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    Go into some other profession

        Consider being a Rock Star. It pays very well, and does not demand much in the way of talent, other than a willingness to dress really strangely, act like a manic 5 year old trying to get Mommy's undivided attention, and make a lot of noise. Perks include unprecedented access to sex and drugs, and the quiet satisfaction that you are making a lasting contribution to society.

        How about politics? It also pays well and requires nothing in the way of education or talent. If you are inherently honest, however, that could create problems, since then you would not fit in very well with those already in the business.

        You might try astrology. Most people confuse this with astronomy anyway, since it involves the stars, and anything you might already have learned about them would not be wasted. Some talent is needed: you must be able to present nonsense in a sincere, convincing way. If you insist on being an academic, you could espouse Creation Science, but it would be harder to keep a straight face. 

    If nothing will satisfy you except doing astronomy, then plan your graduate career and subsequent job-hunting with some care, since there aren't many research jobs to be had, and the available ones don't pay very well. Are you sure you want to do this?

    About half of the advertised jobs in astronomy mention that experience with instrumentation of some kind is desirable, if not essential. Just knowing how to surf the internet is not enough, since any 6-year-old can do that; you need to know something about optics, electronics, and real-time programming to be able to build anything useful and get it to work. Note that a shallow acquaintance with these skills, so you can talk to a technician or programmer to get what you want, does not work. Learn to do it yourself, first. Make something, then try to use it to take data. You'll understand far more after klutzing around a bit than you ever will in a formal design course. Learn from others who know how to do these things, read books about them, but above all do them yourself. Having a professional design the instrument for you will get you a skilled, polished, economical design that solves the wrong problem.

    After the relief and euphoria that follows a successful thesis defense has worn off, you'll need to find a job. It may be too late already. Why did you wait until you were finished? Get your advisor to help by asking his friends about job openings, if you are still on speaking terms with him. You are far more likely to get a job if there is someone who knows about you, and wants you to have it, than if you come in cold. Every applicant looks good on paper so it's hard to choose. A friend on the search committee is worth 10 refereed research papers on your resume'. Unjust? Sure. Welcome to planet Earth.

    It has been my experience that groups of people who form entities - companies, university departments, whatever - will hire you to do a job and then do everything they can to keep you from doing it. They have rules. You will have to learn your way around these things to get anything done. Do not be deceived by organization charts: nobody follows them. Find out who really is in charge, and make friends with them. Be totally shameless: pay for the beer, and listen attentively when they whine. Bureaucracies are the same all over the world: they want you to follow the rules, and they don't care if you never get anything done. If you must break their rules (and you must) then give them something on paper so they won't get blamed. It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

    The bureaucratic hierarchy in a university begins with the Department Chairman or Observatory Director and goes up from there. If you want to be a research scientist never accept one of these positions under any circumstances - it's the end of research if you do. A good chairman will protect you from the Administration who think they can correct imperfections by passing new rules for everyone to follow; he will intercept these things, or deflect them, and let you get on with your work. Cherish the good chairmen: they are rare.

    Committee assignments: the theory here is that everybody should share in the burden of administration, taking time away from their research work in the process. If you are very good and conscientious about this stuff you will be given more and more of it, since you get things done, to the lasting benefit of the department administrators. On the other hand if you thoroughly neglect it, fail to call or attend any committee meetings, and generally do a lousy job, you will get fewer and fewer committee assignments, and you can get on with your research. You should not be too blatant, though. When pressed, have a meeting by email - just send each committee member a copy of the topic to be considered (obscurity here is a virtue) and ask them to respond. Make a single file of all the individual responses and send it back to all of them, and a copy to the department chairman. This should create enough dissention and warring messages that you can tell the chairman you are uncomfortable making a decision without a consensus, and that he had better do it. You won't be assigned to that committee again.

    Tenure: Seek it. Job security is comforting, but the main point about tenure is that you get to do what you want in the way of research. You will probably have to pay for it yourself - you won't get departmental funds after that business with the committee assignments - but you can find grant funds if you know what you want to do and can describe it well. You don't have to follow the "mainstream" of current astronomical research, and you shouldn't. If your primary goal is to learn how the universe really works, and not just to get your name in the newspaper, look where others are not exploring. Nature is so rich you are unlikely to look carefully at anything without learning something new, particularly in unexplored territory. New instruments are wonderful here. If you follow current fads in astronomy you'll just be wasting your time - the fad-followers will publish what they find and you can read about it, for free. If you have to rush to publish something, quick before you get scooped, you are doing the wrong research. Stop it, and do something nobody thinks is interesting. Trust me: it will be.

    Teaching: Learn from it. Rutherford's adage - that if you can't explain to a barmaid in five minutes what you are doing, you don't really know what you are doing - is true wisdom. Teaching a class on elementary astronomy to undergraduates is the best way I know of to get the basic ideas clearly in mind. If their eyes glaze over at some explanation, and they fail to understand it, chances are you don't really understand it either. It's hard to get enthusiastic about the Doppler shift after a few years, but you can do it. Try doing it without mentioning waves. You can; it works. In particular, cherish the questions students ask. They may sound dumb, but they usually aren't - misinformed, maybe, or naive, which can be corrected - and they are sometimes profound, because the students are using their "common sense" - their own, unique worldmodel - to formulate the question. I have received, gratefully, several research ideas from the questions asked by undergraduate non-science majors. Research institutions usually justify their priorities with the argument that students benefit by learning directly from the researchers themselves. No argument, but they rarely mention that it is a two way street. The idea about the two sets of rules in physics - one set for the future and one for the past - came to me while I was rehearsing an undergraduate lecture on quantum mechanics in the shower.

