... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... 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. ...

... Quality Control and Data Processing . ... HOME . ... UVES /UVES . ... retired : . ... This is the home page of the Quality Control and Data Processing Group (QCG) within ESO's Data Management and Operations Division (DMO). ... At ESO Headquarters in Garching, calibration data from all Paranal instruments (VLT, VLTI, survey cameras) are processed, their quality is checked and monitored. ... UVES ECHELLE data, point sources: quality-controlled, homogeneous processing of complete data stream 2000-now ....

To write a successful HST proposal it is useful to have some insight into the process by which proposals are reviewed and selected. ... How the New Cycle 9 Review Process Worked , December 1999, pp. 21-22. by Meg Urry [ cmu@stsci.edu ], Head of the STScI Science Program Selection Office. ... Evolu tion of the HST Proposal Selection Process: Changes for Cycle 9 , Meg Urry, June 1999, pp. ... There were five key changes in the proposal review process for Cycle 9. ... Cycle 10 Announcement Page . ...

... 2014 December 23 . The Cliffs of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko . ... They were discovered to be part of the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta , a robotic spacecraft launched by ESA which began orbiting the comet in early August. ... Data from Rosetta indicates that the ice in Comet CG has a significantly different deuterium fraction -- and hence likely a different origin -- than the water in Earth's oceans. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... The pinhole simulation program is a computationally and memory intensive task. ... A parallel version was developed instead, to enable distributed processing on a cluster of workstations. The program makes use of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for parallel processing, implemented as an API (Application Programming Interface) to the Local Area Multicomputer (LAM) programming environment developed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. ...

... Hardware Platform Hardware Platform IBM Cyclops System: · Very Dense Multi- Node HPC system · 3D grid configuration · Max size 24X24X24 nodes · Each node consisting of one multi-processor Cyclops chip · Each Cyclops Device contains 80 Dual Thread Unit Processing Elements, Dual ALU single FPMAC unit The Cyclops Processor Device Simplified Cyclops Diagram Cyclops Capabilities · 500 MHz system clock frequency · 80 GFLOPS peak ...

... APOD: 2011 December 12 An Unusual Vein of Deposited Rock on Mars . ... Credit Copyright: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , NASA , JPL , Cornell ; Image Processing: Kenneth Kremer , Marco Di Lorenzo Explanation: What could create this unusual vein of rock on Mars? A leading hypothesis is that this thin rock layer dubbed "Homestake" was deposited by a running liquid -- like most mineral veins are here on Earth. ... The inset image shows a close up of the recently discovered mineral vein. ...

The ATNF -Parkes-Swinburne Recorder ( APSR ) Willem van Straten Andrew Jameson and Matthew Bailes Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology Grant Hampson and Dick Manchester The Australia Telescope National Facility Second ATNF Gravitational Wave Workshop 13 December 2007 Outline · Baseband Recording and Processing Systems · Hardware Specification · ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2000 December 29 . The Dark Horsehead Nebula . ... Image Processed by Al Kelly . Explanation: While drifting through the cosmos this magnificent interstellar dust cloud, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, has chanced to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named The Horsehead Nebula it is embedded in the immense complex of star forming gas and dust surrounding the Orion Nebula some 1,500 light-years distant. ... About APOD | ...

NIST Special Publication 500-223 . A Framework for the Development and Assurance of High Integrity Software . ... The purpose of this document is to recommend a framework for the development and assurance of high integrity software. ... High integrity software, project management, software assurance, software configuration management, software development, software hazard analysis, software quality assurance, software verification and validation. ... 2 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT . ...

Spinning discs in space Mass feeding and feedback in YSOs . ScienceAlert Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form? By Tim Wetherell. Sticking to the stars . The complex processes creating accretion discs . ... Disks, Winds and Jets: From Planets to Quasars . ... Theory and modelling of accretion processes . Protoplanetary discs . ... Star formation . Jets and winds . ... Email: raquel@mso.anu.edu.au . ... Webpage: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~raquel/ . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2008, San Francisco, poster . Zotov L., Shum C.K, Singular spectral analysis of GRACE observations Climate, Statistics, and Satellites, a symposium in honor of Jerry North , June 8-10, 2009, Presidential Conference Center, Texas A University, talk . 2009 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Conference, 19-21 April 2009, Washington DC . ... Zotov L., Shum C.K., Singular spectrum analysis of GRACE observations, 9th Gamow summer school 17-23 August, 2009, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... Watchouts . ... The explanation below (under "FORMER EXPLANATION") was made obsolete by the release of the patch to SAS 6.5 - A new set of CCFs describing the MOS redistribution function (EMOS[1-2]_REDIST_00[65][74]) has been made public, to be used with a patched SAS 6.5, on December 1st, 2005. If you get the error "UnsupportedAlgoId" after this date it is due to the presence of those files in your CCF repository. ... FORMER EXPLANATION: . ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

... Archive for December 2008 . Dec 11th, 2008| 03:46 pm | Posted by hlee . ... This work distinguishes from typical image processing which mostly concerns the point estimation of intensity at each pixel location and the size of overall white noise type error. ... MADS] multiscale modeling? ... Category: Algorithms , CHASC , Cross-Cultural , Jargon | 1 Comment . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Jargon , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Nikonorov Artem Vladimirovich . ... Bibikov S. , Nikonorov A. , Skidanov R. and others. ... Fursov V.A. Spectrum Shape Elements Model to Correct Color and Hyperspectral Images // 8th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS), 24-28 августа, Stockholm, , 2014, P. Code 6914282 . ... Nikonorov A. V. , Bibikov S.A. , Fursov V.A. Boundaries Detection and Color Correction of Shadows in Color Images // Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. ...

. Newly reprocessed archival data from STEREO-A/SECCHI show details of the first Earth-directed coronal mass ejection of the STEREO mission, from inception December 12, 2008, to Earth impact December 15, 2008. New processing enables following the details of the CME with the wide-field heliospheric imager cameras out to impact with the Earth 93 million miles (150 million km) from the Sun. Courtesy SwRI/NASA

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Next: How the Data Up: CCD Reductions Previous: Combine Example . Having obtained some background, let us now start to process the input frames according to the scheme in Section . As indicated in that section the reduction sequence is, in a simplified version the calibration of science frames consists of the following steps: . determine overscan correction and trim area; . preparing calibration frames; . ... Overscan correction and trimming . ... Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995 ...