The pipeline calibrated data are not flux calibrated and the data are in units of Data Numbers (DN). However, a flux calibration is supplied in the header keywords. ... where m is in the STMAG system which is based on a spectrum with constant flux per unit wavelength set to roughly match the Johnson system at V. The more conventional systems are based on Vega's spectrum. Table 8.2 was generated using SYNPHOT to provide rough conversions from STMAG to the Johnson UBVRI and Cousins RI systems. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... We present a proposed standard for data dictionaries associated with catalogs being accessed through the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Mosaic Catalog Service. Each catalog made available for searching must have a data dictionary, which consists of a set of specified keywords describing format, content and location of data. ... There are two keywords in the Table Data Dictionary which indicate to the server software that the corresponding column contains special attributes. ...

Next: GRISMCAL Up: COLORTRANS Previous: Generation from Ground Calibration Contents . The transformations from the OM instrumental system to the standard Johnson's system were established based on in-flight observations. ... We have derived the flux conversion factors from OM observations of seven spectrophotometric standard stars (white dwarfs: Hz4, GD50, GD153, LBB227, BPM16274, Hz2 and G93-48). ...

... The New 1997 IEEE Standards Products Catalog features the complete listing of standards publica-tions and services IEEE Standards offers, along with the information you need to place your order. ... Books and Other Products on Standards - contains a detailed listing of informative print and electronic publications relevant to standards and their implementation in areas of electrical engineering, electronics and computer technology. ... IEEE Standards Products Listing 22 . ... Power Electronics 41 . ...

... APPLY/DISPERSION in out [y] [coef] . Apply the dispersion relation to a 1D spectrum and generates a table . BATCH/LONG . ... CALIBRA/FLUX in out [resp] . Correct an image for the instrumental response function . ... Wavelength calibration of 1D and long-slit spectra . ... LINADD/LONG in w,bin [y] [mtd] [mode] [line] . ... PLOT/CALIBRATE [mode] . ... Plots a 1D spectrum in table format, as supplied by APPLY/DISPERSION . ... RESPONSE/LONG [plot] [fit] [deg] [smo] [table] [image] [visu] . ...

... The first step to improve the FORS calibration is therefore to obtain data to allow a computation of the illumination correction across the field. ... Another limitation on the calibration accuracy has been the brightness of the Landolt standards which have forced the use of extremely short exposures introducing small but non-negligible shutter-time errors and also resulting in a very small number of useful standards per frame. ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

twistedActor is core code for writing an actor: an instrument control computer (ICC) or other controller that executes commands and outputs replies in APO-standard keyword=value format. twistedActor communicates using TCP/IP and supports multiple users. twistedActor is based on an older package named TclActor. ... twistedActor is written in pure python. ... As of 2014-08-28 I am using version 3.5.3. twistedActor may be installed using the standard distutils command: python setup.py install . ...

... Audible Indication of Any Network Condition. ... Label Configurations Standard Bindings NFPA110 GenSet Alarm and Status Annunciator The · · · · · · (A) The · · · · · · (A) The · · · (A) The · · · (A) following conditions are provided as High Battery Voltage (A) · Low Battery Voltage (A) · Generator Running (G) · Genset Supplying Load (G) · Pre- Low Oil Pressure (A) · Low Oil Pressure (R) · = Amber; (R) = Red; (G) = Green following conditions are provided as Check ...

... This file is intended to provide a basic functional overview of the EISA Bus, so that hobbyists and amateurs can design their own EISA compatible cards. ... EISA is upwardly compatible, which means that cards originally designed for the 8 bit IBM bus (often referred to as the XT bus) and cards designed for the 16 bit bus (referred to as the AT bus, and also as the ISA bus), will work in an EISA slot. ... This is used by the slave device to inform the bus master that it is capable of 16 bit transfers...

Next: *imcalc* - Obtain a Up: Calibration Previous: Exposure Map . Background maps are provided by the standard processing for all ROSAT and Einstein instruments. For the PSPC and IPC these are in three standard bands: soft, hard, and broad (Table 6.2). ... N.B.: ROSAT PSPC background maps in SASS 5-6 or higher are generated by smoothing a source-subtracted, exposure corrected image (see the ROSAT Data Products Guide). ... imcalc* - Obtain a background subtracted image for ROSAT PSPC Data . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Night Sky Network . ... Galileo Educator Network . ... Resources . ... A NASA Galileo Educator Network (GEN) Professional Development Institute (PDI) . ... The Galileo Educator Network (GEN) PDI emphasizes the integration of science content, science practices, and the nature of science as outlined in the national Framework for K 12 Science Education. ... The NASA Galileo Educator Network (GEN) is a NASA funded teacher professional development program managed by the Astronomical Society of the...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

The Large Scale Structure Peak as a Comoving Standard Ruler Boudewijn F. Roukema et al. ... Just as supernovae of Type Ia appear to provide a good empirical standard candle, it now appears observationally justi ed to use the peak in the power spectrum of density per- turbations at L  130  10h 1 Mpc as an empirical standard ruler. ... Combination with the supernovae Ia data is suфcient to show that the observable Universe is almost at. ...

A problem, that can arise when moving from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90, is dependent on a usual deviation from the standard, and has to do especially with user programs. ... With many Fortran 77 implementations we wrote PROGRAM TEST REAL X WRITE(*,10) 10 FORMAT('Give X = ',$) READ(*,*) X WRITE(*,*) X END In Fortran 90 we use "non-advancing I/O" instead. ... In some old Fortran dialects the statement TYPE was used to write on a typewriter terminal and PRINT was used to write on the line printer. ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

... The Theoretcial Astrophysics subroutine library provides constants and functions commonly used in astrophysical modelling. It began in 1992 as a joint project between CCP7 and Starlink, initiated by Simon Jeffery and Paul Rees. ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ESYMB ( IZ, SYMBOL, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ENAME ( IZ, NAME, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ABINI ( TAP_ABUND, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ERROR ( TAP_ROUTN, NAME, TEXT, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ERREP ( TAP_ROUTN, STATUS ) . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...