... A full set of flatfield frames was taken with the NICMOS arrays during the System Level Thermal Vacuum test, conducted on the ground in August 1996. ... Users are encouraged to recalibrate their data with on-orbit flatfields if the pipeline calibration used thermal vacuum flatfields. Preliminary results from SMOV indicate that variations in the large scale structure of the on-orbit flatfields relative to the thermal vacuum flatfields are of the order of 1-2% in Camera 2, and up to 5% in Camera 1. ...

Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Nicola La Palombara INAF ­ IASF Milano XMM ­ EPIC Operation Meeting Mallorca, 29 March 2011 Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Project overview Two on-ground EPIC Flight Spare instruments: 1 MOS camera at the Leicester University (UK) 1 PN camera at the MPE Panter facility of Munich (D) Both instruments are operated through the same Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) which was used for AIV tests before satellite integration. ...

This astrostatistics session will honor the memory of Alanna Connors. Alanna was a pioneer in the investigation and development of statistical methods required for the analysis of high energy data. The session will provide a historical perspective on Bayesian methods, highlight the topics where the contribution made by Alanna were particularly important, summarize current analysis challenges and discuss future perspectives. ... 131.02 Promoting widespread use of Bayesian analysis . ...

TESTING . ... The ground experimental development of complex N1-L3 included: . ... testing of mechanical and pyrotechnic separation and docking systems, pneudraulic systems of LV stages and system L3, instruments and equipment of control and measuring systems, power systems, fixture, life support systems, high temperature and thermal-vacuum tests, investigation of gas-dynamic processes during launch and stage separation; . ... The tests included: . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Detailed procedures and reports are posted on the internal QC Operations Web page (www.eso.org/~qc/groupIndex.html). ... Customers are: o PSO For all supported instrument modes, create and certify master calibration data, for following customers: o external user community (through the Archive calSelector service) o PSO (on-line pipeline system), quality feedback o QC group (for IDP projects) Collect, analyze, and report instrument QC1 parameters. ...

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. ...

... Overplot the 20 bandpasses normalized to 1 sec (.ps) ( .pdf ): . ... Mean power, voltage, and spectral jumps vs decimation (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... The mock spectrometer has a high resolution mode that will digitally filter the input bandwidth from 2 to 1024 in steps of 1. ... For each decimation, the input rms levels was to so that 30 counts=1 sigma. ... The plots show the results of the test: . ... Top mean power vs decimation normalized to the mean power with no decimation (dec=1). ... No decimation ...

WCSLIB љ 5.15 . ... WCSLIB 5.15 and PGSBOX 5.15 . Example code, testing and verification . ... twcs tests closure of wcss2p() and wcsp2s() for a number of selected projections. twcsmix verifies wcsmix() on the grid of celestial longitude and latitude for a number of selected projections. ... Closure has been verified at all test points for SUN workstations. ... Although tests for closure help to verify the internal consistency of the routines they do not verify them in an absolute sense. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

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. ... LightBridge Series . ... Test . ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... The Hamamatsu C7244 and C7245 are high-speed gated image intensifier units developed specifically for imaging of high speed phenomena occurring at low light levels. ... The image intensifier head easily connects to the front of a CCD camera to configure a high-speed shutter camera that allows capturing still images of high-speed phenomena at any desired timing. ... C7245 using a two-stage MCP image intensifier) . ... Low image distortion (proximity-focused image intensifier) . ...

... New families of high-temperature composite materials: . refsic, refsicoat and refsicut. ... In Institute of Solid State Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSP RAS) refsic, refsicoat and refsicut new families of high-temperature composite materials were invented and developed last years. ... Possible applications of refsic , refsicoat and refsicut materials . ... тАв€а orders on R&D oriented on design of new patentable technical products, using refsic , refsicoat and refsicut materials. ...

... In the central equatorial Pacific, the large area of warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (large area outlined in red with a white center) associated with growing El Nino conditions has recently migrated eastward toward the coast of South America. http://physicaplus.org.il/zope/home/en/1105389911/1113511992_en На этой странице есть презентации с конференции, где активно обсуждалась . ... Картинка со страницы со статьей Шавива. http://physicaplus.org.il/zope/home/en/1105389911/1113511992_en . ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

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Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...