    Research: Do whatever you burn to do. If your innate curiosity doesn't burn to learn about it, perhaps it's not so important. Passion is the key, not mild curiosity. Further, try to keep a mental file of all the astronomical problems you know about, along with a file of things you have real doubts about, even though it may be standard dogma. My mental image of such files is like a row of small baskets, each with its own problem, with a red flag in front of each one. When I learn something new, or hear of a new technology that might be made into a new instrument, I go down the line of flags with it, poking at each one to see if any one them give - that is, might now be solved or explored with the new idea in hand.

    Keep a mental file of research work that will probably pay off, along with a file of how to do it - what instrument to use or build, what measurements to make, how to extract the physics from the data. If you do this routinely, you will end up with a file of more useful research than you can do in a lifetime. When the opportunity arises (e.g. when you have a student looking for a project) give the idea away. If someone else uses it to learn more about the universe, then you will know it too, and you didn't even have to do the work! I have encountered astronomers who like to keep their ideas secret, and not tell anybody, so they can work on them themselves, and get all the glory and credit. I've never understood this. I guess they think they may never have another good research idea, so they covet what they have. In my experience, you can give them away with both hands and still have more than you can ever pursue yourself.

    Discoveries: Make them. Newton said he solved problems by keeping them "...continually before the mind" - that is, by thinking about them all the time, any time, when you aren't preoccupied with doing something else. When I am on autopilot - in the shower, driving to work, in a committee meeting - I usually have a problem I'm thinking about. I wake up with it in mind, and go to sleep with it in mind. I don't solve all of them, but every once in a while I do: all the puzzlements, the disconnected fragments that seem relevant, fall into place, and I see that one basic idea can fit them all, comfortably, with no fragments left over. This is sometimes called the "Aha!" experience, and it is wonderful. You suddenly understand something that was mysterious before, it all fits nicely into your worldmodel, and you can now connect it with everything else you know. Once in a while it will be new - that is, will be something nobody else knows. Then the satisfaction of having found it out is really intense, and is the basic reward from doing astronomy in the first place. There is no feeling quite like it.

    Careful, now. Be sure it's right, that you can not only defend it, but that you can explain it simply. Also make sure you have not found it just because you wanted to, because you were sure that nature worked this way. Make sure it's really so and you can prove it. Read the history of astronomy so you won't be condemned to repeat it. Look up William Pickering, who thought the moons of Jupiter were elliptical and talked a lot of other (visual) observers into believing it too. Remember Percival Lowell and his canals on Mars. Read about the precession of the orbit of Mercury, and how it was "solved" by finding the planet Vulcan as the nearest planet to the sun. If you really expected nature to behave as you have just found, be doubly suspicious. But if it's both new and right, practice how you will explain it to Rutherford's barmaid in less than five minutes - they are more rushed now than they were then, and probably less interested in science.

    Above all, have fun. ]]></description>
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    <title>Dave Green's `cubehelix' colour scheme</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-22T16:28:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~dag/CUBEHELIX/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have written up the implementation of a colour scheme -- called `cubehelix' -- which is intended to be perceived as increasing in intensity. This goes from black to white, deviating away from a pure greyscale (i.e. the diagonal from black to white in a colour cube) using a tapered helix in the colour cube, while ensuring a continuous increase in perceived intensity. The deviation from the diagonal takes into account that red, green and blue are not perceived equally in terms of intensity. This colour scheme prints as a monotonically increasing greyscale on black and white postscript devices.]]></description>
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    <title>An advanced scattered moonlight model for Cerro Paranal | A&amp;A</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-20T16:06:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The largest natural source of light at night is the Moon, and it is the major contributor to the astronomical sky background. Being able to accurately predict the sky background, including scattered moonlight is important for scheduling astronomical observations. We have developed an improved scattered moonlight model, in which the components are computed with a better physical understanding as opposed to the simple empirical fit in the frequently used photometric model of Krisciunas & Schaefer (1991, PASP, 103, 1033). Our spectroscopic model can better trace the spectral trends of scattered moonlight for any position of the Moon and target observation. This is the first scattered moonlight model that we know of which is this physical and versatile. We have incorporated an observed solar spectrum, accurate lunar albedo fit, and elaborate scattering and absorption calculations that include scattering off of molecules and aerosols. It was designed for Cerro Paranal, but can be modified for any location with known atmospheric properties. Throughout the optical range, the uncertainty is less than 20%. This advanced scattered moonlight model can predict the amount of scattered moonlight for any given geometry of the Moon and target, and lunar phase for the entire optical spectrum.]]></description>
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    <title>Ivezic, Z., Connolly, A.J., VanderPlas, J.T., Gray, A.: Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data. (eBook and Cloth)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-06T10:46:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ 

As telescopes, detectors, and computers grow ever more powerful, the volume of data at the disposal of astronomers and astrophysicists will enter the petabyte domain, providing accurate measurements for billions of celestial objects. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the cutting-edge statistical methods needed to efficiently analyze complex data sets from astronomical surveys such as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, the Dark Energy Survey, and the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. It serves as a practical handbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in physics and astronomy, and as an indispensable reference for researchers.

Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy presents a wealth of practical analysis problems, evaluates techniques for solving them, and explains how to use various approaches for different types and sizes of data sets. For all applications described in the book, Python code and example data sets are provided. The supporting data sets have been carefully selected from contemporary astronomical surveys (for example, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and are easy to download and use. The accompanying Python code is publicly available, well documented, and follows uniform coding standards. Together, the data sets and code enable readers to reproduce all the figures and examples, evaluate the methods, and adapt them to their own fields of interest.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://hzgallery.org/">
    <title>The Habitable Zone Gallery</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-28T18:20:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hzgallery.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This site is dedicated to tracking the orbits of exoplanets in relation to their Habitable Zones.]]></description>
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    <title>Aladin Sky Atlas</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-21T12:15:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, ]]></description>
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    <title>Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-18T14:12:14+00:00</dc:date>
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Byurakan  Astrophysical  Observatory(BAO) was founded in 1946 on the initiative

 of academician Victor Ambartsumian, who became the first director of the observatory. It is located on the picturesque southern slope of the mountain Aragatz. At the observatory five observational instruments are installed the larger ones being 2.6 m Cassegrain telescope and 1m Schmidt telescope. Scientific researches of the observatory are related mainly with the instability phenomena taking place in the Universe. Since 1946 numerous scientific meetings were held in Byurakan including four symposia and a colloquium of the IAU.]]></description>
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    <title>XDF Data Release</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-05T16:44:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/xdf/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This summary describes the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) project data release. The XDF includes all optical and infrared data taken by Hubble covering the original Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) program, with just a few exceptions. Small amounts of data taken with unusual or rarely used filters and spectroscopic data are not included. The XDF also includes images which only partially cover the HUDF, as shown in the figure below. The weight maps are appropriately adjusted for the partial coverage.]]></description>
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    <title>The HST eXtreme Deep Field (XDF): Combining All ACS and WFC3/IR Data on the HUDF Region into the Deepest Field Ever - Abstract - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series - IOPscience</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-05T16:42:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/209/1/6/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) combines data from 10 years of observations with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide-Field Camera 3 Infra-Red (WFC3/IR) into the deepest image of the sky ever in the optical/near-IR. Since the initial observations of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) in 2003, numerous surveys and programs, including supernovae follow-up, HUDF09, CANDELS, and HUDF12, have contributed additional imaging data across this region. However, these images have never been combined and made available as one complete ultra-deep image dataset. We combine them now with the XDF program. Our new and improved processing techniques provide higher quality reductions of the total dataset. All WFC3/IR and optical ACS data sets have been fully combined and accurately matched, resulting in the deepest imaging ever taken at these wavelengths, ranging from 29.1 to 30.3 AB mag (5σ in a 0.''35 diameter aperture) in 9 filters. The combined image therefore reaches to 31.2 AB mag 5σ (32.9 at 1σ) for a flat f ν source. The gains in the optical for the four filters done in the original ACS HUDF correspond to a typical improvement of 0.15 mag, with gains of 0.25 mag in the deepest areas. Such gains are equivalent to adding ~130 to ~240 orbits of ACS data to the HUDF. Improved processing alone results in a typical gain of ~0.1 mag. Our 5σ (optical+near-IR) SExtractor catalogs reveal about 14,140 sources in the full field and about 7121 galaxies in the deepest part of the XDF.]]></description>
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    <title>International Astronomy Meetings - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-29T14:11:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This list of astronomy meetings was originally compiled by Liz Bryson, the now retired librarian of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation, from 1996 to 2011. The list is currently archived and maintained by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) of NRC Herzberg. Use the Search menu to view meetings by month or year or by keyword. Included with each entry of the Meetings List are links to the meeting web page, contact e-mail addresses, and abstracts provided by NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) if, and when they are available.]]></description>
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Conversion from AB magnitudes to Johnson magnitudes
Photon Flux
Filter Transformations
Night Sky Brightnesses]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ astroplotlib is a multi-language astronomical library of plots.
It is a collection of templates that are useful to create paper-quality figures.
So far all codes are written in IDL, some in Python and very few in Mathematica. ]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:programming"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://asimpleweblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/julian-date-calculator/">
    <title>Julian Date calculator | A Simple Weblog</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-02T15:16:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://asimpleweblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/julian-date-calculator/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[simple julian date converter just using python built-ins]]></description>
<dc:subject>python astronomy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:d08de8924639/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://code.google.com/p/astrolibpy/">
    <title>astrolibpy - The set of python routines for astronomy - Google Project Hosting</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-01T15:00:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://code.google.com/p/astrolibpy/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This small project is basically the collection of different python programs, which I wrote or I converted from IDL. Some of the routines copy the functionality of astrolib routines or other IDL plotting/fitting(e.g. MPFIT) routines, some others I wrote from scratch. The initial goal of the project was to make it easier to go from IDL to Python by having interfaces closely resembling IDL ones. Now I just commit here whatever small library-type programs I write. I understand that the name "astrolibpy" may be to ambitious for the project, but too late to change it anyway. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy python</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:d283774392a1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.eso.org/public/videos/ann13067a/">
    <title>ALMA from the Air | ESO</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-15T12:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.eso.org/public/videos/ann13067a/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
Choose your language:
Deutsch Deutsch Português Brasileiro Deutsch Português español Deutsch español
ALMA from the Air

