The WFPC2 cameras have significant geometric distortion which not only affects astrometry, but also affects photometry (because it induces an apparent variation in surface brightness across the field, and hence impacts the flat fields). ... The pixel scale can be estimated from the commanded offsets between the frames (relying on the FGS scale and distortion calibrations). ... The cubic distortion coefficients can be used to derive effective pixel areas as presented in Figure 5.16 . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

HIPASS Name RA, DEC(J2000) l, b NED ID peak rms mom0 vsys w50 w20 vLG MHI Ref. ... Col(1,2) = HIPASS name (HIPASS Jhhmm-dd; A,B,C if needed) . Col(3,4) = HIPASS center position in RA, DEC (J2000) . ... NGC6822 0.490 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . DDO210 0.880 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC0055 1.480 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ... ESO594-G004 1.060 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . IC5152 1.590 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . WLM 0.925 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC3109 1.250 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . SextansA 1.440 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ...

Full-Text Search . ... arXiv.org . astro-ph . ... SAI VO . Search sort results by Date Relevance . Use logical operators AND , OR , NOT and round brackets to construct complex queries. Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . Normalized to: Bright, J. 1 article(s) in total . 4 co-authors. Median position in authors list is 5,0 . Co-author(s): . ... Astronet | SAI MSU . ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

... Three Dusty Stars . ... These separate radio images reveal three dusty debris disks surrounding three bright, young, nearby stars - evidence for solar systems in formation. ... Recent observations of the binary star system HR 4796 have shown that one of the stars is surrounded by a dusty gaseous disk. ... Water From Orion . ... This dust is usually invisible, subtly acting to dim the light of more distant stars. ... Other times this dust may show itself by reflecting the light of bright, nearby...

Position Switching Separation Tolerance with Arecibo in L-Band Travis McIntyre The University of New Mexico July 2010 Revised December 2013 Abstract The blocked telescope aperture at Arecibo creates standing waves in the bandpass around 1MHz. ... Test observations with Arecibo in L-Band show that position switching effectively removes standing waves for separations of one half FWHM or less. Standing waves remain for separations of one FWHM, increasing the rms of the baseline by 20%. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 23, 1998 . Three Dusty Stars . ... Explanation: These separate radio images reveal three dusty debris disks surrounding three bright, young, nearby stars - evidence for solar systems in formation. ... The false color maps show the intensity of submillimeter radio emission from the surrounding dust. ... About APOD > . ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... A different approach is done via the setting withctisrcpos =Y: all event energy corrections do not use the actual RAWY coordinate but the corresponding RAWY location of the source ( SRCPOS ) as determined by the task epframes (either automatically or via setting withsrccoords =Y). ... The task epchain may be used with the setting ccds =4 withctisrcpos =Y to process only the CCD 4 where usually the bright source is located that causes the Out-of-Time events. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Circular polarization of the bright side of Iapetus versus wavelength, obtained with FORS2 at the ESO VLT during the night 2011-03-28 at a phase angle of 0.77 . ... It can be noted that a change in signal occurs in circular polarization observations that are taken after rotating the instrument by 90 degree with respect to the intial position angle on the sky. ...

Next: *wcscoord* all Up: Celestial Coordinates from Image Previous: *tvlabel, xexamine* . ... Type pixel coords in skypix . xr xspatial xs skypix .oformat = ``hours'' # to reset the default which is ``degrees''. xs skypix input coordinate system ( J2000 ): xdata$rh110267_img # the image file name output coordinate system ( J2000 ): image # to use coord conversion # in image file header or B1950 or J2000 # epoch of output can be specified input file list (STDIN): cr ...

This New Horizons LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) composite image shows the detection of PlutoтАЩs largest moon, Charon, cleanly separated from Pluto itself. Pluto is the brighter object near the center, and Charon is the fainter object near its 11 oтАЩclock position. The circles denote the predicted locations of the objects, showing that Charon is where the team expects it to be relative to Pluto. No other Pluto system objects are seen in these images. ...

Summary of SPHERE performance at NIH Ralf Siebenmorgen (PS) and Markus Kasper (PM) SPHERE performs in the NIH similar to what was achieved in Grenoble. ... IRDIS The IR and V filters are well mounted and the positioning accuracy is within a 1% pixel tolerance. ... The IRDIS detectors have a read-out noise 9.4 e-, a gain of 2e-/ADU and the dark current is <0.5e-/pixel/s. The instrumental background is still high. ... Centering of the pupil is achieved at an accuracy of 0.1% of the pupil diameter. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

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... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

... R-band images obtained at 0.8 arcsec seeing conditions have allowed us to separate foreground star from point-like extragalactic source and estimate their brightness separately. ... To study the nature and properties of the source, we observed it under high spatial resolution. ... CONCLUSION RTT150 optical observations with sub-arcsecond seeing and low resolution spectra confirm the hypothesis of superposition of a radio source onto a `normal' F/G galactic star proposed by [1]. ...

On 1 February 2002 this Mirror was upgraded from NVSSlist v2.10 to NVSSlist v2.17 . ... This form searches the source catalog produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). ... Object name [optional] : . ... Search radius and verification halfwidth in arcseconds [Optional] : . ... Enter a list of positions to search: . ... The contents of the NVSS source catalog and the techniques used by NVSSlist to derive error estimates and other parameters are described here. ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

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