... Meta Index / Home Page The aim of this package is to compute a model spectrum of the RGS background applicable to a given observation from a combination of observations of empty fields. Two event files, one per RGS, were built merging 29 observations of empty fields with different levels of background. ... First and second order spectra were extracted from each event file. These spectra are the templates used to derive the model background spectra. ...

... The analysis and reduction of the STIS flanking fields proceeded in similar fashion as for the imaging of the Main STIS Field. ... The DARK calibration reference file used in the CALSTIS data reduction steps was constructed using a 'delta-dark' image appropriate for the epoch of the flanking field observations. ... DRIZZLE drop-size used for the flanking fields was a "pixfrac" of 0.8. ... For information on the data reduction, please read first the technical information for the Main WFPC2 Field . ...

This diagram shows the six superimposed "layers" of the CSS table model. This diagram illustrates the algorithm for calculating a cell's final background. ... The diagram shows how, looking down on the six rectangles, one may compute the background color of each cell. ... A cell without a background color in the top layer is depicted as a "window" onto the lower layers, which give its final background color. ...

... A technique allowing automatic representation by a relatively small number of independent parameters based on the principal component analysis of data sequences is presented. ... In recent years the spectrum of observed astronomical data can be characterized as greatly varied. ... In this instance, the problem of initial description and classification of newly-observed data becomes most urgent, especially if there is a lack of preliminary observational material and theoretical expectations. ...

The FSP3 event includes those parts of the magnetic conjugations between any couple of four considered spacecraft, which satisfied to the FSP1 or to the FSP2 criterion. ... The value of the relative geocentric angular distance between magnetic field line's footprints is considered during FSP3 situation selection. The mentioned angular distance value less then 5 deg is used as a criterion of the magnetic conjugation. ... for the first SC the red color and the first line are used, . ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

Each file type known to SAOtng can have user-defined analysis commands associated with it. ... A help line describing the file types . ... For example, the default analysis file currently contains the following: # # Analysis command descriptions: # help # file templates # file types # analysis command line counts -- number of events in region (no background) *.qp *.imh QPOE IMH uiraf '${xraybin}'/x_xspatial.e imcnts source='${filename}' region=$sregion bkgd=0 table=NONE | ...

Next: Program use Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Description of program searchdup . Parameter input is done with a graphic user interface. ... Input file: Name of the input catalog file. It has to be formatted, one record per source/observation, according to the format used in the Arcetri observations and source archives. ... Minimum number of observations per source Source with less than this number of independent observations are not included in the output file . ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

Program: CORMAP Purpose: Check whether there is a correlation between two maps Category: ANALYSIS, CALCULATION File: cormap.c Author: M. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set, subsets: Maximum number of subsets is 2048. BOX= Give box: [entire subset] RANGE= Give range of levels to include in calculation: [all] Input consists of two values. The first value may be greater than the second. See the description for the correct use of this keyword. ... PGCOLOR= Give color 1.. ...

Next: Order Definition Up: Echelle Reduction Method Previous: Retrieving demonstration and . ... That is the mapping between the space wavelength, spectral order and the space sample x , line y in the raw image. ... Sections and describe the solution of this mapping. The second step in the reduction, described in Section , is to estimate the image background. ... In the rest of this Section the algorithms used in each step of the reduction are described. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

Description and Technical Details . In 1980s two medium-size horizontal solar telescopes 50/35000 cm with large spectrographs Czerny-Turner made by Carl Zeiss Jena were installed in the Ondњejov observatory. The Czerny-Turner-spectrographs in the Ondњejov observatory called HSFA1 and HSFA2 according to the German name Horizontal-Sonnen-Forschungs-Anlage ("horizontal device for solar research") have been explored for more than two decades. ... Diffraction grating - Richardson, Spectra-Physics . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

... Microlocal Analysis is a theory of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Fourier Integral Operators (PDOs and FIOs). ... Microlocal analysis comes in few flavors. ... We will consider semi-classical PDOs and FIOs: one can always get from there to standard PDOs and FIOs but semi-classical theory has more applications. Less formal description of (semi-classical) microlocal analysis is ``a semi-classical limit of quantum mechanics'' or ``high-frequency limit of electrodynamics'' (etc). ...