Direct Electron Imaging Using Back Thinned CCDs . ... Figure 5. Measured CTF for GaAs SI502AB EBCCD for various acceleration energies @ 1*10 -4 footcandles faceplate illumination using a 590 nanometer wavelength source. ... Contrast transfer function was measured on both EBCCD tubes as a function of both acceleration voltage and light level. ... A difference frame of two identical flat field frames at a 'high' light level was used for the measurement of variance versus mean in the EBCCD tube. ...

This page holds the archived system performance data (the current data is on the system performance page) . ... Gain,Tsys,Sefd.. Coma,sidelobes, beam efficiency . Pointing errors. Az,za coverage . Hour of day when sources measured. 01sep01 thru 30jul02 (cooled receiver to - room temp amps installed) . ... Hour of day when sources measured (.ps) (.pdf) . ... Hour of day when sources measured. 21aug02 thru 01feb03 (horn focus change to reshimming of elevation rails, pointing model). ...

... HST . How precise are the parameters of my double star as measured in Transfer Mode? ... Data . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Data Analysis . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... FGS Data Handbook . ... A: Analysis of calibration and other data has shown that the separations obtained in the analysis the Transfer Functions of double stars have a precision of around 1 milli arc-second. ...

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The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

... Classes . ... Create and use scalar and array columns of Quanta and Measures in Tables. ... Read only access to table array Measure columns. ... Read write access to table array Measure columns. ... Read only access to table scalar Measure columns. ... Read write access to table scalar Measure columns. ... Definition of a Measure column in a Table . ... A class for defining Quantum columns in Tables. ... Measures . ... Using the TableMeasures classes makes it easier to deal with measures in tables. ...

TEST RESULTS WITH 2KX2K MCT ARRAYS Finger, G, Dorn, R.J., Mehrgan, H., Meyer, M., Moorwood A.F.M. and Stegmeier, J. European Southern Observatory Abstract: The performance of both an LPE 2Kx2K engineering grade and a science grade array have been evaluated. Both arrays have a cut-off wavelength of c=2.6 µm. At an operating temperature of 60 K, the dark current of the science grade array is 0.004 e/s. The peak quantum efficiency of the science grade array is 84.4%. ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... BASIC PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION . STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . ... OF MEASURING CHANNELS . ... unit of measurement . ... Nitric oxide (NO) concentration, . ... power measured by ASEC . ... In particular, RSC Energia finalizes its work on measurement systems designed to measure dust, volumetric activity of radioactive gases and aerosols and other environmental parameters. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Type Ia supernovae have emerged as one of the sharpest tools in the astrophysicists kit for measuring extragalactic distances, with a precision of around 6%. ... Different types of dark energy affect the rate at which the Universe expands depending on their effective equation of state. ... Each variant of dark energy has its own evolving equation of state that produces a signature in the Hubble diagram of the Type Ia supernovae. ...

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... CI Cam (XTE J0421+560) is an X-ray transient and a binary system the optical companion, which shows the B[e] phenomenon. ... The centroid velocities of the following emission lines were measured: FeII (5 lines), [N II] 5754.59A (NIST Database), H_alpha, H_beta, HeI (5 lines), and [O III] 5006.843A. FeII and [N II] lines that form in the cool equatorial disk wind of B[e] star have stable sharp-edge profiles. ... All the FeII lines and the [N II] line in our spectra show a linear shift with time. ...

Next: CCD Scientific Performance Up: CCD Operation Previous: CCD Operation . A visible light photon releases only one electron-hole pair, and consequently many photons must be collected in each pixel for a measurable signal to be produced. ... This use as an imaging X-ray spectrometer requires that no more than one photon is incident on each pixel in any image frame, which imposes a requirement that image collection times be limited to ~seconds for typical astronomical applications. ...

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Mercury Summer 2011 Table of Contents . ... A Hubble Space Telescope view of a segment of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe. ... In 1998, competing teams of astronomers were forced to come to grips with increasingly convincing observations that the expansion of the universe was accelerating , rather than decelerating (as they expected). ... Its discovery resulted directly from measurements of the distances to remote galaxies. ...

The overall efficiency (including atmospheric transmission, reflectivity of the telescope mirrors and overall efficiency of the optics and of the detector) for broad-band imaging should be about 25% in H and K, and about 15% in J. The main noise source for both broad- and narrow-band imaging should be the photon noise associated to the background+source flux. ... Flat fielding (and possibly background subtraction) might increase the noise by a factor 2 ? ...

... Measuring the Distances to Supernovae . Professor Robert Kirshner . Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month our speaker will be Professor Bob Kirshner of Harvard University who will speak to us about measuring the distances to supernovae which was the key to the discovery of the accelerating universe that won the 2011 Nobel Prize. ... Oct . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 1996: . Using the original method of diagnostics of the Solar corona structure by the effects of radio wave refraction (space-frequency tomography) in the wavelength range of 2-30 cm on the RATAN-600 telescope, the electron density, emission measure and porosity of coronal loops was measured for the first time regardless of the optical data. It is shown that most of the matter is concentrated in the super-dense loops, occupying less than 10% of the total coronal volume. ... Archive . ...

... 2000 October 19 . The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured . ... What is known is that satellites across our Solar System reported on 2000 January 31 a tremendous explosion of gamma rays had occurred towards some previously uninteresting direction. ... The VLT not only recorded an optical counterpart , shown above , but also was able to estimate that the cosmologically-induced redshift was an astonishing 4.5 -- placing GRB000131 farther across the universe than any explosion so measured. ...

... 19.10.2000 . ... What is known is that satellites across our Solar System reported on 2000 January 31 a tremendous explosion of gamma rays had occurred towards some previously uninteresting direction. Soon one of the largest optical telescopes on Earth, a VLT in Chile, began to peer in the direction of the gamma ray burst . ... Publications with keywords: gamma-ray burst - cosmology - explosion - afterglow . Publications with words: gamma-ray burst - cosmology - explosion - afterglow . ...