Ported to Mac OS X (Darwin) Estimates confidence regions ... What models are missing or need work ? Should we put significant work into developing a good GUI ? ...
Appetizer: Statistical methods in XSPEC. Entr e: A modest proposal on Bayesian methods ... It has been traditional (since the mid-60s) to use c2 to do this ...
where Sj is now the flux in photons/cm2/s in energy bin J. We want to find Sj. ... Sometimes you can spot that you are stuck in a local minimum by using the XSPEC ...
Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Instead of integrating, sample from the posterior The histogram of chain values for a parameter is a visual representation of the ...
XMM-Newton. Focusing X-ray Telscope Design. Chandra X-ray Observatory. CXC ... Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton, Oxford Press ...
Derive conditional probability of each parameter given values of the other parameters ... ability to derive quantities from MCMC chain value (e.g., luminosity density) ...
v12.2.0 was released in April 2005 as part of HEAsoft 6.0. ... Our policy on v11 is we will continue to fix critical bugs but will not add new features. ...
Lower resolution X-ray spectroscopy Keith Arnaud NASA Goddard University of Maryland Practical X-ray spectroscopy The Basic Problem The Basic Problem II The Basic ...
... Alanna Connors, David van Dyk, Hyunsook Lee, Andreas Zezas, Rima Izem ... (2) incorporating the calibration uncertainties into the data analysis via ...
Most X-ray spectra are of moderate or low resolution (eg Chandra ACIS or XMM-Newton EPIC) ... Therefore, unlike in the optical, most ... Sherpa - part of CIAO. ...
New white dwarfs for the stellar initial mass-final mass relation ( preliminary results!) Paul D Dobbie Australian Astronomical Observatory Martin Barstow, Matt ...
Thanks to Chuck Petterson, Jim Chiang, Nicola Omodei, David Band, Masaharu ... to create your 'own' sky and then reanalyze the DC2 sky on the same region ...
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12/4/09. ESTREMO/WFXRT: WHIM WG. Luigi Piro, A. Corsi, M. Del Santo. IASF-INAF Rome ... Simulations of WHIM absorption features from OVII as expected from ...
At recombination (when the Universe has cooled enough for atoms to form from ... Since all the gas in the Universe starts hot but we now observe some of it cold ...
C - based atomic tools that can be chained together ... Developing comprehensive system tests in multiple source configurations. ... No idea on System Tests yet! ...
Comparison of Observed and Theoretical Fe L Emission from CIE Plasmas Matthew Carpenter UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory Collaborators Lawrence Livermore ...
GLAST (Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope): observations of ... 16 tracker towers of silicon strip detectors CsI calorimeter Anti-coincidence detector (ACD) ...
Successful Launch 10/17/02, desired 3-day elliptical orbit achieved ... 1 telescope in use (~50% of pre-launch efficiency) High background rates for SPI, IBIS ...
Large Area Telescope (LAT) GLAST's main instrument, a follow-on to CGRO's EGRET ... be 30 more sensitive than EGRET! GLAST Science Support Center. February 13, ...
Probing structure formation & evolution with galaxy groups Jesper Rasmussen (Univ. of Birmingham) Main collaborators: T. Ponman S. Raychadhury T. Miles
... to do this in a computationally efficient fashion (see Numerical Recipes) ... The fundamental theorem of Markov Chains shows that for large enough t the Xt ...
INPE Advanced Course on Compact Objects Course IV: Accretion Processes in Neutron Stars & Black Holes Ron Remillard Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research
Evolution of the source and how it relates to other sources. ... building the source list for further ... What are the shape, size and boundaries of my source? ...
BAT sample ... Swift (BAT and XRT) show HEAO-1 CXB wrong in shape (?!) Good agreement with INTEGRAL. BAT clusters show no non-thermal components (agreement ...
But what about radiative excitation? ... In coronal gas, need kTe~DE to collisionally excite lines. ... Excitation is often by recombination cascade ...
Micro-calorimeter were prepared. We use a bash script (simback.sh) ... calorimeter ... RESULTS with WFXRT calorimeter. Results after 50 MC sim. err=1%: T (-25 ...
Imagerie et Spectroscopie X et en astrophysique. Projet m thodologique en labo M2 ... Observations hautes nergies. Chandra: 0.1-10 keV, image spectre ...
... seeing CentOS as a community trend yet SDS will continue regression testing ... SDS team's qualitative impressions from HD requests and from interactions with ...
... flare, moon, EGRET Unids ... It is clear that the moon is something that we are going to have ... the details of the impacts of choices made at the ...
Assumes ballistic trajectories. Favors clumped wind. Blustin ... Available from xstar website, as are ready-made tables. Not in current release version, 2.1kn4 ...
... 1.1.0 available for interested users athttp://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fap/APPHOT ... The ds9 image display program can be used to launch user-defined analysis tasks ...
Final archive and SW migration effort was supported at diminishing levels through FY02. ... COMPASS system at GSFC failed after Y2K debacle. COMPTEL ...
Simulations and Response / R. M. Kippen (LANL) - 1 - GBM BWG Review, 31 August 2004 ... Detector model development nearing completion (3 months behind) ...
... Black Hole Candidates ... Black hole mass may be constrained from X-ray ... Such a massive black holes may not exist in our Galaxy, but not uncommon ...