This video begins near the ground of the Chajnantor Plateau, at 5000 metres altitude in the Chilean Andes. The video camera being used is mounted to a hexacopter and as it begins its ascent we get a magnificent view of the 58 antennae that make up the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array.]]></description>
<dc:subject>video astronomy science eso</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:5a29de7e738e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll2/id/174/">
    <title>Edwin Powell Hubble looking in the Schmidt telescope. :: Photographs</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-04T11:28:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll2/id/174/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Edwin Powell Hubble looking in the Schmidt telescope. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>telescope photo astronomy history</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:9312829a33c2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://archive.eso.org/asm/ambient-server">
    <title>ESO Ambient Conditions Database</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-04T18:19:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://archive.eso.org/asm/ambient-server</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ESO Observatories
Ambient Conditions Database]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/772/1/3">
    <title>The Angular Distribution of Lyα Resonant Photons Emerging from an Optically Thick Medium - Abstract - The Astrophysical Journal - IOPscience</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-28T16:31:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/772/1/3</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We investigate the angular distribution of Lyα photons scattering or emerging from an optically thick medium. Since the evolution of specific intensity I in frequency space and angular space are coupled with each other, we first develop the WENO numerical solver to find the time-dependent solutions of the integro-differential equation of I in frequency and angular space simultaneously. We first show that the solutions with the Eddington approximation, which assume that I is linearly dependent on the angular variable μ, yield similar frequency profiles of the photon flux as those without the Eddington approximation. However, the solutions of the μ distribution evolution are significantly different from those given by the Eddington approximation. First, the angular distribution of I is found to be substantially dependent on the frequency of the photons. For photons with the resonant frequency ν0, I contains only a linear term of μ. For photons with frequencies at the double peaks of the flux, the μ-distribution is highly anisotropic; most photons are emitted radially forward. Moreover, either at ν0 or at the double peaks, the μ distributions actually are independent of the initial μ distribution of photons of the source. This is because the photons with frequencies either at ν0 or the double peaks undergo the process of forgetting their initial conditions due to resonant scattering. We also show that the optically thick medium is a collimator of photons at the double peaks. Photons from the double peaks form a forward beam with a very small opening angle.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:fb98bddbe1a3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7407/full/nature11256.html">
    <title>High velocity dispersion in a rare grand-design spiral galaxy at redshift z = 2.18 : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-25T22:39:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7407/full/nature11256.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So-called grand-design spiral galaxies feature prominent and well-defined spiral arms, rather than the arguably less striking multi-arm flocculent spiral structure. Grand-design spiral galaxies are relatively common in the local Universe, but uncommon at redshifts of z > 2, prompting suggestions that conditions in the early Universe favoured the formation of less well-defined clumpy galaxies. But this paper reports observations of a distant grand design spiral galaxy Q2343-BX442 at z = 2.18 that show that the disk is dynamically hot — a condition that was thought to favour clumpy structures. The data indicate that the galaxy is a thick disk undergoing a minor merger with another system, and it may be this merger that is driving the formation of short-lived spiral structure.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:8416e117d46f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/Info/TelInst/Inst/FRODOspec/">
    <title>The Liverpool Telescope : Information : Telescope + Instruments : Instruments : FRODOspec</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-10T10:09:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/Info/TelInst/Inst/FRODOspec/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FRODOSpec (Fibre-fed RObotic Dual-beam Optical Spectrograph) is a SRIF collaboration with the University of Southampton to develop a multi-purpose integral-field input spectrograph for the Liverpool Telescope. As the name implies it is a dual beam design with the beam split before the entrance to the individually optimized collimators. Two resolution options are available on each arm. With low resolution selected on each arm, the entire spectrum from the blue cutoff of the optical fibres (around 3800 Angstroms) to the red limit of the detectors at around 1 micron can be obtained in a single shot. The low resolution is implemented using conventional transmission gratings.]]></description>
<dc:subject>instrument astronomy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:3ae6436c01ba/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://esoads.eso.org/abs/1991PASP..103.1033K">
    <title>A model of the brightness of moonlight</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-04T12:50:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://esoads.eso.org/abs/1991PASP..103.1033K</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this paper, measurements of the sky brightness from the 2800-m level of Mauna Kea are reported. In addition, a model is presented for predicting the moonlight as a function of the moon's phase, the zenith distance of the moon, the zenith distance of the sky position, the angular separation of the moon and sky position, and the local extinction coefficient. The model equations can be quickly calculated on a pocket calculator. A comparison of the model with lunar data and with some Russian solar data shows the accuracy of the predictions to range from 8 percent to 23 percent. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>moon astronomy paper science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:d5398282dd20/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4842">
    <title>[1305.4842] Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation With Pulsars</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-03T21:10:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4842</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ An external reference system suitable for deep space navigation can be defined by fast spinning and strongly magnetized neutron stars, called pulsars. Their beamed periodic signals have timing stabilities comparable to atomic clocks and provide characteristic temporal signatures that can be used as natural navigation beacons, quite similar to the use of GPS satellites for navigation on Earth. By comparing pulse arrival times measured on-board a spacecraft with predicted pulse arrivals at a reference location, the spacecraft position can be determined autonomously and with high accuracy everywhere in the solar system and beyond. The unique properties of pulsars make clear already today that such a navigation system will have its application in future astronautics. In this paper we describe the basic principle of spacecraft navigation using pulsars and report on the current development status of this novel technology. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy paper arxiv space science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:3ae608114d6b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astrophysics+and+astroparticles/book/978-3-642-21814-9">
    <title>Observational Astrophysics</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-01T18:36:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astrophysics+and+astroparticles/book/978-3-642-21814-9</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is the updated, widely revised, restructured and expanded third edition of Léna et al.'s successful work Observational Astrophysics. It presents a synthesis on tools and methods of observational astrophysics of the early 21st century. Written specifically for astrophysicists and graduate students, this textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical limitations on the ultimate performance that an astronomical system may reach, rather than presenting particular systems in detail.
In little more than a decade there has been extraordinary progress in imaging and detection technologies, in the fields of adaptive optics, optical interferometry, in the sub-millimetre waveband, observation of neutrinos, discovery of exoplanets, to name but a few examples.
The work deals with ground-based and space-based astronomy and their respective fields. And it also presents the ambitious concepts behind space missions aimed for the next decades. Avoiding particulars, it covers the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum, and provides an introduction to the new forms of astronomy becoming possible with gravitational waves and neutrinos. It also treats numerical aspects of observational astrophysics: signal processing, astronomical databases and virtual observatories.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>book astronomy astrophysics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:f620672ab9f1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v81/i6/p414_s1?isAuthorized=no">
    <title>Modern cosmology: Interactive computer simulations that use recent observational surveys | Browse - American Journal of Physics</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-30T19:56:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v81/i6/p414_s1?isAuthorized=no</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We present a collection of new, open-source computational tools for numerically modeling recent large-scale observational data sets using modern cosmology theory. These tools allow both students and researchers to constrain the parameter values in competitive cosmological models, thereby discovering both the accelerated expansion of the universe and its composition (e.g., dark matter and dark energy). These programs have several features to help the non-cosmologist build an understanding of cosmological models and their relation to observational data, including a built-in collection of several real observational data sets. The current list of built-in observations includes several recent supernovae Type-Ia surveys, baryon acoustic oscillations, the cosmic microwave background radiation, gamma-ray bursts, and measurements of the Hubble parameter. In this article, we discuss specific results for testing cosmological models using these observational data.]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy teaching science education physics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:ca537ce5797d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7428/full/492192a.html?message=remove">
    <title>Astronomy: Clearing up the dust : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-28T16:46:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7428/full/492192a.html?message=remove</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Constructing the history of star formation over cosmic time requires an understanding of how starlight is absorbed by dust in galaxies. It now seems that there is less universality in such absorption across galaxies than expected.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science astronomy news</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:fa9ddf6efd54/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sw376/XDF/">
    <title>XDF Multi-wavelength</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-20T16:20:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sw376/XDF/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) is a project to combine all available Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Observations of the XDF field come from 19 different programmes though with the majority coming from 3 programmes: HUDF, HUDF09, HUDF12. The original HUDF. With the installation of Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in 2009 the HUDF09 programme obtained deep near-IR observations of a portion of the HUDF. This was further augmented by the HUDF12 programme.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science work web web2.0 hubble astronomy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:c0485390a54f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://wincontact32naturwunder.blogspot.de/">
    <title>Naturwunder ...</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-14T21:32:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wincontact32naturwunder.blogspot.de/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Blog v. Dipl.-Phys. Mathias Scholz  
]]></description>
<dc:subject>blog physik deutsch astronomie astronomy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:6d54f8a2e5d3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dan.iel.fm/">
    <title>Dan Foreman-Mackey</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-04T16:48:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dan.iel.fm/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm a graduate student at NYU working on next generation astronomical data analysis under the supervision of David W. Hogg. When I'm not writing code, I'm probably climbing rocks somewhere. Take a look at my C.V. or scroll down to read about some of the projects that I'm working on.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy code python</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:b056a2d05c28/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://aer.aas.org/">
    <title>Astronomy Education Review</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-02T14:17:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://aer.aas.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Astronomy Education Review (AER) is a web-based journal for everyone who works in astronomy and space science education. Published by the American Astronomical Society, the journal welcomes research papers, short articles on innovative work, and comparative reviews of resources related to education and outreach. All papers and articles are refereed.]]></description>
<dc:subject>work science education astronomy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:ce01793f7fed/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5961">
    <title>[1303.5961] Paper-and-pencil cosmological calculator</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-28T12:43:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5961</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The paper-and-pencil calculator is a cosmological nomogram which allows to find relations between redshift, distance, age of the Universe, physical and angular sizes, luminosity and apparent magnitude for the standard cosmological model with parameters from the Planck mission. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy work teaching cosmology science paper arxiv</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:17f41db12f0f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:teaching"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.springer.com/astronomy/book/978-1-4614-3766-6">
    <title>Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-01T11:55:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springer.com/astronomy/book/978-1-4614-3766-6</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Although this book presents comprehensive material on the interstellar medium, it has a simpler presentation and is intended specifically for astrophysics students
    Simple numerical estimates are given throughout the book, making it an ideal undergraduate textbook
    Offers more than just basic knowledge of the structure and evolution of galaxies

