... Brief_I/O VARIABLE I/O DESCRIPTION -------- --- -------------------------------------------------- caller I Name of the routine calling this routine. name I Name of a kernel pool variable comp I Comparison operator. size I Expected size of the kernel pool variable divby I A divisor of the size of the kernel pool variable. type I Expected type of the kernel pool variable The function returns SPICEFALSE if the kernel pool variable is OK. ... Index_Entries Check the properties of a kernel pool variable...

... 2011 May 23 . An Unexpected Flare from the Crab Nebula . ... As recently as one month ago, gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope showed an unexpected increase in gamma-ray brightness, becoming about five times the nebula's usual gamma-ray brightness, and fading again in only a few days. ... The above image shows how the Crab Nebula normally appears in gamma rays, as compared to the Geminga pulsar, and how it then appeared during the recent brightening. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­55 OM Astrometry R. Much December 11, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM ASTROMET 0008 2000­01­01T00:00:00 FILTER­U Yes FILTER­B Yes FILTER­UVW1 Yes FILTER­UVW2 Yes FILTER­UVM2 Yes FILTER­WHITE Yes FILTER­MAGNI Yes FILTER­GRISM1 Yes FILTER­GRISM2 Yes POLYNOM MAP No 2 Changes Compared to the previous version the distortion maps of the U­, B­ and the three UV­filters have been updated. ... UVW2­positions). ...

... PROBLEMS: "Unknown" (i.e. no physics model) components; What's a "Good-Enough-Fit" (e.g. Poisson)? ... ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR ...

... 2000 March 12 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured over the past few years have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD | ...

... IPACMAN V2.5 Test Plan (or more) . ... Anyway, results given hereafter are related to one plaform only (the one mentioned on the top). ... specific testcases The following testcases correspond to the minimum set of tests to be run on every new IPACMAN release (alpha, beta, final, .. ... 1/ START IPACMAN . ... Expected result . ... Verify IP: select an IP on disk and run Reports>verify IP . ... IP Diff: select two IPs on disk, and run Reports>IP Diff and check manually the results: verify the . ...

Documentation for Delay Line Final Design Review - 12 Feb 2008 Notes: Anything marked in Status as [TBU] is definitely `To Be Updated' `Expected Date' refers to the expected date of release where this is likely to be different from the due date. ... TBU] INT-406-VEN-0112 MF/RCB/DMAW/EBS 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... MF/XS/DMAW MF MF MF MF/XS/DMAW 22 Jan 08 29 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... Document No. ...

... These are ``quirks'' rather than ``bugs''. Below is a list of quirks. When loading a file and ``Reset Intensity Upon File Load'' is disabled, the intensity range of the previous image will be used. ... When moving between two images (such as when blinking, or when loading a new image), the display system attempts to retain the old image parameters (i.e. zoom box). What is retained are the corners of the zoom box measured in image pixel co-ordinates, not world co-ordinates. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 30.12.1998 . ... Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... Publications with keywords: cosmology - universe - supernova . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... We considered our current level of technology compared to that of an average alien civilization. Regardless of any modest value of L chosen?500 years, 5000 years, or longer?their level of technology is vastly advanced compared to ours. Thus, most science fiction gets it right by having advanced alien technology, but gets it wrong by not making them sufficiently advanced. ... What would alien civilizations at a distance of 100 or 1000 lightyears know of us (hypothetically)? ... Education . ...

For today's in class we will be working with spatial and temporal data sets which are quite noisy. Particularly, you have monthly rainfall totals for the following six locations in Oregon from the period 1950 - 1999. Eugene . Salem . Portland . Astoria . North Bend . Newport . There are many facets of what you can do with this data. Please explore the following questions with some degree of sound statistical reasoning and data presentation: .

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The hotter the gas, the faster they move, and the more energy each of them holds. The free ions and electrons in a plasma behave the same way. Knowing the temperature of the high atmosphere of Earth, or that of the Sun, we can calculate energies expected of ions and electrons found there. However, ions and electrons actually observed in space are often much , much more energetic, and may move at a respectable fraction of the velocity of light (300,000 km/sec or 186,000 miles/sec). ...

... Up: VO Resources . ... Monkewitz, S. & Good, J. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... We describe the architecture of a general cross-comparison engine capable of spatially matching sources in one astronomical source catalog with those in another. ... Support is provided for common catalog formats and data sources (e.g. local disk, database servers), and the addition of support for custom data formats and sources is simplified by the modular architecture employed. ... Data Access: . ... Source List Processing: . ...

... Different statistical tests are used to compute the probability of a given hypotheses being correct. ... For single quantities, a confidence interval is estimated for the desired significance level. ... When the underlying distribution is normal, the ``Student's'' t and the distributions are used to estimate the confidence intervals for the mean and standard deviation, respectively. ... For this purpose the test variable . ... Special tables give the confidence interval for this test variable. ...

... In order to disentangle the effects of different climate variables on tree-ring growth rates of different species, and to explore the possibility that more than one species could improve the accuracy of the reconstructions of climate using tree rings, a methodical study of trees in close proximity to the Armagh Observatory climate station was initiated together with Ana Maria Garc?a Su?rez, and continued as part of the latter's PhD thesis with John Butler and Professor Mike Baillie (QUB). ...

. Among the two other similar bright, hot stars close to A1 at the core of NGC 3603, a star dubbed "C" was also found to be a binary with a period of 8.92 days, although definitive masses for its components, also expected to be high, are not yet available. JPL/NASA/U Wash/U Illinois

PHOTOMETRIC SEARCH FOR BLACK HOLES IN DORMANT X-RAY TRANSIENTS ґ ґ Aleksander Sadowski1 , Janusz Ziolkowski2 , and Krzysztof Belczynski3 ё Astronomical Observatory of Warsaw University, Al. ... Such definition means that our statistics for the number of expected BH X-ray binaries include both transient and persistent systems. ... If this value is 2 M , then, according to our calculations, Galaxy contains some 15 000 to 40 000 of BH X-ray binaries (and some 30 000 to 250 000 of NS X-ray binaries). ...

Full Stokes 327-MHz Continuum Observations of the GALFACTS Pilot Region Wasim Ra ja, Avinash Deshpande, Tapasi Ghosh, Chris Salter & Andrew R. Taylor Background and Scientific Justification Several existing surveys have mapped the polarized intensity of the extended Galactic emission at various frequencies using single dish as well as synthesis imaging. ... The underlying distribution of the polarized emission and the magneto-ionic medium would be apparent in the images resolved across Faraday depth. ...