TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

C#> gaussn.dc2 C CFunction: GAUSSN C CPurpose: GAUSSN computes the value of an N-component Gaussian C CFiles: gaussn.dc2,gaussn.shl C CAuthor: Peter Roelfsema C CCategory: UTILITY C CCall: C C GX=GAUSSN(X,PAR,NPAR) C C Input parameters: C X -R -running coordinate. C PAR -R -array defined as follows: PAR(0:NPAR*3) that C contains the parameters for the Gaussian in the following C order: C C PAR(0) -zerolevel C PAR(1) -PAR(3) -int, pos. of peak, fwhm cmp. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Farm Terminology . ... A wiki farm is nothing more than multiple wikis that share the same installation of the PmWiki software. ... All of the wikis in a farm are more or less the same, except the "home wiki" is a wiki that is located in the same directory as the PmWiki software. ... Home wiki . A wiki in a farm that's located in the same directory as the PmWiki software and therefore shares the farm's cookbook/ and pub/ directories. ... Use PmWiki directory instead. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

. Next: CALgetEncircledEnergy Up: CALgetPSFmap Previous: Output Contents . For the SciSim CCF, one of the following CCF components shall be used depending on the selected telescope. XRT1_XPSF_????_SCISIM.CCF XRT2_XPSF_????_SCISIM.CCF XRT3_XPSF_????_SCISIM.CCF For the XMM CCF, one of the following CCF components shall be used depending on the selected telescope. XRT1_XPSF_????_SCISIM.CCF XRT2_XPSF_????_SCISIM.CCF XRT3_XPSF_????_SCISIM.CCF . Michael Smith 2011-09-20

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

Contents] [Prev page] [Next page] [Index] . Navigator 4 from Netscape, which is part of the Communicator product suite, includes three new areas of functionality that taken together give you Dynamic HTML. The three components of Dynamic HTML are style sheets, content positioning, and downloadable fonts. Used together, these three components give you greater control over the appearance, layout, and behavior of your web pages. ... Introducing Downloadable Fonts . ...

... The variability of the spectrum of the optical component of the IR-source IRAS01005+7910 was discovered for the first time in the BTA spectra [1]. ... The spectral features include absorptions that form in near-photospheric layers, narrow envelope emissions, and emission-absorption profiles that form in photosphere-to-envelope transition layers (the wind). ... Discovery of spectral variation in the optical counterpart of IRAS01005+7910. ... Dashed line - envelope curve of all the SiII 5979 profiles ...

Pipeline Code Internal Organization ######################################## Major software components and object classes ================================================ The GPI data pipeline is implemented in object-oriented fashion using IDL classes. ... Loops forever waiting for recipe files and processes them one at a time when they arrive. drf High level wrapper class for recipe files (aka DRFs). ... This class can be both an internal and a GUI, depending on how it's invoked.* ...

The following files list line and continuum emissivities from the Arcetri Spectral Code. ... Ne = 10^8 g-zipped file (phot cm^3 s^-1); Ne = 10^8 g-zipped file (erg cm^3 s-1) . ... File format (html): File format for the continuum files . ... File format (html): File format for binned line emission files The following files list transitions whose emissivities have values greater than a fixed amount (10^-19 phot s^-1 cm^+3 and 10^-30 erg s^-1 cm^+3 respectively): . ...

Geomagnetic disturbances can be monitored by ground-based magnetic observatories recording the three magnetic field components. The global Kp index is obtained as the mean value of the disturbance levels in the two horizontal field components, observed at 13 selected, subauroral stations . ... Geomagnetic activity is the occurrence of K variations. ... But K still remains a local index, describing disturbances in the vicinity of each observatory. ...

... Moscow, Russia E-mail: krivosheev@iki.rssi.ru Notes: · · The Monte Carlo method (s) is also called the statistical test method An innumerable number of processes can be listed the outcome of which is not determined and has probabilistic nature, but these processes obey statistical laws, so to obtain the result we have to make multiple similar tests, i.e. to use the MC method Because probabilistic processes are widely spread in nature, the MC ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Team . ... All the results we present were obtained with the SCORPIO instrument mounted at the 6-m telescope of SAO RAS. TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1090 SUBJECT: GRB001109, Host Galaxy Spectroscopic Observations DATE: 01/09/08 07:28:47 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS <sokolov@sao.ru> . ... TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1092 SUBJECT: GRB001109, Host Galaxy Astrometry DATE: 01/09/11 08:19:24 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS <sokolov@sao.ru> . ...

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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. ...

... Specific Integration Kick-off meetings at DFS component level and SCCB meetings must be organized first to prepare this DFS Integration Kick-Off meeting. ... complete list of features / functionalities / performances requirements delivered to SEG . description of all effective testcases to be run by SEG : detailed definition describing what to test and how to test (procedure describing step by step how the test is to be performed, input data, expected results, ...). check that all...

Marc White . ... Research . ... The outflows driven by forming protostars provide important clues to the nature of the star formation process. My research focuses on observations and analysis of the outflows driven by actively-accreting protostars. ... How are the outflows being driven? ... Built by my home institution, The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of The Australian National University, NIFS is a fantastic instrument for doing protostellar outflow work. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...