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Next: Reduction procedure Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Strategy . Standard stars can be included in the extinction solution, if one is careful. The problem is that there are usually appreciable ``conformity errors'' due to mismatch between the instrumental and the standard passbands [ 16 ]. ... Thus, it is wrong to assume that the transformation between the instrumental system and the standard system is exact, even if there were no measurement error in either system [ 1 ]. ...

Next: Stellar models Up: Introduction Previous: Photometry Contents . In a hierarchical stellar system, the separation between two neighboring stars is always much smaller than the separation of this pair from the next companion in the system, be it another pair or a single star. ... They are also numerically easier to handle than non-hierarchical systems, since each pair can be described with the standard orbital parameters, and each star with a small number of physical parameters. ... System . ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

Table 4.1: Solar System Standard Targets . Table 4.2: Target Description Keywords . Table 4.3: Positional Parameters for TYPE = COMET . ... Observers for solar system Targets of Opportunity (e.g. a "new" comet or asteroid, a solar-wind disturbance reaching the Jovian magnetosphere, etc.), should complete the Generic Target List ( See 3.12 Generic Targets List [Generic_Targets] ) and the Visit and Exposure Specifications (to the extent possible) in time for the Phase II deadline. ...

The TCC supports the following coordinate systems: . ICRS: the current RA/Dec standard. The default date of observation is J2000. ICRS is FK5 J2000 (for all practical purposes) but has no date of equinox . ... The date specifies both the date of equinox (usually J2000) and the date of observation . ... The date specifies both the date of equinox and date of observation . ... Warning: the following coordinate systems are rarely used (except Mount for parking the telescope). ...

... The regions can be specified via the outunit parameter in either of two projection-plane coordinate systems, namely `detxy' and `xy'. ... The first choice corresponds to columns DETX and DETY of the standard XMM EPIC event list, the second to columns X and Y . ... This information is obtained from keywords in the header of the supplied event list. ... If outunit is given as `detxy' and if the supplied source list is a standard XMM EPIC product then in principle the event list is unnecessary. ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

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 . ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

... a utility program that enables the user to interact with the UNIX operating system. Commands entered by the user are passed by the shell to the operating system which carries them out. ... The user may select which one they wish to use. a character at the start of the command line which indicates that the shell is ready to receive your commands. ... This is assumed to be the keyboard unless input is redirected or piped from a file or another command. the destination for information from a command. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

... When feed is rotated over the tertiary: . ... z is toward the tertiary from the focus position . ... angle : Center of rotation is about the optical axis. range 0 to 360 degrees (minus a few degrees for the limits) . ... CW when sitting on the tertiary looking up at the dipoles. radius : moves in the x,y plane along the direction that the angle currently points . ... Dipole positions : . ... D1 is at the center of the dipole array. processing: x101/projects/byuPhAr/idl/doplotoff.pro . ...

... Scientific data acquisition. Control of scientific instruments. ... The scientific data acquisition systems are designed to ensure the flexible control and optimal operation of various scientific instruments and, on the other hand, to comply with the standard interface of spacecraft service systems. ... Currently IKI develops scientific data acquisition systems for various spacecraft: . ... SSRNI                          CORONAS- Ph oton           2007 . ... onboard time etc. ... data bit rate . ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . ... Keywords: kernel tuning, file handles, Bus error . ... Increasing number of open file handles in kernel. I have successfully increased the number of files on my system (Linux 2.0.30) by editing the following file: . ... I also increased NR_INODE to 5000, and NR_FILE to 4096. I then rebuilt the Kernel (and modules for good measure) and installed the new image. ... Increasing number of open files parameter by Simon Cooper . ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... The total mass of the scientific payload is about 2500 kg, of which the unfolding parabolic 10-m radio astronomy antenna's mass is about 1500 kg, and scientific package holding the receivers, power supply, synthesizers, control units, frequency standards and data transmission radio system - near 900 kg. ... The jet system is a hydrazine thrusters system: it will be used during the creation of the base system of spacecraft orientation, for unloading of the powered gyros, and for orbit corrections. ...

Origin of the Small Solar System Bodies . ... During the last decades of the twentieth century joint efforts of scientist from different countries made it possible to develop a standard scenario of the origin of the Sun, planets and other bodies of the Solar System that satisfied basic observational data accumulated by astrophysics and comparative planetology. Following are brief description of this scenario and the problem of the origin of the small Solar System bodies. ...