The space between the stars includes a large variety of objects, where physical processes occur that are fundamental for the structure and evolution of galaxies. This book gives the reader some basic knowledge of these processes and at the same time, presents estimates of the main quantities relevant to the study of the interstellar medium. The book could be used as an introductory course on the interstellar medium  by science students or by readers interested in astrophysics with an adequate physics and mathematics background.]]></description>
<dc:subject>book astronomy work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:fbaacab71ca7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/halo2013/index.php">
    <title>The Physical Link between Galaxies and their Halos, An International Conference, Garching bei München, Germany, 25-29 June 2013</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-18T13:15:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/halo2013/index.php</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Galaxies are surrounded by extended halos of stars, gas and dark matter. The stars appear to be debris from accreted dwarfs. The gas flows both in and out, forming hydrostatic atmospheres in massive systems. The dark matter dominates the overall mass budget, providing the gravitational context for the growth and evolution of the central galaxy. Recent observations have shed light on all these components: resolved star studies and low surface brightness photometry on the stellar halo; UV absorption, X-ray emission, and stacked 21cm and SZ measurements on circumgalactic gas; and galaxy-galaxy lensing and dynamical studies based on a variety of tracers on dark matter halos. In our current paradigm for structure formation, the three kinds of halos interact strongly and play an important role in shaping the galaxies we see. This conference aims to bring together observers and theorists in the broad range of areas providing insight into the physical mechanisms governing these galaxy-halo connections. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>conference astronomy work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:c312023d1823/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.astropy.org/">
    <title>Astropy</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-13T16:55:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.astropy.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
The Astropy project is a common effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy that brings together almost 100 developers from around the world.]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy programming python work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:1ddcdce23589/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:python"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/index.php?title=S2PLOT">
    <title>S2PLOT - S2PLOT</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-28T09:56:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/index.php?title=S2PLOT</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[S2PLOT is an advanced three-dimensional plotting library with support for standard and enhanced display devices. The S2PLOT library was written in C and can be used with C, C++ and FORTRAN programs on GNU/Linux and Apple/OSX. The S2PLOT architecture supports dynamic geometry and can be used to plot both static and time-evolving data sets. S2PLOT is based on the OpenGL graphics library.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>science work 3d astronomy visualization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:2eb2111b7d5e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:visualization"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/msshin/science/code/index.html">
    <title>SDSS tools and other codes developed by Min-Su Shin</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-30T22:45:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/msshin/science/code/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've developed several scripts and codes for my research. Some of them might be useful to other people. Feel free to use and modify the following codes. However, please let me know it. (E-mail address : Min-Su.Shin @ astro.ox.ac.uk)]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy software code script scripting science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:cd1236353479/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:code"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:scripting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:science"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta-astronautica">
    <title>Acta Astronautica - Elsevier</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-26T20:33:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta-astronautica</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Acta Astronautica
Sponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics

