... statistician learning astronomy ? ... In two years of this slog?s life, there?s no posting by a statistician, except one about BEHR . Statisticians are busy and well distracted by other fields with more tangible data sets. ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... John Backus in New Mexico, 1976 . ... Other manufacturers came later with Fortran compilers for their machines and in 1962 IBM introduced the extended Fortran IV, which was the base for the 1966 agreed American standard ANSI X3.9 - 1966. ... An HTML version of the Fortran 77 Standard is now available! ... The purpose of the work on a new standard version was to make Fortran usable and efficient language for scientific and technical computations during the nineties. ... Parallel execution . ...

The preferred way to document an SAS package is via LaTeX. If you created the package directory structure with the SAS package maker pkgmaker , a subdirectory called doc will have been created with partially filled out LaTeX templates. ... Also, the new structure is seamlessly integrated in the overall SAS make file mechanism so that it becomes possible to generate HTML or PostScript documentation for the whole SAS. ... The BibTeX file is called sas.bib and is pat of the package sas . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

Next: Definition of Scientific Misconduct Up: scientific Previous: Introduction . ... This Code of Good Practice closely follows the Statement on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice issued by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in 1998. ... The Observatory expects the highest standards of scientific integrity to be adhered to by the researchers, students and other staff that it funds, whether they are employees or associates of other institutions. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

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... Publication Originality and Plagiarism The PASP and ASPCS publication agreements warrant that authored manuscripts are original and previously unpublished. ... Peer Review, Confidentiality, and Conflicts of Interest Reviews of all PASP manuscripts are strictly confidential and all reviewers are anonymous. ... Authors are expected to follow the recommendations of reviewers and editors to correct and augment their manuscript citations when requested to do so. ...

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 . ...