... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Instrument Pipelines . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 05 Oct 2015 . ... New data products resulting from the VST Public Survey ATLAS are now available via the dedicated Phase3 query interface at the Science Archive Facility . ... Published: 31 Aug 2015 ....

... SI/Title: STIS/CCD External Sparse Field CTE Monitor 2. ... Description of Work: This activity involves the analysis of the last two epochs of the External Sparse-Field CTE monitor calibration program. ... Resources (including estimated calendar duration for each portion): a. Requirements STIS Instrument Scientist b. Development STIS Instrument Scientist CDBS Administrator c. Testing STIS Instrument Scientist CDBS Administrator 9. ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

Lars Wirzenius . ... This is version 0.4 of the Linux System Administrators' Guide. ... Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. ... Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. ...

Life from Mars: . The Discovery . ... Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars (August 7, 1996) . Life from Mars: Video Animations . ... The NASA-funded team found the first organic molecules thought to be of Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological activity; and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. ... Mars Life? Microscopic Structures . ...

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. ...

... 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 following tools are available: 3.1 strbs: Star Tracker BoreSight calculation  SYNOPSIS strbs instrument = instr ra= ra dec = dec apos = apos odffixout= true |false bstoolsout= true |false  DESCRIPTION Given the prime instrument instr and its viewing direction in terms of Right Ascension and Declination of the boresight + astronomical ... REFERENCE See task epicbscalgen and cal documentation for de nition of boresight related coordinate frames. ...

... I determine th as a time period (from some moment in the past till the present moment) during which papers responsible for 1/2 of the total citation index were published. Parameter Nt represents averaging of the citation index over this period: Nt = C.I./2th 1 Intro duction The problem of estimation of an impact of a scientist (or a group of them) is an actual one (see, for example, [1] and references therein). ... One published in 1965 a paper with C.I.=5000, and nothing after that. ...

... History of the SAO RAS (in Russian) . ... The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) was founded in 1966. ... The main instruments of the Observatory are the Big Telescope Alt-azimuthal (BTA) , an optical reflector with the primary mirror 6 metres in diameter and the radio telescope RATAN-600 (abbreviated from the RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antenna. ... The Astrophysical Bulletin journal in Russian and...

... 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, . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: [eas-aff] Exploring the road to Open Access Publishing . ... To: "EAS Office" . ... Subject: [eas-aff] Exploring the road to Open Access Publishing . ... wishes to bring to your attention the EAS report "Exploring the road to Open . ... on Open Access Publishing, which you will also find on the EAS website at: . ... test.mao.kiev.ua/images/postbyemail/open_access_publishing.pdf . ... test.mao.kiev.ua/images/postbyemail/open_access_publishing1.pdf . ... MAO NASU...

... The ST-ECF consisted, until its closure in December 2010, of a small group of astronomers, software scientists and media specialists who support Hubble science in Europe and collaborate internationally on HST science, instrument, archive and outreach activities. provided detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, . supported European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals . ... acted as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops, . ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Drafts . ... Multiple interim edits to a page can be temporarily saved in a "-Draft" copy of a page until the draft is ready to be published to the original. When the site administrator sets $EnableDrafts in a local customization file, the "Save" button on the edit page is split into separate "Publish" and "Save draft" buttons. ... The "Publish" button saves back to the original non-Draft copy of the page, removing any -Draft page that may have been created. ...

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On 4 November 2003 a solar flare occurred that was so large that the X-ray sensors on the NOAA GOES satellites ? ... It turned out that "Simple" made very high fidelity recordings of this exceptional solar flare and we have been able to use these data to better characterise the flare's X-ray peak. Figure 1: X-ray profile of the largest solar flare on record. ... Analysis of the 4 November 2003 data was further complicated by the presence of some radio interference at the flare peak. ...

SPICE system is a data system built by Navigation Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) , acting under the directions of NASA's Office of Space Science, to assist scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations from space borne instruments. ... Scientists in many countries may be counted as SPICE customers. In addition to providing SPICE technology to NASA and international space missions the NAIF Group serves as the Ancillary Data Node of NASA's Planetary Data System . ...

SAO is Russia's main centre for ground-based space research. ... The basic instruments of the Observatory are the optical telescope BTA (Big Alt-azimuth Telescope) with a main mirror diameter of 6 m and the radio telescope RATAN-600 with the antenna diameter 600 m. Study of the Universe as a whole, analysis of non-stationary energy release in galactic and extragalactic objects of various types, investigation of evolution and chemical composition of our Galaxy and the nature of solar activity. ...