High Precision Timing of 20 Millisecond Pulsars Supervised by Dr Aidan W. Hotan Presented by Kranav Sharma M.Sc. (2nd year) Physics Curtin University of Technology Contents · Introduction · Component Masses and Orbital Inclinations · Dispersion Measure Variations and Free Electron Densities · Proper Motion and Velocities · The Four Different Ages of MSPs Introduction · The pipeline processed seven years (2003 ­ 2010.5) observational data was acquired from the ATNF pulsar timing array database. ...

SET OF MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELD DETECTORS EXO-EM . ... 3 components measurements of both magnetic and electric fields; . ... wide frequency range (0 - 10000) Hz; . ... ECHO-EM is intended for measurement of a complete vector and three components of both electric and magnetic fields, and transfers the received data to the block of the processing of the information and also in telemetry. ... digital 0.1-20 Hz; . ... frequency band (0.01- 10000) Hz; . ... digital (500 - 1000) Hz; . ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...

... run the correlator with 25 Mhz bandwidth, at 3200,3400,3600, and 3800 Mhz, sampling at 1 second intervals. drive the telescope in az at .2 deg/sec (half slew) from az 270 to 630. ... For each az swing compute TsysPola- TsysPolB. For each az swing fit yfit(az)=c0 +c1*az + c2*cos(az)+c3*sin(az) + c4*cos(2az)+c5*sin(2az). ... The four boxes correspond to the frequencies 3200,3400,3600, and 3800 Mhz. ... Fig 2-5 show the 2az fit to the data for frequencies 3200,3400,3600, and 3800 Mhz. ...

The ULF instrument for measuring electric and magnetic fields in the ULF frequency range is designed for collecting and processing information on 3 components of magnetic field and one component of electric field. ... Three-component magnetic sensor is a component of the instrument KEM (Czech Republic). Main characteristics of the instrument: . ... number of analyzed components: 4. ... Transmission of all 4 components with the rate of 20 kbits/s or 40 kbit/s with the digitizer frequency of 280 Hz. ...

Direct Electron Imaging Using Back Thinned CCD's . ... where, Vim is the maximum radial emission energy of photoelectrons from the cathode (eV), Vs is the cathode to anode voltage (V), k is the spatial frequency (2 p lp/mm), L is the cathode to anode spacing of the proximity focused diode (mm), d is the field-free region thickness(mm), h is the backscattering coefficient, (G/G 0 .) is the ratio of the average EBS gain of the secondary electrons to the primary gain, and W is the CCD pixel pitch (mm). ...

... For every level we have plotted the dependence between width and Lande factor and obtained the linear regression parameters: the inclination, the zero Lande factor line width and the correlation. ... Fig. 1. presents a model components, the intensity of which decreases (b) line with 10 and increases (c) to the center of spectral line (the field is 12 k6s). ... Our results show strong dependencies of line width on the level of width measurements. ...

Next: When the Observer isn't there: The OMP Feedback System . Up: Control System . ... The EMS implements algorithms as signal flow graphs, uses Matlab for standard algorithms and visualization, and uses ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and databases for organizing pertinent data. ... Matlab can also interface with the GBT Monitor and Control system using a SOAP java client and XML parser, allowing Matlab to interact directly with the GBT, and pipe data back up into WiT. ...

... 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 . ...

... The chemically peculiar star HD965 belongs to a rare type of very slow rotators. As far back as in the 90s, G.Mathys (ESO, Chile) supposed its extremely slow rotation as observing split Zeeman components in the spectrum, from which he measured the magnetic field on its surface. Field variation proved to be very slow, and G.Mathys determined that the variability period should be longer than two years. ... Up to now, only two stars with periods longer than 20 years are known. ...

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. ...

Laboratory work N7 Low-pass filtering. 1) Generate the signal with two periodic components and high-frequency noise. ... 2) Perform it's filtering with Panteleev filter 0 - h(t) = e 22 0 |t| 2 0 t 0 |t| cos + sin 2 2 , where 0 is a parameter. The frequency response of the Panteleev filter is ^ h( ) = 4 0 . 4 0 + 4 Select the cut-off frequency (by varying 0 ) for filtering out high-frequency periodic component and noise. 3) Plot the initial and filtered signal. ...

... The fitting procedure will only converge to a unique solution if the components are linearly independent. ... The task calculates for each pair of component images and fails with an error if any is greater than 0.99. ... Hence components may be linearly independent in masked pixels yet still fail the test within the task. ... Finally, since the Poisson image values are necessarily all , negative values are not allowed in the model components. ...

... Zeeman effect in spectral lines can alter stellar lines even if the stellar lines are not split-- For greatest detection sensitivity we need to obtain polarised spectra Need a combination of polarisation analyser (polarimeter) with spectrograph = spectropolarimeter Leverhulme Lectures on Stellar Magnetism 23/02/09 Polarimeters Simplest polarimeter is a device that rejects one sense of polarisation ( ... Measure the intensity of the beam thorough two perfect circular polarisers. ...

Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...

The Laboratory of Electronic Kinetics ( LEK ) has powerful radio-frequency, microwave , cryogenic and high- magnetic - field sets of equipment , allowing to carry out precision phase-sensitive measurements of current and voltage in a frequency range 0-10 MHz and the microwave response of crystalline materials in cm-and mm- wavelength range in the temperature interval (0.1-300) K and in magnetic fields up to 18 T. Methodical principle of ... Magnetic field up to 18 T . ... Equipment . ...

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. ...

... Magnetic field experiment on Vega - 1 and 2 spacecraft. ... Two spacecrafts, Vega-1 and Vega-2 have been launched aboard Proton rockets from Baykonour on 15 and 21 December 1984, respectively. ... For magnetic field measurement two-sensor fluxgate system was used. ... During the cruise phase from Earth to Venus both Vega-1 and Vega-2 spacecrafts had one-axis orientation i.e. Bx of magnetometer was directed to the Sun, By and Bz axes were rotated around Bx-axis. ... Vega-1 magnetic data for 1984 . ...

We present results of new Monte Carlo calculations made with the DIRTY code of radiative transfer of stellar and scattered radiation for a dusty giant late-type galaxy like the Milky Way, which illustrate the effect of the attenuation of stellar light by internal dust on the integrated photometry of the individual bulge and disk components. ... In addition, we find that the structure of the dusty ISM affects more sensitively the observed magnitudes than the observed colors of both bulge and disk. ...

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. ...