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The Prime Focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (PRIME): First Results

We present the description of the instruments and the first results of the PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (PRIME). PRIME is the first dedicated near-infrared (NIR) microlensing survey telescope located at the South African…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Takahiro Sumi , David A. H. Buckley , Alexander S. Kutyrev , Motohide Tamura , David P. Bennett , Ian A. Bond , Giuseppe Cataldo , Joseph M. Durbak , S. Bradley Cenko , Dale Fixsen , Orion Guiffreda , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Asahi Idei , Dan Kelly , Markus Loose , Gennadiy N. Lotkin , Eric I. Lyness , Stephen Maher , Shuma Makida , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Shota Miyazaki , Gregory Mosby , Samuel H. Moseley , Tutumi Nagai , Togo Nagano , Seiya Nakayama , Mayu Nishio , Kansuke Nunota , Ryo Ogawa , Ryunosuke Oishi , Yui Okumoto , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki K. Satoh , Elmer H. Sharp , Daisuke Suzuki , Takuto Tamaoki , Eleonora Troja , Sarah V. White , Hibiki Yama

IRSI-DARWIN: How to see through the interplanetary dust cloud

ESA has identified interferometry as one of the major goals of the Horizon 2000+ programme. Infrared interferometers are a highly sensitive astronomical instruments that enable us to observe terrestrial planets around nearby stars. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 M. Landgraf , R. Jehn , W. Flury , M. Fridlund , A. Karlsson , A. Léger

pyLIMA : an open source package for microlensing modeling. I. presentation of the software and analysis on single lens models

Microlensing is a unique tool, capable of detecting the 'cold' planets between 1-10 AU from their host stars, and even unbound 'free-floating' planets. This regime has been poorly sampled to date owing to the limitations of alternative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 E. Bachelet , M. Norbury , V. Bozza , R. Street

Designing Future Dark Energy Space Missions: II. Photometric Redshift of Space Weak Lensing Optimized Survey

Accurate weak-lensing analysis requires not only accurate measurement of galaxy shapes but also precise and unbiased measurement of galaxy redshifts. The photometric redshift technique appears as the only possibility to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Jouvel , J-P. Kneib , G. Bernstein , O. Ilbert , P. Jelinsky , B. Milliard , A. Ealet , C. Schimd , T. Dahlen , S. Arnouts

Broadband Low-Resolution Spectrograph - SpectrumMate LR

This paper presents the development and application of SpectrumMate LR, a broadband, low-resolution spectrograph for small telescope use. SpectrumMate LR is designed to offer affordable, accessible spectroscopic capabilities for amateur…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Nguyen Nguyen-Duc , Thuy Le-Quang , Tobias C. Hinse , Tue Nguyen-Van , Quang Nguyen-Luong

iLocater: A Diffraction-limited Doppler Spectrometer for the Large Binocular Telescope

We are developing a stable and precise spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) named "iLocater." The instrument comprises three principal components: a cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph that operates in the YJ-bands…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-16 Justin R. Crepp , Jonathan Crass , David King , Andrew Bechter , Eric Bechter , Ryan Ketterer , Robert Reynolds , Philip Hinz , Derek Kopon , David Cavalieri , Louis Fantano , Corina Koca , Eleanya Onuma , Karl Stapelfeldt , Joseph Thomes , Sheila Wall , Steven Macenka , James McGuire , Ronald Korniski , Leonard Zugby , Joshua Eisner , B. Scott Gaudi , Fred Hearty , Kaitlin Kratter , Marc Kuchner , Giusi Micela , Matthew Nelson , Isabella Pagano , Andreas Quirrenbach , Christian Schwab , Michael Skrutskie , Alessandro Sozzetti , Charles E. Woodward , Bo Zhao

Astrometry with the Keck-Interferometer: the ASTRA project and its science

The sensitivity and astrometry upgrade ASTRA of the Keck Interferometer is introduced. After a brief overview of the underlying interferometric principles, the technology and concepts of the upgrade are presented. The interferometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Jorg-Uwe Pott , Julien Woillez , Rachel L. Akeson , Ben Berkey , Mark M. Colavita , Andrew Cooper , Josh A. Eisner , Andrea M. Ghez , James R. Graham , Lynne Hillenbrand , Michael Hrynewych , Drew Medeiros , Rafael Millan-Gabet , John Monnier , Douglas Morrison , Tatyana Panteleeva , Eliot Quataert , Bill Randolph , Brett Smith , Kellee Summers , Kevin Tsubota , Colette Tyau , Nevin Weinberg , Ed Wetherell , Peter L. Wizinowich

