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Dark energy is an important science driver of many upcoming large-scale surveys. With small, stable seeing and low thermal infrared background, Dome A, Antarctica, offers a unique opportunity for shedding light on fundamental questions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gong-Bo Zhao , Hu Zhan , Lifan Wang , Zuhui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

We present overall specifications and science goals for a new optical and near-infrared (350 - 1650 nm) instrument designed to greatly enlarge the current Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) phase space. The Pulsed All-sky…

PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) was proposed to ESA in May 2013 as a large-class mission for investigating within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program a set of important scientific questions that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-27 PRISM Collaboration , Philippe André , Carlo Baccigalupi , Anthony Banday , Domingos Barbosa , Belen Barreiro , James Bartlett , Nicola Bartolo , Elia Battistelli , Richard Battye , George Bendo , Alain Benoît , Jean-Philippe Bernard , Marco Bersanelli , Matthieu Béthermin , Pawel Bielewicz , Anna Bonaldi , François Bouchet , François Boulanger , Jan Brand , Martin Bucher , Carlo Burigana , Zhen-Yi Cai , Philippe Camus , Francisco Casas , Viviana Casasola , Guillaume Castex , Anthony Challinor , Jens Chluba , Gayoung Chon , Sergio Colafrancesco , Barbara Comis , Francesco Cuttaia , Giuseppe D'Alessandro , Antonio Da Silva , Richard Davis , Miguel de Avillez , Paolo de Bernardis , Marco de Petris , Adriano de Rosa , Gianfranco de Zotti , Jacques Delabrouille , François-Xavier Désert , Clive Dickinson , Jose Maria Diego , Joanna Dunkley , Torsten Enßlin , Josquin Errard , Edith Falgarone , Pedro Ferreira , Katia Ferrière , Fabio Finelli , Andrew Fletcher , Pablo Fosalba , Gary Fuller , Silvia Galli , Ken Ganga , Juan García-Bellido , Adnan Ghribi , Martin Giard , Yannick Giraud-Héraud , Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo , Keith Grainge , Alessandro Gruppuso , Alex Hall , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Marijke Haverkorn , Carlos Hernandez-Monte\-agudo , Diego Herranz , Mark Jackson , Andrew Jaffe , Rishi Khatri , Martin Kunz , Luca Lamagna , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Paddy Leahy , Julien Lesgourgues , Michele Liguori , Elisabetta Liuzzo , Marcos Lopez-Caniego , Juan Macias-Perez , Bruno Maffei , Davide Maino , Anna Mangilli , Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez , Carlos Martins , Silvia Masi , Marcella Massardi , Sabino Matarrese , Alessandro Melchiorri , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Aniello Mennella , Arturo Mignano , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Alessandro Monfardini , Anthony Murphy , Pavel Naselsky , Federico Nati , Paolo Natoli , Mattia Negrello , Fabio Noviello , Créidhe O'Sullivan , Francesco Paci , Luca Pagano , Rosita Paladino , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Daniela Paoletti , Hiranya Peiris , Francesca Perrotta , Francesco Piacentini , Michel Piat , Lucio Piccirillo , Giampaolo Pisano , Gianluca Polenta , Agnieszka Pollo , Nicolas Ponthieu , Mathieu Remazeilles , Sara Ricciardi , Matthieu Roman , Cyrille Rosset , Jose-Alberto Rubino-Martin , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Paul Shellard , Joseph Silk , Alexei Starobinsky , Radek Stompor , Rashid Sunyaev , Andrea Tartari , Luca Terenzi , Luigi Toffolatti , Maurizio Tomasi , Neil Trappe , Matthieu Tristram , Tiziana Trombetti , Marco Tucci , Rien Van de Weijgaert , Bartjan Van Tent , Licia Verde , Patricio Vielva , Ben Wandelt , Robert Watson , Stafford Withington

The employment of a large area Phase Fresnel Lens (PFL) in a gamma-ray telescope offers the potential to image astrophysical phenomena with micro-arcsecond angular resolution. In order to assess the feasibility of this concept, two detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John Krizmanic , Gerry Skinner , Neil Gehrels

The Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) is the first telescope facility built at Dome A, Antarctica. During the 2008 observing season, the installation provided long-baseline and high-cadence photometric observations in the i-band for…

IceCube is a large neutrino telescope of the next generation to be constructed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet near the South Pole. We present the conceptual design and the sensitivity of the IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of neutrinos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Karle

In this paper we describe the first results of a compact imaging air-Cherenkov telescope, IceAct, operating in coincidence with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) at the geographic South Pole. An array of IceAct telescopes (referred…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 M. G. Aartsen , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , C. Alispach , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , T. C. Arlen , J. Auffenberg , S. Axani , P. Backes , H. Bagherpour , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , A. Barbano , I. Bartos , S. W. Barwick , B. Bastian , V. Baum , S. Baur , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , C. Bohm , M. Bohmer , M. Börner , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , J. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , A. Burgman , J. Buscher , R. S. Busse , T. Carver , C. Chen , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , K. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , R. Cross , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , H. Dembinski , K. Deoskar , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , H. Dujmovic , M. Dunkman , M. A. DuVernois , E. Dvorak , B. Eberhardt , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , R. Engel , J. J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , K. Farrag , A. R. Fazely , J. Felde , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , E. Friedman , A. Fritz , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , S. Garrappa , A. Gartner , L. Gerhardt , R. Gernhaeuser , K. Ghorbani , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. G. Gonzalez , D. Grant , Z. Griffith , S. Griswold , M. Günder , M. Gündüz , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , R. Halliday , L. Halve , F. Halzen , K. Hanson , J. Haugen , A. Haungs , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , P. Heix , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , F. Henningsen , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , B. Hoffmann , R. Hoffmann , T. Hoinka , B. Hokanson-Fasig , K. Holzapfel , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , T. Huber , T. Huege , K. 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Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , A. Schneider , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , M. H. Shaevitz , S. Shefali , M. Silva , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , D. Soldin , S. Söldner-Rembold , M. Song , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , J. Stachurska , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , R. Stein , P. Steinmüller , J. Stettner , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , N. L. Strotjohann , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , A. Taketa , H. K. M. Tanaka , F. Tenholt , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , L. Tomankova , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , B. Ty , E. Unger , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , M. Usner , J. Vandenbroucke , W. Van Driessche , D. van Eijk , N. van Eijndhoven , S. Vanheule , J. van Santen , D. Veberic , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , M. Wallraff , N. Wandkowsky , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , A. Weindl , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , L. Wille , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , M. Wolf , J. Wood , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , S. Wren , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan , M. Zöcklein , T. Bretz , L. Rädel , S. Schoenen , J. Schumacher

