New telescope hits orbit

CSEA Drive For Sole Recognition Hits New Higli—78 Jurisdictions

MINEOLA—The Nassau chapter, Civil Service Employees Assn., has submitted a 15-point package of demands headed by a bid for a 12 percent across-the-board pay Increase with a minimum boost of $750 for all employees. The package was presented to N&ssau Counvy Executive Eugene H. Nickerson by Irving Flaumsnbaum, chapter president, who has Charged Nickerson with the responsibility for continuing neg...

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A new multi-detector telescope calibration method

A new calibration method, applicable to multidetector telescopes, is presented. This method is based on the comparison between experimental data and the ones obtained from Monte-Carlo simulation. The method just needs a accurate knowledgment of the detector spectrum. To test the method, data obtained in GANIL accelerator, are used. Obtained results are presented and the method accuracy is concl...

LOFAR, a new low frequency radio telescope

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting of approximately 100 soccer-field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate at frequencies from ∼ 10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at 240 MHz of better than an arcsecond. Its superb sensitivity will allow for studies of a broad range of astrophysical topics, including reionisation, tra...

In-orbit performance of the space telescope NINA and GCR flux measurements

The NINA apparatus, on board the Russian satellite Resurs-01 n.4, has been in polar orbit since 1998 July 10, at an altitude of 840 km. Its main scientific task is to study the galactic, solar and anomalous components of cosmic rays in the energy interval 10–200 MeV n. In this paper we present a description of the instrument and its basic operating modes. Measurements of Galactic Cosmic Ray spe...