NAIC Guidelines for ALFA Consortia Proposals (Draft May 7, 2004) R. L. Brown At the May 6, 2004 teleconference of the ALFA System Advisory and Planning (ASAP) committee several issues were identified as being critical to informing the process by which guidelines are developed by NAIC for handling the ALFA consortia proposals. ... Planning for shared-risk precursor observations, a primary purpose of which is to demonstrate the readiness of the survey teams to conduct their planned survey observations. ...

... The Phase 2 Waiver Request procedure is the channel to handle such requests. ... Waiver requests are handled from PROP, enabling easy(er) back-up in case of absence of the support astronomer to whom the run is assigned. ... The following file lists the standard waivers providing guidelines whether the specific waiver request is handled directly by USD support astronomer or it requires input from Paranal: . ... USD support astronomer sends the final decision on the waiver to the user who requested it...

... A module for handling the pass tdrs schedule and ground station files. ... init__ (self, linesumm_path, root_output_path) . ... returns the environment definition variable for this configured file. get_create_time (self) . ... returns the cfm file path. get_lis_path (self) . returns self. new_tdrs_list_path . ... returns self. new_tdrs_file_path . ... set cfm file and read tdrs and time info. set_old_tdrs_file_path (self, path) . ... returns a window object. get_times_from_tdrs (file_path) . ...

... You are here: start €Ё correlator €Ё geo_correlation . ... Data Transfers . ... Field System logs, .skd and .vex files are available from: ftp://ivs.bkg.bund.de/pub/vlbi/ivsdata/aux/ {year}/{expcode} . ... When sufficient data are correlated, run difx2fits and LBA pipeline for clock searching. ... For ease of transfer, copy the .vex and .v2d files to the pipeline output area, and create a corr_notes.txt file (default containing string 'none') to assist with compilation of the correlator report. ...

... News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Chandra . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: XMM-Newton . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Swift . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: RXTE . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Suzaku . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Integral . ...

... The Proposal Handling and Reporting System (PHRS) is a software system aimed at supporting ESO's Observing Programme Committee (OPC) during the entire review process of the Observing Time Proposals. ... PHRS was already successfully employed twice (for Periods 54 and 55), handling over 250 (peak) proposal submissions per day. ... The Proposal Handling and Reporting System (PHRS) at ESO is a software system aimed at tackling this problem and supporting the OPC. ... Valid proposals are peer-reviewed. ...

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Risk and Hazard document INT-406-VEN-0121 v1.0.doc Page 1 of 17 MRO Delay Line Risk and Hazard Management Document No. ... The mitigations listed are those which it is deemed reduce the risk or hazard to acceptable levels The Risk and Hazard tables follow but first a reminder of the assigned values: For Risks : Severity Low Medium High Very High Score 1 2 3 5 Probability Rare Possible Likely Almost certain score 1 2 3 4 For Hazards: Severity Negligible Marginal Critical Catastrophic ...

... The DT tag element specifies a term name, and you can have several terms per DD element. ... CLASS . This a space separated list of SGML NAME tokens and is used to subclass tag names. ... The CLASS attribute is most commonly used to attach a different style to some element, but it is recommended that where practical class names should be picked on the basis of the element's semantics, as this will permit other uses, such as restricting search through documents by matching on element class names. ...

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Next: File Manipulation Routines Up: File and Directory Manipulation Previous: File and Directory Manipulation . This basically involves calling appropriate functions. int chdir(char path) - changes directory to specified path string. ... NOTE: rindex() is a string handling function that returns a pointer to the last occurrence of character c in string s , or a NULL pointer if c does not occur in the string. ( index() is similar function but assigns a pointer to 1st occurrence.) ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Re : Server crashes using 2.0.32 and SMP ( Steve Resnick ) . ... From: Balaji Srinivasan < balaji@hegel.ittc.ukans.edu > . To get more information on where exactly schedule was called within the interrupt handler, compile the kernel with the -g flag (also remove the -fomit-frame-pointer flag). ... Recompile the kernel with debugging enabled (-g) and see what address it prints out. ...

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... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Midnight And Noon . Articles | ... Never call 12 Midnight, 12 a.m. Never call 12 Midnight, 12 p.m. Never call 12 Noon, 12 a.m. Never call 12 Noon, 12 p.m. Always refer to the 12 o'clock during the middle of the night as 12 Midnight . ... Hence to express the time from 12 noon to 12 o'clock at night, we use the term p.m. and from 12 o'clock at night to 12 o'clock noon we use a.m. However 12 o'clock midday is neither ante meridian or post meridian. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Definition lists : the DL , DT , and DD elements . ... Definitions. ... An ordered list, created using the OL element, should contain information where order should be emphasized, as in a recipe: . ... Definition lists, created using the DL element, generally consist of a series of term/definition pairs (although definition lists may have other applications). ... For example, using CSS, one may specify that the style of numbers for list elements in a numbered list should be lowercase roman numerals....

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

Next: Definition of Scientific Misconduct Up: scientific Previous: Introduction . ... This Code of Good Practice closely follows the Statement on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice issued by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in 1998. ... The Observatory expects the highest standards of scientific integrity to be adhered to by the researchers, students and other staff that it funds, whether they are employees or associates of other institutions. ...