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We present a search for transient radio sources on time-scales of seconds to hours at 144 MHz using the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). This search is conducted by examining short time-scale images derived from the LoTSS data. To allow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-15 Iris de Ruiter , Zachary S. Meyers , Antonia Rowlinson , Timothy W. Shimwell , David Ruhe , Ralph A. M. J. Wijers

We demonstrate the capability of AKARI for mapping diffuse far-infrared emission and achieved reliability of all-sky diffuse map. We have conducted an all-sky survey for more than 94 % of the whole sky during cold phase of AKARI observation…

Sky maps are powerful visualisation tools for quicklook analysis of extended sources. The latest sky map in soft X-rays (0.1-2.4 keV) has been created in 90ies using ROSAT data. By analyzing publically available data from XMM-Newton X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-24 Denis Savchenko , Dmytro Iakubovskyi

The redshift distribution of flat-spectrum radio sources with 5 GHz flux densities S>5 mJy is a key component in using current radio lens surveys to probe the cosmological model. We have constructed the first flat-spectrum radio sample in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Munoz , E. E. Falco , C. S. Kochanek , J. Lehar , E. Mediavilla

Terahertz (THz) communication is a key enabler for 6G systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidth and unprecedented data rates. However, THz signal propagation differs significantly from lower-frequency bands due to severe free space path loss,…

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We investigate the capability of the \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (Roman)} Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) G150 slitless grism to detect red, quiescent galaxies based on the current reference survey. We simulate dispersed images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Zhiyuan Guo , Bhavin Joshi , Chris. W. Walter , M. A. Troxel

A host of new low-frequency radio telescopes seek to measure the 21-cm transition of neutral hydrogen from the early universe. These telescopes have the potential to directly probe star and galaxy formation at redshifts $20 \gtrsim z…

The Weizmann Fast Astronomical Survey Telescope (W-FAST) is a 55cm optical survey telescope with a high cadence (25Hz) monitoring of the sky over a wide field of view (~7deg^2). The high frame rate allows detection of sub-second transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Guy Nir , Eran O. Ofek , Sagi Ben-Ami , Noam Segev , David Polishook , Ilan Manulis

A redshifted 21 cm line absorption signature is commonly expected from the cosmic dawn era, when the first stars and galaxies formed. The detailed traits of this signal can provide important insight on the cosmic history. However, high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yuan Shi , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Fengquan Wu , Qisen Yan , Xuelei Chen

We describe a 325-MHz survey, undertaken with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), which covers a large part of the three equatorial fields at 9, 12 and 14.5 h of right ascension from the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. Mauch , H. -R. Klöckner , S. Rawlings , M. J. Jarvis , M. J. Hardcastle , D. Obreschkow , D. J. Saikia , M. A. Thompson

Subtraction of astrophysical foreground contamination from "dirty" sky maps produced by simulated measurements of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has been performed by fitting a 3rd-order polynomial along the spectral dimension of each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Judd D. Bowman , Miguel F. Morales , Jacqueline N. Hewitt

We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Commissioning Camera. Employing the Redshift…

We present the first survey of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the future site of the low frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), that both temporally and spatially resolves the RFI.…

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With the JWST offering higher resolution data in space-based transmission spectroscopy, understanding the capabilities of our current atmospheric retrieval pipelines is essential. These new data cover wider wavelength ranges and at much…

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zCOSMOS is a large redshift survey that is being undertaken in the COSMOS field using 600 hours of observation with the VIMOS spectrograph on the 8-m VLT. The survey is designed to characterise the environments of COSMOS galaxies from the…

I extract the radio spectral index, $\alpha$, from 541,195 common sources observed in the 150 MHz TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) and the 1.4 GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). This large common source catalogue covers about $80\%$ of the sky. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-26 Prabhakar Tiwari

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) is crucial in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology using current and future large sky surveys. In this study, we employ Random Forest (RF), a machine learning algorithm, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Junhao Lu , Zhijian Luo , Zhu Chen , Liping Fu , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Yicheng Li , Xian-Min Meng , Zhirui Tang , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS) radio sources are one of the efficient tracers of powerful High-z Radio Galaxies (HzRGs). In contrast to searches for powerful HzRGs from radio surveys of moderate depths, fainter USS samples derived from deeper…

Observations of the Spitzer extragalactic First Look Survey field taken at 610 MHz with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope are presented. Seven individual pointings were observed, covering an area of 4 square degrees with a resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Timothy Garn , David A. Green , Sally E. G. Hales , Julia M. Riley , Paul Alexander

The Herschel SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) performs spectral imaging in the 447-1546 GHz band. It can observe in three spatial sampling modes: sparse mode, with a single pointing on sky, or intermediate or full modes with 1 and…