... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

Next: Particle Background Rejection Up: Detection Efficiency Previous: Front Illumination . ... The method requires that the CCD substrate be etched from the rear towards the depletion layer boundary. The device can be illuminated through this rear surface, which has a much thinner dead layer than the electrode side. ... The corresponding detection efficiency data are presented in Figure 7, and compared with the predicted data for a 20 m thick depletion layer. ...

We describe the data reduction algorithms for the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). These algorithms were based on extensive preflight testing and modeling of the Si:As (24 ЮМm) and Ge:Ga (70 and 160 ЮМm) arrays in MIPS and have been refined based on initial flight data. ... The first part converts the nondestructively read data ramps into slopes while removing artifacts with time constants of the order of the exposure time. ...

SiD Tracking using VXD Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Plan Motivation Track reconstruction algorithm Performance for single tracks Does it have any limits ? With backgrounds To do Motivation Tracking in SiD is a challenge, especially pattern recognition. ... Limitations caused by reconstruction speed consideration In the presence of high number of background hits, number of 3-point combinations used as track seed became enormous if we consider all combinations. ...

... Posts tagged ?coloured background? ... A fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical datasets ? ... ArXiv] A fast Bayesian object detection? ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

The overall efficiency (including atmospheric transmission, reflectivity of the telescope mirrors and overall efficiency of the optics and of the detector) for broad-band imaging should be about 25% in H and K, and about 15% in J. The main noise source for both broad- and narrow-band imaging should be the photon noise associated to the background+source flux. ... Flat fielding (and possibly background subtraction) might increase the noise by a factor 2 ? ...

The technical memorandum: Time and Time Interval Measurement with Application to Computer and Network Performance Evaluation (PostScript) describes a number of techniques for conducting experiments typical of computer network and transmission systems engineering. ... The usual data collected during a performance run of some experiment might include time offsets, time delays, frequency offsets and various error statistics. ...

Next: Wavelength calibration Up: Reduction using Standard Previous: Order Definition: Methods . ... The algorithm accepts frame which can be mildly contaminated by particle hits, bad columns, order gaps due to absorption lines, as found in FLAT or STD . ... the interorder background is roughly constant over the frame. the slope of the orders is in the range ]0., ... For a background estimate without previous order definition, consider the echelle command BACKGROUND/SMOOTH . ... LOAD/TAB order :X :Y . ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... Highlights . ... PPTA timeline . ... Data release 2 discussion . Editing this wiki . ... Detecting and limiting the gravitational-wave background: Yardley et al. (2011) used the PPTA data sets to attempt to detect a gravitational wave background. ... Jenet et al. (2006) provided the first stringent upper bound on the gravitational wave background using the PPTA data sets. ... 2012). ... We have used the PPTA observations to develop the first major pulsar-based timescale (Hobbs et al. ...

Next: Extragalactic Gravitational Wave Background Previous: Transparency of the Stochastic . Let the sky be observed with a detector having a pencil beam diagram across. The number of stars per frequency decade that is swept by the detector is a function of celestial coordinates (say, galactic coordinates l , b ): . ... It is clear from the figure that for an all-sky detector the Galaxy becomes transparent above the frequency  Hz. ...