... We construct a composite quasar spectrum from 149 HST FOS spectra of 80 quasars with mean redshift . ... The continuum longward of 1000? can be modeled as a power law with . ... The break in the power--law index is a feature expected in Comptonized accretion--disk spectra. ... The spectral features in the sub--Ly region of AGN spectra provide critical insights into the physical processes around the central engine, and they become accessible to IUE and HST at intermediate redshift. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Future Projects . ... This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the positions of the past, present and predicted future appearances of the Refsdal supernova behind the galaxy cluster€а MACS J1149+2223 . ...

... Next: FITS Checksum Verification Up: Data Models and Previous: A Proposed Convention . ... The FITSIO Subroutine Library has been available for 3 years, and has matured into a stable, full-featured interface for reading and writing FITS format files. ... The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS files is now three years old and is used by many projects as the standard programming interface for accessing FITS format data files. ...

Fasti is an innovative design for infrared detector control. The present-day commercial electronics for reading bi-dimensional near-infrared array detectors often lack useful feature as quick sub-array fast acquisition, or is based on old components, or cannot cope with newer devices, as the 2048x2048, multi--output Rockwell Hawaii-2. ... Named Fasti , it is meant to be a "light" electronic system, which is modular, flexible, extendible, and avoids obsolescence as much as possible. ...

... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...

... Using the DRAO Synthesis Telescope (Landecker et al. 2000), the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey ( CGPS ; Taylor et al. 2002) has captured a multitude of HISA features, the majority of which are invisible in prior surveys at lower resolution. ... Since the HISA gas temperature must be less than the background brightness temperature, all the H I shown in this poster has T ~ 100 K. Figure 1 provides panoramic views of the cold H I visible as HISA in the CGPS. ... GIFs: HISA + CO | HISA only | ...

... 2001 November 28 . Extra-Solar Planetary Atmosphere Detected . ... Explanation: By directly detecting the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System , humanity has taken another small step toward finding extraterrestrial life . The unexpected detection by David Charbonneau ( Caltech ) and associates came from Hubble Space Telescope observations of Sun -like star HD 209458 . ... About APOD | ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

Semiconductor Home > Products > Mixed Signal and Analog > CCD IMAGERS Family > . TC237, 680- X 500-PIXEL CCD IMAGE SENSOR DATA SHEET . ... The TC237 is a frame-transfer, charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor designed for use in single-chip black and white NTSC TV, computer, and special-purpose applications requiring low cost and small size. ... 680- X 500-PIXEL CCD IMAGE SENSOR DATA SHEET ERRATA FOR SOCS044 (40 KB) . ... TIMING OF TC237 FRAME TRANSFER CCD IMAGE SENSORS (97 KB) (Abstract) . ...

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Next: Coordinate Systems Up: IRAF/PROS Previous: Other Types of Files . A few new features and enhancements to the standard IRAF system have been introduced with the PROS software: . ... Default compound extensions are used by the PROS tasks when no extension is given for the output file name. Most PROS tasks allow the output file name to be defaulted, with the convention that the output file name will be composed of the input `root' name, plus the default extension specific to the task. ...

by I.M. Chertok, V.V. Fomichev, A.A. Gnezdilov, R.V. Gorgutsa, V.V. Grechnev, A.K. Markeev, R.W. Nightingale, and D.E. Sobolev . Fig. 2. Inverted TRACE images at 195 illustrating development of the EUV post-eruption arcade with the well-organized loop, two-ribbon, and spine structures. Note that the exposures have been rescaled to the same peak intensity to show the evolution of the bright elements. The field of view is 220.5 by 182 Mm. Back to paper .

... Investigators suspect the domed feature detailed above is an ice volcano, or cryovolcano, seen in infrared light through the hazy atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan. ... This serene image of boats moored in the harbor of l'нle-Tudy, Bretagne, France was taken on June 1st, about an hour after sunset. ... Galaxies in View . ... A Milky Way Band . ... Most bright stars in our Milky Way Galaxy reside in a disk. ... In 1965, forty years ago on June 3rd, astronaut Edward White made the first U.S. spacewalk...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

Next: Feature enhancement: local Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: filtering . ... As a result, a common magnitude scale (contour lines on the maps above, or color scale on Fig.1) will poorly display the short-duration events in a signal. Normalizing each line of the map (fixed duration) so it has unit variance (in effect dividing the energy map by the mean energy spectrum) at each duration restores more details of small-scale activity (Fig. ...

... Editor's note: This activity is both on the Astrocappella web site and the CD-ROM featured in this article. ... Every student can demonstrate the Doppler effect! ... splash out' ball** . ... Twist the 'splash out' ball open. ... This effect can occur with both sound and light, because both sound and light reveal wave- like behavior. ... The number of waves reaching an observer in one second is called the frequency. ... What has the Doppler shift told astronomers about the expansion of the universe? ...

... Armagh Observatory, 4 June 2015: . A special plaque illustrating a stamp that was part of a special set of astronomical stamps issued in 1990 celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Armagh Observatory was unveiled today on a postbox in Armagh to mark the 50th anniversary of Royal Mail's Special Stamps programme. In 1990, Royal Mail issued a set of four astronomy stamps to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Armagh Observatory and the centenary of the British Astronomical Association. ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...