Acta Astronautica is sponsored by the Academy of Astronautics. Content is based on original contributions in all fields of basic, engineering, life and social space sciences and of space technology related to:

    the peaceful scientific exploration of space,


    its exploitation for human welfare and progress


    conception, design, development and operation of space-borne and Earth-based systems

In addition to regular issues, the journal publishes selected proceedings of the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC), transactions of the IAA and special issues on topics of current interest, such as microgravity, space station technology, geostationary orbits, and space economics. Other subject areas include satellite technology, space transportation and communications, space energy, power and propulsion, astrodynamics, extraterrestrial intelligence and Earth observations.]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy journal science exploration resource reading</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:163a186c9131/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:exploration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:resource"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:reading"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004000/">
    <title>SVS Animation 4000 - Moon Phase and Libration, 2013</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-25T16:54:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004000/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2013, at hourly intervals. Until the end of 2013, the initial Dial-A-Moon image will be the frame from this animation for the current hour.]]></description>
<dc:subject>moon astronomy visualization video teaching nasa</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:c74ba999da39/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:visualization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:video"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:teaching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:nasa"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~forster/SINS/sins_nmfs.html">
    <title>The SINS Survey</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-21T09:41:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~forster/SINS/sins_nmfs.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SINS, the Spectroscopic Imaging survey in the Near-infrared with SINFONI, is a large and coherent program to investigate in detail the dynamics and physical properties of representative samples of distant luminous galaxy populations. This on-going survey is providing new insights into the assembly and the evolution of young galaxies present in the Universe just a few billion years after the Big Bang. SINS takes advantage of the unique opportunities afforded by SINFONI at ESO's Very Large Telescope, a near-infrared integral field spectrometer combined with an adaptive optics system that delivers sharp images simultaneously with high resolution spectral information. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy survey</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:bc55e50fda0d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:astronomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:survey"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://astroml.github.com/">
    <title>astroML: Python Datamining for Astronomy — astroML 0.1 documentation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-20T19:35:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://astroml.github.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AstroML is a Python module for machine learning and data mining built on numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib, and distributed under the 3-clause BSD license. It contains a growing library of statistical and machine learning routines for analyzing astronomical data in python, loaders for several open astronomical datasets, and a large suite of examples of analyzing and visualizing astronomical datasets.]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy python</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:0698a7785477/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:astronomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:python"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://jsky.sourceforge.net/">
    <title>JSky</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-16T18:24:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jsky.sourceforge.net/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JSky - Java Components for Astronomy

