Data Analysis in Astronomy 4

By: R. Buccheri (Editor), P. Crane (Editor), Vito di Gesù (Editor)

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Reports the main results of an international workshop in Erice, Sicily, April 1991, at which astronomers and computer scientists reviewed the evolution of data analysis in astronomy during the past decade. The 32 papers cover systems and archives; the HST, ROSAT, and GRO missions, and future mission

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Systems and Archives in Astronomy
Astrophysics Data System	p. 3
MIDAS On-Line at the Telescope	p. 11
Astronomical Databases: A User Approach	p. 21
ESIS: Science Information Retrieval	p. 29
Markov Random Field Applications in Image Analysis	p. 39
SAST--A Software Package for the Statistical Analysis of Sparse Times	p. 51
XRONOS: A Timing Analysis Software Package	p. 59
An Automatic Spectrophotometric Data Reduction System for Quantitative Spectral Classification of Stars	p. 65
The HST Mission
The Hubble Space Telescope: Year One	p. 75
HST Image Restoration--Status and Prospects	p. 83
STSDAS: The Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System	p. 97
Detecting Cosmic Rays Hits on HST WF/PC Images Using Neural Networks and Other Discriminant Analysis Approaches	p. 103
The ROSAT Mission
The ROSAT Mission	p. 115
Mission Planning with ROSAT	p. 121
The ROSAT Data Archive and Other Project Applications of a DBMS	p. 131
Interactive Analysis with EXSAS	p. 141
PROS: Data Analysis for ROSAT	p. 145
The Standard Automatic Analysis Software System (SASS)	p. 153
The XUV Wide Field Camera On-Board ROSAT: Ground Segment and Data Processing	p. 161
An XUV Survey with the Wide Field Camera on ROSAT	p. 171
The GRO Mission
The GRO-COMPTEL Mission: Instrument Description and Scientific Objectives	p. 185
Response Determination of COMPTEL from Calibration Measurements, Models, and Simulations	p. 201
COMPTEL Processing and Analysis Software System: COMPASS (Requirements and Overview)	p. 217
Pulsar Analysis within COMPASS	p. 229
Maximum Likelihood Method Applied to COMPTEL Source Recognition and Analysis	p. 241
Maximum Entropy Imaging and Spectral Deconvolution for COMPTEL	p. 251
COMPTEL as a Solar Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector	p. 261
Neural Net Approaches for Event Location in the Detector Modules	p. 271
The OSSE Data Analysis System	p. 283
IGORE: Interactive GRO/OSSE Reduction Environment	p. 295
The EGRET High Energy Gamma Ray Telescope on GRO: Instrument Description and Scientific Mission	p. 303
The EGRET High Energy Gamma Ray Telescope on GRO: Data Analysis System at MPE	p. 311
Future Missions
The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Mission: Software Development	p. 321
The JET-X Experiment On-Board the SPECTRUM-X[Gamma] Mission	p. 329
The SAX Mission	p. 335
SAX Mission Ground Support System	p. 349
Contributors	p. 361
Index	p. 363
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