Next: Additional information Up: Required observational data Previous: Timing information . Comments are so common, and so useful, that a 32-byte COMMENT column should be considered part of the basic data, even though it may be blank for the majority of the data. This field may be used to append comments to a particular observation, such as DOME IN THE WAY? ... The time field MJD_OBS should always be filled in, but the rest can remain undefined. ... Mon Jan 22 15:08:15 MET 1996 ...

... Time related attributes: . observation related: DATE_OBS and DURATION required by XMM-SOC-ICD-0006-SSC ([ 3 ]), write also DATE_END and OBSSTART , OBSSTOP . ... SAS_VERBOSITY should be set to `Sparse' (4) for normal processing and `Verbose' (5) for more detailed processing. Values of 6 and higher may yield quite a number of messages related to rejected events (MIPs) depending on CCD number and instrument mode. SAS_MEMORY_MODEL should be set to `high' for normal processing. ...

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... Archives . ... Astronomers confront with various censored and truncated data. ... This area is called survival analysis . If your library has The American Statistician subscription and you are an astronomer handles censored or truncated data sets, this primer would be useful for briefly conceptualizing statistics jargon in survival analysis and for characterizing uncertainties residing in your data. Survival Analysis: A Primer by David A. Freedman . ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

Allocation of Tidbinbilla 70m time for ATNF proposals NASA allocate approximately 300 hours per year of Host Country time on the 70m antenna. This time is used for single-dish and LBA observations. ... This is far from ideal given 6 month terms for ATNF, which must be scheduled about two months in advance of the term starting, compared to JPL scheduling which goes out to only about 4 months in the future. ... The details of the Deep Space Network schedules are defined about four months in advance. ...

... Abstract Extract comments from the comment area of a binary DAS file. ... Brief_I/O Variable I/O Description -------- --- -------------------------------------------------- handle I Handle of binary DAS file open with read access. bufsiz I Maximum size, in lines, of buffer. buflen I Line length associated with buffer. n O Number of comments extracted from the DAS file. buffer O Buffer in which extracted comments are placed. done O Indicates whether all comments have been extracted. ...

... Thus the FTE described below must be added to the AOF FTE budget. ... Activity Scientist overview of changes (R7M) Observing preparation tool ( section 15.1) Instrument Control Panel ( section 15.2) Modification of AOF / Hawk-I acquisition template ( section 15.3) Site quality monitoring and display ( section 15.5) Exposure Time Calculator ( section 15.6) Modification Observing Tool (OT3) ( section 15.8) TOTAL FTE effort 1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 2.5 ...

Using the free source form it is not permitted to have comments starting with a C or a * in column 1. This would be a violation of the free format. ... An advantage compared with earlier Fortran standards is that the standard now requires that the compiler can signal if the user deviates from the permitted standard. It is required that a Fortran 90 compiler can signal . ... It has to be possible to ask the program to signal for any extensions outside the Fortran 90 standard. ...

Proposal Identification No.: P2789 Arecibo Observatory Date Received: 2015-Mar-02 16:14:03 William E. Gordon Telescope Observing Time Request COVER SHEET Section I - General Information Submitted for Mar 1 2015. ... For these observations night-time is not needed. Begin ­ End Interval­Interval 18:02 ­ 20:17 17:58 ­ 20:58 ­ ­ 2 Days Needed at This Interval 6 14 Time Constraints (Must Be Justified in the Prop osal Text) The first set of observation sessions require monthly scheduling. ...

Next: GOCG Pre-Observation Products . Previous: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... Observation Summary File (OSF) . GRT (Ground Radio Telescope) Schedule Files . ... How: The long-term schedulers will produce two files: GSTS-file (General Space Telescope Schedule) to be used by GOCG and LTS-file for all mission elements. ... What: The RSOG will produce schedule files for all GRTs participating in a particular observation, in the format required by each GRT. ...

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... Na - number of occulting satellite 2. Np - number of occulted satellite 3. ... Y(0) - difference of the planetocentric rectangular coordinates ( occulting satellite minus occulteded one) in the event plane ( see reference ), km 12. ax - the coefficient required for application of the coordinates X(0), Y(0) ( see reference ) 13. ay - the coefficient required for application of the coordinates X(0), Y(0) ( see reference ) 14. bx - the coefficient required for ...

APO/GIFS Instrument Factsheet The Goddard imager and Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS) has recently been commissioned on the APO 3.5 m telescope. This factsheet presents a high level overview of the GIFS instrument. ... GIFS Imaging The GIFS imaging mode is used for imaging science and target acquisition for the IFS mode. ... Imaging Mode pixel scale: 0.168"/pixel · Comparison to Other APO 3.5m instruments: The GIFS field of view is smaller than SPICAM, but the filter set is far more extensive. ...

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Astrophysical implications of external triggers, GRB030329 in particular External Triggers subgroup · · GRB astrophysics is still very uncertain Associated GW emission: even more uncertain Interpret our observations in the simplest terms Easy to re-cast in terms of specific models Provides some astrophysical context which is readily interpretable Probable: The GRB field will need GW observations to fully understand GRB progenitor astrophysics Nov 10, 2003 Frey 1 Short and Long GRBs.. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Dynamics of the Saturnian system with regard to high precision observations A. Vienne 1;2 , W. Thuillot 1 , J. E. Arlot 1 1 IMCCE/Observatoire de Paris 2 Universit'e de Lille, France The acquisition of high precision astrometric observations of Solar System ob­ jects can be applied to the improvement of the dynamical models and to explore some specific problems of celestial mechanics. ... Vienne A., Duriez L. TASS1.6: Ephemerides of the major Saturnian satel­ lites. ...

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. Comment on J0437-1844 . In our observation, the source is well resolved but shows no particular structural features. VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000