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... PROBLEMS: "Unknown" (i.e. no physics model) components; What's a "Good-Enough-Fit" (e.g. Poisson)? ... ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR ...

Science Support Status Maria Santos-Lleo EPIC calibration meeting, ESAC 9 April 2015 Overview XMM-Newton Mission extension approved for 2 more years Team moves are now frequent, thank you to those who left (excellent contribution appreciated!) and welcome to new, very motivated people! ... EPIC calibration | 9 April 2015 | Pag. ... A O 15 · Call for proposals 25 August ­ 9 October (12:00 UT) 2015 · OTAC results mid Dec 2015 · Phase II: 12 Jan ­ 5 Feb 2016 Science Operations | ...

... The improvement will be more pronounced in our crowded Wide Field Camera (WFC) images, and may be increased further through use of a more sophisticated method of combining the individual dithered images. Our analysis allows us to check for point spread function shape variations in the HST Planetary Camera (PC) field. ... In crowded field images, we are deriving information about the faint end of the luminosity function (LF) from the texture of the image background. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Fig. 3 ( a ) shows how wavelength gradients (or phase effects) are evident from a ring pattern of atmospheric OH emission lines across the TTF field. ...

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On' failures in the NIRSpec MEMS ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-02 The effects of `on' failures in a MEMS array for the NGST NIRSpec Santiago Arribas, Robert Fosbury Peter Jakobsen --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-02 The effects of `on' failures in a MEMS array for the NGST ... Assuming that the spectrum of a single facet uses 2000 detector pixels, only 0.01% of `on' failures is acceptable (i.e., 400 facets in a 2k в 2K MEMS array). ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

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Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

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... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

This describes the exposure window used by each instrument (the graphical interface for the hub's expose command). ... To open the expose window for a given instrument, bring up that instrument's main window, then press the Expose... button along the bottom. ... The top panel shows the status of the current exposure sequence (regardless of who started it). ... File: the file name for the current exposure, or the most recent exposure if not exposing. ... Download: exposure download preferences. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

... I have compiled a list of throughput filter curves from a variety of telescopes, instruments, and surveys. Click on the name of the filter to download it. The first line of each filter is the zeropoint for that filter. If the filter is in the AB system, it is listed as 0.0 (or in otherwords -48.55). ... Filter . Effective Wavelength . ... A_V . ... 0.987 . ... 0.050 . ...

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Next: Fitting the Blaze Up: Instrument Response Correction Previous: Instrument Response Correction . ... This flux has to be corrected for two effects in order to get absolute fluxes: first, for the echelle blaze effect, and second, for the chromatic response of the instrument. ... The solution adopted in the reduction, using the standard star љ , is to correct for both the blaze effect and the instrument response simultaneously. ...

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