The aim of the JSky project is to build a collection of reusable Java components for use in astronomy. The project originally grew out of the development of the Skycat application at ESO and a first draft of the design ideas were presented at the ADASS'99 conference. JSky was originally developed at ESO and then later as part of the Gemini Observing Tool , which astronomers use to plan their observations at the Gemini Telescope. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy software</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:97c246135c7f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:astronomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:software"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.pa.uky.edu/~peter/atomic/index.html">
    <title>Atomic Line List v2.04</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-15T20:45:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pa.uky.edu/~peter/atomic/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a compilation of approximately 923,000 allowed, intercombination and forbidden atomic transitions with wavelengths in the range from 0.5 Å to 1000 µm. It's primary intention is to allow the identification of observed atomic absorption or emission features. The wavelengths in this list are all calculated from the difference between the energy of the upper and lower level of the transition. No attempt has been made to include observed wavelengths. Most of the atomic energy level data have been taken from the Atomic Spectra Database provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:4bf0a10b94a5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:astronomy"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/support/tools/vlsr.html">
    <title>Ed Murphy's VLSR Calculator Version 1.0</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-13T09:06:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/support/tools/vlsr.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This routine will calculate the radial velocity of the observer with respect to a given RA and DEC on the date of observation for a number of popular standards of rest.]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy work calculator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:ac20ef32ca38/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:astronomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:calculator"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3384">
    <title>[0903.3384] Low-Energy Astrophysics: Stimulating the Reduction of Energy Consumption in the Next Decade</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-30T20:03:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3384</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this paper we address the consumption of energy by astronomers while performing their professional duties. Although we find that astronomy uses a negligible fraction of the US energy budget, the rate at which energy is consumed by an average astronomer is similar to that of a typical high-flying businessperson. We review some of the ways in which astronomers are already acting to reduce their energy consumption. In the coming decades, all citizens will have to reduce their energy consumption to conserve fossil fuel reserves and to help avert a potentially catastrophic change in the Earth's climate. The challenges are the same for astronomers as they are for everyone: decreasing the distances we travel and investing in energy-efficient infrastructure. The high profile of astronomy in the media, and the great public interest in our field, can play a role in promoting energy-awareness to the wider population. Our specific recommendations are therefore to 1) reduce travel when possible, through efficient meeting organization, and by investing in high-bandwidth video conference facilities and virtual-world software, 2) create energy-efficient observatories, computing centers and workplaces, powered by sustainable energy resources, and 3) actively publicize these pursuits. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>arxiv paper astronomy environment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:8c21d2aeb389/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:arxiv"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.geckzilla.com/">
    <title>Geckzilla.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-28T18:04:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.geckzilla.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This place is full of art by Judy Schmidt. That'd be me. I'm glad you stopped by but there's not much to know about the website itself so you should probably look at the art instead.]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy art inspiration</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:2f6076ed2011/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11572.html">
    <title>An Earth-mass planet orbiting [agr] Centauri B : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-25T21:31:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11572.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Exoplanets down to the size of Earth have been found, but not in the habitable zone—that is, at a distance from the parent star at which water, if present, would be liquid. There are planets in the habitable zone of stars cooler than our Sun, but for reasons such as tidal locking and strong stellar activity, they are unlikely to harbour water–carbon life as we know it. The detection of a habitable Earth-mass planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun is extremely difficult, because such a signal is overwhelmed by stellar perturbations. Here we report the detection of an Earth-mass planet orbiting our neighbour star α Centauri B, a member of the closest stellar system to the Sun. The planet has an orbital period of 3.236 days and is about 0.04 astronomical units from the star (one astronomical unit is the Earth–Sun distance).
]]></description>
<dc:subject>research astronomy paper</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:dbc236570266/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:paper"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://panther-observatory.com/">
    <title>PantherObservatory</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-25T20:49:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://panther-observatory.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><dc:subject>astronomy photography science space</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:83be949eb874/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:photography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/t:space"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5113">
    <title>[1209.5113] The Center is Everywhere</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-10T10:02:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5113</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Center is Everywhere" is a sculpture by Josiah McElheny, currently (through October 14, 2012) on exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The sculpture is based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using hundreds of glass crystals and lamps suspended from brass rods to represent the three-dimensional structure mapped by the SDSS through one of its 2000+ spectroscopic plugplates. This article describes the scientific ideas behind this sculpture, emphasizing the principle of the statistical homogeneity of cosmic structure in the presence of local complexity. The title of the sculpture is inspired by the work of the French revolutionary Louis Auguste Blanqui, whose 1872 book "Eternity Through The Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis" was the first to raise the spectre of the infinite replicas expected in an infinite, statistically homogeneous universe. Puzzles of infinities, probabilities, and replicas continue to haunt modern fiction and contemporary discussions of inflationary cosmology. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>arxiv astronomy art</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://roban.github.com/CosmoloPy/">
    <title>CosmoloPy: a cosmology package for Python.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-08T16:30:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://roban.github.com/CosmoloPy/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ a cosmology package for Python. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy python cosmology programming code</dc:subject>
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    <title>MOSFIRE Home Page</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-02T15:29:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://irlab.astro.ucla.edu/mosfire/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The leaders of the MOSFIRE team are Prof. Ian McLean (UCLA) and Prof. Charles Steidel (Caltech), with other leading roles in instrumentation, optics and astronomical software being played by Keith Matthews (Caltech), Prof. Harland Epps (UCSC), and Prof. James Larkin (UCLA) respectively. The project is managed by Sean Adkins for the W.M. Keck Observatory. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy instrument work</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:d352fcc7cfd6/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>CASA</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-30T16:51:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://casa.nrao.edu/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications package, is being developed with the primary goal of supporting the data post-processing needs of the next generation of radio astronomical telescopes such as ALMA and EVLA. The package can process both interferometric and single dish data, and is developed by an international consortium of scientists based at the National Radio Astronomical Observatory (NRAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (CSIRO/ATNF), and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) under the guidance of NRAO. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy python software 3d work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:5903b04b1d1d/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>PyCosmic: a robust method to detect cosmics in CALIFA and other fiber-fed integral-field spectroscopy datasets | A&amp;A</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-29T19:45:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&amp;access=doi&amp;doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201220102&amp;Itemid=129</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We developed a novel algorithm, PyCosmic, which combines the edge-detection algorithm of L.A.Cosmic with a point-spread function convolution scheme. We generated mock data to compute the efficiency of different algorithms for a wide range of characteristic fiber-fed IFS datasets using the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer (PMAS) and the VIsible MultiObject Spectrograph (VIMOS) IFS instruments as representative cases.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Knusper2000/b:a99cce0167b2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://asterisk.apod.com/wp/">
    <title>Astrophysics Source Code Library</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-29T12:52:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://asterisk.apod.com/wp/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free on-line registry for source codes of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists, and lists codes which have been used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications. ASCL entries are indexed by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).]]></description>
<dc:subject>work astronomy software code programming repository science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qdeblend/">
    <title>QDeblend3D | Free Science &amp; Engineering software downloads at SourceForge.net</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-21T13:45:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sourceforge.net/projects/qdeblend/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[QDeblend3D is a dedicated software tool for the deblending of QSO and host galaxy emission in 3D datacubes obtained with optical IFU spectrographs. The GUI allows to control the process and to visualize the results with an integrated cube viewer.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/310/1512/347">
    <title>The Anthropic Principle and its Implications for Biological Evolution [and Discussion]</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-16T19:00:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/310/1512/347</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Authors:
    B. Carter and
    W. H. McCrea

