... 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. ...

Next: Required stellar data Up: File Formats Required Previous: Observational data . An important ingredient of both planning and data reduction is a set of standard stars. These can serve double duty as extinction stars, and are used for this by the planning program. ... If more than one table is used, the user must be careful not to intermix data that are not on the same system. ... These star tables all require the following data ( above the line in Table ): . ... Comment column . ...

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. ...

... calfos uses three different types of input files: . ... Reference files (GEIS format images). ... Table 31.2 lists the science files that are used as required input to calfos . ... Science header line . ... Although reference files can be generated for any combination of NXSTEPS, FCHNL (first channel), NCHNLS, and OVERSCAN, the routine calibration reference files have a length of 2064 pixels, corresponding to the standard keyword values: . ... Reference Tables and Files Required by calfos . ...

... Posts tagged ?standard processing? ... Tags: ADC , astro catalogs , Cast , CDF-S , Chandra , datasets , HEASARC , Penn State , reduced , standard processing , W3Browse . Category: Astro , Data Processing , Misc | ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Fortranљ66 . ... Fixed form . ... Whole Fortranљ66 . ... Continuation line indicated in column 6 . ... Blank line as comment . ... Extension in Unix .f .f .f .f90 .f .f90 . Extension in DOS .FOR .FOR .FOR .F90 .FOR .F90 . ... This applies to both fixed form and free form source code. ... Fixed form of the source code is discouraged in Fortran 95! ... In UNIX there is no concept called extension, and the extensions are not specified in the Fortran standard, but in informal manufacturer standards. ...

... 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. ...

... related tools for FITS header manipulation: . ... While modifying an existing key in a FITS file header is usually done with the standard DFS tool replacekey , adding a missing key requires a different tool: modhead ("modify header"). ... In these cases, certain standard FITS keys required for successful ingestion may be missing, and modhead is the tool to add them. modhead works on FITS files only. ... modhead GIRAF.2027-11-21T20:34:21.626.fits "HIERARCH ESO PRO SCIENCE" "F" . ...

... 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. ...

Optical and UV Spectrophotometric Standard Stars . ... Apache Point expresses its thanks to J. R. Walsh and to ESO for allowing us to place a copy of these pages at Apache Point. ... Access to the standards is either through: . ... The data for the standard stars come from four sources: . ... Data for 23 stars based on IUE and optical spectra and calibrated by the primary WD standards. ... The data from which the plots were produced are also available by ftp access from the standard star pages. ...

... 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. ...

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... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...

spectrum1d - compute auto- [and cross- ] spectra from one [or two] timeseries. spectrum1d [ x [ y ] file ] -S segment _ size ] [ -C ] [ -D dt ] [ -N name _ stem ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] spectrum1d reads X [and Y] values from the first [and second] columns on standard input [or x [ y ] file ]. ... Units same as ypower. name _ stem .npower Power spectral density of the noise output. Units same as ypower. name _ stem .gain Gain spectrum, or modulus of the transfer function. ...

Existing segment from PAARE Proposal A number of four standard VLBI frequency bands below 10 GHz will in due course be required to be serviced by the auxiliary antenna. ... Perhaps should transmute to something like:-- The four standard VLBI frequency bands below 10 GHz will in due course be required to be serviced by the auxiliary antenna. We expect the phase reference antenna to share the Observatory's maser time/frequency standard, which may also be feasible with the VLBI backend. ...

... 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. ...

Next: The root filesystem Up: Overview of the Directory Previous: Overview of the Directory . This chapter is loosely based on the Linux filesystem standard, FSSTND, version 1.2 (see the bibliography, [ Qui95 ]), which attempts to set a standard for how the directory tree in a Linux system is organized. ... This chapter does not explain all files in detail. ... The major parts are the root, /usr љ , /var љ , and /home љ filesystems (see figure 2.1 ). ... Figure 2.1: Parts of a Unix directory tree. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 May 29 . The NASA Television Channel . ... If so, in addition to standard cable access and the standard NASA TV web pages , it might now be possible to watch NASA TV simply by accessing today's APOD . ... A standard schedule is available for NASA's Public TV channel, as well as a live events listing and an educational programming guide . ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...