Operating of the superconducting integrated receiver channel of the TELIS atmospheric sounder. ... The noise temperature of the SIR was measured to be as low as 120 K, with an intermediate frequency band of 4 ­ 8 GHz in double sideband operation; the spectral resolution is well below 1 MHz. The SIR was implemented in the three-channel balloon-borne instrument TELIS (TErahertz and submillimeter LImb Sounder) that detects spectral emission lines of stratospheric trace gases (like ClO and BrO). ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

To run a process in the background as a job and carry on working add an (ampersand) at the end of the command line. ... The shell forks a child process to run the command and displays the job number ( [ n ] ) and the PID (Process IDentifier) number. ... If the command is likely to produce error messages you will need to redirect standard error. ... Do not run an interactive command that requires you to type something at the terminal as a background job. ... You will then have to kill its process . ...

Manual of F.A.M.A. (Fast Automatic MOOG Analysis) V 4.0 April 2013 Laura Magrini INAF Osservatorio di Arcetri The idea of this program is to do in an automatic way what usually is done by hand, i.e., running MOOG several times trying to minimize the trends of iron abundances versus EP (thus setting the effective stellar temperature) and EW (deriving the correct microturbolence value), and the difference between FeI and FeII (obtaining the surface gravity). ...

... Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis . Electrode polarization measurements . ... TOF-SIMS analysis . Total conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and ion transference number measurements in controlled atmos . High-temperature dilatometry . Processing of ceramic materials, electrode systems and electrochemical cells . Synthesis of solid oxide materials for high-temperature electrochemical applications . ... Analysis of shrinkage processes . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . IPAC exists to carry out large, data-intensive processing tasks of critical importance to NASA's infrared astronomy program, and to provide scientific expertise on those projects to the astronomical community. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Next: M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Contents . ... Star Deaths . ... In 1999, Simon Jeffery and Hideyuki Saio (Japan) completed a new evolutionary model for the origin of one particular helium star, V652Herculis, which involves two helium white dwarfs in a binary. ... Regina Aznar Cuadrado and Simon Jeffery also made observations of binary subdwarf B stars and extreme helium stars with the Isaac Newton and Jacobus Kapteyn Telescopes in La Palma. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... A definition of cellular automata. Theorem of existence of an invariant measure. ... Algoritmic unsolvability of the problem of ergodicity for cellular automata and some other unsolvable problems. ... Non-Gibbsianness of the invariant measures of some cellular automata. ... Non-symmetric systems with variable length. ... A. Toom, N. Vasilyev, O. Stavskaya, L. Mityushin, G. Kurdyumov and S. Pirogov. {\it Stochastic Cellular Systems : ergodicity, memory, morphogenesis}. ... A. Toom. ...

... ImageJ plugins that process an image may implement this interface. ... ImageJ plugins that process an image should implement this interface. ... This plugin implements ImageJ's Analyze/Measure and Analyze/Set Measurements commands. ... Implements ImageJ's Subtract Background command. ... This plugin implements ImageJ's Fill, Clear, Clear Outside and Draw commands. ... Implements ImageJ's Process/Noise/Salt and Pepper command. ... This plugin-filter implements ImageJ's Unsharp Mask command. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

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. ...

Introduction This catalogue contains mainly the atomic data needed in the astrophysical investigations of low-density plasma. It is a revised and extended version of the "Catalogue of Atomic Data for the Rarefied Astrophysical Plasma" (Golovatyj et al. ... Low-density plasma. ... In the present study we represent only the atomic data for computation of sp ectra of low-density astrophysical plasma (most known kinds of it are gaseous nebulae), their thermal and ionization structure. ...

Inflating the Universe . ... Credit Copyright: WMAP Science Team , NASA Explanation: The Universe is expanding gradually now. But its initial expansion was almost impossibly rapid as it likely grew from quantum scale fluctuations in a trillionth of a second . ... WMAP's instruments detect the cosmic microwave background radiation - the afterglow light from the early Universe. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

... CCD camera system with a two-port controller . ... The CCD controller is designed for control of monolithic CCD arrays, mosaic and IR-detectors and provides: . ... The CCD controller is an intelligent measuring system and when operated in combination with a selected image detector ensures: . ... The DinaSys -built-in simple and powerful language DinaLang makes it possible to create programmes for control of each adjustment parameter of the CCD controller DINACON , to read of data and to reduce...

... Take a particularly simple signal: a cosine wave. ... Now, we are going to stretch and shrink the wavelet along the time axis (we assume the data is in the time domain), and at each time compare the shape of the signal to that of the wavelet. ... Figure 3: The wavelet (dotted line) is translated rela tive to the signal (solid line). ... Figure 4: The dashed line plots the `match' between the wavelets (dotted line) and the signal (solid line) as a function of time. ...