... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... 0.1 DN rms . ... Error larger for warm pixels; absolute error uncertain because of dark glow . ... Visible, near UV . ... Residuals in CTE correction . ... 3% rms (at 100 DN) . ... Aperture correction . 4% rms focus dependence (1 pixel aperture) . ... 1-2% field dependence (1 pixel aperture) . ... 1% rms max (28 days after decon) (filters bluer than F555W) . ... 2% rms for broad and intermediate filters in visible . 5% rms for narrow-band filters in visible . 2-8% rms for UV filters . ...

... IPACMAN V2.5 Test Plan (or more) . ... Anyway, results given hereafter are related to one plaform only (the one mentioned on the top). ... specific testcases The following testcases correspond to the minimum set of tests to be run on every new IPACMAN release (alpha, beta, final, .. ... 1/ START IPACMAN . ... Expected result . ... Verify IP: select an IP on disk and run Reports>verify IP . ... IP Diff: select two IPs on disk, and run Reports>IP Diff and check manually the results: verify the . ...

Armagh Observatory press release, 1999 April 21st. Research by David Asher and Mark Bailey , of Armagh Observatory, and Vacheslav Emel'yanenko , of South Ural University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, has explained the unexpected, spectacular shower of bright meteors seen in the small hours of 17 November last year. ... The observed meteors are produced by the collision with the Earth's atmosphere of small dust particles ejected from the parent comet, Tempel-Tuttle . ...

Documentation for Delay Line Final Design Review - 12 Feb 2008 Notes: Anything marked in Status as [TBU] is definitely `To Be Updated' `Expected Date' refers to the expected date of release where this is likely to be different from the due date. ... TBU] INT-406-VEN-0112 MF/RCB/DMAW/EBS 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... MF/XS/DMAW MF MF MF MF/XS/DMAW 22 Jan 08 29 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... Document No. ...

... Credit Copyright: BICEP2 Collaboration , NSF , Steffen Richter (Harvard) Explanation: Did the universe undergo an early epoch of extremely rapid expansion? ... Yesterday, results were released showing an expected signal of unexpected strength, bolstering a prediction of inflation that specific patterns of polarization should exist in cosmic microwave background radiation -- light emitted 13.8 billion years ago as the universe first became transparent . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Consolidated study of the ISS dynamic characteristics; parameters defining a space position of scientific devices and attitude sensors with respect to the station hull deformation; parameters of magnetic and microgravity disturbances on board the station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Also the help file was renamed the manual, formated for LaTeX and html, and to a large degree, rewritten. ... Increase maximum number of setup files to 50. ... 1995 July) . ... Also, only put pointing request in VLBA control files if this is not a DAR-only station (1995 October 4) . ... Allow in-line setup files much like the source and station catalogs. ... Allow specification of schedule input file name from main input. ... Adding SUMITEM input to allow specification of what is in the summary file...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... Recent Results . Publications . last 10 years in ADS) . ... This page is designed by A.V. Moiseev . ... The extended gas origin and kinematics in the fading AGN host galaxies" . talk on EWASS-2015, La Laguna, Jun 22-26, 2015) . Related publication: Keel et al. ... Related publication: Afanasiev V.L. et al. ... Related publication: Afanasiev V., Moiseev A. 2011, Baltic Astronomy, 20, 363 see in ADS . ... Related publication: Moiseev et al. 2011, MNRAS, 418, 244 see in ADS . ...

... Irregular, damped ULF range magnetic pulsations occurring in connection with magnetospheric substorms are called Pi 2 pulsations (T = 40 - 150 s; Saito, 1969). ... Since the waves can be detected with little time delay over a wide range of latitude and longitude, they have been used for the ground based determination of the substorm onset time. ... Lester, M., W. J. Hughes, and H. J. Singer, Polarization patterns of Pi 2 magnetic pulsations and the substorm current wedge, J. Geophys. Res., ...

... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . ... Complete Optical and X-ray data for all ChaMPlane fields are available through the DS9 VO interface . ... functionality of DS9 is available to manipulate the results in addition to those provided by the "Champlane tools" You can select images, compare . ... our region of interest has been selected by drawing a red square region on the image. at bottom left the high res optical image of that selected region, and on the right is the X-ray image. ...

... I.A.Dynnikov, Three-page approach to knot theory. ... Universal semigroup, Funktsional'nyi Analiz I Prilozhenija, 34 (2000), no.1, 29-40 (Russian); English translation in Functional Analysis and Its Appl. 34 (2000), no.1, 24-32. I.A.Dynnikov, Finitely presented groups and semigroups in knot theory. ... Math. 2000, no. ... English translation: Russian Math. ... A.Vershik, Numerical invariants of exponential groups, and a locally free approximation of braid groups (in Russian), Zapiski Nauchn. ...

... In Figures 2 and 3 we show the 6m telescope spectra of blue compact galaxies HS 1013+3809 and HS 1442+4250, in which typical high excitation HII-region narrow emission lines are seen. ... for red part of HS 1442+4250. ... This correction = 354 km s -1 was calculated for HS 1013+3809 and = 202 km s -1 for HS 1442+4250. ... While HS 1013+3809 looks very symmetric and very compact, with intense star formation burst taking place in its very center, HS 1442+4250 is well elongated, resembling edge-on disk...

K-band Arcetri Obscured Supernova Search . What is the KAOSS Project? W hat is the KAOSS Project? Some recent surveys aimed at detecting Supernovae (SNe) in the optical have found that starburst galaxies do not show evidence for an enhanced SN rate, with respect to quiescent galaxies (Richmond et al. ... A similar result was obtained by Navasardyan et al. (2001) who looked for SNe in interacting galaxies, finding no evidence for correlations between SN rate and galaxy properties. ...

The rates of build-up in the atmosphere of human-made compounds that deplete the ozone layer (e.g., chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons) have slowed in recent years as a direct result of reductions in global emissions of these compounds. ... The peak global ozone depletions are expected to occur during the next several years. ... Methyl bromide continues to be viewed as a significant ozone- depleting chemical. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... Please note the scripts for configuring radio clock drivers do not work. ... Machine OS Comp Notes ------------------------------------------------------------ VAX-11/785 4.3 tahoe cc none Sun3 SunOS 4.1.1 gcc no REFCLOCK (pb 93/10/25) Sun4 SunOS 4.1.1 gcc all REFCLOCK drivers (dm 93/10/25) Sun4 SunOS 4.1.3 gcc all REFLCOCK drivers Sun4 SunOS 5.1 gcc no REFCLOCK (pb 93/10/25) Sun4 SunOS 5.2 gcc no REFCLOCK (dm 93/11/20) Sun4 ...

After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...