... omdetect uses several validation functions, and the discussion that follows refers to the one that is used the most frequently. The function carries out various checks on the list of pixels assigned to the source, which include the following- . Check the quantities imax-imin, jmax-jmin, where imin, imax, jmin, jmax, are the minimim/maximum values of the source-pixels x/y coordinates, to ensure that the source is not just a single line of pixels in the x/y direction. ...

... I am developing an Informed Prefetching and Caching system as part of the kernel in which it is very important that the memory assigned to hold the data does not get swapped to disk. Without any thought to swapping I used vmalloc() to assign memory to the data structures of the Informed prefetching system. ... I later realized that most probably the pages assigned using vmalloc() were getting swapped to the disk and when I referenced them, they were brought from the disk rather than memory. ...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... ClassX is a project aimed at creating an automated system to classify X-ray sources and is envisaged as a prototype of the Virtual Observatory. ... The most fundamental are: (a) classification methods and algorithms, (b) selection and definition of classes (object types), and (c) identification of source counterparts across multi-wavelength data. ... Using different sets of training parameters (attributes), we get different classifiers for the same list of class names (e.g., Figure 1). ...

Next: A Preliminary Investigation Up: Spatial Corrections of ROSAT Previous: Introduction . ... These tasks bin a time sorted photon event list based on an assigned phase that corresponds to the 402 second period of the wobble. ... The fundamental limitation of this method is how many source counts you have for centroiding each binned image section. ... Once the phase binned qpoes have been shifted in x,y so as to align the source centroid, they are restacked using 'qpappend_ftsi'. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Call for Proposals for Cycle 24 > Chapter 10: Proposal Implementation and Execution > 10.8 Archival Research Support . 10.8 . Archival Research Support . STScI provides limited assistance in the reduction and analysis of archived data. ... Archival Researchers with questions about the analysis and calibration of data should contact the STScI Help Desk (see Section 1.5 ). ...

... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1140 Camera Mount & Enclosure . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... 1200 FLC . ... MRO-PLA-CAM-0000-0106 FTT/NAS & FLC Development Plan . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/DocMan) ...

To read standard input into a shell script use the read command. For example: echo "Please enter your name:" read name echo "Welcome to Edinburgh $name" . This prompts the user for input, assigns this to the variable name and then displays the value of this variable to standard output . ... For example: echo "Please enter your surname\n" echo "followed by your first name: \c" read name1 name2 echo "Welcome to Glasgow $name2 $name1" . ...

... Plotting in MIDAS will create a MIDAS plotfile which contains all essential plot information. By default this plotfile (metafile) љ is always created by the execution of the main plot commands. ... The SHOW/GRAPH command shows the user which is the last created plotfile. ... Names of plotfiles are a composition of the device names that is currently assigned and the MIDAS session number. ... He/she can now send the plot to a hardcopy device using the COPY/GRA command. ... send plotfile to LASER . ...

... BBSYN is used to set the frequency for the BBC or digital filter assigned to each baseband channel (subband channel in EVLA terminology). ... All baseband channels assigned to the same physical BBC should be assigned the same frequency. ... For the VLBA DAR and MkIV systems, the baseband frequency must be set on even 10 kHz frequencies. ... The PFB personality of the RDBE, ( DBE = RDBE_PFB ) has rather rigid baseband frequency options. ... Argument: Up to 16 frequencies in MHz. ...

Arecibo Observatory . ... Accommodation for school participants will be either (a) in a three-person shared room on-site at Arecibo Observatory or (b) in local hotels. The exact number of rooms available in each location is yet to be determined. Unless you specifically request otherwise, all participants will be assigned shared rooms by the organisers, either on-site or in a hotel. ... Home Register Program Travel Form Fee Payment Form Flyer Accommodation NRAO Green Bank Arecibo Observatory . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... A Wavelet Parallel Code for Structure Detection A. Pagliaro Istituto di Astronomia dell'Universit‘a di Catania U. Becciani, V.Antonuccio and M.Gambera Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania Abstract. We describe a parallel code for 3­D structure detection and morphological analysis. The method is based on a multiscale technique, the wavelet transform and on segmentation analysis. ... Segmentation analysis. ...

... ESA picture Leopold EYHARTS . ISS Flight Engineer-2, . ESA Astronaut, France . ... Leopold Eyharts was assigned as backup of Thomas Reiter for ESA’s first long-duration mission to the International Space Station which took place between July 4 and December 22, 2006. ... In 2007 Leopold Eyharts was assigned to a two-month ISS mission to deliver the European Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station (the Atlantis Space Shuttle, the STS-122 flight). ... UNIVERSAL SPACE PLATFORM | ...

Very important in the introduction of a new programming language standard is that old programs (at least those who obey the outgoing standard) can be used once again, with the new standard. When we went from Fortran 66 to Fortran 77 the extended DO -loop was removed (the extended DO -loop means that if you do not change any of the DO -loop parameters you can jump out of the loop and then jump in again (this is somewhat contrary to the concept of structured programming). ... 2, June 1993, page 1. ...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

nearneighbor - A Nearest neighbor gridding algorithm nearneighbor [ xyzfile ( s ) ] -G out _ grdfile -I x _ inc [ m|c ][/ y _ inc [ m|c ]] -N sectors -R west / east / south / north [ r ] -S search _ radius [ m|c|k|K ] [ -E empty ] [ -F ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -L flag ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] nearneighbor reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z[,w]) triples [quadruplets] from standard ... Default is quadrant search, i.e., sectors = 4]. ... H Input file(s) has Header record(s). ...