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- I. Instrument Overview and in-Flight Performance

The Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) is the science module of the Canadian-built Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NIRISS has four observing modes: 1) broadband imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Rene Doyon , C. J Willott , John B. Hutchings , Anand Sivaramakrishnan , Loic Albert , David Lafreniere , Neil Rowlands , M. Begona Vila , Andre R. Martel , Stephanie LaMassa , David Aldridge , Etienne Artigau , Peter Cameron , Pierre Chayer , Neil J. Cook , Rachel A. Cooper , Antoine Darveau-Bernier , Jean Dupuis , Colin Earnshaw , Nestor Espinoza , Joseph C. Filippazzo , Alexander W. Fullerton , Daniel Gaudreau , Roman Gawlik , Paul Goudfrooij , Craig Haley , Jens Kammerer , David Kendall , Scott D. Lambros , Luminita Ilinca Ignat , Michael Maszkiewicz , Ashley McColgan , Takahiro Morishita , Nathalie N. -Q. Ouellette , Camilla Pacifici , Natasha Philippi , Michael Radica , Swara Ravindranath , Jason Rowe , Arpita Roy , Karl Saad , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Geert Jan Talens , Deepashri Thatte , Joanna M. Taylor , Thomas Vandal , Kevin Volk , Michel Wander , Gerald Warner , Sheng-Hai Zheng , Julia Zhou , Roberto Abraham , Mathilde Beaulieu , Bjorn Benneke , Laura Ferrarese , Doug Johnstone , Lisa Kaltenegger , Michael R. Meyer , Judy L. Pipher , Julien Rameau , Marcia Rieke , Salma Salhi , Marcin Sawicki

Submillimeter telescope for the Russian segment of the ISS: Submillimetron Project

The Submillimetron is the international project of the space telescope for astronomical studies at the submillimeter and infrared wavelengths using facilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The concept of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 V. Gromov , L. Kuzmin , D. Chouvaev , L. Gorshkov , N. Kardashev , V. Slysh , S. Stoiko , M. Tarasov , A. Trubnikov , A. Vystavkin

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission. The spacecraft will be placed into a highly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 George R. Ricker , Joshua N. Winn , Roland Vanderspek , David W. Latham , Gaspar A. Bakos , Jacob L. Bean , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson , Timothy M. Brown , Lars Buchhave , Nathaniel R. Butler , R. Paul Butler , William J. Chaplin , David Charbonneau , Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Mark Clampin , Drake Deming , John Doty , Nathan De Lee , Courtney Dressing , E. W. Dunham , Michael Endl , Francois Fressin , Jian Ge , Thomas Henning , Matthew J. Holman , Andrew W. Howard , Shigeru Ida , Jon Jenkins , Garrett Jernigan , John Asher Johnson , Lisa Kaltenegger , Nobuyuki Kawai , Hans Kjeldsen , Gregory Laughlin , Alan M. Levine , Douglas Lin , Jack J. Lissauer , Phillip MacQueen , Geoffrey Marcy , P. R. McCullough , Timothy D. Morton , Norio Narita , Martin Paegert , Enric Palle , Francesco Pepe , Joshua Pepper , Andreas Quirrenbach , S. A. Rinehart , Dimitar Sasselov , Bun'ei Sato , Sara Seager , Alessandro Sozzetti , Keivan G. Stassun , Peter Sullivan , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , Guillermo Torres , Stephane Udry , Joel Villasenor

The Mid-InfraRed Exo-planet CLimate Explorer MIRECLE: Exploring the Nearest M-Earths Through Ultra-Stable Mid-IR Transit and Phase-Curve Spectroscopy

This White Paper presents a mission concept called MIRECLE - the Mid-InfraRed Exoplanet CLimate Explorer. With a moderately sized aperture of 2 meters, broad wavelength coverage (4 - 25 um), and next generation instruments, MIRECLE will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Johannes Staguhn , Avi Mandell , Kevin Stevenson , Prabal Saxena , Ravi Kopparapu , Dale Fixsen , Elmer Sharp , Michael DiPirro , Claudia Knez , Eric Wolf , Kristin Sotzen , Kathleen Mandt , Qian Gong , Geronimo Villanueva

Experimental Demonstration of an On-Axis Laser Ranging Interferometer for Future Gravity Missions

