WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Much of the analysis of the calibration programs from past cycles has already been documented in WFC3 Instrument Science Reports published on the WFC3 website ; documentation of the remaining analysis is on-going. Proposers and users of WFC3 should monitor the Cycle 24 announcement website for the latest information: . ... UVIS POST-FLASH: The major new capability of adding a flash at the end of a UVIS exposure (post-flash) was implemented for Cycle 20. ...

Next: CAL_getBoresightMatrix Up: Routines of the Calibration Previous: List of CCF Components Contents . ... The CAL functions CAL_getBadPixelList & CAL_getBadPixelMap use the CAL state variable temperature only to check that the current operating temperature is consistent with the CCF constituent BadPix . ... Used CAL State Variables . List of CCF Components used . ... Next: CAL_getBoresightMatrix Up: Routines of the Calibration Previous: List of CCF Components Contents Michael Smith 2011-09-20 ...

... These are ``quirks'' rather than ``bugs''. Below is a list of quirks. When loading a file and ``Reset Intensity Upon File Load'' is disabled, the intensity range of the previous image will be used. ... When moving between two images (such as when blinking, or when loading a new image), the display system attempts to retain the old image parameters (i.e. zoom box). What is retained are the corners of the zoom box measured in image pixel co-ordinates, not world co-ordinates. ...

... Z Machine Sets Unexpected Earth Temperature Record . ... Credit: Z Machine Collaboration , Sandia National Lab , Lockheed Martin , NNSA, DOE Explanation: Why is this plasma so hot? ... What is known for sure is that the Z Machine running at Sandia National Laboratories created a plasma that was unexpectedly hot. The plasma reached a temperature in excess of two billion Kelvin , making it the hottest thing ever in the history of the Earth and, for a brief time, hotter than the interiors of stars. ...

... 2006 March 13 . Z Machine Sets Unexpected Earth Temperature Record . ... The plasma reached a temperature in excess of two billion Kelvin , making it arguably the hottest human made thing ever in the history of the Earth and, for a brief time, hotter than the interiors of stars. ... During the unexpected powerful contained explosion, the Z machine released about 80 times the world's entire electrical power usage for a brief fraction of a second. ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... These measuring instruments together with the developed methods of biosensor conservation for long periods of time allow to execute on-line monitoring of toxicity of the solutions and water on the orbital station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Preliminary analysis of early data returned by NASA's historic Galileo probe mission into Jupiter's atmosphere has provided a series of startling discoveries for project scientists. ... These initial findings are encouraging scientists to rethink their theories of Jupiter's formation and the nature of planetary evolution processes, according to probe project scientist Dr. Richard Young of NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. ... GIF, 29K ) . ... Structure of Jupiter's Atmosphere . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The top panel shows an image of the Sun in the O VI 1032 line obtained on 1996 June 7 by the SUMER instrument, with the three regions for which O VI 1032 and 1038 line intensities were determined from SUMER spectra labelled as A, B and C. The remaining panels show plots of the measured I(1032)/I(1038) ratios for each region. ... A similar effect can take place between lines of differing optical depth. ...

... Expected NICMOS Performance after HST Servicing Mission 3 . NICMOS Cooling System Design . ... NASA is developing the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) to provide operation of NICMOS beyond the exhaustion of its stored solid nitrogen cryogen. ... The NCS combines an external radiator identical in design to the ACS/STIS Aft Shroud Cooling System (ASCS) planned for SM3, a Creare, Inc. reverse-Brayton cycle turbine cooler, and an EVA installed neon loop to the NICMOS dewar's cooling coil. ...

Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

Mid-Infrared All Sky Cloud Camera . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ... Comments and suggestions are always welcome! Return to the APO Home Page . April 3, 2000 - Jon Brinkmann (brinkmann/nmsu.edu) ...

... Section (M?1) gave you the principles of simple algebra. ... 1) Isolate x in each equation and find its value, following the . rule that "when equal operations are performed on both . ... For operations applied to both sides: (+2) add 2 . ... 15x ? ... Solve once by (a) expressing y of one equation in terms of x, then . ... You may furthermore add one equation to the other, or subtract it: because the quantities you add or subtract to both sides are equal, what is left is also a valid equality. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Arecibo Radio Telescope - National Science Foundation - Budget Cuts - New York Times 11/20/2007 07:25 AM November 20, 2007 A Hazy Future for a `Jewel' of Space Instruments By KENNETH CHANG The next time an unexpected comet shows up in the inner solar system, Amy J. Lovell may not get time at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to observe it before it swings back out. ... Something else may also weigh in Arecibo's favor: it may be much cheaper to keep it open. ...

NIFS was reassembled for its first mechanisms test in May 2002. ... The cryostat temperatures took 90 hours to stabilize to 50 K. Initial impressions were that all mechanisms were operating correctly. ... Once cold, the mechanisms were extensively tested using command scripts. ... Cold work surface plate being inserted in the NIFS cryostat. ... Bob Miles working on the cryostat center section. ... Spectrograph side of cryostat. ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... 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. ...

. Better satellite instruments are improving measurements of solar energy reaching Earth. Exactly determining the contribution of solar fluctuations to rising global temperature is expected to become possible as new instruments, such as the Total Irradiance Monitor above, further refine solar measurements. The device is scheduled to launch next month on NASA's Glory spacecraft. NASA

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...