Next: Detection Efficiency Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: CCD Scientific Performance . The X-ray energy required to liberate a charge pair in a semiconductor is approximately an order of magnitude lower than in gas detectors, hence the potential spectroscopic advantage of CCD detectors. ... For a number of years, good scientific CCDs attained noise performance of electrons rms, but this limited the energy resolution for X-ray energies 3keV. ...

... In Table 14.1 we list a provisional summary of our calibration goals for Cycle 7 and Cycle 7-NICMOS. ... The present knowledge of photometric calibration does not yet permit a definitive projection of the ultimate accuracies which may be obtainable with NICMOS. ... Perforce our existing calibration data for Camera 3 have been obtained with it out of focus and therefore the estimates for its in-focus performance remain extrapolations. ... Breathing and dewar motion are approximately equal effects. ...

Electron Bombarded, Back-Illuminated CCD Sensors . ... EBCCD PERFORMANCE: EBS Gain . ... To the first order, the signal gain in the EBCCD is proportional to the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons prior to their impinging on the CCD back surface. ... To obtain EBS gain in the active material, it is necessary for the photoelectron to enter the pixel from the back surface of the CCD -- away from the gate structures that dissipate the electron energy. ... The EBCCD EBS gain was tested using two methods. ...

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T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... The principal objectives for 2004/2005 were to: . ... obtain grants and additional external funding to support new research projects - done; . strengthen the Observatory's research capability in solar system and stellar astrophysics; . ... The key additional task for the year was to widen the Observatory's access to research development funds and to lay a strong foundation for the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise benchmark. ... Objectives for Financial Year 2005/2006 . ...

... As part of our effort to enhance the calibration of STIS (a spectrograph on-board the Hubble Space Telescope), we have developed a model of the readout process for CCD detectors suffering from degraded charge transfer efficiency. ... Nevertheless the empirical corrections for STIS provide an ideal means of testing and calibrating the physical model, as the empirical corrections are essentially a distillation of what is to be learnt from the calibration data with respect to CTI. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

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 radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

Next: Quantum Efficiency Correction (a.k.a. Up: ROSAT HRI Recipes Previous: Appearance of new HRI . The mean pulse height analyzer channel (PHA) of a spectral distribution will vary depending on its location on the detector. Below is a method to compare observed data with that of preflight calibration measurements. ... For temporal gain variations, see The HRI Calbration Report . ... Retrieve the gain maps (mean PHA) from anonymous ftp at SAO. ... But don't forget temporal gain variations!] ...

Next: Initial conditions Up: Old neutron star distribution Previous: Introduction . The problem to be solved is to find stationary space distribution of stars which have had certain initial space and velocity distributions and move in a given potential. ... In principle, the most straightforward way to obtain the solution is to integrate directly the equations of motion for a sufficiently large number of stars with different initial conditions. ... Then space density is given by . ...

... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

Next: A Coronagraphic Search for Up: NICMOS Science Previous: NICMOS Science . ... A search for previously unknown low-mass (giant planet and brown dwarf) companions to stars in the solar neighborhood, and circumstellar dust disks around main sequence stars by direct coronagraphic imaging has been undertaken by the NICMOS Instrument Definition Team (IDT). ... The problem in the target acquisition process resulted in degraded pointing and target centration performance for these observations. ...

Next: Identifications and Efficiency Up: THE DEEP X-RAY RADIO Previous: Source Classification . ... For some sources which did not have NVSS positions before the time of optical observations, arcsecond positions from the Texas survey (Douglas et al. 1996) and NED (typically based on VLA data) were used. ... All X-ray/radio sources without counterparts on the survey plates were imaged at either the KPNO 0.9m or the CTIO 0.9m telescopes. ... Previously Identified Sources . Sample Properties . ...

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... SSAU History . ... Vitaliy Smelov , associate professor of the Department of Engine Manufacturing Technology, Head of the Laboratory of Additive Technologies in SSAU, told the conducted work, the prospects for the innovation use in production as well as the difference between the metal printing and the traditional technology. Additive technologies today are the most dynamically developing sector of innovative production, a kind of indicator of the real industrial development of the government. ...

... First, we computed the mean errors of orbit parameters on the assumption of the linear connection of them with observation errors and then we compared obtained estimates with those resulting from the assumption of the nonlinearity of this connection. Secondly, we correlate orbital parameters and their errors obtained by the method of the least modulus with those obtained by the least-squares method. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS082, 2003 (A4 format) EVALUATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF MERCURY. ... Photometric Analysis of the Lunar Surface Analogue. ... The phase function obtained directly on some segments of the lunar surface: 1- phase function of the Moon, 2 - phase function of Mercury, 3 - phase function of segments, converted to the lunar phase function system (correlation 0.8), 4 - phase function of segments, converted to the Mercurian phase function (correlation 0.9). ...

... It can · · obtain ice sample from 20 cm or deeper surface layer, then melt it and extract biomass from the ice surface water by filtration; Laser TOF MS for the measurements of element composition of the biomass; Gas TOF MS for the detection of: 1) volatile components, generated at the heating of biomass sample (closed window mode); 2) secondary ions , emitted from ice matrix by the influence of energetic magnetosphere ... Spectrum of yeast sample. ... Laser TOF MS 6. ...