... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... OM grism data are obtained as image mode data. However the different nature of this type of data, spectra of the objects in the field of view instead of their "sky" image, makes that a special processing must be applied to the grism images. ... They are concatenated in a perl script, omgchain , which works in a similar way to the image and fast mode chains. ... All necessary corrections are applied to the grism data files. ... As we have pointed out OM grism data are image mode data. ...

... We have developed a new extraction software package called aXe that was specifically designed to handle the ACS spectrophotometric data. ... The aXe software was designed to extract spectra in a consistent manner from all the slitless spectroscopy modes provided by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in February 2002. ... The extraction process is a set of well isolated steps that can be individually applied and tweaked by the user (Figure 1 ). ...

The FITS archive & data processing pipelines . ... The archived data are broad band images (BBI) and long-slit spectra (LSS) plus their associated template and calibration files. The data in HFA can enter into the HyperLeda processing pipeline and the results can be freely downloaded. ... Definition of the file system (structure of the archive) . ... The coordinate systems must be updated when the data (pixel data, other keywords, related tables) are altered (eg. rebinning of the image). ...

... NICMOS Data Handbook > Chapter 5: Data Analysis > 5.7 Grism Data Reduction . 5.7 Grism Data Reduction . 5.7.1 Extraction Software . ... Software to extract spectra from NICMOS grism images has been developed at Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF). ... Later, after 1-dimensional spectra have been extracted from the grism images, the extraction software applies a wavelength dependent correction for QE variations (see Section 5.8.2). ... Extraction of Spectra . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 . ... The Shared Object Cache provides a means to share simple data across all a server's workers, regardless of thread and process models . ... Initialize the cache. ... Destroy a given cache instance object. apr_status_t store(ap_socache_instance_t *instance, server_rec *s, const unsigned char *id, unsigned int idlen, apr_time_t expiry, unsigned char *data, unsigned int datalen, apr_pool_t *pool) . ...

... Duchamp | ... Top | Duchamp is a solution to this problem of three-dimensional source finding. ... A list of the detections and their properties, as well as the input parameters that were used. [text file] . ... It can be downloaded in source format, in a gzipped tar archive. ... Changes from the previous version can be seen here (this file is included in the tar archive), while the archive files and documentation from the previous release versions are here , if you are really interested. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... A fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical datasets ? ... 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 . ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Supernova Class Reference . ... Supernova (const QVariantMap &map) . ... Get a QVariantMap which describes the supernova. ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getAngularSize (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

PROJECT SUMMARY (max 3000 characters) The principal goals of the project are the observational and theoretical investigation of complex cosmic objects where the processes of dust scattering, absorption and emission play significant roles. ... Development of light scattering theory and computer codes to calculate the optical properties of non-spherical inhomogeneous particles and laboratory measurements of light scattering characteristics of irregularly shaped particles. ...

In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that . no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... Its orbit is intermediate between the Kuiper Belt and what was previously thought to be the inner part of the Oort Cloud. ...

. Go to RUSSIAN (KOI-8) . The spectrum of giant HII region in galaxy NGC 1084: . Grating : R1302(17) . Halpha region . Exposure time: 780s . Processing: 2 exposures sum with cosmic hits cleaning . The spectrum of bright HII region M17: . Grating : R1302(17) . Halpha region . Exposure time: 600s . Processing: 2 exposures sum with cosmic hits cleaning . Back to LSS main page. Back to Laboratory Home Page .

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...