Next: External Functions Up: Fitting of Data Previous: The Corrected Gauss--Newton . ... Basic functions are either defined in the system or defined by the user as external FORTRAN routines. ... Basic functions are specified by the name, the independent variable(s) and parameter(s), with optional guesses for the parameters, following the syntax: name(var1[, ];par1[, ]) [par1=value] . ... Parameters are defined by unique names after the semicolon in the function specification. ...

... All the parameters provided in this database have been obtained using the the MIRIAD ( Sault et al. 1995 ) task MBSPECT . MBSPECT makes a spectrum of the velocity (or frequency) axis of a cube. The spectrum is beam-weighted, over the width specified, for the other image axes. ... Robust parameters are calculated by using an algorithm which minimises the mean absolute deviation of the flux-weighted velocities. mask= This specifies the x-axis ranges to be excluded from any continuum fit. ...

... For an input list of EBOXDETECT source locations, simultaneous maximum likelihood PSF fits to the source count distribution are performed in all energy bands of each EPIC telescope. A description of the main properties of the detection algorithm may be found in Cruddace, Hasinger, Schmitt (1988). ... Note, that =1 in the case of the individual energy band detection likelihoods listed in source table rows with ID_BAND 0 and is equal to the total number of energy bands in the ID_BAND=0 summary rows. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... Chapter 8: Pointings and Patterns > 8.3 How to Fill Out the Pattern Parameters Form . ... In this case, instead of taking the exposures at each point of the first pattern, the entire Sub-Pattern (or Secondary_Pattern in the Text Proposal File ) will be executed at each point, creating a two-dimensional matrix of pointing offsets. ... Pattern_Type: STIS-MAMA-BOX . ... Pattern parameters that are determined by the pattern type, or have default values, need not (or cannot) be changed in the form. ...

Region markers can be moved, resized, rotated, zoomed, deleted, and can change geometric type. ... For example, markers placed on astronomical catalog positions should be fixed so that one cannot accidentally move them off the specified position. ... Parameters can be fixed using the fix option of the regions public access point (for fixing classes of markers) or by means of a fix keyword in the definition of an externally loaded marker. ... In the command: echo "regions fix all -position -size" | ...

... Each document which is or can be circulated outside DMD division has to be issued according to the following Technical Archive procedure. ... Identify the type of document according to the ESO Documentation Type definition list . ... Get the chronological four-digit number from Technical Archive (pday@eso.org phone 6462 or tecarch@eso.org), specifying: the document type, PSC, document title, author(s), issue and issue date. ... ESO document number (i.e. VLT-SPE-ESO-19100-1836). ... issue number . ...

tranback -- Transform an X,Y position from output to input pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle tranback xout yout . xout = 400 [real] . ... The X dimension of the input image (this is used to determine the centre which is the origin of the transformations). (nyin = 800) [real] . ... If "output" the input image center is mapped to the center of the output grid, rotated about that center and then shifted along the grid of the output image. ...

Tasks in GIPSY are the application programs which do useful work for the user. ... To start a task without parameters, only the name of the task needs to be supplied. taskname To specify parameters, any number of keyword-value pairs separated by blanks can be added to the taskname: taskname keyword1 = value1 keyword2 = value2 .. ... The user can set a parameter in the task context to change requests for hidden keywords into requests for defaulted keywords. ... Tasks all run in a context . ...

Instructions for using Menu-driven Axis Control Software . ... Altitude and azimuth axes use position feedback and the setting is in counts per second times 10. ... Use b to set the brakes and use c to clear the brakes for the corresponding axis, either azimuth or altitude. ... Use m to move to the previously specified position and velocity for the corresponding axis; either azimuth or altitude. ... Use g to move to the previously specified position and velocity for both the azimuth and altitude axis. ...

... This function can also be used for particular types of subtypes or kinds: KIND (0) integer KIND (0.0) floating point number KIND (.FALSE.) logical variable KIND ("A") string of characters There is an intrinsic function SELECTED_REAL_KIND , which returns the kind of the type REAL that has a representation with (at least) the precision and the exponential range requested. ... With the choice SELECTED_INT_KIND (5) all integers between (but not including the limits) -100 000 and +100 000 are permitted. ...

... The Boolean object is an object wrapper for a boolean value. ... JavaScript 1.3: added toSource method . ... If value is omitted or is 0, -0, null, false, NaN , undefined, or the empty string ( "" ), the object has an initial value of false. All other values, including any object or the string "false" , create an object with an initial value of true. ... For Boolean objects and values, the built-in toString method returns the string "true" or "false" depending on the value of the boolean object. ...

... A response matrix is a discrete representation of a given instrument's response to incoming photons. ... This presentation is a preliminary report on MKRMF, a new tool developed by the Chandra X-ray Science Center (CXC), to calculate RMFs appropriate for the variety of science instruments on-board Chandra (Wise 1998). ... These external redistribution functions are stored using a new FITS format developed by the CXC for encapsulating functions. ... axes file : . ... list file : . ... CXC RMF Format ...

... AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is integrated software package to deal with a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... compiling a list of all numbered minor planets which can be seen at certain moment within specified sky region and visualization of their mutual positions; . ... As AMPLE is able to reproduce virtually any table of "the Ephemerides of Minor Planets" , it may be considered as computer version of the EMP. ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

The magnetic mapping is fulfilled by the magnetic field line tracing from the satellite position up to the Ionosphere (stop trace at the altitude 110 km). ... As a rule the Tsyganenko [1987] external magnetic field model and IOPT = 3 (Kp = 2) are used. ... The output file includes the following information: . ... For example the file with name aa9610d1.geo contains the information corresponding to the aposteriory magnetic mapping for INTERBALL Auroral Probe for the first decade of October 1996. ...

... The IDL users can call these codes by the CALL_EXTERNAL function with the following syntax: res=CALL_EXTERNAL(libname, 'GET_MW', ParmIn, s, /F_VALUE) Here libname is the name of the appropriate dynamic link library or shared ob ject. ... Then, ParmIn is the 29-element single-precision floating-point array that contains the input parameters for the gyrosynchrotron code, and s is the two-dimensional single-precision floatingpoint array that contains the results of the computation. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The order in which libraries to link to are passed to the linker is important . ... Many libraries use the GNU Autoconf/Automake build toolchain. ... Run the ./configure script, which looks for the various programs and libraries that the package needs . ... The simplest way is to run ./configure and make note of any complaints about missing programs or libraries that it reports. ... Some notes on the GNU toolchain . ... Passing options to configure . ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

I have dropped the differentiation of HTML into a sequence of conformance levels. ... This (and upward compatible specifications) define the Internet Media Type (RFC 1590) and MIME Content Type (RFC 1521) called "text/html". The type "text/html" accepts the following parameters: . ... Character sets . The charset parameter (as defined in section 7.1.1 of RFC 1521) may be used with the text/html content type to specify the encoding used to represent the HTML document as a sequence of bytes. ...