Abstract:
In the form in which it was originally expounded, the anthropic principle was presented as a warning to astrophysical and cosmological theorists of the risk of error in the interpretation of astronomical and cosmological information unless due account is taken of the biological restraints under which the information was acquired. However, the converse message is also valid: biological theorists also run the risk of error in the interpretation of the evolutionary record unless they take due heed of the astrophysical restraints under which evolution took place. After an introductory discussion of the ordinary (`weak') anthropic principle and of its more contestable (`strong') analogue, a new application of the former to the problem of the evolution of terrestrial life is presented. It is shown that the evidence suggests that the evolutionary chain included at least one but probably not more than two links that were highly improbable (a priori) in the available time interval.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astronomy,+observations+and+techniques/journal/10686">
    <title>Experimental Astronomy - incl. option to publish open access</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-16T20:47:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astronomy,+observations+and+techniques/journal/10686</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
    Reports on progress in astrophysical instrumentation and methods needed to conduct astronomy at all wavelength fields
    Covers detection techniques, instruments, and data analysis and image processing techniques
    Presents full-length articles, research letters and reviews and occasional special in-depth issues on specific projects and techniques
    Features short publication times after acceptance and colour printing free of charge

Many new instruments for observing astronomical objects at a variety of wavelengths have been and are continually being developed. Consequently, a vast amount of effort is being put into new data analysis techniques to cope with rivers of data collected by these instruments.
Experimental Astronomy is a medium for the publication of papers of contemporary scientific interest on astrophysical instrumentation and methods necessary for the conduct of astronomy at all wavelength fields.
Experimental Astronomy publishes full-length articles, research letters and reviews on developments in detection techniques, instruments, and data analysis and image processing techniques. Occasional special issues are published, giving an in-depth presentation of the instrumentation and/or analysis connected with specific projects, such as satellite experiments or ground-based telescopes, or of specialized techniques.]]></description>
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    <title>Mining the astronomical literature - O'Reilly Radar</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-15T19:29:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/data-mining-the-literature.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A clever data project shows the promise of open and freely accessible academic literature.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://astrofrog.github.com/idlsave/">
    <title>IDLSave - a Python module to read IDL 'save' files</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-01T16:21:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://astrofrog.github.com/idlsave/</link>
    <dc:creator>Knusper2000</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
IDLSave is a pure python module to import variables from IDL 'save' files (e.g. .sav) into python, and does not require IDL to work. It has a very simple command-line interface, and converts all IDL variables to python types. Arrays are converted to Numpy arrays, and Structures are converted to Numpy record arrays. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>python work astronomy idl</dc:subject>
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