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The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be a large ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared space telescope operating at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. HWO was highly recommended by the National Academies` 2020 decadal survey and will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Grace Sweetak , Breann Sitarski , Kevin France , Randall McEntaffer , Richard Cartwright

This survey, once completed, will provide a 3D sample of 200 nearby spiral and irregular galaxies in the Halpha line, using a Fabry-Perot system. The data cubes obtained for each galaxy allow derivation of lines maps, velocity fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Amram , Olivia Garrido

We present Halpha emission line velocity fields of two Low Surface Brightness galaxies - UGC 628 and UGC 5005 - obtained using Fabry-Perot interferometry observations at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. Our goal is to study the dynamics…

The Cambridge Infra-red Panoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS) is described. This near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph has been used on the 8m Gemini-South Telescope, the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and the 4.2m William Herschel…

The World Space Observatory is an unconventional space project proceeding via distributed studies. The present design, verified for feasibilty, consists of a 1.7-meter telescope operating at the second Largangian point of the Earth-Sun…

The recent results from a deep Fabry-Perot survey of nearby active and star-forming galaxies are presented. Line-emitting material is detected over two orders of magnitude in galactocentric radius, from the 100-pc scale of the active or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Veilleux

The I-GALFA survey is mapping all the HI in the inner Galactic disk visible to the Arecibo 305m telescope within 10 degrees of the Galactic plane (longitudes of 32 to 77 deg at b=0 deg). The survey, which will obtain 1.3 million independent…

HERMES Pathfinder is an in-orbit demonstration consisting of a constellation of six 3U cubesats hosting simple but innovative X-ray/gamma-ray detectors for the monitoring of cosmic high-energy transients. HERMES-PF, funded by ASI and by the…

HERMES-Pathfinder is a space-borne mission based on a constellation of six nano-satellites flying in a low-Earth orbit. The 3U CubeSats, to be launched in early 2025, host miniaturized instruments with a hybrid Silicon Drift…

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) Collaboration is currently engaged in design and prototyping work towards the realisation of this future gamma-ray facility. SWGO will complement CTA and the existing ground-particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-29 Jim Hinton

We present first results from a narrowband imaging program for intermediate redshift emission-line galaxies using the newly commissioned FourStar infrared camera at the 6.5m Magellan telescope. To enable prompt identification of H\alpha\…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Janice C. Lee , C. Ly , L. Spitler , I. Labbe , S. Salim , S. E. Persson , M. Ouchi , D. Dale , A. Monson , D. Murphy

We present the scientific motivation and conceptual design for the recently funded Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), a stabilized fiber-fed near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph for the 10 meter class Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) that will be…

