... If your workstation can run any of the standard data reduction systems, it can run Draco. ... The Draco source files and executable will require about 20Mb of disk space. Draco is written in Common Lisp, specifically Allegro Common Lisp 4.2 beta by Franz, Inc. The distribution includes an executable image, so you don't need a Lisp system at your site. We chose Lisp since it offered a powerful, high-level development environment that is available on many different machines. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... Using the central limit theorem, the total noise can be approximated by a Gaussian or normal distribution which has the frequency function : . ... where is the mean intensity of the source. ... In the statistical analysis of the probability distribution of data several estimators based on moments are used. ... For a normal distribution, these moments are and while for a Poisson distribution are and . Besides these moments other estimators are used to describe a distribution e.g. median and mode . ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution /comment-page-1/#comment-308 Alex Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:08 +0000 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ ... Thanks, Aneta, very useful comment. ...

... Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for active galactic nuclei (AGN) are made publicly available by computing self-consistent 2-phase AGN torus models. ... Dust extends from the dust evaporation radius, typically located between pc/10 Heymann Siebenmorgen (2012). We consider fluffy dust particles ( Kr gel Siebenmorgen , 1994). ... As an example we show below the SEDs of an AGN computed with diffuse ISM dust ( Siebenmorgen et al 2014) and fluffy grains ( Kr gel Siebenmorgen 1994) . ...

... We present a computer program for modelling energy flux distribution and light curves of eclipsing binaries from far ultraviolet to infrared regions. The Roche model is assumed. Proximity effects of components (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... Figure 1: The surface temperature distribution for Algol A-B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation effect. ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The new document explaining how to get and run the code: Using casata (i.e., how to get it without revision control!) ... casata is a thin layer on top of CASA which implements commonly used procedures for analysis of data from aperture array telescopes at radio frequencies. ... One way to think of casata is as a CASA data reduction script but with an attempt at careful software engineering. ... Contributing to casata . ... casata: CASA Tools for Analysis . ...

... spectrum . ... The photons we detect originate in the outermost layers, or atmosphere, of the star. In order to interpret stellar spectra, it is necessary to construct models which accurately represent the structure of a stellar atmosphere and the transfer of radiation from the stellar interior into interstellar space. For the study of helium stars and other stellar remnants, we in Armagh use several computer programs, of which sterne and spectrum are the most important. sterne . ...

The binary distribution kits for livedata and gridzilla should include everything required to run them on compatible Linux, Solaris, and/or Darwin systems. ... VERSION date this release was generated. livedata_root.tar.bz2 (required) contains top-level files. livedata_linux.tar.bz2 contains linux binaries. livedata_linux64.tar.bz2 binaries for 64-bit linux systems. livedata_darwin.tar.bz2 contains Darwin (Mac OS X) Intel binaries. livedata_sun4sol.tar.bz2 contains Sun Solaris binaries. ...

Made using Google Earth images available in January 2008 . Above: The GMRT antennas of the central array as viewed from above. (click on the image for a larger version) . Above: The GMRT antennas of the central array and . the GMRT observatory buildings as viewed from above. (click on the image for a larger version) . ... Above: The GMRT antennas of the outer array from space. The position of antennas are marked by symbols. GMRT images Google Earth old . ...

... In this case the F5-F9 dwarfs turn out to be more metal-rich (by 0.1 in [Fe/H] ) thab G and K dwarfs, and the metallicity of the Hyades cluster turns out to be larger than the solar one [Fe/H] Hyades =+0.1 . ... При этом карлики F5-F9 оказываются богаче металлами, чем более поздние звезды, примерно на 0.1 по [Fe/H] , и металличность звезд Гиад относительно Солнца равна [Fe/H] Hyades =+0.1 . ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... One of the most widely used tools of Fourier analysis is the Parseval theorem. It enables the experimentalist to view how the `energy' in the signal is distributed among frequencies. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms have made power spectra one of the obvious diagnostics tools during data acquisition, and energy maps are a versatile alternative. ... The result is an energy map (Fig. 9), showing the distribution of energy corresponding to the wavelet map (Fig. ...

. For a normalised Gaussian distribution: . Where the standard deviation is . The FWHM of this function (assuming is zero) will be: . Temperature from linewidth:

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... Generalized maximum entropy method and its application to antenna pattern reconstruction. In this paper the Generalized maximum entropy method and its application to the reconstruction of two-dimensional complex functions (namely, far-field antenna pattern distribution) from nonuniformly distributed samples are considered. ... It is shown that the Generalized maximum entropy method is sufficiently stable in the presence of errors. ...