STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 13: Spectroscopic Reference Material > First-Order Grating G430M . First-Order Grating G430M . ... G430M Sensitivities . Table 13.6: G430M Sensitivities & Throughputs for a Point Source . ... 3.0E14 . ... Figure 13.15: G430M Point Source (left axis), and Diffuse Source (right axis) Sensitivities. ... Figure 13.17: Point Source SNR as a Function of STMAG for G430M . ...

... For reducing data from ESO instrumentation it is assumed that the FITS headers conform the standards set by the document ``ESO Archive, Data Interface Requirements''. ... As an example, in the ESO case the exposure type is stored in the ESO hierarchical FITS keyword `HIERARCH ESO GEN EXPO TYPE'. ... To fill the CCD keywords with the telescope and instrument setup parameters, like name of the telescope, CCD used, read-out noise, frame size, etc. the command LOAD/CCD can be used. ...

... Alternatively, the PI channel boundaries will be read directly from the data subspace extension of the input image (not yet implemented). ... EPIC PN offset columns (as specified in the offsets extension of the photon event list) are set to zero in the exposure map, if they had been removed from the input reference EPIC image. ... The task tries to determine the exposure time by looking for gti extensions in the input image of the form STDGTInn, STDGTIn, STDGT, or GTI. ...

... The various Inst :Focus scripts allow you to take a series of exposures over a range of secondary mirror focus values, report the resulting FWHMs and optionally adjust the focus to the estimated best value. ... Slitviewer scripts assume the focus star is on the boresight. ... Focus scripts runs in three phases: . ... The script moves the boresight so the focus star is visible next to the slit, sets the focus to Center Focus, takes an exposure and tries to measure the star's FWHM. ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

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). ...

Next: Summary of Imaging Strategies Up: Primary Beams and Mosaicing Previous: Mosaicing Observing Strategies . ... Splitting: As with conventional reduction, for calibration and imaging purposes, it is easiest in Miriad to split the data into datasets containing a `single source' and single frequency band. ... vis=mosaic.uv . ... Data Selection: With mosaic visibility datasets, the select=ra and select=dec selection sub-commands can be useful to extract or manipulate a subset of the visibility data. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

The X-ray photometer RF is designed to measure the solar X-ray radiation in the soft spectral range. ... The photometer consists of two units: the detector unit and electronics unit. ... The impulses from the channels with a fixed amplitude are transferred to the electronics unit where they are accumulated during 0.8 s (time of one exposure step). ... Czech Acad. ... Ondrejov, Czech Republic. L.Triskova - Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Acad. ... Prague, Czech Republic. ...

function flux _to_em, emis , flux = flux , logT = logT , wvl = wvl ,Z=Z,NH=NH,defEM=defEM,$ noph=noph, thresh = thresh , _extra=e ;+ ;function flux _to_em ; return emission measures (-1 where undeterminable) at various ; temperatures consistent with given line fluxes and line emissivities. ; ; for each temperature, assume a delta-function emission measure, ; compute ...

... Instrument Status . Science Verification . ... CRIRES . ... SV observer shall submit their proposals using the Science Verification proposal template Proposers are asked to provide at least a short summary of the science goal, coordinates and magnitudes of GS and science target, a finding chart , the observing wavelength ID, as specified in appendix A of the UM and DIT, NDIT settings of science detectors as computed with the exposure time calculator (see below). ... with a 0.2 arcsec slit. ...

Comedi Documentation . ... I assume that your hardware device is in your computer, and that you know the relevant details about it, i.e., what kind of card it is, the I/O base, the IRQ, jumper settings related to input ranges, etc. To tell the comedi kernel module that you have a particular device, and some information about it, you will be running the comedi_config command. ... The overall info gives information about the device -- basically the same information as /proc/comedi. ...

IBIS Data Analysis . ... IBIS . ... Flat Fielding - Introduction . The images obtained by IBIS will have intensity variations across the field of view that are not due to the solar image, but rather caused by instrumental effects that alter the observed intensity in each point of the field of view. ... IBIS Flat Fielding Techniques . ... Therefore, it is desirable to obtain the flat field measurements center on a point along the equator near the heliographic center of the solar disk. ...

... SOHO s Uninterrupted View of the Sun . 1.12.2005 . ... Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. ... Seen towards the constellation Taurus it covers nearly 3 degrees (6 full moons) on the sky corresponding to a width of 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. ... A prominent example occurs on the left of the above image of the rich cluster of galaxies Abell 1185. ...

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... Up: Instrument Modeling . ... The near-infrared multi-object spectrograph NIRSpec is one of the three science instruments onboard the future James Webb Space Telescope. ... In this context and as part of the EADS NIRSpec study funded by ESA, we have developed an end-to-end Fourier-optics model of the instrument, which takes into account both geometrical aberrations and diffraction. ... Using this model we have assessed the effect of diffraction and optical aberrations on NIRSpec's optical...

... 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. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... A sample of our new eclipse observations phased on our new ephemeris (section 4.2) Vertical grey bars indicate ingress and egress of the main accretion spot. ... When combined with published eclipse times and archival data spanning тИ®27 years, we detect departures from a linear and quadratic trend of тИ®60 s. The departures are strongly suggestive of two cyclic variations of 16(3) and 5.25(25) years. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...