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be NASA's flagship space telescope of the 2040s, designed to search for life on other planets and to transform broad areas of astrophysics. NASA are seeking international partners, and the UK is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Vincent Van Eylen , Richard Massey , Saeeda Awan , Jo Bartlett , Louisa Bradley , Andrei Bubutanu , Kan Chen , Andrew Coates , Mark Cropper , Ross Dobson , Fabiola Antonietta Gerosa , Emery Grahill-Bland , Leah Grant , Daisuke Kawata , Tom Kennedy , Minjae Kim , Adriana Adelina Mihailescu , Jan-Peter Muller , Georgios Nicolaou , Mathew Page , Paola Pinilla , Louisa Preston , Ted Pyne , Hamish Reid , Santiago Velez Salazar , Jason L. Sanders , Giorgio Savini , Ralph Schoenrich , George Seabroke , Alan Smith , Philip J. Smith , Nicolas Tessore , Marina Ventikos , Esa Vilenius , Francesca Waines , Silvia Zane , James Betts , Sownak Bose , Cyril Borgsom , Shaun Cole , Jessica E. Doppel , Vincent Eke , Carlos Frenk , Leo W. H. Fung , Qiuhan He , Mathilde Jauzac , Owen Jessop , Zane Deon Lentz , Gavin Leroy , Simon Morris , Yuan Ren , Jurgen Schmoll , Ray Sharples , Fionagh Thomson , Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Kai Wang , Stephane V. Werner , Subhajit Sarkar , Jacob Kegerreis , James Kirk , Subhanjoy Mohanty , John Southworth , John Philip Stott , Ashley King , James W. Nightingale , David Rosario , Paola Tiranti , Edward Gillen , Cynthia S. K. Ho , Christopher Watson , Andrzej Fludra , Chris Pearson , Yun-Hang Cho , Yu Tao , Joanna Barstow , James Bowen , Chris Castelli , Chiaki Crews , Angaraj Duara , Mark Fox-Powell , David Hall , Carole Haswell , Kit-Hung Mark Lee , Joan Requena , Anabel Romero , Jesper Skottfelt , Konstantin Stefanov , Olivia Jones , Sean McGee , Annelies Mortier , Graham P. Smith , Amalie Stokholm , Amaury Triaud , Becky Alexis-Martin , Malcolm Bremer , Katy L. Chubb , Joshua Ford , Ben Maughan , Daniel Valentine , Hannah Wakeford , Juan Paolo Lorenzo Gerardo Barrios , Chandan Bhat , Xander Byrne , Gregory Cooke , Natalie B. Hogg , Nikku Madhusudhan , Maximilian Sommer , Sandro Tacchella , Georgios N. Vassilakis , Nicholas Walton , Mark Wyatt , Manoj Joshi , Beth Biller , Mariangela Bonavita , Trent Dupuy , Aiza Kenzhebekova , Brian P. Murphy , Vincent Okoth , Cyrielle Opitom , Larissa Palethorpe , Paul Palmer , Mia Belle Parkinson , Ken Rice , Sarah Rugheimer , Colin Snodgrass , Ben J. Sutlieff , Souradeep Bhattacharya , Emma Curtis-Lake , Jan Forbrich , Darshan Kakkad , David J. Lagattuta , Brian Ongeri Momanyi Bichang'a , Peter Scicluna , Richard Booth , Martin Barstow , Sarah Casewell , Leigh Fletcher , Anushka Sharma , Christopher J. Conselice , Suzanne Aigrain , Jayne Birkby , Claire Guimond , Carly Howett , Mei Ting Mak , Richard Palin , Chris Pattison , Richard Robinson , Samantha Youles , Andrew Collier Cameron , Justin Read , David John Armstrong , David J. A. Brown , Mikkel N. Lund , Andrew Robertson , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Lígia F. Coelho , Preethi R. Karpoor , Enric Palle , Leen Decin , Denis Defrère , Kaustubh Hakim , Swara Ravindranath , Jason Rhodes , Marc Postman , Iain Neill Reid , Fabien Malbet , Amirnezam Amiri , Marrick Braam , Qiuhan He , Haakon Dahle , Angharad Weeks

VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is the next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory that is being built in southern Arizona by a collaboration of ten institutions in Canada, Ireland, the U.K. and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Peter Cogan

For the last 25 years, the 21 cm line has been used productively to investigate the large-scale structure of the Universe, its peculiar velocity field and the measurement of cosmic parameters. In February 2005 a blind HI survey that will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-24 Riccardo Giovanelli

The University of Hawaii Wide-Field Imager (UHWFI) is a focal compressor system designed to project the full half-degree field of the UH 2.2 m telescope onto the refurbished UH 8Kx8K CCD camera. The optics use Ohara glasses and are mounted…

The GALFACTS project is using the L-band seven feed array receiver system on the Arecibo telescope to carry out an imaging spectro-polarimetric survey of the 30% of the sky visible from Arecibo. GALFACTS observations will create full-Stokes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Russ Taylor , Chris Salter

We discuss scientific, technical and programmatic issues related to the use of an NRO 2.4m telescope for the WFIRST initiative of the 2010 Decadal Survey. We show that this implementation of WFIRST, which we call "NEW WFIRST," would achieve…

HiPERCAM is a quintuple-beam imager that saw first light on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in October 2017 and on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in February 2018. The instrument uses re-imaging optics and 4 dichroic…