... This task is designed to analyse a region within an XMM image. It calculates values such as a source centroid, optimum extraction radius, source counts and count rate etc. ... The centroid, source counts and optimum extraction region are also returned in output parameters where they may be picked up by a calling task. ... Counts per image pixel . ... det or sky pixels . ... The background subtracted source counts corrected for the encircled energy fraction. ... Source counts per image pixel . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

Section I: Introduction to ALFA and GALFA . Section II: System Description . ... ALFA receives 7 beams, 2 polarizations per beam, each covering 1225-1525 MHz. The 14 IF signals cover nominally the 100 to 400 MHz band. ... A high-resolution, low-bandwidth spectrometer (8K channels covering a 7 MHz bandwidth) . ... Each spectrometer board handles two polarizations from one telescope beam.The baseband signals are to be digitized by four 8-bit ADCs at 100 Msamples/sec. ... Bandwidth: . ...

Next: Three-dimensional Data Analysis in IRAF and ZODIAC+ . ... A data analysis system has been developed at SRON, which has been designed to allow rigorous control of the quality of its processed data products. ... This means recording all parameters of all steps which lead to the establishment of the final data products (Figure 1 ). ... Figure: A processing pipeline is a sequence of tasks with several input/output files and parameters, which pass data from one task to the next. ...

... The Post-Reduction Off-line Software (PROS) is a portable x-ray analysis software system designed to run under NOAO's Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). The PROS system provides IRAF users with tasks that will properly access the x-ray data. ... Similarly many IRAF tasks will be useful for x-ray data. ... The IRAF system, previous to the development of the PROS software, provided many of the features needed to analyze generic astronomical data, optical data in particular. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

The optical scheme of the instrument is sketched in Figure 1 , it is designed to match the F/20 focal ratio of the TIRGO telescope. We have, following the optical path, the window of the dewar, the order sorting filter (not in figure), a field lens, in Calcium Floride, and the slit, in the focal plane of the telescope. ... The resolving power is (for first order of grating) of about 600 in the center of J band and 950 in the center of the K band, using a slit of two pixel (3.46 arcsec). ...

This diagram shows the six superimposed "layers" of the CSS table model. This diagram illustrates the algorithm for calculating a cell's final background. ... The diagram shows how, looking down on the six rectangles, one may compute the background color of each cell. ... A cell without a background color in the top layer is depicted as a "window" onto the lower layers, which give its final background color. ...

... terminate list_hdr_<date>.txt . ... dfosCron (supports background header downloads with HdrDownloader ) . ... The tool downloads the header files for the specified date into $DFO_HDR_DIR/<date>, as text files with extension .hdr. ... In mode -d, the last template is always downloaded and distributed such that it is not broken: if all of its header files formally belong to the specified date, they go there; if at least one header formally belongs to the next date, all files go to the next date. ...

... The e-mail interface of the CATS is designed like CGI for the call of the basic procedures: select and match from the html-forms and the program is a lexical analyser, distinguishing keywords and parameters from the electronic letter sent to the address `cats@sao.ru'. ... The output of result is forseen in the same formats as in other forms of the access to the CATS. ... out[put] < arg1 arg2... > . ... ra [ < arg1 > ] < arg2 > < arg3 > ... min max [center] . ... window < arg1 arg2 ... > . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Hide Zen home . ... sncat2sntab.pl - convert old catalog to table sn . ... CREATE TABLE cats ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); -- a list of properties of galaxy CREATE TABLE properties ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy _property ( gid integer REFERENCES galaxy (id), pid integer REFERENCES properties(id), value float, UNIQUE( gid ,pid) ); CREATE t=# select * from galaxy; id | ...

... SFIT is a general-purpose code designed to optimize theoretical stellar spectra to an observed spectrum. ... While the programme expects input from "stdio", it is more natural to save commands in a file (eg "sfit_input") and run the code simply by . ... If the spectra to be fitted have a filename "star_spectrum", then the best fit spectrum will be written out, together with the renormalized input spectrum, to a file called "star_spectrum.fit". ... sets up model spectrum grid (and for 2nd star) . ...

Welcome to VDP home page. ... Operation and Measurements The VDP instrument was designed for determination of integral flux vector or integral energetic spectrum at the range 0.2 - 2.4 keV of ions or electrons of magnetospheric plasma. The instrument includes 6 identical Faraday caps, located by following ways: . ... In case of constant voltage, sensor supplies the total flux of ions plus flux of electrons above 2400 eV energy, or total flux of electrons plus flux of ions above 2400 eV energy. ...

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Program: CORMAP Purpose: Check whether there is a correlation between two maps Category: ANALYSIS, CALCULATION File: cormap.c Author: M. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set, subsets: Maximum number of subsets is 2048. BOX= Give box: [entire subset] RANGE= Give range of levels to include in calculation: [all] Input consists of two values. The first value may be greater than the second. See the description for the correct use of this keyword. ... PGCOLOR= Give color 1.. ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Detectors . ... Instrument Handbook . STIS Data Handbook . ... The STIS optics and detectors have been designed to exploit HST's high spatial resolution. The STIS optical design includes corrective optics to compensate for HST's spherical aberration, a telescope focal-plane slit-wheel assembly , collimating optics, a grating-selection mechanism , fixed optics, and camera focal-plane detectors . ...

Semiconductor Home > Products > Mixed Signal and Analog > CCD IMAGERS Family > . SN761210, VIDEO-PROCESSING CIRCUIT . Device Status: Active . ... The SN761210 is a bipolar integrated circuit designed as a video processor for Texas Instruments CCD image sensors. ... During storage or handling, the device leads should be shorted together or the device should beplaced in conductive foam. ... Gain Control . ... Iris Control . ... Orderable Device . ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...