We experimentally demonstrate a novel interferometric architecture for next-generation gravity missions, featuring a laser ranging interferometer (LRI) that enables monoaxial transmission and reception of laser beams between two optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-17 Daikang Wei , Christoph Bode , Kohei Yamamoto , Yongho Lee , Germán Fernández Barranco , Vitali Müller , Miguel Dovale Álvarez , Juan José Esteban Delgado , Gerhard Heinzel

The Photo-z Infrared Telescope (PIRT) -- a space instrument for rapid follow up of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts and electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events

The Photo-z InfraRed Telescope (PIRT) is an instrument on the Gamow Explorer, currently proposed for a NASA Astrophysics Medium Explorer. PIRT works in tandem with a companion wide-field instrument, the Lobster Eye X-ray Telescope (LEXT),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 M. Seiffert , A. Balady , T. -C. Chang , R. Dyer , H. Fausey , S. Guiriec , M. Hart , R. O. Morris , J. I. Rodriguez , P. Roming , M. Rud , D. Russell , R. Sambruna , R. Terrile , V. Torossian , A. J. van der Horst , N. E. White , P. Willems , A. Woodmansee , E. T. Young

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts

Observing in six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz over a large sky area, the Simons Observatory (SO) is poised to address many questions in Galactic astrophysics in addition to its principal cosmological goals. In this work, we provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Brandon S. Hensley , Susan E. Clark , Valentina Fanfani , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Giulio Fabbian , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Gabriele Coppi , Jacob Nibauer , Roman Gerasimov , Nicholas Galitzki , Steve K. Choi , Peter C. Ashton , Carlo Baccigalupi , Eric Baxter , Blakesley Burkhart , Erminia Calabrese , Jens Chluba , Josquin Errard , Andrei V. Frolov , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Bradley R. Johnson , Baptiste Jost , Brian Keating , Heather McCarrick , Federico Nati , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Alexander van Engelen , Samantha Walker , Kevin Wolz , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca

Spatial Resolution of Double-Sided Silicon Microstrip Detectors for the PAMELA Apparatus

The PAMELA apparatus has been assembled and it is ready to be launched in a satellite mission to study mainly the antiparticle component of cosmic rays. In this paper the performances obtained for the silicon microstrip detectors used in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Straulino , O. Adriani , L. Bonechi , M. Bongi , S. Bottai , G. Castellini , D. Fedele , M. Grandi , P. Papini , S. B. Ricciarini , P. Spillantini , F. Taccetti , E. Taddei , E. Vannuccini

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Mission and Synergies with LISA and LIGO-Virgo

The Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a NASA space mission in study for launch in 2024. It has a 2.4 m telescope, wide-field IR instrument operating in the 0.7 - 2.0 micron range and an exoplanet imaging coronagraph…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Neil Gehrels , David N. Spergel

An overview of the proposed INdian Spectroscopic and Imaging Space Telescope (INSIST)

India reached a major milestone in the area of space astronomy with the successful launch and post-launch operations of its first space observatory, AstroSat. The success of this space observatory and the lessons learned must be utilized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 Annapurni Subramaniam

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance

The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite and the 2 Micron All Sky Survey have proven to be extremely useful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Edward L. Wright , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt , Amy Mainzer , Michael E. Ressler , Roc M. Cutri , Thomas Jarrett , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Deborah Padgett , Robert S. McMillan , Michael Skrutskie , S. A. Stanford , Martin Cohen , Russell G. Walker , John C. Mather , David Leisawitz , Thomas N. Gautier , Ian McLean , Dominic Benford , Carol J. Lonsdale , Andrew Blain , Bryan Mendez , William R. Irace , Valerie Duval , Fengchuan Liu , Don Royer , Ingolf Heinrichsen , Joan Howard , Mark Shannon , Martha Kendall , Amy L. Walsh , Mark Larsen , Joel G. Cardon , Scott Schick , Mark Schwalm , Mohamed Abid , Beth Fabinsky , Larry Naes , Chao-Wei Tsai

Wide-field Imaging Interferometry Testbed II: Implementation, Performance, and Plans

The Wide-Field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (WIIT) will provide valuable information for the development of space-based interferometers. This laboratory instrument operates at optical wavelengths and provides the ability to test…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Rinehart , Bradley J. Frey , David T. Leisawitz , Douglas B. Leviton , Anthony J. Martino , William L. Maynard , Lee G. Mundy , Stacy H. Teng , Xiaolei Zhang