Position Switching Separation Tolerance with Arecibo in L-Band Travis McIntyre The University of New Mexico July 2010 Revised December 2013 Abstract The blocked telescope aperture at Arecibo creates standing waves in the bandpass around 1MHz. ... Test observations with Arecibo in L-Band show that position switching effectively removes standing waves for separations of one half FWHM or less. Standing waves remain for separations of one FWHM, increasing the rms of the baseline by 20%. ...

... The exact directions of the offsets are parallel to the rows and columns of the CCD on which the aperture is specified. ... It is often useful to explicitly specify the desired rotation of the WFPC2 field-of-view on the sky. ... Figure 7.8 shows the CCD orientation and aperture locations relative to the U3 axis. ... Obtain the Position Angle (PA) of the source axis on the sky, measured in the standard way, North through East. ... desired source angle in field-of-view measured CW from +U3 axis) . ...

... We measured these galaxies individually, and they are distinguished in our list by the suffixes a, b, c,... in order of increasing J2000 right ascension. ... The first column contains the UGC catalog number, to which we have added lower-case suffixes a, b, c,\dots in order of increasing J2000 right ascension to distinguish individual galaxies in groups. ... The third column lists the degrees, arcminutes, and arcseconds of J2000 declination plus the rms uncertainty in arcseconds. ...

Program: TRACE Purpose: TRACE plots image values at user given positions as function of distance to a plot centre (in 2-d (sub)sets). Category: ANALYSIS, PLOTTING File: trace.c Author: M.G.R. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set (, subset): Only one subset is allowed. ... XYBOX= Give size of box around one pixel: [3,3] The resulting value at a selected position is an average of the pixels in the defined box around that position. ... POSITION= Give position x, y: Physical values are allowed. ...

... The routine returns the offset (deltaX, deltaY) from the linear grid position for a specified detector location. ... the distortion (deltaX, deltaY) at the detector location (rawX, rawY) is derived from the distortion map stored in the extension FILTER-FilterId (e.g. FILTER-U, FILTER-V, FILTER-GRISM1 etc.) ... interpolate the extracted distortion points (RAWX_OFF ,RAWY_OFF ) and calculate the distortion (deltaX,deltaY) at the requested postion (rawX, rawY) . ... deltaX, deltaY . ...

... R-band images obtained at 0.8 arcsec seeing conditions have allowed us to separate foreground star from point-like extragalactic source and estimate their brightness separately. ... To study the nature and properties of the source, we observed it under high spatial resolution. ... CONCLUSION RTT150 optical observations with sub-arcsecond seeing and low resolution spectra confirm the hypothesis of superposition of a radio source onto a `normal' F/G galactic star proposed by [1]. ...

... After all we cannot send a probe to the star Altair to confirm that it is 17 light years away. ... The "Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni was about ten light years away" Earth goes around the Sun in one year, so in six month it is in the opposite position in its orbit. ... In 1838 Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni had a parallax of 0.314 arcseconds and therefore the star was about ten light years away (today the distance is more precisely measured to be 11.4 light years). ...

... The black line shows the spectrum from the Jungfrau atlas, while the redline shows the average spectral profile measured from a single spectral scan. ... Right: The residual line center positions averaged over all twenty spectral scans, showing the horizontal stripes due to spectral variations in the fringe pattern that are uncorrected due to the lack of flat fielding. ... The line center positions determined for each spectral line also show random fluctuations of approimately the same magnitude. ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... U. Amsterdam Explanation: The GRB distance scale controversy may have just ended with a flash . Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are powerful explosions occurring in seemingly random positions on the sky. ... There they found a faint but variable optical source : a potential counterpart to the gamma-ray burst that was getting brighter. Most importantly, continued scrutiny showed that this optical transient had absorption lines with a redshift of about 0.8 - the distance scale of galaxies and quasars . ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... The system is based on two straight lines ("axes"), perpendicular to each other, each of them marked with the distances from the point where they meet ("origin")--distances to the right of the origin and above it, the origin being taken as positive and on the other sides as negative (see drawing below). ... One system (" polar coordinates ") uses the length r of the line OP from the origin to P (i. e. the distance of P distance to the origin) and the angle that line makes with the x-axis. ...

Physica B 263 -- 264 (1999) 421 -- 423 The vibrational spectrum and giant tunnelling effect of hydrogen dissolved in -Mn A.I. Kolesnikov *, V.E. Antonov , S.M. Bennington , B. Dorner , V.K. Fedotov , G. Grosse , J.C. Li , S.F. Parker ... Grenoble Cedex 9, France Physik-Department E 15, Technische Universitat Munchen, D-85747 Garching, Germany ( ( Abstract Vibrational spectra of - MnH and -MnD were studied by inelastic ... The spectra in Fig. 1a are shifted along the y-axis. ... Fig. ...

Next: *wcscoord* all Up: Celestial Coordinates from Image Previous: *tvlabel, xexamine* . ... Type pixel coords in skypix . xr xspatial xs skypix .oformat = ``hours'' # to reset the default which is ``degrees''. xs skypix input coordinate system ( J2000 ): xdata$rh110267_img # the image file name output coordinate system ( J2000 ): image # to use coord conversion # in image file header or B1950 or J2000 # epoch of output can be specified input file list (STDIN): cr ...

Summary of SPHERE performance at NIH Ralf Siebenmorgen (PS) and Markus Kasper (PM) SPHERE performs in the NIH similar to what was achieved in Grenoble. ... IRDIS The IR and V filters are well mounted and the positioning accuracy is within a 1% pixel tolerance. ... The IRDIS detectors have a read-out noise 9.4 e-, a gain of 2e-/ADU and the dark current is <0.5e-/pixel/s. The instrumental background is still high. ... Centering of the pupil is achieved at an accuracy of 0.1% of the pupil diameter. ...

reconstruction with Fast Simulation M. Iwasaki University of Oregon At the Sitges meting: tt 6jets 4jets analysis · Charged/Neutral cluster separation with Track- cluster matching · Reconstruction performance in Energy flow analysis · B-tag effect After the meeting: · In FastMC, set the cluster position resolution determined by FullMC · Study Cluster width with FullMC · ...

... Slit-plate Deflection . ... One end of the approximately 2m long fiber is inserted into a hole in an aluminum plug-plate, and the other end is fed into and supported by a slit-plate. ... Since the fibers are to be calibrated from a fixed position, it will be necessary to know how much the slit-plate deflects under its own weight due to gravity, as well as how much it deflects under the weight of the fibers and harnesses. The deflection of two plates of thickness 3.175 and 3.607mm was tested. ...

Speckle image reconstruction of Pluto and Charon obtained in visible light at 692 nanometers (red) with the Gemini North 8-meter telescope using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI). ... This is the first speckle reconstructed image for Pluto and Charon from which astronomers obtained not only the separation and position angle for Charon, but also the diameters of the two bodies. North is up, east is to the left, and the image section shown here is 1.39 arcseconds across. ...

... Concerning those theories, Tycho believed that all planets revolved around the Sun, but the Sun circled Earth. ... That was when he published his first two laws of planetary motion: . ... Kepler's 3rd Law . ... Earth . ... Not only were Kepler's laws confirmed and explained by later scientists, but they apply to any orbital system of two bodies--even artificial satellites in orbit around the Earth. ... By Kepler's formula . ... More will be said about Kepler's first two laws in the next two sections...