... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... We present a proposed standard for data dictionaries associated with catalogs being accessed through the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Mosaic Catalog Service. Each catalog made available for searching must have a data dictionary, which consists of a set of specified keywords describing format, content and location of data. ... There are two keywords in the Table Data Dictionary which indicate to the server software that the corresponding column contains special attributes. ...

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... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

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... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Observing Tools and Services > Standard Stars Catalogues . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... Large Programmes . ... ESO/GTC Programmes . Public Surveys Programmes . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Public Surveys Phase 2 . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... Below follows a non-exhaustive list of on-line standard star catalogues. ...

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... Posts tagged ?standard candle? ... In addition to Bayesian methodologies, like this week?s astro-ph, studies on characterizing empirical spatial distributions of voids and galaxies frequently appear, which I believe can be enriched further with the ideas from stochastic geometry and spatial statistics. Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... 1 Comment . ... If you find any problems of viewing the slog, please notify me. ... Entries RSS . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Next: Hierarchical keywords Up: FITS keywords Previous: Standard keywords . Besides the standard FITS keywords defined in the FITS documents, it is possible to use other, non-standard keywords. Such non-standard keywords have no global definition and may be interpreted differently by different FITS readers. ... Due to the freedom to use non-standard keywords it is important to know their excact definitions when transfering data between different systems. ...

... No, you can't. Currently, the EPIC response matrix generation tasks ( arfgen and rmfgen ) assume that the spectra have been generated using standard binnings. as described in the EPIC calibration web pages . ... withspecranges=yes , specchannelmin=0 , specchannelmax=11999 , and spectralbinsize=15 for the MOS (corresponding to a 800 channel rebinned spectrum) . ... Applying the EPIC response matrix generation tasks on spectra extracted with different binnings may produce errors like: . ...

AO Home AO Astronomy Schedule Receivers CIMA AO IDL . IDL is the recommended data-reduction package for Arecibo spectral-line data. The different back-ends produce different data format. ... Mock spectrometer standard FITS format headers . Mock spectrometer PSRFITS format headers . WAPP CIMAFITS format headers . Interim Correlator IDL headers . ... Search WAPP data . ... How to fix WAPP FITS files taken with doppler tracking in order to read them with standard FITS readers . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... The absolute photometry for the three NICMOS cameras is derived by observing two primary absolute standards (G191-B2B and P330E) in all available filters and grisms. ... In the near-infrared a model spectrum of this star normalized to Landolt V magnitude is used for the calibration. ... Details about the model spectrum of G191-B2B and accuracies can be found in Bohlin, Colina & Finley (1995; AJ 110, 1316) and Bohlin (1996; AJ 111, 1743)...

Next: The root filesystem Up: Overview of the Directory Previous: Overview of the Directory . This chapter is loosely based on the Linux filesystem standard, FSSTND, version 1.2 (see the bibliography, [ Qui95 ]), which attempts to set a standard for how the directory tree in a Linux system is organized. ... This chapter does not explain all files in detail. ... The major parts are the root, /usr љ , /var љ , and /home љ filesystems (see figure 2.1 ). ... Figure 2.1: Parts of a Unix directory tree. ...

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On combined processing of different space geodetic observations . ... A software for combined processing of different space geodetic observations is developed along with the work on the co-location of various observational techniques at the observatories of Quasar VLBI network. ... Various aspects of the combined processing of different types of space geodetic observations are also discussed. ... space geodetic observations, combined processing, normal equations, software package, SINEX-format. ...

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... The 1997 conference of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference series was organized by ST-ECF/ESO during 14 to 17 September, 1997. It was the first time this conference was held in Europe. ... Key topics of the conference were Computational Astrophysics, Computational Infrastructure, Future Technologies, Data Analysis Applications, Education and Public Outreach, Data Flow and Scheduling , Archives Information Services, and Astrostatistics/Data Bases. ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...