... evigweight (evigweight-1.6) [xmmsas_20060628_1801-7.0.0] . ... The instrument (telescope+detector) response is not flat, ie the effective area at a given energy depends on the position in the focal plane, defined by the detector coordinates ( DETX , DETY columns). evigweight sets the stage for an alternative method to building an exposure map (via eexpmap ) adapted to the spectral selection or an effective area (via arfgen ) adapted to the spatial selection, in parallel to images and spectra. ...

... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Building the AITC . Description: The Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC), which replaces the workshops destroyed in the fires of January 2003. ... Construction began in September 2003 and is due to be complete in July 2006. ... Before construction began, Oct 27, 2004 . Views: 2425 . ... Views: 2254 . ... Views: 2067 . AITC Site . Views: 2028 . ...

... Spectral Filters . Quantum Efficiency and Exposure Limits . ... Which Instrument to Use: WFPC2, ACS, NICMOS, or STIS? Comparison of WFPC2 and ACS . Comparison of WFPC2 and NICMOS . Comparison of WFPC2 and STIS . History of WFPC2 . ... WFPC2 . ... What's New in Version 5.0 for Cycle 10 . ... WFPC2 Handbook on the WWW . ... Calibration Channel . ... LRF Photometric Calibration . ... Sources of Dark Current . ... Calibration Plan Summary . Cycle 4 Calibration Plan . ...

... The initial descriptions of the FITS format provided a simplified method for describing the physical coordinate values of the image pixels, but deliberately did not specify any of the detailed conventions required to convey the complexities of actual image projections. ... They were CRPIX n for the reference pixel location on pixel axis n , CRVAL n for the coordinate value at that pixel, CDELT n for the increment at that pixel in the coordinate value, and CTYPE n for the type of coordinate. ...

... Main . ... Telescope . ... Diameter of the main mirror, mm . ... The length of the telescope tube, mm . ... Weight of the main mirror, kg . ... Weight of the main mirror in holder, kg . ... Weight of the telescope, kg . ... field of . ... 1:7.7, with corrector . ... 1:7.7, without corrector . ...

Next: Phenology Garden Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Buildings, Telescopes and Telescope Contents . Strong support for the provision of a new Library, Archives and Historic Scientific Instruments Building was expressed by the Board of Governors at their annual meeting in March 2004. ... During 2004 the project was advanced largely by John Butler, who prepared a detailed application for external funding to support the proposal, which is intended to be submitted to the HLF in 2005. ...

... The procedure of radiometer signal integration can be considered as a sort of reducing dimension of the initial sampling space, where the samples are the result of analog-to-digital conversion. ... The probability distribution of the signal and spikes is completely known. ... The quality of the considered algorithm could be also illustrated by Figure 2 . ... One could see the considered adaptive algorithm is preferable even by low degree of compression, because all spikes have been depressed. ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... http://carma.astro.umd.edu/wiki/index.php/Installing_Developer_CASA . Building CCMTools as required by CASA . ... Building . ... Notes related to building CASA . A prototype build system for CASA using SCons . ... Generating IDL files . ... Notes on the classic CASA build . ... Writing the tool XML file . ... Automatically generated IDL files from the files describing each of the tools of CASA. ... Building CASA . ... Building the casa-core libraries . ...

Next: Summary of reduction Up: Echelle Reduction Previous: Saving the Data . In the present version we will be concerned with the standard configuration of CASPEC, the Cassegrain Echelle Spectrograph which is in operation at the Cassegrain focus of the ESO 3.6 m telescope. ... In its standard configuration CASPEC uses a a 31.6 lines/mm echelle grating together with a 300 lines/mm grating cross disperser. ... The table shows the change in resolution with the order number. Table: Resolution . ...

Statistical Tools Statistical Tools and Techniques for Solar Astronomers Alexander W Blocker Nathan Stein SolarStat 2012 Statistical Tools Outline Outline 1 Introduction Objectives Statistical issues with astronomical data Example: filter / hardness ratios Standard approach Building a statistical model Using the model 2 3 4 5 6 Statistical ...

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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... SEE BUGS BEFORE YOU PLAY THIS LEVEL! ... He found a gateway between time, a "Time Slip". This allows you to travel back in time, and then come back to where you began, walk into the time slip chamber, press the button, and ZAP! you're back in the present. ... Yes, bullet holes appear like magic! ... So, if you clean out Interius, the labs, and then slip back to before Adam and Eve were created, kill the assasins that will slip in and then leave back to your base, things will be as they were. ...

Following are instructions to build and install the programs in this distribution. Make sure that you have all necessary tools for building executables. ... The automatic build process expects a configuration file called Config.local . ... The configuration file specifies the directory in which to install the binaries, as well as control over the generation of debugging code and reference clock support. ... Cleans out object files, programs and temporary files. make distclean . ...

... As I mentioned at the recent Groningen international SKA meeting, there is a need for a large-area multi-beaming demonstrator for at least two reasons. ... The LOFAR instrument, to operate in the frequency range 10-250 MHz, will contribute vital information to the design and operation of a new class of multi-beaming telescope. ... The different operating frequency range also means that LOFAR cannot illustrate the scientific potential of area re-use (multi-beaming) in the cm-wave band. ...

The following papers summarize the characterization and technical performance of IBIS : . ... Characterization of Fabry-Perot interferometers and multi-etalon transmission profiles. ... Righini, A., Cavallini, F., Reardon, K. P., 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 515 , A85, . ... The filter wheel is located between the two interferometers. ... The interferometers can be rapidly tuned, simultaneously, so to allow sequential scanning of the spectral lines of interest (see movie in IBIS Intro ). ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... StelGeometryBuilder Class Reference . ... buildCircle ( StelVertexBuffer < VertexP2 > *vertexBuffer, const float x, const float y, const float radius, const int segments=128) . ... buildCylinder ( StelVertexBuffer < VertexP3T2 > *const vertexBuffer, const float radius, const float height, const int slices, const bool orientInside=false) . ... Build a fisheye-textured sphere. ... Build a flat texture mapped ring with 3D coordinates (for example for planet's rings) More.. ...

... Building Galaxies in the Early Universe . ... Explanation: What was the very early universe like? To help find out, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope between bright nearby objects to create one of the deepest images ever -- the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). ... A recent analysis of the HUDF focused on the smallest, faintest and most compact galaxies imaged. ... Publications with keywords: galaxies - early universe . Publications with words: galaxies - early universe . ...

... HYPERBOLOID is a plasma spectrometer aimed at the investigation of the low energy ions dynamics in the polar ionosphere and magnetosphere on the INTERBALL Auroral Probe . ... The instrument is basically a multi-directional ion mass spectrometer measuring ion distribution functions over an energy range from ~0.1 to 80 eV. ... The ion angular and energy distribution are obtained by means of an electrostatic optics defining 2 planes with several entrance windows. ...