... region (region-6.2.2) [xmmsas_20030110_1802-5.4.1] . ... module region _mod subroutine region get parameters; open source list; foreach source transform celestial coordinates to sky location; calculate initial estimated extraction radius; calculate distance to nearest neighbour ; loop sort sources in ascending order of nearest neighbour separation; initialise array of flags; ; First pass considering just nearest- neighbour pairs foreach source in sorted list if( ...

... When creating a mosaic from a set of individual frames, the correct background offset for each frame must be determined for proper matching. In this paper we describe a method for constructing a mosaic from a set of individual frames by applying a minimization technique. ... Typically these are frames with some known defect (see ? ... Determining which frames to exclude from the final mosaic is critical, since one bad frame can create background offset errors that propagate throughout the mosaic. ...

... A photometric analysis was made of the simulated images using two of the widely available reduction programs, ROMAFOT (Buonanno et al. 1983) and DAOPHOT (Stetson 1987). ... The rebinned and expanded image gave better results (Fig. 7b), with the smallest errors in the order of = 0.04. ... Similarly to ROMAFOT, the image with the Moffat PSF gave significantly better results than the image generated with the Tiny Tim PSF; the errors in the magnitudes of the brighter stars were around = 0.02. ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

Next: Fitting of data Up: Extraction of Information Previous: Extraction of Information . For projects which perform statistical analysis on groups of objects, it is important to rely on an objective search method to extract them from the data frames. ... The simplest and fastest method is using a given level over a previously determined background value as the criterion to identify possible sources. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

Next: Phase Dispersion Minimization Up: Period Analysis Previous: Period Analysis . Period determination for short period stars is performed by observing target fields several times per night for several consecutive, or closely spaced, nights. ... First the individual frames are debiased and flat--fielded, then fluxes within a four arcsecond aperture around each star (targets and randomly chosen background stars) are extracted. ... Phase Dispersion Minimization . ...

NOTE: Analyz routines for L-band receivers use OLD gain & noise diode values! Analyz is a data analysis program written at Arecibo back when you reduced (and took) Arecibo data on a Harris computer. ... So if you want a fairly simple program which can rapidly & efficiently reduce your spectral line data, then you may want to consider using Analyz. ... Information to help you reduce your data in Analyz: . Phil Perrilat's basic analyz routines for data taken with the spectral line correlator . ...

... Europa lander", Moscow >12.02.2009 Outline Planetary instruments for in-situ chemical analysis Laser-induced plasma spectroscopy: principle, instrumentation, features GENTNER proposal of the LIBS instrument for the Europa lander mission State-of-the-art of the instrument Page 2 von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH Int. Symp. ... Page 3 von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH Int. Symp. ... Europa lander", Moscow >12.02.2009 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): Principle Page 5 von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH Int. Symp. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... PPTA timeline . ... PPTA_MEETINGS . ... Meeting minutes . ... List of projects . PPTA tasks . ... Data release 2 discussion . Editing this wiki . ... Ppta3 . ... Aim: To highlight results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project, to discuss astrophysical sources of gravitational waves and to discuss future issues . ... Data have been collected for the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project over the past 4 years. ... Time . ... The Parkes data archiving project (only 10 minutes) . ...

Next: Reduce point data Up: Quick Guide Previous: Print form sheets Contents . You should reduce this data of type ``scan'' before anything else. ... Plot the background rate (four channels at a time) versus time. ... Use P ROCESS BG if you want to replace edited scans with an average value from other valid scans in the same channel. ... The reason for reducing the background data first is that average will not average the point data of a scan for which no background data exists. ...

... These trajectories have an initial flight from the Earth to a large distance (of about 1.5 million km), the following passive flight to the Moon's orbit, an approach to the Moon with a decrease of an energy of a particle (spacecraft) selenocentric motion to a negative value and the temporary capture in an elliptic orbit of the Moon's satellite. ... Several trajectories of this type are determined. ... Ivashkin V. V. On optimal trajectories of space flight to the Moon in the Earth--Moon--Sun system. ...

... The procedure of radiometer signal integration can be considered as a sort of reducing dimension of the initial sampling space, where the samples are the result of analog-to-digital conversion. ... The probability distribution of the signal and spikes is completely known. ... The quality of the considered algorithm could be also illustrated by Figure 2 . ... One could see the considered adaptive algorithm is preferable even by low degree of compression, because all spikes have been depressed. ...

... A consistent theory of turbulence has not been constructed as yet (this problem is linked with one of the one million dollar problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute), and therefore researchers all over the world rely on computer simulations to understand the underlying physics and processes in star forming environments. As computer power grows our simulations become more and more realistic, allowing us to include a lot of interesting and potentially vital physics into our models.  ...

Inflating the Universe . ... Credit Copyright: WMAP Science Team , NASA Explanation: The Universe is expanding gradually now. But its initial expansion was almost impossibly rapid as it likely grew from quantum scale fluctuations in a trillionth of a second . ... WMAP's instruments detect the cosmic microwave background radiation - the afterglow light from the early Universe. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2014: . Discovery of two isolated lethargic dwarf galaxies in the Local Group neighborhood . We determined the distances for two dwarf galaxies, KK258 (M B =-10.3) and KKs3 (M B =-10.8), as 2.23 and 2.12Mpc, respectively, with an accuracy better than 4%. ... Catalogue of extragalactic distances . We have compiled a catalogue of estimates of extragalactic distances to galaxies, obtained independently of the redshift. ... The catalogue of extragalactic distances 2014, A , 570, A13 . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

This layer is defined with a <LAYER> tag. You see that the background image is applied to the rectangular region occupied by the layer. The height of the filled-in area is determined by the height value. ... The style definition sets the background-image property. The height of the filled-in area is determined by the actual content. ... The style definition also includes a value for border-width and border color. ... The style definition includes a value for layer-background-image. ...

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