... Variations in water level along coastlines can be used to drive turbines technology is the same as low-head hydro power . ... Intermittent tidal flow is major problem. Tidal facility produces about 1/3 the electrical energy of a hydro facility of the same peak capacity . Two tidal plants in the world: . ... Bottom Line: There aren't many favorable sites in the world for tidal power and the estimated capacity is 50 times smaller than the world's hydroelectric power capacity. ...

... IRAF View . This is the orientation of the image as viewed in an image display via IRAF (e.g. ximtool, saoimage). Note: This is different from the orientation of the image as viewed on a Macintosh, via Remark . ... A +X, +Y instrument offset will move a star in the direction indicated by the arrows. ... Note: The offset direction depends upon which interface the offset command was issued in! ... Note: This is different from the orientation of the image as viewed by IRAF. ...

... To access the measures do the following. ... Each of them can be either a scalar quantity with a scalar or vector for its actual value (see the following example):: from pyrap.quanta import quantity dm.epoch('utc','today') # note that your value will be different {'m0': {'unit': 'd', ' value ': 55147.912709756973}, 'refer': 'UTC', 'type': 'epoch'} dm.direction(' j2000 ','5h20m','-30.2deg') {'m0': {'unit': ' rad ', ' value ': 1.3962634015954634}, 'm1': {'unit': ' ...

... Magnetic fields, subatomic particles, etc., traveling in different directions fill the universe. Do they deflect or otherwise affect one another? If so, isnт??t the information we get from them distorted? ... Neutrino astronomy, which is still in its infancy, is attractive because neutrinos interact so weakly with matter that few of these distorting effects occur. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

During observation the target is placed at the aperture (PC1, WF2, WFALL, etc.) specified on the Phase II proposal. ... The POS TARG special requirement can be used when a position offset is needed. ... The exact directions of the offsets are parallel to the rows and columns of the CCD on which the aperture is specified. ... This is specified in the Phase II proposal using the ORIENT special requirement. ... Figure 7.9 shows the CCD orientation and aperture locations relative to the U3 axis. ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

... 2003 November 19 . Light Can Twist as Well as Spin . ... Recently, however, it has been more broadly realized that photons can also have orbital angular momentum (OAM), an attribute classically analogous to the Earth orbiting the Sun as well as spinning on its axis. Pictured above , the wave-front of a photon with OAM is shown to be twisted, in contrast to the flat plane of zero OAM light. ... APOD Update: APOD mirror now on-line from Poland with archive in Polish. ... Archive | ...

... Computing the pointing error . ... The platform can be rotated by pulling on the tie downs or redistributing weight on the platform. ... The horn rotates through the same angle as the platform. ... The plots show the computed pointing error for different platform rotation angles (.ps) ( .pdf ): . This shows the pointing error in as you tilt the platform. ... B2209+080 has the pointing errors with no tilt. ... The computed pointing error for a platform tilt track the measured errors pretty well. ...

ENERGETIC PARTICLE EXPERIMENT DOK-2 . ... Due to much higher energy, angular and time resolution, better separation of electrons and ions it is expected that DOK-2 experiment will allow to re-examine in more details energetic particle population and related processes in magnetosphere regions covered by the spacecraft orbit. ... Thin foil in front of detector absorbes protons with energies E<400 keV so this detector measures electron spectrum in 20 - 420 keV range. ... Energy values, keV . ...

... The visible power a source emits in all directions is measured in lumens. ... Solid Angle- . ... The solid angle of a light cone is the projected area of the cone divided by the total surface area of the sphere. A solid angle is measured in steradians, where 1 steradian corresponds to the solid angle su btended by a cone of unit slant height and unit projected area. ... Luminous intensity is the flow of luminous energy, or lumens, per steradian. ... This is the rate of flow (lumens) per unit area. ...

. Next: Generation from In-Orbit Data Up: EPN_CTI Previous: Description Contents . Various calibration measurements have been performed at the PANTER test facility (Munich), and the Lure synchrotron at Orsay. Using synchrotron beams, standard x-ray tubes and fluorescence tubes charge transfer efficiency was measured at different energies and the behavior with energy was modeled using the physical parameters of the CCDs. Michael Smith 2011-09-20

M. ( / DIAS, Ireland), A. (ISDC, Switzerland) 1 - Key Question Only 3 binary systems regularly observed in TeV: PSR B1259-63 (young pulsar +Be star, P=3.4 y) LSI +61 303 (comp. source + Be star, P=26.42 d) LS 5039 (comp. source + O star, P=3.9 d) Origin of the high-energy emission? ... 2006; Neronov &Chernyakova 2007 4 3.4 years orbital period. e~0.87 Correlated variability with a sharp rise ( "two bumps structure" ) is seen in radio, X-ray (and TeV?) bands. ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... What is necessary for the CPR search is a distant source of polarized radiation for which the polarization angle at the emission can be safely predicted and then compared with the observed one. ... Table 1: A summary of CPR searches Experiment R R R R C C C C C CPR angle Бstat (Бsyst) Frequency or Distance 3.6 cm ~1300Х ~3000Х ~1300Х 145 GHz 100-150 GHz 100-150 GHz 23-94 GHz 95-150 GHz <z>=0.78 <z>=2.80 z=0.811 <z>=2.80 z~1100 z~1100 z~1100 z~1100 z~1100 Direction Reference esolved RG radio pol. ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

... In the region of the second and third band of optical hydrogen vibrations, they showed a significant directional dependence. ... As one can see from fig. 3a, the main features of the second and third optical band in the 45 -spectra of both the NiH and the PdH sample are described rather well by the calculated MPNS curves. This indicates that the first three bands of optical hydrogen vibrations in NiH and PdH are approximately harmonic in the directions at 45 to the 100 axes. ...

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. ...

... Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space. ... These clouds come in many different varieties: some are the remains of dead stars, while others are areas of vigorous star birth, like this one. In fact, two different types can be seen in this striking new image: emission nebulae and reflection nebulae. ... The bluish patch next to the red emission nebula shows light from recently formed stars being scattered in other words, reflected in many different directions by these tiny particles. ...

The study of energetic particles acceleration and transport within the magnetosphere and on its boundaries is the main goal of DOK-2 experiment on Auroral Probe in a frame of INTERBALL project. ... DOK-2 uses two pairs of energetic particle telescopes . ... This information is available only during the most informative Real Time mode of DOK-2. ... Full 56-57 channel spectra accumulated during time intervals from 10 s to 1464 s depending on a particle intensity. ... For this time interval: . ...

... If the measuring aperture varies, a varying amount of starlight will be excluded. Furthermore, the excluded fraction is wavelength-dependent; so the transformation from instrumental to standard system changes. ... Unfortunately, sometimes it is necessary to combine measurements made with different field stops. Observers should realize that this really means different instruments; the differences are usually several per cent. ... Usually, the actual aperture sizes are only approximately known. ...