... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... 145, 1998 R. Albrecht, R. N. Hook and H. A. Bushouse, eds. Recognition of Anomalous Events S. Monai 1 2 1 ,2 and F.Pasian2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy Abstract. ... Raw images, as read from a CCD, are often affected by some events which are revealed by anomalous pixel values, i.e., single saturated pixels or pixels at zero intensity (also named hot or bad pixels). ... Recognition of Anomalous Events 77 Figure 1. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Atmospheric Modelling for ALMA . This is a short and simple illustration of how to use (A)ATM to calculate the dispersive path delay introduced by the atmosphere as well as the non-dispersive parts. ... Compute dispersive delay in the atmosphere This program is part of AATM version 0.06 GPL license -- you have the right to the source code. ... Computing dispersive atmospheric delay with AATM . ... Computing atmospheric absorption with AATM . ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

FOS FLATS FROM SUPER SPECTRA D. Lindler, R. Bohlin, G. Hartig, and C. Keyes FOS Instrument Science Report CAL/FOS-088 March 29, 1993 ABSTRACT: A new algorithm for computing the FOS detector non-uniformities (flat field response) uses spectra of stars taken in 9 different positions in the 4.3 arcsec aperture. ... Future flat field data should be collected with a newly recommended set of locations of the star in the FOS 4.3 arcsec aperture. ... F(i) be the unknown flat field vector. ...

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. ...

... Magnetic fields, subatomic particles, etc., traveling in different directions fill the universe. Do they deflect or otherwise affect one another? If so, isnт??t the information we get from them distorted? ... Neutrino astronomy, which is still in its infancy, is attractive because neutrinos interact so weakly with matter that few of these distorting effects occur. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

... Despite the wide spread use of the terms MTF, CTF, limiting resolution, minimum resolvable target, and contrast to describe CCD image system quality, the terms are often misused and their relations are little understood. ... The modulation transfer function (MTF) is a Fourier transform of the line spread function i.e. its equivalent as an integral sum of sine waves taken over the whole range of spatial frequencies. MTF by its Fourier nature can only be used to operate on sinusoidal frequencies. ...

... If finddead =Y, embadpixfind looks for too dark pixels, rows and columns too. ... The maxratio parameter avoids detecting 'grey' pixels, rows or columns on observations with high statistics. Whatever findbright and finddead , dark and bright columns and rows are always searched for together in order of decreasing significance (either positive or negative). This avoids finding spurious bright columns/rows next to very dark ones, and vice-versa. ...

... 1 Figure 1: The density distribution in R­Z plane Figure 2: The luminosity distribution in R­Z plane for Maxwellian kick velocity (75 km/s) 2 Figure 3: The luminosity distribution in R­Z plane for Maxwellian kick velocity (150 km/s) n(R; Z) = nHI + 2 \Delta nH2 nH2 = n 0 \Delta exp џ \GammaZ 2 2 \Delta (70pc) 2 – If 2kpc џ R џ 3:4kpc, then nHI = n 0 \Delta exp џ \GammaZ 2 2 \Delta (140pc \Delta R=2kpc) 2 – ; For R џ 2kpc n(R; Z) was assumed to be constant: n(R ! ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 October 26 . Too Close to a Black Hole . ... Explanation: What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? ... The black hole has such strong gravity that light is noticeably bent towards it - causing some very unusual visual distortions . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... A well known problem with EOP prediction is that a prediction strategy proved to be the best for some testing period and prediction length may not remain as such for other period of time. In this paper we consider possible strategies to combine EOP predictions made using different analysis techniques to obtain a final prediction with the best accuracy corresponding to the least prediction error between input predictions. ... C2 ­ best previous prediction for given length. ...

Authors: T.V. Borkova , V.A. Marsakov , . ... It is found that dispersions of spatial and kinematics characteristics of field stars change abruptly when the metallicity crosses the boundary [Fe/H] -0.95 . ... По опубликованным прецизионным наземным и спутниковым измерениям собственных движений, компилятивным лучевым скоростям и фотометрическим расстояниям вычислены компоненты пространственных скоростей и элементы галактических орбит для 174 переменных звезд типа ab RR Лиры околосолнечной окрестности. ...

... Each visibility sample is given a weight in the imaging step. ... However the synthesised beam-shape and sidelobe levels are usually poor. ... Uniform weighting (including super- and sub-uniform weighting) minimises sidelobes, whereas natural weighting minimises the noise level. ... Suppressing sidelobes over the entire field of the dirty beam corresponds to uniform weighting - that is, we get uniform weighting if sup is set to the field size of the dirty beam; this is the default. ...

We model the spectral chanages of late oxygen-rich Miras observed in different pulsation phases. From a combination of variable near-IR spectra and UKIRT spectrophotometry of the 9.7 \mu m silicate dust emission feature in different phases we study the influence of the changing atmospherical circumstances on the conditions in the circumstellar dust shell. ... A comparision with the modelling results for another long period Mira U Ori is also provided. ...

... NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula . ... Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as the Veil Nebula. ... The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only four million years ago and emit light and wind that define the nebula's appearance today . ... Unusual Giant Galaxy NGC 1316 . ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

Expansion of Backfill algorithm for increasing efficiency of supercomputer «Lomonosov» Leonekov Sergei, SRCC MSU, Lomonosov Moscow State University Zhumatiy Sergey, SRCC MSU Department of Supercomputers and Quantum Informatics SLURM SLURM is a scalable, fault-tolerant cluster manager and scheduler for large computing systems. ... Output: modified queue state after each step of external scheduling 9 New Backfill-based algorithm Standard scheduler cycle (single partition example) looks like: 1. ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...