... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Appendix B: FGS1r PerformanceSummary > B.2 Angular Resolution Test . ... At the time of the test, the predicted angular separation of the components was 0.085" (Franz and Wasserman, private communication). ... By rolling the HST in 6 increments, the projected separation along the X axis varied from the predicted angular resolution limit of FGS1r (~6 mas) to the resolution limit of FGS3 (~20 mas). ...

Andreyev Yu.V., Dmitriev A.S. and Pustovoit V.I. Institue of RadioEngineering and Electronics of RAS . Efremova E.V. Moscow Institue for Physics and Technology . ... Separation of a sum of chaotic signals corrupted by Gaussian channel noise into the components with a method based on chaotic synchronous response is discussed. In order to establish the response, a procedure of iterating the maps, inverse to the maps that generate the chaotic signals, is proposed. ...

... 2009: . ... New Wolf-Rayet Type Star. ... It was discovered that the peculiar velocity of the star is about 50km/s, and that it was discarded from a young star cluster. ... Based on the observational data from the 6-m telescope and from other sources, it was shown with high reliability that chemically peculiar stars with strong depressions in their continuum energy distributions possess the magnetic fields and rotation periods 2 and 3 times larger, respectively, than the stars with weak depressions....

The preliminary version of documentation of the format for the interchange of calibrated optical/IR data being developed by Tom Pauls of NRL and John Young of COAST was presented and a number of issues discussed. The proposed format is in the general form of a relational database with different components stored in FITS binary tables. ... Should there be a single data table type that includes all data types, or multiple table types, one per data type? What data types are needed? ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

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Next: Stellar models Up: Introduction Previous: Photometry Contents . In a hierarchical stellar system, the separation between two neighboring stars is always much smaller than the separation of this pair from the next companion in the system, be it another pair or a single star. ... They are also numerically easier to handle than non-hierarchical systems, since each pair can be described with the standard orbital parameters, and each star with a small number of physical parameters. ... System . ...

... Image mosaics assembled from several separate pointings look better if the result is divided by the mosaiced exposure and then smoothed. ... Users who wish to make mosaics from XMM EPIC data however need to exercise some caution. ... Make a mosaic of the raw images. ... asmooth inset=<(raw-NVB) mosaic> smoothstyle=simple withexpimageset=yes expimageset=<exp img mosaic> remultiply=no . ... readvarianceset=yes invarianceset=<raw mosaic> writevarianceset=yes outvarianceset=<pick a name> . ...

Correlated flashes of masers H2O . ... In 1981 - 1982 years it was revealed several Flashes of maser radiation of H2O radioline at wavelength 1.35 cm in the radio-sourse W49, developing practically synchronously at several radial velocities. It's known that components of the maser radiation of H2O radioline profile with different radial velocities arise in separate spatially diverse areas of a starformation. ...

... User Guide ] Task: imfit Purpose: Fit models to a given image dataset Categories: image analysis IMFIT is a Miriad task that fits model components to an image. ... Key: clip Clip level. ... Possible objects are: level An offset (DC) level gaussian An elliptical or circular gaussian. disk An elliptical or circular disk. point This is a short-hand for a gaussian with the width of the point-spread-function. beam This is a short-hand for a gaussian with a peak value of 1 and located at the image centre....

... The SDSS 2.5-m primary mirror is supported in a manner similar to the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m telescope primary. ... The axial support is provided by 48 air pistons. The pistons have the same diameter thereby applying equal forces with the same air pressure. ... Each group supports a 120њ sector of the mirror. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of actuators (green circles) These actuators apply forces (10*cos2 N) to correct astigmatism. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... Astronomers can also determine the speed a galaxy is moving by breaking up its light into its component colors, rainbow-fashion. ... This pattern is now called "the expanding universe", since the entire universe of galaxies seems to be moving away. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

... 5-GHz total flux density . ... empty field ... * = the position has been determined to an accuracy of 10 mas from the VLBApls data . VLBApls image at 5 GHz . ... contour gif | contour PostScript . Correlated flux density (Jy) vs. projected baseline length plot . ... PostScript . Gaussian source model component parameters . flux density (Jy) . EW position (mas) . ... major axis (mas) . minor axis (mas) . position angle ( ) . ... 0.1 . ... E component contour PostScript . ...

... This guide discusses the concept and use of Dynamic HTML, which includes style sheets, content positioning, and downloadable fonts. ... This document discusses each of the three components of Dynamic HTML, describes how to use them, and gives examples of the use of each one. ... Positioning HTML Content contains the following chapters: Chapter 7, "Introduction," introduces the concept of positioning HTML content and discusses the two kinds of syntax you can use to create positioned blocks of content...

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