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? ...

This page provides explanatory text for the dials shown on the Rice Current Solar Wind Conditions and Current Solar Wind Conditions (Dials Only) webpage. These dials use the last good received set of measurements from the Real Time Solar Wind package on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft. ... Measured) This quantity is the number of solar wind protons per unit volume as measured by the ACE Solar Wind Electron Proton Alpha Monitor (SWEPAM) . ... It is measured by ACE/SWEPAM. ...

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... S65-42662 (1965) -- Chamber B in the Space Environmental Simulation Laboratory in Building 32. Spacesuits provided astronauts with life support, communications, and environmental protection, . ... Qualification tests on spacesuits, conducted in the man-rated Chamber B of the . Space Environment Simulation Laboratory in Building 32, simulated the thermal-vacuum effects of space. Crew safety and the success of the manned space program depended on information that resulted from these tests. ...

... Attitude History Data (AHF) and Raw Attitude Data (RAF) both of which can serve as the primary source of spacecraft attitude data during the ODF processing. ... value of SAS_ATTITUDE . ... AHF . consider AHF data only; raise error condition if missing from ODF . AHF:RAF . ... RAF:AHF . ... RAF . consider RAF data only; raise error condition if missing from ODF If the variable is not set the default behavior is identical to the setting SAS_ATTITUDE = AHF:RAF . ...

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N.A. Eismont . ... In the USSR the first phase of Dutch desease of rocket and space technology (RST) finishes. ... End of World War II and begin of the cold war as the condition and the cause of birth and development of RST in USSR and USA. ... But now with use of Russian rocket engines RD-180. ... As to NK-15 engine, its development took much more time than it was initially planned; the difficulties of this development were one of the failure reason of the Soviet mammed Moon N1-L3 program. ...

The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

. Space vehicle "Magellan". The most detailed snapshots of Venus's surface were made with the help of the american apparatus "Magellan", lanched by the astronauts of a Space membership "Atlantis" in May 1989. The regular radiolocation servey, leading for several years, allowed to get the Venus surface survey with resolution not less than 300 m. Back .

trend1d - Fit a [weighted] [robust] polynomial [or Fourier] model for y = f(x) to xy[w] data. trend1d -F < xymrw > -N [ f ] n _ model [ r ] [ xy [ w ] file ] [ -C condition _# ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -I [ confidence _ level ] ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] trend1d reads x,y [and w] values from the first two [three] columns on standard input [or xy [ w ] file ] and fits a regression model y = f(x) + e by [weighted] least squares. ... E.g., a robust quadratic model is -N 3 r . ...

Automatic Detection of NEOs in CCD Frames . ... CCD frames obtained with modern telescopes with robotic operation allow carrying out standard observation programs for detection of peculiar objects on stellar backgrounds, as is the case of Near Earth Objects (NEOs). ... In this paper, we present original algorithms for automatically detecting dim NEO images in telescope frames, considering both sidereal and differential tracking [2]. ...

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... 1] Alexander A. Logunov, Leonid Slavin, Dmitriy M. Stolyarov, Vasily Vasyunin, Pavel B. Zatitskiy, Weak integral conditions for BMO, to app ear in Pro ceedings of the American Mathematical So ciety, arXiv:1309.6780. ... On ratios of harmonic functions, On a theorem of M. Cartwright arXiv:1402.2888. 3] Alexander Logunov, Eugenia Malinnikova, [4] A. Logunov, E. Malinnikova, P. Mozolyako, in higher dimensions, arXiv:1406.5743. ... I (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2014.09.019 1 ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... 2002, ApJ, 571, 545) , here is a formal expression for the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic, . ... Tags: EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , F-test , likelihood , likelihood ratio test , LRT , Protassov , Rostislav Protassov . ... Likelihood-ratio type tests are actually the basis of many common tests; for example, the one-sided Z test is equivalent to a likelihood ratio test. ...

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... Russia By means of electrochemical deposition from electrolytes, containing salts of Pb and Bi (0.03 mol/l and 0.02 mol/l respectively) thin films of intermetallic Pb7 Bi3 have been fabricated. The superconducting transition temperature of the films was measured to be around 7.8 K. The deposition of the films with thickness of 50­100 nm was performed via passing rectangular current pulses with given amplitude and length. ... The film surface morphology is presented in Figure 2. ...