... Colour transformations are supplied only for the three visual bandpass filter (U, B, V). ... compute the colour term (mag1-mag2) in the instrumental system . select the applicable colour transformation . ... the correct branch of the colour transformation is selected: . match the value of the optional parameter branch (if not set the default value 0 is used) to the value in the column BRANCH of the CCF COLOURMAG extension. the correct interval of the colour transformation is selected: . ...

... The commands EXTINCT/LONG followed by RESPONSE/FILTER or by INTEGRATE/LONG and RESPONSE/LONG permit a one-dimensional response curve response.bdf to be obtained from the extracted ( e.g. , via EXTRACT/LONG or EXTRACT/AVERAGE ) and wavelength calibrated spectrum of a standard star. ... This response curve can be applied to a one- or two-dimensional extracted, wavelength calibrated and extinction corrected ( EXTINCTION/LONG ) spectrum by the command CALIBRATE/FLUX . ...

... Posts tagged ?parameter estimation? ... Leccardi & Molendi (2007) have a paper in A&A ( astro-ph/0705.4199 ) discussing the biases in parameter estimation when spectral fitting is confronted with low counts data. Not surprisingly, they find that the bias is higher for lower counts, for standard chisq compared to C-stat, for grouped data compared to ungrouped. ... Tags: bias , C-stat , chi-square , chisq , Cstat , Fitting , parameter estimation , Peter Freeman , spectra . ... 1 Comment . ...

... Previous: Background Fluctuation Analysis from the Multiscale Entropy . ... A new measure of information is defined which is based on noise modeling and incorporates resolution scale. Properties of this measure are discussed. ... Additionally it allows for image noise modeling, and subsequent noise removal. ... Hence information- and entropy-based processing technologies will be necessary for the effective design and implementation of large, future generation, image databases. ...

... The absolute flux calibration of NICMOS will be calculated from observations of standard stars with known flux distributions F( ). ... In order to expand the set of IR standard stars in the appropriate flux range for NICMOS, M. Rieke, R. Thompson, and collaborators at the University of Arizona are making photometric observations of solar-analog stars, which will be used to normalize the solar spectrum to the observed IR magnitudes. ... Relative flux references accurate to 1.5% for standard...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

... This section gives a brief description of each of the parameters available to SCHED that are specifically for VLA observations or are especially useful for VLA observations. ... Should be provided for non-VLBI observations. ... This used to be required in order to obtain calibration data for the VLBI observations. ... FREQ: and DOPPLER Warning -- these parameters cannot be used for non-VLBI observations at the VLA since they are only used to adjust the baseband converter frequencies. ...

The determination of the detector parameters is based on sets of images of a spatially uniform-illumination scene (flatfield frames) and without any illumination (dark frames), putting a plug in place of the filter, taken at a series of exposure times. ... We interleave before and after each exposure time in the series of flatfield frames a set of reference images at an exposure time of 1 sec to determine the possible temporal variation of the illumination level. ...

The Agile window provides complete control over the Agile high-speed photometer. ... All other parameters are specified as part of the command that starts an exposure sequence. ... To connect the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile connDev fw . ... To home the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile fwhome (there must be a filter wheel mounted in Agile for homing to succeed). ...

Infrared Detector Array Links . ... Control Software Links . Optics Links . Micro-Optics Links . ... Optical Materials Databases . ... Atmospheric Database Links . Linux Links . ... Rockwell Science Center home page. ... Santa Barbara Research Center home page. ... CCD-World home page. ... SDSU home page. ... EPICS home page. ... Optics Society of America . ... Linux on Laptops ( local site and US home page ). ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... mar05: filter bank installed but left in wide band mode. 05apr05: 10db amps placed in pixel 2a,2b path in front of the filter bank. 08apr05: 10db amps placed in front of filter bank for all alfa pixels. 12apr05: 6db attenuators placed before 10db amps. 25apr05: 10db amps are now only in the OH filter bath. ... This allowed the search of the data taken by P2030 (100Mhz bandwidth, cfr 1420Mhz, 64usec samples) between 01feb05 and 01may05 for signals of the aerostat radar. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... 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. ...

Next: Buffer Manipulation Up: Programming in C Previous: Compiler Options . Listed below are nearly all the ANSI C standard library functions. The header file where related definitions are stored are given. These may vary on some systems so check local reference manuals. ... More info can be obtained from online man calls or reference manuals. Buffer Manipulation . Character Classification and Conversion . ... File Manipulation . ... Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994 ...

Fortran 90 properties already in CF77 . ... Only the old form (fix form) of the source code is available. ... LOGICAL Default KIND number = 8 INTEGER Default int7 int15 KIND number = 6 1 2 digits = 46 7 15 radix = 2 2 2 range = 13 2 4 huge = 70368744177663 127 32767 bit_size = 46 8 16 INTEGER int31 int46 int64 KIND number = 4 6 8 digits = 31 46 63 radix = 2 2 2 range = 9 13 18 huge = 2147483647 70368744177663 9223372036854775807 bit_size = 32 46 46 REAL half Default,single double KIND ...

... Pgsql . ... Add prefix search support to the synonym dictionary. ... Notice, it is ignored in to_tsvector(). cat $SHAREDIR/tsearch_data/synonym_sample.syn postgres pgsql postgresql pgsql postgre pgsql gogle googl indices index * =# create text search dictionary syn( template=synonym,synonyms='synonym_sample'); =# select ts_lexize('syn',' indices '); ts_lexize ----------- { index } (1 row ) =# create text search configuration tst ( copy=simple); =# alter text search ...

... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

... Class . Use . ... Packages that use ImageStatistics . ... Returns an ImageStatistics object generated using the specified measurement options and histogram bin count. ... Returns an ImageStatistics object generated using the specified measurement options, histogram bin count and histogram range. ... Draws the histogram using the specified title and ImageStatistics. ... ParticleAnalyzer. drawParticle ( ImageProcessor drawIP, Roi roi, ImageStatistics stats, ImageProcessor mask) . ... class . ...

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. ...