... Accurate positions of 404 compact radio sources used as calibrators by the VLA are presented. In addition, the structure and polarization of each source at both 4885 and 1465 MHz are given. ... Amplitude calibration was based on 3C286, whose fluxes at 4885 and 1465 MHz were assumed to be 7.41 and 14.41 Jy, respectively, in accord with the scale of Baars et al. (1977). short description of columns, as taken from the publication: . 1 source name . ... 8 Polarized flux at 4885 MHz (mJy) . ...

... Lemmon SkyCenter , University of Arizona Explanation: The cosmic brush of star formation composed this alluring mix of dust and dark nebulae. Cataloged as Sh2-239 and LDN 1551, the region lies near the southern end of the Taurus molecular cloud complex some 450 light-years distant. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: star formation - dust . Publications with words: star formation - dust . ... NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy . ...

The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... These belong to 91 new sources for which no optical or infrared counterparts have previously been cataloged, an additional 51 galaxies for which no redshifts were previously known, and 16 galaxies for which the cataloged optical velocities disagree. ... J0001-15, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0035-25, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0105-06, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0221-20, ( ps eps , jpg ) . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ...

The CHIANTI database consists of 4 primary ASCII files for each ion in the database. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental data and theoretical values of the levels energies. References: %observed energy levels: Fuhr, J.R., et al., 1999, "NIST Atomic Spectra Database" ver. ... contains the spline fits to the electron collision strengths scaled according to Burgess and Tully (1992). ... contains the spline fits to the scaled proton collision strengths. ...

... 2011 December 8 . Sh2-239: Celestial Impasto . ... Explanation: The cosmic brush of star formation composed this alluring mix of dust and dark nebulae. Cataloged as Sh2-239 and LDN 1551, the region lies near the southern end of the Taurus molecular cloud complex some 450 light-years distant. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... If I need to observe a field containing bright stars, do I risk damage to the NICMOS detector by saturating it? ... NICMOS . ... Detectors . ... Observing Strategies . ... A.: The NICMOS Instrument Science Reports Number 24 and Number 23 present results of the analysis of persistence from On-Orbit data and Thermal Vacuum data. ...

... The ROSAT Bright Survey: II. Catalogue of all high-galactic latitude RASS sources with PSPC countrate CR > 0.2 s -1 . ... 1S We present a summary of an identification program of the more than 2000 X-ray sources detected during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (Voges et al. 1999) at high galactic latitude, |b| > 30degr , with countrate above 0.2 s -1 . This program, termed the ROSAT Bright Survey RBS, is to more than 99.5% complete. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 160 . ... Radio: Limb-brightened to NE, with faint extension to the E. Optical: Brightest to the NE, with faint filaments outside the NE boundary. ... Fesen 1984, ApJ, 281, 658. ... ADS . ... 151 MHz observations (1'.2?3'.1) and Half-Mile Telescope at 1.4 GHz (2'.1?5'.4). ... Radio, IR, optical, UV and X-ray comparison, including VLA at 1.6 GHz (3".8?3".3 and 40''). ... 1988, ApJ, 335, 215. ... IR observations of shocked O 2 . ... Observations of shocked molecular...

NAME ABbuilder - DFO data organization tool SYNOPSIS ABbuilder <options> where <options> are: --raw-dir directory containing raw data --cal-dir directory containing calib data --cal-ldir directory containing symbolic links to calib files --cal-list mcalib list --vcal-dir directory containing virtual products --pro-dir where pipeline products are created --ab-dir where association blocks are created --oca-rul file containing OCA rules --instrume instrument --date YYYY-MM-DD --mode { CALIB | ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

A press release on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey was associated with this poster. ... Below are maps of HI emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity ( Figure 1 ) and latitude ( Figure 2 ) axes. ... 2000, A. J. , submitted . ... GIF | ... We are developing automated methods of locating HISA in velocity cubes by removing large-scale emission in space and velocity and flagging small-scale dark residuals. ...

Searching for Ultra Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters What Are Ultra Compact Binaries? ... An ultra compact binary is a binary that consists two white dwarf To source the FITS files that contained the UV images, the sky coordinates stars and has an orbital period shorter than ~70min (A binary and the details on brightness for each star in each globular cluster we were consists of two stars orbiting around their centre of mass, it enables investigating, we used the XMM online archive. ...

Next: QPOE Files Up: IRAF/PROS Files Previous: IRAF/PROS Files . Image arrays ( e.g. dev$pix ) are the standard IRAF data files. ... imh file, stored in the current directory, contains only the header and a pointer to the associated .pix file. *.pix file, always stored in the image directory imdir (which the user specifies in the login.cl file), contains the data. ... A link used by IRAF to protect the first two files. ... IRAF can only access a *.pix file via the *.imh file which points to it. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

. This image from the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array maps the projected density of molecular gas in the central 30 light-years of W49A. Brighter colors mark denser regions. The brightest region at the image center is less than three light-years across, yet it contains about 50,000 Suns' worth of molecular gas. Roberto GalvУЕn-Madrid (ESO)/Hauyu Baobab Liu (ASIAA, Taiwan)/Tzu-Cheng Peng (ESO)

... 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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... They will undergo acceptance tests. ... Appendix (The list of used acronyms) ASC Cold Plate DC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute cooled LNAs and antenna feed hermetic device container (part of payload); it contains Formatter ... synthesizer, control unit and is placed under dish DM Device Module = DC + H-maser EGSE Electronic Ground Support Equipment Electronic Complex ­ all SRT electronics EM Engineering Model FC Focal Container ­ hermetic package with the ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...