... Brief_I/O VARIABLE I/O DESCRIPTION -------- --- -------------------------------------------------- caller I Name of the routine calling this routine. name I Name of a kernel pool variable comp I Comparison operator. size I Expected size of the kernel pool variable divby I A divisor of the size of the kernel pool variable. type I Expected type of the kernel pool variable The function returns SPICEFALSE if the kernel pool variable is OK. ... Index_Entries Check the properties of a kernel pool variable...

... Unsafe act - a behavioral departure from an accepted, normal, or correct procedure or practice which, in the past, has produced injury or property damage or which has potential for doing so in the future; an unnecessary exposure to a hazard; conduct reducing the degree or safety normally present in an activity. ... Any hazardous unsafe condition, or act that presents a situation of imminent danger to life and/or property requires urgent action. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... The program omatt, which calculates the equatorial coordinates of the sources, can in fact calculate these offsets and correct the positions, but only if it has access to a star catalogue. Unfortunately, at present no catalogue is available and hence no correction can be applied. It is expected that in the near future a catalogue will be provided with each ODF set, enabling an astrometric correction to be made. XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2006-06-28 ...

CS I R O A S T R O N O M Y A N D SP AC E SC I E N C E Cnr Vimiera and Pembroke Roads, Marsfield NSW 2121 PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia T +61 (0)2 9372 4100 · ABN 41 687 119 230 Early Science with ASKAP CASS has stated its commitment to delivering ASKAP as fully scoped and is currently seeking additional funding to realise this goal. ... During May 2013, CASS will begin to develop a unified early scientific program in consultation with EMU, WALLABY and other survey science teams. ...

... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 812 . ... Abstract: The calculation of flux upper limits in the source-free ("background") regions of photon-limited images is complicated by instrumental and statistical modeling and requires non-trivial computational effort. ... The principal component in this is the time taken to pre-process and handle the 30 GB of RASS data rather than the calculation of each upper limit. ...

The overall efficiency (including atmospheric transmission, reflectivity of the telescope mirrors and overall efficiency of the optics and of the detector) for broad-band imaging should be about 25% in H and K, and about 15% in J. The main noise source for both broad- and narrow-band imaging should be the photon noise associated to the background+source flux. ... Flat fielding (and possibly background subtraction) might increase the noise by a factor 2 ? ...

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. ...

... Annual Meeting . ... Exhibitors . ... This year's ASP Annual Meeting, "Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future" is once again expected to be 2009's largest gathering of astronomy/space science education and outreach professionals, with an expected attendance of 250 or more. ... Exhibit Information . ... Exhibitors will be responsible for shipping their display materials to and from the hotel (instructions below) and for setting up and tearing down their own exhibits. ... 5:00pm ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... How Apache Starts . ... If the Listen specified in the configuration file is default of 80 (or any other port below 1024), then it is necessary to have root privileges in order to start apache, so that it can bind to this privileged port. ... The recommended method of invoking the httpd executable is to use the apachectl control script. ... Trying to start the server when there is another instance of Apache or some other web server already bound to the same Port....

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... Welcome to GALAXY-"light", a project that is expected to produce a continuously growing atlas of "thumbnail" CCD galaxy images and that was specially conceived to be useful in amateur supernova surveys. ... All GALAXY-"light" images are obtained by ANTONIO JOSE CIDADAO, a Portuguese amateur living in Oeiras, member of APAA (Portuguese Association of Amateur Astronomers, one of the founders of the "Astro-Port" mailing list, and also subscriber of "AUDE", "MAPUG" and "SBIGUSER" mailing-lists. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ALMA . ... LibAIR is the atmospheric inference library that is the main core of the algorithms for phase correction of ALMA data using water vapour radiometers that we are developing in Cambridge. ... The library and algorithms are documented in the series of memo?s which are being posted at page on inference of coefficients for use in phase correction. ... ALMA WVR phase correction algorithms and software . ... Introduction to phase correction for ALMA . ...

... P2865 Arecibo Observatory Date Received: 2013-Sep-03 17:52:22 William E. Gordon Telescope Observing Time Request COVER SHEET Section I - General Information Submitted for Sep 1 2013. ... Remote Observing Request Observer will travel to AO X Remote Observing In Absentia (instructions to operator) Section I I - Time Request The following times are in LST. ... As in past when the proposal is approved, I will communicate with Hector Hernandez about available time and pulsars to be observed. ...

... My source shows only 5 counts in a short 5 ksec Chandra exposure. ... We calculated the significance of observing 5 counts given the expected background counts of 0.1 using spfunc.gammp(5,0.1) =8e-8. ... I believe more fine tuning in computing this p-value is necessary but I wish to address that computing the p-value assuming Ho: background counts=0.1 vs. ... For a given rescaled background (b/50), the p-value is the probability that the counts in the source region can exceed the observed counts. ...

Introduction to Hardware Signal Injections Peter Shawhan, Isabel Leonor, Szabi MАrka (LIGO/Caltech, U. of Oregon, LIGO/Caltech) LSC Meeting March 19, 2003 LSC Meeting, 19 March 2003 Shawhan, Leonor, Marka LIGO-G030112-00-D Uses of Hardware Signal Injections Complete end-to-end test of detector and analysis Verify that detector does not distort si gnal in unexpected ways Verify that search algorithm can detect signals ! ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

ATTENDANCE of the CONFERENCE . ... Programming Committee . ... Registration and PLDS3 Address . ... Last updates, 24 Nov 2001: . ... It is expected that participants will arrive October 14, 2001. Conference Registration Desk in the Hotel "Druzhba" will be open between 17.00 and 22.00 on October 14 and during the conference. ... The registration fee will be accepted in cash in Chernogolovka during the registration of the participants. ... All foreign visitors in Russia must have a valid passport. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 22 - 29.10.2012, Forecast on 30.10 - 05.11.2012, Carrington Rotation 2129 (8,57.10.2012) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS REMAINED ON THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ... BY DATA OF SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS FOR THE PERIOD IT WAS OBSERVED 39 CME AMONG WHICH THREE - "PARTIAL HALO II" AND ONE - "PARTIAL HALO III". ... Class E(1-8A) AR RII/IV CME X / opt. ...

Trail encounter . ... Expected meteor rates . ... The Leonids are the debris of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. ... The Earth's passage right through the centre of trails is associated with the most spectacular meteor displays (studies show that, as well as how close to the centre of the trail you are, the strength of the display also depends on how far along a trail's length you are). ... The encounter with the 1932 trail will lead to enhanced meteor activity: a nice outburst, but below storm level. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I see unexpected boxy emission-like features in my REDL spectra - where do they come from? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... The pipeline by default interpolates across the bad columns in the REDL CCD when it creates the master bias, but does not so when it processes the science data. This inconsistency can create boxy emission-like features as seen in the figure below. ...