... 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 . ...

PSS CHEAT- SHEET FOR CYCLE 23 PANEL MEETINGS Actions for triaged proposals - For those proposals that are indeed triaged, no further action will be required, except for notification comments, which is the responsibility of the Primary Reviewer to pull together. However, for any proposals that the panel resurrects off the triage list, and decides to discuss in full, you can uncheck the Triage flag and it will then be available for Grading and Ranking. ... Very few Proposals have Technical Comments. ...

... VLBI Schedule . LBA Home Page . ... Observers Wiki . ... Main / . ... ACTIONS list . ... Phil) - CONT . Encourage more ToOs (ATNF) - CONT . ... LBA) . ... Keep PIs informed on SCHED developments (Cormac,Phil) - CONT . ... Update sources.dat file with calibrator flags (Cormac,Chris) - CONT . ... Continuing Wiki reorganisation/maintenance for accessibility (Chris,Cormac) - CONT . ... Check correct ATCA DAS modes on Wiki (Chris, Cormac) . ... Copy LBA data archive to ATNF (Curtin, ATNF) -CONT . ...

... 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. ...

Next: Wavelength calibration Up: Reduction using Standard Previous: Order Definition: Methods . ... The algorithm accepts frame which can be mildly contaminated by particle hits, bad columns, order gaps due to absorption lines, as found in FLAT or STD . ... the interorder background is roughly constant over the frame. the slope of the orders is in the range ]0., ... For a background estimate without previous order definition, consider the echelle command BACKGROUND/SMOOTH . ... LOAD/TAB order :X :Y . ...

... DFS projects To-do lists rules and recommendations . Each DFS project has to manage action items, i.e. create and update his own To-Do list. These lists are all accessible from the specific DFS Department Home Pages (select one project). ... Each To-Do list has to be described via 2 files: . ... The 2 To-Do list files must be regularly updated by each DFS project manager, in order to be reviewed during every corresponding DFS bi-monthly project meeting held with the DFS Department Head . ...

The preliminary version of documentation of the format for the interchange of calibrated optical/IR data being developed by Tom Pauls of NRL and John Young of COAST was presented and a number of issues discussed. The proposed format is in the general form of a relational database with different components stored in FITS binary tables. ... Should there be a single data table type that includes all data types, or multiple table types, one per data type? What data types are needed? ...

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. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...

... In real-time instrument control systems such as the AAO's DRAMA system, where relatively complex individual tasks control their own parts of a system (spectrograph, camera, telescope, etc), there are often significant similarities between tasks. ... DRAMA is written in C, but combines ideas from the X Windows Xt toolkit with its use of named actions in tasks to provide a successful, effective, inheritance mechanism. ... This action is used to set the simulation mode of our tasks. ...

This module provides for executing CGI scripts based on media type or request method. ... Source File: mod_actions.c . ... Action . ... Syntax: Action action-type cgi-script . ... Examples: # Requests for files of a particular type: Action image/gif /cgi-bin/images.cgi # Files of a particular file extension AddHandler my-file-type .xyz Action my-file-type /cgi-bin/program.cgi . ... This directive adds an action, which will activate cgi-script when a file is requested using the method of method . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

not-minutes' for second E-ALFA LOC Meeting Tuesday, April 13th Present: Chris S., A. Desh, Carmen S., Jose A. Erik M. Telecon: Bob B., Karen O. Items outstanding or pending items from last meetings action list: ACTION - Karen O: Update w/site to include a strong recommendation for all visitors to use calling cards. ... ACTION - Chris S.: Check the price of telecon with Jill. ... Deferred to Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF) ACTION: Karen O. to arrange for Info Handouts Pending actual content of handouts. ...

... of the RadioAstron teleconference . ... There are currently two versions of RISC Terms of Reference: an old version (1994) called Version 1, and a new version prepared by ASC in accordance with the action item 2 of the 27-th RadioAstron meeting and named Version 2. ... The ASC will then create Version 4 of the Terms of Reference, which will be based on the comments received and on discussions between the representatives of RadioAstron project leadership in Russia. ... Andreyanov V., ASC, Russia . ...

... May 2013 . For 125 years, the ASP s Annual Meeting has succeeded thanks to people like you whose diverse perspectives represent the best and brightest in Education and Public Outreach (EPO). ... ANNUAL MEETING NEWS . ... New Annual Meeting App to Launch Soon . ... ASP Inaugurates New App for 125th Meeting . The ASP will soon launch our first ever Annual Meeting app (for Apple iOS and Android platforms) to provide unprecedented opportunities for attendees, sponsors, and exhibitors. ...

... Chandra Observation of DEEP2 Galaxy Groups and Clusters . ... Monday: 'Normal' Galaxies, Tuesday: Cluster Formation and Evolution . ... Statistics of galaxy groups in ultradeep XMM surveys. ... What can multiwavelength observations tell about cluster/group formation as well as galaxy evolution? ... I will present results from a Chandra study of eight low-redshift clusters that has systematically measured the AGN fraction in clusters and describe their spatial, kinematic, and host galaxy...

... 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. ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... For crisp wide-field observing and imaging, few optical designs match the performance of a true triple-element apochromatic refractor. ... Meade Standard Field Tripod #07020. ...

... Probing the Universe with galaxy clusters: New windows from new technologies . Dr Mark Bautz . ... A key to this progress has been the study of these objects using telescopes operating at millimeter, visible, infrared and X-ray wavelengths. ... His current research interests concern new X-ray imaging detector and observational studies of clusters of galaxies. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. To append the standard output from a command to a file use two >> (greater than) symbols followed by the name of the file. If the file does not exist it is created. For example: cat part1 > chapt2 cat part2 >> chapt2 . This creates a file called chapt2 with the same contents as part1 . It then reads the contents of part2 and appends them to the file chapt2 . The file chapt2 now contains the data from part1 followed by the data from part2 .

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globulars. ... BACKGROUND (from wikipedia): Blue straggler stars are stars in open or globular clusters that are hotter and bluer than other cluster stars having the same luminosity. ... There is evidence in favor of this view, notably that blue straggler stars appear to be much more common in dense regions of clusters, especially in the cores of globular clusters. ...