... region (region-7.1.5) [xmmsas_20040318_1831-6.0.0] . ... Local-background regions are in all cases annuli. ... Background regions of this shape should be chosen when there is no extended emission in the FOV, because OA-concentric regions are in general larger than source-concentric ones (thus offer better statisitics), yet sample everywhere approximately the same background level, because the value of the vignetting function is approximately the same at a given radius from the OA. fovbkgannulus =`no...

Next: Analysis Tools for Nebular Emission Lines . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... The direct image is used to locate objects of interest, to find the position of the appropriate spectra in the grism image, to determine the optimal extraction technique to use, and to calibrate the wavelength range of the extracted spectra. ... Figure 1: The NICMOSlook User Interface . ...

... WFPC2 ETC for Extended Sources + Background - v4.0 . Home . ... Data . ... WFPC2 Home . ... Instrument Home . WFPC2 History . ... Calibration Home . ... LRF Data . ... Data Analysis Home . ... ETCs . ... Brightness: (mag. arcsec -2 ) . ... Line: Ly 1216 C IV 1550 He II 1640 C III 1907 Mg II 2800 0 II 3727 Ne III 3869 H 4340 0 III 4363 He II 4686 H 4861 0 III 4959 0 III 5007 N II 5755 He I 5876 0 I 6300 N II 6548 H 6563 N II 6583 S II 6716 S II 6731 S III 9531 Specify Z Vel. : (units) . ...

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 . ...

Next: *imexamine* - General analysis Up: Regions and Source Parameters Previous: *imcnts* - Find background . input file: xdata$snr.qp . output file: snr_cnt.tab . ... N.B.: The use of imcnts to obtain counts in regions can lead to wrong results when more than one region is used in the same run, if there is any overlap between them, since each pixel can be assigned to ONE AND ONLY ONE region (the last one defined that includes that pixel. See ``help regions''). rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

Detecting extended radio emission : SNRs , Relics , Halos Head-Tailed Galaxies Melanie Johnston-Hollitt Christopher Hollitt 2010 Detecting extended radio emission : SNRs , Relics , Halos Head-Tailed Galaxies 2010 1/14 Detecting extended radio sources Methods of detecting extended ... Detecting extended radio emission: SNRs, Relics, Halos & Head-Tailed Galaxies 2010 7/14 Some SNRs Supernova remnants are typically circular. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

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With the Phase I CGPS now complete at 21cm, we are in a position to examine the population of cold H I clouds over the entire range of the survey. Current methods of H I self-absorption (HISA) identification and analysis allow us to explore the properties and distribution of the portion of cold H I which appears as HISA shadows in the 21cm line data. Such studies are necessarily biased toward clouds with bright background emission. ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...

Extended time series of Solar Activity Indices (ESAI) is database including observational, synthetic and simulated sets to study Solar magnetic field variations and their influence on the Earth. ESAI extend the ordinary lengths of some traditional indices of solar activity: sunspot areas, Wolf numbers (equatorial component of magnetic field of the Sun), polar faculae numbers (polar component), mean latitudes, N-S asymmetry of hemispheres (location of activity). Series . ...

Butler and Johnston (1994) have reported on the changes in mean air temperature in Northern Ireland over the last 200 years and have found a correlation with solar cycle length, consistent with that reported by Friis-Christensen and Lassen (1991) between solar cycle length and mean Northern hemisphere air temperature. ... As well as data from Northern Ireland, we have used measurements made in Preston, located close to Ireland on the West coast of England. ...

A GRB Host? ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA Explanation: Where do gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate? ... But do GRBs occur in galaxies or out alone in deep space? ... It appears to show an extended structure to the lower right of the GRB , which is identified with an arrow. Many astronomers speculate that this extended structure is a distant galaxy , as its colors and subsequent steady emission indicate. Other astronomers worry that the extended emission is variable and so cannot be a galaxy. ...

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. ...

... The plug-plates of SDSS project are responsible for locating the optical-fiber plugs spatially and for defining the plug tilt with respect to the surface of best focus. ... Previous attempts to match the SDSS plug-plates to the surface of best focus were conducted using only the bending fixture. The analyses performed indicated that by adding a central constraint to the plug-plate deformation process, the plates could be made to match the surface of best focus within an acceptable range of error. ...

... 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 . ...

... The dates are shown along the X axis, . The time on the orbit counted from ascending node of the each turn is shown along the Y axis. ... The geomagnetic local time is shown along the Y axis. ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Foreground emission and Cosmic Microwave background intrinsic anisotropies . ... Since its discovery the Cosmic Microwave Radiation (CMB) has been one of the pillars of modern Cosmology. ... Further development of this work is the application of already tested algorithms to disentangle the foreground emission from the CMB maps and the determination of the CMB intrinsic emission. ... Return to list of thesis topics ...

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