... The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility's (AXAF) High and Low energy transmission gratings (HETG, LETG) data require new tools and data structures to support x-ray dispersive spectroscopy. ... The sky coordinates, which are referenced to the telescope mirror node and therefore independent of the grating reference node, are only useful for the imaging of zero order and the filtering of grating arm photons. ... For more details on the AXAF grating flight processing software, see: . ...

... The task eregionanalyse calculates the source centroid (returned in the parameters xcentroid and ycentroid), the optimum radius for point source extraction ( parameter optradius) and the number of counts in the source box ( parameter srccnts) The optimum radius is calculated using the PSF (EXTENDED mode ) for the particular Epic camera for a photon energy of 1.5 keV. xmmsas 20030110 1802-5.4.1 XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page ... Otherwise it is set true. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Data Processing 1.1. ... Select Zero Order Sources/Find Observed Target In order to find where the dispersed photons lie, the center of the zero order source position on the sky must be determined, since this is the origin of the spectral coordinates. ... For the HETG grating data, the relevant parts for each source are: zero order, MEG photons, HEG photons, and background photons. ...

... Miriad has a couple of tasks available for finding positions of sources (see also cgcurs in Chapter 17 ). ... It fits a 2-D parabola to the image intensities in a 3 by 3 pixel box centred on the brightest pixel in a specified region and reports the fitted location and intensity. ... Input image . ... The quality of your fit can improve significantly by selecting a snug region, and/or using the clip keyword to keep pixel values with little signal (e.g. sidelobes and noise) out of the fitting process....

... WFPC2 Home . ... Bright stars near the WFPC2 field of view can cause various artifacts to appear in science images. ... When writing Phase II proposals, observers will sometimes attempt to avoid bright stars by placing them in the un-imaged "L" shaped region adjacent to CCD PC1, or in the region just outside the nominal field of view. ... In both cases the optics can image this light back onto the CCD's. Bright stars must be placed at least 10 arcseconds outside the field to avoid artifacts. ...

Describes how spatial region boundaries are handled. The golden rule for spatial region filtering was first enunciated by Leon VanSpeybroeck in 1986: . ... With this in mind, the rules for determining whether a boundary image pixel or table row are assigned to a region are defined below. For image filtering, pixels whose center is inside the boundary are included. ... That is, an row is inside the boundary without regard to its integerized pixel value. ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 . ... NGC 5128 is the closest example of a giant early type (elliptical or S0) galaxy. Although often dubbed as a peculiar elliptical galaxy since it has a dust lane with recent star formation and an active galactic nucleus, the majority of early type galaxies have similar structures as revealed by recent surveys. ...

Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time visibility of the IB_TAIL relative to the Evpatoria and Panska Ves . ... The real time regions passing . ... The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the Moscow time (MT = UT + 3h) (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the MT (Plot) . The IB_TAIL orbital data ASCII files . Dated 21 February, 2000 . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... An alignment meeting on data mining, storage and processing of very large data amounts on the basis of hardware and software complex Big Data took place in Samara State Aerospace University. ... The laboratory for processing of very large data amounts on the basis of the hardware and software complex was made in the University and the necessary equipment was purchased. ... Data processing requires powerful processors and advanced computer programs. ... Big Data. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . SMIS IKI RAN: table of contents . About SMIS laboratory Team . ... PREDICT - Satellite orbit and antenna tracking data calculation . ... XV_FRAME - Raw HRPT data processing: browsing, fragmentation, geo-location, storing to TDF format . ... XV_AVHRR - AVHRR instrument data processing . ... Satellite data NOAA . ... Russian Regions . ... Operational archive . ... Data archive . ... Archive . ... Telemetry data operational archive . ... Data processing examples . ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

At Arecibo we have a variety of optical instruments that we use to study terrestrial airglow emissions. ... As a complement to the airglow instrumentation we also maintain a set of optical instruments, called lidars, used for "active" remote sensing of the atmosphere. That is, we generate our own source signal using lasers and measure the characteristics of the light scattered back from the atmosphere. ... An operations manual for the Optical Laboratories is currently under major revision. ...

National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOFTWARE BERNESE FOR CALCULATION OF THE EARTH ROTATION PARAMETERS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF SATELLITE LASER RANGING (LAGEOS 1, LAGEOS 2) IN THE MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTRE OF THE STATE TIME AND FREQUENCY SERVICE Tsyba E. N., Kaufman M. B. 141570, Mendeleevo, Moscow region, Russia tel. +7-903-194-7575; tsyba_e_n@mail.ru ABSTRACT Preparatory ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

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... One of the major activities going on at my Mira observatory at Sava, Italy, is to record deep sky CCD images for a personal atlas I'm currently working on. ... Images are made using a SpectraSource CCD HPC 1 camera equipped with a Texas Instrument TC215 chip, 1024 square, 12 micron pixels size, at 16 bit. ... After a 40sec exposure, the PC monitor showed a faint glow just above the camera termal noise. ... The image showed clearly a star in the galaxy core, of magnitude 14.5, some 50sec. ...

The software package ERA (Ephemerides for Research in Astronomy) is a problem-oriented software system for solving heterogeneous calculating tasks of Ephemeris and Dynamical Astronomy. The package makes it possible to produce ephemeris calculations needed for both planning various observational programs and processing the resulting observations. ... The system includes packages of processing the position observations by both the Least Squares Method and by Kalman filtering. ...

A 215 to 265 GHz spectral line survey of the Sgr B2 molecular cloud By A l b e r t Numme l i n e­mail: albert@bele.oso.chalmers.se Onsala Space Observatory, S­439 92 Onsala, SWEDEN The spectrum of the Sgr B2 molecular cloud has been surveyed between 215 and 265 GHz towards 3 positions, the dense cores Sgr B2(N)and Sgr B2(M), and the quiescent core Sgr B2(NW). ... 1993)). ... 1991)). ... Albert Nummelin: Spectral line survey of the Sgr B2 molecular cloud 3 Lis D.C., Goldsmith P.F., 1991, ApJ, 369, 157. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... We discuss the diagnostic potential of high cadence ultraviolet spectral data when transient ionization is considered. ... The ionization fraction of the transition region ion O v and in particular the contribution function for the O v 1371 line are computed within the Atomic Data and Analysis Structure, which is a collection of fundamental and derived atomic data and codes which manipulate them. ...

XPA version: 2.1.15 exposure: exposure on/off [time] file: file basename filter: filter number instrument: instrument name interrupt: interrupt mode: mode single/focus/multi multicount: multicount number number: image number process: process on/off region: region on/off [ds9/clear/select x y w h] relay: relay mask time status: on/off target: target name telescope: telescope name temperature: temperature setpoint type: type light/dark/bias/flat