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... Up: Data Analysis Tools, Techniques, and Software . ... Starfinder is an IDL code for the deep analysis of stellar fields, designed for well-sampled images with high and low Strehl factor. ... If the PSF is constant across the frame, the observed stellar field may be considered a superposition of shifted scaled replicas of the PSF itself, lying on a smooth background originated by faint unresolved stars and other possible sources. ... Astrometric and photometric analysis by local fitting. ...

... HST . Domains of Observability in the Near-Infrared with HST/NICMOS and (Adaptive Optics Augmented) Large Ground-Based Telescopes . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... NICMOS . ... DOMAINS OF OBSERVABILTY . IN THE NEAR-INFRARED . ... HST/NICMOS . ... ADAPTIVE OPTICS AUGMENTED) LARGE GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES . A summary study solicited by STScI in preparation for HST Cycle 12 . ...

Some recent results ( see ) attracted the attentions of astronomers working on field which could benefits from photon counting techniques with high speed and spatial resolutions as adaptive optics. ... Fasti has been designed to be fast and largerly configurable. ... The data rate attined in the best case (30 Mhz), give no impossible load to the digital acquisition in the photon counting mode, since data are 1 bit only, they can be parallelized, giving a maximum speed of about 940.000 32 bit word/sec. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development > Adaptive Optics . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... The Adaptive Optics department's mission is to provide its astronomical community with worldwide competitive ground-based adaptive optics observing capabilities overcoming the limitation of atmospheric turbulence. ... The Adaptive Optics department has fruitful cooperations with industry to develop the key technologies required by the ESO observing capabilities. ...

Next: Sky background definition Up: Background Definition Previous: Smoothing spline interpolation . The command BACKGROUND/SMOOTH enables to define the background without previous order definition. This feature is useful for example to correct for the background the image required for the order definition. ... All above methods are implemented in command BACKGROUND/ECHELLE and selected by the echelle keyword BKGMTD . ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

... Archives . ... Please, do not confuse adaptive filter (hereafter, AF ) with adaptive optics (hereafter, AO ). ... Not just the hardware part, but I was interested in how astronomers have applied theories and algorithms of AF to acquire cleaner data that are processed with speed and efficiency. ... A long story short, against my expectation for frequent allusion from ADS, adaptive filter turned out to be almost [MADS]. ... Tags: adaptive filter , adaptive optics , MADS . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ...

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Cost Estimating Web Site . ... 2005 NASA Cost Analysis Symposium Databases . ... World , European Communities , Other European Countries , Americas , Asia , Africa , General US , US Federal Government , US Department of Defense , Aerospace Industry , NASA , Science & Engineering Handbooks . NASA Cost Estimating Handbook 2004 , Parametric Estimating Handbook .. ... Consumer Price Index , Employment Cost Index , GDP Deflator , Import Price Index , NASA New Start Index , Producer Price Index . ...

... PPTA timeline . ... List of projects . ... RedGW . ... One of the main goals of pulsar timing array projects is to limit the existence of a background of gravitational waves (GWs). Jenet et al. (2006) developed a method to determine such a limit if (and only if) the pulsar timing residuals were statistically white. In the paper we used data from six pulsars from the PPTA project to obtain a limit. The remaining pulsars were rejected because their timing residuals were not white. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, Morse lemmas for functionals of the variational calculus, Func.Anal.Appl., ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman. ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, A.B.Shubin, Algorithms for control with a minimal number of switchings, Automation and remote control , V.53, 5:619, 1992. ... TeX file ) . ... Quadratic Poisson brackets compatible with an algebra structure . ... Yu.M.Burman. ... Yu.M.Burman, Whitney's index formula in higher dimensions and Laplace integrals , Preprint math.DG/9801044 . ...

Tail Probe is one of the satellites of the INTERBALL program. ... Collection of the orbital elements | ... Flight situation analysis during operations scheduling . ... Two stages of the orbital situation analysis are presented: . ... The satellites motion calculation during the flight situation analysis is based on the orbital elements, determined by the Ballistic center at KIAM RAN. The modified (by backward integration) orbital elements are usedduring the aposteriory situation analysis. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 18.02.2000 . ... Credit: AO Staff , Keck , LLNL Explanation: From the Earth's surface, Neptune usually appears as a fuzzy blotch. The blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere deny clearer images. ... February 2000 . ... 1999 2000 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: neptune - adaptive optics . Publications with words: neptune - adaptive optics . ...

Using Site testing data for Adaptive Optics simulations Kislovodsk, October 2010 1Glen Herriot, 1David Andersen, 1Jean-Pierre VИran, 2Brent Ellerbroek, 2Luc Gilles, 2Lianqi Wang 1National Research Council Canada ­ Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 2TMT Project Office, Pasadena TMT.AOS.PRE.10.074.REL01 1 Outline TMT / NFIRAOS Site Testing Parameters and their value for Adaptive Optics Simulations ... TMT.AOS.PRE.10.074.REL01 9 What is the interest of Adaptive Optics in r 0 Seeing ? ...

... 2000 February 18 . Neptune through Adaptive Optics . Credit: AO Staff , Keck , LLNL . Explanation: From the Earth's surface, Neptune usually appears as a fuzzy blotch. The blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere deny clearer images. ... The above image of Neptune in three infrared colors demonstrates the clarity of the new technique - as compared to an image of Neptune from Keck II without AO . ... About APOD | ...

... The wavelet transform, time-frequency localization and signal analysis. ... IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing , 40(7):1746-1757, July 1992. ... Time-frequency window leakage in the short-time fourier transform. ... A generalised wavelet transform for Fourier analysis: the multiresolution Fourier transform and its application to image and audio signal analysis. ... IEEE. ... Signal-dependent time-frequency analysis using a radially gaussian kernel. signal processing , 32(3):263-284, June 1993. ...

... PUL VLBI Analysis Center . ... Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) is located at the Pulkovo Observatory . ... Processing of VLBI , GPS, and optical observations aimed at analysis of the Earth rotation, station displacement, and celestial reference system. ... Celestial Pole Offset (CPO) and Free Core Nutation (FCN) . Four daily updated CPO and FCN series (models) are provided. ... File fcn1.dat contains the ZM1 FCN model with variable amplitude and phase. ...