... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... Science . ... ESO Data . ... If you wish to interface GASGANO to VLT instrument pipeline recipes build on top of the ESO Common Pipeline Library (CPL) and the qfits library , you will have to download and use the specific instrument package available here . ... To use the latest Gasgano version (2.4.8), Java 7 must be available on your system. ... Type java -version on the command line to verify that the printed java version is 1.7.x. You MUST be under your $HOME directory to install GASGANO: . ...

SAOtng 1.9 is a major release in which the original Xt-based XPA 1.0 messaging system has been redesigned and reimplemented. ... Here are a list of changes to xpa that will be of interest to users of SAOtng: . ... If you are running SAOtng on one machine and using xpaset and xpaget on another, please read the XPA documentation on access control in saord/xpa-2.0/doc/acl.html or http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/acl.html. ... xpaset SAOtng fits . ... Review of Changes for Release 1.8 here . ...

... 2MASS Overview . The 2MASS Sky . Executive Summary of 2MASS Second Incremental Data Products . Point Source Catalog . Extended Source Catalog . ... Distribution Mode for 2MASS Products . Data Release Plan . ... Point Source Catalog (PSC) . Extended Source Catalog (XSC) . ... 2MASS Source Naming Convention . ... General Properties of the Data Release . ... Comparison of Achieved Performance of Second Incremental Release Catalogs with Level 1 Science Specification . ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2009 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) today announced the winners of its 2009 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. ... The Thomas J. Brennan Award for excellence in the teaching of astronomy in grades 9-12, has gone to Ardis Herrold , astronomy and Earth sciences educator at Grosse Pointe North High School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... You are here: start €Ё difx €Ё release . ... difx:release . ... Edit the news page of the wiki with the release date . ... For future versions change NEW_VERSION and check for package completeness. export NEW_VERSION = DiFX -2.4 svn mkdir https :// svn.atnf.csiro.au / difx / master_tags /${ NEW_VERSION }/ -m top directory for ${ NEW_VERSION } release #mpifxcorr svn cp https :// svn.atnf.csiro.au / difx /mpifxcorr/trunk https :// svn.atnf.csiro.au / difx / master_tags /${ ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

... The ``Post-Operational Archive'' (POA) project at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) has recently released an upgraded version of the HST Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) calibration pipeline. ... In July 2000, the POA project team released STPOA, a new IRAF external package. ... The ST-ECF HST archive now supports FOS data retrieval with On-The-Fly (OTF) calibration using either the new pipeline `poa_calfos' or the old pipeline `calfos'. ...

Netscape 1.12 (X11) ============================================================================== *********************************************** IMPORTANT! ... Security Fix Description ============================================================================== TECHNICAL BACKGROUND Netscape Navigator uses random information to generate session encryption keys of either 40 or 128 bits in length. ... SunOS 4.1, Linux, and BSDI: These distributions also includes a directory called "nls". ...