The CHIANTI database consists of 4 primary ASCII files for each ion in the database. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental data and theoretical values of the levels energies. References: %observed energy levels (n=2): Fuhr, J.R., et al., NIST Atomic Spectra Database" ver. ... NIST Physical Reference Data %observed energy levels (12,19,23-26,65-67,69,70,72-74,78-82,84,85): Fuhr, J.R., et al., ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... FIELD | ... static int . ... Field Detail static final int AREA . ... Constant Field Values . static final int MEAN . ... static final int STD_DEV . ... static final int MODE . ... static final int MIN_MAX . ... static final int CENTROID . ... static final int CENTER_OF_MASS . ... static final int PERIMETER . ... static final int LIMIT . ... static final int RECT . ... static final int LABELS . ... static final int ELLIPSE . ... static final int INVERT_Y . ... static final int CIRCULARITY . ...

The UV spectral lines formed at transition region temperatures in the solar atmosphere, shows a prevailing redshifted emission. Using the Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation spectrometer flown on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft, we measure the amount of line shift as a function of the temperature for several spectral lines formed in the range between 10^{4} and 10^{6} K. We analyze spectrograms relative to the quiet Sun and to the active region NOAA 7946. ...

... The Irkutsk IS radar has the opportinuty to measure several ionospheric plasma parameters such as electron density N e , electron and ion temperatures T e , T i , and drift plasma velocity along the sounding direction. ... To the 1999-2001 data we have added the E-layer ionosphere model to electron concentration profile, which has been constructed by integral concentration from the ionosphere beginning from 160 km obtained from experiment. ... Capabilities and samples | ...

TEST RESULTS WITH 2KX2K MCT ARRAYS Finger, G, Dorn, R.J., Mehrgan, H., Meyer, M., Moorwood A.F.M. and Stegmeier, J. European Southern Observatory Abstract: The performance of both an LPE 2Kx2K engineering grade and a science grade array have been evaluated. Both arrays have a cut-off wavelength of c=2.6 µm. At an operating temperature of 60 K, the dark current of the science grade array is 0.004 e/s. The peak quantum efficiency of the science grade array is 84.4%. ...

ALCPG July 2003 CCD Radiation Damage Studies J. Brau, O. Igonkina , N. Sinev, C. Potter (University of Oregon) July 13, 2003 Outline: · Introduction · Repeating 1999 year study · Irradiation of CCD with electrons · Measurement of CTI and trap/pixel distribution · Conclusions · Plans O. Igonkina for U.Oregon CCD Radiation Damage Studies 1 ALCPG July 2003 CCD ... O. Igonkina for U.Oregon CCD Radiation Damage Studies 15 ...

... Measurements of fluctuations of the streamwise and vertical components of wind velocity were performed by two-component sonic anemometer of continuous radiation with capacitor microphones. Measurements of temperature fluctuations were performed with the aid of resistance thermometer. ... Average wind velocity at the 5 meters height was about 5 m/s. With the aid of multichannel registrator the simultaneous recordings of pulsations of temperature and velocity components were made. ...

The First Explorer . ... Explorer I carried instruments to measure temperatures, micrometeorite impacts, and an experiment designed by James A. Van Allen to measure the density of electrons and ions in space. The measurements made by Van Allen's experiment led to an unexpected and startling discovery -- an earth-encircling belt of high energy and ions trapped in the magnetosphere now known as the Van Allen Radiation Belt . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... The fitting package in STSDAS (Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System) relies on two basic techniques (one linear and one non-linear) for fitting functions to data. ... Results show that both methods may generate biased coefficients (at the ~few percent level), and over or under-estimate error bars (at the ~10 percent level), in particular from low signal-to-noise data. ... Function coefficient errors are computed directly from the covariance matrix. ... Abscissa is signal-to-noise. ...

ON THE IMPACT OF THE GALACTIC ABERRATION ON VLBI-DERIVED PRECESSION MODEL Z.M. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory Pulkovskoe Ch. ... Corrections to adopted precession rate are usually computed from the linear trends in long-term time series of celestial pole offset (CPO), which are the differences between the measured and the theoretical coordinates of the celestial pole. ... CONCLUSIONS We have estimated the impact of GA on parameters of precession-nutation model derived from VLBI observations. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

... Results of measurement of Jovian flux, enumerated on a standard distance 4.04 бе, are displayed on figure 1a. The attempt is made to divide a response of a magnetosphere of the falling comets into two parts: immediate responce during impacts and more delaed one. On figure 1b the relation of the measured flows to a relative phase is showed and the data from July 17 till July 23 are excluded. ... A shaped line - prospective sinusoidal relation of a flow to a phase. c) Flux depending on date. ...

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... New technique measures mass of exoplanets . ... Now, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new technique for determining the mass of exoplanets using only their transmission spectra dips in light as a planet passes in front of its star. ... To determine the mass of an exoplanet using transmission spectroscopy, de Wit relied on the effect that a planet s mass has on its atmosphere, as transmission spectra give information on a planet s atmospheric properties. ...

Solar Phys (2012) 276:97­112 DOI 10.1007/s11207-011-9883-6 Investigation of Hot X-Ray Points ( HXPs ) Using Spectroheliograph Mg XII Experiment Data from CORONAS-F/SPIRIT A. Reva · S. Shestov · S. Bogachev · S. Kuzin Received: 10 May 2011 / Accepted: 18 October 2011 / Published online: 24 November 2011 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract Observations in the Mg XII 8.42 е line onboard the CORONAS-F satellite have revealed compact high ... Figure 7 Intensity variation of HXPs. ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Thomson's multiple window method of spectral estimationthomson provides a very good estimate of the power spectrum by measuring the energy contained within a collection of rectangular shaped frequency intervals. ... Often, much of the fine structure of a spectral estimate is due to noise. It should be stressed that while other methods of spectral estimation (such as the Welchoppenheim method) exist, the Thomson method is particularly noteworthy for its precisely defined rectangular frequency bins. ...