... We now consider estimation of count rates for objects with stellar, power law, and emission line spectra. To estimate the number of electrons collected from a point source of apparent visual magnitude V, one can use the equation: . ... If one knows the spectral index a (which is zero for a source with a flat continuum), V + AB nu can also be calculated as the monochromatic Oke system magnitude at the corrected mean wavelength of the filter: . ... 6.3.3 - Count Rates for Emission Line Sources . ...

... arfgen (arfgen-1.75.6) [?? Meta Index / Home Page / Usage and Examples Here is a typical example of running arfgen based on a spectrum of a point source: . arfgen spectrumset=spectrum.ds detmaptype=psf . ... The effective area, filter transmission and quantum efficiency curve are included in the ARF. ... Corrections are applied for any CCD gaps or source region area falling outside the field-of-view or observing window but not for bad pixels or bad columns. ...

... Duchamp | ... Top | Duchamp is a solution to this problem of three-dimensional source finding. ... A list of the detections and their properties, as well as the input parameters that were used. [text file] . ... It can be downloaded in source format, in a gzipped tar archive. ... Changes from the previous version can be seen here (this file is included in the tar archive), while the archive files and documentation from the previous release versions are here , if you are really interested. ...

... 173Wall Peacock We catalogue the brightest extragalactic radio sources at 2.7 GHz. ... These data were originally presented in Wall and Peacock, MNRAS, 216, 173. The values in parenthesis include (units, datatype, example). 1 iauname Name of source in IAU convention (char7, example: '0320-37') . ... 3 ra_1950 rad Right ascension of source in radians (B1950) (real, example: 0.876068) . ... 9 alpha Spectral index of source between 2.7 and 5 GHz (real, example: 0.52) . ... Longair, 1975 . ...

. Next: Charged Particle Subtraction Up: *qpspec* - Extraction of Previous: Spectral Extraction of Point . When analyzing extended sources the background must be obtained from a region well separated from the source. To correct the background for the differential vignetting (i.e., the difference between source and background vignetting) of the ROSAT mirror, set the vign_corr flag in qpspec to yes. For example: . xs > qpspec vign_corr=yes . rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . 1998-06-10

... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

... Appendix B. FTS Parser Example . ... This is a test_ parser .c #ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC PG_MODULE_MAGIC; #endif /* * types */ /* self-defined type */ typedef struct { char * buffer; /* text to parse */ int len; /* length of the text in buffer */ int pos ; /* position of the parser */ } ParserState ; /* copy-paste from wparser.h of tsearch2 */ typedef struct { int lexid; char *alias; char * descr ; } LexDescr; /* * prototypes */ PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(testprs_start); Datum testprs_start( ...

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... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

Next: The Model Up: No Title Previous: Radiopulsars as Sources of . In this section, we study the evolution of stellar populations on a time-scale of 10 Myr for a starburst љ occurring under conditions similar to those in the Galactic Center (see Lipunov et al. (1995d)[ 126 ]). We estimate the expected number of X-ray transient љ sources (NS + MS star), super accreting BH, and BH + supergiant binaries, all as functions of time elapsed after the burst. ...

... During the analysis of the surveys carried out on RATAN-600, it was found that almost one fifth of the detected sources shows significant radio flux variations. ... We used the data from "Cold" radio surveys carried out with RATAN-600 in 1980-1994 to search for radio sources with significant flux variability. ... On possibility of detection of variable sources using the data of Cold surveys carried out on RATAN-600. ... Detection of Variable Sources Using the Data of "Cold" Surveys. ...

Next: CORRELATOR BOARDS Up: OBSERVING PROCEDURES Previous: Frequency Switching . ... Continuum sources in the list used for flux density calibration were selected in an ad-hoc fashion from a variety of places, but primarily from Kuehr et al (A&AS, 45, 367, 1981), the compendium of linearly polarized sources by Tabara & Inoue (A&AS, 39, 379, 1980), and an unpublished list of unconfused calibrator sources prepared from the NVSS survey by Jim Condon and Qi Feng Yin. ... Board 0 . ...

... 00001 /* Example code for FITS-based optical interferometry exchange format 00002 00003 $Id: exchange.h ,v 1.6 2003/04/07 10:20:28 jsy1001 Exp $ 00004 Definitions of data structures, function prototypes 00005 00006 00007 Release 5 7 ... structures */ 00017 /* NB must allow for final null when dimensioning character arrays */ 00018 00020 typedef struct _element { 00021 char tel_name [17]; 00022 char sta_name [17]; 00023 int sta_index ; 00024 float diameter ; 00025 ...

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... Light sources: POV-Ray works with point sources of light. ... A real star consists of a spherical light source (the photosphere where the continuum is formed) superimposed by a scattering layer (an atmosphere) responsible for phenomena such as limb darkening and absorption lines. ... For example, in order for the central light source to illuminate the surface, the star must be transparent. ... The POVRay source for creating the white dwarf binary merger movie is given for demonstration purposes. ...

home education > resources . ... Resources . ... Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Castelvecchi, D. "A New Breed of Black Hole" in Sky Telescope , Apr. 2006, p. 36. ... Charles, P. Wagner, R. "Black Holes in Binary Stars: Weighing the Evidence" in Sky Telescope , May 1996, p. 38. ... Nadis, S. "The Secret Lives of Black Holes" in Astronomy , Nov. 2007, p. 28. ... Nadis, S. "Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable" in Astronomy , Apr. 2007, p. 26. ...

The NICFPS:Dither:Point Source Random script allows you to take a sequence of exposures in a square pattern plus a point in the middle. This pattern is typically used for point sources. ... Any dither point may be omitted by unchecking its checkbox before running the script. ... Dither pattern without randomization . ... Randomization 1. ... Dither pattern with randomization Thanks to Corey Wood for the first implementation of randomization and for the images used in the documentation. ...

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In calculating the NIFS sensitivity, we adopt a read noise of 5 e - , a dark current of 0.01 e - s -1 pix -1 , and a maximum exposure time of 3600 s. Grating . ... e/pix) . ... OH Cont. (e/pix) . ... NIFS should achieve signal-to-noise ratios of ~ 10 per spectral pixel in a 0.1" 0.1" aperture for single 1800 s exposures on uniform, extended, continuum sources with surface brightnesses of J = 15.4, J = 15.0, H = 14.8, and K = 13.5 mag arcsec -2 using the Z , J , H , and K gratings, respectively. ...

Results on nonequilibrium distributions of charged particles and radioisotope sources of current are as the following: . the new power-law distribution of charged particles in nonequilibrium media, for example, in the thin metalic films, under powerful energy source pumping were obtained ( together with V.I.Karas, V.M.Kontoriovich, V.E.Novikov); . ...