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... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

... The tension in members of the telescope changes as we move the dome, ch, azimuth, and tiedown tensions. The lifetime of a beam is counted in the number of times the change in tension goes through a cycle. ... Examples of telescope motion with corresponding unbalanced moment. ... The number of cycles were computed for : 5000, 10000, 15000, 20000 kipFeet momemnt change. ... The number of cycles on the telescope was computed using the change in the unbalanced moment (at a corner). ... cycles . ...

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... Proposal Table by number . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Phase I . ... Email all Phase 1 proposals to goudfroo and rmiller . ... Phase 2 submission deadline for proposals executing before September and proposals needing special commanding. ... Phase 2 submission deadline for all other proposals, notify goudfroo and rmiller that Phase 2 submitted. ... PhaseI . PhaseII . CCD MONITORS . ... Davies . ... MAMA MONITORS . ... CCD+MAMA . ...

WCSLIB љ 5.15 . ... WCSLIB version numbers . ... In practical terms, this number becomes the major version number of the WCSLIB sharable library, libwcs.so.<major> . ... This becomes the minor version number of the WCSLIB sharable library, libwcs.so.<major>.<minor> . ... The sharable library should be installed as libwcs.so.<major>.<minor>, say libwcs.so.5.4 for concreteness, and a number of symbolic links created as follows: libwcs.so -> libwcs.so.5 libwcs.so.5 -> libwcs.so.5.4 libwcs.so.5.4 . ...

... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . This article serves as a sort of final resting place for various small changes in the kernel programming API which do not fit elsewhere. The kdev_t type has been removed from the kernel; everything which works with device numbers should now use the dev_t type. ... Consider using these while fixing your code; the next time the type of i_rdev changes, you will be happier. ... Driver porting: miscellaneous changes, designated inits . ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). Solution of problems at identification of star field. ... 2) Scale is not correct. ... In this case algorithm of identification will revise all values of scale from twice smaller up to twice greater. ... There should be more than value of the field "Number of stars in frame". ... The star field is considered identified if number of the identified stars more or equally to this value. It is necessary to set value from 4 up to value of field "Number of stars in frame". ...

... The revision numbers of all tables defined by the standard have been set to unity. ... The following material is now available at the webpage http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~jsy1001/exchange/ * Release 5 of the format specification * Release 5 of the example C code (compatible with the latest format specification) * Link to v1.0 of John Monnier's IDL code (compatible with the latest format specification) The only change in this release has been to increment the revision numbers. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center SPACE CENTER ROUNDUP Volume 45 · Number 1 Roundup Astronaut Steve Robinson, STS-114 mission specialist, anchored to a foot restraint on the International Space Station's Canadarm2, participates in the mission's third spacewalk. ... Visit our Web site at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/roundup/online/ For distribution questions or to suggest a story idea, please call 281/244-6397 or send an e-mail to roundup@ems.jsc.nasa.gov. ...

... Could use a more sophisticated method for the contamination searches, perhaps based on source flux ratios and errors . Could have a list of source numbers as input and output a set of region files based on those sources. The output region files could be based on the input root plus the source number. ... This task should be able to produce ellipses and elliptical annulli for the extraction regions. ...

... Organisers: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet) , Xavier Caruso (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet) , Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institute for Information Transmission Problems) , Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, State University Higher School of Economics) . ... Number theory seminar . ... One of the goals of the semester is to convey the essential unity of the subject, especially to young mathematicians who use number theory in their research. ...

Next: Other People's Software . ... Quality system management of computer workstations for astronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost-effective administrative design decisions are made. ... This is all done with essentially one system manager. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

... Three is a magic number. ... You get three as a magic number. ... Give you three. That's a magic number. It takes three legs to make a tri-pod or to make a table stand. ... When it's three you can see it's a magic number. ... Multiply backwards from three times ten.> Three time ten is.. ... Three times nine is.. ... Three times six is 18, three times five is 15 . Three times four is twelve . And three times three is nine and three times two is six. ... Yeah> That's a magic number. ...

XXVIII General Assembly of the IAU, SPS15 Beijing, August 31, 2012 . N.N. Samus, S.V. Antipin "Variable Stars and Data-Intensive Astronomy" . During the 26th IAU General Assembly in Prague, the IAU Division V (Commissions 27 and 42) considered the future of variable-star catalogues. ... To discuss these problems and to look for their solutions, the IAU Commission 27, on behalf of the IAU Division V, created an informal working group, chaired by the GCVS editor, Dr. Nikolai Samus. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Could large numbers of black holes account for much of the "dark matter" estimated to exist in our universe? ... NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) No, because the universe never had the raw material to grow enough black holes to account for current estimates of dark matter. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... sorts the data in field 2 of the file costs by its arithmetic value. -d (Dictionary order) sort only uses numbers, letters and blank spaces when sorting the file. -f (Fold in lower case) sort treats all lower-case letters as if they were upper-case letters. -i (Ignore non-printing characters) sort ignores any characters that do not print. -n (Numeric order) sort recognises the value of numbers and sorts them in terms of their value. -r (Reverse order) sort reverses its default sort order. ...

The Telescope:Pointing Data script takes set of pointing error measurements of pointing reference stars across the sky. ... To retry measuring the star, fix the problem (e.g. by adjusting focus, exposure time or offset) and press Continue . ... For each point in the az/alt grid the script will find and slew to a nearby pointing reference star, measure the star, write the pointing error to a data file whose path is displayed, and correct the pointing error. ...

... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

... The MIDAS release 95NOV is the 10th official release of portable MIDAS. A number of new applications have been added to this version. ... After one year of working with the GNATS problem report database, new PR categories have been created, in particular for GUIs and for each context. ... Documentation for the EMMI calibration is provided with the command INITIALIZE/EMMI. ... For a more complete list of all updates/additions use the MIDAS command HELP [NEWS] after having installed this release. ...