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8 Oct 2009: The good news is that the number of frames effected should not increase further(needs to be checked) so the fraction of pointings effected in this way should decrease in the

18 Jun 2007: Good news for TPF (look at oldstars). Bad news for explaining systemswith 25µm excess many of whichhave f>1000fmax and so must betransient. ... Late heavy bombardment model of (Gomes et al. 2005). 20. Conclusions 1 (Good news)Most disk radial structure

26 Jan 2006: The good news is these artefacts are non-astronomical in appearance and do not "talk" across the detector quadrant boundaries, or between detectors; the bad news is that they do not ... of reset/reads, filter, persists over many frames etc. The good news

12 Jan 2009: Sub-mm. Far-IR. Mid-IR. Good news: different wavelengths see different grain sizes and different structures. ... Bad news: both spatial distribution τ1/r and temperature of far-IR dust implies mass loss of 2M/Myr.

8 Mar 2006: GOOD NEWS. The 1.0 to 1.8 micron IR sky is very dark between the OH lines which contain 95% of broad band background. ... THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS. The narrowest gaps are narrower than in the optical; filter widths of 0.1 per cent are needed compared with 1%

23 Jan 2003: FWHM alternative: image FWHM summation out to kFWHM, since for standard profiles is at least as good as above two finely? ... with some tuning during commissioning and science verification. Further products ---------------- PSF generation methods,

15 Apr 2006: Infrared OH Sky Observations: Mahaira etal, 1993, PASP. GOOD NEWS. The 1.0 to 1.8 micron IR sky is very dark between the OH lines which contain 95% of broad ... THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS. The narrowest gaps are narrower than in the optical; filter widths of

19 Mar 2003: with some tuning during commissioning and science verification. Further products ---------------- PSF generation methods, oversampled spatially varying PSFs good news, how to form them cf. ... One of its conclusions was that nearest pixel gives very good

4 Feb 2005: The good news is there are no measurable pixel-by-pixel differences within a channel. ... This is good news for offset restrictions within jitter sequences. The first pass astrometric residuals over the entire field are less than 100mas and the density

19 Dec 2011: then. The good news on the calibration front is that if we can solve the illumination correction problem, even with only the 3 SA's observed each night that form the ... The other good news is that the raw VST calibration and public survey data have all

26 Jan 2006: The good news is these artefacts are non-astronomical in appearance and do not "talk" across the detector quadrant boundaries, or between detectors; the bad news is that they do not ... of reset/reads, filter, persists over many frames etc. The good news

12 Mar 2009: He also noted the hardware server moves to the new room over last w/e and wondered if the ensuing silence was good news or bad news. ... The other piece of good news is that this mod can be back-propagated to all the earlier catalogues from 05A -, i.e.

27 Apr 2012: No news is still good news from the point of view of the next installment of ESO Phase 3 deliverables. ... A celebratory glass, or two, of fizz was imbibed to celebrate JRL's good news.

10 Feb 2012: Apparently SCUBA-2 is working well on JCMT which is good news for continuing access to UKIRT, and the Korean interest in WFCAM time is extending to include another Institution. ... No news is probably good news from the point of view of the next

11 Mar 2011: Henry from UltraVISTA and found that though the artifacts around bright stars have gone away, acquiring an example of their deep stack image to investigate other issues would be good news - ... WFCAM update ---------------- The weather at UKIRT has

28 Aug 2012: Just goes to prove that getting our VISTA calibration paper(s) out as soon as possible is good news. ... Video board changes usually imply gain changes implying further still that a comparison of pre- and post-board change flats would be good news.

17 May 2005: This is very good news since the full non-linearity correction is computationally intensive (currently 30s per pawprint). ... There was a discussion on what observations were needed for regularly generating good master flats.

5 Dec 2012: The good news is these two effects cancel out such that the ensuing derived magnitudes are correct, the bad news is that we are going to fix them all anyway. ... 10. ESO in-kind stuff --------------------- Nothing to report this month other than the good

3 Jan 2008: VISTA news - pipeline progress - camera test data - VISTA QC and operations - ESO SMP letters to PIs 8. ... 7. VISTA news VISTA: WJS reports that the primary mirror now has a good fringe pattern right out to the edges, meaning that the extent of the

2 Jul 2010: He also noted that the calibration units have been installed and after a few flux level tests good linearity sequences et al. ... can still access them remotely as needed SC - does our ZFS need a good tune?

