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Teaching courses . for student of the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy . ... Geophysics and physics of the planets (Kurt, Panteleev) . ... Close Binary Stars . ... Solar Physics . ... This is introductory course for students of the third year of education which are familiar with elementary astronomy and general physics. ... The one-year course includes theory of radiation transfer, theory of internal stellar structure with account of binary systems with compact comapnions. ...

Hallerstrasse 6 · CH-3012 Bern · Switzerland ISSI Call for Proposals 2015 for Johannes Geiss Fellowship The International Space Science Institute is an Institute of Advanced Studies located in Switzerland. ... Purpose ISSI has approved the introduction of the Johannes Geiss Fellowships (JGF). ... ISSI has a visitor programme, funds post-doctoral fellows, and encourages the participation of young scientists in the International Teams. ... Financial support requested from ISSI. ...

... java.lang.Object ij.process.ImageProcessor ij.process.FloatProcessor ij.process.FHT . public class FHT . ... Returns the image resulting from the point by point Hartley conjugate multiplication of this image and the specified image. void . ... Returns true of this FHT contains a square image with a width that is a power of two. public void transform () . ... Converts this FHT to a complex Fourier transform and returns it as a two slice stack. public void swapQuadrants ( ImageProcessor ip) . ...

... 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. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

PENTICTON SOLAR RADIO FLUX VALUES (from SGD Explanation of Data Reports) Daily Solar Flux Values - Penticton -- Daily measurements of the integrated emission from the solar disc at 2800MHz (10.7cm wavelength) have been made by the National Research Council of Canada since 1947. ... The data are tabulated in two forms: the "observed flux" (S), and the "adjusted flux" (Sa). ... The "observed flux" values are useful in ionospheric physics and other terrestrial consequences of solar activity. ...

... Shematovich, V.I . ... Shematovich, V. I. ; Bisikalo, D. V.; Marov , M. Ya . ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V., and Gerard J.-C. Superthermal particles in the planetary atmosphere. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V., and Gerard, J.-C. The thermospheric odd nitrogen photochemistry : role of non-thermal N(4S) atoms (abstract) . ... Geophys ., ... Gerard, J.C., Shematovich, V.I., and Bisikalo, D.V. Effect of hot N( 4S) atoms on the NO solar cycle variation in the lower thermosphere (abstract) . ...

... DEPENDENCE OF ORDINARY WAVE ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION ON THE SOUNDING PROBLEM PARAMETERS . ... Transformation of electromagnetic wave into plasma waves plays an important role in different processes taking place in ionospheric plasma. ... According to modern point of view transformation of ordinary wave into plasma waves plays an important role in small-scale random irregularities generation when ionospheric plasma is heated by power radio wave [1,2]. ... Anomalous attenuation. ...

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System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

sw@newmail.ru THE PROBE LAYER METHOD IN THE CALCULATIONS OF CONTRIBUTION AND RESPONSE FUNCTIONS S.G.Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru The method of probe layer for the calculation of response and contribution functions is discussed. ... This allows us to turn from the response functions to the contribution functions calculated with help of the probe layer (CFPL). ... V- VMAX . ... Solar Phys., v.136, p.239-250. ... Solar Phys., v.35, p.11-29. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... A task of selection and preflight training is to form up and to train a crew for a space mission. ... Training in crews on the "Soyuz" transport space vehicle and on the "Earth-Moon-Earth" interplanetary flight program, . ... Basic space training of a lunar crew provides for acquiring a fundamental knowledge on the origin, structure and evolution of the Universe, studying methods and means of space flights performance, use of space for the benefit of mankind. ...

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 . ...

Microsymposium 38, MS082, 2003 (A4 format) EVALUATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF MERCURY. ... Photometric Analysis of the Lunar Surface Analogue. ... The phase function obtained directly on some segments of the lunar surface: 1- phase function of the Moon, 2 - phase function of Mercury, 3 - phase function of segments, converted to the lunar phase function system (correlation 0.8), 4 - phase function of segments, converted to the Mercurian phase function (correlation 0.9). ...

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 ...

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. ...

Next: Correlator Products . Previous: RSOG Post-Observation Products . ... Merged Correlator Input Log . Calibration and Flag files . SRT Amplitude Calibration Data . ... Phase Calibration (PCal) Data . ... DPC to Correlators . What: The RSOG produces the `merged' correlator input log file based on the Data Processing Logs supplied by the GTSs and on Executed Sequence of Events supplied by GOCG to produce a single correlator input log for all the GTSs for each observation. ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...