The reduction of a given magnitude m to it is given by: . ... The galaxy extraction was made with a Discriminant Analysis based on seven parameters (peak intensity over area, Mean surface brightness, Peak intensity, Axis ratio, Relative surface object/matrix, Elongation of the matrix and Diffraction cross) and calibrated with a sample of 1146 DENIS objects visually classified as "galaxy", "star" or "unknown". A visual inspection of every galaxy candidate was made on the matrix of pixels. ...

... Update to the COS FUV Dark Rates and Impact on ETC Calculations for Background Limited Observations . ... http://www.stsci.edu/~COS/fuv_darks/dark_vs_time_FUVA.png . http://www.stsci.edu/~COS/fuv_darks/dark_vs_time_FUVB.png . The ETC value for the COS/FUV detector dark rate is 4.0x10-6 counts/s/pixel for both segments. ... However, proposers considering COS/FUV observations of faint, background-limited targets may want to adjust their ETC calculations to use the lower background rate. ...

SAS home . ... EPIC background spectra are normally extracted from regions of the observation field-of-view, once "contamination" due to individual discrete celestial sources has been removed. ... In order to cope with this situation, blank sky event lists can be downloaded from the XMM-Newton Science Operations Center web site. ... It is in principle possible as well to extract background spectra from blank field event lists, if the spectrum accumulation regions are defined in sky coordinates. ...

This diagram shows the six superimposed "layers" of the CSS table model. This diagram illustrates the algorithm for calculating a cell's final background. ... The diagram shows how, looking down on the six rectangles, one may compute the background color of each cell. ... A cell without a background color in the top layer is depicted as a "window" onto the lower layers, which give its final background color. ...

... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

Next: AXAF Recipes Up: ROSAT HRI Recipes Previous: Quantum Efficiency Correction (a.k.a. For some observations, a significant amount of data may have been rejected during SASS processing because the background level was higher than the calculated threshold for rejection. ... REJECTED EVENTS . ... The recipe will allow the user to include rejected events in the generation of a new qpoe file and filter on the background level. ... This creates a qpoe file with standard + rejected events. ...

Next: Evolution of Supernova Explosion Up: Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Previous: Gravitational Waves from Coalescing . The stochastic binary background produced by nearby galaxies from Tully's catalog at the frequency  Hz is shown in Figure  49 in terms of average strain metric amplitude per square degree in a given direction ( l , b ) on the sky: . where the sum is calculated over all sources in the given square degree of the sky; we assumed . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

... For a pulsar search observation, with the two polarizations averaged, a useful rule of thumb can be given for calculating the expected rms noise. If the rms noise, , is expressed in terms of the flux density of the target pulsar, then; . ... Robert Minchin 2012-02-22 ...

... BOX= Area which needs to be flat fielded [whole map] OUTSET= Output Set/Subset(s) ORDER= Order of polynomial to be fitted to the map [1] highest allowed order is 21 ** RANGE= Give range of levels to include in fit: [all levels] Input consists of two values. ... Examples for the use of the RANGE= keyword: RANGE=2, 5 (IF 2<value<5 THEN include in fit ELSE value==>blank) RANGE=5, 2 (IF 2<value<5 THEN value==>blank ELSE include in fit) At the RANGE= keyword, the values -INF and INF can be input also. ...

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . Moscow, Russia . Supernovae make us brighter .. Search russian astronomical resources . Mirror of International Supernovae Network ( Original site ) . Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . HTTP access to SAI Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . SAI SN Light Curves Online . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( in Russian ) . ... Astronet - Russian Astronomical Network . ... Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ...

SiD Tracking using VXD Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Plan Motivation Track reconstruction algorithm Performance for single tracks Does it have any limits ? With backgrounds To do Motivation Tracking in SiD is a challenge, especially pattern recognition. ... Limitations caused by reconstruction speed consideration In the presence of high number of background hits, number of 3-point combinations used as track seed became enormous if we consider all combinations. ...