... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 First results of GPS orbit determination with GRAPE package using a square--root information filter M. O. Keshin Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The zero--differenced carrier phase measurements contain the distance be­ tween the phase centres of receiver and transmitter antennas biased by unknown integer number of cycles (phase ambiguities). ... In the case of GPS the problem of solar radiation pressure modelling is of primary importance. ...

... A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars . ... If Earth received this message from deep space, could we decode it? ... The message was broadcast toward local stars by radio telescope during the summer of 1999. ... The familiar Eagle Nebula glows bright in many colors at once. ... Pillars of dark dust nicely outline some of the denser towers of star formation. ... Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the colorful regon near bright star Antares is a dark cloud dubbed the Dark River, flowing from the picture's left edge...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

... Ham packet radio system including: . ... control computer RSC 2. dedicated software monitoring generation of probing pulses in onboard transceiver in radio beacon mode; . ground receiving network of ham radio packet communication to record probing pulses of onboard radio beacon; . ... Generation of onboard radio beacon probing pulses as time marks to ground receiving network (including ham radio receivers of USW) and transmission of the measurement results throughout Internet network. ...

... Up: Interrupts and Signals Previous: Sending Signals - kill() . int (*signal(int sig, void (*func)()))() - that is to say the function signal() will call the func functions if the process receives a signal sig . ... signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN); . ... Finally lets write a program that communicates between child and parent processes using kill() and signal(). fork() creates the child process from the parent. ... The child picks up these signals with signal() and calls appropriate functions. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... What would a bucketful of our Sun contain? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

This page contains material related to the SETI activities in the USSR and Russia. ... This page is prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. The opening sections of this page contain information about the history of SETI in the USSR and Russia, the list of the main publications, the data about SETI institutions and working groups. ...

... Pre-university education . ... The certificate obtained by the University proves compliance of the nanosatellite SamSat-218 with safety requirements when performing works on preparation, during the launch and flight of the carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a . Samara State Aerospace University received such document for the first time in the history of the University. ... The first students nanosatellite SamSat-218 was made by the students and scientists of Samara State Aerospace University. ...

... Mandatory) a FITS file containing a binary table with a column containing the values to be smoothed. This may optionally contain uncertainties in another column. ... Optional) a FITS file containing a binary table with a column containing the convolver