... The analysis of NICMOS polarization images is aimed at determining the Stokes' Parameters, and from those the polarization angle and degree for each pixel. NICMOS Camera 1 and Camera 2 each contain three polarizers, whose principal axes of transmission are separated by 120 degrees. ... The images in the three filters need to be compared, in order to produce the Stokes' parameters. ... The Stokes parameters can then be combined to yield the polarized intensity, I p: . ...
ST-ECF Instrument Science Report ACS 2001-003 ACS Grism Simulations using SLIM 1.0 N. Pirzkal, A. Pasquali, J. R. Walsh, R. N. Hook, W. Freudling, R. Albrecht, R.A.E. Fosbury April 4, 2001 ABSTRACT We introduce SLIM, a slitless spectroscopy simulator written in Python which can be used to simulate the ACS grism and prism modes. ... We have thus developed a simulator called SLIM which is able to disperse an input spectrum in a well-controlled manner. ... Can simulate multiple order grism observations. ...
CORES OR CUSPS IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES: LUMINOSITY OR ENVIRONMENT? ... The low lumi nosity disky galaxies have `hard' cores with a steep slope in the luminosity profile at small radii, whereas the luminous galaxies have `soft' cores with flat profiles at small radii (e.g. Faber et al. ... Coma Cluster cores In the gas/stellar continuum paradigm, one would expect that in the outer parts of a cluster it is more likely that the last merger was gaseous than in its central regions. ...
THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 116 : 1009 х1038, 1998 September ( 1998. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE FROM SUPERNOVAE FOR AN ACCELERATING UNIVERSE AND A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT ADAM G. RIESS,1 ALEXEI PETER M. GARNAVICH,2 B. LEIBUNDGUT,6 M. R. V. FILIPPENKO,1 PETER CHALLIS,2 ALEJANDRO CLOCCHIATTI,3 ALAN DIERCKS,4 RON L. GILLILAND,5 CRAIG J. HOGAN,4 SAURABH JHA,2 ROBERT P. KIRSHNER,2 M. PHILLIPS,7 DAVID REISS,4 BRIAN P. SCHMIDT,8,9 ROBERT A.