We present one of the new generations of observatories, the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). This is an airborne observatory consisting of a 2.7-m telescope mounted on a modified Boeing B747-SP airplane. Flying at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-06 M. Hamidouche , E. Young , P. Marcum , A. Krabbe

Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies over cosmic time is one of the foremost goals of astrophysics and cosmology today. The cosmic star formation rate has undergone a dramatic evolution over the course of the last 14…

The Origins Space Telescope (Origins) traces our cosmic history, from the formation of the first galaxies and the rise of metals to the development of habitable worlds and present-day life. Origins does this through exquisite sensitivity to…

Cornell University, the California Institute for Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are jointly studying the construction of a 25 m diameter telescope for submillimeter astronomy on a high mountain in northern Chile. This Cornell…

PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) was proposed to ESA in response to the Call for White Papers for the definition of the L2 and L3 Missions in the ESA Science Programme. PRISM would have two instruments: (1) an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 PRISM Collaboration , Philippe Andre , Carlo Baccigalupi , Domingos Barbosa , James Bartlett , Nicola Bartolo , Elia Battistelli , Richard Battye , George Bendo , Jean-Philippe Bernard , Marco Bersanelli , Matthieu Bethermin , Pawel Bielewicz , Anna Bonaldi , Francois Bouchet , Francois Boulanger , Jan Brand , Martin Bucher , Carlo Burigana , Zhen-Yi Cai , Viviana Casasola , Guillaume Castex , Anthony Challinor , Jens Chluba , Sergio Colafrancesco , Francesco Cuttaia , Giuseppe D'Alessandro , Richard Davis , Miguel de Avillez , Paolo de Bernardis , Marco de Petris , Adriano de Rosa , Gianfranco de Zotti , Jacques Delabrouille , Clive Dickinson , Jose Maria Diego , Edith Falgarone , Pedro Ferreira , Katia Ferriere , Fabio Finelli , Andrew Fletcher , Gary Fuller , Silvia Galli , Ken Ganga , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Adnan Ghribi , Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo , Keith Grainge , Alessandro Gruppuso , Alex Hall , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Mark Jackson , Andrew Jaffe , Rishi Khatri , Luca Lamagna , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Paddy Leahy , Michele Liguori , Elisabetta Liuzzo , Marcos Lopez-Caniego , Juan Macias-Perez , Bruno Maffei , Davide Maino , Silvia Masi , Anna Mangilli , Marcella Massardi , Sabino Matarrese , Alessandro Melchiorri , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Aniello Mennella , Arturo Mignano , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Federico Nati , Paolo Natoli , Mattia Negrello , Fabio Noviello , Francesco Paci , Rosita Paladino , Daniela Paoletti , Francesca Perrotta , Francesco Piacentini , Michel Piat , Lucio Piccirillo , Giampaolo Pisano , Gianluca Polenta , Sara Ricciardi , Matthieu Roman , Jose-Alberto Rubino-Martin , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Paul Shellard , Joseph Silk , Radek Stompor , Rashid Sunyaev , Andrea Tartari , Luca Terenzi , Luigi Toffolatti , Maurizio Tomasi , Tiziana Trombetti , Marco Tucci , Bartjan Van Tent , Licia Verde , Ben Wandelt , Stafford Withington

An outstanding, multi-disciplinary goal of modern science is the study of the diversity of potentially Earth-like planets and the search for life in them. This goal requires a bold new generation of space telescopes, but even the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Daniel Apai , Tom D. Milster , Dae Wook Kim , Alex Bixel , Glenn Schneider , Ronguang Liang , Jonathan Arenberg

An international group of scientists has begun planning for the Planet Formation Imager (PFI, www.planetformationimager.org), a next-generation infrared interferometer array with the primary goal of imaging the active phases of planet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 John D. Monnier , 48 endorsers

Atmospheric circulation patterns derived from multi-spectral remote sensing can serve as a guide for choosing a suitable entry site for a future in situ probe mission. Since the Voyager-2 flybys in the 1980s, three decades of observations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Leigh N. Fletcher , Imke de Pater , Glenn S. Orton , Mark D. Hofstadter , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Michael Roman , Daniel Toledo

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 Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a set of mission concepts for the next generation UV-Optical-Near Infrared space telescope with an aperture size of 8 to 16 meters. ATLAST, using an internal coronagraph or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-20 M. Postman , W. Traub , J. Krist , K. Stapelfeldt , R. Brown , W. Oegerle , A. Lo , M. Clampin , R. Soummer , J. Wiseman , M. Mountain

Optical SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) instruments that can explore the very fast time domain, especially with large sky coverage, offer an opportunity for new discoveries that can complement multimessenger and time domain…