... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 8: Detector Readout Modes > 8.2 Multiple-Accumulate Mode . 8.2 Multiple-Accumulate Mode . ... This mode of operation is known as Multiple-Accumulate ( MULTIACCUM ). ... See Section 8.6 for trade-offs between MULTIACCUM and ACCUM readout modes.) In most cases, MULTIACCUM mode provides the highest quality scientific data. The benefits of obtaining observations in MULTIACCUM mode fall into two areas. ...

3D NIR IFU spectrograph from MPE. CIRPASS on Gemini. COHSI on UKIRT. ... SINFONI NIR IFU spectrograph for the VLT (and here ). SPIFFI on the VLT. ... LUCIFER at Heidelberg. GNIRS on Gemini(and IFU ). ... NIRSPEC on Keck and at UCLA . ... Omega-Prime from MPIA, Heidelberg. ... Gemini instrumentation. ... UKIRT instrumentation ( Future Instruments ). ... NTT Deep Field ( SUSI optical images , SOFI infrared images ). ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... MILT Description . ... Telescope Control System . ... Biblography The Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) consists of astronomers at the following institutions: University of Washington, University of Chicago, New Mexico State University, Princeton University, and Washington State University. ... In addition some advancement in the art and engineering of large telescopes will be pursued. The telescope design itself is one of three major project tasks. ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 specadd July 8, 2007 Abstract It creates a multiple X-ray spectrum FITS le either by stacking or putting to- gether two single spectrum les or by stacking a single spectrum on top of an existing multiple spectrum le. ... This type of spectral les is particularly useful when the user wants to simultaneously analyse di erent observations of the same object carried out with the same instrument or with di erent instruments. ...

Next: VLT First Light Up: Front Cover Previous: Participants . VLT First Light . ... Image Quality of the VLT . ... Near IR Astronomy with the ESO VLT . Introduction and Overview . Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... Performance . ... CONICA: The high resolution near-infrared camera for the ESO VLT . Introduction . Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . Cryo-mechanical Design . ...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

SHORT DESCRIPTIONS OF INSTRUMENTS . ... Particle detector RIEP-2802 was developed and built in Russia. ... The combined Soviet-French ONCH-TBF onboard instrument had in memory modes the data only from several filter-banks in the range from 10 Hz to 16 kHz (while in the real-time telemetry modes, the measurements included 5-component wave-form data in the range 10 Hz - 1.5 kHz for 3 magnetic and 2 electric field components, or a wide-band mode in the range 10 Hz - 15 kHz, and several filter banks). ...

Next: Filter descriptors Up: Instrument configuration and Previous: Columns REDLEAKRLTYPE, . Properties of the instrument that are associated with the instrument as a whole, rather than with a particular filter or detector channel, belong in descriptors in the instrument table file. ... The descriptors are summarized in Table . Filter descriptors . Descriptor NFILTCAR . Character descriptor FILTCAT . Character descriptor FILTSTAT . ... Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995 ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... 216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree (San Francisco: ASP), 271 . ... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and AppNet, Inc. are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments. Our software architecture combines the platform-independent processing capabilities of Java with the power of XML. ... Instrument description is too tightly coupled with details of implementation. ...

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. Next: Verbose Mode Up: *fit* - Fit Data Previous: Limiting Energy Channels Input . Any number of data sets (_obs.tab files), from the same or different instruments, can be fitted simultaneously by separating the root file names with semi-colons. rp90; xdata$snr . rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . 1998-06-10

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

... Near-Infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph (NIFS): . An Instrument Proposed for Gemini . ... In late 1998 the International Gemini Project Office identified a need for a low cost, near-infrared spectrograph to be commissioned on the Gemini South telescope on the shortest possible timescale. In response, the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University proposed to design, construct, and commission a near-infrared, integral-field spectrograph on Gemini. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 12.10.1996 . ... NASA/GSFC ) and The GOES Project Explanation: What alien planet's bizarre landscape lurks below these fiery-looking clouds? It's only Planet Earth , of course -- as seen on the Water Vapor Channel. Hourly, images like this one (shown in false color) are brought to you by the orbiting GOES 8 satellite's multi-channel imager . ... Bright regions correspond to high concentrations of water vapor while dark spots are relatively dry areas. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

Allen Telescope Array Status -- ATA SKA Development Facility T elescope A rray Geoffrey C. Bower UC Berkeley A llen Allen Telescope Array A · · elescope rray · Large N design ­ 350 x 6.1m antennas ­ Sensitivity of the VLA ­ Unprecedented imaging capabilities Continuous frequency coverage ­ 0.5 to 11.2 GHz Wide field of view ­ 3 degrees at 1 ... Facility Activities rray A A llen ·Interference mitigation ­Nulling ­Adaptive cancelling ­Post-correlation T elescope ATA SKA Dev. ...