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PUMA is a proposal for an ultra-wideband, low-resolution and transit interferometric radio telescope operating at $200-1100\,\mathrm{MHz}$. Its design is driven by six science goals which span three science themes: the physics of dark…

VLBI at millimeter wavelengths (mm-VLBI) allows the detailed imaging of compact galactic and extragalactic radio sources with micro-arcsecond scale resolution, unaccessible by other observing techniques. Here we discuss the scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P Krichbaum , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

The COSINUS direct dark matter experiment situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy is set to investigate the nature of the annually modulating signal detected by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment. COSINUS has already demonstrated…

The ANAIS (Annual modulation with NaI(Tl) Scintillators) experiment aims at the confirmation or refutation of the DAMA/LIBRA positive annual modulation signal in the low energy detection rate. ANAIS-112, consisting of nine 12.5 kg NaI(Tl)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-02 J Amare , S Cebrian , D Cintas , I Coarasa , E Garcia , M Martinez , M A Olivan , Y Ortigoza , A Ortiz de Solorzano , J Puimedon , A Salinas , M L Sarsa , P Villar

The next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is an astronomical observatory planned to operate at centimeter wavelengths (25 to 0.26 centimeters, corresponding to a frequency range extending from 1.2 to 116 GHz). The observatory will be a…

We study the environments of low- and high- excitation radio galaxies (LERGs and HERGs respectively) in the redshift range $0.01 < z < 0.4$, using a sample of 399 radio galaxies and environmental measurements from the Galaxy And Mass…

We study the detectability of the emission associated with the AGN dusty structure at sub-mm wavelengths using ALMA, in a theoretical and observational way. Theoretically, we use the Clumpy models from Nenkova et al. together with the…

With an effective telescope area of order 10^4 m^2, a threshold of ~50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 F. Halzen

Scintillating NaI(Tl) crystals are widely used in a large variety of experimental applications. However, for the use as Dark Matter (DM) detectors, such crystals demand a high level of radio-purity, not achievable by means of standard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-27 Y. Zhu , S. H. Yue , Z. W. Ge , Y. W. Zhu , X. J. Yin , I. Dafinei , G. DImperio , M. Diemoz , V. Pettinacci , S. Nisi , C. Tomei , H. B. Zhao , B. Xu , J. Fang , Q , . W. Tu

This work investigates whether large language models (LLMs) offer advantages over traditional neural networks for astronomical data processing, in regimes with non-Gaussian, non-stationary noise and limited labeled samples. Gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yixuan Li , Yuhao Lu , Yang Liu , Liang Li , R. Ruffini , Di Li , Rong-Gen Cai , Xiaoyan Zhu , Wenbin Lin , Yu Wang

Three dark matter direct detection experiments (DAMA/LIBRA, CoGeNT, and CRESST-II) have each reported signals which are not consistent with known backgrounds, but resemble that predicted for a dark matter particle with a mass of roughly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Chris Kelso , Dan Hooper , Matthew R. Buckley

We present sensitive Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and high-resolution Arecibo HI 21-cm observations of the damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorber (DLA) at $z=0.2212$ towards OI 363. The spectra are in excellent agreement and yield a spin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Nissim Kanekar , Tapasi Ghosh , Jayaram N Chengalur

Real-world transceiver designs for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems are affected by a number of hardware impairments that already appear at the transmit side, such as amplifier non-linearities,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Ramina Ghods , Charles Jeon , Arian Maleki , Christoph Studer

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi, launched on 2008 June 11, is a space telescope to explore the high energy gamma-ray universe. The instrument covers the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with greatly improved sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-18 Damien Parent

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable precision studies of Extreme and Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs/IMRIs), providing unique probes of astrophysical environments of galactic nuclei and strong-field gravity.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Susanna Barsanti , Alessandro Santini , Shubham Kejriwal , Ollie Burke , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy \gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 20…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 LAT Collaboration

A new search for production of correlated e+e- pairs in the alpha decay of 241Am has been carried out deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the I.N.F.N. by using pairs of NaI(Tl) detectors of the DAMA/LIBRA set-up. The…

COSINE-100 is a dark matter direct detection experiment designed to test the annual modulation signal observed by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment. COSINE-100 consists of 8 NaI(Tl) crystals with a total mass of 106 kg, a 2200 L liquid scintillator…

The GERmanium Detector Array GERDA experiment, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, searches for $0\nu\beta\beta$ of $^{76}$Ge. Germanium diodes enriched to $\sim 86~\%$ in the double beta emitter $^{76}$Ge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Valerio D'Andrea