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The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and other rare interactions. It will operate a 50 t liquid xenon detector, with 40 t in the time projection chamber (TPC). To inform the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-25 L. Baudis , Y. Biondi , M. Galloway , F. Girard , A. Manfredini , N. McFadden , R. Peres , P. Sanchez-Lucas , K. Thieme

LXeGRIT is the first prototype of a novel Compton telescope for MeV gamma-ray astrophysics based on a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber (LXeTPC), sensitive in the energy band of 0.15-10 MeV. In this homogeneous, 3D position sensitive…

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 XO project's first objective is to find hot Jupiters transiting bright stars, i.e. V < 12, by precision differential photometry. Two XO cameras have been operating since September 2003 on the 10,000-foot Haleakala summit on Maui. Each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. R. McCullough , J. E. Stys , J. A. Valenti , S. W. Fleming , K. A. Janes , J. N. Heasley

PoGOLite is a hard X-ray polarimeter operating in the 25-100 keV energy band. The instrument design is optimised for the observation of compact astrophysical sources. Observations are conducted from a stabilised stratospheric balloon…

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

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope based on a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) for imaging cosmic \g-rays in the energy band of 0.2-20 MeV. The detector, with 400 cm$^2$ area and 7 cm drift gap, is filled with high…

The cadmium zinc TElluride Radiation Imager, or TERI, is an instrument to space qualify large-volume $4 \times 4 \times 1.5 \ \mathrm{cm}^3$ pixelated CdZnTe (CZT) detector technology. The CZT's anode is composed of a $22 \times 22$ array…

We present the first results of the Astrometric Reconnaissance of Exoplanetary Systems (ARES) project, aimed at validating and characterizing candidate exoplanets around the nearest systems using multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope (HST)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 M. Libralato , L. Bedin , A. Burgasser

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimetre Telescope (BLAST) will operate on a Long Duration Balloon platform with large format bolometer arrays at 250, 350 and 500 microns, initially using a 2m mirror, with plans to increase to 2.5m.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas Scott , the BLAST Team

The Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) is a broad band X-ray and gamma-ray (1-3000 keV) astronomy satellite. The High Energy X-ray telescope (HE) is one of its three main telescopes. The main detector plane of HE is…

The TRIDENT (Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope) experiment is a next-generation underwater neutrino observatory planned for deployment in the West Pacific Ocean, designed to detect astrophysical neutrinos through Cherenkov radiation. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-20 Guangping Zhang , Yong Yang , Donglian Xu

We present first results and catalogs from the HST-Hyperion survey. This survey has collected 50 orbits of WFC3/F160W imaging and WFC3/G141 grism spectroscopy in the most overdense regions of the Hyperion proto-supercluster at $z\sim2.45$,…

In this study, we developed a new proton detector system called CATCH, which was designed for a scattering experiment involving a $\Sigma$ hyperon and a proton (J-PARC E40). CATCH is a cylindrical detector system covering an inner target…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-14 Y. Akazawa , N. Chiga , N. Fujioka , S. H. Hayakawa , R. Honda , M. Ikeda , K. Matsuda , K. Miwa , Y. Nakada , T. Nanamura , S. Ozawa , T. Shiozaki , H. Tamura , H. Umetsu

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4m space telescope with a 0.281 deg^2 field of view for near-IR imaging and slitless spectroscopy and a coronagraph designed for > 10^8 starlight suppresion. As background information…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-18 Rachel Akeson , Lee Armus , Etienne Bachelet , Vanessa Bailey , Lisa Bartusek , Andrea Bellini , Dominic Benford , David Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ralph Bohlin , Martha Boyer , Valerio Bozza , Geoffrey Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Kenneth Carpenter , Stefano Casertano , Ami Choi , David Content , Pratika Dayal , Alan Dressler , Olivier Doré , S. Michael Fall , Xiaohui Fan , Xiao Fang , Alexei Filippenko , Steven Finkelstein , Ryan Foley , Steven Furlanetto , Jason Kalirai , B. Scott Gaudi , Karoline Gilbert , Julien Girard , Kevin Grady , Jenny Greene , Puragra Guhathakurta , Chen Heinrich , Shoubaneh Hemmati , David Hendel , Calen Henderson , Thomas Henning , Christopher Hirata , Shirley Ho , Eric Huff , Anne Hutter , Rolf Jansen , Saurabh Jha , Samson Johnson , David Jones , Jeremy Kasdin , Patrick Kelly , Robert Kirshner , Anton Koekemoer , Jeffrey Kruk , Nikole Lewis , Bruce Macintosh , Piero Madau , Sangeeta Malhotra , Kaisey Mandel , Elena Massara , Daniel Masters , Julie McEnery , Kristen McQuinn , Peter Melchior , Mark Melton , Bertrand Mennesson , Molly Peeples , Matthew Penny , Saul Perlmutter , Alice Pisani , Andrés Plazas , Radek Poleski , Marc Postman , Clément Ranc , Bernard Rauscher , Armin Rest , Aki Roberge , Brant Robertson , Steven Rodney , James Rhoads , Jason Rhodes , Russell Ryan , Kailash Sahu , David Sand , Dan Scolnic , Anil Seth , Yossi Shvartzvald , Karelle Siellez , Arfon Smith , David Spergel , Keivan Stassun , Rachel Street , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Alexander Szalay , John Trauger , M. A. Troxel , Margaret Turnbull , Roeland van der Marel , Anja von der Linden , Yun Wang , David Weinberg , Benjamin Williams , Rogier Windhorst , Edward Wollack , Hao-Yi Wu , Jennifer Yee , Neil Zimmerman