... Each Digicon diode has its own discriminator, and if they are properly set the dark count rate measured is very low. On-orbit measurement has shown that both GHRS detectors have a dark rate less than the design goal of 0.01 counts diode-1 sec-1 at low geomagnetic latitudes and that the dominant noise source is cosmic rays. ... The nominal Side 2 dark count rate is 0.012 counts per second per diode, so CENSOR=YES can lower it to 0.010. ... Detector Dark Count and the CENSOR Option . ...

... Observational Zoo of Binaries with Compact Stars . Evolutionary Scenarios of Binary Systems . ... Evolution of Magnetic Rotators . ... Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ... Binary Pulsar Diversity and High Neutron Star Birth Velocity . ... Ejectors in Massive Binary Systems . ... Other Candidates for Ejecting Stars in Binary Systems . ... Cosmic Rays and Evolution of Binary . ... Sky in Gravitational Waves . ... Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binary Stars . ...

... 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 . ...

Next: Feature enhancement: local Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: filtering . ... As a result, a common magnitude scale (contour lines on the maps above, or color scale on Fig.1) will poorly display the short-duration events in a signal. Normalizing each line of the map (fixed duration) so it has unit variance (in effect dividing the energy map by the mean energy spectrum) at each duration restores more details of small-scale activity (Fig. ...

... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

... GTK's rc Files . ... pixmap_path "<dir 1>:<dir 2>:<dir 3>:..." # pixmap_path "/usr/include/X11R6/pixmaps:/home/imain/pixmaps" # # style <name> [= <name>] # { # <option> # } # # widget <widget_set> style <style_name> # widget_class <widget_class_set> style <style_name> # Here is a list of all the possible states. ... NORMAL - The normal state of a widget, without the mouse over top of # it, and not being pressed, etc. ... This sets a style called "button". ... GtkButton*" style "main_button" . ...

... Archives . ... One realization of mine during the meeting was related to a cultural difference; therefore, there is no relation to any presentations during the 212th AAS in this post. ... I cannot cover all perspectives from both disciplines but I think there are two distinct fashions in practicing normalization. $$\frac{1}{N(\theta)}\int_{\Omega} f(x;\theta)dx=1$$ . ... This is my last posting on my first AAS . Tags: AAS , measure , measure theory , normalization , PDF , pmf . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... The high energy particles (mainly protons and alpha particles) found in the interplanetary space constitute what is called cosmic rays. ... galactic cosmic rays (GCR) originating far outside our solar system . ... anomalous cosmic rays" (ACR) originating from the interstellar space beyond the heliopause . ... The anomalous cosmic rays are most likely produced by neutral atoms in the interstellar space, which . ... The anomalous cosmic rays differ from others by their composition. ...

... The HI - Star Formation Connection . ... Coffee . ... Dark Galaxies and Dark Matter . ... HI in Normal Galaxies . HI and Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time . ... How Galaxies Accrete Gas . ... The Billion Galaxy Survey . ... Searches for Dark Galaxies . ... Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies . HI in Galaxies: Overview . ... Open Questions in Normal Galaxies . ... Starburst galaxies and BCDs . ... HI Rich Galaxies . ... Open Questions in HI and Galaxy Evolution . HI and Galaxy Evolution . ...

... 2001 May 1 . Antarctica Hears Little Normal Matter in the Big Bang . ... Sunday, independent collaborations behind three such instruments announced evidence that overtones heard are consistent with our universe having only about five percent normal matter and 95 percent dark matter or dark energy . This amount of normal matter was expected were our universe to have undergone a particularly explosive early phase of the big bang known as inflation . ... About APOD | ...

Cosmic flow studies with the ELT: How far does the SBF method reach? (courtesy K. Flint) Steffen Mieske ESO Towards the European ELT. 27 th Nov - 1st Dec 2006, Marseilles. ... Limits for accurate SBF distances with a 42m ELT 4. Conclusions Cosmic flow studies with the ELT: how far does the SBF method reach? ... Limiting SBF distances with ELT I-GLAO, (m-M)=36 mag (100 mas pixel): @ eff : S/N=7 @( eff +2 mag): S/N=2.5 4 kpc 4 kpc Cosmic flow studies with the ELT: how far does the SBF method reach? ...

... MIPT Solid State Physics Department . ... Interacting Electrons in Normal Metals . ... The course is an introduction to interacting Fermi-particle physics and intended for future experimentalists. ... Hartree-Fock approximation. ... Linear reaction function. Calculation of density-density reaction function. Relation of density-density reaction function to compressibility of Fermi liquid and thermodynamic state density. ... Density-density reaction function of free Fermi gas in long-wave limit. ...

BSc thesis "Metallicity Gradients of Elliptical Galaxies", 1997, Univ. of Tokyo . MSc thesis "Low-Metallicity Inhibition of Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution", 1999, Univ. of Tokyo . PhD thesis "Formation and Chemodynamical Evolution of Galaxies", 2002, Univ. of Tokyo . ... Cosmic SFRs, chemical evolution, mass-dependent galactic winds, and the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies are reproduced (Kobayashi, Springel, White 06). ... What are dwarf galaxies? ...

... backcorr makes a background spectrum appropriate to the accumulation region used for a given source spectrum. The task calls arfgen twice; once for the source region and once for the background region. The regions are read directly from the input datasets by arfgen . This gives the integrated effective area as a function of energy over both regions. From these two effective area curves, a direct normalization of the input background spectrum is performed. ... Input Files . ...

... casa::Normal . ... Normal ( RNG *gen, Double mean=0.0, Double variance=1.0) . Construct a random number generator for a normal distribution. virtual . ... Returns a value from the normal distribution. virtual Double . ... These function allow you to manipulate the parameters (mean & variance) described above through the base class. virtual Vector < Double > . ... The second and third arguments define the parameters for this distribution as described in the synopsis. virtual casa::Normal::~Normal . ...

... Huge Void Implicated in Distant Universe . ... Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO , AUI , NSF NASA Explanation: What has created this huge empty area in the universe? ... The void's existence is being postulated following scientific curiosity about how unusually cold spots came to appear on WMAP's map of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. ... An artist's depiction of the huge cosmic void is shown above . ... Cosmic Ripples Implicate Dark Universe . CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... If neutron stars don't produce energy from fusion, like normal stars, how can they shine in visible light? ... Although it is true that neutron stars have, for the most part, consumed all their internal thermonuclear fuel, they tap into other energy sources to produce light. Indeed, neutron stars are remarkably "resourceful" and employ a variety of physical mechanisms to make themselves visible.A newborn neutron star is incredibly hot ? ... Atlas of the Stars . ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Quasi-stationary electron distributions for the different values of the particle escape time. ... The electron-cyclotron maser instability is widespread in the Universe, producing, e.g., radio emission of the magnetized planets and cool substellar objects. ... The model used takes into account the radiation escape from the source region and the particle flow through this region. ...