... Abstract : We describe the implementation of two High Time Resolution modes for ESO's new generation CCD controller FIERA. ... Figure 1. ... 7] Mantel, K.H., 1997: High time resolution mode for FORS, in FORS Progress Report, No. ... A: The time needed to shift a line of the chips on the FORS systems is 1.2 ms. The image of the slit is spread over 4 rows of the CCD, therefore with the HIT-PTR mode we can collect on the chip 256 spectra with a time resolution of about 4.8ms (covering about 36 periods)...
TEST REPORT FOR P2PP V2.1.1beta3 ================================ A) CHECKING BUG FIXES SINCE V2.1.1beta2: 1/ Serialisation bug : P2PP is able to read the two V2.1 cache directories previously generated by Bkemp ==> BUG FIXED 2/ bug 1053, filter not cleared after having been set from RANGE keyword : the filter is correctly set for a paramfile parameter, and cleared if another paramfile is selected (within the same OB but another template, and for another OB). ... Acq template with file parameter. ...
org , Canavan Tim tcanavan@eso.org CC: mperon@eso.org, David Silva dsilva@eso.org Subject: JP2PPV2.1 beta11 : LINUX version (3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear all, I run some tests on LINUX beta11 mainly to check if the previous beta10 HIGH bugs are fixed or not ... Here are the results : A/ previous HIGH priority bugs: 1/ item 865 : the previous "REFRESH" bug is fixed. 2/ item ?? ... HIGH priority bug for me. ...
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... An explanation of the general VLT control system architecture is given. Two generations of ESO VLT CCD Controller systems (ACE and FIERA) are described, and a comparison between them is presented, considering both the architecture and the performances. 1) The ESO VLT Control System . ... two . ... To achieve the readout requirements of the new generation CCD devices the LCU was replaced with a SPARC CPU, connected to the CCD Electronics through a 150 MBytes/sec full duplex optical fiber link. ...
... Colours of stars and galaxies hold information on intrinsic and extrinsic parameters, such as stellar temperatures and galaxy populations, selective absorption and colour changes due different dust contents and inclination angles of galaxies, as well as galaxy redshifts and evolution. ... The colour magnitude diagram of 65000 galaxies to which all above-mentioned quantities and others contribute can only be explained by comparison with simulations. ... Colours are also of technical help. ...
... Leaving the realm of cosmology and coming literally down to earth, we may look at the artefacts found on the survey plates, as displayed in Fig. ... There is no doubt that most artefacts are man-made. ... The number of artefacts increases towards the Milky Way fields, in the vicinity of the Small Magellanic cloud, seen in the lower middle of the total field, as well as in the Large Magellanic Cloud which just touches some fields on the left hand side. ...
Next: The stage and Up: The ESO Red Sky Previous: Artefacts . Fig. 3 shows the distribution of stars. The most striking feature is the rapid steepening of the density gradient towards the Milky Way region at the right and left hand edges of the total field, apparent from the dramatic change in colour in this false colour presentation. Noticable changes in star density across even short distances are indicated by colour changes within individual plates. ... Fig. ...
Up: The ESO Red Sky Previous: Stars and Galaxies . ... It may have been like walking on a stage in daytime. ... Tucholke, H.-J, Schuecker, P. 1992, PASP 104, 704; Tucholke, H.-J., Hiesgen, M. 1991, IAU Symp. 148, in The Magellanic Clouds , eds. R. Haynes, D. Milne, Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 491. Winkelkoetter, H., Diploma Thesis Muenster 1992 . ... Ritzmann, B.-M., Diploma Thesis Muenster 1992 . ... Meijer, J., Diploma Thesis Muenster 1991; Nolze, W., Diploma Thesis Muenster 1993 . ...
... Gro r umige Strukturen im ESO Rot Survey (in english). ... Zusammen mit Renko Ungruhe habe ich mehr als 250 Schmidtplatten des ESO Rotatlas der s dlichen Hemisph re digitalisiert und mit institutseigener Software einen Galaxien- und Sternkatalog erstellt. Es geht jetzt darum, die Helligkeit der mehr als 7 Millionen Galaxien zu kalibrieren und danach noch ein wenig Astronomie mit den Daten zu treiben. Dieses Projekt soll unter anderem der Identifizierung von ROSAT R ntgenquellen dienen. ...
. MICHAEL NAUMANN, RENKO UNGRUHE AND WALTRAUT C. SEITTER . ASTRONOMISCHES INSTITUT DER UNIVERSIT?T M?NSTER . Motivation . Digitization, Data Reduction and Catalogues . Project history . Magnitude calibrations . Colours and magnitudes . Artefacts . Stars and Galaxies . The stage and the plot . Michael.Naumann@eso.org
Next: DigitizationData Reduction Up: The ESO Red Sky Previous: The ESO Red Sky . The ESO/SERC R-Survey of the southern sky is the observational contribution of ESO to the first complete sky survey south of -15њdeclination. ... The ESO-Schmidt telescope at La Silla produced 606 photographic red plates covering some 15000 square degrees of the sky, the UK Schmidt Telescope in Coonabarabran, Australia, took the corresponding 606 blue/green J-plates. ... Michael.Naumann@eso.org ...
... The area chosen for digitization, data reduction and interpretation covers 216 plates, more than 30 % of the survey. It encompasses almost 5000 square degrees of the sky between declinations -17?.5 and -87?.5 and right ascensions 20^h30^m to 5^h30^m. Outside this area, star densities become too high for proper automatic detection and evaluation of single objects. 1.5 years were invested for scanning and basic reductions. ... m yield a positional accuracy of 0".3''. ...
Next: Magnitude calibrations Up: The ESO Red Sky Previous: DigitizationData Reduction . In 1986, we started the Muenster Redshift Project (MRSP) by measuring direct atlas plates as the indispensible counterparts of objective prism plates, used for the determination of redshifts. ... The low dispersion objective prism plates (linear reciprocal dispersion of 246 nm/mm at H gamma ) were taken with the UK Schmidt telescope. ... Other galaxies of the Local Group are being investigated. ...
Next: Colours and magnitudes Up: The ESO Red Sky Previous: Project history . ... Plate overlaps are used for the calibrations. ... Galaxy counts on several plates near the SGP as a function of local background densities yield a good average correction curve for the magnitudes. ... Magnitudes from the J- and R-plates are labeled b_J and r_F, the symbols indicating the blue and red passbands and the photographic emulsions Kodak IIIa-J and Kodak IIIa-F, used in combination with filters. ...
... The ultimate performance of this array is limited by the electroluminescence of the Si readout multiplexer. ... With our versatile 32 channel high speed data acquisition system IRACE the readout noise of Aladdin arrays could be suppressed to below 10 electrons rms by application of multiple nondestructive readouts and subpixel sampling of the analog signal. ... In principle the detector integration time can be increased until the photon shot noise exceeds the detector readout noise. ... readout mode...