Next: Future Work Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Modes of Operation . ... However, the first experiments with Co-60 irradiation showed loss of charge transfer performance at doses of 10krads [Lumb and Holland 1988b]. ... These studies showed that the charge transfer degradation was a more severe problem than conventional integrated circuit damage mechanisms. ... Another manifestation of radiation damage is that of dark current spike generation. ...

Startup, Shutdown and Reset . ... Reboot Nimble . ... Sending An ICC Command . ... If you do not plan to use Agile for awhile then power off the camera. ... To disconnect from the camera (e.g. to reset the camera or allow aacq to use it), issue ICC command disconnDev camera . ... If Agile starts writing corrupt images then you must reset the camera (and you may end up having to reboot nimble as well). ... If agile reset without hanging nimble then reconnect the camera by issuing ICC command connDev . ...

... News from the IAU Working Group on Libraries . The IAU WG Libraries will hold a session during the General Assembly XXVIII , to be held August 23 & 24, 2012 in Beijing, China. ... In July 2008, two contributions in the context of the IAU WG Libraries appeared in the IAU Information Bulletin: Terry Mahoney from IAC Tenerife initiated the so-called " Manifesto ", a declaration that reflects concerns regarding the increasing invisibility of research libraries and librarians in the digital era. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

In Memory of Vsevolod Gantmakher . ... Having received his Ph.D. in 1964, V. Gantmakher continued work at the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had been founded a year before. For the next three years, he worked on his D.Sc. thesis at IPP. ... For many years, as an outstanding personality and highest scientific authority, V.Gantmakher made a remarkable contribution to creating a friendly atmosphere and a creative approach to the research work at ISSP. ...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

SPECIALIZED COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF DISCRETE POINT STRUCTURES READOUT PROCESS Aleksandr Reznik, Andrey Torgov, Aleksandr Soloviev Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences The paper describes the specialized software systems that have been used to solve difficult mathematical problems in digital images processing. ... Systems for the first computers based on FORTRAN. ... Systems based on Matlab special environment. ...

Summary of Research Statement Vladimir Podolskii In this pro ject we plan to work in several directions in Computational Complexity theory which are mostly connected through the methods and techniques. ... The main ob jective in this area is to understand the computational power of this model and in particular to prove lower bounds on the complexity parameters of threshold gates and threshold circuits computing explicit functions. ... We plan to continue this work. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Edit Page | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Access Keys . ... Note that this AKey+x access key only works this way on this page, because it is simply a shortcut for accessing the link that exists only on this page. The list of access key assignments in default PmWiki installations generally work throughout a site because links have been created in PmWiki skins and editing screens that incorporate access key parameters using the access key translation phrases. ...

As it was already mentioned, the idea behind File Juggler is rather simple: using CGI scripts as processing tools and WWW browser as user interface, display the structure and content of typical anonymous FTP server in a convenient, easily navigated form. ... My P5-133 spends about 0.025 ms on one file when doing linear search with simple criterion (690 ms for 27,000 files, search for substring among file names/descriptions with 70 hits). ... Let's now look whether we can handle 1,000,000 files. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, V.V.Tsibliev, Head of RGNII of Yu. ... www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss10/res.html , . ...

Celestron Forum Message . Forums: . ... Nexstar11GPS Handcontroller Problem . ... I've got a major issue with my scope. I owne it since 2002 and had inital problems (I had to send the scope back due to a clutch problem). ... It would not get correct GPS data. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

IP Beam Instrumentation Summary ALCPG Linear Collider Workshop January 10th, 2004 SLAC Eric Torrence University of Oregon · Current Status · Technology Issues · Testbeams Eric Torrence 1/12 January 2004 Working Group Challenge Ensure adequate beam instrumentation to meet physics needs of LC Machine Detector Physics Prime topics · Luminosity · Beam Energy · Polarization We try to take a broad view.. ... Assess impact or risk on physics! ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

We call expert systems that implement visualization of decision making procedure with the help of graphical diagrams the visual expert systems. ... Actor Prolog is a powerful instrument of rapid prototyping and programming of visual expert systems, thanks to means of visual programming and graphical user interface development automation based on the SADT diagrams. ... Note that the program has colored the "Prepare berries and fruits" and "Boil berries and fruits with sugar" blocks red. ...

The XXVIII RadioAstron Meeting . ... November 18, Tuesday Meeting in ASC - Joint Working Groups Meetings . ... 9:00 - 13:00 Ballistic and Navigation, Mission Operations, Science Program . ... E.Fomalont, J.Romney (20 min) . Problems in development of technique to schedule science experiments in RadioAstron mission . ... Action items of the RISC meeting #27 and teleconferences . ... General status of the mission . ... Preparation of agenda/topics for the executive (RISC) meeting 20 Nov (30 min) . ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... Copy . ... Set graph type . ... Select the graph to activate and press Accept . ... Select the graph to copy from and the graph to copy to and press Accept . Note: Copying a graph will automatically conceal one of the graphs as they will both have the same viewport settings. ... Select the first graph then the second and press Accept to exchange the contents of the two graphs. ... Select the graph to have the focus, the focus policy, and the toggle for the focus markers and press Accept . ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...