... By default the task will reduce the effective area produced in the ARF if the source area contains bad pixels/columns or contains area which lies outside the CCD boundaries. ... Although the correction for point sources is quite good the extended source correction assumes a uniform surface brightness of the source. ... There is currently no way of performing an accurate correction for chip gaps and bad pixels within extended source regions within arfgen . ...

... The continuum of the Orion Nebula's template contains the nebular contribution plus a combination of Kurucz model atmospheres to simulate the stellar contribution. The fluxes of the UV, optical and near-IR emission lines from different sources are also incorporated into the template (J.R. Walsh, private comm.) The continuum of the planetary nebula has a nebular component and a hot stellar component simulated by an 80000K black body. ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

... Co-ordinate systems description . Directories structure . The file names' construction . The file set description . ... The orbital information for each month is presented in the separate directory. The INTERBALL orbital data are located on the STDA server, for each month in the separate subdirectory, which name consists from the year (YYYY) and month (MM) numbers. The Parent Directory of the Tail Probe orbital data is http://www.iki.rssi.ru/da/interball/tail/orbit/ . ...

... casa::ComponentType . ... More... static String . ... Convert the Shape enumerator to a string. static ComponentType::Shape . ... Convert the Shape enumerator to a string. static ComponentType::Polarisation casa::ComponentType::polarisation . ... Convert a given String to a Polarisation enumerator. static ComponentType::Shape casa::ComponentType::shape . ... Convert a given String to a Shape enumerator (min match active). static ComponentType::SpectralShape casa::ComponentType::spectralShape . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... 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). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Sample fits to the SB2 observations of HD 22128 (top two frames) and HD 56495 (bottom two frames). Fits (smooth lines) to the observations (points) show the combined synthetic spectra, as well as the two component synthetic spectra. ... HD 22128 and HD 56495 are both double-lined spectroscopic binary systems with short orbital periods, which have been proposed to host magnetic Ap stars. ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... 1) Our CAS system will store the catalogues. ... Each catalogue should contain one or more tables. 2) The names of the catalogues should be unique, as well as the the names of tables of the SAME catalogue. ... 4) All the metadata about the CAS system, its tables, catalogues should reside in separate schema (currently "cas_metadata"). 1) The main system table of CAS is the table "catalog_list". ... short info (column "info") . ... 2) The second system table of CAS is the table "table_list". ...

... 172 ] Briefly, the count rate at the detector from a source at a redshift z is . ... Figure 55 shows the ``Green functions'' for the double compact binary merging rate   evolution assuming no collapse anisotropy. ... Another way that diverse peculiarities in the - distribution induced by the sources evolution could arise is connected with a possible non-monotonic character of the star formation rate in galaxies. ... 22 ] Figure  56 shows two-dimensional cuts through the parameter space. ...

... IPACMAN V2.5 Test Plan (or more) . ... Anyway, results given hereafter are related to one plaform only (the one mentioned on the top). ... specific testcases The following testcases correspond to the minimum set of tests to be run on every new IPACMAN release (alpha, beta, final, .. ... 1/ START IPACMAN . ... Expected result . ... Verify IP: select an IP on disk and run Reports>verify IP . ... IP Diff: select two IPs on disk, and run Reports>IP Diff and check manually the results: verify the . ...

I'm glad you're interested in collaborating on the ConcepTests for Astronomy WWW database project! ... Paul . ... a) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . b) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . c) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, high temperature . d) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity high temperature. ... Back to Paul Green's Peer Instruction page. ... Back to Paul Green's HomePage . ...

... astro-ph . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . ... Quasar Variability in the Framework of Poissonian Models . ... It is shown that in this very general framework the well established anti-correlation between variability amplitude and wavelength can only be understood as an effect of an underlying spectral component which remains stable on long time-scales, and is redder than the variable component. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... 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. ...

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... 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. ...

... Status of the numerical solutions and validation 2. ... Coupling of "solid" Earth components, e.g. core ­ mantle (Dehant et al.) ... Consistent relativistic formulation of Earth rotation (Gerlach, Klioner, Soffel) Status of the numerical solutions - 2 · The results from numerical solutions suffer from ­ Simplified solid Earth models ­ Incomplete Earth system models or neglecting of certain parts or neglecting of certain coupling mechanisms ­ Methodological limitations of computations...

Next: Order Definition Up: Echelle Reduction Method Previous: Retrieving demonstration and . ... That is the mapping between the space wavelength, spectral order and the space sample x , line y in the raw image. ... Sections and describe the solution of this mapping. The second step in the reduction, described in Section , is to estimate the image background. ... In the rest of this Section the algorithms used in each step of the reduction are described. ...