Next: CBASE/ROMAFOT Up: How to use Previous: REGISTER/ROMAFOT . The procedure described above is the standard procedure and results in an independent reduction of each frame. However, there are cases where a different approach is more efficient. ... Create a base for transformation of coordinates from frame A to frame B ; . ... These steps are accomplished by the commands CBASE/ROMAFOT , CTRANS/ROMAFOT and ADAPT/ROMAFOT , respectively. CBASE/ROMAFOT . CTRANS/ROMAFOT . ...

... RJMCMC Similar to Richardson Green 1997 Knowledge of the PSF makes things easier Insensitive to e.g. posterior for ten sources with = 3: Number of Components 9 10 11 12 0.141 0.222 0.220 0.157 0.022 0.029 0.027 0.021 Mean SD 7 0.029 0.018 8 0.058 0.019 13 0.082 0.014 Simulated Data Source region (2 SD) is about 28% of the area and contains about 41% of the observations Positions (-2, 0), (0, 1), (1.5, 0) with intensities ... Approximate the number of sources (2 in this case) 2. ...

August 16, 2001 . STIS Exposure Time Calculator Fixes and Enhancements . The STIS Exposure Time Calculators (ETCs) have been updated. ... Exposure times computed with the STIS ETC before 15 August 2001 should be verified using the updated version of the simulator . ... The HST Cycle 11 E/PO Grant Program's Call for Proposals, to be released in the first week of February 2002, will describe in detail the requirements for E/PO components of Treasury Programs, and the available resources. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

Next: General CCF Components Up: Calibration Access and Data Previous: List of CAL Routines Contents . This section contains descriptions of the structure of CCF constituents. ... The calibration team of the SOC is also providing additional CCF components where required in conjunction with data that were generated with SciSim. ... These CCF components are generated on a need basis and are identical in structure to the real life components. ... Generation from Ground Calibration Data . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

HI source finding: 2 novel approaches ATNF, December 2010 Outline · Background · What is source finding? ... Motivation for developing new HI source finding methods · Novel source finding methods · · · · General idea Iterative 3-D median smoothing Characterised noise method Wavelet method · Summary Background What is source finding? ... 3-D median smoothing: Purpose · Goal: Reduce noise while preserving shape · Particularly edges · Median works because it's non-linear · Consider this, Iter. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Farm Terminology . ... A wiki farm is nothing more than multiple wikis that share the same installation of the PmWiki software. ... All of the wikis in a farm are more or less the same, except the "home wiki" is a wiki that is located in the same directory as the PmWiki software. ... Home wiki . A wiki in a farm that's located in the same directory as the PmWiki software and therefore shares the farm's cookbook/ and pub/ directories. ... Use PmWiki directory instead. ...

... Up: Iraf Packages . ... IRAF Group, NOAO 1 , PO Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 . This paper describes a new IRAF spectroscopy exposure time calculator. ... SPTIME takes an input source spectrum, either a reference blackbody, power law, or a user spectrum, a background ``sky'', observing parameters such as exposure time, central wavelength, seeing, airmass, and moon phase, instrument parameters such as aperture sizes and detector binning, a description of the spectrograph, and desired output. ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...

Next: Extinction efficiencies: general behaviour Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: Optical properties of cosmic . It is now evident that observed interstellar extinction cannot be explain using particles of only one kind. ... The intensity of radiation after passing a dust cloud is equal to . ... The interstellar extinction is . ... Next: Extinction efficiencies: general behaviour Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: Optical properties of cosmic root 2003-04-09 ...

... every new catalog of objects has to be contained in the UNIX directory having the same name as the catalog of objects; . ... the programs for local operations (programs of low level) with the catalog of objects are also in the same directory; . brief characteristics and names of the programs and file with the description of the catalog are stored in the file cats_descr ; . ... All astronomical catalogs have a different format and list different observables. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences Senior Review NAIC Senior Review Memo Series Memo #1: Background and NSF/AST Request to NAIC Robert L. Brown April 11, 2005 1. Background Over the course of the past six months the astronomical community has been informed by the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) about its planning for a "Senior Review". ... As one of the AST facilities, the astronomy program at NAIC is directly affected by the Senior Review. ... Sincerely, G. W. Van Citters DD/AST ...

... Polar Cap Potential . ... The solar wind propagation delay time calculation used here is conceptually similar to the T(IMF) calculation in Kelly, et al. ... The older continuous data are from key parameter data files. ... Note: Very high values of Solar Wind Speed, Solar Wind Pressure, IMF Magnitude and Bz, and Polar Cap Potential are likely indications that WIND has reentered the Earth's magnetosphere; such data is not indicative of solar wind conditions or impending severe geomagnetic disruption. ...

... 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. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...