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The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) is a solar-dedicated directly-imaging interferometer observing the Sun at 5.7 GHz. The SSRT operates in the two-dimensional mode since 1996. The imaging principle of the SSRT restricts its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-20 Alexey Kochanov , Sergey Anfinogentov , Dmitry Prosovetsky , George Rudenko , Victor Grechnev

We present a new multi-pixel high resolution (R >10^7) spectrometer for the Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The receiver uses 2 x 7-pixel subarrays in orthogonal polarization, each in an hexagonal array around…

To optimize the performance of the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment at CERN-ISOLDE, technical upgrades are continuously introduced, aiming to enhance its sensitivity, precision, stability, and efficiency.…

In this paper we discuss the latest developments of the STRIP instrument of the "Large Scale Polarization Explorer" (LSPE) experiment. LSPE is a novel project that combines ground-based (STRIP) and balloon-borne (SWIPE) polarization…

High-resolution imaging spectroscopy in solar physics has relied on Fabry-Perot Interferometers (FPIs) in recent years. FPI systems, however, get technically challenging and expensive for telescopes larger than the 1-m class. A conventional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 C. Beck , R. Rezaei , D. Prasad Choudhary , S. Gosain , A. Tritschler , R. E. Louis

The largest uncertainty on measurements of dark energy using type Ia supernovae is presently due to systematics from photometry; specifically to the relative uncertainty on photometry as a function of wavelength in the optical spectrum. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 J. Albert , D. Budker , K. Chance , I. E. Gordon , F. Pedreros Bustos , M. Pospelov , S. M. Rochester , H. R. Sadeghpour

The balloon-borne LSPE mission is optimized to measure the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at large angular scales. The Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) is composed of 3 arrays of…

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Its goal is to constrain the background of…

We designed, built, and calibrated a new spectropolarimeter for the HiVIS spectrograph (R 12000-49000) on the AEOS telescope. We also did a polarization calibration of the telescope and instrument. We will introduce the design and use of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Harrington , J. R. Kuhn , K. Whitman

We present an overview of SPICA, the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics, a world-class space observatory optimized for mid- and far-IR astronomy (from 5 to ~210um) with a cryogenically cooled ~3.2m telescope (<6 K). Its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Javier R. Goicoechea , Takao Nakagawa

Detecting B-mode polarization anisotropies on large angular scales in the CMB polarization pattern is one of the major challenges in modern observational cosmology since it would give us an important evidence in favor of the inflationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Federico Incardona

A telescope polarization model for the SST [Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope] is developed and the parameters of this model are fitted to polarization measurements made with a 1-meter linear polarizer in front of the entrance window. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-21 Jakob Selbing

We report on a measurement of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. Although this proof-of-concept observation utilised just 3 seconds of data on a single source,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 Rajan Chhetri , John Morgan , Vanessa Moss , Ron Ekers , Danica Scott , Keith Bannister , Cherie K. Day , Adam T. Deller , Ryan M. Shannon

We recently commissioned the polarimetric upgrade of the HARPS spectrograph at ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla, Chile. The HARPS polarimeter is capable of full Stokes spectropolarimetry with large sensitivity and accuracy, taking…

Speckle polarimeter (SPP) is a facility instrument of the 2.5-m telescope of the Caucasian Mountain Observatory of SAI MSU. By design it is a combination of a speckle interferometer and a dual--beam polarimeter. In 2022 we performed a major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 I. A. Strakhov , B. S. Safonov , D. V. Cheryasov

We describe the High-Precision Polarimetric Instrument-2 (HIPPI-2) a highly versatile stellar polarimeter developed at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Two copies of HIPPI-2 have been built and used on the 60-cm telescope at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Jeremy Bailey , Daniel V. Cotton , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Ain De Horta , Darren Maybour

We observed Proxima Centauri with the Spitzer Space Telescope InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) five times in 2016 and 2017 to search for transits of Proxima Centauri b. Following standard analysis procedures, we found three asymmetric,…

context: The combination of image restoration and a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer (FPI) based instrument in solar observations results in specific calibration issues. FPIs generally show variations over the field-of-view, while in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. S. Schnerr , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , M. van Noort

The Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) is one of the first light instruments for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST). It is an echelle spectrograph designed to measure three different regions of the solar spectrum in three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alfred G. de Wijn , Roberto Casini , Peter G. Nelson , Pei Huang

We describe the Zurich Imaging Polarimeter (ZIMPOL), the visual focal plane subsystem of the SPHERE "VLT planet finder", which pushes the limits of current AO systems to shorter wavelengths, higher spatial resolution, and much improved…