2 Feb 2006: MJI said in general that a small fraction of supposedly good frames were randomly selected and visually checked, though how many depended on which pipeliner. ... No news is good? news regarding the rest of the archives.

10 Oct 2007: VISTA news - general news - cold camera test data report - letter to PIs [and ESO] 8. ... He also reported that he had received good news about the channel-edge problem from Andy Adamsom as a result of Derek Ives' recent visit to JAC.

22 Oct 2013: and is hence predictable or not. No news about Phase3 news - must be good - though as part of our VVV extinction investigation we noticed an astro-ph submission (1308.0593) which ... Finally, just as for VISTA, all is currently quiet on the Phase3 news

28 Sep 2009: Suffice to say that completing as much as possible of the UKIDSS surveys by mid-2012 is a good idea. ... The good news is that this aspect will look more like WFCAM data.

7 Jun 2009: The bad news is that this flavour is now out of warranty, the good news is that we have around 8 spares from a now defunct older RAID array. ... JRL notes he has made a few more bug fixes (Shirley not) to VIRCAM software and is making good progress on

6 Mar 2013: November and December processing is in good shape and should be finished shortly. ... These are being (re)regenerated accordingly. No news is good news regarding Phase3 so nada to report here.

9 Aug 2006: 5. Data archives update AAT: No news is good news ING: JRL and EGS reported that the last 10 years of data (1996-2006) had now been ingested into Sybase. ... He will look into this. 7. WFCAM news Catalogue software: MR and EGS have been investigating the

20 Apr 2005: 3. CASU grant review outcome The good news is that we have heard the outcome of the grant review and that at least some of it was positive. ... Many segmentation faults and core dumps were caused by the bad data (possibly a good stress test therefore?).

14 Jul 2005: However, this is dependent on realistic simulated data being available in good time. ... PSB noted that if the RIX responses are now agreed and the Board disposition disposed, signing off and releasing the RR document would be good news.

1 Jul 2013: STH found that for good data, taken in good conditions, with pixel guiding operating, the data are very close to white-noise limited. ... The good news is we passed with minor action items and ESO also agreed with our revised timetable for deliverables.

17 Dec 2013: AOB/news 1. Actions from last meeting ----------------------------- Agenda item: progress on ALL papers - update meeting planned for next Wednesday. ... further news about MOONS and not good news about 4MOST, at least from a UK-wide perspective.

19 Apr 2010: still need further work. MJI emphasised that although ESO will no doubt mangle this information in the fullness of time, the CASU work done now will form a good basis for ... Another long story, but after much discussion during the meeting about

22 Feb 2011: optional map of differential MJD across tile So the good news is we have added a MJD column for tile catalogues as part of the grouting process; the null news is ... A good example is the 10% leeway on seeing from stacked pawprints allowed for "A" grading

4 Nov 2013: ADASS was endured by JRL, EGS and NAW. JRL reported on the WFCAM news and on the annual HDF -v- FITS debate. ... Still no new phase3 news, which must still be new good news.

5 Dec 2012: The good news is that for point sources significant differences only arise for heavily saturated objects. ... The one in question is at http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/instruments/vircam/news.html and shows it was 2010-04-24/2010-05-06.

23 Sep 2013: AOB/news 1. Actions from last meeting ----------------------------- Agenda item: progress on ALL papers - was meant to occur mid-meets but got sidetracked by holidays and Sesto meeting. ... The good news is that UKIRT operations have been extended by

29 Mar 2013: Assorted choice programes aka CMP/2, 13A/K2, 13A/H28B made good use of the time. ... The good news is that we think the grades written to the files are now (for a change) the same as those received by the PIs.

4 Sep 2012: test. So far so good, but even better is to observe complete tiles for shallow surveys. ... The good news is that this "feature" does not affect pawprints for WFCAM, VISTA or VST, nor does it affect any project using solely CASU software for its

1 Jul 2003: Note that the WCS distortion will be wavelength dependent. (The good news isthat there is now an agreed WCS standard for the generic type of distortion expected.). • ... 8. • a significant fraction of the time, in otherwise good conditions, will be

18 Oct 2014: et al. 2009) retained for that scan is greater than 50%, indicating reasonably good phase and angle tracking. ... previously known, a zero mean gaussian distribution with a standard deviation close to unity is also found to be a very good.