... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

Institute of Applied Astronomy Russian Academy of Sciences Method of Determining the Orbits of the Small Bodies in the Solar System Based on an Exhaustive Search of Orbital Planes Dmitrii Vavilov, Yurii Medvedev Introduction to the problem: Let we have n 3 positional observations of a body: points in time ( = 1, ) , right ascensions , and declinations . ... Determination of the orbit using the Gauss method of determining orbital elements based on two heliocentric positions and points in time. ...

Next: One example Up: No Title Previous: No Title . Wavelets are versatile tools of harmonic analysis. Because of their many uses, the word `wavelet' comes with different connotations (and different promises) to users in different fields. ... To pursue the analogy, one may wish to select from the data some contact surfaces with specific finish tolerances. the amount of information is then reduced by selection and/or by statistical means. ...

Educational program of the project is intended for training of specialists in different fields of space physics, astronomy and the Earth sciences. ... Special space-physics lab exercises are intended for the students of the senior courses of the Institutions, specialized in the field of space engineering and space physics. Its main task is to teach them some methods of satellites scientific and engineering data processing. ...

ENERGETIC PARTICLE EXPERIMENT DOK-2 . ... Due to much higher energy, angular and time resolution, better separation of electrons and ions it is expected that DOK-2 experiment will allow to re-examine in more details energetic particle population and related processes in magnetosphere regions covered by the spacecraft orbit. ... Thin foil in front of detector absorbes protons with energies E<400 keV so this detector measures electron spectrum in 20 - 420 keV range. ... Energy values, keV . ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

Accretion torques in windaccreting pulsars Nikolay Shakura Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow, Russia K.Postnov (SAI), D. Klochkov, V. Doroshenko, V. Suleimanov (IAAT), L. Hjalmarsdotter (SAI) December 2010 HEA-2010 1 Outline Introduction: disc and quasi-spherical accretion Settling accretion regime Spin-up/spin-down torques Specific pulsars Conclusions December 2010 HEA-2010 2 I. Disc and quasi-spherical accretion December 2010 HEA-2010 3 Disc accretion Shakura N.I. Astron. ... 2010 15 III. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... The program begins with a residential summer institute at the Arecibo Observatory. ... The summer program will introduce the conceptual base (atmosphere science, geology), and provide the hands-on activities with the technology and equipment that will be used to carry out the research projects. At the end of the year, participants will report their findings to colleagues and mentors in a geoscience congress that will be organized at the Arecibo Observatory. ... Arecibo Geoscience Congress . ...

... Product details: . ... 2 Composition/Data on components: . ... Information pertaining to particular dangers for man and environment . ... 4 First aid measures . ... Use fire fighting measures that suit the surrounding fire. ... Measures for environmental protection: . ... This information is furnished without warranty, and any use of the product not in conformance with this Material Safety Data Sheet, or in combination with any other product or process, is the responsibility of the user. ...

Next: Research Environment Up: Astronomy at Armagh Previous: Introduction Contents . ... 1622) ``The Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (Northern Ireland) Order 1995''. The Observatory is managed by a Director who reports to (a) a Management Committee which meets three times per year, and (b) annual meetings of the Board of Governors. ... Senior management responsibility for both the Armagh Observatory and the Armagh Planetarium rests with the Management Committee and Board of Governors. ...

Monte Carlo Methods for Including Calibration Uncertainties in Model Fitting Analyses Jeremy J. Drakea , Peter Ratzlaffa , Vinay Kashyapa , Richard Edgara , Rima Izemb , Diab Jeriusa , Herman ... University, Cambridge, MA 02138 MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139 b c SUMMARY · Instrument response uncertainties almost universally ignored in astrophysical X-ray ... Limiting accuracy of Chandra ACIS reached in spectra with 10 4 counts. ...

. There are several different shells available for Unix; the most popular are described here. You can use any one of these shells if they are available on your system. And you can switch between the different shells once you have found out if they are available. Bourne shell (sh) . C shell (csh) . TC shell (tcsh) . Korn shell (ksh) . Bourne Again SHell (bash) .

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

High-resolution near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modeling of the OH/IR star OH 104.9+2.4 D. Riechers1 , T. Drieb e2 , Y. Y. Balega3 , K.-H. Hofmann2 , A. B. Men'shchikov4 , and G. Weigelt2 1 2 3 4 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn Special Astrophys. ... The reconstructed visibility reveals a spherically symmetric, circumstellar dust shell (CDS) surrounding the central star. ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

Learning Astronomy Through Storytelling . That children at different stages of development will derive different meanings from the same story is obvious but worth mentioning. ... If you teach K-2, the central message of the story that you want students to understand is simply that the Moon's shape, as they see it in the sky, varies. ... Children learn that a story has a plot, a setting, characters, a main problem, a crisis point, and a solution. ...

.

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... V348 Aql, USNO-B1.0 0904-0422027 . ... Meinunger (1966) classified it as an eclipsing binary with a period very close to 1 day, noting however that the period and derived minima times were uncertain due to the low variability amplitude. As of July 2011, the O C gateway (Paschke Brat 2006; Paschke 2009) lists, in addition to Meinunger's photographic data, 2 visual and 3 CCD times of minima from Paschke (1988, 1996, 2006), Stepan (1995), Br t et al. ... Meinunger (1966) . ...