Space Telescope Science Institute . ACS Instrument Handbook Cycle 19 . ... Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 19 > Chapter 4: Detector Performance > 4.4 The SBC MAMA . 4.4 The SBC MAMA . ... The ACS MAMA detector is the STIS flight spare STF7. ... The ACS MAMA only operates in the accumulate ( ACCUM ) mode, in which a time-integrated image is produced. ... Figure 4.11: Design of the SBC MAMA. Table 4.7: SBC detector performance characteristics. ... Pixel format . ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­no­number­assigned EPIC Spectral Response Distribution R. D. Saxton 27 Feb 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE CAL VERSION XSCS flag EMOS1 QUANTUMEF 0010.CCF 2000­01­01 NO EMOS2 QUANTUMEF 0010.CCF 2000­01­01 NO EPN QUANTUMEF 0010.CCF 2000­01­01 NO 2 Changes Four new extensions, FRACTION CHANNEL, FRACTION ENERGY, QE TOTAL and EBINS FRACTION have been added. ... EBINS FRACTION ENERGY: The energies used to define the QE TOTAL array. ...

... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

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... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > The response curve leaves residual instrument features in my science. ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... To can be avoided by flat-fielding the flux standard star spectrum with the same flat field as is used for the science data. ...

. Next: Using a Standard Up: Echelle Spectra Previous: Flat Field Correction . љ . Using a Standard Star . Fitting the Blaze Function . Pascal Ballester . Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995

IBIS Data Analysis . ... IBIS . ... Flat Fielding - Introduction . The images obtained by IBIS will have intensity variations across the field of view that are not due to the solar image, but rather caused by instrumental effects that alter the observed intensity in each point of the field of view. ... IBIS Flat Fielding Techniques . ... Therefore, it is desirable to obtain the flat field measurements center on a point along the equator near the heliographic center of the solar disk. ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

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. ...

Monte Carlo Methods for Including Calibration Uncertainties in Model Fitting Analyses Jeremy J. Drakea , Peter Ratzlaffa , Vinay Kashyapa , Richard Edgara , Rima Izemb , Diab Jeriusa , Herman ... University, Cambridge, MA 02138 MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139 b c SUMMARY · Instrument response uncertainties almost universally ignored in astrophysical X-ray ... Limiting accuracy of Chandra ACIS reached in spectra with 10 4 counts. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

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 . ...

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 . ...

Mid-Infrared All Sky Cloud Camera . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ... Comments and suggestions are always welcome! Return to the APO Home Page . April 3, 2000 - Jon Brinkmann (brinkmann/nmsu.edu) ...

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... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Cold-Electron Bolometer Arrays for THz Detection Leonid S. Kuzmin b , Mikhail A. Tarasovc,d, , Sumedh H. Mahashabdea, and Valerian S.Edelmane, Chalmers University of Technology ... Electronics, Moscow, Russia c P.Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, Russia a a,b,c Abstract-- Various concepts of Cold-Electron Bolometer (CEB) Arrays are considered for THz detection from 300 GHz to 7 THz ... Optical response to THz radiation is 300 µV for 2.7/0.3 K temperature difference. ...