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We present a Monte-Carlo package for simulation of high-redshift supernova data, SNOC. Optical and near-infrared photons from supernovae are ray-traced over cosmological distances from the simulated host galaxy to the observer at Earth. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Goobar , E. Mortsell , R. Amanullah , M. Goliath , L. Bergstrom , T. Dahlen

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy device to be mounted in the Solar Orbiter cluster with the aim of providing images and spectra of solar flaring regions at different photon energies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-23 Sara Giordano , Nicola Pinamonti , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

(Abridged) We present R-band images covering more than 11 square degrees of sky obtained with the KPNO 4-m telescope in preparation for the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey. The FLS was designed to characterize the mid-infrared sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dario Fadda , Buell Jannuzi , Alyson Ford , Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi

In this article, we report an imaging method, termed Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM), which iteratively stitches together a number of variably illuminated, low-resolution intensity images in Fourier space to produce a wide-field,…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-02 Guoan Zheng , Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang

SITELLE is an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope since July 2015. It delivers spectral cubes covering an 11'x11' field-of-view with a seeing-limited spatial resolution and a tunable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Thomas Martin , Laurent Drissen

The millimeter/sub-millimeter (mm/sub-mm) sky remains a rich but under-explored frontier for transient and variable phenomena. A wide-field, high-sensitivity instrument with a large aperture and degree-scale field of view would open this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Karri Koljonen , Claudio Ricci , Thomas Stanke , Doug Johnstone , Atul Mohan , Francisco Montenegro-Montes , John Orlowski-Scherer

We present a progress report on the design and construction of the Field-Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer (FIFI LS) for the SOFIA airborne observatory. The design of the instrument is driven by the goal of maximizing observing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. W. Looney , N. Geis , R. Genzel , W. K. Park , A. Poglitsch , W. Raab , D. Rosenthal , A. Urban , T. Henning

Past millimeter-wave galaxy surveys have primarily probed the brightest starburst galaxies only and suffered heavily from confusion. The interpretation of existing surveys has also been hindered by the lack of reliable redshift indicators…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Attila Kovács , Garrett K. Keating , Thomas R. Greve , Timothy Norton

One of the major goals of observational cosmology is to acquire empirical data that has the diagnostic power to develop the theoretical modelling of the high-redshift universe, ultimately leading to an accurate understanding of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Hughes

Precision measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies require excellent rejection of common-mode signals and wide frequency coverage. We describe an imaging, efficient, differential Fourier transform spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-27 Alessandro Schillaci , Giuseppe D' Alessandro , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi , Camila Paiva Novaes , Massimo Gervasi , Mario Zannoni

SPIRou, a near infrared spectropolarimeter, is a project of new instrument to be mounted at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope in 2017. One of the main objectives of SPIRou is to reach a radial velocity accuracy better than 1 m/s in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-03 A. Santerne , J. -F. Donati , R. Doyon , X. Delfosse , É. Artigau , I. Boisse , X. Bonfils , F. Bouchy , G. Hébrard , C. Moutou , S. Udry , the SPIRou science team

CONCERTO (CarbON CII line in post-rEionization and ReionizaTiOn) is a low-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer dedicated to the study of star-forming galaxies and clusters of galaxies in the transparent millimeter windows from the…

The QUIJOTE Experiment was developed to study the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over the frequency range of 10-50 GHz. Its first instrument, the Multi Frequency Instrument (MFI), measures in the range 10-20 GHz which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-24 Javier De Miguel-Hernández , Roger J. Hoyland , María F. Gómez Reñasco , J. Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Teodora A. Viera-Curbelo

This project presents the development and implementation of a compact spectrometer, named SPECTRUMMATE, tailored for small telescopes. Small telescopes offer several advantages: they are cost-effective, occupy less space, and are simpler to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Hien Phan-Thanh , Nguyen Nguyen-Duc , Thuy Le-Quang , Tobias C. Hinse , Quang Nguyen-Luong

The Subaru Deep Field (SDF) project is a program of Subaru Observatory to carry out a deep galaxy survey over a blank field as large as 34'x27'. The program consists of very deep multi-band optical imaging, near infrared imaging for smaller…

Infrared space interferometers can surpass the spatial resolution limitations of single-dish space telescopes. However, stellar interferometers from space have not been realized because of technical difficulties. Two beams coming from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 Taro Matsuo , Satoshi Ikari , Hirotaka Kondo , Sho Ishiwata , Shinichi Nakasuka , Tomoyasu Yamamuro

SINFONI, the SINgle Faint Object Near-infrared Investigation, is an instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which will start its operation mid 2002 and allow for the first time near infrared (NIR) integral field spectroscopy at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Mengel , F. Eisenhauer , M. Tecza , N. Thatte , C. Roehrle , K. Bickert , J. Schreiber

Visualization of the in vivo spatial distribution of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) is crucial to biomedicine. Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is one of the most promising approaches for direct measurements of the SPION…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Klaas-Julian Janssen , Meinhard Schilling , Frank Ludwig , Jing Zhong

The SwissFEL light-facility will provide coherent X-rays in the wavelength region 7-0.7 nm and 0.7-0.1 nm. In SwissFEL, view-screens and wire-scanners will be used to monitor the transverse profile of a 200/10pC electron beam with a…