Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... Archives . ... Reduced and Processed Data . ... 2 distribution plays an incredibly important role in astronomical data analysis, but it is pretty much a black box to most astronomers. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... I guess in the typical analysis we call chi2 a ?random variable? that follows the chi2 distribution: . ... where D(i) is the observed data, M(i) is the model predicted data and we ?silently? assume that D(i) is normally distributed and each i measurement is independent. ... Chandra Blog . ...

Context. Thermal emission by stochastically heated dust grains (SHGs) plays an important role in the radiative transfer (RT) problem for a dusty medium. ... Aims: We define an appropriate problem for benchmarking dust emissivity calculations in the context of RT simulations, specifically including the emission from SHGs. ... It also includes a series of analytically defined radiation fields to which the dust population is to be exposed and instructions for the desired output. ...

... The test statistic used for detection is a special case of a function of random variables. ... Important examples of the test statistics are signal variances . ... Usually, the test statistics S in TSA measure a ratio of two variances. ... Since models depend on frequency (or time lag l ), so do the variances and and test statistics S . The statistics we recommend for use in the frequency domain are the ones introduced by Scargle and the Analysis of Variance (AOV) statistics. ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response R. D. Saxton 11 November 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE Blocks changed XSCS ag EPN QUANTUMEF 0015.CCF 2000-01-01 FRACTION CHANNEL, FRACTION ENERGY QE TOTAL, EBINS FRACTION NO EPN REDIST 0009.CCF 2000-01-01 NOISE PARAMS, PARTEVENT PARAMS THRESH LOSS NO 2 Changes Recent calibration work has shown that the Epic-pn redistribution function is in practice narrower than that represented in the current matrices. ...

... There are compelling reasons for the pulsar community to utilise a standard data storage format. For example, standardisation of file formats significantly decreases the amount of effort required to integrate new instruments into the analysis chain. ... Accordingly, we have defined PSRFITS as a standard FITS-based format for pulsar data files. ... For example, the first line of Processing History HDU contains information about the data acquisition program and the initial structure of the file. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 28 May 1995, 0800 UT . Advanced plasma theories are extremely important when one tries to explain, for example, the various waves and instabilities found in the p