. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . omsource (omsource-1.15.5) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Imaging Mode Photometry Window . The background subtraction can be done in one of several different ways and these controls allow the user to select whatever method he/she wishes to use. Subsections . Annulus . User regions . Select . User value . interpolate . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09

... The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution. The conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. ... The 26th annual ADASS conference will be held from October 16th to 20th, 2016 at the Stazione Marittima Conference Centre , Trieste, Italy. ...

Next: Recording Systems Control Up: Recording Systems. ... SCHED was originally written in about 1979 as the scheduling program for global VLBI observations using the Mark II recording system. That was a system capable of recording 4 Mbps on video tape recorders. ... The wide band recording system in use for VLBI for many years was the Mark III system. ... However, SCHED was capable of scheduling Mark III observations on systems that used the VLBA control files (VLBA, VLA, and Green Bank). ...

Some recent results ( see ) attracted the attentions of astronomers working on field which could benefits from photon counting techniques with high speed and spatial resolutions as adaptive optics. ... Fasti has been designed to be fast and largerly configurable. ... The data rate attined in the best case (30 Mhz), give no impossible load to the digital acquisition in the photon counting mode, since data are 1 bit only, they can be parallelized, giving a maximum speed of about 940.000 32 bit word/sec. ...

Instrument Science Report NICMOS-98-010 NICMOS Parallel Thermal Background: Results from SMOV and Cycle 7. ... Parallel observations in NICMOS Camera 2 and Camera 3 are taken at different pointings and analysis of the data shows the HST thermal emission to be fairly stable, with an orbital variation of ~5% and a secular variation of ~8%. ... In this study, the thermal background measurements are presented as the average count-rate calculated over the entire chip. ...

Each file type known to SAOtng can have user-defined analysis commands associated with it. ... A help line describing the file types . ... For example, the default analysis file currently contains the following: # # Analysis command descriptions: # help # file templates # file types # analysis command line counts -- number of events in region (no background) *.qp *.imh QPOE IMH uiraf '${xraybin}'/x_xspatial.e imcnts source='${filename}' region=$sregion bkgd=0 table=NONE | ...

EMERY E. SMITH, JR. ... Engineering, Christian Brothers College, Memphis, Tennessee (1964) Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Houston , Houston , Texas (1968) PRE-NASA EXPERIENCE: · U.S. Corps of Engineers NASA EXPERIENCE: NASA Manned Spacecraft Center /Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center , Houston , TX (19641996) · Aerospace Engineer , Support Planning Section, Flight Control Operations Branch , Flight Control Division (1964) · ... ECT E. E. Smith, Jr., ...

... In most astronomical observations the image intensity consists of contributions from both object and sky background. Depending on the complexity of the field and the type of object, different methods are used to estimate and subtract the background intensity. ... Non--linear filters are often used to remove stellar images and other sharp features (see Section ) while extended objects are very difficult to eliminate automatically. ...

... 2000 November 9 . The Cosmic X-Ray Background . ... Notably, the faint sources tend to be green and blue, showing x-ray characteristics of huge amounts of material falling into massive black holes in very distant galaxies. ... The XMM-Newton results add to the growing consensus that they do and that, from across the universe , x-rays produced as matter feeds these black holes account for the cosmic x-ray background. ... About APOD | ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

Next: Transform of modulated Up: No Title Previous: Frequency/duration relation. Let us now turn to gradually more complicated signals, for which we soon lose the support of analytical expressions of the transforms. First, examine the sum of 3 cosine waves at different frequencies and phases. The Mexican hat wavelet analysis is carried out as above, yielding the wavelet map (Fig. ... Figure 11: g2 transform of a multiperiodic signal. ... Mon Nov 13 10:51:25 EST 1995 ...

Quality Control and . ... INSTRUMENT QC: . ... VLTI . ... Trending means following the evolution of data and instrument quality with time. The main goals of ESO data quality control (QC) are: . ... More complete and in-depth checks (QC1, trending) are done at ESO headquarters in Garching by the Quality Control Group. The complete trending history of each VLT instrument is also maintained here. Go to the above links for instrument specific information about trending and QC. ...

AO Home AO Astronomy Schedule Receivers CIMA AO IDL . IDL is the recommended data-reduction package for Arecibo spectral-line data. The different back-ends produce different data format. ... Mock spectrometer standard FITS format headers . Mock spectrometer PSRFITS format headers . WAPP CIMAFITS format headers . Interim Correlator IDL headers . ... Search WAPP data . ... How to fix WAPP FITS files taken with doppler tracking in order to read them with standard FITS readers . ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

... 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 . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

The Large Font used in class is necessary so most of the class can see the projected words . The user can control the font size through the options/preferences menu item on netscape. Look for something that says fonts. Change the fonts size to a lower number and you should see a decrease in letter size on your page. However, different printers interpret different font sizes differently so there is not a good one-to-one correspondence with the printed page . ... Go to the File Button . ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...