COS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Cosmic Origins SpectrographInstrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Chapter 1: An Introduction to COS . ... 1.2.1 Target Acquisitions . ... Chapter 2: Special Considerations for Cycle 24 . 2.1 COS FUV Detector Lifetime Positions . 2.2 COS Observations Below 1150 е: Resolution and Wavelength Calibration Issues . ... 3.1.3 Gratings and Mirrors: The Optics Select Mechanisms . ... Chapter 12: The COS Calibration Program . ... FUV Grating G130M . ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

... Tpram - time of the PRAM instrument (aquisition computer) . ... Bx - DC magnetic field with a fixed amplitude calibration; X component . ... The color lines present FFT from the AC magnetic field (Waveform); Bwx, Bwy, Bwz - from the bottom. ...

... Tpram - time of the PRAM instrument (aquisition computer) . ... Bx - DC magnetic field with a fixed amplitude calibration; X component . ... The color lines present FFT from the AC magnetic field (Waveform); Bwx, Bwy, Bwz - from the bottom. ...

... Dodson, Legge et al, ApJ, 2003 Spectral Line Sources · Requirement of high brightness temperatures means no thermal emission · Masers: Galactic Extragalactic · OH, H2O · OH, H2O, SiO, CH3OH · Galactic extra-galactic HI absorption VLBI arrays · VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) Dedicated US array of ten 25m telescopes 330 MHz ­ 90 GHz · EVN (European VLBI Network) Formal collaboration of radio telescopes in Europe, Asia and South Africa ~15 telescopes 15m to 100m 330 MHz ­ 22/43 GHz ...

Proposal Identification No.: R2261 Date Received: 2006-Sep-13 14:28:12 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: This is an urgent proposal for radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2004 XL14 in Decemeber 2006. 2004 XL14 will be a strong radar target and we anticipate obtaining delay-Doppler images with resolutions as fine as 7.5 m/pixel, which may be sufficient to estimate its 3-D shape. ...

Solar High Resolution Studies . ... Solar Group . ... High quality observations obtained in recent years have highlighted the fact that the solar atmosphere is extremely dynamic, and wholly permeated and shaped by magnetic fields at very small spatial scales. ... The Solar Group in Arcetri is initiating a project to study some of the topics and techniques that will be brought to the forefront of solar physics as this new physical regime is explored. ... Small Scale Activity . ...

... Publications with ESO Data . ... The tools have been developed for ESO by a team of astronomers at the Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck, as part of an in-kind contribution to ESO , which includes as well a model of the sky emission and transmission spectrum at Cerro Paranal. ... Skycorr provides an advanced instrument-independent sky-correction tool that removes sky emission in science spectra by means of sky spectra taken at a different time and sky location....

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...

... A concrete application is displayed step by step by the command: TUTORIAL/CLOUD . The data used for this example are CaII absorption features observed in the spectrum of SN 1986g in NGC 5128 (observer: S. d'Odorico, instrument: CASPEC). ... Sampling is 0.05? per pixel and the measured instrumental resolution, 17km/s. The final cloud model consists of 12 absorption doublets. The corresponding image includes both components K and H and has been convolved by a gaussian PSF of 0.22? (17km/s) FWHM. ...

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

... This thread uses PINTofALE to generate a simulated Chandra spectrum. ... define a DEM . ... pset marx .par ExposureTime=50000 OutputDir='sim_ marx ' \ ; GratingType='NONE' DetectorType=' ACIS-I ' SourceFlux=-1 \ ; SpectrumType='FILE' SpectrumFile='spec_ marx .dat' \ ; SourceType='POINT' DitherModel='INTERNAL' ; marx TSTART=2006.46 ; marx2fits sim_ marx / spec_ marx .evt ; dmextract infile= spec_ marx .evt[EVENTS][(x,y)=circle(4018,4141,10)] ; [bin pi=1:1024:1] outfile= spec_ ...

... Spectral regions highlighted by green bars have been used to detemine the тЯиB z тЯй value from H Balmer lines, and the magenta bars highlight the spectral regions used to estimate the magnetic field from metal lines. ... The FORS1 instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope was used to obtain low resolution circular polarized spectra of nearly a thousand of different stars, with the aim of measuring their mean longitudinal magnetic fields. ...

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... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ALMA . ... These errors are due to the refractive effects of the Earth?s atmosphere, specifically due to the (tropospheric) water vapour. ... Making use of information on baselines this long will require very accurate calibration and correction of atmospheric phase errors. ... The design of the ALMA phase correction system is summarised in Nikolic et al 2013 . Introduction to phase correction for ALMA . ALMA Goals . ALMA Phase correction strategy . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Solution stabilization algorithms for the estimation of small bodies orbital parameters L. E. Bykova, V. P. Titarenko Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia Sometimes there is not enough information for the correct improvement of the orbits of the Solar system small bodies. ... Algorithms have been constructed on the basis of a linear least squares method using additional a priori information about the solution. ... E., Hanson R. J. Solving Least Squares Problems. ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...